GunpachiWhat are some podcasts that you really recommend ?
goforliftoff60 songs that explain the 90s.
The D QuuuuuillMission To Zyxx
For history:
Revolutions by Mike Duncan. You can start with the Haitian and the Mexican revolutions. Then just listen to whichever season you want.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.
The History of Rome by Mike Duncan.
These are absolutely amazing.
Honorable mentions for Behind the Bastards and Lions Lead by Donkeys, if you like some banter along with the story telling.
Fall of Civilizations too
I second all of these. I will also recommend the Pirate History Podcast, Fall of Civilizations, and The Ancient World for history podcasts.
Behind the Bastards is my top recommendation. Just learning how truly awful the world has been for a few thousand years is soul crushingly entertaining.
I love how they combine it all with light banter. Without the banter, most of the episode would be unlistenable, as you would be too depressed and tie yourself on a train track.
I also love that Robert brings on repeat guests for certain topics. If an episode has lots of dead babies, it gets one person, Nazis often get Matt Lieb with his new sound board.
My favorite episode of all time is Action Park, with Garrison as host and Robert as the “guest”.
I love “The Dollop” episode on action park. The Dollop hosts were the guests on BTB episode on Kissinger.
The Dollop is a great history podcast. Tends to be a little on the light-hearted side (but not always)
Action park had me laughing so hard I couldn’t breath
Is it Garry now? It was Garrison then but I don’t want to mis-name them.
No he hates being called Garry it’s a running joke with crowds at the dollop live shows.
SamuraiBeandogCarlin’s podcast (and a lot of popular history podcasts) are generally considered fairly poor by academic historians, in regard to accurately portraying modern historical research. I think those kinds of podcasts are good to engage and stimulate interest in history, as long as the listener understands that they are a kind of “pop” history and should be taken with a grain of salt.
VediusPollioMissing History on Fire by daniele bonelli.
The film re roll. “We play through your favourite movies as roll playing games and totally ruin them”.
Just an excellent podcast. Can’t recommend it enough.
ZombiepirateThe Friday the 13th campaign is my favorite AP series ever.
Sawbones!
A podcast about medical history with a doctor and an idiot (Justin and Sydney Mcelroy. yes, that Justin Mcelroy)
HamartiogonicCautionary tales: stories of how things went wrong
Darknet diaries: stories from the dark web
intelligence squared: thought provoking debates about anything and everything
The numberphile podcast: interviews with mathematicians by Brady Haran. If you like the kinds of videos Brady makes, you’ll probably like this too. You know, stuff like sixty symbols, mumberphile, perioedic table of videos etc.
You are not so smart: podcast about psychology
your undivided attention: discussion and interviews about social media. What it’s like to work for a social media company. How social media influences your business, or how it affects your life. How different parts of it are intentional and some are unintentional.
Which ‘cautionary tales’, the search gave a couple results?
With Tim Harford, by Pushkin.
Thank you!
Well, There’s Your Problem, a podcast with slides about engineering disasters which is, itself, a disaster.
Less of a disaster now, thanks Devin!
“I am Justin Rozniak I’m the person who is talking right now. My pronouns are he and him.”
Voice mail dump truck (embrace the chaos)
RÅSSKnifepoint Horror. No other horror podcast has ever come close to being as good for me
- You Are Not So Smart: You’ll marvel at both how flawed our reasoning can be and how well we make up for it by being collaborative creatures
- Behind the Bastards: Everything you don’t know about the worst people in all of history, including people you didn’t even know of
- Twenty Thousand Hertz: Stories of pretty much anything as long as it works well in an audio medium. Best sound design in the game; like candy for your ears
- Cautionary Tales (Tim Harford): Stories of people making huge mistakes or taking insane risks. Fun because sometimes the mistake was trusting their intuition instead of a rigorous process, but just as often it was ignoring their intuition in favor of a rigorous process
- Build for Tomorrow, formerly Pessimists Archive: History of people freaking out about new stuff that is totally benign today but they thought would ruin civilization. Like mirrors, bicycles, teddy bears, pinball machines
- Team Human: Kind of the opposite. All about how “progress” has harmed indigenous people, minorities, women, etc. and talking to people about how to address our modern problems with “anti-human” technology and economics
JodeKnowledge fight
Behind the bastards
Ear hustle
§ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧWe Might Be Drunk is the podcast I listen to with the most consistency, and definitely worth a listen. Two of my favorite comedians (Mark Norman & Sam Morrill) who are hilarious while also getting into aspects of day to day life.
For Dutch folks: onbehaarde apen
Nobody recommended 99% Invisible yet?
That one is a must-listen about everyday (and not so everyday) design. Absolutely amazing!
As a testament tp their quality, several “interesting” videos made by Tom Scott and Veritasium were also 99pi episodes before they found out those things. For example, Veritasium did the Snake Antibody Facility video, where Snake venom is milked by hand last year. 99pi did it half a decade ago.
Uhh Yeah Dude - comedy. One of the oldest podcasts going since 2006!
Seatbelts
Ezra Klein show - it’s actually a podcast about US politics which I don’t really care about, but they have often very interesting guests and Ezra is a very good interviewer / generally intelligent person.
Lex Fridman - originally about AI, nowadays various intellectual topics with high profile guests. I actually don’t really like Lex himself, but fortunately he doesn’t speak often.
A bunch of podcasts on Ukraine/Russia - War on the Rocks, The Russia contingency (paid), In Moscow’s shadows (Kremlinology). Geopolitics Decanted.
I actually find Ezra and Lex unbearable for different reasons.
Lex is just really not good at interviewing and given his stances, I can’t really trust that the “experts” he interviews are respected/knowledgeable in their fields. Also, I got the feeling that he is kind of an idiot.
Ezra is way too much up his own ass in high minded philosophical debates, that don’t really mean anything. It sounds smart, but if you actually listen, you realize that he just spent 5min saying almost nothing.
landsharkkiddIf you’re interested in Russia, I’ve been listening to Sad Oligarchs, which is about the fact that a lot of Oligarchs are “killing themselves” when there’s no explanation for it. It’s been really interesting so far.
NaNI recently Discovered the Blowback podcast and it kind of reminds me of Behind the Bastards podcast in subject matter. Revealing more of the happenings behind some of the US (and “western”) actions in various situations that most Americans probably consider cut and dry examples of “we’re the good guys” when it’s more complicated.
Like I didn’t know we, and many western countries, sold chemical weapons to the Iraqis throughout the 80s for them to use on Iran, and then used them as an example of how evil Saddam Hussein is when he invaded Kuwait (something something the us ambassador said we didn’t care about beforehand) and we needed to justify a war. West Germany sold chemical weapons to Iraq and protective gear to the Iranians.
It’s not so much US bad, but illuminating that the government does shitty things and supports shitty people and we should probably make that stop, or at least own it honestly.
Smith and Sniff.
On The Media - a podcast analyzing the media, giving historical and scientific context to news coverage. In the process, it turns out to be the best in depth news shows. Academics and journalists love this show but it doesn’t seem to be as big of a hit with the greater public. I recommend this show very highly.
Also listen to a bunch of nerdy academic podcasts like The Dissenter and New Books in Science, Psychology, Philosophy, etc in the New Books networks.
Lateral is one of my go to podcasts. Is full of lateral thinking questions, hosted by Tom Scott with a variety of guests. Is really good fun.
Great Lectures - History of angient egypt
burgersc12No Such Thing As A Fish is an informative and funny podcast, saw it recommended on a similar post a couple weeks ago and have been hooked since
An awesome podcast, listened to every single episode in their (big) backlog and I’m always happy to see the new episode pop into my feed.
The Dollop - a comedy podcast about how messed up American history is.
Last Podcast On The Left - comedy podcast about horror, true crime, aliens and the paranormal.
The Greatest Generation - Star Trek podcast
Behind the Bastards - Podcast about the worst people in history.
Get Played - video game podcast with a comedic bent.
Second Last Podcast on the Left. Quality content consistently for years.
Darknet Diaries - Interesting stories or interviews with people from the darkweb, pen-testers, hackers, etc. A couple of notable episodes: Interview with a creator of the PirateBay. FFFD - Freedom for flash drives.
This podacast will kill you - Interesting ways to die and just regular ones. Like what happens when you die from x, y, or z. Notable episode Sweat is a superpower.
Sticky Notes - About classical music.
Stuff you should know - interesting stories
Stuff they don’t want you to know - interesting stories
The end of the worldwith Josh Clark - limited episodes about existential threats to humanity.
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Knowledge Fight
Nice Games Club
The SGU is the one podcast I have to listen to every week. They have been putting it such great content for so long now.
I’d recommend their show to anyone with an interest in science, technology, or thinking.
Hello Internet!
Ah hello, Tim.
Ologies by Allie Ward!!
She basically interviews scientists about their job and asks all the dumb questions you wish you could ask. She has a huge number of episodes on everything from black holes and dark matter to squirrels to Emojis. And it’s all from the perspective of “the study of”.
One of my favorite episodes is “Ferro-equinology”. The study of iron horses. Trains. I knew trains were cool, but had no idea how cool they really were until that episode.
Her energy is addictive too. Great personality. If you are a part of her patron (which I am) you’ll get a heads up before her interviews and she give an opportunity for you to post questions that she’ll ask the Ologist.
VitaManArmchair Expert - interviews with not just actors, musicians, and directors, but also professors, philosophers, authors, etc. The host is very open about his childhood trauma and recovery from addiction. Very interesting intellectual conversations.
Behind the Bastards - really good deep dives into the assholes of our time and prior.
Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet - each episode, the hosts (brother and sister) read real reviews on a certain topic or genre and discuss. The reviews are generally hilarious, ridiculous, and/or crazy.
Christine Schiefer from Beach Too Sandy also has another podcast called And That’s Why We Drink. She does it with her friend Em Schulz once a week where they tell a paranormal and a true crime story, then once a month they also do viewer stories. I highly recommend it also!
Whoo another BtB listener!
“You know who won’t steal babies and forge adoption documents, probably? The goods and services that support this podcast.”
“Robert!”
“Sorry, Sophie, I guess I mangled that one. Here’s aaaaaads!”
I heard that in their voices oh my God.
I listen to too much BtB.
Distractible is my go-to for a good laugh. Listen to the episode “Bob’s Fridge” to make your day better
I’m new to Distractible as of only a few weeks ago. I was working backwards until my brother said “no. Stop what you’re doing and listen to ‘Bob’s Fridge’”
It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
ji88aja88aFilm sack Dr Karl Star wars minute Mr Ballen All around science The morning stream
These I listen to regularly. I have subs to many limited series around true crime (the teachers pet, shandees story, liar liar, the night driver) and other subs to podcasts listed here eg behind the bastards but I rarely have time to listen to these