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In no particular order, I listen to all of them regularly:

• Omnibus - general obscure history hosted by indie rocker John Roderick and Jeopardy's golden boy Ken Jennings

• The Dollop - (mostly) American history with a leftist bent. One comedian reads a story the other hasn't heard before.

• Not Another D&D Podcast - apologies for the first episode, but great world- and character-building. Really shows how great cooperative storytelling can be

• Last Podcast on the Left - comedy/horror. Conspiracies, cults, UFOs, and other weird shit. Their historical deep dives are awesome.

I listen to these regularly, but there's a limited series podcast I like to recommend called S-Town. It's excellent, especially if you're from the southern US or grew up in a rural area. If you aren't from the south or a rural area, it'll probably be an extra-wild ride!

I like fiction podcasts, and the main one I'm working through currently is The Magnus Archives. Each episode is a short first-person paranormal horror story, and they start out pretty standalone, eventually building more background and connections between the stories and adding more "frame story" about the people collecting these tales. I wouldn't say it's an SCP clone, but it's kind of shaped similarly.

I see a bunch of other Cool Zone Media shows, but not Molly Conger's Weird Little Guys.

Her calm cadence and thorough exploration of specific American wingnuts is fun. And as far as I've seen, most of the stories end with the guy dead or in prison, so happy endings.

For true crime I really like Murder in America

I mostly go for nonfiction stuff related to current events or history. Unfortunately some of these aren’t free.

Slow Burn - Each season goes deep on a particular event in recent (US) history. Quality falls off a bit after the first few seasons.

Fiasco - produced and hosted by the the guy that did the first 2 seasons of Slow Burn. Also US centric.

History on Fire - Haven’t listened to too much of this yet but was suggested the episode on Ötzi the Iceman which made me a fan. Probably the only one on here that isn’t US centric.

Throghline from NPR. Another history-ish podcast but focuses on current issues and the history behind them.

Going to check out some of these suggestions.

• The Bugle (satire about the news)
• The Deprogram (far left politics, very funny hosts)
• Blowback (documentary style show about US interventions in different places - more interesting than it sounds)
• Radiolab (sciencey stuff)

I absolutely love these:

• Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (behavioral psychology)
• The Sloppy Boys (comedy cocktails)
• The Bugle (comedy satire politics)
• Danny Wallace’s Important Broadcast (comedy radio show)
• Heavyweight (comedy mystery)
• HomeAssistant podcast (smarthome tech HomeAssistant)
• Self-Hosted (tech)
• Maintenance Phase (comedy wellness)
• Severance Podcast (tv show Severance)
• Strong Songs (your favorite songs, explained)
• All Consuming (comedy product reviews)

A podcast I like to listen to that hasn't been mentioned yet: Opt Out

Opt Out is a podcast where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.

I enjoy the following rotation:

EconTalk - Interviews about all kinds of stuff with a classical liberal econ professor.

The Greatest Generation & Greatest Trek: Star Trek reviews with dick jokes and production notes

Joy, a Podcast. Hosted by Craig Ferguson

Love Worth Finding: sermons from Baptist minister Adrian Rogers

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life: Presbyterian sermons

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Peter Adamson goes over All. The. Philosophy. Ever. See the sister cast for non-Western philosophical schools.

I use podcasts to escape so I more lean towards comedy podcasts. My top is

Regulation Podcast (PREVIOUSLY F**kFace)

• 4 guys and Andrew (who didn't know what the shift key did) shooting the shit, coming up with zany and dumb ideas and having way too much burger confidence

My Brother My Brother and Me

• 3 brothers doing different bits, talking about fast food news, making jokes about pop culture and bad movies

Clutch my Pearls

• 3 girls started their own smut podcast where one of them who only reads true crime is introduced into the very very weird world of smut novels. With very funny readings from the books

We're Here to Help

• A comedy advice podcast with Jake Johnson from New Girl where they get questions like "my kids got a trampoline and my neighbor likes to walk around naked outside" and "my coworker likes to take their socks off at work" and "I brought muffins every week to work since I started and now they call me the muffin man and excpect muffin deliveries". Quite fun.

Then more seriously

Swindled

• The stories of how the great (and often mainstream) scam artists get found out and topple from power

Nerdland Podcast

• (In Dutch) a podcast about new developments in science and technology. Sadly very often about AI or Musk now but they try to keep that to a minimum.

I have been making a weekly podcast about amateur radio since 15 May 2011. It started life as "What use is an F-call?" and in 2015 was renamed "Foundations of Amateur Radio". I've made over 700 episodes so far.

Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents.

It's available as audio, text, email, RSS, YouTube and Morse code and can be found on many podcast platforms. It's also available on amateur radio repeaters, as eBooks and on lemmy.radio and it can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

More info: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/

Feel free to ask questions.

Onno (VK6FLAB)

I quite enjoy:

• philosophise this
• escape pod
• darknet diaries
• the skeptics guide to the universe
• the jordan harbinger show
• search engine (and reply all)
• stellar firma
• sawbones
• if books could kill
• True crime garage
• midst

*Stuff you should know" is a fun podcast, two guys go over a random topic.

They aren't experts in anything, but it's fun to hear them try to explain what they've learned about everything from how cranes work to darker things like the Tulsa race riots.

"Ty and That Guy" - Ty Franck (one of the writers of The Expanse books) and Wes Chatham (actor of Amos Burton on the show) talk about sci-fi.

"SPINES" - supernatural fiction about an amnesiac tracking down broken people with paranormal abilities, written in an audio diary format. It gets a little gay.

"The White Vault" - supernatural fiction about a multinational team that travels to Svalbard to recover a lost expedition and encounters a monster.

I loved Stephen Fry's Deadly Sins and Leap Years

The only podcaster I listen to is John Goblikon. And whatever podcaster he is interviewing. And whatever podcaster has him as a guest the next week.

Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-97sBw85g

• Boonta Vista
• Worst of all Possible Worlds
• Well There's Your Problem
• Trashfuture

• Omnibus
• Darknet Diaries

My favourites are:

• Fall of Civilisations
• The Thing About Austen

Bigfeets.

It's a watch along podcast for quite possibly the lowest depths of US reality TV, Mountain Monsters.

Their other podcast The Dogg Zzone 9000 is at least as funny, though it is dependent upon which cursed media artifact from the wrong dimension which they're reviewing.

The Linux Experiment

I liked "David Tennant does a podcast with.."

You are not so smart podcast

Basically a book club about psychology books

• Grumpy Old Geeks. A podcast of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame

I really enjoyed the early episodes of

How I built this with Guy Raz