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I'm getting close to the bottom of my backlog on a few podcasts, so I'm looking to get something new in there.

Personally, it's been, in no particular order:

  • If Books Could Kill
  • Darknet Diaries
  • Hard Fork
  • 99% Invisible
  • The War on Cars
  • The Urbanist Agenda
  • The Climate Denier's Playbook
  • Well There's Your Problem

I'm mildly considering getting into Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, but I'm a little bit skeptical on account of how damn much there is to be listened to in their feed.

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[–] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 7 points 6 months ago

I love Behind The Bastards and It Could Happen Here. They do have significant episode counts. BtB does a great and looooooong series on Henry Kissinger that I think is a prime example of what you are going to get. If you listen to that one and don't enjoy, I would move on from them.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have exclusuvely been listening to "The History of Rome" by Mike Duncan

still not done with it lol

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

His follow up Revolutions is even better

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's how I was made aware of "The History of Rome". I listened to the last chapters of "Revolutions" and decided to start from the beginning before listening to the rest.

My current "roadmap" of sorts is to finish "The History of Rome", then "The History of Byzantium* (not made by Duncan) and listen to the rest of "Revolutions" afterwards

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna give this one a shot. Thank you!

[–] sapo 2 points 6 months ago

Make sure to follow it up with Robin Pearson's History of Byzantium. He's still centuries away from done, but I like it even better than Mike Duncan's after it gets going.

[–] theilleist@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No Such Thing As A Fish!

From the makers of BBC's "QI," a (nearly) endless collection of useless facts that will not change your life, but will make you more fun to talk to at parties. Not that you go to any parties.

[–] blindsight 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I've heard about this one before, but I'm downloading an episode now.

The one thing I hate about QI is that I've already seen it all and there aren't any more episodes.

Edit: That was great. It totally scratched the QI itch. Among many other tidbits, I now know how leech treatments were discovered, that there's a specific frequency that is arousing for badgers and sets off car alarms, and that in one year, over 700 American students were arrested for owning pagers.

Edit: Holy shit. The author of Goodnight Moon literally died from an overly-enthusiastic "can-can kick". She did it to prove she was feeling fine... (ironically) but she dislodged a blood clot that instantly killed her.

[–] theilleist@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Well now I know you're the type of person who starts a podcast newest to oldest instead of the other way around lol

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

Lions lead by donkeys

Well There's Your Problem

Kill James Bond

The Delta Flyers

Decoding The Unknown

P3 Dokumentär

Damn Interesting

[–] joby@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It Could Happen Here is often talking about what's going on that week in the world. I wouldn't try to listen to their whole backlog, but I usually catch an episode or two a week.

Behind the Bastards is great. Since I found it (Summer 2020, I'd reckon), I've listened to most of what has come out since.

Cool People who did Cool Stuff is a sort of spin off of btb. Deep dives on people and movements who were resisting the bastards. It's only been going on a couple of years, so the backlog is more manageable if that's your thing.

I listen to Past Times on the Dollop feed most weeks. The Dollop is another deep dive history podcast. On Past Times, they read headlines and articles from different newspaper every week. Usually from the late 19th through early 20th century, but they've gone as far back as the 1600s.

Anything by Jamie Loftus is great. She's mostly done short run things on a single topic. She's on the Bechdel cast, too which I listen to occasionally.

You might enjoy The Deprogram, which has a less daunting backlog.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

It could happen here is very hit or miss, unfortunately. For me personally, about 70% is garbage, the rest is pretty good.

Their resident middle east anchor woman (Shirin?) and Andrew are just completely unlistenable to me, simply because of their voices. And there's a lot of USA internal politics, which just isn't all that interesting to me.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

English:

  • Lateral
  • Darknet Diaries
  • Artifexian
  • Exolore
  • The White Vault (caught up on old episodes)
  • World's Greatest Con

German:

  • Geschichten aus der Geschichte
  • Geschichten aus dem Altbau
  • Darwin gefällt das
  • Mord auf Ex
  • Bayern 3 True Crime
  • Weird Crimes

All in no particular order.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I might add to the German column:

Wochendämmerung

Lage der Nation

Übermedien

Piratensender Powerplay

UKW

[–] jlow 1 points 6 months ago

Logbuch Netzpolitik Das Universum Sternengeschichten Besser Wissen AstroGeo Hoaxilla CosmicLatte Future Histories OmegaTau (RIP)

[–] Matt@lemdro.id 3 points 6 months ago
  • Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons
  • Surveillance Report
  • 2.5 Admins
  • Self-Hosted
  • Philosophize This
  • Frequent Miler
[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You might also like:

  • Search Engine
  • Tech Won't Save Us
  • Moderated Content
  • Mystery AI Hype Theater
[–] krdo@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Search Engine had been my favorite podcast in the last year or so.

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Curious if anyone who has search engine has paid for incognito mode?

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm sure people have but my guess is they're more likely to be bluesky people instead of lemmy people.

[–] marketsnodsbury@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

•Bear Brook

•We’re Here to Help

•Reveal

•Radiolab

•Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me

[–] ruko24@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

I was never a podcast person until I listened to Otherworld. It gives a platform to people to tell their paranormal stories without sensationalism or judgement. They cover a wide range of topics from hauntings to cryptids to aliens. Really cool stuff even if you're a skeptic

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago
  • Behind the Bastards
  • Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
  • A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail
  • Cozy History
[–] ag_roberston_author 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fall of Civilizations podcast.

Great insight it a number of civilisations that have collapsed throughout human history. Explains their rise, peak and of course collapse in great detail.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Love that podcast. If only there were more episodes.

[–] ag_roberston_author 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They released one on Egypt pretty recently.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah I know, already done. I actually use old episodes to fall asleep to

[–] Swerker@feddit.nu 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I listen to a lot of podcasts. Lately it has been

English:

  • Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast
  • Desert Skies
  • Copperheart
  • Derelict
  • Tower 4
  • The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings
  • SCP Archives
  • Margareth's Garden
  • Thirteen

Swedish:

  • P3 Dystopia
  • P3 Dokumentär
  • USA-podden
  • Gräns
  • Det Politiska spelet
  • Europapodden
  • Radiokorrespondenterna Ryssland
  • Rollspelsklubben

And probably a dozen more

[–] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  • This week in Tech
  • This week in Google
  • No such thing as a fish
  • Waveform
  • Vergecast

I subscribe to a few more, but I often skip them, but the above i listen to every episode.

Behind the Bastards and Knowledge Fight are my two favorites, and I sprinkle in some Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and Today Explained

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Castle Super Beast is what I put on for grinding in video games. Woolie Madden & Patrick Boivin from SBFP made their own podcast after dissolving the channel, and it's now been going on for about as long as their old podcast. It's about a bunch of nerd bullshit like video games, but with a slight veneer of a focus on industry news.

[–] florge@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

Recently I've started listening to Off Menu

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I’ll always recommend Blowback. Specially season 3. Death to America.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

F**k Face and Face Jam were my jam, but I have no clue how long they’ll be around what with Rooster Teeth being shut down. Otherwise, I try to keep up with Factually! as often as I can.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Serious Trouble, by the further hosts of (and essentially a continuation of) All the President's Lawyers.

Nocturne, by Vanessa Lowe. A podcast about the night, and things that happen during the night. Favorite episodes: Night ways about what ancient people use to do at night and how archeology and anthropology are changing their perceptions; Finding the Void about a guy who lived inside a mall; On the North Face about a guy who got lost while climbing Mount Shasta; What's Would You Do about the fear of night.

I usually check in on The Daily like once a week to see if anything interesting has been covered.

And This Week in Virology, which I got into during the pandemic. Usually the weekly update on Friday on what contagious diseases are currently circulating, and about half the time their Sunday episode.

[–] friendly_ghost 1 points 6 months ago

Give Srsly Wrong a shot! The Wrong Boys are funny and earnest and I always learn something from them.

[–] sapo 1 points 6 months ago

The one podcast I listen to every week as it comes out is Lateral, a trivia show hosted by Tom Scott with rotating guests.

Other than that, I have a thing for casual and conversational history podcasts, including:

  • The Lesser Bonapartes (old but gold, the full backlog's only available on spotify under the title 'From the desk of Glen')
  • Dead Ideas
  • Some 'leader ranking' podcasts with the same formula: Rex Factor (British monarchs), Totalus Rankium (Roman Emperors and then American Presidents) and Pontifacts (Popes)
[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Guys: A Podcast About Guys and

Guys+: A Podcast About "Guys: A Podcast About Guys"

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The only podcasts I listen to are the unexpectables ones. I don't even really like DND but MontyGlu is an amazing voice actor and role player... Like you can tell she genuinely cares for her NPCs and can tell the differences in characters from the nuisance of her characters and the candor in which they speak. I haven't had much luck finding that else where. And that's ignoring the fantastic world she has built for her players.

WARK.

[–] jlow 1 points 6 months ago

Metis in Space!

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 6 months ago
  • Python Bytes
  • Talk Python to Me
  • The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
  • Behind the Bastards
  • Geeks without God
[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago
  • Even More News
  • Behind The Bastards
  • Party Girls
  • Translash
  • Antifada
  • Tech Won't Save Us
  • Better Offline
  • Factually
  • Knowledge Fight
  • The Hamilton Morris Podcast