I’ve been looking for more podcasts since I started going on daily walks.
Mine are:
- Conan O’Brien needs a friend
- Wolf and owl
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Surprised nobody has mentioned my two favourites:
- Behind The Bastards: Robert Evans (formerly of Cracked fame) talks about the worst people in history for hours.
- Oh No Ross and Carrie: “When they make the claims we show up so you don’t have to.” Maybe start with the series on scientology, it’s some of the best work they’ve done.
Most of the other stuff I listen to is either industry specific or fandom/hobby specific.
Having just finished up 6 episodes on G. Gordon Liddy, knowing nothing about him beforehand, I second the recommendation of Behind the Bastards.
I highly recommend the series Gaslit and White House Plumbers for a pair of incredible depictions of this loony.
ONRAC is one of my favorites. They have such a lovely approach to crackpots and charlatans of all stripes. Gentle mockery leavened with genuine engagement with the aim to better understand these bowel movements of human thought and expose the underlying motives of grift behind so many of them.
Love BtB
Darknet Diaries is nothing like every other podcast I’ve ever listened to. Listened to every episode 2-3x. It’s a podcast mostly about social engineering, hacking and cyber security.
Start with episode:
- 92: The Pirate Bay
- 116: Mad Dog
- 102: Money Maker
Xbox underground episode is wild
Listening to that right now, crazy stuff, like Microsoft throwing Dev kits away at the dump.
Casefile’s seeies on The Silk Road is an incredibly good deep dive.
I love the Episode about The Pirate Bay
Check out Casefile’s series on The Pirate Bay!
Edit: I was stupid yesterday and conflated The Pirate Bay and Silk Road
Is this the Silk Road one? Can’t find anything on just TPB.
Oh shit, I’m so sorry, my brain was pulling a dumb. I was conflating TPB with Silk Road D:
Sorry about that!
You’re good, thanks!
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
On the humorous side:
- My Brother, My Brother And Me - 3 brothers giving not-so-serious advice to listeners, reacting to questions from Yahoo Answers (when that was a thing), and overall being funny/silly
- My Dad Wrote A Porno - 3 people reacting to an “erotica” book series that one of the guys’ dad published (I would say the books are maybe only 5%-20% explicit, depending on the chapter) (some of the characters’ voices can be annoying/grating, and the narrator tends to repeat sentences after they react to them which can be annoying as well)
- No Such Thing As A Fish - the behind-the-scenes staff of the show QI bring up interesting facts and tidbits from history/nature/etc. (each episode is split into 4 parts where each member brings up a fact and the others react to it and bring up related facts)
- If I Were You - Jake & Amir from CollegeHumor giving advice to listeners (mostly in a sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek way but sometimes genuinely), mostly about relationships/dating
- SmartLess - Jason Bateman and Will Arnett (Arrested Development) and Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) interview a famous person each episode where only one of the hosts known who it is beforehand (it gets better after the first few episodes, though some conversations are less funny/entertaining than others)
- Office Ladies - Jenna and Angela from The Office (US) reacting to each episode of the show and bringing up behind-the-scenes stuff (some of episodes include interviews with other cast members/staff)
I loved MBMBAM from like 1-350. It’s unlistenable to me now. I can’t bear it.
Why’s that?
Eh it’s just not funny to me anymore. Everything is so flanderized and weird.
The old episodes had such a “just three dudes being funny in their basement” feel, and the new ones are like “we ran out of funny so here’s a half hour of Munch Squad”
I can’t blame them after HUNDREDS of episodes but it’s not for me.
- 99% Invisible
- Well There’s Your Problem
- The War On Cars
- The Urbanist Agenda
- The Climate Deniers Playbook
- Underunderstood
- Induction
- Hard Fork
- Drilled
- The Adam Ragusea Podcast
In no particular order.
- my brother my brother and me (funny)
- sawbones (medical mythbusting and funny)
- the adventure zone (funny d&d)
- Darknet diaries (hacking and security stories) (EDITTED)
- npr up first (quick daily news)
Those are the ones I’ve stuck with. Also:
- Hardcore history (in depth history lessons)
Similar to TAZ- The Critshow (funny Monster of the Week AP)
Darknet Diaries is right up there. All about hackers, malware, and penetration testers. Too bad the guy is on a mental health sabbatical. Plenty of binge worthy there though. Click Here is in the same space and of similar quality.
Love the show as well.
Too bad the guy is on a mental health sabbatical
That was unexpected, do we know why?
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- Linux Unplugged
- Linux Lads
- Linux After Dark
- Linux Downtime
- Linux Matters
- Linux Userspace
- Linux Actio News
- Linux + Open Source News, by TLE
- Late Night Linux
- Coder Radio
- 2.5 Admins
- Darknet Diaries
- Tech over Tea
- The Homelab Show
- Selfhosted
- The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show
- FriendsPerSecond
And yes, I listen to all of these and more (but these are the English ones), I really like podcasts…
I’m sensing a pattern, do you perhaps like Linux?
Woah! Thought you’d never guess! 😅
Darknet Diaries is fantastic
Agreed, easily one of my favs!
Tech over Tea is also really nice
- Co-recursive
- the Haskell Cast
- the Lambda Cast (not that fun to listen to but it taught me a ton)
I’m a history buff, so :
-The Age of Napoleon: brilliant podcast that covers the entire Napoleonic era from different angles, currently about halfway, one episode per month
-The history of Rome: finished podcast that goes over every era and emperor in Roman history
The Napoleon one sounds amazing, thanks!
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Are there any good podcasts that try to connect the dots regarding the American and French revolutions and related events?
Good question, but I don’t know the answer. I’m sure there are, but I would guess those will likely be in French.
Are there any episodes of these in particular that stick out to you?
I find them all good, but he does make some episodes about lesser known aspects. He has a series of 4 or 5 episodes where he really takes a deep dive in Haiti and its tumultuous history. This was a french colony at the time and one of Napoleons, if not the most questionable, decisions. He dives into the history of the Haitian resistance, the slavery, the politics, etc … and then ties it in with why Napoleon did what he did (reinstate slavery in Haiti). The guy who makes the podcast is a history student and took such a deep dive in the history of Haiti he is now considered one of the foremost experts in the field, and has been asked to give lectures about it. Fascinating stuff.
But if you want to know about Napoleons brilliance in battle, the entire Italian campaign is legendary for a reason and the episodes do it justice, while also doing a good job at separating fact from fiction (and in the process explaining the birth pf Napoleons propaganda machine).
Also the battle of Eylau episode gave me goosebumps. Incredible episode.
Awesome, I’m sold! Downloading them now. Thanks so much for taking the time to write this. Looking forward to listening!
Recently bigned 85 episodes of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. It’s released monthly and hosted by two linguists, one of which is Tom Scott’s writer and the other is a linguistics professor in New Zealand.
I love knowledge fight. About Alex Jones and the conspiracy theory of the day.
I recently discovered:
- If Books Could Kill from Michael Hobbes (How the worst ideas spread through airport bestsellers)
- Failure To Launch from Fluid Podcasts (How brands fail)
- Lions Led By Donkeys (Military history failures)
Obviously Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History is hands down the greatest podcast of all time. Unfortunately, because he does so much research, his turnaround rate on episodes is one of the slowest in the business. That said, there’s always his back catalog to take a deep dive into, which is fucking awesome.
Stuff You Should Know
Second this. Josh and Chuck have been teaching me so much for so long, I can’t imagine not having this one.
Also Radio Lab
