Something key for me was to find podcasts that don't "work better as articles" as you say. There are many tech related podcasts and I find most of them unlistenable.
Instead I found that more entertainment/comedy or seminar-like discussion works better in the podcast format. Maximumfun in particular has a lot of very high quality podcasts (with high production value, which tends to be a big factor in whether a podcast is listenable).
These are just my personal preferences, but one of these might "make sense" to you as a podcast if you give them a chance: The Adventure Zone, International Waters, Judge John Hodgman, My Brother My Brother and Me, The Partially Examined Life, Sawbones, Oh No Ross and Carrie, and of course Serial. For tech podcasts I only really like The Haskell Cast and occasionally a Changelog.