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If you listen to any podcast(s) you recommend, tell us about it

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[–] StorageB@lemmy.one 1 points 56 minutes ago

Uhh Yeah Dude. 2 guys choppin it up since 2006.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

This History of Rome -- Pretty much exactly what the title says. This is an old podcast. It started in 2007 and finished in 2013. It pioneered the history podcast genre. It was made by Mike Duncan, who went on to create...

Revolutions -- Mike Duncan's follow up to The History of Rome. It's a similar format, but rather than a single on-going historical narrative, each season focuses on a different historical revolution. The original run of the show covered the English Revolution, American, French, Haitian, Spanish-American, 1830 French Revolution, 1848 European Revolutions, Mexican, and Russian Revolutions. He then concluded the podcast in 2022, but started it back up again late last year. This season is a fictionalized podcast about the Martian Revolution of the 24th century (told as a history from someone living well in the future of it). He's said that once he's done this season he's going back to doing historical revolutions picking back up after the Russian Revolution.

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

If you're at all techy or in to self-hosting or home automation, the Self-Hosted podcast is excellent listening.

Shout out to Linux Unplugged, from the same network, Juipeter Broadcasting

Plenty of audience participation, current and active.

They also have meetups, community stuff and are very fediverse involved!

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 children)

General interest

  • Hardcore History (the best!)
  • A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
  • Myths and Legends

Game history

  • Retronauts
  • Video Game History Hour (Video Game History Foundation)
  • New Books in Game Studies (I haven't listened yet, but the description sounds interesting anyway)

Talking about current video games

  • Kit and Krysta
  • Vic's Basement (Electric Playground)
  • Easy Allies (Haven't tuned in since a lot their personalities left, but they've still got a solid crew)
[–] RixMixed@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Thanks for the recommendations. No idea Victor Lucas had a podcast, I’ll have to check it out.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 8 points 12 hours ago

A few not yet mentioned:

  • Well There's Your Problem - a podcast about engineering disasters
  • Hard Fork - a weekly tech news show, with banter similar to what you could find on Reply All before that was ended
  • The War on Cars - an urbanism-podcast
  • The Urbanist Agenda - another urbanism-podcast, by the creator behind Not Just Bikes
  • The Climate Denier's Playbook - a climate-podcast
  • Hyperfixed - by one of the hosts of Reply All

And a vote for previously mentioned podcasts:

  • 99% Invisible - a podcast about design, arguably my favourite
  • Darknet Diaries - a podcast about cybersecurity
[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 5 points 12 hours ago

The Fall of Civilizations is hauntingly beautiful

[–] sinnsykfinbart@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Here are some I really enjoy, which I also use to fall asleep to.

  • Fall of civilizations - great history show
  • Sweet Bobby - Weird and fascinating story
  • The Spy Who - Awesome storytelling about different spystories from around the world
  • It could happen here - Podcast that tells how a second american civil war could happen
  • Decoding the gurus - decoding weirdos like musk, jordan peterson and other scammers
[–] Tieas@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago
[–] gooble@lemm.ee 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

DOS GAME CLUB

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

The materialism podcast has stopped, but is absolutely worth listening to the backlog. It's a material science podcast.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

What's Left of Philosophy? - Good for elevating your philosophy game.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Trueanon, if I ever make a manifesto I'm mentioning them in it

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

best podcast

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)
  • Morbid (True Crime/Mysteries)
  • Behind the Bastards (History/Biography with some humor)
  • No Sleep (Fictional Horror Audiodrama)--
[–] whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

This week’s Behind the Bastards about Jim Caviezel is hilarious.

[–] grumuk@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, that one stung because I loved his version of The Count of Monte Cristo.

[–] cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social 9 points 21 hours ago

I like Robert Evans

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[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 6 points 19 hours ago
  • welcome to nightvale - if you like kooky off the wall sci-fi stories
  • We’re alive - Long form zombie survival podcast. I recommend starting from the beginning before moving to the newest stuff
  • Alice isn’t Dead - mystery sci-fi trucker podcast
  • Fictional - classical novels read with a bit of snark - new season coming soon
  • That time that Planet Money read all of The Great Gatsby
  • 99% Invisible’s book club synopsis of The Power Broker by Robert Caro
  • The Truth
  • What’s Ray Saying
[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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)

[–] regrub@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Better Offline: explains a lot of things that are wrong with today's tech. Mostly Ed ranting about enshittification/AI in everything

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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 Gethard is really good at getting people to open up in a very genuine yet casual manner.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago

Unmade Podcast - 2 dudes talking podcast.

[–] Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz 7 points 21 hours ago

Oologies. A charming interviewer talks to experts in various disciplines.

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago

The Dollop is one of my all time favourites.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 6 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

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)

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[–] curlyqute@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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!!!

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] gon@lemm.ee 5 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] outbakes9510@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago

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)

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Not Another D&D Podcast is the only one I reliably listen to.

Similar vein - 8 Bit Book Club.

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[–] swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

Search Engine - deep dives into interesting subjects

Your Kickstarter Sucks - sarcastic evaluations of bad kickstarter projects and other witty social commentary

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