What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 102 points – 2 months ago

I'm getting close to the bottom of my backlog on a few podcasts, so I'm looking to get something new in there.

Personally, it's been, in no particular order:

If Books Could Kill
Darknet Diaries
Hard Fork
99% Invisible
The War on Cars
The Urbanist Agenda
The Climate Denier's Playbook
Well There's Your Problem

I'm mildly considering getting into Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, but I'm a little bit skeptical on account of how damn much there is to be listened to in their feed.

I love Behind The Bastards and It Could Happen Here. They do have significant episode counts. BtB does a great and looooooong series on Henry Kissinger that I think is a prime example of what you are going to get. If you listen to that one and don't enjoy, I would move on from them.

I have exclusuvely been listening to "The History of Rome" by Mike Duncan

still not done with it lol

His follow up Revolutions is even better

That's how I was made aware of "The History of Rome". I listened to the last chapters of "Revolutions" and decided to start from the beginning before listening to the rest.

My current "roadmap" of sorts is to finish "The History of Rome", then "The History of Byzantium* (not made by Duncan) and listen to the rest of "Revolutions" afterwards

Make sure to follow it up with Robin Pearson's History of Byzantium. He's still centuries away from done, but I like it even better than Mike Duncan's after it gets going.

I'm gonna give this one a shot. Thank you!

Lions lead by donkeys

Well There's Your Problem

Kill James Bond

The Delta Flyers

Decoding The Unknown

P3 Dokumentär

Damn Interesting

P3 Dystopia 👍

Main one worth sharing is Blowback. The rest are comedy slop.

No Such Thing As A Fish!

From the makers of BBC's "QI," a (nearly) endless collection of useless facts that will not change your life, but will make you more fun to talk to at parties. Not that you go to any parties.

Anna from No Such Thing as a Fish recommended an Australian podcast called Smart Enough to Know Better years ago and I've been thoroughly enjoying both since. And I would say if you get the opportunity to see No Such Thing as a Fish live go for it. They are excellent live.

I've heard about this one before, but I'm downloading an episode now.

The one thing I hate about QI is that I've already seen it all and there aren't any more episodes.

Edit: That was great. It totally scratched the QI itch. Among many other tidbits, I now know how leech treatments were discovered, that there's a specific frequency that is arousing for badgers and sets off car alarms, and that in one year, over 700 American students were arrested for owning pagers.

Edit: Holy shit. The author of Goodnight Moon literally died from an overly-enthusiastic "can-can kick". She did it to prove she was feeling fine... (ironically) but she dislodged a blood clot that instantly killed her.

Well now I know you're the type of person who starts a podcast newest to oldest instead of the other way around lol

English:

Lateral
Darknet Diaries
Artifexian
Exolore
The White Vault (caught up on old episodes)
World's Greatest Con

German:

Geschichten aus der Geschichte
Geschichten aus dem Altbau
Darwin gefällt das
Mord auf Ex
Bayern 3 True Crime
Weird Crimes

All in no particular order.

I might add to the German column:

Wochendämmerung

Lage der Nation

Übermedien

Piratensender Powerplay

UKW

Logbuch Netzpolitik Das Universum Sternengeschichten Besser Wissen AstroGeo Hoaxilla CosmicLatte Future Histories OmegaTau (RIP)

It Could Happen Here is often talking about what's going on that week in the world. I wouldn't try to listen to their whole backlog, but I usually catch an episode or two a week.

Behind the Bastards is great. Since I found it (Summer 2020, I'd reckon), I've listened to most of what has come out since.

Cool People who did Cool Stuff is a sort of spin off of btb. Deep dives on people and movements who were resisting the bastards. It's only been going on a couple of years, so the backlog is more manageable if that's your thing.

I listen to Past Times on the Dollop feed most weeks. The Dollop is another deep dive history podcast. On Past Times, they read headlines and articles from different newspaper every week. Usually from the late 19th through early 20th century, but they've gone as far back as the 1600s.

Anything by Jamie Loftus is great. She's mostly done short run things on a single topic. She's on the Bechdel cast, too which I listen to occasionally.

You might enjoy The Deprogram, which has a less daunting backlog.

It could happen here is very hit or miss, unfortunately. For me personally, about 70% is garbage, the rest is pretty good.

Their resident middle east anchor woman (Shirin?) and Andrew are just completely unlistenable to me, simply because of their voices. And there's a lot of USA internal politics, which just isn't all that interesting to me.

I want to like Cool People who did Cool stuff, but the way information is presented by Margaret almost reads (listens?) like fiction storytelling. I appreciate the source quotes and media critiques of BtB which the few episodes of CPWDCS I’ve listened to didn’t really have.