What podcasts do you guys like to listen to?
For science communication:
- SciShow Tangents, by Hank Green. Very fun, but most recent episodes have lots of ads. Still very good.
- Ologies with Alie Ward. Interviews with a scientist every week, very informative and interesting.
Please listen to: × Kill James Bond (very funny leftist film critique)
× The worst of all possible worlds (funny absurdist pop culture reviews)
× worlds beyond number (DnD live play podcast)
Omnibus with Ken Jennings and John Roderick is very entertaining and educational. You’ll either love the chemistry between the hosts or find them insufferable.
I haven’t listened to any since I no longer spend my work day in the car, but if you’re a dork like me, you might enjoy:
Tales from the Magic Tavern: A man from Chicago gets sucked into a portal and finds himself in a fantasy world of wizards, Orcs, and a nasty little shapeshifting badger. There is a structured plot line, but all dialogue is improvised.
Hey Riddle Riddle: That nasty little badger from Magic Tavern started his own podcast that focuses on riddles. They ask each other riddles and the listener can try to solve them as the hosts figure it out. Also, full of silly improv scenes between riddles
Dungeons & Daddies: Follows a D&D game in which a group of dads and their sons are transported from our world into the Forgotten Realms. The Dads must use their newfound D&D powers to save their children. Very funny, AMAZING STORY. The DM does a great job, and was a lead writer for Borderlands 2, if that means anything to you.
Get Played: Originally they only covered terrible or bizarre video games, but expanded to weird/ mind bending games. They introduced me to some really good underrated Indy games.
Here’s the Situation: Two Improvisors that present each other with scenarios and they just give their honest opinion on it. For example, of you could only eat one candy for the rest of your life, what would it be? What if there was an organized draft (like in sports) and only one person could claim each candy? How much do you think you could sell an actual magic item for on eBay? They ended it years ago, but it was fun to bring the situations back to my family and see what they thought.
I’m an indy game fan, Get Played sounds interesting.
Like I said, I haven’t listened in a while, but I do remember that they convinced me to play Edith Finch, Hypnospace Outlaw, and Onion boy commits tax evasion. All very good games.
But it started as How Did This Get Played? So, the first few seasons are a lot of tearing apart terrible games like Michael Jordan in the Windy City, and James Pond.
Have you tried Dungeons & Daddies? Freddy Wong (Rocketjump Youtube channel) and friends play DnD (Slight spoiler: Hey Riddle Riddle join in for a couple of episodes)Oops, I reread the comment. Great podcast tho!
So good! I haven’t had time to listen to season 2. It’s probably about over by now, last I remember hearing was a cat bus and anthropomorphic calzones.
HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast- Readings with interspersed commentary. Both hosts enjoy the material and their commentary tends to be on topic and stays brief. Good production value with music and editing to keep things tight.
History That Doesn’t Suck - Prof. Jackson goes through US history linearly, one episode at a time. Very tight, but informative narrative structure. Tons of episodes.
Behind the Bastards
After listening to the RFK episodes, him leaving a dead bear in Central Park makes complete sense.
Hell yeah. That’s on my regular rotation.
Great podcast. And you can just skip around and listen to ones that sound interesting.
I like to recommend the episode(s) on John McAfee when people first start Bastards. They’re wild and not nearly as dark/heavy as some episodes can be.
Those were absolutely crazy!
So so good!
I listen to a lot of the BBC Sounds podcasts… possibly because I’m boring and British.
My favourites are:
- In Our Time: 3 academics and a host discuss an academic topic in deep detail. Science, humanities, arts, etc. Some episodes are more interesting than others but depends on your personal interests. I like the philosophy ones because I studied it at university.
- The Today Podcast: UK news and current affairs.
- Screenshot: Film critics Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode discuss the history of cinema by picking a theme or motif to explore per episode, i.e. “Mermaids” was a recent one.
- The Digital Human: explores technology trends and how they affect individuals and society.
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Every drag queen podcast, as well as Nicole Byer’s Why Won’t You Date Me? which has a lot of drag queen guests,will teach you more about sex than you ever had any idea about. A sex therapist telling Vanjie not to use Tic-tacs to douche with is absolutely wild.
Knowledge Fight - a podcast all about Alex Jones. Over 900 episodes, so a huge backlog of you enjoy it, but you can just start with the most recent episode.
Revolutions - does a deep dive on 10 different major revolutions. You can start from any series beginning, but I would recommend listening in order. French, Haitian, and Russian are my three favorite.
Wow that’s a lot of content about one guy. Are they dissecting Alex’s content, crimes, personality, rise to fame, all the above?
All of the above, but mostly dissecting his content.Here is a YouTube clip from the show that someone animated as an example .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pph9uGgS45s&pp=ygUPa25vd2xlZGdlIGZpZ2h0
deleted by creator
It’s still good, as always it has its ups and downs but Ed is a wonderful addition to the show. I saw them live in San Diego a couple (?) years ago, one of the best live shows I’ve ever been to.
Smartless is fun.
Science Vs is short and interesting.
What’s Her Name is great for true stories on historical women you may not have heard of.
If Books Could Kill tears into popular books.
Why Did You Tell Me That goes into interesting topics with comedy.
Last Podcast on the Left is mostly true crime but might cover other interesting true stories. The lads are funny.
No Dogs in Space is a great music one that covers bands in series. Mostly punk and alternative.
The only podcast I liked is no long being produced - The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show.
Welcome to nightvale is good.
Been going for quite some time.
Qwerpline is also a good comedy one.
