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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)

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[–] mikezane@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

I've really been enjoying it!

Almost TOO detailed and well researched, but I think that's more on me for listening to her masterful work as distraction while doing other things.

[–] goosehorse@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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!

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My medieval reenactment camp group is basically The Crick after we found a stump at our campsite.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I use podcasts to escape so I more lean towards comedy podcasts. My top is

Regulation Podcast (PREVIOUSLY F**kFace)

  • 4 guys and Andrew (who didn't know what the shift key did) shooting the shit, coming up with zany and dumb ideas and having way too much burger confidence

My Brother My Brother and Me

  • 3 brothers doing different bits, talking about fast food news, making jokes about pop culture and bad movies

Clutch my Pearls

  • 3 girls started their own smut podcast where one of them who only reads true crime is introduced into the very very weird world of smut novels. With very funny readings from the books

We're Here to Help

  • A comedy advice podcast with Jake Johnson from New Girl where they get questions like "my kids got a trampoline and my neighbor likes to walk around naked outside" and "my coworker likes to take their socks off at work" and "I brought muffins every week to work since I started and now they call me the muffin man and excpect muffin deliveries". Quite fun.

Then more seriously

Swindled

  • The stories of how the great (and often mainstream) scam artists get found out and topple from power

Nerdland Podcast

  • (In Dutch) a podcast about new developments in science and technology. Sadly very often about AI or Musk now but they try to keep that to a minimum.
[–] anon947262949@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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)
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[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

I enjoy the following rotation:

EconTalk - Interviews about all kinds of stuff with a classical liberal econ professor.

The Greatest Generation & Greatest Trek: Star Trek reviews with dick jokes and production notes

Joy, a Podcast. Hosted by Craig Ferguson

Love Worth Finding: sermons from Baptist minister Adrian Rogers

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life: Presbyterian sermons

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Peter Adamson goes over All. The. Philosophy. Ever. See the sister cast for non-Western philosophical schools.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 8 points 3 days ago

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)

[–] floppakid@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago

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
[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

*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.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Josh and Chuck are awesome. I enjoy how they slip in false info jokes, and go off on tangents

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Omnibus is also good in this vein. Ken Jennings and his friend go over some weird and obscure history you might not know about. It's not very in-depth a lot, more factoids, but always pretty cool.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"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.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago
  • 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)
[–] orvorn@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
  • Boonta Vista
  • Worst of all Possible Worlds
  • Well There's Your Problem
  • Trashfuture
[–] franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Worst of all and WTYP are excellent. Those are the two I've listened to.

I can also recommend QAA, Knowledge Fight, and Lions Led by Donkeys

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 5 points 3 days ago

Just started listening to Darknet Diaries last week. It's really good, right from ep1.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My favourites are:

  • Fall of Civilisations
  • The Thing About Austen
[–] ultraviolence@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I second FoC. I recently started this as kind of 'podcast to fall asleep to'. I ended up staying up even longer…

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 3 days ago

The Linux Experiment

Radio lab is great :)

I would love to know some Chinese one's too

You are not so smart podcast

Basically a book club about psychology books

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago
  • Grumpy Old Geeks. A podcast of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame
[–] captain_coldcake@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I really enjoyed the early episodes of

How I built this with Guy Raz

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