I’ve been looking for more podcasts since I started going on daily walks.
Mine are:
- Conan O’Brien needs a friend
- Wolf and owl
- Off menu
Darknet Diaries is nothing like every other podcast I’ve ever listened to. Listened to every episode 2-3x. It’s a podcast mostly about social engineering, hacking and cyber security.
Start with episode:
- 92: The Pirate Bay
- 116: Mad Dog
- 102: Money Maker
That’s a good one, used to listen to it then fell out of it for some reason, I’ll get back to it.
It’s really insanely good. Took a break after binging the first 50 or so episodes. Looks like I haven’t even listened to your favourites yet!
Casefile’s seeies on The Silk Road is an incredibly good deep dive.
I’ve watched the one about the World Bank and I was mind blown ! The post twist are amazing ! And the story telling very good.
Surprised nobody has mentioned my two favourites:
- Behind The Bastards: Robert Evans (formerly of Cracked fame) talks about the worst people in history for hours.
- Oh No Ross and Carrie: “When they make the claims we show up so you don’t have to.” Maybe start with the series on scientology, it’s some of the best work they’ve done.
Most of the other stuff I listen to is either industry specific or fandom/hobby specific.
Having just finished up 6 episodes on G. Gordon Liddy, knowing nothing about him beforehand, I second the recommendation of Behind the Bastards.
I highly recommend the series Gaslit and White House Plumbers for a pair of incredible depictions of this loony.
ONRAC is one of my favorites. They have such a lovely approach to crackpots and charlatans of all stripes. Gentle mockery leavened with genuine engagement with the aim to better understand these bowel movements of human thought and expose the underlying motives of grift behind so many of them.
On the humorous side:
- My Brother, My Brother And Me - 3 brothers giving not-so-serious advice to listeners, reacting to questions from Yahoo Answers (when that was a thing), and overall being funny/silly
- My Dad Wrote A Porno - 3 people reacting to an “erotica” book series that one of the guys’ dad published (I would say the books are maybe only 5%-20% explicit, depending on the chapter) (some of the characters’ voices can be annoying/grating, and the narrator tends to repeat sentences after they react to them which can be annoying as well)
- No Such Thing As A Fish - the behind-the-scenes staff of the show QI bring up interesting facts and tidbits from history/nature/etc. (each episode is split into 4 parts where each member brings up a fact and the others react to it and bring up related facts)
- If I Were You - Jake & Amir from CollegeHumor giving advice to listeners (mostly in a sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek way but sometimes genuinely), mostly about relationships/dating
- SmartLess - Jason Bateman and Will Arnett (Arrested Development) and Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) interview a famous person each episode where only one of the hosts known who it is beforehand (it gets better after the first few episodes, though some conversations are less funny/entertaining than others)
- Office Ladies - Jenna and Angela from The Office (US) reacting to each episode of the show and bringing up behind-the-scenes stuff (some of episodes include interviews with other cast members/staff)
I loved MBMBAM from like 1-350. It’s unlistenable to me now. I can’t bear it.
Why’s that?
Eh it’s just not funny to me anymore. Everything is so flanderized and weird.
The old episodes had such a “just three dudes being funny in their basement” feel, and the new ones are like “we ran out of funny so here’s a half hour of Munch Squad”
I can’t blame them after HUNDREDS of episodes but it’s not for me.
- 99% Invisible
- Well There’s Your Problem
- The War On Cars
- The Urbanist Agenda
- The Climate Deniers Playbook
- Underunderstood
- Induction
- Hard Fork
- Drilled
- The Adam Ragusea Podcast
In no particular order.
- my brother my brother and me (funny)
- sawbones (medical mythbusting and funny)
- the adventure zone (funny d&d)
- Darknet diaries (hacking and security stories) (EDITTED)
- npr up first (quick daily news)
Those are the ones I’ve stuck with. Also:
- Hardcore history (in depth history lessons)
Similar to TAZ- The Critshow (funny Monster of the Week AP)
I love knowledge fight. About Alex Jones and the conspiracy theory of the day.
Recently bigned 85 episodes of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. It’s released monthly and hosted by two linguists, one of which is Tom Scott’s writer and the other is a linguistics professor in New Zealand.
Darknet Diaries is right up there. All about hackers, malware, and penetration testers. Too bad the guy is on a mental health sabbatical. Plenty of binge worthy there though. Click Here is in the same space and of similar quality.
Love the show as well.
Too bad the guy is on a mental health sabbatical
That was unexpected, do we know why?
Stuff You Should Know
Also Radio Lab
Second this. Josh and Chuck have been teaching me so much for so long, I can’t imagine not having this one.
Really into The Deprogram and chewing through the backlog.
What’s it about?
A dirtbag left pod with guys from around the world, basically. The hosts are an Iraqi, a Slav, and a Texan and their guests can be from anywhere.
Interesting, subscribed.
- Co-recursive
- the Haskell Cast
- the Lambda Cast (not that fun to listen to but it taught me a ton)
Well There’s Your Problem - leftist hosted industrial disaster podcast
This Podcast Will Kill You - history of infectious diseases, well-cited and funny
Cinema of Meaning - film nerds think way too much about stuff
A toss-up between Philosophise This and the BBC’s In Our Time for me. Thinking Allowed is also in the mix and I’ve recently started Mike Duncan’s Revolutions which is proving entertaining too.
I recently discovered:
- If Books Could Kill from Michael Hobbes (How the worst ideas spread through airport bestsellers)
- Failure To Launch from Fluid Podcasts (How brands fail)
- Lions Led By Donkeys (Military history failures)
Heavyweight
Welcome to Night Vale
Science Vs
The Debaters
You Made it Weird
A Problem Squared