I’m looking to stock up on podcasts, whether in Mandarin, French or English. Don’t worry about my tastes I’ll sort it out later
But share good podcasts in other languages if you know any (it might be useful for other people)
The Constant by Mark Chrisler. It covers examples of all the different way people have been wrong throughout history like thinking birds flew to the moon for winter or how homeopathy started. I always find it super interesting and pretty funny too.
It’s the only podcast I subscription to on patron.
I see a bunch of other Cool Zone Media shows, but not Molly Conger’s Weird Little Guys.
Her calm cadence and thorough exploration of specific American wingnuts is fun. And as far as I’ve seen, most of the stories end with the guy dead or in prison, so happy endings.
I’ve really been enjoying it!
Almost TOO detailed and well researched, but I think that’s more on me for listening to her masterful work as distraction while doing other things.
The Dumb Zone. I promise. I pay for an annual sub. Good fun with some sports mixed in.
You are not so smart podcast
Basically a book club about psychology books
- Behind the Bastards
- The Dollop
- Live Like The World is Dying
- Some More News
- It Could Happen Here
- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
- Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
- The Film Reroll
- How Did This Get Made?
- Twenty Thousand Hertz
- The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
These are some of my favorites, I’m sure I’m missing some though.
Available in Morse Code , dude you rock
Second how did this get made, listened to it on the way back from a trip this afternoon. I avoid the “Live!” ones as they are usually very poorly mixed and often the audience gets involved so you just sit and listen to badly mixed laughter for 4 minutes. Go see em live if you want that experience.
This Podcast Will Kill You - good shit about various diseases/poisons
404media.co has a really high quality one! They also got a 2024 award from EFF.
“Welcome to the podcast from 404 Media where Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason catch you up on the stories we published this week. 404 Media is a journalist-owned digital media company exploring the way technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL through investigative reporting, smart blogging, and breaking news. At 404 Media you’ll read, and hear, stories you can’t find anywhere else written by journalists who are leading experts on their beats.”
Srsly Wrong
- a leftist utopian podcast made in Canada
Reply All
- it’s done now and is really only good until PJ leaves, but it was excellent for a while
Dungeons and Daddies
- four dads get sent to the forgotten realms while bringing their kids to a soccer game
The What If? Podcast
Turned Out A Punk
Something Rotten
Behind The Bastards
Check out “Search Engine” if you liked Reply/All. PJ is the host!
Also Alex’s (the other Reply All host, with PJ) new podcast Hyperfixated!
Yeeee thank both of you!!
Went looking for Reply All. I found that podcast as my “first” podcast, I’d never gotten into any before. Listened from episode one every day for weeks, and suddenly… They were announcing they were ending… I hadn’t realized they had ended…
Because they hadn’t yet. I somehow timed my listening of the whole show such that I heard the second or third last episode (where they first announced the ending) on the day it was put out… So I had to wait a week each for the last 2 episodes…
Great variety of content, despite the tagline…
+1 for D&Dads
i freakin love season 3 so farOmg don’t spoil anything I’m still working through season 2!
Darknet diaries is one of my all time favorites.
If you like music analysis then Strong Songs is also interesting
And for a non serious listen I like to listen to Sherlock & Co, which is an amazing audioplay where Watson becomes a podcaster to deal with his PTSD. The adventures are self contained, so you can hop on any you like.
I’ll second Darknet Diaries! Hell of a podcast!
Ologies! " Each episode, Ward interviews an expert from a distinct scientific field (somnology, bryology, philematology, etc.)"
+1 for Ologies!
A podcast I like to listen to that hasn’t been mentioned yet: Opt Out
Opt Out is a podcast where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.
- Grumpy Old Geeks. A podcast of what went wrong on the internet and who’s to blame
*Stuff you should know" is a fun podcast, two guys go over a random topic.
They aren’t experts in anything, but it’s fun to hear them try to explain what they’ve learned about everything from how cranes work to darker things like the Tulsa race riots.
Omnibus is also good in this vein. Ken Jennings and his friend go over some weird and obscure history you might not know about. It’s not very in-depth a lot, more factoids, but always pretty cool.
Josh and Chuck are awesome. I enjoy how they slip in false info jokes, and go off on tangents
I have been making a weekly podcast about amateur radio since 15 May 2011. It started life as “What use is an F-call?” and in 2015 was renamed “Foundations of Amateur Radio”. I’ve made over 700 episodes so far.
Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents.
It’s available as audio, text, email, RSS, YouTube and Morse code and can be found on many podcast platforms. It’s also available on amateur radio repeaters, as eBooks and on lemmy.radio and it can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.
More info: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/
Feel free to ask questions.
Onno (VK6FLAB)
- Boonta Vista
- Worst of all Possible Worlds
- Well There’s Your Problem
- Trashfuture
Worst of all and WTYP are excellent. Those are the two I’ve listened to.
I can also recommend QAA, Knowledge Fight, and Lions Led by Donkeys
Lions Led by Donkeys is fantastic
I really enjoyed the early episodes of
How I built this with Guy Raz
