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I'm looking to stock up on podcasts, whether in Mandarin, French or English. Don't worry about my tastes I'll sort it out later
But share good podcasts in other languages if you know any (it might be useful for other people)
. Mad At The Internet
Almost Plausible is a show where three friends take ordinary objects (for example, a paperclip, a ceiling fan, or a toilet brush) and create movie plots based on those objects.
Full disclaimer: This is my podcast.
The eastern border https://theeasternborder.lv/
A podcast about history and current events in the post Soviet sphere geared towards a western audience by a Latvian journalist. Unfortunately one current topic dominates for the last 3 years. Please take a guess, which it might be.
I looked through a number of comments and am surprised not to see Let's Learn Everything.
Every two weeks the hosts cover two topics in a lot of depth, anything from quantum mechanics to swear words.
I don't listen to podcasts that much, but I am a big fan of the Lingthusiasm podcast. I was actually introduced to it by none other than Tom Scott (although he doesn't really host it himself).
On a more personal level I also listen to various collections of Alan Watts talks in addition to Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast.
I second behind the basters.
Seconding Behind the Bastards. Great podcast.
For anyone with the slightest interest in meditation, I second Sam Harris’s Waking Up app! His podcast Making Sense is great too
There is only one podcast truly worth your valuable time, and it's the Get Skrek'd Podcast - "A shot-by-shot analysis of the award-winning film, Shrek 2 by your tour guide and host, Logan Flinders."
No other podcasts compare. No other podcasts matter.
Get Shrek'd is love. Get Shrek'd is life.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned "if books could kill".
They basically tear all their top seller self help books to shreds. It's very entertaining and actually really smart too.
It is a great podcast. But all of Michael Hobbes podcasts are. He still co hosts maintenance phase and now Sarah is running you are wrong about alone.
100%. I still listen to you're wrong about too.
Well there’s your problem podcast. A podcast about engineering disasters; with slides.
Lateral with Tom Scott It's a great non-political podcast.
Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast (especially series 3 covering the French Revolution) and his The History of Rome series.
I’ve enjoyed Blowback.
I think most of the ones I usually mention in threads like this have been covered, but a glance through hasn’t shown me
I’ll admit that this one may take a minute to really get, but once it locks in you’ll love it forever.
It’s basically just an Irish author, comedian, and former rapper telling stories, talking about mental health (he also has a masters in psychology), and interviewing people. One week he’ll be interviewing a couple of lads about insects, the next he has Cillian Murphy on. Last week was an hour about how he ended up in an office canteen covered in black hair dye, holding a bag of lemons.
It’s a wonderful podcast hug every week, and I can’t recommend it enough.
I listen to many, but here's my favorites:
If you like The Beef and Dairy Network, you may like 3 Bean Salad. It’s Ben Partridge with two other comedians, Henry Packer and Mike Wozniak. Starting at episode 1 helps with the in-jokes, but otherwise it’s all standalone episodes.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
.... Pompidou?
I'm surprised I didn't see anyone recommend The Adventure Zone, especially the first season. One of the best actual play podcasts out there, especially the first two seasons.
I'll recommend some hidden gems that need more love:
Mabel: A woman works as a live in nurse for an elderly woman, and the show is voicemails she's leaving to her ward's estranged daughter. It's poetic and beautiful, and then strange events start occurring.
Dark Ages: a fantasy workplace comedy where an unpopular museum gets a new exhibit, the crown of the Dark Lord, who terrorized the country hundreds of years ago.... Who just recently was resurrected and wants it back. Probably the best produced shows I've listened to with a great intro song.
The Cryptonaturalist: a very normal nature show that is normal about normal nature. Also has poetry! Actually feel good podcast.
Wolf 359: science crew is in a remote space station, and picks up a radio signal out of nowhere. Starts off funny, then gets wild.
Brimstone Valley Mall: three demons disguised as humans, working at a mall in the 90s.
Cult Or Just Weird: in depth dives into things which could be a cult or are just weird.
Wooden Overcoats: British comedy podcast about a funeral home in a small village suddenly having to deal with competition
Everything Is Alive: interviews with inanimate objects
Uncanny County: Welcome to Nightvale meets Twilight Zone but it's also funny
Also there's podcast versions of books written on the Internet, which I'll plug here!
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky: What if Harry was not an idiot and knew what science was and was actually supported at home? Fixes a lot of dumb plot holes from the original series and frankly, is better. Also explores rationalist thinking!
Worm by Wildbow: This is literally my favorite book and will make you never see the superhero genera the same again. Superpowers can happen to anyone seemingly at random. A young woman gets the power to control insects and wants to be a hero, but after meeting some villains the line between hero and villain blurs. There's a chapter that's one short sentence long and I've had conversations over an hour long about what it meant.
-Twig by Wildbow: A world where mad, Frankensteinian science took off instead of the regular kind. Follows a child experiment and his fellow childhood experiment friends on adventures for the definitely evil empire!
Pact by, you guessed it, Wildbow: Guy who just pulled himself out of homelessness who hates his crazy manipulative family gets the inheritance from his grandmother, which he didn't want. Turns out that also involves also inheriting the karma from his family, who were practicing the most hated form of magic possible, diabalism. So now the whole magical community is actively trying to kill him as he's scrambling to survive
Also if you like audio books, check stuff out from your library, too. It helps them out and helps them get funding when people do stuff like that.
Love QAA! Will have me cackling out loud at times
Wait a minute, are you Julian? Cackle cackle.
Some English-language ones I haven't seen in this thread yet:
We Hate Movies- a comedy movie review show mostly about entertainingly bad movies in the vein of How did This Get Made.
No Such Thing As a Fish- some of the researchers from QI share facts they found while prepping the TV show
Unclear and Present Danger- looks at thrillers of the 90's through an historical and leftist lens
Mortal Podkast- Lore dumps about every fighter in the Mortal Kombat series up through MK11. Now over but I still recommend it if you like Mortal Kombat
Mom Can't Cook: A DCOM Podcast- humorous, tangent-heavy recaps of Disney Channel original movies.
Three Black Halflings- insightful discussions about D&D and race from a black perspective. Also some very good actual play series and one-shots mixed in.
I don't listen to podcasts often. But I like:
Citations Needed: a podcast about media. Basically goes into how media covers some events and topics from a leftist perspective.
Cane and Rinse: video game discussions and analyses. Each episode covers a specific game
I second the Citations Needed recommendation. Their episodes are so well researched.
My time has come! I have a podcast for everything. What do you like?
I subscribe to over 250 podcasts. -_- I don’t listen to all of them every day, and many aren’t in production anymore.
I love to listen and learn.
Unexplainable - Explainers on scientific mysteries, each episode is less than 30 minutes
What Went Wrong - Behind the scenes movie podcast. It’s a miracle any movie gets made.
Song Exploder - Musicians take apart their songs, layer by layer and talk about how it was made
Hysteria - Politics and News focusing on how the issues affect women
Levar Burton Reads - Levar Burton reads short stories. Not in production anymore, but there are almost 200 episodes worth of stories to hear
Hello From the Magic Tavern - A guy falls to another dimension but still gets WiFi so he started a podcast interviewing fantasy characters in that universe
Welcome to Night Vale - A fictional story told through a bi-monthly community updates radio broadcast. All conspiracies in Night Vale are real.
Hacked - Stories about hacking and internet crime.
Ologies - Science show about ‘-ologies’ careers
I like planet money from NPR
Dungeons and Daddies is one I've been working through recently, its a DND actual play, has some talented people, they had an episode with another podcast hey riddle riddle, not gotten to them yet but they seemed good too.
For true crime I really like Murder in America
I mostly go for nonfiction stuff related to current events or history. Unfortunately some of these aren’t free.
Slow Burn - Each season goes deep on a particular event in recent (US) history. Quality falls off a bit after the first few seasons.
Fiasco - produced and hosted by the the guy that did the first 2 seasons of Slow Burn. Also US centric.
History on Fire - Haven’t listened to too much of this yet but was suggested the episode on Ötzi the Iceman which made me a fan. Probably the only one on here that isn’t US centric.
Throghline from NPR. Another history-ish podcast but focuses on current issues and the history behind them.
Going to check out some of these suggestions.
These are some of my favorites, I'm sure I'm missing some though.
I loved Stephen Fry's Deadly Sins and Leap Years
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.
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 Basards, History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan, Hardcore History.
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Dungeons and Daddies
The What If? Podcast
Turned Out A Punk
Something Rotten
Behind The Bastards
My regular rotation (in order of how many of them I listen to, %):
The only podcaster I listen to is John Goblikon. And whatever podcaster he is interviewing. And whatever podcaster has him as a guest the next week.
Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-97sBw85g