I prefer single voice, storytelling podcasts. I listen to them as bedtime stories a lot.
- Lore (the older episodes are better, IMO)
- Myths & Legends (snarky modern retelling of old folk stories)
- Fictional (when he actually updates it… same guy as above, but these are classic literature)
- LeVar Burton Reads (all over the board. It’s whatever stories LeVar liked. Leans a bit toward speculative fiction)
- Drabblecast, sometimes good if you like “weird fiction”
- Cautionary Tales (nonfiction)
- Just started getting into The Program. Clear Black Mirror influences here.
Cautionary Tales is stressful but fun. The host has a great style and podcast voice.
LeVar Burton Reads is often great. If you like LeVar and have kids in your life, they may like Sound Detectives! , wherein a detective and a 4 foot tall ear named Audie investigate missing sounds.
The thing I like most about LeVar Burton Reads is that it’s basically Reading Rainbow with the occasional “fuck” thrown in there.
And yeah, Tim Harford’s smooth voice is a much-needed balance to the anxiety inducing content of Cautionary Tales.
I also listen to Lore, Myths and Legends and Fictional as bedtime stories.
I would add “Nothing Much Happens” to this list. The podcaster writes these short stories and tells them in a soothing voice with the goal of helping you fall asleep.
I’ve seen that one in my podcast app, but my backlog is still so long. Might be good for nights that I just want to zonk right out though.
Beautiful Anonymous Search Engine Expanded This American Life Selected Shorts The Bald and the Beautiful (all drag queen podcasts will teach you things about sex you have never imagined). Why Won’t You Date Me?
I think you could use some commas or carriage returns here- unless that’s all one podcast?
I made it as a list and this is how the text came out, damnit.
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Thanks very much.
I didn’t notice the username before- I’m glad to help someone so active on lemmy! Among other things, you keep us “well fed” with crazy sovereign citizen posts 😂
Aren’t they wild? They absolutely slay me.
You said “they” rather than “those personhoods” ergo victo therefore your comment is invalid henceforth the UCC 130.3-A strawman is null and void. I will be sending a notarized coupon with writing at 45 degrees in red ink, which makes it official.
(Did I do it right? 😂)
Stuff You Should Know
Self Hosted
Cory Doctorow’s Craphound
The one I listen the most and for the longest is No such thing as a fish.
Other that that, Better Offline, Darknet diaries, Money Stuff, Search engine, a local politics one that I disagree with but I use to be aware of what my local conservative pseudo fascists are arguing about.
And not so regularly many others whenever there’s an interesting episode.
local politics one that I disagree with but I use to be aware of what my local conservative pseudo fascists are arguing about.
I really need to find something like for my area. I like to hear what’s being said in these circles.
- Accidental Tech Podcast: Three dudes talking about tech and (mostly) Apple
- The Allusionist: podcast about language and linguistics
- The Bruenigs: Matt & Liz Bruenig talk about random stuff
- Cortex: podcast about productivity by Myke Hurley & CGP Grey
- Factually: Interviews with interesting people hosted by Adam Connover
- Hello Internet (Dead): two dudes talking, GGP Grey & Brady Haran (Numberphile)
- Intentionally Blank: Random conversations with Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells
- No Such Thing As a Fish: Intersting and odd facts by the team behind the British TV show QI
- Puck Soup: Ice Hockey News and information
- Stuff You Should Know: Funny podcast about all kinds of stuff
- The Tennis Podcast: podcast about tennis
- Ungeniused: brief episodes about interesting Wikipedia pages
- The Unmade Podcast: mostly random stuff, but about pitching ideas for other podcasts
- Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me: the NPR News quiz
Checking out The Allusionist. Thanks. I enjoy imshawngetoffmylawn on YouTube, more language content is much appreciated!
R.I.P Hello Internet, the podcast I most wish would come back. Forever in my subs just in case.
- I was a teenaged fundamentalist
- soft skills engineering
- radió ambulante
- real python
- brief history of mathematics
A few that haven’t been said in other comments
Behind the Bastards, Linux Lads, Linux Late Night, The Infinite Monkey Cage (when they do episodes), some spanish stuff for listening practice (mostly Hoy Hablamos), Hack-a-Day, Self-Hosted, and Cory Doctorow…
Have you found Spanish Obsessed? It’s a Colombian/English couple who just have conversations in Spanish about random topics at an intermediate level.
They have several podcasts, so make sure to find the intermediate level for the conversations. Their beginner level has much more spoken English and basic Spanish vocab, which I’m not as into.
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Ukraine: The Latest
Critical Role
In the podcasting app I have the follwoing subscriptions:
- Behind The Bastards
- The Delta Flyers
- Lions Led By Donkeys
- Decoding The Unknown
- Kill James Bond
- P3 Dokumentär
- Well There’s Your Problem
- Damn Interesting
- The Podcats
- Nerd3 Podcats
Swedish radio produces a lot of high quality podcasts. Public service at it’s finest!
Warp particles!
P3 Dokumentär is great.
I should listen to more of them, unfortunately I always forget they exist.
- 99% Invisible
- Twenty Thousand Hertz
- Radiolab
- Science Vs
- Snap Judgement
- Outside/In
- Endless Thread
- Unexplainable
- Search Engine
- Decoder Ring
- Invisibilia (discontinued)
- The Moth
- Reply All (discontinued)
- The Sporkful
- This American Life
Darknet Diaries
None apart from that. You’re better off listening to pirated audiobooks, especially the full-cast kind with SFX like those created by GraphicAudio
Already seeing a trend here, joining in:
Behind the Bastards Better Offline Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Red Menace This Machine Kills Heavyweight (discontinued) Search Engine
Came here to see if anyone else was plugging the other CZM podcasts. I’ve expanded out to Cool People (I especially like the anarchist book club stories) and It Could Happen Here.
I wouldn’t call myself an anarchist by any means, but I like how they get to both the root causes of issues and also give some ideas on things we can do to make some of these situations better. That last part is what I feel is missing from just about every other show about current events.
There are more podcasts that deal with these kind of issues and maybe how to improve on those, or at least give context and options.
A few other podcasts that touch on these subjects:
Revolutionary Left Radio Mass Struggle Live Like the World is Dying (also with Margaret Killjoy) Final Straw Radio This Anthro Life
That’s good to know there’s more like this. My issue with a lot of politics online is that it feels like all blind anger and defeatism. With things were they talk to those actually involved in the events and those working to fix things, it makes it a much more positive experience to stay up to date on issues.
It is hard to find the outlets that are not just doom spewing but try to make it smaller and more personal, hopefully some of these podcasts give you a bit more that type of content that is motivating for you.
Wait wait don’t tell me
Well fine then! I’ll keep them to myself.
Okay… what’s the difference between a beautiful and highly produced radio program and a podcast?
That’s a good point.
Knowledge Fight - Analysis of Alex Jones and his fucked up world
God Awful Movies - Let’s watch bad religious movies and talk shit about them
Behind the Bastards - Details about evil fuckers in history (and the present)
If Books Could Kill - let’s read shitty airport books and talk about them
Qanon Anonymous (QAA now?) - The Qanon conspiracy world is fucking wild. Best keep track of it.
Others more sporadically.
+1 for If Books Could Kill. They’ve kinda run out of shitty famous self help books, but they still do good rundowns on other books now.
I’ll also recommend Michael Hobbes’ other podcast, Maintenance Phase, which is largely about health grifts.
Upvote for knowledge fight and BtB. I also personally love The Dollap
Any recommendations for sub 10min podcasts? I have a short commute and put it on 1.3 speed to get a dialy radio show.
I already have DW News, Tech News Briefing, Marketplace Tech, and a few like Male Your Damn Bed/Arnold’s Punp Club.
Can always do with more.
