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In no particular order, I listen to all of them regularly:

• Omnibus - general obscure history hosted by indie rocker John Roderick and Jeopardy's golden boy Ken Jennings

• The Dollop - (mostly) American history with a leftist bent. One comedian reads a story the other hasn't heard before.

• Not Another D&D Podcast - apologies for the first episode, but great world- and character-building. Really shows how great cooperative storytelling can be

• Last Podcast on the Left - comedy/horror. Conspiracies, cults, UFOs, and other weird shit. Their historical deep dives are awesome.

I listen to these regularly, but there's a limited series podcast I like to recommend called S-Town. It's excellent, especially if you're from the southern US or grew up in a rural area. If you aren't from the south or a rural area, it'll probably be an extra-wild ride!

The Constant by Mark Chrisler. It covers examples of all the different way people have been wrong throughout history like thinking birds flew to the moon for winter or how homeopathy started. I always find it super interesting and pretty funny too.

It's the only podcast I subscription to on patron.

I like fiction podcasts, and the main one I'm working through currently is The Magnus Archives. Each episode is a short first-person paranormal horror story, and they start out pretty standalone, eventually building more background and connections between the stories and adding more "frame story" about the people collecting these tales. I wouldn't say it's an SCP clone, but it's kind of shaped similarly.

I see a bunch of other Cool Zone Media shows, but not Molly Conger's Weird Little Guys.

Her calm cadence and thorough exploration of specific American wingnuts is fun. And as far as I've seen, most of the stories end with the guy dead or in prison, so happy endings.

Behind the Basards, History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan, Hardcore History.

Bigfeets.

It's a watch along podcast for quite possibly the lowest depths of US reality TV, Mountain Monsters.

Their other podcast The Dogg Zzone 9000 is at least as funny, though it is dependent upon which cursed media artifact from the wrong dimension which they're reviewing.

The Linux Experiment

Lions Led By Donkeys! Weird and usually stupid military history, featuring everything from Roman warfare up to Vietnam.

I'll also toss in Well There's Your Problem. It's an engineering disasters podcast. With slides (if you're watching on YouTube).

• Behind the Bastards
• The Dollop
• Live Like The World is Dying
• Some More News
• It Could Happen Here
• Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
• Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
• The Film Reroll
• How Did This Get Made?
• Twenty Thousand Hertz
• The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

These are some of my favorites, I'm sure I'm missing some though.

I absolutely love these:

• Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (behavioral psychology)
• The Sloppy Boys (comedy cocktails)
• The Bugle (comedy satire politics)
• Danny Wallace’s Important Broadcast (comedy radio show)
• Heavyweight (comedy mystery)
• HomeAssistant podcast (smarthome tech HomeAssistant)
• Self-Hosted (tech)
• Maintenance Phase (comedy wellness)
• Severance Podcast (tv show Severance)
• Strong Songs (your favorite songs, explained)
• All Consuming (comedy product reviews)

Really enjoy the rest is history.

The Dumb Zone. I promise. I pay for an annual sub. Good fun with some sports mixed in.

Darknet diaries is one of my all time favorites.

If you like music analysis then Strong Songs is also interesting

And for a non serious listen I like to listen to Sherlock & Co, which is an amazing audioplay where Watson becomes a podcaster to deal with his PTSD. The adventures are self contained, so you can hop on any you like.

404media.co has a really high quality one! They also got a 2024 award from EFF.

"Welcome to the podcast from 404 Media where Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason catch you up on the stories we published this week. 404 Media is a journalist-owned digital media company exploring the way technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL through investigative reporting, smart blogging, and breaking news. At 404 Media you’ll read, and hear, stories you can’t find anywhere else written by journalists who are leading experts on their beats."

Srsly Wrong

• a leftist utopian podcast made in Canada

Reply All

• it's done now and is really only good until PJ leaves, but it was excellent for a while

Dungeons and Daddies

• four dads get sent to the forgotten realms while bringing their kids to a soccer game

The What If? Podcast

Turned Out A Punk

Something Rotten

Behind The Bastards

Knowledge Fight. Dan listens to InfoWars so you don't have to.

He has immersed himself in the world of Alex Jones, InfoWars, and other right-wing shit-headerry for almost 8 years now, and he brings a depth of research and continuity to the conversation that nobody else really does. He goes beyond the usual "wow, what a hypocrite" criticism and thoroughly eviscerates anything even remotely resembling a valid point that these dicks make. His co-host, Jordan, screeches along in an occasionally hilarious fashion.

They're about to release their 1,000th episode, and virtually all of them are worth a listen (even going back to 2016-2017). It really shows how often people like Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Trump, Laura Loomer, and so forth have been overlapping and collaborating for years.

My regular rotation (in order of how many of them I listen to, %):

• Lateral with Tom Scott
• Wait, wait, don't tell me
• Well there's your problem
• Behind the Bastards
• It could happen here

A podcast I like to listen to that hasn't been mentioned yet: Opt Out

Opt Out is a podcast where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.

*Stuff you should know" is a fun podcast, two guys go over a random topic.

They aren't experts in anything, but it's fun to hear them try to explain what they've learned about everything from how cranes work to darker things like the Tulsa race riots.

You are not so smart podcast

Basically a book club about psychology books

I have been making a weekly podcast about amateur radio since 15 May 2011. It started life as "What use is an F-call?" and in 2015 was renamed "Foundations of Amateur Radio". I've made over 700 episodes so far.

Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents.

It's available as audio, text, email, RSS, YouTube and Morse code and can be found on many podcast platforms. It's also available on amateur radio repeaters, as eBooks and on lemmy.radio and it can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

More info: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/

Feel free to ask questions.

Onno (VK6FLAB)

While I don't agree with all his politics, I do enjoy his style. He asks a question then he shuts up and lets the other side talk.

Doesn't interrupt.

@ShawnRyanShow On YouTube.

"Ty and That Guy" - Ty Franck (one of the writers of The Expanse books) and Wes Chatham (actor of Amos Burton on the show) talk about sci-fi.

"SPINES" - supernatural fiction about an amnesiac tracking down broken people with paranormal abilities, written in an audio diary format. It gets a little gay.

"The White Vault" - supernatural fiction about a multinational team that travels to Svalbard to recover a lost expedition and encounters a monster.

• The Bugle (satire about the news)
• The Deprogram (far left politics, very funny hosts)
• Blowback (documentary style show about US interventions in different places - more interesting than it sounds)
• Radiolab (sciencey stuff)

• Boonta Vista
• Worst of all Possible Worlds
• Well There's Your Problem
• Trashfuture

I quite enjoy:

• philosophise this
• escape pod
• darknet diaries
• the skeptics guide to the universe
• the jordan harbinger show
• search engine (and reply all)
• stellar firma
• sawbones
• if books could kill
• True crime garage
• midst

• Grumpy Old Geeks. A podcast of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame

I liked "David Tennant does a podcast with.."

I really enjoyed the early episodes of

How I built this with Guy Raz