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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • 2 bears 1 cave
  • Your mom's house
  • This is important
  • Whiskey ginger
  • Blocks
  • We might be drunk
  • Are you garbage?
  • Spitballers
  • Fantasy footballers
  • Almost Friday
  • The best one yet
  • Real dictators
  • The connect
  • Always sunny podcast
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Love Triforce. It’s one of the few that I actually manage to keep up do date on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ok subscribed to both, they sound great!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Homestuck Made This World" is a critical analysis of the webcomic Homestuck that morphs into a discussion about how the culture of the Internet changed immensely from 2008 to 2015.

"Lavar Burton Reads" is as it says, a podcast about an actor reading science fiction pieces.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have three that I listen to: Distractible, Brain Leak, and Go! My Favorite Sports Team.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My two favorites are Darknet Diaries and Dark Dice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blowback. I'm only on the first season which is about the Iraq war, and it's great so far. Great use of audio clips from Bush admin officials to prove their points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh that one is good!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Timesuck. The long form, research based style is a refreshing departure from a lot of the content I consume most days. Plus, each week is a different topic, so you get a good mix of history, cults, serial killers, and aluttle bit of everything in between.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Decoder Ring Theatre, phenomenal audio drama podcast that got better as time went on

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I listen to way too many to name, but the two I always move to the top of the queue when they drop are Fright Pub (three very funny friends drink and talk about horror movies, to much hilarity) and Film Reroll (a bunch of talented actors and improv folks reenact and rewrite popular movies using tabletop dice mechanics).

Recently the latter did an insane reroll series of Memento that they recorded in chronological order and then re-edited and released in reverse order like the movie. In their E.T. reroll, they succeeded in getting E.T. off the planet and involved in an interstellar war. For Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, the GM invented a whole system for randomizing their trips back in time based on their phonepad keypresses, leading to a completely different set of historical figures collected for their final project. Truly nutso levels of craft and effort go into these episodes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Downloaded! Thanks for the great suggestion! Sounds amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stuff you should know
Linux after dark

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I listen to quite a few episodes by the Economist. Science Vs, Freakonomics are couple of others that come to mind right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  • Sci show tangents
  • No Dumb Questions
  • Lateral
  • Lord of Spirits
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Shagged Married Annoyed

I like brittish comedy, but I'm not brittish myself :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True crime:

  • RedHanded - British true crime podcast

  • Park Predators - Crime in America's National Parks

  • True Crime Bullshit - Series on serial killer Israel Keyes

  • CaseFile - Australian true crime podcast

  • Small Town Murder - comedy true crime in US small towns

Atheism:

  • God Awful Movies - Atheist reviews of Christian movies

Debunking:

  • Maintenance Phase - Debunking diet myths and fighting fatphobia

  • If Books Could Kill - Debunking claims from best-selling books

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I really admire these two ↓ Radiolab and 70 over 70

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kerning Cultures should be on the list of everyone who likes 99PI and This American Life. It's like those two shows had a baby and it grew up in the Arab world.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We're Alive is a great story! Top notch production quality also.

If you enjoy HHGTTG, the podcast Star Tripper, has a similar vibe. Good story too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Three major ones for me: Dudesy, What's It Called, and Never Seen It. All great comedy podcasts!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  • The Unmade Podcast - Podcast about podcasting ideas
  • Smashing Security - IT security news
  • Eagle Nine: Locked - Story podcast
  • World's Greatest Con - Season 1 is about misleading Nazis on DDay, Season 2 is about Game show cheating, Season 3 is about infilitrating research about the paranormal.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stuff You Should Know and Conon O'Brien Needs A Friend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dudesy is a new favorite along with Bad Friends

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

firepitpodcast.com!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thartharaa, stories from history told in a way that makes them very moving, bro like I cried one time or two

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