LeVar Burton Reads
It's exactly what you see on the label. Curated collection of short stories read by Mr. Buron. There are very few "to be continued" episodes, so you can pretty much jump in wherever and have a listen.
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LeVar Burton Reads
It's exactly what you see on the label. Curated collection of short stories read by Mr. Buron. There are very few "to be continued" episodes, so you can pretty much jump in wherever and have a listen.
General interest
Game history
Talking about current video games
The Fall of Civilizations is hauntingly beautiful
A few not yet mentioned:
And a vote for previously mentioned podcasts:
The only one I listen to anymore is the WAN show. I just never have time to listen to them anymore so it usually takes 3-4 days to finish it.
Here are some I really enjoy, which I also use to fall asleep to.
Darknet diaries. It's about anything security, spy, hacking, some networking bots, etc. do NOT need to be a nerd to love it, recent episode was a guy who started tracking stolen bikes and found a crazy web of criminals though patterns.
Very well spoken, very well edited, very easy to listen to, even if you're technically challenged.
The materialism podcast has stopped, but is absolutely worth listening to the backlog. It's a material science podcast.
What's Left of Philosophy? - Good for elevating your philosophy game.
DOS GAME CLUB
Schumy vanna kaviyangal
Darknet Diaries, it’s about hacking and each episode is a different story and has interviews with people that were involved in information security incidents, either the ones doing the hacking and/or those defending from and responding to attacks
Great pod
Trueanon, if I ever make a manifesto I'm mentioning them in it
best podcast
Fax
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People, basically someone calls in to talk about anything they want with the host (comedian Chris Gethard). The caller can hang up any time, the host must hang up after exactly one hour.
People call in to talk about so many different things, and Gerhard is really good at getting people to open up in a very genuine yet casual manner.
Unmade Podcast - 2 dudes talking podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/@doomscrollpodcast/podcasts ("Doomscroll explores online culture and politics in the 21st century.") (thoughtful one-on-one interviews with people that are active in youth culture, including people related to Chapo Trap House)
https://www.youtube.com/@spoonkid57/podcasts (a person who runs a Rust gaming channel talks with their friends about various things)
This week’s Behind the Bastards about Jim Caviezel is hilarious.
Oh cool! I'm always a week or so late on Behind the Bastards, I wait until they put it on youtube so I can use sponsorblock and kill the ads. I like the coolzonemedia podcasts, but they're way too heavy on the ads for me without a blocker
Yeah, that one stung because I loved his version of The Count of Monte Cristo.
I like Robert Evans
My son loves Behind the Bastards!
Lateral - guests try to solve weird puzzles that require lateral thinking
Regular Features - regulars take turns telling a funny story each. They can be all kinds of different things. Songs, plays where everyone needs to get involved, or even true stories backed up with covert voice recordings.
That's Absurd Please Elaborate - regulars either explain something weird and interesting or listeners will prompt then with a question that they will go and research and explain in the podcast.
Horne Section Podcast - Little Alex Horne (of Taskmaster fame) interviews a guest alongside his band that will keep playing improv music of all kinds of different genres throughout. Regularly playing songs that end up being relevant to the guest, for example could be a funny retelling of their life or some fun word play on their name etc. the banter between Alex and band makes this one. They probably didn't even need guests to be honest.
A Problem Squared - 2 regulars each try to solve a question posed by listeners. Is often very intellectual but the two hosts are very witty and can find an interesting and funny way to explain someone's complicated concepts that anyone could understand and learn from.
James Acasters Perfect Sounds - each episode James shares an album specifically from the year 2016 to try and convince them that 2016 was the best year in music in an attempt to justify his obsession of trying to physically collect every album released in 2016. The reasons for it being 2016 specifically are very personal to him and uses each album to explain why. (This is like a companion piece/extension to a book he wrote prior on the same subject, except this time with other people involved and their opinions as well as the audible medium allowing him to share snippets of the sins they are talking about).
Some other ones I regularly listen to: Cox n Crendor Geekenders Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast C.R.E.A.M. (Cars Rule Everything Around Me - The TDC Podcast) SmartLess Windbreaker Better Offline (A good one for Tech Sceptics that hate the big tech monopolies)
Lots of great suggestions. If you want one that will make you mad, Swindled is a great one about white collar crime. Podcaster is left leaning (outwardly so) and it's (sometimes) therapeutic to hear him talk about some of the topics.
Better Offline: explains a lot of things that are wrong with today's tech. Mostly Ed ranting about enshittification/AI in everything
I'm a fan of Lingthusiasm. It's two linguist friends chatting about interesting things in their field. They keep it pretty approachable for non-linguists (like me)
This Podcast will Kill You. It's about illness causing pathogens and poisons. It's super cool they break it down so nicely. AND they cite their sources!!!
Search Engine - deep dives into interesting subjects
Your Kickstarter Sucks - sarcastic evaluations of bad kickstarter projects and other witty social commentary
Oologies. A charming interviewer talks to experts in various disciplines.
The Dollop is one of my all time favourites.
The Magnus Archives is still the best podcast of all time, if you're into audio dramas.
I also love The Deep 3, Thinking Basketball, and the No Dunks podcast for the NBA.
Never Post - an audio magazine about the internet and stuff
acquired. deep dive into the history of major businesses. like ikea, rolex, tsmc, mars..
Not Another D&D Podcast is the only one I reliably listen to.
Similar vein - 8 Bit Book Club.
My brother, my brother, and me- a fake advice show. Pardon My Take- national sports podcast. The Ringer F1 Show- ins and outs of Formula 1 Motorsport.
MBMBAM was good for the first couple hundred… then… not.
Well, that’s an opinion.