Last podcast I listened to was a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards. Breaking Down: Collapse is the one I listened to in its entirety most recently
Friend of mine introduced me to Behind the Bastards. Very much enjoy Robert Evans and his guests. Finishing the Josh Duggar series.
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I really like all three of those guys but for some reason the podcast doesn’t work for me. It feels forced or disingenuous or something I can’t quite put my finger on.
It took me awhile to like them, I see what you’re saying. I think it’s the interviews that are what really keeps me. They have honest conversations with their guests because they know them. It’s definitely a bro culture type pod.
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.
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.
Ever listened to Well There’s Your Problem? You mention Deprogram and Disaster Breakdown so I’m suprised WTYP isn’t also listed
it’s kinda niche, but since you asked: The SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast:
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Stuff You Should Know
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Barbell Medicine
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Ham Radio Crash Course
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2 White Lights
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If you like short and sweet (most eps. 20–30 min) and don’t mind being sad that it’s discontinued:
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.
“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.
I’m sure it’s all true.
- 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
- 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 you tried Tale of the Manticore? Solid solo play, season 1 was great and 2 is solid so far.
Dungeons and Daddies not a BDSM podcast …except that one time
- Coder Radio
- Ask Noah Show
- Late Night Linux
- Linux Unplugged
- 2.5 Admins
- Self-Hosted
- Linux Action News
Thanks for the recommendations. Subscribed to all of them!
- 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! ❤️
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend, and Off Menu.
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