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Behind the Bastards!

I'm a big fan of No Such Thing as a Fish.

It's a bunch of researchers for a funny British panel show (QI) talking about their favorite fact they've discovered that week.

My three favorite podcasts gotta be,

1. Behind the Bastards
2. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
3. A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail

I never see this mentioned but Darknet Diaries is actually a really informative and entertaining podcast about hacking, the dark web, physical penetration testing (gone wrong), nation-state cyber attacks.

My favorites:

• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
• Behind the Bastards
• Radiolab
• Stuff you should know
• The Rest is History
• Nature Podcast

If Books Could Kill

5-4 Pod

Know Your Enemy

The Climate Denier's Playbook

Unfucking the Republic

I'm a big fan of the following:

Maintenance Phase: discusses health/diet fads and scams

You're Wrong About: debunking the popular (but misinformed) narratives surrounding many well-known events of the past

Underunderstood: going down the rabbit hole of strange "ungoogle-able" questions (this one really fills the void Reply All left behind)

Darknet Diaries: super riveting cybersecurity (or just general security) stories

The Dollap - comedic American history podcast

Behind the Bastards - Robert Evans’ exposes some real rotten people with guests

Bill Burr - I just really like his weekly podcast even though I have no interest in sports

Knowledge Fight - this has been a hilarious/scary journey of 2 dudes reviewing Alex Jones Infowars since 2016

I haven't seen anybody else suggest it but "99% invisible" is one of my favorites.

DarknetDiaries

It's the podcast I'm listening to right now. If you're interested in It you have to listen to it. The storytelling is just soo good. I really recommend the Episodes "Xbox Underground" and "Operation Bayonet"

Most episodes aren't actually about the dark Web and are instead about Cybersecurity.

Well, there's your problem. A podcast about engineering disasters, with slides.

Lions Led By Donkeys - fun, irreverent military history podcast that is still quite informative

Hardcore History - more like an audio book that comes out once or twice a year. The WWI series is like 20- something hours BY ITSELF

I like video games, goofy stuff, and tech. So lately, it's been:

• My Brother, My Brother, and Me
• Noclip
• Besties
• We Have Concerns
• Search Engine (New podcast from PJ Vogt of Reply All fame - if you haven't listened to Reply All, there are a number of great episodes to enjoy)
• How Did This Get Made
• and occasionally Swindled (my girlfriend likes true crime stuff and this is about as close as I like to get to that)

Some I've been listening to lately:

• Hard Fork - podcast about technology and science from the NYTimes that does a pretty good job of being varied and interesting.
• Search Engine - newer podcast by PJ Vogt from Reply All about understanding weird or poorly understood topics.
• Darknet Diaries - IT security stories, hacking, and red vs blue team defense of infrastructure.
• Behind the Bastards - Stories about terrible people and their effect on society. Start with the Dulles Brothers or Kissinger.
• Mother Country Radicals - Limited series about key members of the Weather Underground during the civil rights era.

I listen to so many, its hard to pick one. My current favourite is probably Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford. He does really good podcasts and I've followed him over from his BBC Radio 4 podcast (More or Less) which I also love.

Cautionary Tales is about a major screw up from history and the systemic problems that caused it. It takes away from society's bias to lay blame at the feet of the last known individual involved and looks at the whole causal chain leading up to an event.

99% Invisible. Produced in beautiful downtown Oakland California.

Darknetdiaries the name sounds pretty cringe but it is a really good podcast about digital crime. Rss feed: link

I love this thread! Many of my favorites have been mentioned. My first first few are acquired tastes, but I have come to really enjoy them.

• Last Podcast on the Left - true crime, aliens, paranormal, horror comedy show
• Timesuck with Dan Cummins - similar to LPotL, but single host
• Knowledge Fight - commentary on Alex Jones and others with humor
• Internet Today - opinion based comedy news for all things tech, gaming, etc.

On the shorter side:

• Everything Everywhere Daily - something new every day on various subjects
• Today in History with the Retrospectors - short daily episodes bringing you curious moments from this day in history
• Atlas Obscura - curious and wondrous travel destinations

And a classic that I don't think has been mentioned:

• Stuff You Should Know - interesting discussion about a wide variety of topics

I have added Chilluminati to try based on this thread.

Ologies by Allie Ward!!

She basically interviews scientists about their job and asks all the dumb questions you wish you could ask. She has a huge number of episodes on everything from black holes and dark matter to squirrels to Emojis. And it's all from the perspective of "the study of".

One of my favorite episodes is "Ferro-equinology". The study of iron horses. Trains. I knew trains were cool, but had no idea how cool they really were until that episode.

Her energy is addictive too. Great personality. If you are a part of her patron (which I am) you'll get a heads up before her interviews and she give an opportunity for you to post questions that she'll ask the Ologist.

Darknet Diaries, stories from the infosec world that sometimes sound like works of a sci fi movie.

The Dollop, Behind the Bastards, Dungeons and Daddies, and The Rest is History are my standbys.

I also listen to The Constant, Levar Burton Reads, 99% Invisible, The Always Sunny Podcast, Past Gas, and Twenty Thousand Hertz.

Lage der Nation

from Germany. It’s like the weekly newspaper, where a judge and a journalist sum up and talk about what is happening in and around Germany. I like how they put everything in perspective and that not everything is as easy as it seems.

99% invisible.
This Podcast Will Kill You.
And for something light: UnderUmderstood.

Last Podcast on the Left. Cryptids, UFOs, serial killers, cults, history of bloody incidents, and other true crime, but it's a comedy podcast.

I am a nerd so The Rest Is History

Kill James Bond is brilliant.

Comedy Bang Bang - batshit crazy improv comedy

This is so hard to answer because I have so many I love to listen to - which are basically all Australian comedy podcasts. Here’s 10 that I’ve listened to the longest and most frequently:

1. The Little Dum Dum Club
2. The Phone Hacks
3. Somehow Related with Glenn Robbins and Dave O'Neil
4. Mid-flight Brawl
5. The Mugg Off
6. Big Natural Talents
7. Shitting with the Door Open
8. Community Noticeboard
9. Feed Em Brah
10. The Becky & Cam Show

Even with this list (initially it was just 5) I’ve still got some great ones I listen to regularly that I’ve left off!

I personally like Latteral with Tom Scott

It's (Probably) Not Aliens-Podcast debunking Ancient Aliens on the History Channel.

The Magnus Archives- Horror podcast about an institute that investigates paranormal activity.

Knifepoint Horror-Horror anthology podcast.

Sonic the Comic the Podcast- A podcast reviewing the British Sonic the Hedgehog comic issue by issue. An interesting look back at 90s nostalgia, even if you aren't British.

Friends at the Table is the best podcast.

It's an actual play podcast run in game systems designed mostly for story generation, operated by people who who know there's no such thing as a monster, and I'd never seen anything like it.

They ran some seasons in a post-fantasy-apocalypse world, some in a Star-Wars-meets-Gundam science fantasy world, and one recently in a Western sort-of-horror setting. I started at the beginning, with Autumn in Heiron, featuring orc archivists who work magic using extremely specific shopping lists, undead pastry chef boyfriends, and an "evil" alignment of "destroy something rather than trying to understand it".

But for the impatient you can start with Marielda. Marielda is a series of heists by a crew of illegal knowledge dealers, in a fantasy city that sounds like New Orleans, patrolled by living statues and ruled by a god who forged the sun, whom our players proceed to fight.

The sci-fi side, which is running its fourth season now, starts with COUNTER/Weight, a game set in the aftermath of a mecha movie never made. It features a character who is "what if Han Solo used to be Beyoncé", psychic hackers, and mechs who might be gods.

Also there's no sponsors because the GM is too punk for that.

By far Completely Arbortrary. A podcast about trees and tree related topics. The host are great, one of them you might recognize from the podcast Ologies if you are into science topics.

The hosts compliment each other well and deliver a funny, educational podcasts with fun series for certain months. Highly highly reccomend

Triforce podcast for silly and fun chats from the Yogscast members, Sips, PFlax, and Lewis

A few I love:

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong. Host Mark Chrysler tells stores from the distant to not-to-distant past of people being wrong. Wrong science, crockpot ideas, and more. For example, one episode looks at where people thought birds went in the winter, such as flying to the moor or turning into barnacles. There are 2 different episodes on different doctors that thought sewing animal testicles (one ape balls, the other goat balls) bought great health benefits. Another series of episodes looks at how most forensic techniques (at least before DNA) ante based on pure BS.

Our Fake History: Host Sebastian Major tells the truth about historic myths, be it about people, organizations, or places. Did Shakespeare write his plays? Was the story of the Trojan War based on real history? Was their really a black samurai?

Lateral with Tom Scott - quiz show style with questions that make you think.

Ologies - interviews about science topics with a different anything-ologist for every episode

Land of the giants is one of my favorites

Only about 1 season a year but each season is about the rise (and sometimes fall) of big tech companies

Unexplainable is cool too, about weird sciencey things that we don't have an explanation for