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
My top 3:
- The Journal: current events
- Tides of History: history
- ChooseFI: personal finance
- 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)
Oh yes, hardcore history is so good.
Darknet Diaries
Intelligence Squared
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape
IMO, Sean seems more intent on impressing the audience and the expert rather than conducting a good interview. I listened to an episode that involved category theory and he regularly interrupted the guest so he could show off how much he knows about it.
I’m relistening to that episode now because I’m curious about what it is you perceived.
He interjects sometimes to help tie things together (“and this is interesting because of [earlier observation]”) or to adjust the level of technicality to suit his intended audience (“we’re allowed to use the word torus here”). Not all Mindscape guests have a solid feel for the podcast and default to giving popscience breakdowns with analogies and leaving out technical jargon, and so he has to set the bar a bit by explicitly allowing the introduction of technical terms and bringing together of complex related topics.
Don’t know if that’s what made you feel like he was trying to show off.
I perceived this when he interrupted the guest to jump to different aspects of category theory that she isn’t talking about at the moment.
Well I don’t know what you are referring to, but I’m not going to argue about your perception. I listened to the whole thing again (there are usually things that pass me by the first time, so I don’t mind doing that for the interesting episodes) and I don’t know how he could have done a better job at steering the conversation. He’s a podcast host; he needs to pick at the parts that are of particular interest to him and his audience in a limited amount of time, as well as keeping the level of technicality just right so as to be digestible.
For someone familiar with the topic, it’s natural to feel like they could have gone on about something at a more advanced level, and for someone entirely unfamiliar, it’s natural that they would want to linger on things they don’t quite get instead of moving on to something else.
Anyway, I’m not really going anywhere with this. Just curious about your perception since I tend to think of SC as someone quite smooth and approachable around people (unlike me). I guess even he can’t be smooth enough for everybody all the time.
- Roderick on the Line
- Risky or Not?
- Penn’s Sunday School
- This Podcast Will Kill You
- Reconcilable Differences
- Accidental Tech Podcast
I love Reconcilable Differences! Probably my favourite podcast at the moment. I’m currently working my way through all the old episodes. ATP is very good too, but I think it’s too focused on current events to go through all previous episodes
Really into The Deprogram and chewing through the backlog.
Interesting, subscribed.
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.
If you are into videogames I will definitely hear the video game history foundation podcast
If you’re into gaming I would suggest
- NoClip (video game documentarians about modern video games)
- video game history hour (general video game history done by the video game history foundation)
- insert credit ( almost game show style, the hosts have only a few minutes to answer all kinds of questions about games, the gaming industry, or even opinions.)
Otherwise I really enjoy
- behind the bastards ( kind of like deep dives into shitty people of the world and what makes them tick)
- cautionary tales ( true stories about disasters, humon error, and catastrophies )
- 99 percent invisible (weekly episodes on all kinds of deep dives into things that often go without notice in our lives, the most recent episode covers the history of album art for example)
In addition to yours: Coldfusion(TV).
Usually though in a video format on YT but he uploaded on Spotify beforeHis content is about tech and connected topics (like tech politics) between those.
Alternatively: TechAltar. Also video based and more of a 15-20min video topic but very well researched as far as I am aware
Sweet, I’ll check them out myself. Thanks for the suggestions
99% Invisible is really golden, in particular their recent episode about Mexico City scrap metal collectors and their unique “horn” was fascinating.
99pi is the gold standard of podcasts IMO. Roman has a the perfect voice for radio
Dear Hank and John (funny John and Hank Green)
Hardcore History with Dan Carlin
The Debaters (Canadian comedy show where two comedians debate whether something (ex: malls, big weddings, etc) is good/bad and get judged by live audience)
- check out the pretzels vs peanuts episode
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
I love the Episode about The Pirate Bay
Check out Casefile’s series on The Pirate Bay!
Edit: I was stupid yesterday and conflated The Pirate Bay and Silk Road
Is this the Silk Road one? Can’t find anything on just TPB.
Oh shit, I’m so sorry, my brain was pulling a dumb. I was conflating TPB with Silk Road D:
Sorry about that!
You’re good, thanks!
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
Casefile’s seeies on The Silk Road is an incredibly good deep dive.
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!
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Xbox underground episode is wild
Listening to that right now, crazy stuff, like Microsoft throwing Dev kits away at the dump.
That’s a good one, used to listen to it then fell out of it for some reason, I’ll get back to it.
All Fantasy Everything is the only podcast that has ever existed. 3 very funny friends/comedians + a guest fantasy draft anything and everything from the world of pop culture.
Some examples of previous draft topics include:
-People named Tom -Words that make you sound stupid -Movie Deaths -Bald People -Power moves -Movie Roles that Nicolas Cage should have had
Usually those two:
WANshow from the LinusTechTips team
Darknet Diaries by Jack RhysiderDarknet Diaries is fantastic!
- 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.
The Constant It is ‘a history of getting things wrong’, with deep research and fun way of storytelling.
Beautiful / Anonymous with Chris Gethard is my favourite lately. It’s essentially an hour-long phone conversation between the host and an anonymous stranger. The anonymity makes people open up and be vulnerable, and Chris is an amazing conversationalist who manages to bring something interesting out of every caller.
