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[–] stoy 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

In the podcasting app I have the follwoing subscriptions:

  • Behind The Bastards
  • The Delta Flyers
  • Lions Led By Donkeys
  • Decoding The Unknown
  • Kill James Bond
  • P3 Dokumentär
  • Well There's Your Problem
  • Damn Interesting
  • The Podcats
  • Nerd3 Podcats
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Swedish radio produces a lot of high quality podcasts. Public service at it's finest!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

P3 Dokumentär is great.

I should listen to more of them, unfortunately I always forget they exist.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Well fine then! I’ll keep them to myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay… what’s the difference between a beautiful and highly produced radio program and a podcast?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Knowledge Fight - Analysis of Alex Jones and his fucked up world

God Awful Movies - Let's watch bad religious movies and talk shit about them

Behind the Bastards - Details about evil fuckers in history (and the present)

If Books Could Kill - let's read shitty airport books and talk about them

Qanon Anonymous (QAA now?) - The Qanon conspiracy world is fucking wild. Best keep track of it.

Others more sporadically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

+1 for If Books Could Kill. They've kinda run out of shitty famous self help books, but they still do good rundowns on other books now.

I'll also recommend Michael Hobbes' other podcast, Maintenance Phase, which is largely about health grifts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Upvote for knowledge fight and BtB. I also personally love The Dollap

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Another Darknet Diaries fan here. Very approachable, centered around cyber security and privacy. It's the only one I am currently listening to, but I am going to check out some of the others from this thread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same. Only problem is how he's shifted his focus and new episodes are uncommon :(

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I prefer single voice, storytelling podcasts. I listen to them as bedtime stories a lot.

  • Lore (the older episodes are better, IMO)
  • Myths & Legends (snarky modern retelling of old folk stories)
  • Fictional (when he actually updates it... same guy as above, but these are classic literature)
  • LeVar Burton Reads (all over the board. It's whatever stories LeVar liked. Leans a bit toward speculative fiction)
  • Drabblecast, sometimes good if you like "weird fiction"
  • Cautionary Tales (nonfiction)
  • Just started getting into The Program. Clear Black Mirror influences here.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cautionary Tales is stressful but fun. The host has a great style and podcast voice.

LeVar Burton Reads is often great. If you like LeVar and have kids in your life, they may like Sound Detectives! , wherein a detective and a 4 foot tall ear named Audie investigate missing sounds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The thing I like most about LeVar Burton Reads is that it's basically Reading Rainbow with the occasional "fuck" thrown in there.

And yeah, Tim Harford's smooth voice is a much-needed balance to the anxiety inducing content of Cautionary Tales.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The one I listen the most and for the longest is No such thing as a fish.

Other that that, Better Offline, Darknet diaries, Money Stuff, Search engine, a local politics one that I disagree with but I use to be aware of what my local conservative pseudo fascists are arguing about.

And not so regularly many others whenever there's an interesting episode.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

local politics one that I disagree with but I use to be aware of what my local conservative pseudo fascists are arguing about.

I really need to find something like for my area. I like to hear what’s being said in these circles.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • Accidental Tech Podcast: Three dudes talking about tech and (mostly) Apple
  • The Allusionist: podcast about language and linguistics
  • The Bruenigs: Matt & Liz Bruenig talk about random stuff
  • Cortex: podcast about productivity by Myke Hurley & CGP Grey
  • Factually: Interviews with interesting people hosted by Adam Connover
  • Hello Internet (Dead): two dudes talking, GGP Grey & Brady Haran (Numberphile)
  • Intentionally Blank: Random conversations with Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells
  • No Such Thing As a Fish: Intersting and odd facts by the team behind the British TV show QI
  • Puck Soup: Ice Hockey News and information
  • Stuff You Should Know: Funny podcast about all kinds of stuff
  • The Tennis Podcast: podcast about tennis
  • Ungeniused: brief episodes about interesting Wikipedia pages
  • The Unmade Podcast: mostly random stuff, but about pitching ideas for other podcasts
  • Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me: the NPR News quiz
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

R.I.P Hello Internet, the podcast I most wish would come back. Forever in my subs just in case.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

A lot. The one's I always come back to are

Not another D&D podcast

Improvised star trek

Thrilling adventure hour

Dungeons & Daddies

Hello from the Magic Tavern

Conan O Brian Needs a Friend

Comedy Bang Bang

Doug loves Movies - (since covid has a lot of video call episodes instead of live shows which really kills the energy imo.)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Hello from the magic tavern. Man I haven’t listened to that in years. I have a map of Foon somewhere here though lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Currently Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Love it because he's good at the storytelling and there aren't a lot of sponsored segments like other popular shows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In order of listening frequency:

The Greatest Generation

Behind the Bastards

Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend

Linux Unplugged

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If Books Could Kill is new my favourite

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Behind the Bastards, Linux Lads, Linux Late Night, The Infinite Monkey Cage (when they do episodes), some spanish stuff for listening practice (mostly Hoy Hablamos), Hack-a-Day, Self-Hosted, and Cory Doctorow...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you found Spanish Obsessed? It's a Colombian/English couple who just have conversations in Spanish about random topics at an intermediate level.

They have several podcasts, so make sure to find the intermediate level for the conversations. Their beginner level has much more spoken English and basic Spanish vocab, which I'm not as into.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Stuff You Should Know

Self Hosted

Cory Doctorow's Craphound

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
  • No Such Thing As A Fish - amazing facts by hilarious hosts
  • Let's Learn Everything - fascinating, hilarious and great chemistry between hosts
  • Dungeons and Daddies (not a BDSM podcast) - stunning story with some actual RPG play
  • Ologies - even the topics I felt would be boring were fascinating (like Ursinology)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
  • 99% Invisible
  • Twenty Thousand Hertz
  • Radiolab
  • Science Vs
  • Snap Judgement
  • Outside/In
  • Endless Thread
  • Unexplainable
  • Search Engine
  • Decoder Ring
  • Invisibilia (discontinued)
  • The Moth
  • Reply All (discontinued)
  • The Sporkful
  • This American Life
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I subscribe to TWiT network so I listen to This Week in Tech/Google, Untitled Linux Show

Besides that i like waveform, the vergecast, no such thing as a fish, stuff you should know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
  • It's always sunny podcast,
  • Radiolab,
  • 99 Percent invisible ,
  • The Dollop,
  • Stuff You Should Know,
  • Philosophize This,
  • Behind The Bastards,
  • Sawbones,
  • The Moth
  • This American Life (less these days)

Then I have a couple of news and political news talk shows that I listen to sparingly.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
  • I was a teenaged fundamentalist
  • soft skills engineering
  • radió ambulante
  • real python
  • brief history of mathematics

A few that haven't been said in other comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Here are two I recommend:

The Rest is History - two historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook go deep on interesting topics from history.

Never Post - a podcast described as “about and for the internet” and in some sense the spiritual successor to Hello Internet but also reminding me of classic Radiolab. Worth checking out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
  • SciShow tangents (a lightly competitive science show)

  • Ologies (interviewing experts from different fields/ologies)

  • Fake Doctors, Real Friends (Scrubs actors rewatching scrubs, my favorite show when i was younger. Plus great behind the scenes of film making)

  • The Imp & Skizz show (just two gamers i love to watch, talking about creative stuff. Probably not as enjoyable for anyone who doesn't watch them already though. Still love them and would love to see then succeed more!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The only podcast I listen to is the only podcast that has ever existed and it’s called ‘All Fantasy Everything.’ Everything else other users have posted is actually All Fantasy Everything in disguise behind a Joker mask hiding deep in the jungles of Bolivia. Pretty twisted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
  • Most Cool Zone Media shows
  • Radio Free Tote Bag
  • Oddity Roadshow
  • Cory Doctorow
  • Sandy and Nora/Daily News
  • Respect the Dead
  • Knowledge Fight
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I listen to mostly political podcasts.

  • The rest is politics - UK / US
  • The daily
  • The Ezra Klein show
  • Post report
  • Pod save America
  • Democracy Now
  • Today in Focus
  • The journal
  • NRPs Political podcast
  • The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Non political pods:

  • Pre-production with Chris Stuckman
  • Ted Talks daily

Domestic podcasts - Norway:

  • Det Store Bildet
  • Aftenpodden / USA / Midtøsten (premium only for Aftenposten subscribers)
  • Poprådet (same as with Aftenpodden)
  • Dypdykk (very good podcast that go deep into the material of each story, again need subscription from Aftenposten)
  • Trygdekontoret - Podcast that focuses on many different issues.
  • Urix - Podcast about news from the world and politics
  • Ekko - Show about various topis. Sometimes they got experts and scientists to explain the different topics
  • Abels tårn - Show about science. It makes it more understandable for the layman.
  • Kommentert - Show about norwegian politics.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Already seeing a trend here, joining in:

Behind the Bastards Better Offline Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Red Menace This Machine Kills Heavyweight (discontinued) Search Engine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Came here to see if anyone else was plugging the other CZM podcasts. I've expanded out to Cool People (I especially like the anarchist book club stories) and It Could Happen Here.

I wouldn't call myself an anarchist by any means, but I like how they get to both the root causes of issues and also give some ideas on things we can do to make some of these situations better. That last part is what I feel is missing from just about every other show about current events.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The NoSleep Podcast The Nightowl Podcast Weird Darkness Kinda Funny Games Daily Kinda Funny Gamescast Dungeons and Daddys Remember the game? The Last Podcast on the Left Smosh Reads Reddit Stories This Paranormal Life

That's my current rotation right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Political: Chapo Traphouse, TrueAnon, Know Your Enemy

Semi-political and humor: QAA, Spycops

Humor: Boonta Vista, Your Favorite Band Sucks

Education: Stuff the British Stole, What Roman Mars Can Learn About ConLaw, Noble Blood

Tech: Dithering, Grumpy Old Geeks, Accidental Tech Podcast, Under the Radar, Darknet Diaries, The Talk Show

Events: Alphabet Boys, Long Shadow, In the Dark, Serial

Etc: Better Offline, Behind the Bastards, Dutch New Podcast, Strong Songs, 99% Invisible, Last Podcast on the Left, Friendly Atheist, Song Exploder, What Went Wrong

I don't listen to every episode of every show, but some shows I never miss. A lot of this came from being single during the pan and having a ton of alone time to fill while walking my area. Things fell off when we got back to normal and again when I got together with my partner. Luckily, my latest job has a lot of downtime so I'm able to listen to more again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Deprogram, RevLeft, Socialist Program, Upstream

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

This Week in Tech. (since 2005ish)

Where should we begin?

The Moth.

What's that rash?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I only listen to two, usually while diving

  • Distractible
  • Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald

It's just people shooting the shit. Just friends chatting.

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