Behind the Bastards. I've almost caught up, but I've picked up a long list of other pods to binge.
Or I could finally get around to watching a youtube tutorial on how to build a guillotine.
A lot of people already know the absolutely excellent history of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan. However there are a lot of other history podcasts out there which also do "the start to finish format", inspired by Mike Duncan. Some good ones I have listened to include:
Pax Britannica: A great podcast with good story telling ability about British history, with a focus on the British empire. It begins with the Henry VII and ends with Queen Elisabeth.
Russians rulers podcast: A great podcast that starts with the very first tsar of Russia and follows through the history of the whole country by focusing on the ruler of the time. It begins with Rurik and ends in Putin. However he already finished the leaders years ago so now he does slapshot episodes about various other Russian history topics which is also very interesting.
Fall of civilisations podcast: this is a great one with some of the best story telling in podcast form available. For each episode he chooses a civilization which collapsed in some form or another. He then tells their history from start to finish and but focuses on the decline and how it was to live in those last years. It's really dramatic sometimes but it's really informative, well researched and I highly recommend it.
Okay and now this is not a history podcast but it's still a dear one to me: Sunday school dropouts. It's a podcast by a wholesome married couple composed of a former presbyterian Christian (now atheist) and a "non beliving sort of Jew" (his words) that read through the whole bible for the first time. They begin with a episode on the book of genesis and continue to the book of revelation. Best way to follow along is to read the bible at the same time and after every bible book (most can be read in under an hour) you listen to the episode afterwards. But you can also listen to it blindly because they do summarize everything. Okay so why do I like this one? The bible is a truly interesting book but the discussion in our media about it is horrible. It's either the most anti religion people or the "capital A atheists" discussing it or it's religious people themselves, both of course approach it with very preconceived notions. But this is just a calm podcast where two non Christians seriously read it through, do their research and they discover that some is total garbage and some of the stories are so beautiful they couldn't stop from crying during the show. Also the hosts are very entertaining and easy to like. I believe everyone should read the bible at least once to simply know what's it about. It's the most important book published in world history after all. They finished already and then did two seasons of just random pieces of interesting bible lore which was also fun to listen to.
+1 For the Fall of Civilisations.
After listening to the 4h one on the Aztecs, I can now say with confidence that Cortés was a special kind of bastard whose grave deserves to be pissed on by all.
+1 from me too. Paul Cooper rules. He has so much wonder and such a delightful sense of scale. It's been a few months since the last one, so surely we're due for another one soon.
On the comedy side like MBMBAM:
I have kind of a boring job that allows me to wear headphones all day so I have a ton.
Music related: -60 songs that explain the 90s -20,000 hertz -No dogs in space
History/Politics (humorous/lighthearted): -The dollop -Behind the bastards -Cool people who did cool stuff -You're wrong about -American hysteria -It books could kill
History/Politics/News and Current Events: -Congressional dish -The lawfare podcast -Straight White American Jesus -American history tellers -In our time with Melvin Bragg -Lions led by donkeys -Reveal -Throughline
Science/Tech/Art/Design: -99% invisible -Articles of interest -Ologies -You are not so smart -Science vs. -Sawbones -This podcast will kill you -The last archive -Proof
Spooky/strange/macabre: -Box of Oddities -The shallow end -Lore -Cabinet of curiosities -Radio rental -Spooked -Monsters among us -Real life ghost stories -We can be weirdos
Misc: -No such thing as a fish -The blindboy podcast -The bugle -The gargle -Darknet diaries -Craphound, the Cory Doctorow podcast -Off menu -Criminal -Swindled
You listen to No Dogs in Space, have several spooky/strange/macabre podcasts on your list, but not Last Podcast on the Left. Just curious if there's a reason.
Henry's raw sexual magnetism is too powerful. Men with priapism, women slipping off their chairs: I don't want to be responsible for everyone's arousal related injuries.
Stuff You Should Know. So good and has a massive backlog of awesome episodes. Always new topics. And they update frequently. Been listening for years!
Josh and Chuck are national treasures. The amount of consistently good content they have made over the years is unparalleled. Even when there is a topic I think I couldn't give two craps about, they still make it an enjoyable listen.
The Common Descent podcast has two paleontologists discussing ancient life on Earth. Every episode focuses on a specific era or group of creatures and what we know about their evolution and speciation. There are really good episodes on the "big five" mass extinctions when major changes led to a fundamental reorganization of living groups on the planet.
Lingthusiasm! It's basically just two linguist friends chatting about the weird and interesting oddities in their field. It's delivered at a level easily understandable to me that has never studied linguistics
Darknet diaries
Ted radio hour
Dan carlins hardcore history
No Such Thing As A Fish - 30 mins a week where 4 professional trivia compilers and comedians take turns sharing odd facts they've learned over the years
Hardcore History - like a history lecture from your favorite high school social studies teacher, but compressed into a professionally produced 4 to 10 hour audiobook
FiveThirtyEight Politics - analysis of political opinion polling in the US. no ideological opinions either way, just strategy and political science applied to current events.
The Magnus Archives - a found-footage horror fiction anthology series where the real story turns out to be about the character we hear narrating the stories
The only podcast I listen to with any regularity is Knowledge Fight. Listening to a couple of dudes dunk on Alex Jones is cathartic.
Alex is a loser little titty baby
The Worst Idea Of All Time
There’s no such thing as a fish
Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes.
...with slides.
Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - great for particle and astrophysics
I'm currently enjoying "A Problem Squared". A comedy / educational podcast hosted by 2 Australian comedians (who live in the UK), Matt Parker (Stand-up Maths on YouTube) and Bec Hill.
Never seen it with Kyle Ayers. Kyle invites comedians to write scripts for movies or TV shows that they've never seen. Then they do a brief table read of the script. Then they play games that Kyle has created. It's a lot of fun, it usually very light and a lot of fun.
Dumb people town. It's the podcast I have continually listened to constantly. Since like 2013 or 2014. Listeners will send in articles of news stories they find of people being dumb or doing dumb things.
"Für mich gibt's nur einen Podcast: Fest und Flauschig!"
'Fest und Flauschig' is a great German Podcast, which takes an authentic look at current world events with humor, satire and heart.
99% Invisible. So much random knowledge.
Nobody's mentioned it yet, so I'll suggest Well There's Your Problem. It's a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides.
Ok buddy, the podcast 'Mysterious Universe' is the show that radicalized me. One of the hosts is a blackbelt in hatespeech. The other one is the founder of the Alien Hate League, Earths last and best defense against the Extradimensional threat and defender of Linda Moulton-Howe's fat mommy milkers
5 Minuten Harry Podcast
It's one of those "analyze every frame of a movie" podcasts that looks at Harty Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Sorcerer's Stone). The host and producer is a well known german youtuber who has previously made the most iconic german parody dub for the Harry Potter movies.
Lingthusiasm
Sidenote by ASAPscience
Drk Mode (the misspelling of "dark" is deliberate)
Cold Ones
Literally anything on actual radio stations
Ologies with Alie Ward
It’s a nice light introduction to a diverse array of fields you probably don’t know a ton about. It makes a good “drive to work” podcast.
After the host asked a bewildered scientist what his pronouns were, I just couldn't listen any more.
That does sound like something that works sick with you for days, if not years. I’m so sorry that you’ll spend the rest of your life having flashbacks on someone asking someone else how they like to be addressed.
To ask someone their pronouns at the beginning of a 1-to-1 conversation is pretty weird. After all, the only possible pronoun is "you", which is not gendered in English (thank goodness!).
So really this could only be ideological posturing. Appropriate for a podcast called "Ologies" maybe, but I prefer to avoid ideology.
Comedy Bang Bang
Hollywood Handbook
Hey Randy
Knowledge Fight
These are my "must listens" every week.
Honorable mention for another CBB Presents, Full Throttle! With Bob Ducca - extraordinarily brilliant, probably the hardest I've ever laughed at a podcast in my life. Limited run, so it's concluded. He tells a story about posing as a monkey in a traveling circus that is somehow both tragically beautiful, and snot running down your face funny.
-Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine -Casefile -Ologies with Alie Ward -Short History -This Podcast Will Kill You
KEXP song of the day: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/song-of-the-day/id121393815
This Week in Tech: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-tech-video/id478840375
Twenty Thousand Hertz is indeed good.
I mostly hear:
Sometimes:
And some more german podcasts:
And some more stuff. Mostly science and knowledge podcasts.
RIP: The Friendship Onion
And recently: The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks
Sleep deprived and chuckle sandwitch
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