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.
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.
I just added Cognitive Dissonance to my podcast feed. Are there any standout episodes that you would recommended grabbing?
Attempting to ping @Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world so they see this question too. Is that a thing on lemmy?
Last podcast I listened to was a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards. Breaking Down: Collapse is the one I listened to in its entirety most recently
Friend of mine introduced me to Behind the Bastards. Very much enjoy Robert Evans and his guests. Finishing the Josh Duggar series.
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
Dungeons and Daddies not a BDSM podcast …except that one time
Smartless
I really like all three of those guys but for some reason the podcast doesn’t work for me. It feels forced or disingenuous or something I can’t quite put my finger on.
It took me awhile to like them, I see what you’re saying. I think it’s the interviews that are what really keeps me. They have honest conversations with their guests because they know them. It’s definitely a bro culture type pod.
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?
If Books Could Kill
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.
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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
- Stories of Scotland - Jenny and Annie talk about Scottish history, culture, nature, and heritage in lovely accents and sometimes they get very silly
- Irish and Celtic Music Podcast - by Marc Gunn, the ‘celtfather’… I love a good jig
- Stuff You Should Know - stories of curious and strange things… a bit US-centric but they do ‘translate’ units (e.g. feet to meters) and I appreciate that
- The compassion Initiative - Just two guys from Brisbane talking compassion, with Stan and James, also nice accents
- Me the Mountain - Acoustic guitar music I listen on the bus in the morning half asleep; there are no new episodes since 2021 but I listen to the remaining ones on repeat
- WTF with Marc Maron - the godfather of podcasts, nice chats, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry…
…and for my German fellow lemmys:
- Haschimitenfürst - Der Bobcast - für alle ??? (Hörspiel-)Süchtigen
- 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.
