What podcasts do you guys like to listen to?
Behind the Bastards
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.
Great podcast. And you can just skip around and listen to ones that sound interesting.
So so good!
I’m enjoying Ultra. It’s about Nazi infiltration of the government during WWII. It’s very well done.
Also, Lawfare and the related podcasts are never miss for me.
By Ultra, is it specifically the rachel maddow one? Interested to check this one out
Yea!
thanks!
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.
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.
Welcome to nightvale is good.
Been going for quite some time.
Qwerpline is also a good comedy one.
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
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)
Thanks, this list is great. I haven’t heard of most of these except for Brodie Robertson. I’ve been watching him on YouTube since he first started growing out that abomination of a beard.
- Knowledge Fight
- Behind the Bastards
- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
My dad wrote a porno
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.
Last Podcast on the Left - Three guys that covered true crime, the morbid, the crazy and everything in between while cracking dark humor over it all. I used to listen to this heavily from 2017 through 2021. I believe before I just stopped listening. They lost one of their longtime hosts recently to controversy a while back and I haven’t been interested in picking it back up.
The Prancing Pony Podcast - This is an acquired taste because it appeals to fans of Middle-Earth and everything Tolkien. Two hosts offer insight and depth reading of the legendarium, starting from Silmarillion through Hobbit and up to the Lord of the Rings. I think they’re close to wrapping up Return of the King soon. Very informational podcast to get into if you’re a fan of the lore.
Sequelisers - A group of hosts take bad unnecessary sequels to beloved films and attempt to fix them, while offering insight as to why the sequel in question was a bad idea in the first place.
CUPodcast - Again, another acquired taste because this only has a small following and it involves video games. It’s hosted by Pat Contri who is known as PatTheNESPunk on YouTube along with co-host Ian. They basically cover the gossip and general news rounds with gaming.
It’s still good, as always it has its ups and downs but Ed is a wonderful addition to the show. I saw them live in San Diego a couple (?) years ago, one of the best live shows I’ve ever been to.
- Behing The Bastards - informing, well researched bits of history with hilarious hosts
- The War On Cars - The name is a bit of a joke. Interesting discussions around how our cities are designed.
The Silt Verses - A fantasy horror podcast where gods are real, spawned solely through belief, feed on sacrifices (usually human), and have been corporatized. It’s amazing and the series just recently finished so there’s no waiting for the next episode to drop. Easily the best podcast I’ve ever listened to.
Sawbones - An awsome medical history podcast by Justin and Dr. Sydnee McElroy. Sydnees part is pretty obvious, she’s a family medicine doctor and she researches and presents historical bits about all the ways we have tried to do medicine throughout history. Justin is just Justin, he’s a podcaster and games journalist by trade so he’s mainly there as a layman and as comedic support.
The Magnus Protocol - Fantasy horor that I’m having trouble expplaining but it’s damn good. It’s made by the same creators that did the magnus archives. When they announced it on kickstarter after the magnus archives was finished they quickly earned over $700,000 so that should be some indication of how much people liked the magnus archives and the budget for the show.
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.
Omnibus with Ken Jennings and John Roderick is very entertaining and educational. You’ll either love the chemistry between the hosts or find them insufferable.
