The Scathing Atheist - three atheist comedians talk about religious over reach on society.
God Awful Movies - those same three comedians talk about terrible religious movies
Cognitive Dissonance - two skeptical best friends from Chicago talk about the news.
Citation Needed - the guys from The Scathing Atheist and the guys from Cognitive Dissonance take turns reading essays based on Wikipedia pages and joking about them.
Behind The Bastards - hilarious and well informed host talks about histories greatest Bastards.
The Greatest Generation/The Greatest Trek - two guys review Star Trek episodes. Generation focuses on older trek shows, currently going through Voyager, Trek reviews the new shows as episodes release.
GoNintendo - Rawmeat Cowboy from GoNintendo and his friends talk about Nintendo news and utterly fail to stay on topic.
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.
If Books Could Kill
Soooo many, but here are my top 5
- The Daily Beans - News. With Swearing
- Cognitive Dissonance - Two shouty atheists talk about stuff
- The Skepticrat - Funny hot takes on the news
- Behind the Bastards - All about the worst people
- NPR Politics - 90% American, 10% international, but still about America
I’ve been listening to CogDis since they had something like six episodes. It’s great seeing how far they’ve come.
Dungeons and Daddies not a BDSM podcast …except that one time
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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.
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- 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
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.
Love me some Darknet Diaries and Hacked.
I love me some darknet diaries. I haven’t checked out hacked, how would you say it compares?
- 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 Tale of the Manticore? Solid solo play, season 1 was great and 2 is solid so far.
Deprogram, Safety Third, various HowStuffWorks series, and also I have NewPipe so I mainly just listen to long YouTube videos as podcasts. Disaster Breakdown, Plainly Difficult, RMTransit, and Mentour Pilot are my current educational channels. Barely Sociable, Nexpo, Wendigoon for horror stuff. Some channels interleave the video and audio a lot more so they’re not as suitable for listening to.
Ever listened to Well There’s Your Problem? You mention Deprogram and Disaster Breakdown so I’m suprised WTYP isn’t also listed
At the moment, the Dollop and Behind the bastards are my mainstays. Both are as excellent and funny as they are depressing.
it’s kinda niche, but since you asked: The SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast:
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 :)
