What podcasts are you listening to?

Love me some Darknet Diaries and Hacked.

The Scathing Atheist - three atheist comedians talk about religious over reach on society.

God Awful Movies - those same three comedians talk about terrible religious movies

Cognitive Dissonance - two skeptical best friends from Chicago talk about the news.

Citation Needed - the guys from The Scathing Atheist and the guys from Cognitive Dissonance take turns reading essays based on Wikipedia pages and joking about them.

Behind The Bastards - hilarious and well informed host talks about histories greatest Bastards.

The Greatest Generation/The Greatest Trek - two guys review Star Trek episodes. Generation focuses on older trek shows, currently going through Voyager, Trek reviews the new shows as episodes release.

GoNintendo - Rawmeat Cowboy from GoNintendo and his friends talk about Nintendo news and utterly fail to stay on topic.

Smartless

Soooo many, but here are my top 5

1. The Daily Beans - News. With Swearing
2. Cognitive Dissonance - Two shouty atheists talk about stuff
3. The Skepticrat - Funny hot takes on the news
4. Behind the Bastards - All about the worst people
5. NPR Politics - 90% American, 10% international, but still about America

• Stuff You Should Know

• Barbell Medicine

• Ham Radio Crash Course

• 2 White Lights

Drifting Off with Joe Pera: A Sleep Podcast

https://www.patreon.com/DriftingOffwithJoePera

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drifting-off-with-joe-pera/id1669125364

https://open.spotify.com/show/56Vb1dQgGFEFJ9r937U3pg

Drifting Off With Joe Pera is an evening comedy podcast from comedian Joe Pera and composer Ryan Dann. With low-key jokes, immersive soundscapes, and relaxing phone conversations, Joe’s narration and Ryan’s sound design will help you unwind and perhaps even fall asleep. Featuring guest composers and interviews with interesting folks, the podcast will be released on the first Sunday of every month. Sorry, it's not more often but this is the fastest we can do thoughtful, quality work.

After the cancellation of Joe Pera Talks With You, I was glad to learn that Joe and his calming voice would be making new content. Especially content I can drift off with.

Been binging a lot of Last Podcast in the Left. The David Miscagive (Scientology) and Joseph Smith (Mormonism) episodes are amazing takedowns of cult leaders.

The Omnibus -- a weird collection of obscure knowledge and topics, hosted by Ken Jennings and John Roderick. I've learned about the Charge of the Light Brigade (and why a cardigan is called a cardigan), I've learned about John Wayne's yacht that was converted from a minesweeper ship, and about the Hillbert Hotel way to visualize infinite numbers. It's good shit.

Also will always recommend This American Life from NPR. Sometimes it can be a bit of a miss, but usually it's my favorite way to start the workweek drive.

Behind the Bastards, Knowledge Fight, and Castle Super Beast!

My podcasts fall into two groups:

Linux/Tech

• Destination Linux
• Late Night Linux and its brethren
• Linux GameCast and its sister show LWDW

Urbanism

• The War on Cars
• The Urbanist Agenda
• Strong Towns Podcast
• Upzoned

They release on almost a daily schedule, so I always have something to listen to.

• Bad Friends
• Take Your Shoes Off
• Tigerbelly
• Conan O'Brien needs a friend
• Darknet Diaries

Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, and Off Menu.

Deprogram, Safety Third, various HowStuffWorks series, Nosleep and Creepypastas, and also I have NewPipe so I mainly just listen to long YouTube videos as podcasts. Disaster Breakdown, Plainly Difficult, RMTransit, and Mentour Pilot are my current educational channels. Barely Sociable, Nexpo, Rob Gavagan for horror and true crime stuff. Some channels interleave the video and audio a lot more so they're not as suitable for listening to.

Behind the Bastards The dollop Swindled Lions led by donkeys

it’s kinda niche, but since you asked: The SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sans-internet-stormcenter-daily-cyber-security-podcast/id304863991

If Books Could Kill

Criminal, This American Life, Hard Fork, No Such Thing As A Fish

How Did This Get Made is a pretty darn good comedy podcast about people reviewing terrible movies. Sadly most of the low-hanging fruit are already done though so newer episodes usually talk about some obscure movies I've never heard of.

Welcome to Nightvale, though I haven't listened in a while.

Very bad wizards is my favorite, a philosopher and psychologist discussing books, movies, and random other stuff related to morality and ethics

Dungeons and Daddies not a BDSM podcast ....except that one time

The Deprogram

• Spout Lore (actual play dungeon world podcast which is an absolute blast of hilarity and wholesomeness)
• Dungeon and daddies (first season is a masterpiece, after that, your mileage may vary, they are going too often in the "too raunchy" for my taste but there are some good episodes still)
• Adventure Zones I recently dropped. I basically enjoy only the one off they do in the old West with ghosts and such. The main campaign is subpar since quite some time
• Not Another D&D podcast, I'm catching up with the first season still, sometimes they go for the "over the top" for no reason but there are some good moments. I absolutely loathe the sponsors they use (like fucking turbotaxes and other exploiting companies)

I had others but over time the quality dropped unfortunately.

I used podcast for infotainment and keeping updated with work related stuff as well once, but since the pandemic I don't commute anymore and the time for podcast is basically just for when I cook or clean.

Have a word - a UK comedy pod

Lateral - Tom Scotts brilliant pod with some great guests

Red Web - they talk about mysteries online and offline

The Constant) - A History of Getting Things Wrong is my absolutel favourite this past year. I discovered it via Our Fake History, which I also love.

Daily Tech News Show has been a staple for a decade, and I followed Tom on other pods for years before that.

If you like short and sweet (most eps. 20–30 min) and don't mind being sad that it's discontinued:

A World Without

Two buddies discuss what a world without a particular thing (one thing per episode) would be like. No color? No chairs? No numbers? They tackle these questions in often unapologetically unscientific, and always creative and hysterical ways.

"If books could kill" - two guys going through popular books like Rich Dad Poor Dad, Nudge, and Atomic Habits and ripping them apart.

Behind Bastard - each episode is about some bastard from Napoleon III. to Coco Channel.

The new guru from BBC. Is short series about the rise of new internet gurus.

"Oh No Ross and Carrie" They go participate in all kinds of "fringe science" or spiritual stuff and report on it in a very funy but, in my opinion, largely respectful way.

One called 'who shat on the floor at my wedding'

Basically a comedy podcast (real life) where two people and their friend investigate who shat on the floor at their wedding in a kind of satire of true crime podcasts. It's thoroughly entertaining and I'm so invested in finding out who actually shat on the floor at the wedding now.

The It's always sunny podcast and The Nextlander podcast

American Innovations - And really most of the Wondery catalogue.

Brad and Will Made A Techpod, 99% Invisible, Ask A Spaceman, Stuff The British Stole, Star Talk, Mindscape.

Your Own Backyard: The Disappearance of Kristin Smart

If you into true crime you are going to love this.

• Stories of Scotland - Jenny and Annie talk about Scottish history, culture, nature, and heritage in lovely accents and sometimes they get very silly
• Irish and Celtic Music Podcast - by Marc Gunn, the 'celtfather'... I love a good jig
• Stuff You Should Know - stories of curious and strange things... a bit US-centric but they do 'translate' units (e.g. feet to meters) and I appreciate that
• The compassion Initiative - Just two guys from Brisbane talking compassion, with Stan and James, also nice accents
• Me the Mountain - Acoustic guitar music I listen on the bus in the morning half asleep; there are no new episodes since 2021 but I listen to the remaining ones on repeat
• WTF with Marc Maron - the godfather of podcasts, nice chats, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry...

...and for my German fellow lemmys:

• Haschimitenfürst - Der Bobcast - für alle ??? (Hörspiel-)Süchtigen

The Dollop It's an comedy American history podcast One of the hosts researches crazy events or biographies and the other host has no idea wtf is the topic. Really funny shit. If you want to try a quick episode look up 380-the beaver drop

It's not exclusive American history, when they travel they'll do other countries as well

So many…

The Hidden Athlete (long form interviews with endurance athletes)

No such thing as a fish (fun conversational about random weird factoids)

Sawbones

The One You Feed

The Debaters (stupid Canadian comedy debates)

The Art of Manliness (dumb name, decent content)

Discovery by the BBC

Ologies with Alie Ward

The Emma Guns Show (idgaf about beauty stuff, but love her quality of life & mental health topics)

Trail Runner Nation

Maintenance Phase

You’re Dead to Me (bbc history in a light funny way)

Here is my list. I’ve been listening to all of these for a while now.

• Coder Radio (https://coder.show)
• Linux Unplugged (linuxunplugged.com)
• Dev Game Club (devgameclub.com)
• Screaming in the Cloud (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/)

3 gordos bastardos.

99%Invisible Real life ghost stories Re: Dracula Play watch listen

This American Life

Radiolab

Decoding the Unknown

The Running Channel

Every so often Planet Money

I used to listen to Reply All until their whole thing and they shut down.

Skeptics guide to the universe

High Rollers(DnD), Behind the Bastards, The Other States of America, The Daily Zeitgeist, History Unplugged, Empire

Special shout out to Case File, Behind the Bastards, Criminal, Moth Radio Hour

Behind the Bastards (weird/interesting historical shitheads; usually, they did one on Musk and the Submarine Guy)

The Dogg Zzone (if you read Cracked back in the day, two of the main writers, plus guests)

Stuff You Should Know (Stuff. You should know.)

The Dollop (More weird historical shitheads, and sometimes good stuff??)

My Brother, My Brother, and Me (because i'm a basic removed and love dick jokes)

Distractible (also because i'm a basic removed and love dick jokes)

The War on Cars

Dungeons of Drakkenheim, the most enjoyable D&D 5e live play campaign out there.

• Coder Radio
• Ask Noah Show
• Late Night Linux
• Linux Unplugged
• 2.5 Admins
• Self-Hosted
• Linux Action News

I Said No Gifts - nice, low-key conversations with funny people, great format.

Midnight Burger - wonderful sci-fi story that draws from lots of material, pretty funny, great cast and production.

No Such Thing as a Fish - 4 hosts discuss interesting facts in what's often equally as hilarious as it is informative.

Bananas - 2 funny dudes discuss weird or funny news headlines.

These are all good, light-hearted podcasts for when you want something a bit softer to listen to :)

• 99% Invisible (Roman Mars)
• Slate Star Codex (narrated form of Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Ten column)
• Jack Rhysider - Darknet Diaries
• Maggie Killjoy - Cool people who did Cool Stuff
• Cory Doctorow's podcast
• Jennifer Briney - Congressional Dish
• Lex Fridman

the first three are all tightly scripted storytelling: generally non-fiction, but exciting or interesting. sorted by general audience -> niche audience.

the next three edge into political territory, sorted from politically-adjacent to 100% political (not punditry):

• Maggie's focuses on telling history. but she's self-described anarchist and it bleeds.
• Cory's is a narrated form of his blog. usually the overlap between tech & national policy.
• Congressional Dish is literally Jen watching hours of C-SPAN and reading 1000's of pages of text from bills to give actual deep-dives into congressional happenings.

Lex Fridman is if Joe Rogan was hosted by someone who actually did his research upfront, planned out his questions, and chose guests that are less divisive, and more academic or entrepreneurial.

if you listen to any of these, please leave a recommendation for something similar you think i would like! ❤️

• 60 Songs That Explain the 90s An excellent host covers a wide variety of tracks from the 90s and the culture surrounding it. I recommend finding a track that interests you and giving the whole episode a listen. Any subject he starts on winds up wrapping into the main subject really well.

• With Gourley and Rust An ‘easy listening’ horror podcast that does seasons around a certain franchise/sub-genre with two of the most pleasant folks to host a podcast together.

I mainly listen to the Lateral podcast/gameshow hosted by Tom Scott.

Small Town Murder! Two comedians talk about a murder that happens in a small town. Super excited to see them live in a couple weeks!

At the moment, the Dollop and Behind the bastards are my mainstays. Both are as excellent and funny as they are depressing.

Cumtown Premium, The Adam Friedland Show, The Always Sunny Podcast

The 13th Step - limited series, investigative journalism covering sexual misconduct in addiction recovery.

Stuff the British Stole - stories about the shittiness of British colonialism.

Beauch87's summary episodes of my favorite show, "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?", if that's considered a podcast (it is definitely episodic, it's just that the episodes aren't really dropped on a regular schedule). Just realized he dropped season 1 and 2 reviews last year and I completely missed it. Got hours of listening material to go.

The Doughboys - a podcast where they review chain restaurants (fast food to fast casual to high end chains). The hosts (Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell, comedians) have a love-hate relationship that makes it so fun and real. And their guests are the best.

• Levar Burton Reads - good short stories (today "D.P." by Kurt Vonnegut)
• Behind the Bastards this week: Stockton Rush, inventor of the Deathsub
• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• Evil Genius with Russell Kane (BBC) - last week, David Bowie... was he a genius, or simply evil?
• Something Rhymes with Purple - Fascinating look at English language.
• Drama of the Week (BBC) - occasionally brilliant plays.
• Desert Island Disks - Good when doing chores.

Moonrise from Washington Post. Really interesting deep dive into the history of the moon landings

Mango bae- a smaller one but one of my favorites. It's just 2 brown/desi comedians from NY area who riff on topics for 30 min-1 hr. Maybe not for everyone but one of my favorites

Flagrant podcast with Andrew Schulz. Again may not be for everyone but another group of comics who host what I feel is closer to what the JRE used to be

• The Big Picture
• The Rewatchables
• Locked On NFL Scouting
• ScienceVs
• No Stupid Questions

All of the Rogan comedy circle ones, JRE, Your Mom's house, Two bears One Cave, This past weekend.

Lex Friedman Podcast is great when I'm in a deep think kind of mood.

I found a niche little historical podcast on the American frontier called Furs and Frontiers

Lore and Cabinate of curiosity are always great to fall back in to for a bit.

Linux unplugged

Late night Linux

Coder Radio

Real Python Podcast

Self Hosted

The Homelab Show

2.5 Admins

Behind the Bastards

Always sunny podcast Conan needs a friend Adventure zone

Financial Times Morning Briefing

Today Explained

Decoder

David McWilliams Podcast

Linux Unplugged Linux Action News Self Hosted Coder Radio

Late Night Linux

Behind The Bastards

Irish History Podcast

Blindboy Podcast

No Agenda

True Crime Bullshit

The Art of Manliness

Moe Factz

Armchair Expert is my favorite. I also enjoy 'Ride the Lightening,' the Tesla unofficial podcast and Ear Biscuits.

The Deprogram Podcast

https://lemmygrad.ml/c/thedeprogram [email protected]

My main podcast that I listen to is Not Another DnD Podcast, run by some great collegehumor alums. I've got more on backlog, but I usually only listen when driving, and I don't drive enough to keep up with more than 1 podcast.

The Deprogram

For people who like interesting sci-fi stuff: woe.begone (time travel and alternate realities), Lost Terminal (AI, asmr-like), Midnight Burger (I dunno how to describe it but it's ingenious and hilarious).

Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast The Adam Friedland Show

I got fascinated by the Supreme Court and that led me to a lot of political and law podcasts. I am notably not a lawyer so I don’t know why I’m doing so many.

5-4 ALAB (if they ever post) pod save America pod save the world sawbones

I don't really listen to full podcasts much but I watch some of the JRE podcast clips off YouTube or the Flagrant podcast clips. Also some local podcasters I listen to that I knew from school

The history of literature, the daily, hard fork

Daily Zeitgeist

My usual weekly ones are:

Smartless How I Built This The Great Creators Pod Save America Pod Save the World Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend Twenty Thousand Hertz Tape Notes Planet Money Throughline Radiolab

Just finished Scamanda. It was REALLY good. Excellent reporting and just a fascinating story.

New Heights...the Kelce brothers are hilarious

A Hotdog is a Sandwich from Mythical Kitchen. Lots of talks about interesting food debates. I don't think they have the titular discussion until like 300 episodes in, because they initially said they were never have that debate. Well, I guess they got more and more popular, so they did a 5 part series on whether a Hot Dog is a sandwich or not where they interviewed historians, philosophers, lawyers, and restaurant owners. It's a fun listen.

Other than that, I was listening to the House of The Dragon podcast, but that's over for now.

Surveillance report

Firewalls don't stop dragons

Old Gods of Appalachia (the only one I actually pay for/support on patreon)

2 Bears, 1 Cave

The black tapes

The bright sessions

Crypto Critics corner

darknet diaries

538 Politics

Mik + One

Small town horror Video palace

the white vault

tech won't save us

Witch house media

I'm currently working my way thru prehistory season of Tides of History by Patrick Wyman (Fall of the Roman Empire guy). Came out in 2020, and I'm really enjoying the detail it goes into.

Thirty Twenty Ten is great if you want to hear people talk about old pop culture stuff. Every week they will go through all the movies and tv shows and music and other stuff that was happening that same week thirty, twenty, and ten years ago.

• Tech Won't Save Us
• Congressional Dish
• Breaking Points

A few others that are sometimes good and sometimes not, but these are ones everyone should hear!

Wine About It - Two streamers talking about their personal experiences and just having fun Wave Form - MKBHD’s podcast where he talks all things tech with the crew

Wrong Station: Episodic horror podcast based out of Canada. Very well written and superbly well acted. The only podcast I actively subscribe to the patreon of.

Nextlander Podcast: Gaming podcast from 3 of the founding members of Giant Bomb (Vinny, Alex, and Brad).

The Jimmy Dore Show: Comedy/politics talk show. I don't actually agree with his political takes 100% of the time, but that is more interesting than listening to somebody who always agrees with me.

Currently 2, but unfortunately for (almost) everyone here they are both Dutch .

One is a daily news podcast where journalists and/or experts talk about something that is relevant right now. Every episode is 20-30 minutes and features a single topic. Today it was about the NATO leadership. Who could be the next leader, how is it decided and stuff like that. Yesterday about a national political party, the day before about Wagner's shenanigans on Saturday.

The other is a weekly 40 minute podcast about the war in Ukraine. There is a host and 2 former generals, one of them used to be the commander of the Dutch army. Every week they talk about what happened, why it happened and how it happened. They also have a certain topic that they talk about from their own experience or what they are seeing Ukraine right now. Like how tanks are best used, what the west can realistically (also factor in politics) do and how western militaries would respond so something like what Wagner did. Because they don't have to prove to anyone which side they are on, they can be honest and realistic. It makes a lot of news and opinions shared online look even more stupid.

13 Minutes to the Moon -> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads

• No Dumb Questions
• World's Greatest Con
• Saftey Third

These are my favorites

• https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html
• https://watchmanprivacy.com/podcast
• https://darknetdiaries.com
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/firewalls-dont-stop-dragons-podcast/id1213366517
• https://www.modemmischief.com
• https://player.fm/series/canadian-prepper-podcast
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-down-collapse/id1534972612
• https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/
• https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes
• https://100wattsandawire.com/podcast/
• https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/9jnhv-2f03b/Learn-Russian-|-RussianPod101.com-Podcast
• https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/bu3w8-77163/Comprehensible-Russian-Podcast-|-Learn-Russian-with-Max

Currently I really like rest is politics-leading. Interviews with different kinds of people bringing interesting perspectives.

Committable https://committablethepodcast.podbean.com Gates McFadden Investigates: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/gatesmcfaddeninvestigateswhodoyouthinkyouare improv4humans with Matt Besser https://feeds.simplecast.com/kcpXyVdJMad in America https://www.madinamerica.com/mia-radio-2/ Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie https://reason.com/podcasts/the-reason-interview-with-nick-gillespie/

• Black Box Down
• Settling the Score
• Decoder Ring
• Futility Closet
• The New Wave Music Podcast

The Launch Sequence. Star Citizen focused podcast, pretty interesting

Joe Rogan ☠️