What podcasts do you guys like to listen to?
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.
I’m enjoying Ultra. It’s about Nazi infiltration of the government during WWII. It’s very well done.
Also, Lawfare and the related podcasts are never miss for me.
By Ultra, is it specifically the rachel maddow one? Interested to check this one out
Yea!
thanks!
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
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.
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.
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
My dad wrote a porno
I’ve always wondered what this podcast is about.
His dad wrote erotic literature
And then is he… reading that erotic literature? Talking about family dynamics? Just shooting the shit about life?
They’re having a laugh about the absurdity of the story and details. It’s not about family 😅
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.
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.
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.
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.
