Behind the Bastards
After listening to the RFK episodes, him leaving a dead bear in Central Park makes complete sense.
I like to recommend the episode(s) on John McAfee when people first start Bastards. They're wild and not nearly as dark/heavy as some episodes can be.
Those were absolutely crazy!
Hell yeah. That's on my regular rotation.
So so good!
Great podcast. And you can just skip around and listen to ones that sound interesting.
Welcome to nightvale is good.
Been going for quite some time.
Qwerpline is also a good comedy one.
I haven't listened to any since I no longer spend my work day in the car, but if you're a dork like me, you might enjoy:
Tales from the Magic Tavern: A man from Chicago gets sucked into a portal and finds himself in a fantasy world of wizards, Orcs, and a nasty little shapeshifting badger. There is a structured plot line, but all dialogue is improvised.
Hey Riddle Riddle: That nasty little badger from Magic Tavern started his own podcast that focuses on riddles. They ask each other riddles and the listener can try to solve them as the hosts figure it out. Also, full of silly improv scenes between riddles
Dungeons & Daddies: Follows a D&D game in which a group of dads and their sons are transported from our world into the Forgotten Realms. The Dads must use their newfound D&D powers to save their children. Very funny, AMAZING STORY. The DM does a great job, and was a lead writer for Borderlands 2, if that means anything to you.
Get Played: Originally they only covered terrible or bizarre video games, but expanded to weird/ mind bending games. They introduced me to some really good underrated Indy games.
Here's the Situation: Two Improvisors that present each other with scenarios and they just give their honest opinion on it. For example, of you could only eat one candy for the rest of your life, what would it be? What if there was an organized draft (like in sports) and only one person could claim each candy? How much do you think you could sell an actual magic item for on eBay? They ended it years ago, but it was fun to bring the situations back to my family and see what they thought.
Have you tried Dungeons & Daddies? Freddy Wong (Rocketjump Youtube channel) and friends play DnD (Slight spoiler: Hey Riddle Riddle join in for a couple of episodes)Oops, I reread the comment. Great podcast tho!
So good! I haven't had time to listen to season 2. It's probably about over by now, last I remember hearing was a cat bus and anthropomorphic calzones.
I'm an indy game fan, Get Played sounds interesting.
Like I said, I haven't listened in a while, but I do remember that they convinced me to play Edith Finch, Hypnospace Outlaw, and Onion boy commits tax evasion. All very good games.
But it started as How Did This Get Played? So, the first few seasons are a lot of tearing apart terrible games like Michael Jordan in the Windy City, and James Pond.
For science communication:
- SciShow Tangents, by Hank Green. Very fun, but most recent episodes have lots of ads. Still very good.
- Ologies with Alie Ward. Interviews with a scientist every week, very informative and interesting.
Knowledge Fight - a podcast all about Alex Jones. Over 900 episodes, so a huge backlog of you enjoy it, but you can just start with the most recent episode.
Revolutions - does a deep dive on 10 different major revolutions. You can start from any series beginning, but I would recommend listening in order. French, Haitian, and Russian are my three favorite.
Wow that’s a lot of content about one guy. Are they dissecting Alex’s content, crimes, personality, rise to fame, all the above?
All of the above, but mostly dissecting his content.Here is a YouTube clip from the show that someone animated as an example .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pph9uGgS45s&pp=ygUPa25vd2xlZGdlIGZpZ2h0
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Tech won't save us. Great series in my opinion. Great if you want to hear about tech in general and it not always be a good thing.
99 percent invisible - fantastic podcast on a variety of topics. Roman Mars goes into detail about every day things and concepts.
Dungeons and Daddies. DnD podcast. Great for road trips. My wife and I were crying laughing at some parts.
American Hysteria. A look into the real and not so real stories that make America.
Love 99% invisible, I'm going to check out tech won't save us.
Darknet Diaries is just amazing, it's always really interesting, I never get bored
The Lockdown is a pretty good podcast about digital (and physical) privacy and security
The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show by Michael Bazzell @ inteltechniques.com was really great, but they took it down last year. Fortunately there is still a torrent of the full archive of the show floating around: https://lemmings.world/post/11120738
The Ask Noah Show is all about Linux and open source software
Basically everything produced by Jupiter Broadcasting is just awesome, including Linux Unplugged and Self-Hosted
Linux Matters can also sometimes have really good content (Here's their Mastodon profile: https://ubuntu.social/@linuxmatters)
Brodie Robertson's Tech over Tea (I'm sorry I don't have a better way to link to it than Apple Podcasts)
The Linux Experiment's weekly Linux & open source news podcast (which you can also follow from the Fediverse btw, Castopod is just an awesome piece of software)
Thanks, this list is great. I haven't heard of most of these except for Brodie Robertson. I've been watching him on YouTube since he first started growing out that abomination of a beard.
Smartless is fun.
Science Vs is short and interesting.
What's Her Name is great for true stories on historical women you may not have heard of.
If Books Could Kill tears into popular books.
Why Did You Tell Me That goes into interesting topics with comedy.
Last Podcast on the Left is mostly true crime but might cover other interesting true stories. The lads are funny.
No Dogs in Space is a great music one that covers bands in series. Mostly punk and alternative.
I listen to a lot of the BBC Sounds podcasts... possibly because I'm boring and British.
My favourites are:
- In Our Time: 3 academics and a host discuss an academic topic in deep detail. Science, humanities, arts, etc. Some episodes are more interesting than others but depends on your personal interests. I like the philosophy ones because I studied it at university.
- The Today Podcast: UK news and current affairs.
- Screenshot: Film critics Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode discuss the history of cinema by picking a theme or motif to explore per episode, i.e. "Mermaids" was a recent one.
- The Digital Human: explores technology trends and how they affect individuals and society.
Not so much a podcast but I've just finished listening to the BBC radio comedy series "Cabin Pressure"
Turns out it's quite dangerous to laugh that hard when you're driving, not recommended
Written by John Finnimore and has Benedict Cumberbatch as the pilot, but Roger Allam and Stephanie Cole absolutely steal the show with their sarcasm and banter
This American Life has nearly 30 years of excellent content. I know it is popular so maybe not worth mentioning, but I think there is a good reason this OG is still around. It is superb. So many little hidden gems.
One of my favorites is the first section of What Lies Beneath:
A beloved drawing goes missing from Mr. Ablao’s third grade classroom. The class holds a funeral for the drawing, which accidentally unleashes a much bigger feeling than anyone anticipated.
But there are many, many more.
I liked Opt Out a lot, but in recent years it has quite few episodes. It's main topic is privacy and related technologies, in every episode they have a guest related to the current topic.
- Knowledge Fight
- Behind the Bastards
- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
The only podcast I liked is no long being produced - The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show.
Please listen to: × Kill James Bond (very funny leftist film critique)
× The worst of all possible worlds (funny absurdist pop culture reviews)
× worlds beyond number (DnD live play podcast)
Personal favorite: Eggplant.show
Candid conversations with game creators that dive deep into the art, craft, and process of making games.
The Greatest Generation - Star Trek rewatch podcast. Rekindled my love for the greatest franchise in history. Hosts approach the show from a tv production background
Spout Lore - the best real-play podcast, in my opinion. Dungeon World with incredible world building despite almost everyone being named Greg
Blank Check with Griffin and David - film analysis from the film critic for the Atlantic and Arthur from the Tick / Orko / Watto, covering a director's entire filmography each series
Marvel by the Month - Reading every Marvel comic, one month at a time. Has a gaggle of comic book industry legends as regular guests, talks about the context in which the comics were written, theme and interstitial music are bangers
The Silt Verses - A fantasy horror podcast where gods are real, spawned solely through belief, feed on sacrifices (usually human), and have been corporatized. It's amazing and the series just recently finished so there's no waiting for the next episode to drop. Easily the best podcast I've ever listened to.
Sawbones - An awsome medical history podcast by Justin and Dr. Sydnee McElroy. Sydnees part is pretty obvious, she's a family medicine doctor and she researches and presents historical bits about all the ways we have tried to do medicine throughout history. Justin is just Justin, he's a podcaster and games journalist by trade so he's mainly there as a layman and as comedic support.
The Magnus Protocol - Fantasy horor that I'm having trouble expplaining but it's damn good. It's made by the same creators that did the magnus archives. When they announced it on kickstarter after the magnus archives was finished they quickly earned over $700,000 so that should be some indication of how much people liked the magnus archives and the budget for the show.
Talk of the Devils (Manchester United podcast) The Athletic FC (general football) Kino Kingdom (movie podcast by two of my friends) By Far The Greatest Team (football history, my uncle is one of the hosts) The Rest is History (er, history) Doom Tomb (doom metal) Page 94 (UK politics)
HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast- Readings with interspersed commentary. Both hosts enjoy the material and their commentary tends to be on topic and stays brief. Good production value with music and editing to keep things tight.
History That Doesn't Suck - Prof. Jackson goes through US history linearly, one episode at a time. Very tight, but informative narrative structure. Tons of episodes.
- Behing The Bastards - informing, well researched bits of history with hilarious hosts
- The War On Cars - The name is a bit of a joke. Interesting discussions around how our cities are designed.
"The Europeans" — a podcast about, well, Europe.
The Abroad In Japan Podcasts is a really great listen, short but regular episodes and there's a decent amount of variety in what they talk about
Omnibus with Ken Jennings and John Roderick is very entertaining and educational. You'll either love the chemistry between the hosts or find them insufferable.
Every drag queen podcast, as well as Nicole Byer's Why Won't You Date Me? which has a lot of drag queen guests,will teach you more about sex than you ever had any idea about. A sex therapist telling Vanjie not to use Tic-tacs to douche with is absolutely wild.
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The biggest difference between Joe Rogan and Sam Harris is that Harris ought to know better. Platforming scientific racists like Charles Murry is the opposite of intellectual inquiry.
It's motherfuckers like him who've turned the skeptic community into safe spaces for open bigotry. And worst of all, he's known to impersonate a philosopher.
