Are you a fan of podcasts? If so, which ones would you recommend?

Valley Heat. Great writing, hilarious.

the yard

• This American Life
• Deep Cover
• Hyper Fixed
• Search Engine
• Revisionist History
• The Moth
• Welcome to Night Vale

. Mad At The Internet

Almost Plausible is a show where three friends take ordinary objects (for example, a paperclip, a ceiling fan, or a toilet brush) and create movie plots based on those objects.

Full disclaimer: This is my podcast.

The eastern border https://theeasternborder.lv/

A podcast about history and current events in the post Soviet sphere geared towards a western audience by a Latvian journalist. Unfortunately one current topic dominates for the last 3 years. Please take a guess, which it might be.

I looked through a number of comments and am surprised not to see Let's Learn Everything.

Every two weeks the hosts cover two topics in a lot of depth, anything from quantum mechanics to swear words.

• Stuff You Should Know -A show that originally came from How Stuff Works. The name is self explanatory
• Radiolab -A science based narrative type show that originally airs on WNYC, a major NPR Affiliate and it used to be my favorite show but it's gone down in quality in recent years.
• It's Always Sunny Podcast by the cast of Sunny in Philadelphia talk about their shows and personal lives. It's arguably the most light-hearted show I listen to
• Philosophize This -a educational podcast that discusses mainstream philosophy and the development of the subject in chronological order. I'm only 29 episodes in and there are currently over 200
• 99 Percent Invisible -A show about the world of design and the stories behind it narrated by the perfect voice for radio, Roman Mars
• The Dollop -An American history dark comedy podcast by comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
• The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart -The current iteration of Jon Stewart's podcast where he speaks much more candidly and at length on current events, mostly politics
• NPR's Marketplace -a daily radio show on the state of the economy as well as markets
  • Marketplace presents: The Uncertain Hour -A podcast that does season length stories that take a deep dive into the broken aspects of americas economy, america's failing regulation & safety nets.
• Behind The Bastards -A Biographical podcast about a lot of historic/prominent people that probably shouldn't be idolized
• Sawbones -A podcast about the history of medicine.
• The Moth -A collection of personal stories of triumph, change, growth, and inspiration as they were remembered and told live on stage. I first heard it on NPR.

On a more personal level I also listen to various collections of Alan Watts talks in addition to Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast.

I don't listen to podcasts that much, but I am a big fan of the Lingthusiasm podcast. I was actually introduced to it by none other than Tom Scott (although he doesn't really host it himself).

• Daily Tech News Show
  • As it says on the label. Been listening to Tom Merritt for many years
• Self-Hosted
  • Like to hear about projects, even if I don't use them
• Make Me Smart
  • Deep dives into tech and current events
• Empire
  • How empires rise and fall
• Tech Won't Save Us
  • Tech people tend to view tech as a solution for everything

There is only one podcast truly worth your valuable time, and it's the Get Skrek'd Podcast - "A shot-by-shot analysis of the award-winning film, Shrek 2 by your tour guide and host, Logan Flinders."

No other podcasts compare. No other podcasts matter.

Get Shrek'd is love. Get Shrek'd is life.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned "if books could kill".

They basically tear all their top seller self help books to shreds. It's very entertaining and actually really smart too.

I absolutely love 99% Invisible

• Blank Check with Griffin and David. A podcast about film directors. We love da moviesh.
• The Greatest Generation/The Greatest Trek. The best Star Trek podcast.
• Marvel by the Month. Every Marvel comic, one month at a time.
• Spout Lore - side-splittingly funny Dungeon World real-play podcast that will occasionally make you cry.
• Sawbones - Medical history from a real doctor and her loveable idiot. Secretly one of the most leftist podcasts out there, Dr. Sydnee for president. Also relationship goals.

Well there’s your problem podcast. A podcast about engineering disasters; with slides.

Lateral with Tom Scott It's a great non-political podcast.

• 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.

My time has come! I have a podcast for everything. What do you like?

I subscribe to over 250 podcasts. -_- I don’t listen to all of them every day, and many aren’t in production anymore.

I love to listen and learn.

Unexplainable - Explainers on scientific mysteries, each episode is less than 30 minutes

What Went Wrong - Behind the scenes movie podcast. It’s a miracle any movie gets made.

Song Exploder - Musicians take apart their songs, layer by layer and talk about how it was made

Hysteria - Politics and News focusing on how the issues affect women

Levar Burton Reads - Levar Burton reads short stories. Not in production anymore, but there are almost 200 episodes worth of stories to hear

Hello From the Magic Tavern - A guy falls to another dimension but still gets WiFi so he started a podcast interviewing fantasy characters in that universe

Welcome to Night Vale - A fictional story told through a bi-monthly community updates radio broadcast. All conspiracies in Night Vale are real.

Hacked - Stories about hacking and internet crime.

Ologies - Science show about ‘-ologies’ careers

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.

Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast (especially series 3 covering the French Revolution) and his The History of Rome series.

I'm surprised I didn't see anyone recommend The Adventure Zone, especially the first season. One of the best actual play podcasts out there, especially the first two seasons.

I'll recommend some hidden gems that need more love:

• Mabel: A woman works as a live in nurse for an elderly woman, and the show is voicemails she's leaving to her ward's estranged daughter. It's poetic and beautiful, and then strange events start occurring.

• Dark Ages: a fantasy workplace comedy where an unpopular museum gets a new exhibit, the crown of the Dark Lord, who terrorized the country hundreds of years ago.... Who just recently was resurrected and wants it back. Probably the best produced shows I've listened to with a great intro song.

• The Cryptonaturalist: a very normal nature show that is normal about normal nature. Also has poetry! Actually feel good podcast.

• Wolf 359: science crew is in a remote space station, and picks up a radio signal out of nowhere. Starts off funny, then gets wild.

• Brimstone Valley Mall: three demons disguised as humans, working at a mall in the 90s.

• Cult Or Just Weird: in depth dives into things which could be a cult or are just weird.

• Wooden Overcoats: British comedy podcast about a funeral home in a small village suddenly having to deal with competition

• Everything Is Alive: interviews with inanimate objects

• Uncanny County: Welcome to Nightvale meets Twilight Zone but it's also funny

Also there's podcast versions of books written on the Internet, which I'll plug here!

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky: What if Harry was not an idiot and knew what science was and was actually supported at home? Fixes a lot of dumb plot holes from the original series and frankly, is better. Also explores rationalist thinking!

• Worm by Wildbow: This is literally my favorite book and will make you never see the superhero genera the same again. Superpowers can happen to anyone seemingly at random. A young woman gets the power to control insects and wants to be a hero, but after meeting some villains the line between hero and villain blurs. There's a chapter that's one short sentence long and I've had conversations over an hour long about what it meant.

-Twig by Wildbow: A world where mad, Frankensteinian science took off instead of the regular kind. Follows a child experiment and his fellow childhood experiment friends on adventures for the definitely evil empire!

Pact by, you guessed it, Wildbow: Guy who just pulled himself out of homelessness who hates his crazy manipulative family gets the inheritance from his grandmother, which he didn't want. Turns out that also involves also inheriting the karma from his family, who were practicing the most hated form of magic possible, diabalism. So now the whole magical community is actively trying to kill him as he's scrambling to survive

Also if you like audio books, check stuff out from your library, too. It helps them out and helps them get funding when people do stuff like that.

I listen to many, but here's my favorites:

• Chilluminati: Takes a comedy focused look at supernatural, paranormal, and just weird topics. After a few episodes, the hosts really build excellent rapport. When it is at its best, it reminds me of some weird AM radio program you'd catch while night driving across the country.
• The Beef and Dairy Network: The leading podcast about beef animals and dairy herds. Start at episode 1.
• The Climate Denier's Playbook: "Rollie Williams (Climate Town) and Nicole Conlan (The Daily Show) are two comedians with Master's Degrees in Climate Science & Policy and Urban Planning. But don't get too excited, because they're here to examine the pervasive myths and misinformation campaigns that are making it obnoxiously difficult to address the looming climate crisis you've probably heard about."

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

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

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).

Behind the Basards, History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan, Hardcore History.

I’ve enjoyed Blowback.

I think most of the ones I usually mention in threads like this have been covered, but a glance through hasn’t shown me

The Blindboy Podcast

I’ll admit that this one may take a minute to really get, but once it locks in you’ll love it forever.

It’s basically just an Irish author, comedian, and former rapper telling stories, talking about mental health (he also has a masters in psychology), and interviewing people. One week he’ll be interviewing a couple of lads about insects, the next he has Cillian Murphy on. Last week was an hour about how he ended up in an office canteen covered in black hair dye, holding a bag of lemons.

It’s a wonderful podcast hug every week, and I can’t recommend it enough.

• Better Offline: Ed Zitron tearing apart how shitty the tech industry has become
• QAA Podcast: studies conspiratorial thinking (originally devoted to watching Qanon lunatics), typically hilarious
• Accidental Tech Podcast: three third-party Apple developers talking about tech, primarily in the Apple ecosystem
• Chapo Traphouse: Leftist politics, typically pretty funny
• Noble Blood: history podcast retelling stories about members of nobility in short form
• Fall of Civilizations Podcast: history podcast that dives deep into civs like Carthage and the Assyrians, etc
• TrueAnon: Leftist politics, deep dives on topics
• Last Podcast on the Left (name is a horror film reference): true crime with anecdotes, lots of diversions that might not be for everyone
• Alphabet Boys: each season deep dives a taboo action by gov agencies (FBI, ATF, etc)
• Song Exploder: deep dives on the writing and recording of songs with the musicians behind them
• What Went Wrong: deep dives on movie productions
• Behind the Bastards: deep dives on terrible people throughout history, lots of diversions that might not be for everyone
• Grumpy Old Geeks: tech and nerd news (including sci-fi media) from two cynical guys who have been in the biz for years, typically funny

I don't listen to podcasts often. But I like:

• Citations Needed: a podcast about media. Basically goes into how media covers some events and topics from a leftist perspective.

• Cane and Rinse: video game discussions and analyses. Each episode covers a specific game

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."

I like planet money from NPR

Dungeons and Daddies is one I've been working through recently, its a DND actual play, has some talented people, they had an episode with another podcast hey riddle riddle, not gotten to them yet but they seemed good too.

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.

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.

Some English-language ones I haven't seen in this thread yet:

We Hate Movies- a comedy movie review show mostly about entertainingly bad movies in the vein of How did This Get Made.

No Such Thing As a Fish- some of the researchers from QI share facts they found while prepping the TV show

Unclear and Present Danger- looks at thrillers of the 90's through an historical and leftist lens

Mortal Podkast- Lore dumps about every fighter in the Mortal Kombat series up through MK11. Now over but I still recommend it if you like Mortal Kombat

Mom Can't Cook: A DCOM Podcast- humorous, tangent-heavy recaps of Disney Channel original movies.

Three Black Halflings- insightful discussions about D&D and race from a black perspective. Also some very good actual play series and one-shots mixed in.

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.

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 loved Stephen Fry's Deadly Sins and Leap Years

For true crime I really like Murder in America

I mostly go for nonfiction stuff related to current events or history. Unfortunately some of these aren’t free.

Slow Burn - Each season goes deep on a particular event in recent (US) history. Quality falls off a bit after the first few seasons.

Fiasco - produced and hosted by the the guy that did the first 2 seasons of Slow Burn. Also US centric.

History on Fire - Haven’t listened to too much of this yet but was suggested the episode on Ötzi the Iceman which made me a fan. Probably the only one on here that isn’t US centric.

Throghline from NPR. Another history-ish podcast but focuses on current issues and the history behind them.

Going to check out some of these suggestions.

In no particular order, I listen to all of them regularly:

• Omnibus - general obscure history hosted by indie rocker John Roderick and Jeopardy's golden boy Ken Jennings

• The Dollop - (mostly) American history with a leftist bent. One comedian reads a story the other hasn't heard before.

• Not Another D&D Podcast - apologies for the first episode, but great world- and character-building. Really shows how great cooperative storytelling can be

• Last Podcast on the Left - comedy/horror. Conspiracies, cults, UFOs, and other weird shit. Their historical deep dives are awesome.

I listen to these regularly, but there's a limited series podcast I like to recommend called S-Town. It's excellent, especially if you're from the southern US or grew up in a rural area. If you aren't from the south or a rural area, it'll probably be an extra-wild ride!

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)

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)

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.

I enjoy the following rotation:

EconTalk - Interviews about all kinds of stuff with a classical liberal econ professor.

The Greatest Generation & Greatest Trek: Star Trek reviews with dick jokes and production notes

Joy, a Podcast. Hosted by Craig Ferguson

Love Worth Finding: sermons from Baptist minister Adrian Rogers

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life: Presbyterian sermons

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Peter Adamson goes over All. The. Philosophy. Ever. See the sister cast for non-Western philosophical schools.

I use podcasts to escape so I more lean towards comedy podcasts. My top is

Regulation Podcast (PREVIOUSLY F**kFace)

• 4 guys and Andrew (who didn't know what the shift key did) shooting the shit, coming up with zany and dumb ideas and having way too much burger confidence

My Brother My Brother and Me

• 3 brothers doing different bits, talking about fast food news, making jokes about pop culture and bad movies

Clutch my Pearls

• 3 girls started their own smut podcast where one of them who only reads true crime is introduced into the very very weird world of smut novels. With very funny readings from the books

We're Here to Help

• A comedy advice podcast with Jake Johnson from New Girl where they get questions like "my kids got a trampoline and my neighbor likes to walk around naked outside" and "my coworker likes to take their socks off at work" and "I brought muffins every week to work since I started and now they call me the muffin man and excpect muffin deliveries". Quite fun.

Then more seriously

Swindled

• The stories of how the great (and often mainstream) scam artists get found out and topple from power

Nerdland Podcast

• (In Dutch) a podcast about new developments in science and technology. Sadly very often about AI or Musk now but they try to keep that to a minimum.

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

*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.

"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.

I liked "David Tennant does a podcast with.."

• Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone: "... a podcast taking the fun of a late-night show, the wit of a public radio show, and the knowledge of a guest expert while setting the volume to the max." A great comedy podcast with great segments and great crew.

• Therapy Gecko: a man in a gecko costume takes calls from people looking to chat, get advice, or vent( he's not a real therapist). Fun podcast to listen on on how other people around the world are doing.

• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: The NPR News quiz! A gameshow where a panel of celebrities present the news of the week in a fun format.

• The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings: A mysterious shop that sells relics with chilling pasts. This podcast does a wonderful job of storytelling, with it's mix of great voice actors, ambience, and tales.

• Korean True Crime by Mimi Mizicko: A shorter podcast that goes in depth with some of the more sickening crimes and tragedies in Korea. Mimi Mizicko does a great job contextualizing and framing the Korean culture surrounding the cases.

• Lore by Aaron Mahnke: A podcast that explores the real-life lore of our world. Imagine a YouTube video essay that explains the lore of a fantasy world -- Now imagine that world is our world.

• Distractible: Markiplier and friends make a podcast. Mark Fishbach, Wade Barnes, and Bob Muyskens share stories, insights, and antics from their lives.

• Warriors in Their Own Words: "From archived tapes of WWI veterans to conversations with modern-day warriors, these are their own stories, in their own words." A podcast that shows us the unsanitized truth of war, from the very same people who have seen it.

The only podcaster I listen to is John Goblikon. And whatever podcaster he is interviewing. And whatever podcaster has him as a guest the next week.

Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-97sBw85g

• 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)

• Boonta Vista
• Worst of all Possible Worlds
• Well There's Your Problem
• Trashfuture

• Omnibus
• Darknet Diaries

My favourites are:

• Fall of Civilisations
• The Thing About Austen

Radio lab is great :)

I would love to know some Chinese one's too

Bigfeets.

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

You are not so smart podcast

Basically a book club about psychology books

• 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

Last Podcast on the Left is my go to for true crime and paranormal related topics.

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.

QAA is best podcast of the times

Really enjoy the rest is history.

The Dumb Zone. I promise. I pay for an annual sub. Good fun with some sports mixed in.

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.

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

• 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.