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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most have been through podcasters mentioning a show they like and talking about it or having guests on from other shows. It took a pretty good amount of time to find a good collection of shows that I genuinely look forward to hearing and weed out the meh content. Here's a list I wrote when someone had a thread asking for recommendations.

  • Better Offline: Ed Zitron tearing apart how shitty the tech industry has become
  • QAA Podcast: studies conspiratorial thinking (originally devoted to watching Qanon lunatics), typically hilarious
  • Accidental Tech Podcast: three third-party Apple developers talking about tech, primarily in the Apple ecosystem
  • Chapo Traphouse: Leftist politics, typically pretty funny
  • Noble Blood: history podcast retelling stories about members of nobility in short form
  • Fall of Civilizations Podcast: history podcast that dives deep into civs like Carthage and the Assyrians, etc
  • TrueAnon: Leftist politics, deep dives on topics
  • Last Podcast on the Left (name is a horror film reference): true crime with anecdotes, lots of diversions that might not be for everyone
  • Alphabet Boys: each season deep dives a taboo action by gov agencies (FBI, ATF, etc)
  • Song Exploder: deep dives on the writing and recording of songs with the musicians behind them
  • What Went Wrong: deep dives on movie productions
  • Behind the Bastards: deep dives on terrible people throughout history, lots of diversions that might not be for everyone
  • Grumpy Old Geeks: tech and nerd news (including sci-fi media) from two cynical guys who have been in the biz for years, typically funny
[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I remember song exploder! I listened to it a lot when I was a kid. I'd love to listen to a podcast like that, but with authors talking about their books and explaining why they made the decisions they made

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn, has that show been around that long? How long ago were you a kid?

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

This was about 12 years ago, i think. By "kid" I mean teenager.

I'm just not used to podcasts sticking around for more than four years.