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)
Lions Led By Donkeys! Weird and usually stupid military history, featuring everything from Roman warfare up to Vietnam.
I’ll also toss in Well There’s Your Problem. It’s an engineering disasters podcast. With slides (if you’re watching on YouTube).
If you want more in-universe crossover, Kill James Bond and What a Hell of a Way to Dad are also good. So is Failure to Launch
I don’t listen to podcasts often. But I like:
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Citations Needed: a podcast about media. Basically goes into how media covers some events and topics from a leftist perspective.
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Cane and Rinse: video game discussions and analyses. Each episode covers a specific game
I second the Citations Needed recommendation. Their episodes are so well researched.
Citations Needed: a podcast about media. Basically goes into how media covers some events and topics from a leftist perspective.
Interesting. I’ll check this out.
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I’m surprised no-one has mentioned “if books could kill”.
They basically tear all their top seller self help books to shreds. It’s very entertaining and actually really smart too.
It is a great podcast. But all of Michael Hobbes podcasts are. He still co hosts maintenance phase and now Sarah is running you are wrong about alone.
100%. I still listen to you’re wrong about too.
Lateral with Tom Scott It’s a great non-political podcast.
Really enjoy the rest is history.
QAA is best podcast of the times
My time has come! I have a podcast for everything. What do you like?
I subscribe to over 250 podcasts. -_- I don’t listen to all of them every day, and many aren’t in production anymore.
I love to listen and learn.
Unexplainable - Explainers on scientific mysteries, each episode is less than 30 minutes
What Went Wrong - Behind the scenes movie podcast. It’s a miracle any movie gets made.
Song Exploder - Musicians take apart their songs, layer by layer and talk about how it was made
Hysteria - Politics and News focusing on how the issues affect women
Levar Burton Reads - Levar Burton reads short stories. Not in production anymore, but there are almost 200 episodes worth of stories to hear
Hello From the Magic Tavern - A guy falls to another dimension but still gets WiFi so he started a podcast interviewing fantasy characters in that universe
Welcome to Night Vale - A fictional story told through a bi-monthly community updates radio broadcast. All conspiracies in Night Vale are real.
Hacked - Stories about hacking and internet crime.
Ologies - Science show about ‘-ologies’ careers
I looked through a number of comments and am surprised not to see Let’s Learn Everything.
Every two weeks the hosts cover two topics in a lot of depth, anything from quantum mechanics to swear words.
Behind the Basards, History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan, Hardcore History.
In no particular order, I listen to all of them regularly:
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Omnibus - general obscure history hosted by indie rocker John Roderick and Jeopardy’s golden boy Ken Jennings
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The Dollop - (mostly) American history with a leftist bent. One comedian reads a story the other hasn’t heard before.
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Not Another D&D Podcast - apologies for the first episode, but great world- and character-building. Really shows how great cooperative storytelling can be
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Last Podcast on the Left - comedy/horror. Conspiracies, cults, UFOs, and other weird shit. Their historical deep dives are awesome.
I listen to these regularly, but there’s a limited series podcast I like to recommend called S-Town. It’s excellent, especially if you’re from the southern US or grew up in a rural area. If you aren’t from the south or a rural area, it’ll probably be an extra-wild ride!
Love NADDPOD, and yeah once you get past the rocky start (they talk about dragon pussy within the first 10 minutes) it’s a creative and hilarious actual play with some very emotional moments. I cried at several points during campaign 1.
It got surprisingly heavy in places, and I didn’t realize I had grown so attached to some of those characters!
Campaign 2 was great—I really loved the guest star and secondary plot, and I’m now on C3. Have been binging the hell out of it for the past 6 months or so
My medieval reenactment camp group is basically The Crick after we found a stump at our campsite.
You ever get the feelin’ that sump’n ain’t right at the crick?
Yarp but it cleared up all right
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I liked “David Tennant does a podcast with…”
While I don’t agree with all his politics, I do enjoy his style. He asks a question then he shuts up and lets the other side talk.
Doesn’t interrupt.
@ShawnRyanShow On YouTube.
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 🤜🤛
I have honestly never listened to one, so I can’t help here, but interested to see if any suggestions sound up my street.
Valley Heat. Great writing, hilarious.
