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The NoSleep Podcast The Nightowl Podcast Weird Darkness Kinda Funny Games Daily Kinda Funny Gamescast Dungeons and Daddys Remember the game? The Last Podcast on the Left Smosh Reads Reddit Stories This Paranormal Life
That's my current rotation right now.
Another big fan of Darknet Diaries.
Ever since Michael Bazzle of Privacy, Security & OSINT stopped doing the podcasts, I'm still trying to find a replacement. Am listening to The Lockdown - Practical Privacy and Security in the mean time.
Also listen to Linux Game Cast.
Political: Chapo Traphouse, TrueAnon, Know Your Enemy
Semi-political and humor: QAA, Spycops
Humor: Boonta Vista, Your Favorite Band Sucks
Education: Stuff the British Stole, What Roman Mars Can Learn About ConLaw, Noble Blood
Tech: Dithering, Grumpy Old Geeks, Accidental Tech Podcast, Under the Radar, Darknet Diaries, The Talk Show
Events: Alphabet Boys, Long Shadow, In the Dark, Serial
Etc: Better Offline, Behind the Bastards, Dutch New Podcast, Strong Songs, 99% Invisible, Last Podcast on the Left, Friendly Atheist, Song Exploder, What Went Wrong
I don't listen to every episode of every show, but some shows I never miss. A lot of this came from being single during the pan and having a ton of alone time to fill while walking my area. Things fell off when we got back to normal and again when I got together with my partner. Luckily, my latest job has a lot of downtime so I'm able to listen to more again.
The Deprogram, RevLeft, Socialist Program, Upstream
Sawbones
The Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine? Nice.
I've never listened, but I'm in the McElroy orbit already so maybe I ought to give it a shot.
That's the one! I say give it a try. Their episode on rabies and syphilis were pretty good imo
Do radio shows count? I don't know that anyone has mentioned A Way With Words, in which the hosts answer questions from callers on any and all language questions.
Dave and Chuck "The Freak" and Well There's Your Problem.
Mainly listen to Australian podcast cause am one and find them more relatable. Listen to others as well but most the others already been mentioned. All are comedy. Faves are:
Mid flight brawl
Hamish and Andy
Mat and Alex all day breakfast
Yeah good
I'd recommend Boonta Vista to make your down-under fix complete.
Only one I listen to sometimes is https://www.bsdnow.tv/ since I'm an OpenBSD user and it's interesting to hear about other BSDs from time to time.
Long commute here, so quite a few.
- Conan OBrien Needs A Friend
- Behind the Bastards
- Smartless
- Last Podcast on the Left
- QAA (formerly QAnonAnonymous)
- Ridiculous History
- Sinisterhood
- Crime Junkie
- Dateline
In the podcasting app I have the follwoing subscriptions:
- Behind The Bastards
- The Delta Flyers
- Lions Led By Donkeys
- Decoding The Unknown
- Kill James Bond
- P3 Dokumentär
- Well There's Your Problem
- Damn Interesting
- The Podcats
- Nerd3 Podcats
P3 Dokumentär is great.
I should listen to more of them, unfortunately I always forget they exist.
Swedish radio produces a lot of high quality podcasts. Public service at it's finest!
Warp particles!
Wait wait don't tell me
Well fine then! I’ll keep them to myself.
Okay… what’s the difference between a beautiful and highly produced radio program and a podcast?
That's a good point.
Another Darknet Diaries fan here. Very approachable, centered around cyber security and privacy. It's the only one I am currently listening to, but I am going to check out some of the others from this thread.
Same. Only problem is how he's shifted his focus and new episodes are uncommon :(
Updates monthly now, so a new episode in a few days!
I like On Taking Pictures a lot. Nice podcast that really sparked my interest in photography about 10 years ago.
I try to stay away from political podcasts these days because I'm just too burnt out.
- No Such Thing As A Fish - amazing facts by hilarious hosts
- Let's Learn Everything - fascinating, hilarious and great chemistry between hosts
- Dungeons and Daddies (not a BDSM podcast) - stunning story with some actual RPG play
- Ologies - even the topics I felt would be boring were fascinating (like Ursinology)
I prefer single voice, storytelling podcasts. I listen to them as bedtime stories a lot.
- Lore (the older episodes are better, IMO)
- Myths & Legends (snarky modern retelling of old folk stories)
- Fictional (when he actually updates it... same guy as above, but these are classic literature)
- LeVar Burton Reads (all over the board. It's whatever stories LeVar liked. Leans a bit toward speculative fiction)
- Drabblecast, sometimes good if you like "weird fiction"
- Cautionary Tales (nonfiction)
- Just started getting into The Program. Clear Black Mirror influences here.
Cautionary Tales is stressful but fun. The host has a great style and podcast voice.
LeVar Burton Reads is often great. If you like LeVar and have kids in your life, they may like Sound Detectives! , wherein a detective and a 4 foot tall ear named Audie investigate missing sounds.
The thing I like most about LeVar Burton Reads is that it's basically Reading Rainbow with the occasional "fuck" thrown in there.
And yeah, Tim Harford's smooth voice is a much-needed balance to the anxiety inducing content of Cautionary Tales.
I also listen to Lore, Myths and Legends and Fictional as bedtime stories.
I would add "Nothing Much Happens" to this list. The podcaster writes these short stories and tells them in a soothing voice with the goal of helping you fall asleep.
I've seen that one in my podcast app, but my backlog is still so long. Might be good for nights that I just want to zonk right out though.
A lot. The one's I always come back to are
Not another D&D podcast
Improvised star trek
Thrilling adventure hour
Dungeons & Daddies
Hello from the Magic Tavern
Conan O Brian Needs a Friend
Comedy Bang Bang
Doug loves Movies - (since covid has a lot of video call episodes instead of live shows which really kills the energy imo.)
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Hello from the magic tavern. Man I haven’t listened to that in years. I have a map of Foon somewhere here though lol
Was hoping to see NADDPOD here
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SciShow tangents (a lightly competitive science show)
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Ologies (interviewing experts from different fields/ologies)
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Fake Doctors, Real Friends (Scrubs actors rewatching scrubs, my favorite show when i was younger. Plus great behind the scenes of film making)
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The Imp & Skizz show (just two gamers i love to watch, talking about creative stuff. Probably not as enjoyable for anyone who doesn't watch them already though. Still love them and would love to see then succeed more!)
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- The Regulation podcast
- 100% Eat
- Red Web
- Tales from the Stinky Dragon
- The Podcats
- So... Alright
- Cortex
Knowledge Fight - Analysis of Alex Jones and his fucked up world
God Awful Movies - Let's watch bad religious movies and talk shit about them
Behind the Bastards - Details about evil fuckers in history (and the present)
If Books Could Kill - let's read shitty airport books and talk about them
Qanon Anonymous (QAA now?) - The Qanon conspiracy world is fucking wild. Best keep track of it.
Others more sporadically.
+1 for If Books Could Kill. They've kinda run out of shitty famous self help books, but they still do good rundowns on other books now.
I'll also recommend Michael Hobbes' other podcast, Maintenance Phase, which is largely about health grifts.
Upvote for knowledge fight and BtB. I also personally love The Dollap
If Books Could Kill is new my favourite
That's a fantastic name for a podcast (or most anything else).
The one I listen the most and for the longest is No such thing as a fish.
Other that that, Better Offline, Darknet diaries, Money Stuff, Search engine, a local politics one that I disagree with but I use to be aware of what my local conservative pseudo fascists are arguing about.
And not so regularly many others whenever there's an interesting episode.
local politics one that I disagree with but I use to be aware of what my local conservative pseudo fascists are arguing about.
I really need to find something like for my area. I like to hear what’s being said in these circles.
Currently Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Love it because he's good at the storytelling and there aren't a lot of sponsored segments like other popular shows.
- Accidental Tech Podcast: Three dudes talking about tech and (mostly) Apple
- The Allusionist: podcast about language and linguistics
- The Bruenigs: Matt & Liz Bruenig talk about random stuff
- Cortex: podcast about productivity by Myke Hurley & CGP Grey
- Factually: Interviews with interesting people hosted by Adam Connover
- Hello Internet (Dead): two dudes talking, GGP Grey & Brady Haran (Numberphile)
- Intentionally Blank: Random conversations with Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells
- No Such Thing As a Fish: Intersting and odd facts by the team behind the British TV show QI
- Puck Soup: Ice Hockey News and information
- Stuff You Should Know: Funny podcast about all kinds of stuff
- The Tennis Podcast: podcast about tennis
- Ungeniused: brief episodes about interesting Wikipedia pages
- The Unmade Podcast: mostly random stuff, but about pitching ideas for other podcasts
- Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me: the NPR News quiz
R.I.P Hello Internet, the podcast I most wish would come back. Forever in my subs just in case.
Checking out The Allusionist. Thanks. I enjoy imshawngetoffmylawn on YouTube, more language content is much appreciated!
I subscribe to TWiT network so I listen to This Week in Tech/Google, Untitled Linux Show
Besides that i like waveform, the vergecast, no such thing as a fish, stuff you should know.
The only podcast I listen to is the only podcast that has ever existed and it’s called ‘All Fantasy Everything.’ Everything else other users have posted is actually All Fantasy Everything in disguise behind a Joker mask hiding deep in the jungles of Bolivia. Pretty twisted.
- It's always sunny podcast,
- Radiolab,
- 99 Percent invisible ,
- The Dollop,
- Stuff You Should Know,
- Philosophize This,
- Behind The Bastards,
- Sawbones,
- The Moth
- This American Life (less these days)
Then I have a couple of news and political news talk shows that I listen to sparingly.
In order of listening frequency:
The Greatest Generation
Behind the Bastards
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
Linux Unplugged
I listen to mostly political podcasts.
- The rest is politics - UK / US
- The daily
- The Ezra Klein show
- Post report
- Pod save America
- Democracy Now
- Today in Focus
- The journal
- NRPs Political podcast
- The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Non political pods:
- Pre-production with Chris Stuckman
- Ted Talks daily
Domestic podcasts - Norway:
- Det Store Bildet
- Aftenpodden / USA / Midtøsten (premium only for Aftenposten subscribers)
- Poprådet (same as with Aftenpodden)
- Dypdykk (very good podcast that go deep into the material of each story, again need subscription from Aftenposten)
- Trygdekontoret - Podcast that focuses on many different issues.
- Urix - Podcast about news from the world and politics
- Ekko - Show about various topis. Sometimes they got experts and scientists to explain the different topics
- Abels tårn - Show about science. It makes it more understandable for the layman.
- Kommentert - Show about norwegian politics.
- 99% Invisible
- Twenty Thousand Hertz
- Radiolab
- Science Vs
- Snap Judgement
- Outside/In
- Endless Thread
- Unexplainable
- Search Engine
- Decoder Ring
- Invisibilia (discontinued)
- The Moth
- Reply All (discontinued)
- The Sporkful
- This American Life
Stuff You Should Know
Self Hosted
Cory Doctorow's Craphound
- Most Cool Zone Media shows
- Radio Free Tote Bag
- Oddity Roadshow
- Cory Doctorow
- Sandy and Nora/Daily News
- Respect the Dead
- Knowledge Fight
Here are two I recommend:
The Rest is History - two historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook go deep on interesting topics from history.
Never Post - a podcast described as “about and for the internet” and in some sense the spiritual successor to Hello Internet but also reminding me of classic Radiolab. Worth checking out.
Behind the Bastards, Linux Lads, Linux Late Night, The Infinite Monkey Cage (when they do episodes), some spanish stuff for listening practice (mostly Hoy Hablamos), Hack-a-Day, Self-Hosted, and Cory Doctorow...
Have you found Spanish Obsessed? It's a Colombian/English couple who just have conversations in Spanish about random topics at an intermediate level.
They have several podcasts, so make sure to find the intermediate level for the conversations. Their beginner level has much more spoken English and basic Spanish vocab, which I'm not as into.
No, but I'll check them out. Thanks for the suggestion.
I only listen to two, usually while diving
- Distractible
- Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald
It's just people shooting the shit. Just friends chatting.
How has no one mentioned "Off Menu"? It's pretty much always my first choice of podcast if published a new one
Current favorites:
99% invisible
Articles of Interest (on hiatus)
Serial (takes long breaks)
Revisionist History
Cautionary Tales
Behind the Bastards
The Economics of Everyday Things
The Past and the Curious (for the kids)Podcasts I don't listen to you much anymore, though they have some good episodes: Deep Cover
Radiolab
This American Life
The Moth
Odd Lots
Animal Spirits Podcast
Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistorySome in my podcasts app:
- Hospital records
- Dan Carlin's hardcore history
- comedy bang bang
- startalk
- Jeff gerstmann
- waking up with Sam Harris
Also have nightvale and wtf marc maron but haven't listened to those in a long time.
This Week in Tech. (since 2005ish)
Where should we begin?
The Moth.
What's that rash?
99 Percent Invisible has been my favourite for years!
- The Delta Flyers
- Within the Wires
- My Dad Wrote a Porno
- Was I in a Cult?
- I Was a Teenaged Fundamentalist
- David Tennant Does a Podcast With....
- Welcome to Nightvale
Darknet Diaries
None apart from that. You're better off listening to pirated audiobooks, especially the full-cast kind with SFX like those created by GraphicAudio
- I was a teenaged fundamentalist
- soft skills engineering
- radió ambulante
- real python
- brief history of mathematics
A few that haven't been said in other comments
Stuff you should know
Ukraine: The Latest
Critical Role
Already seeing a trend here, joining in:
Behind the Bastards Better Offline Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Red Menace This Machine Kills Heavyweight (discontinued) Search Engine
Came here to see if anyone else was plugging the other CZM podcasts. I've expanded out to Cool People (I especially like the anarchist book club stories) and It Could Happen Here.
I wouldn't call myself an anarchist by any means, but I like how they get to both the root causes of issues and also give some ideas on things we can do to make some of these situations better. That last part is what I feel is missing from just about every other show about current events.
There are more podcasts that deal with these kind of issues and maybe how to improve on those, or at least give context and options.
A few other podcasts that touch on these subjects:
Revolutionary Left Radio Mass Struggle Live Like the World is Dying (also with Margaret Killjoy) Final Straw Radio This Anthro Life
Beautiful Anonymous
Search Engine
Expanded
This American Life
Selected Shorts
The Bald and the Beautiful (all drag queen podcasts will teach you things about sex you have never imagined).
Why Won't You Date Me?
- The Regulation Podcast
- Distractible
- Girls who don't D&D
- My Brother, My Brother and Me
- Hello from the magic tavern
The Daily Zeitgeist - a daily rundown of the news and pop culture
Behind the Bastards
16th Minute (of Fame) - reviewing internet main characters and adding context to what is generally known about them
Factually - Adam Conover interviews experts
The Dollop - two comedians tell stories from history
Bad Hasbara - two anti-Zionist Jews discuss Israeli propaganda, usually with a guest
Pod Yourself [x] - episode by episode recap of tv shows. First the Sopranos (pod yourself a gun) then The Wire (pod yourself the wire) and upcoming is Mad Men.
Search Engine
Some More News - news deep dives and weekly current events.
UNCANNY on BBC4
The Program Audio Series
The Abroad in Japan podcast, they're pretty short but they make a couple a week
The Co-Main Event Stuff You Should Know Space Nuts Joy
Fly on the Wall, Smartless, and WTF, but only when they have interesting guests.
Believe You Me and Morning Kombat, but only when I’m in the right head space.
NPR Politics and NPR Morning Edition for general news.
The Sporkfull for cooking/food (Sohla and Ham are fantastic). Ologies for interesting science people talking about their passions. Nightmare on Film Street for horror movies talk.
Meditation Minis and Nothing Much Happens for bringing it down.
5-4, Strict Scrutiny, and What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law when I want to be mad/sad/frustrated with my country's judicial system.
Not huge on podcasts but I enjoy The Casual Criminalist.
