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Podcasts will make you not interacting with people, but listening to podcasts. Talking to people, especially strangers is what you need.

I have read a whitepaper which tells that most of 25+ y.o. people probably will never make new friends anymore. So I use to talk to random people in random situations as often as possible without annoying them. My rule of thumb is to get disappeared as fast as a discussion became even slightly boring for me or for them.

Just goto office everyday. Play games(foosball, pool, boardgames etc) with your coworkers. Go out for lunch. Go out for happy hours. You would make friends automatically.

Haha, we are very different.

Find a new activity. Maybe on meetup.com or any other similar way to do it. Hiking daytrip, playing a sport, random social event, anything