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)

  • veroxii@aussie.zone
    5·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • RamenDame@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • Mirshe@lemmy.world
    13·
    8 days ago

    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).

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    I have honestly never listened to one, so I can’t help here, but interested to see if any suggestions sound up my street.

  • r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    8 days ago

    I enjoy the following rotation:

    EconTalk - Interviews about all kinds of stuff with a classical liberal econ professor.

    The Greatest Generation & Greatest Trek: Star Trek reviews with dick jokes and production notes

    Joy, a Podcast. Hosted by Craig Ferguson

    Love Worth Finding: sermons from Baptist minister Adrian Rogers

    Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life: Presbyterian sermons

    History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Peter Adamson goes over All. The. Philosophy. Ever. See the sister cast for non-Western philosophical schools.

  • smallZe@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
    2·
    9 days ago

    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

  • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    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
  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    7·
    9 days ago

    *Stuff you should know" is a fun podcast, two guys go over a random topic.

    They aren’t experts in anything, but it’s fun to hear them try to explain what they’ve learned about everything from how cranes work to darker things like the Tulsa race riots.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      4·
      9 days ago

      Josh and Chuck are awesome. I enjoy how they slip in false info jokes, and go off on tangents

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      Omnibus is also good in this vein. Ken Jennings and his friend go over some weird and obscure history you might not know about. It’s not very in-depth a lot, more factoids, but always pretty cool.

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 days ago

    I’m surprised I didn’t see anyone recommend The Adventure Zone, especially the first season. One of the best actual play podcasts out there, especially the first two seasons.

    I’ll recommend some hidden gems that need more love:

    • Mabel: A woman works as a live in nurse for an elderly woman, and the show is voicemails she’s leaving to her ward’s estranged daughter. It’s poetic and beautiful, and then strange events start occurring.

    • Dark Ages: a fantasy workplace comedy where an unpopular museum gets a new exhibit, the crown of the Dark Lord, who terrorized the country hundreds of years ago… Who just recently was resurrected and wants it back. Probably the best produced shows I’ve listened to with a great intro song.

    • The Cryptonaturalist: a very normal nature show that is normal about normal nature. Also has poetry! Actually feel good podcast.

    • Wolf 359: science crew is in a remote space station, and picks up a radio signal out of nowhere. Starts off funny, then gets wild.

    • Brimstone Valley Mall: three demons disguised as humans, working at a mall in the 90s.

    • Cult Or Just Weird: in depth dives into things which could be a cult or are just weird.

    • Wooden Overcoats: British comedy podcast about a funeral home in a small village suddenly having to deal with competition

    • Everything Is Alive: interviews with inanimate objects

    • Uncanny County: Welcome to Nightvale meets Twilight Zone but it’s also funny

    Also there’s podcast versions of books written on the Internet, which I’ll plug here!

    • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky: What if Harry was not an idiot and knew what science was and was actually supported at home? Fixes a lot of dumb plot holes from the original series and frankly, is better. Also explores rationalist thinking!

    • Worm by Wildbow: This is literally my favorite book and will make you never see the superhero genera the same again. Superpowers can happen to anyone seemingly at random. A young woman gets the power to control insects and wants to be a hero, but after meeting some villains the line between hero and villain blurs. There’s a chapter that’s one short sentence long and I’ve had conversations over an hour long about what it meant.

    -Twig by Wildbow: A world where mad, Frankensteinian science took off instead of the regular kind. Follows a child experiment and his fellow childhood experiment friends on adventures for the definitely evil empire!

    Pact by, you guessed it, Wildbow: Guy who just pulled himself out of homelessness who hates his crazy manipulative family gets the inheritance from his grandmother, which he didn’t want. Turns out that also involves also inheriting the karma from his family, who were practicing the most hated form of magic possible, diabalism. So now the whole magical community is actively trying to kill him as he’s scrambling to survive

    Also if you like audio books, check stuff out from your library, too. It helps them out and helps them get funding when people do stuff like that.