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
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
Check out Casefile’s series on The Pirate Bay!
Edit: I was stupid yesterday and conflated The Pirate Bay and Silk Road
Surprised nobody has mentioned my two favourites:
- Behind The Bastards: Robert Evans (formerly of Cracked fame) talks about the worst people in history for hours.
- Oh No Ross and Carrie: “When they make the claims we show up so you don’t have to.” Maybe start with the series on scientology, it’s some of the best work they’ve done.
Most of the other stuff I listen to is either industry specific or fandom/hobby specific.
Having just finished up 6 episodes on G. Gordon Liddy, knowing nothing about him beforehand, I second the recommendation of Behind the Bastards.
ONRAC is one of my favorites. They have such a lovely approach to crackpots and charlatans of all stripes. Gentle mockery leavened with genuine engagement with the aim to better understand these bowel movements of human thought and expose the underlying motives of grift behind so many of them.
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)
99% Invisible is really golden, in particular their recent episode about Mexico City scrap metal collectors and their unique “horn” was fascinating.
In addition to yours: Coldfusion(TV).
Usually though in a video format on YT but he uploaded on Spotify before
His 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
On the humorous side:
- My Brother, My Brother And Me - 3 brothers giving not-so-serious advice to listeners, reacting to questions from Yahoo Answers (when that was a thing), and overall being funny/silly
- My Dad Wrote A Porno - 3 people reacting to an “erotica” book series that one of the guys’ dad published (I would say the books are maybe only 5%-20% explicit, depending on the chapter) (some of the characters’ voices can be annoying/grating, and the narrator tends to repeat sentences after they react to them which can be annoying as well)
- No Such Thing As A Fish - the behind-the-scenes staff of the show QI bring up interesting facts and tidbits from history/nature/etc. (each episode is split into 4 parts where each member brings up a fact and the others react to it and bring up related facts)
- If I Were You - Jake & Amir from CollegeHumor giving advice to listeners (mostly in a sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek way but sometimes genuinely), mostly about relationships/dating
- SmartLess - Jason Bateman and Will Arnett (Arrested Development) and Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) interview a famous person each episode where only one of the hosts known who it is beforehand (it gets better after the first few episodes, though some conversations are less funny/entertaining than others)
- Office Ladies - Jenna and Angela from The Office (US) reacting to each episode of the show and bringing up behind-the-scenes stuff (some of episodes include interviews with other cast members/staff)
I loved MBMBAM from like 1-350. It’s unlistenable to me now. I can’t bear it.
Eh it’s just not funny to me anymore. Everything is so flanderized and weird.
The old episodes had such a “just three dudes being funny in their basement” feel, and the new ones are like “we ran out of funny so here’s a half hour of Munch Squad”
I can’t blame them after HUNDREDS of episodes but it’s not for me.
- 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.
