I’m curious what people here listen to, and I’m also looking for new ones to check out. I’m personally a big fan of Linux Unplugged, MBMBaM, Lateral, and Twenty Thousand Hertz!
I also cannot get Lemmy’s search to work, so apologies if this was already a recent topic.
EDIT: I have so many new podcasts to listen to now.
The Common Descent podcast has two paleontologists discussing ancient life on Earth. Every episode focuses on a specific era or group of creatures and what we know about their evolution and speciation. There are really good episodes on the “big five” mass extinctions when major changes led to a fundamental reorganization of living groups on the planet.
I have kind of a boring job that allows me to wear headphones all day so I have a ton.
Music related: -60 songs that explain the 90s -20,000 hertz -No dogs in space
History/Politics (humorous/lighthearted): -The dollop -Behind the bastards -Cool people who did cool stuff -You’re wrong about -American hysteria -It books could kill
History/Politics/News and Current Events: -Congressional dish -The lawfare podcast -Straight White American Jesus -American history tellers -In our time with Melvin Bragg -Lions led by donkeys -Reveal -Throughline
Science/Tech/Art/Design: -99% invisible -Articles of interest -Ologies -You are not so smart -Science vs. -Sawbones -This podcast will kill you -The last archive -Proof
Spooky/strange/macabre: -Box of Oddities -The shallow end -Lore -Cabinet of curiosities -Radio rental -Spooked -Monsters among us -Real life ghost stories -We can be weirdos
Misc: -No such thing as a fish -The blindboy podcast -The bugle -The gargle -Darknet diaries -Craphound, the Cory Doctorow podcast -Off menu -Criminal -Swindled
You listen to No Dogs in Space, have several spooky/strange/macabre podcasts on your list, but not Last Podcast on the Left. Just curious if there’s a reason.
Henry’s raw sexual magnetism is too powerful. Men with priapism, women slipping off their chairs: I don’t want to be responsible for everyone’s arousal related injuries.
Checks out! I know if I listen on a road trip with my wife, I put a piddlepad on her seat first.
Lingthusiasm! It’s basically just two linguist friends chatting about the weird and interesting oddities in their field. It’s delivered at a level easily understandable to me that has never studied linguistics
Also: Lexicon Valley
No Such Thing As A Fish - 30 mins a week where 4 professional trivia compilers and comedians take turns sharing odd facts they’ve learned over the years
Hardcore History - like a history lecture from your favorite high school social studies teacher, but compressed into a professionally produced 4 to 10 hour audiobook
FiveThirtyEight Politics - analysis of political opinion polling in the US. no ideological opinions either way, just strategy and political science applied to current events.
The Magnus Archives - a found-footage horror fiction anthology series where the real story turns out to be about the character we hear narrating the stories
The only podcast I listen to with any regularity is Knowledge Fight. Listening to a couple of dudes dunk on Alex Jones is cathartic.
“Für mich gibt’s nur einen Podcast: Fest und Flauschig!”
‘Fest und Flauschig’ is a great German Podcast, which takes an authentic look at current world events with humor, satire and heart.
Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - great for particle and astrophysics
Never seen it with Kyle Ayers. Kyle invites comedians to write scripts for movies or TV shows that they’ve never seen. Then they do a brief table read of the script. Then they play games that Kyle has created. It’s a lot of fun, it usually very light and a lot of fun.
Dumb people town. It’s the podcast I have continually listened to constantly. Since like 2013 or 2014. Listeners will send in articles of news stories they find of people being dumb or doing dumb things.
Lingthusiasm
Sidenote by ASAPscience
Drk Mode (the misspelling of “dark” is deliberate)
Cold Ones
Literally anything on actual radio stations
The Dollop
Probably Science
The Little Dumdum Club
- darknet diaries - stories about hackers
- stuff you should know - interesting things you may not know about
- Real Canadian true crime - stories of real murders in Canada
Comedy Bang Bang
Hollywood Handbook
Hey Randy
Knowledge Fight
These are my “must listens” every week.
Honorable mention for another CBB Presents, Full Throttle! With Bob Ducca - extraordinarily brilliant, probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a podcast in my life. Limited run, so it’s concluded. He tells a story about posing as a monkey in a traveling circus that is somehow both tragically beautiful, and snot running down your face funny.
Hey Riddle Riddle, improv comedy/riddle podcast, very fun.
- WTF - Marc Maron’s podcast with really great long-form interviews of comedians, actors, and other public figures.
- Radiolab - about science, nature, and the human experience. Interesting and educational.
- Don’t Ask Tig - comedian Tig Notaro and a guest answer listener questions asking for advice. Usually funny and heartwarming.
Ok buddy, the podcast ‘Mysterious Universe’ is the show that radicalized me. One of the hosts is a blackbelt in hatespeech. The other one is the founder of the Alien Hate League, Earths last and best defense against the Extradimensional threat and defender of Linda Moulton-Howe’s fat mommy milkers
