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)
Well there’s your problem podcast. A podcast about engineering disasters; with slides.
- Daily Tech News Show
- As it says on the label. Been listening to Tom Merritt for many years
- Self-Hosted
- Like to hear about projects, even if I don’t use them
- Make Me Smart
- Deep dives into tech and current events
- Empire
- How empires rise and fall
- Tech Won’t Save Us
- Tech people tend to view tech as a solution for everything
- Daily Tech News Show
Lateral with Tom Scott It’s a great non-political podcast.
There is only one podcast truly worth your valuable time, and it’s the Get Skrek’d Podcast - “A shot-by-shot analysis of the award-winning film, Shrek 2 by your tour guide and host, Logan Flinders.”
No other podcasts compare. No other podcasts matter.
Get Shrek’d is love. Get Shrek’d is life.
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.
I’ve enjoyed Blowback.
- Stuff You Should Know -A show that originally came from How Stuff Works. The name is self explanatory
- Radiolab -A science based narrative type show that originally airs on WNYC, a major NPR Affiliate and it used to be my favorite show but it’s gone down in quality in recent years.
- It’s Always Sunny Podcast by the cast of Sunny in Philadelphia talk about their shows and personal lives. It’s arguably the most light-hearted show I listen to
- Philosophize This -a educational podcast that discusses mainstream philosophy and the development of the subject in chronological order. I’m only 29 episodes in and there are currently over 200
- 99 Percent Invisible -A show about the world of design and the stories behind it narrated by the perfect voice for radio, Roman Mars
- The Dollop -An American history dark comedy podcast by comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
- The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart -The current iteration of Jon Stewart’s podcast where he speaks much more candidly and at length on current events, mostly politics
- NPR’s Marketplace -a daily radio show on the state of the economy as well as markets
- Marketplace presents: The Uncertain Hour -A podcast that does season length stories that take a deep dive into the broken aspects of americas economy, america’s failing regulation & safety nets.
- Behind The Bastards -A Biographical podcast about a lot of historic/prominent people that probably shouldn’t be idolized
- Sawbones -A podcast about the history of medicine.
- The Moth -A collection of personal stories of triumph, change, growth, and inspiration as they were remembered and told live on stage. I first heard it on NPR.
On a more personal level I also listen to various collections of Alan Watts talks in addition to Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast.
Seconding Behind the Bastards. Great podcast.
For anyone with the slightest interest in meditation, I second Sam Harris’s Waking Up app! His podcast Making Sense is great too
Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast (especially series 3 covering the French Revolution) and his The History of Rome series.
I think most of the ones I usually mention in threads like this have been covered, but a glance through hasn’t shown me
I’ll admit that this one may take a minute to really get, but once it locks in you’ll love it forever.
It’s basically just an Irish author, comedian, and former rapper telling stories, talking about mental health (he also has a masters in psychology), and interviewing people. One week he’ll be interviewing a couple of lads about insects, the next he has Cillian Murphy on. Last week was an hour about how he ended up in an office canteen covered in black hair dye, holding a bag of lemons.
It’s a wonderful podcast hug every week, and I can’t recommend it enough.
I absolutely love 99% Invisible
Some English-language ones I haven’t seen in this thread yet:
We Hate Movies- a comedy movie review show mostly about entertainingly bad movies in the vein of How did This Get Made.
No Such Thing As a Fish- some of the researchers from QI share facts they found while prepping the TV show
Unclear and Present Danger- looks at thrillers of the 90’s through an historical and leftist lens
Mortal Podkast- Lore dumps about every fighter in the Mortal Kombat series up through MK11. Now over but I still recommend it if you like Mortal Kombat
Mom Can’t Cook: A DCOM Podcast- humorous, tangent-heavy recaps of Disney Channel original movies.
Three Black Halflings- insightful discussions about D&D and race from a black perspective. Also some very good actual play series and one-shots mixed in.
- Better Offline: Ed Zitron tearing apart how shitty the tech industry has become
- QAA Podcast: studies conspiratorial thinking (originally devoted to watching Qanon lunatics), typically hilarious
- Accidental Tech Podcast: three third-party Apple developers talking about tech, primarily in the Apple ecosystem
- Chapo Traphouse: Leftist politics, typically pretty funny
- Noble Blood: history podcast retelling stories about members of nobility in short form
- Fall of Civilizations Podcast: history podcast that dives deep into civs like Carthage and the Assyrians, etc
- TrueAnon: Leftist politics, deep dives on topics
- Last Podcast on the Left (name is a horror film reference): true crime with anecdotes, lots of diversions that might not be for everyone
- Alphabet Boys: each season deep dives a taboo action by gov agencies (FBI, ATF, etc)
- Song Exploder: deep dives on the writing and recording of songs with the musicians behind them
- What Went Wrong: deep dives on movie productions
- Behind the Bastards: deep dives on terrible people throughout history, lots of diversions that might not be for everyone
- Grumpy Old Geeks: tech and nerd news (including sci-fi media) from two cynical guys who have been in the biz for years, typically funny
Love QAA! Will have me cackling out loud at times
- Blank Check with Griffin and David. A podcast about film directors. We love da moviesh.
- The Greatest Generation/The Greatest Trek. The best Star Trek podcast.
- Marvel by the Month. Every Marvel comic, one month at a time.
- Spout Lore - side-splittingly funny Dungeon World real-play podcast that will occasionally make you cry.
- Sawbones - Medical history from a real doctor and her loveable idiot. Secretly one of the most leftist podcasts out there, Dr. Sydnee for president. Also relationship goals.
And if you like Sawbones, check out My Brother, My Brother, and Me.
It’s a comedy advice podcast from the lovable idiot and his two brothers. It’s great fun, and was referenced in the musical Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda is a big fan).
For true crime I really like Murder in America
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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