Are you a fan of podcasts? If so, which ones would you recommend?
Are you a fan of podcasts? If so, which ones would you recommend?
I'm looking to stock up on podcasts, whether in Mandarin, French or English. Don't worry about my tastes I'll sort it out later
But share good podcasts in other languages if you know any (it might be useful for other people)
The Constant by Mark Chrisler. It covers examples of all the different way people have been wrong throughout history like thinking birds flew to the moon for winter or how homeopathy started. I always find it super interesting and pretty funny too.
It's the only podcast I subscription to on patron.
I see a bunch of other Cool Zone Media shows, but not Molly Conger's Weird Little Guys.
Her calm cadence and thorough exploration of specific American wingnuts is fun. And as far as I've seen, most of the stories end with the guy dead or in prison, so happy endings.
I've really been enjoying it!
Almost TOO detailed and well researched, but I think that's more on me for listening to her masterful work as distraction while doing other things.
I like fiction podcasts, and the main one I'm working through currently is The Magnus Archives. Each episode is a short first-person paranormal horror story, and they start out pretty standalone, eventually building more background and connections between the stories and adding more "frame story" about the people collecting these tales. I wouldn't say it's an SCP clone, but it's kind of shaped similarly.
It's a watch along podcast for quite possibly the lowest depths of US reality TV, Mountain Monsters.
Their other podcast The Dogg Zzone 9000 is at least as funny, though it is dependent upon which cursed media artifact from the wrong dimension which they're reviewing.
The Linux Experiment
Behind the Basards, History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan, Hardcore History.
I absolutely love these:
- Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (behavioral psychology)
- The Sloppy Boys (comedy cocktails)
- The Bugle (comedy satire politics)
- Danny Wallace’s Important Broadcast (comedy radio show)
- Heavyweight (comedy mystery)
- HomeAssistant podcast (smarthome tech HomeAssistant)
- Self-Hosted (tech)
- Maintenance Phase (comedy wellness)
- Severance Podcast (tv show Severance)
- Strong Songs (your favorite songs, explained)
- All Consuming (comedy product reviews)
The Severance podcast is a really great behind the scenes extrapolation of each episode by the cast and crew. I recommend this one too! It’s fun to hear how many of them are fans of the show since most of them had no idea what was going on while filling their portion.
Lions Led By Donkeys! Weird and usually stupid military history, featuring everything from Roman warfare up to Vietnam.
I'll also toss in Well There's Your Problem. It's an engineering disasters podcast. With slides (if you're watching on YouTube).
If you want more in-universe crossover, Kill James Bond and What a Hell of a Way to Dad are also good. So is Failure to Launch
Really enjoy the rest is history.
The Dumb Zone. I promise. I pay for an annual sub. Good fun with some sports mixed in.
- Behind the Bastards
- The Dollop
- Live Like The World is Dying
- Some More News
- It Could Happen Here
- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
- Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
- The Film Reroll
- How Did This Get Made?
- Twenty Thousand Hertz
- The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
These are some of my favorites, I'm sure I'm missing some though.
Second how did this get made, listened to it on the way back from a trip this afternoon. I avoid the "Live!" ones as they are usually very poorly mixed and often the audience gets involved so you just sit and listen to badly mixed laughter for 4 minutes. Go see em live if you want that experience.
Available in Morse Code , dude you rock
404media.co has a really high quality one! They also got a 2024 award from EFF.
"Welcome to the podcast from 404 Media where Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason catch you up on the stories we published this week. 404 Media is a journalist-owned digital media company exploring the way technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL through investigative reporting, smart blogging, and breaking news. At 404 Media you’ll read, and hear, stories you can’t find anywhere else written by journalists who are leading experts on their beats."
You are not so smart podcast
Basically a book club about psychology books
Darknet diaries is one of my all time favorites.
If you like music analysis then Strong Songs is also interesting
And for a non serious listen I like to listen to Sherlock & Co, which is an amazing audioplay where Watson becomes a podcaster to deal with his PTSD. The adventures are self contained, so you can hop on any you like.
Darknet Diaries also has TOR website. Sadly it doesn't have latest episode, so I don't know if it will be updated.
I'll second Darknet Diaries! Hell of a podcast!
Ologies! " Each episode, Ward interviews an expert from a distinct scientific field (somnology, bryology, philematology, etc.)"
+1 for Ologies!
Srsly Wrong
- a leftist utopian podcast made in Canada
Reply All
- it's done now and is really only good until PJ leaves, but it was excellent for a while
Dungeons and Daddies
- four dads get sent to the forgotten realms while bringing their kids to a soccer game
The What If? Podcast
Turned Out A Punk
Something Rotten
Behind The Bastards
Went looking for Reply All. I found that podcast as my "first" podcast, I'd never gotten into any before. Listened from episode one every day for weeks, and suddenly.... They were announcing they were ending... I hadn't realized they had ended...
Because they hadn't yet. I somehow timed my listening of the whole show such that I heard the second or third last episode (where they first announced the ending) on the day it was put out... So I had to wait a week each for the last 2 episodes...
Great variety of content, despite the tagline...
While I don't agree with all his politics, I do enjoy his style. He asks a question then he shuts up and lets the other side talk.
Doesn't interrupt.
@ShawnRyanShow On YouTube.
A podcast I like to listen to that hasn't been mentioned yet: Opt Out
Opt Out is a podcast where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.
Knowledge Fight. Dan listens to InfoWars so you don't have to.
He has immersed himself in the world of Alex Jones, InfoWars, and other right-wing shit-headerry for almost 8 years now, and he brings a depth of research and continuity to the conversation that nobody else really does. He goes beyond the usual "wow, what a hypocrite" criticism and thoroughly eviscerates anything even remotely resembling a valid point that these dicks make. His co-host, Jordan, screeches along in an occasionally hilarious fashion.
They're about to release their 1,000th episode, and virtually all of them are worth a listen (even going back to 2016-2017). It really shows how often people like Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Trump, Laura Loomer, and so forth have been overlapping and collaborating for years.
What's your bright spot?
TENNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS
My regular rotation (in order of how many of them I listen to, %):
- Lateral with Tom Scott
- Wait, wait, don't tell me
- Well there's your problem
- Behind the Bastards
- It could happen here
WTYP 🤜🤛
*Stuff you should know" is a fun podcast, two guys go over a random topic.
They aren't experts in anything, but it's fun to hear them try to explain what they've learned about everything from how cranes work to darker things like the Tulsa race riots.
Omnibus is also good in this vein. Ken Jennings and his friend go over some weird and obscure history you might not know about. It's not very in-depth a lot, more factoids, but always pretty cool.
Josh and Chuck are awesome. I enjoy how they slip in false info jokes, and go off on tangents
I have been making a weekly podcast about amateur radio since 15 May 2011. It started life as "What use is an F-call?" and in 2015 was renamed "Foundations of Amateur Radio". I've made over 700 episodes so far.
Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents.
It's available as audio, text, email, RSS, YouTube and Morse code and can be found on many podcast platforms. It's also available on amateur radio repeaters, as eBooks and on lemmy.radio and it can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.
More info: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/
Feel free to ask questions.
Onno (VK6FLAB)
"Ty and That Guy" - Ty Franck (one of the writers of The Expanse books) and Wes Chatham (actor of Amos Burton on the show) talk about sci-fi.
"SPINES" - supernatural fiction about an amnesiac tracking down broken people with paranormal abilities, written in an audio diary format. It gets a little gay.
"The White Vault" - supernatural fiction about a multinational team that travels to Svalbard to recover a lost expedition and encounters a monster.
This Podcast Will Kill You - good shit about various diseases/poisons
- Boonta Vista
- Worst of all Possible Worlds
- Well There's Your Problem
- Trashfuture
Worst of all and WTYP are excellent. Those are the two I've listened to.
I can also recommend QAA, Knowledge Fight, and Lions Led by Donkeys
Lions Led by Donkeys is fantastic
- The Bugle (satire about the news)
- The Deprogram (far left politics, very funny hosts)
- Blowback (documentary style show about US interventions in different places - more interesting than it sounds)
- Radiolab (sciencey stuff)
I quite enjoy:
- philosophise this
- escape pod
- darknet diaries
- the skeptics guide to the universe
- the jordan harbinger show
- search engine (and reply all)
- stellar firma
- sawbones
- if books could kill
- True crime garage
- midst
- Grumpy Old Geeks. A podcast of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame
I really enjoyed the early episodes of
How I built this with Guy Raz
Radio lab is great :)
I would love to know some Chinese one's too
Last Podcast on the Left is my go to for true crime and paranormal related topics.
My favourites are:
- Fall of Civilisations
- The Thing About Austen
I liked "David Tennant does a podcast with.."
I have honestly never listened to one, so I can't help here, but interested to see if any suggestions sound up my street.
All of the "The Rest is..." Podcasts are great that I've heard- Entertainment, Football, Politics, Classified, Money.
No Such Thing As a Fish by the QI elves.
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Curious Cases
Chalk Radio from MIT OpenCourseWare
I really enjoy this podcast. It's great to hear that the professors at MIT share their passion and expertise with students and the wider world. One of my favorite episodes is Prof. Eric Grimson's story about making computer science more accessible to everyone. It's really motivating to think that there are so many talented teachers and resources available, which makes me feel confident and excited to keep learning on my own.
- Old Gods of Appalachia**
- Spooked
- One Strange Thing**
- Radio Rental
- Mr. Ballen: Strange, Dark, & Mysterious
- Lore**
- Small Town Dicks
** I love these so much, I subscribe. If Spooked had an ad free subscription model, I would support it too, but alas, they prefer ad revenue.
- Omnibus
- Darknet Diaries
Just started listening to Darknet Diaries last week. It's really good, right from ep1.
- Red Flags Pod: F1 Podcast with sister show Vankah Hours starring Gunther Steiner as a third co-host.
- Hyperfixed: Show where Alex Goldman tries to solve a problem an audience sent in, no matter what the topic is.