What podcasts do you guys like to listen to?
The Greatest Generation - Star Trek rewatch podcast. Rekindled my love for the greatest franchise in history. Hosts approach the show from a tv production background
Spout Lore - the best real-play podcast, in my opinion. Dungeon World with incredible world building despite almost everyone being named Greg
Blank Check with Griffin and David - film analysis from the film critic for the Atlantic and Arthur from the Tick / Orko / Watto, covering a director’s entire filmography each series
Marvel by the Month - Reading every Marvel comic, one month at a time. Has a gaggle of comic book industry legends as regular guests, talks about the context in which the comics were written, theme and interstitial music are bangers
Welcome to nightvale is good.
Been going for quite some time.
Qwerpline is also a good comedy one.
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.
Behind the Bastards
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.
After listening to the RFK episodes, him leaving a dead bear in Central Park makes complete sense.
Hell yeah. That’s on my regular rotation.
The only podcast I liked is no long being produced - The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show.
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
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
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 😅
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.
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.
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.
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)
