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What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year?

I’m getting close to the bottom of my backlog on a few podcasts, so I’m looking to get something new in there.

Personally, it’s been, in no particular order:

  • If Books Could Kill
  • Darknet Diaries
  • Hard Fork
  • 99% Invisible
  • The War on Cars
  • The Urbanist Agenda
  • The Climate Denier’s Playbook
  • Well There’s Your Problem

I’m mildly considering getting into Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, but I’m a little bit skeptical on account of how damn much there is to be listened to in their feed.

SexualPolytope ,
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  • Behind the Bastards
  • Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
  • A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail
  • Cozy History
z3rOR0ne ,
  • Even More News
  • Behind The Bastards
  • Party Girls
  • Translash
  • Antifada
  • Tech Won’t Save Us
  • Better Offline
  • Factually
  • Knowledge Fight
  • The Hamilton Morris Podcast
novibe ,

I’ll always recommend Blowback. Specially season 3. Death to America.

SuiXi3D ,
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F**k Face and Face Jam were my jam, but I have no clue how long they’ll be around what with Rooster Teeth being shut down. Otherwise, I try to keep up with Factually! as often as I can.

Nationalgoatism ,

The only podcast I have listened to this year is maybe 3 episodes of trueanon. brace-dark-cowboy

macabrett ,

Guys: A Podcast About Guys and

Guys+: A Podcast About “Guys: A Podcast About Guys”

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
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Huberman. The single best podcast the world could have currently.

Habahnow ,

The Indicator by Planet Money from NPR: they talk about what they feel are important indicators for the current economy, and expand on various economic topics in ways that I think anybody can understand, and are rather short.

The 1A from NPR: they talk about various topics that are affecting the US. They like to get people to chime in with their views, and have some experts on the topics to discuss context and how certain groups are or aren’t pushing for changes. Its usually close to an hour long, and not all topics interest me, but they do talk about fake news, presidential elections, housing, mental health etc.

Planet Money from NPR: longer form discussions of economics, somewhat similar to the Indicator, but not as short form and they really expand on economic stories that I think are really interesting. Some topics include how, many, random people, can relatively accurately determine the weight of a cow (and how this defines the economy), the real estate trail that recently occurred and its background.

sapo ,
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The one podcast I listen to every week as it comes out is Lateral, a trivia show hosted by Tom Scott with rotating guests.

Other than that, I have a thing for casual and conversational history podcasts, including:

  • The Lesser Bonapartes (old but gold, the full backlog’s only available on spotify under the title ‘From the desk of Glen’)
  • Dead Ideas
  • Some ‘leader ranking’ podcasts with the same formula: Rex Factor (British monarchs), Totalus Rankium (Roman Emperors and then American Presidents) and Pontifacts (Popes)
SandbagTiara2816 ,

Behind the Bastards and Knowledge Fight are my two favorites, and I sprinkle in some Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and Today Explained

chikaygo ,

Seconding Knowledge Fight and Behind the Bastards! Hello fellow wonk!

Passerby6497 , (edited )

I keep meaning to look into CPWDCS, but my podcast backlog is ridiculous.

ag_roberston_author ,
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Fall of Civilizations podcast.

Great insight it a number of civilisations that have collapsed throughout human history. Explains their rise, peak and of course collapse in great detail.

MaggiWuerze ,

Love that podcast. If only there were more episodes.

ag_roberston_author ,
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They released one on Egypt pretty recently.

MaggiWuerze ,

Yeah I know, already done. I actually use old episodes to fall asleep to

jlow ,

Metis in Space!

theilleist ,

No Such Thing As A Fish!

From the makers of BBC’s “QI,” a (nearly) endless collection of useless facts that will not change your life, but will make you more fun to talk to at parties. Not that you go to any parties.

blindsight , (edited )

I’ve heard about this one before, but I’m downloading an episode now.

The one thing I hate about QI is that I’ve already seen it all and there aren’t any more episodes.

Edit: That was great. It totally scratched the QI itch. Among many other tidbits, I now know how leech treatments were discovered, that there’s a specific frequency that is arousing for badgers and sets off car alarms, and that in one year, over 700 American students were arrested for owning pagers.

Edit: Holy shit. The author of Goodnight Moon literally died from an overly-enthusiastic “can-can kick”. She did it to prove she was feeling fine… (ironically) but she dislodged a blood clot that instantly killed her.

theilleist ,

Well now I know you’re the type of person who starts a podcast newest to oldest instead of the other way around lol

DrZoidbergYes ,

Anna from No Such Thing as a Fish recommended an Australian podcast called Smart Enough to Know Better years ago and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying both since. And I would say if you get the opportunity to see No Such Thing as a Fish live go for it. They are excellent live.

chikaygo ,

Hard Fork - I love the hosts and the current popular tech news Pantsuit Politics - some really thoughtful nuanced views (Sarah can get a little spicy but it’s fun and informative) Knowledge Fight Maintenance Phase (only releasing intermittently right now but the hosts are hilarious and it’s good info about all things health and nutrition…good myth debunking)

And these ones are very popular and probably not unknown to you but I listen to Up First (NPR) and The Daily every single day as they’re good, short to moderate length current news podcasts…relatively unbiased.

I also listen to Pod Save America, Slate Political Gabfest, FiveThirtyEight, The Bulwark and Strict Scrutiny for a wide range of political arenas (lefty, righty, polling, judiciary…not in that order necessarily)

Passerby6497 ,

Behind the bastards is great, but don’t bother subscribing to ICHH, those get out into the feed weekly. I’m not a fan of the daily series (too hit and miss for me, and I have too many as it is), but the original season or two were good.

Other than that, I’ve been working on catching up to current on the dollop (us history) and staying current on Some More News (news/current events), Beau of the Fifth column (current events/analysis) and knowledge fight (mainly Alex Jones/InfoWars analysis and deconstruction). I’ll listen to In Retrospect (pop culture nostalgia analysis) or Security Now (tech news/concept breakdowns) or Risky Business (tech news) as I have time.

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