I’m getting close to the bottom of my backlog on a few podcasts, so I’m looking to get something new in there.

Personally, it’s been, in no particular order:

  • If Books Could Kill
  • Darknet Diaries
  • Hard Fork
  • 99% Invisible
  • The War on Cars
  • The Urbanist Agenda
  • The Climate Denier’s Playbook
  • Well There’s Your Problem

I’m mildly considering getting into Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, but I’m a little bit skeptical on account of how damn much there is to be listened to in their feed.

  • Inevitable Waffles [Ohio] ( InevitableWaffles@midwest.social ) English
    9·
    2 years ago

    I love Behind The Bastards and It Could Happen Here. They do have significant episode counts. BtB does a great and looooooong series on Henry Kissinger that I think is a prime example of what you are going to get. If you listen to that one and don’t enjoy, I would move on from them.

  • stoy ( stoy@lemmy.zip ) 
    6·
    2 years ago

    Lions lead by donkeys

    Well There’s Your Problem

    Kill James Bond

    The Delta Flyers

    Decoding The Unknown

    P3 Dokumentär

    Damn Interesting

  • theilleist ( theilleist@lemmy.ml ) 
    5·
    2 years ago

    No Such Thing As A Fish!

    From the makers of BBC’s “QI,” a (nearly) endless collection of useless facts that will not change your life, but will make you more fun to talk to at parties. Not that you go to any parties.

    • blindsight ( blindsight@beehaw.org ) 
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve heard about this one before, but I’m downloading an episode now.

      The one thing I hate about QI is that I’ve already seen it all and there aren’t any more episodes.

      Edit: That was great. It totally scratched the QI itch. Among many other tidbits, I now know how leech treatments were discovered, that there’s a specific frequency that is arousing for badgers and sets off car alarms, and that in one year, over 700 American students were arrested for owning pagers.

      Edit: Holy shit. The author of Goodnight Moon literally died from an overly-enthusiastic “can-can kick”. She did it to prove she was feeling fine… (ironically) but she dislodged a blood clot that instantly killed her.

  • joby ( joby@programming.dev ) 
    4·
    2 years ago

    It Could Happen Here is often talking about what’s going on that week in the world. I wouldn’t try to listen to their whole backlog, but I usually catch an episode or two a week.

    Behind the Bastards is great. Since I found it (Summer 2020, I’d reckon), I’ve listened to most of what has come out since.

    Cool People who did Cool Stuff is a sort of spin off of btb. Deep dives on people and movements who were resisting the bastards. It’s only been going on a couple of years, so the backlog is more manageable if that’s your thing.

    I listen to Past Times on the Dollop feed most weeks. The Dollop is another deep dive history podcast. On Past Times, they read headlines and articles from different newspaper every week. Usually from the late 19th through early 20th century, but they’ve gone as far back as the 1600s.

    Anything by Jamie Loftus is great. She’s mostly done short run things on a single topic. She’s on the Bechdel cast, too which I listen to occasionally.

    You might enjoy The Deprogram, which has a less daunting backlog.

    • AggressivelyPassive ( agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ) 
      1·
      2 years ago

      It could happen here is very hit or miss, unfortunately. For me personally, about 70% is garbage, the rest is pretty good.

      Their resident middle east anchor woman (Shirin?) and Andrew are just completely unlistenable to me, simply because of their voices. And there’s a lot of USA internal politics, which just isn’t all that interesting to me.

  • dfyx ( dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ) 
    4·
    2 years ago

    English:

    • Lateral
    • Darknet Diaries
    • Artifexian
    • Exolore
    • The White Vault (caught up on old episodes)
    • World’s Greatest Con

    German:

    • Geschichten aus der Geschichte
    • Geschichten aus dem Altbau
    • Darwin gefällt das
    • Mord auf Ex
    • Bayern 3 True Crime
    • Weird Crimes

    All in no particular order.

  • ruko24 ( ruko24@programming.dev ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    I was never a podcast person until I listened to Otherworld. It gives a platform to people to tell their paranormal stories without sensationalism or judgement. They cover a wide range of topics from hauntings to cryptids to aliens. Really cool stuff even if you’re a skeptic

  • Swerker ( Swerker@feddit.nu ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    I listen to a lot of podcasts. Lately it has been

    English:

    • Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast
    • Desert Skies
    • Copperheart
    • Derelict
    • Tower 4
    • The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings
    • SCP Archives
    • Margareth’s Garden
    • Thirteen

    Swedish:

    • P3 Dystopia
    • P3 Dokumentär
    • USA-podden
    • Gräns
    • Det Politiska spelet
    • Europapodden
    • Radiokorrespondenterna Ryssland
    • Rollspelsklubben

    And probably a dozen more