If you listen to any podcast(s) you recommend, tell us about it

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    5 hours ago

    I don’t have as much time to listen to podcasts at the moment. The only one I’ve continued listening to is “Well There’s Your Problem”, it is sooo good. Just my kind of humor!

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      It’s an engineering disaster podcast with slides, so it’s on YouTube. It’s a good one to listen to while doing chores where you can occasionally glance at your screen to see what they are talking about.

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    The fall of civilizations - it tells the story of the rise and fall of different groups of people through history. Often with readings in the original tongue.

    From the same creator “vaccine” is the history of the creation of the works first vaccines. Neither podcast has any ads which is awesome.

    Lastly factually with Adam conover is great. Comedian discussing often political issues.

  • I love Throughline from NPR. Some of their episodes are very “cinematic” and great to listen too in bed with the lights off, though some might find some of the topics depressing, but you can mostly avoid thoose based on the titles (but those are sometimes the best episodes!!!)

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    “Even more news” general news and politics

    “Trash taste” anime and japanese centric by 3 people who moved to Japan and are YouTubers

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    Not rly a podcast but looong (3+hr episodes) video series caller “fall of civilisations” about fall of civilisations in ancient times , history of the civ , what lead to the fall , the fall itself and the aftermath

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    11 hours ago

    History podcast from the BBC : You’re dead to me

    I enjoy 'This American life, depends on the topic but it can be very interesting.

    If you’ve heard of QI from the BBC there is No such thing as a fish when they talk about a couple facts they’ve read. I find it pretty funny too.

    Mike Duncan is doing a new seasons of Revolutions about the Mars revolution (fictional of course) but before he did a bunch of others including the Mexican and French revolutions which I particularly enjoyed.

    Blowback does seasons about bad US foreign policy. For news about US foreign policy there is also American Prestige.

    Also listen to 15 minutes history from the University of Austin Texas. They just did something about the King of Haïti for example. They do new topics each episode.

    Also another history one if MartyrMade.

    And Trillbilly Workers podcast because I like to have no clue what they’re talking about lol

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      Mike Duncan is fire! I really enjoyed all of it. But his “revolutions” podcast on early modern england was really interesting.

      I particularly enjoyed an episode (later on in the French revolution) that talked about the Paris fish wives march on the Bastille.

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    16 hours ago

    Behind the Bastards has already been shouted out a lot. And I’m sure lots of folks on lemmy are big fans of Robert Evans as it is, but I haven’t seen It Could Happen Here or friend of both those pods Knowledge Fight mentioned. Both well worth listening to

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    Everything from the Ranged Touch Network. Basically culture and media studies with good banter. They have:

    Just king things (Reading every King Book in publication order)

    Game Studies Study Buddies

    Shelved By Genre (Units discussing different genre books).

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    • Swindled - Mostly white-collar true crime with dark humor and disdain aplenty.
    • 404 Media - The folks who used to do the Cyber podcast before they left VICE and are doing far better work, indy.
    • Better Offline - Another tech podcast by Ed Zitron. He loves tech and can’t stand how fucked up the tech-bros are making the whole thing, at our collective expense.
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    17 hours ago

    Behind the Bastards

    BtB’s counterpart, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

    If Books Could Kill

    You’re Wrong About

    Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

    The Dollop

    Depresh Mod

    The Daily Zeitgeist

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    Podcasts are my thing. I’ve got you covered.

    Depends on what you’re into:

    More or Less: Behind the Stats - analysis of some statistic from the news

    The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - what science says about how to be happy

    The Audio Long Read - long form articles from the Guardian newspaper

    You Are Not So Smart - cognitive science related. How we know things, our biases, how our thinking is flawed, etc.

    Dan Snow’s History Hit - One of the few history podcasts I really like

    Short History Of… - a short history of some specific thing

    The Forum - expert panel discussion about some topic

    Behind the Bastards - Very well known podcast focusing on some bastard personality

    CrowdScience - in depth investigation of a listener science question

    Radiolab - in depth investigation of a topic of their interest. Quite broad scope.

    Unexpected Elements - a very varied mix of discussions around a science topic from the news

    Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - Tim Harford is the podcast king for me. This show is a deep dive into something that went wrong in news or history, and an investigation of all the systemic failures around it. It tries to show how blame is hardly ever warranted on a single person and the systems are at fault.

    The Martin Lewis Podcast - UK consumer advocate and saving guru

    Show Me The Meaning! A Wisecrack podcast - a couple of philosophers talk about a movie

    The Inquiry - a deep dive into a news story

    Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about a range of different things

    The Law Show - UK legal system issues

    The Infinite Monkey Cage - comedy science panel show

    The Supermassive Podcast - space related podcast

    File on 4 investigates - detailed story from deep investigative journalism

    Thinking Allowed - light philosophical ramblings

    When It Hits the Fan - two public relations experts talk about PR issues from current events

    Discovery - science related. Currently mostly doing shows about “a life scientific” I.e. talking to a scientist about their life

    Overthink - philosophy made accessible

    What It’s Like To Be… - a person from a particular occupation talks about their job

    People Fixing the World - people from different parts of the world fixing some local problem in their community in a creative way

    Hidden Brain - my absolute favourite. Cognitive science related. Explains how the brain works and how to use the understanding to male your own love better.

    Within Reason Your Parenting Mojo - evidence based parenting. Can be a very dry long-winded research presentation, but this has improved my parenting (and life) immensely

    sideways - different ideas and how to look at things differently

    Darknet Diaries - stories from the dark underbelly of the internet

    The Reith Lectures - once a year short lecture series, but well worth listening to the backlog

    Evil Genius with Russell Kane - comedians discuss how some villains from history weren’t so bad and how some heroes from history were terrible people

    Owls at Dawn - ramblings of a couple of philosophers

    Sound of Gaming - excellent music show about music soundtracks from videogames

    Playing god? - medical ethics discussion

    30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

    50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

    A History of the World in 100 Objects - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

    I would also recommend the podcast series made to accompany the Chernobyl and Last of Us TV series.

    S Town - a nice fiction mini series drama story.