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You can listen to podcasts with the watch series 2 and no phone, you just need wireless headphones.

I don't think this is possible. There is no podcasts app for the watch (shocking). If you have your iPhone, you can pause/play forward/back... but this is the generic player for apps that don't have a version for the Watch. i.e. I use Google Play Music, which doesn't have a Watch version of its app, but when I play music from my iPhone, I can pause/play etc. from the watch.

Until very recently overcast supported apple watch playback, though this recently had to be removed due to API changes[1]. So it's definitely possible, though the experience is seriously lacking until Apple get their act together on the API side.

[1] https://marco.org/2017/08/10/removed-send-to-watch

Can you import podcasts into iTunes? Surely from there you can transfer to the watch like with Fitbit Ionic.

Interesting... that might actually be possible.

Can you listen to podcasts on Apple Watch 3 without a phone around?

Yes - you can stream songs over cellular.

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