What are your favorite podcasts?
I’m curious what people here listen to, and I’m also looking for new ones to check out. I’m personally a big fan of Linux Unplugged, MBMBaM, Lateral, and Twenty Thousand Hertz!
I also cannot get Lemmy’s search to work, so apologies if this was already a recent topic.
EDIT: I have so many new podcasts to listen to now.
Behind the Bastards. I've almost caught up, but I've picked up a long list of other pods to binge.
Or I could finally get around to watching a youtube tutorial on how to build a guillotine.
If you like behind the bastards, cool people who did cool stuff is great and blowback is blowing my mind currently
Yeah, cool people was up near the top of my list.
If you like Btb, give Roberts book After the revolution a try. He has a the audiobook version setup into episodes like a podcast and he reads it. It's fantastic, I'm not usually into that type of book but I'm already on my 2nd play through.
I listened to the audio version that Robert narrated. Can't say you've had the authentic experience without that British accent.
I should get a paper copy of it too though.
A lot of people already know the absolutely excellent history of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan. However there are a lot of other history podcasts out there which also do "the start to finish format", inspired by Mike Duncan. Some good ones I have listened to include:
Pax Britannica: A great podcast with good story telling ability about British history, with a focus on the British empire. It begins with the Henry VII and ends with Queen Elisabeth.
Russians rulers podcast: A great podcast that starts with the very first tsar of Russia and follows through the history of the whole country by focusing on the ruler of the time. It begins with Rurik and ends in Putin. However he already finished the leaders years ago so now he does slapshot episodes about various other Russian history topics which is also very interesting.
Fall of civilisations podcast: this is a great one with some of the best story telling in podcast form available. For each episode he chooses a civilization which collapsed in some form or another. He then tells their history from start to finish and but focuses on the decline and how it was to live in those last years. It's really dramatic sometimes but it's really informative, well researched and I highly recommend it.
Okay and now this is not a history podcast but it's still a dear one to me: Sunday school dropouts. It's a podcast by a wholesome married couple composed of a former presbyterian Christian (now atheist) and a "non beliving sort of Jew" (his words) that read through the whole bible for the first time. They begin with a episode on the book of genesis and continue to the book of revelation. Best way to follow along is to read the bible at the same time and after every bible book (most can be read in under an hour) you listen to the episode afterwards. But you can also listen to it blindly because they do summarize everything. Okay so why do I like this one? The bible is a truly interesting book but the discussion in our media about it is horrible. It's either the most anti religion people or the "capital A atheists" discussing it or it's religious people themselves, both of course approach it with very preconceived notions. But this is just a calm podcast where two non Christians seriously read it through, do their research and they discover that some is total garbage and some of the stories are so beautiful they couldn't stop from crying during the show. Also the hosts are very entertaining and easy to like. I believe everyone should read the bible at least once to simply know what's it about. It's the most important book published in world history after all. They finished already and then did two seasons of just random pieces of interesting bible lore which was also fun to listen to.
+1 For the Fall of Civilisations.
After listening to the 4h one on the Aztecs, I can now say with confidence that Cortés was a special kind of bastard whose grave deserves to be pissed on by all.
+1 from me too. Paul Cooper rules. He has so much wonder and such a delightful sense of scale. It's been a few months since the last one, so surely we're due for another one soon.
Fall of Civilizations is so excellent
I have kind of a boring job that allows me to wear headphones all day so I have a ton.
Music related: -60 songs that explain the 90s -20,000 hertz -No dogs in space
History/Politics (humorous/lighthearted): -The dollop -Behind the bastards -Cool people who did cool stuff -You're wrong about -American hysteria -It books could kill
History/Politics/News and Current Events: -Congressional dish -The lawfare podcast -Straight White American Jesus -American history tellers -In our time with Melvin Bragg -Lions led by donkeys -Reveal -Throughline
Science/Tech/Art/Design: -99% invisible -Articles of interest -Ologies -You are not so smart -Science vs. -Sawbones -This podcast will kill you -The last archive -Proof
Spooky/strange/macabre: -Box of Oddities -The shallow end -Lore -Cabinet of curiosities -Radio rental -Spooked -Monsters among us -Real life ghost stories -We can be weirdos
Misc: -No such thing as a fish -The blindboy podcast -The bugle -The gargle -Darknet diaries -Craphound, the Cory Doctorow podcast -Off menu -Criminal -Swindled
You listen to No Dogs in Space, have several spooky/strange/macabre podcasts on your list, but not Last Podcast on the Left. Just curious if there's a reason.
Henry's raw sexual magnetism is too powerful. Men with priapism, women slipping off their chairs: I don't want to be responsible for everyone's arousal related injuries.
Checks out! I know if I listen on a road trip with my wife, I put a piddlepad on her seat first.
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It was listed in a column when I posted. The formatting got fucked.
Not an expert with Lemmy, but if it’s like the markdown interpretation on Reddit single line breaks are ignored. You need two to have it render with a line break. Alternatively you can do a numbered list or a bulleted list with single line breaks starting with
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EDIT: Ok. After playing with it, I think your lists would work if you put a space between the hyphen and first word on the line
Looks good now. Thanks for posting the list
On the comedy side like MBMBAM:
Stuff You Should Know. So good and has a massive backlog of awesome episodes. Always new topics. And they update frequently. Been listening for years!
Josh and Chuck are national treasures. The amount of consistently good content they have made over the years is unparalleled. Even when there is a topic I think I couldn't give two craps about, they still make it an enjoyable listen.
The Common Descent podcast has two paleontologists discussing ancient life on Earth. Every episode focuses on a specific era or group of creatures and what we know about their evolution and speciation. There are really good episodes on the "big five" mass extinctions when major changes led to a fundamental reorganization of living groups on the planet.
The only podcast I listen to with any regularity is Knowledge Fight. Listening to a couple of dudes dunk on Alex Jones is cathartic.
Alex is a loser little titty baby
Lingthusiasm! It's basically just two linguist friends chatting about the weird and interesting oddities in their field. It's delivered at a level easily understandable to me that has never studied linguistics
Also: Lexicon Valley
Darknet diaries
Ted radio hour
Dan carlins hardcore history
Darknet Diaries is so good
I want to love Darknet Diaries, but the host has such an unexamined, lawful alignment. He tells such good stories so well, but his default interpretation is often that criminals stole from these poor, innocent companies, with no further interrogation into the human and economic systems that make this so common, or the larger ecosystem in which these companies exist and are complicit.
This is something that, in my experience, the entire cybersecurity industry struggles with. I used to do a lot of that kind of work until a few years ago, and I always found my peers uninterested in, or even incapable of, having these larger, interpretative conversations about what we're doing, what our roles are in the world, and how we can make a safer, better internet.
No Such Thing As A Fish - 30 mins a week where 4 professional trivia compilers and comedians take turns sharing odd facts they've learned over the years
Hardcore History - like a history lecture from your favorite high school social studies teacher, but compressed into a professionally produced 4 to 10 hour audiobook
FiveThirtyEight Politics - analysis of political opinion polling in the US. no ideological opinions either way, just strategy and political science applied to current events.
The Magnus Archives - a found-footage horror fiction anthology series where the real story turns out to be about the character we hear narrating the stories
The Worst Idea Of All Time
There’s no such thing as a fish
I'm currently enjoying "A Problem Squared". A comedy / educational podcast hosted by 2 Australian comedians (who live in the UK), Matt Parker (Stand-up Maths on YouTube) and Bec Hill.
Continuing the Australian comedy science theme - Smart Enough to Know Better is very good too.
Nobody's mentioned it yet, so I'll suggest Well There's Your Problem. It's a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides.
Hasn't been the same since Activate Windows left the show or came back or stayed the same or whatever
Never seen it with Kyle Ayers. Kyle invites comedians to write scripts for movies or TV shows that they've never seen. Then they do a brief table read of the script. Then they play games that Kyle has created. It's a lot of fun, it usually very light and a lot of fun.
Dumb people town. It's the podcast I have continually listened to constantly. Since like 2013 or 2014. Listeners will send in articles of news stories they find of people being dumb or doing dumb things.
"Für mich gibt's nur einen Podcast: Fest und Flauschig!"
'Fest und Flauschig' is a great German Podcast, which takes an authentic look at current world events with humor, satire and heart.
Radiolab was great until Jad and Robert left. Now it's 75% reruns
Haven't listened in a while despite being subscribed! When did they leave and are there new hosts?
They left probably 12-18 months ago. There are new hosts (which will be familiar if you're a long-time listener) and the quality of NEW episodes is probably just as good as the old ones, albeit with some format changes. However, I think they only release new episodes once every two or three weeks, but they rerun an old show every week. Kinda sucks. It used to be my favorite podcast
Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - great for particle and astrophysics
99% Invisible. So much random knowledge.
Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes.
...with slides.
It's one of my favorite disaster podcasts, good in depth analysis, funny, viva la revolucion, what more could you want?
Twenty Thousand Hertz is indeed good.
I mostly hear:
Sometimes:
And some more german podcasts:
And some more stuff. Mostly science and knowledge podcasts.
RIP: The Friendship Onion
And recently: The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks
Ologies with Alie Ward
It’s a nice light introduction to a diverse array of fields you probably don’t know a ton about. It makes a good “drive to work” podcast.
After the host asked a bewildered scientist what his pronouns were, I just couldn't listen any more.
That does sound like something that works sick with you for days, if not years. I’m so sorry that you’ll spend the rest of your life having flashbacks on someone asking someone else how they like to be addressed.
To ask someone their pronouns at the beginning of a 1-to-1 conversation is pretty weird. After all, the only possible pronoun is "you", which is not gendered in English (thank goodness!).
So really this could only be ideological posturing. Appropriate for a podcast called "Ologies" maybe, but I prefer to avoid ideology.
What are you talking about? Alie constantly does asides where she talks about the interviewer in the third person or expands upon their comments.
You're right. Next time I chat with a stranger who looks and sounds like a man I'm gonna open with "So, he-him?" If you really think this is normal and necessary and not-weird, you're living in a place most people are not. You know this already, of course. Indeed you probably feel morally superior about being in with the weird codes. Like this host, you're on the team, you know how to talk. And that's the heart of the issue cos what we have here is a coded form of sanctimony, and nothing drives ordinary folks crazy like sanctimony.
Yes your reaction here really screams ordinary.
I’ve literally never asked someone for pronouns or been asked. And don’t plan to start. It also doesn’t bother me one iota that the host does this.
I don’t host a show I’m airing out to other people so it doesn’t really affect my life. It really seems to affect yours, though.
If someone corrects me on pronouns, I apologize and use the correct pronouns because I’m a normally functioning adult.
She does it on almost every podcast and I’ve never heard it take more than 10 seconds or have any pushback / confusion
Making Sense - with Sam Harris Ologies The Ancients (from History Hit) Tides of History Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman Mindscape with Sean Carroll
KEXP song of the day: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/song-of-the-day/id121393815
This Week in Tech: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-tech-video/id478840375
Lingthusiasm
Sidenote by ASAPscience
Drk Mode (the misspelling of "dark" is deliberate)
Cold Ones
Literally anything on actual radio stations
-Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine -Casefile -Ologies with Alie Ward -Short History -This Podcast Will Kill You
I only listen to Lateral, so I guess that's my favourite...
Hey Riddle Riddle, improv comedy/riddle podcast, very fun.
5 Minuten Harry Podcast
It's one of those "analyze every frame of a movie" podcasts that looks at Harty Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Sorcerer's Stone). The host and producer is a well known german youtuber who has previously made the most iconic german parody dub for the Harry Potter movies.
Comedy Bang Bang
Hollywood Handbook
Hey Randy
Knowledge Fight
These are my "must listens" every week.
Honorable mention for another CBB Presents, Full Throttle! With Bob Ducca - extraordinarily brilliant, probably the hardest I've ever laughed at a podcast in my life. Limited run, so it's concluded. He tells a story about posing as a monkey in a traveling circus that is somehow both tragically beautiful, and snot running down your face funny.
The Dollop
Probably Science
The Little Dumdum Club
Probably science? They are still around!? I think the last time I listened to them was 2016. Hilarious even though the science part sometimes felt a bit forced into there. How is it like today?
Yeah still going. They get some good guests on.
If you want a crossover ep they had Dan Schreiber on from No Such Thing As A Fish recently.
Just listened to one of their latest episodes. They are amazingly exactly as they were 7 years ago. I realized that I still like the format and I think I'm gonna continue listening to them again. Thanks
I used to listen to a lot of podcasts back when I worked in an office but now the only one I listen to on a regular basis is
Trash Taste
I'll also sometimes listen to
Safety Third
Surprised no one mentioned Bill Burrs Monday Morning Podcast, Your Mom's House, Time Suck, Scared to Death or Giant Bomb. Also the Josh Potter Show, Bad Friends and Are You Garbage are fun.
Sleep deprived and chuckle sandwitch
The Honeydew with Ryan Sickler, the Jason Ellis show, Behind the Bastards
Well all I'm going to say is RIP Hello Internet
I'm a little late to the party here, but I don't see it mentioned already so I have to recommend "372 Pages We'll Never Get Back". Mike Nelson (MST3K, Rifftrax) and Conor Lastoka (Rifftrax) give really detailed reviews of "books they expect not to like", aka badly-written books. Think Mystery Science Theater 3000, but with books. They're on episode 152 and the episodes run ~2 hours. Great for long car rides.
Everything Everywhere Daily, and The Constant: a history of getting things wrong.
Ok buddy, the podcast 'Mysterious Universe' is the show that radicalized me. One of the hosts is a blackbelt in hatespeech. The other one is the founder of the Alien Hate League, Earths last and best defense against the Extradimensional threat and defender of Linda Moulton-Howe's fat mommy milkers
The History of English podcast.
It's about the history of the English language.
Buddha at the Gas Pump.
Two of my favorites
StarTalk by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Andrew Huberman's podcast
Found my fitness by Rhonda Patrick, for nutritional/exercise science. One of the few podcasts I know that are actually science based, with proper sources and all.
Political Gabfest, The Intelligence (Economist), the Briefing Room (BBC), Battleground Ukraine, The Rest is History, any of the History Hit stable, Ezra Klein Show, Club Random, The Poetry of Reality, History of English
Daniel & Jorge Explain the Universe (physics)
Trillbilly's Workers Party (politics)
Save Your Sanity (relationships w/ toxic people)
Freakonomics Radio (economics methods applied elsewhere)
Our Fake History
Decoding the Gurus
Conspirituality
I listen to a lot more but these are the ones where I don’t miss an episode.
Very surprised no-one mentioned History Unobscured
Cashing In with TJ Miller. The first 200 episodes or so have some of the funniest conversations I've ever heard; it's just two friends who are genuinely hilarious hanging out. After the first 200 episodes, the show is still good, but before that is what I would call the Golden age of the show.