If Books Could Kill
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My podcasts fall into two groups:
Linux/Tech
- Destination Linux
- Late Night Linux and its brethren
- Linux GameCast and its sister show LWDW
Urbanism
- The War on Cars
- The Urbanist Agenda
- Strong Towns Podcast
- Upzoned
They release on almost a daily schedule, so I always have something to listen to.
Dungeons and Daddies not a BDSM podcast ....except that one time
If you like short and sweet (most eps. 20–30 min) and don't mind being sad that it's discontinued:
Two buddies discuss what a world without a particular thing (one thing per episode) would be like. No color? No chairs? No numbers? They tackle these questions in often unapologetically unscientific, and always creative and hysterical ways.
it’s kinda niche, but since you asked: The SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast:
- Spout Lore (actual play dungeon world podcast which is an absolute blast of hilarity and wholesomeness)
- Dungeon and daddies (first season is a masterpiece, after that, your mileage may vary, they are going too often in the "too raunchy" for my taste but there are some good episodes still)
- Adventure Zones I recently dropped. I basically enjoy only the one off they do in the old West with ghosts and such. The main campaign is subpar since quite some time
- Not Another D&D podcast, I'm catching up with the first season still, sometimes they go for the "over the top" for no reason but there are some good moments. I absolutely loathe the sponsors they use (like fucking turbotaxes and other exploiting companies)
I had others but over time the quality dropped unfortunately.
I used podcast for infotainment and keeping updated with work related stuff as well once, but since the pandemic I don't commute anymore and the time for podcast is basically just for when I cook or clean.
Have you tried Tales of the Manticore? Solid solo play, season 1 was great and 2 is solid so far.
I got fascinated by the Supreme Court and that led me to a lot of political and law podcasts. I am notably not a lawyer so I don’t know why I’m doing so many.
5-4 ALAB (if they ever post) pod save America pod save the world sawbones
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Stuff You Should Know
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Barbell Medicine
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Ham Radio Crash Course
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2 White Lights
I just started listening to Stuff You Should know a few weeks ago, I really like it. Since I started at 'the beginning' it is a bit of a walk down memory lane, currently around 2009, it's really funny and a bit strange... Are you up to the current episodes, is it still Chuck and Josh doing all the talking?
Yep! They're still the hosts. It's as good as ever.
- Stories of Scotland - Jenny and Annie talk about Scottish history, culture, nature, and heritage in lovely accents and sometimes they get very silly
- Irish and Celtic Music Podcast - by Marc Gunn, the 'celtfather'... I love a good jig
- Stuff You Should Know - stories of curious and strange things... a bit US-centric but they do 'translate' units (e.g. feet to meters) and I appreciate that
- The compassion Initiative - Just two guys from Brisbane talking compassion, with Stan and James, also nice accents
- Me the Mountain - Acoustic guitar music I listen on the bus in the morning half asleep; there are no new episodes since 2021 but I listen to the remaining ones on repeat
- WTF with Marc Maron - the godfather of podcasts, nice chats, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry...
...and for my German fellow lemmys:
- Haschimitenfürst - Der Bobcast - für alle ??? (Hörspiel-)Süchtigen
I Said No Gifts - nice, low-key conversations with funny people, great format.
Midnight Burger - wonderful sci-fi story that draws from lots of material, pretty funny, great cast and production.
No Such Thing as a Fish - 4 hosts discuss interesting facts in what's often equally as hilarious as it is informative.
Bananas - 2 funny dudes discuss weird or funny news headlines.
These are all good, light-hearted podcasts for when you want something a bit softer to listen to :)
This American Life
Radiolab
Decoding the Unknown
The Running Channel
Every so often Planet Money
I used to listen to Reply All until their whole thing and they shut down.
At the moment, the Dollop and Behind the bastards are my mainstays. Both are as excellent and funny as they are depressing.
- Bad Friends
- Take Your Shoes Off
- Tigerbelly
- Conan O'Brien needs a friend
- Darknet Diaries
+1 for Darknet Diaries. got anything else to recommend in that nerdy/edgy genre of story telling?
Someone already mentioned Hacked on here, but some others are:
- Hacking Humans
- Malicious Life
- Modem Mischief
- What the Shell?
Some additional security related ones include:
- Caveat
- CSO Perspectives
- CyberWire Daily
- Paul's Security Weekly
- Research Saturday
- Risky Business
- Security Now
- No Dumb Questions
- World's Greatest Con
- Saftey Third
These are my favorites
Switched on Pop
A musicologist and a songwriter discuss pop music. They recently did a 4-part deep dive into Daft Punk, exploring their transition from robot to human.
Definitely has a NPR/PRI vibe, but less navel-gazey
ATP
Back to Work
The Incomparable Superfeed
RHAP Survivor Feed
The Besties
Chapo
The Ringerverse Feed
The Prestige TV Podcast
The Watch
Roderick on the Line
Ten Junk Miles
Do By Friday
Remap Radio
Reconcilable Differences
The Big Picture
8-4 Play
Nextlander
Jeff Gerstmann Show
I run a lot of miles and have a lot of time. I will skip some of the podcasts in the Superfeeds and TV podcasts when I don't care for the TV Show/Movie.
The Blindboy Podcast. It can be about anything, including (but not limited to) food, art, creativity, mental health, history and whatever topics his guests bring up. He's interviewed some celebs (including the president of Ireland) but some of his best podcasts were definitely with Dr Sharon Lambert who talks about reforming the criminal system currently in place for drug use.
A lighter one he did recently was on the history of carrot cake which had me trying so hard not to laugh out loud in public.
Highly recommend!
No Agenda
True Crime Bullshit
The Art of Manliness
Moe Factz
Cumtown Premium, The Adam Friedland Show, The Always Sunny Podcast
A Hotdog is a Sandwich from Mythical Kitchen. Lots of talks about interesting food debates. I don't think they have the titular discussion until like 300 episodes in, because they initially said they were never have that debate. Well, I guess they got more and more popular, so they did a 5 part series on whether a Hot Dog is a sandwich or not where they interviewed historians, philosophers, lawyers, and restaurant owners. It's a fun listen.
Other than that, I was listening to the House of The Dragon podcast, but that's over for now.
Surveillance report
Firewalls don't stop dragons
- 99% Invisible (Roman Mars)
- Slate Star Codex (narrated form of Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Ten column)
- Jack Rhysider - Darknet Diaries
- Maggie Killjoy - Cool people who did Cool Stuff
- Cory Doctorow's podcast
- Jennifer Briney - Congressional Dish
- Lex Fridman
the first three are all tightly scripted storytelling: generally non-fiction, but exciting or interesting. sorted by general audience -> niche audience.
the next three edge into political territory, sorted from politically-adjacent to 100% political (not punditry):
- Maggie's focuses on telling history. but she's self-described anarchist and it bleeds.
- Cory's is a narrated form of his blog. usually the overlap between tech & national policy.
- Congressional Dish is literally Jen watching hours of C-SPAN and reading 1000's of pages of text from bills to give actual deep-dives into congressional happenings.
Lex Fridman is if Joe Rogan was hosted by someone who actually did his research upfront, planned out his questions, and chose guests that are less divisive, and more academic or entrepreneurial.
if you listen to any of these, please leave a recommendation for something similar you think i would like! ❤️
Financial Times Morning Briefing
Today Explained
Decoder
David McWilliams Podcast
Linux Unplugged Linux Action News Self Hosted Coder Radio
Late Night Linux
Behind The Bastards
Irish History Podcast
Blindboy Podcast
I'm currently working my way thru prehistory season of Tides of History by Patrick Wyman (Fall of the Roman Empire guy). Came out in 2020, and I'm really enjoying the detail it goes into.
Wrong Station: Episodic horror podcast based out of Canada. Very well written and superbly well acted. The only podcast I actively subscribe to the patreon of.
Nextlander Podcast: Gaming podcast from 3 of the founding members of Giant Bomb (Vinny, Alex, and Brad).
The Jimmy Dore Show: Comedy/politics talk show. I don't actually agree with his political takes 100% of the time, but that is more interesting than listening to somebody who always agrees with me.
Special shout out to Case File, Behind the Bastards, Criminal, Moth Radio Hour
Currently 2, but unfortunately for (almost) everyone here they are both Dutch .
One is a daily news podcast where journalists and/or experts talk about something that is relevant right now. Every episode is 20-30 minutes and features a single topic. Today it was about the NATO leadership. Who could be the next leader, how is it decided and stuff like that. Yesterday about a national political party, the day before about Wagner's shenanigans on Saturday.
The other is a weekly 40 minute podcast about the war in Ukraine. There is a host and 2 former generals, one of them used to be the commander of the Dutch army. Every week they talk about what happened, why it happened and how it happened. They also have a certain topic that they talk about from their own experience or what they are seeing Ukraine right now. Like how tanks are best used, what the west can realistically (also factor in politics) do and how western militaries would respond so something like what Wagner did. Because they don't have to prove to anyone which side they are on, they can be honest and realistic. It makes a lot of news and opinions shared online look even more stupid.
Currently I really like rest is politics-leading. Interviews with different kinds of people bringing interesting perspectives.
- https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html
- https://watchmanprivacy.com/podcast
- https://darknetdiaries.com
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/firewalls-dont-stop-dragons-podcast/id1213366517
- https://www.modemmischief.com
- https://player.fm/series/canadian-prepper-podcast
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-down-collapse/id1534972612
- https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/
- https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes
- https://100wattsandawire.com/podcast/
- https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/9jnhv-2f03b/Learn-Russian-%7C-RussianPod101.com-Podcast
- https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/bu3w8-77163/Comprehensible-Russian-Podcast-%7C-Learn-Russian-with-Max
Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, and Off Menu.
They walk among us - British true crime and highly addictive
"Oh No Ross and Carrie" They go participate in all kinds of "fringe science" or spiritual stuff and report on it in a very funy but, in my opinion, largely respectful way.
- Levar Burton Reads - good short stories (today "D.P." by Kurt Vonnegut)
- Behind the Bastards this week: Stockton Rush, inventor of the Deathsub
- The Infinite Monkey Cage
- Evil Genius with Russell Kane (BBC) - last week, David Bowie... was he a genius, or simply evil?
- Something Rhymes with Purple - Fascinating look at English language.
- Drama of the Week (BBC) - occasionally brilliant plays.
- Desert Island Disks - Good when doing chores.
Old Gods of Appalachia (the only one I actually pay for/support on patreon)
2 Bears, 1 Cave
The black tapes
The bright sessions
Crypto Critics corner
darknet diaries
538 Politics
Mik + One
Small town horror
Video palace
the white vault
tech won't save us
Witch house media
The Launch Sequence. Star Citizen focused podcast, pretty interesting
Drifting Off with Joe Pera: A Sleep Podcast
https://www.patreon.com/DriftingOffwithJoePera
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drifting-off-with-joe-pera/id1669125364
https://open.spotify.com/show/56Vb1dQgGFEFJ9r937U3pg
Drifting Off With Joe Pera is an evening comedy podcast from comedian Joe Pera and composer Ryan Dann. With low-key jokes, immersive soundscapes, and relaxing phone conversations, Joe’s narration and Ryan’s sound design will help you unwind and perhaps even fall asleep. Featuring guest composers and interviews with interesting folks, the podcast will be released on the first Sunday of every month. Sorry, it's not more often but this is the fastest we can do thoughtful, quality work.
After the cancellation of Joe Pera Talks With You, I was glad to learn that Joe and his calming voice would be making new content. Especially content I can drift off with.
All of the Rogan comedy circle ones, JRE, Your Mom's house, Two bears One Cave, This past weekend.
Lex Friedman Podcast is great when I'm in a deep think kind of mood.
I found a niche little historical podcast on the American frontier called Furs and Frontiers
Lore and Cabinate of curiosity are always great to fall back in to for a bit.
Man, I feel like JR and Tom Segura are like the Howard Stern of my generation. But somehow less thoughtful, and more edgy. It’s shock jock radio with lots of laughing at their own “jokes.”
…Now I feel bad. Keep enjoying what you enjoy.
Don't feel bad, to each their own. It's not everybody's thing and I get that.
I was too young to really know Howard Stern so never I don't really know him. It comes in waves for me, sometimes if I'm stressed at work I just want to listen to some stupid jackassery on my way home. Then other times I want to learn more or have a more thoughtful podcast.
A cherry picked selection from this weeks' playback history...
- Cleanup on isle 45
- Decoding the gurus
- Science quickly
- More or less. Behind the stats
- Infinite monkey cage
- Homebrewed Christianity
- Three bean salad
- History of philosophy without any gaps
- Science Friday
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