Looking for something new to listen to while you drive to work/go for a walk/wash the dishes? We’re here for you. In weekly series Podcast Pick, we’re highlighting a podcasts, audio personalities or specific stories worth hearing.

“Are you that guy on the radio?” Glynn Washington recalls a woman asking him, as so many do, in the grocery store checkout line the other day.

Yes, of course he is.

In an audio landscape filled with nerdy Ira Glasses, Guy Razes and Jad Abumrads, Washington stands out from the typical NPR crowd — he’s a bald, 47-year-old black man who sounds nothing like his audio broadcasting forebears. Washington’s staccato-style of storytelling, complete with pauses mid-sentence that encourage listeners to lean in close, has set him apart since his first show, Snap Judgment, debuted in 2010. 

But the alternative approach hasn’t stopped Washington from becoming a…