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)
Valley Heat. Great writing, hilarious.
I liked “David Tennant does a podcast with…”
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.
Darknet Diaries also has TOR website. Sadly it doesn’t have latest episode, so I don’t know if it will be updated.
Ologies! " Each episode, Ward interviews an expert from a distinct scientific field (somnology, bryology, philematology, etc.)"
+1 for Ologies!
I’ll second Darknet Diaries! Hell of a podcast!
My regular rotation (in order of how many of them I listen to, %):
- Lateral with Tom Scott
- Wait, wait, don’t tell me
- Well there’s your problem
- Behind the Bastards
- It could happen here
WTYP 🤜🤛
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!!
+1 for D&Dads
i freakin love season 3 so farOmg don’t spoil anything I’m still working through season 2!
I would never! Just sayin I love it 😁
Hell yeah I am so excited :)
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…
- The Bugle (satire about the news)
- The Deprogram (far left politics, very funny hosts)
- Blowback (documentary style show about US interventions in different places - more interesting than it sounds)
- Radiolab (sciencey stuff)
- Red Flags Pod: F1 Podcast with sister show Vankah Hours starring Gunther Steiner as a third co-host.
- Hyperfixed: Show where Alex Goldman tries to solve a problem an audience sent in, no matter what the topic is.
My favourites are:
- Fall of Civilisations
- The Thing About Austen
I second FoC. I recently started this as kind of ‘podcast to fall asleep to’. I ended up staying up even longer…
- Omnibus
- Darknet Diaries
Just started listening to Darknet Diaries last week. It’s really good, right from ep1.
“Ty and That Guy” - Ty Franck (one of the writers of The Expanse books) and Wes Chatham (actor of Amos Burton on the show) talk about sci-fi.
“SPINES” - supernatural fiction about an amnesiac tracking down broken people with paranormal abilities, written in an audio diary format. It gets a little gay.
“The White Vault” - supernatural fiction about a multinational team that travels to Svalbard to recover a lost expedition and encounters a monster.
All of the “The Rest is…” Podcasts are great that I’ve heard- Entertainment, Football, Politics, Classified, Money.
No Such Thing As a Fish by the QI elves.
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Curious Cases
Radio lab is great :)
I would love to know some Chinese one’s too
Chalk Radio from MIT OpenCourseWare
I really enjoy this podcast. It’s great to hear that the professors at MIT share their passion and expertise with students and the wider world. One of my favorite episodes is Prof. Eric Grimson’s story about making computer science more accessible to everyone. It’s really motivating to think that there are so many talented teachers and resources available, which makes me feel confident and excited to keep learning on my own.
- Old Gods of Appalachia**
- Spooked
- One Strange Thing**
- Radio Rental
- Mr. Ballen: Strange, Dark, & Mysterious
- Lore**
- Small Town Dicks
** I love these so much, I subscribe. If Spooked had an ad free subscription model, I would support it too, but alas, they prefer ad revenue.
I absolutely love these:
- Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (behavioral psychology)
- The Sloppy Boys (comedy cocktails)
- The Bugle (comedy satire politics)
- Danny Wallace’s Important Broadcast (comedy radio show)
- Heavyweight (comedy mystery)
- HomeAssistant podcast (smarthome tech HomeAssistant)
- Self-Hosted (tech)
- Maintenance Phase (comedy wellness)
- Severance Podcast (tv show Severance)
- Strong Songs (your favorite songs, explained)
- All Consuming (comedy product reviews)
The Severance podcast is a really great behind the scenes extrapolation of each episode by the cast and crew. I recommend this one too! It’s fun to hear how many of them are fans of the show since most of them had no idea what was going on while filling their portion.
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.