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

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    18 hours ago

    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.

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    18 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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        for an anticapitalist podcast they really need to lay off the ads just a little bit

        May I know what do you mean?

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          9 hours ago

          The podcast is critical of corpratism and consumerism, but they run like 5 minutes of ads every 10 minutes. Its excessive

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            6 hours ago

            It’s an I Heart Radio podcast right? I♡R suuuuuvks.

            I love Cool Zone Media’s output, but their parent company is exhausting.

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            Criticizing anti-capitalism media for existing in a capitalistic system is literally the last panel. I’m sure we agree on most things if you listened to ICHH as well, so I’m not trying to argue or start a fight.

            But Evans has to eat, pay rent and deserves to make profit off his time like the rest of us. Personally, I feel as if you’re falling into the “AoC/Bernie/Hasan has money and are hypocritical socialists” style trap, which is at best lazy and worst willfully ignorant of the context in which we all live.

            The podcast wouldn’t exist without ads, so ads are a weird thing to complain about. It’s the message that is important and ads don’t diminish that anti capitalistic message.

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              Yeah except I never said their arguments aren’t valid like the comic is suggesting. Nor did I say they shouldn’t run ads at all. All I said was the amount of ads is tiresome.

              For this comic to be relevant I’d have to have said something along the line of “none of their arguments are valid because they run ads”

              I’m happy for Robert and co.’s success, I just wish they had a model that didn’t rely so heavily on advertising, like some other leftist content creators I listen to.

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        4 hours ago

        I’ve been a Cooler Zone Media subscriber since they launched that and it’s so much better without ads. I consumed a bunch of their content so $5 is well worth it for me

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    19 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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    13 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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    10 hours ago

    “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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    I feel like my regular rotation is slight in comparison to what other folks are posting, but podcasts are an unwinding kind of activity for me, so I don’t really want to be inundated with current events or heavy topics. Accordingly, here’s a bunch of “Arts and Culture” type recommendations.

    Bandsplain: Yasi Salek explores bands’ discographies, usually with a guest who is a self-described super fan of the band being discussed. I think it’s a Spotify exclusive, which is a bummer, but they leverage that to actually play relevant songs at certain points in the cast. A good way to remove blindspots in your catalog, or to achieve a greater understanding of artists’ holistic output, rather than just the hits.

    Blank Check: A podcast about filmographies. Each “season” covers a different director, and the hosts examine their career chronologically. Fun, and it encourages me to finally tackle movie blindspots. They are doing the first half of Spielberg’s career at the moment, most recently discussing 1987’s Empire of the Sun.

    Eye of the Duck: A podcast about movie genres / vibes. Each “season” is a different kind of film, and the hosts select emblematic examples to examine in chronological order, with a mind towards how the genre evolved over time. Examples of past topics include Alien Invasion, 80s Dark Fantasy, Space Movies, and so on. They are typically a little more “film school brain” than most amateur podcasts, which I appreciate, but may not be everyone’s cup of tea.

    Three Moves Ahead: Weekly video game podcast, with a heavy emphasis on strategy games. I’m not a regular listener, but I will often check to see if they’ve done an episode on a particular game that I’m playing.

    Every F’n FF: Three folks (who I think are involved in the speed running scene) on a quest to complete every Final Fantasy game. This coincided with a replay of FFX that I embarked upon. Sadly I think X-2 may have broke them, as they’ve not uploaded since last October, but it does look like they completed 1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 13, and Dirge of Cerberus.

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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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    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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    18 hours ago

    This is my list from 2017: https://jeena.net/podcasts-listening

    Interestingly I still listen to mos of them with the exception of the technology ones. Somehow technology podcasts started boring me a couple of years ago so I stopped listening to them, with one notable exception, the HomeAssistant podcast.

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    13 Minutes to the Moon

    Season 1 is essential listening. It’s not very long, and takes you through the journey of putting astronauts on the moon with tech far less advanced that what you’re reading this on. It came sooooo close to failure on more than one occasion. When that lander touched down, it had something like 8 seconds of fuel left.

    Season 2 is the story in detail of the Apollo 13 mission. If you loved Season 1 and want more, then go right ahead. I liked season 2, but nowhere near as much.

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    39 minutes ago

    99 Percent Invisible

    Wide variety of topics, all somewhat obvious if a bit niche, but they turn out so much deeper than you thought.
    Also Roman Mars has a very pleasant voice.

    Lateral

    Out-of-the-box thinking game show from Tom Scott of (former) YouTube fame.

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    18 hours ago

    Some that I’ve been on and off listening to (because I struggle to consistently listen to anything in particular)

    • UNBIASED politics
    • ChooseFI
    • do it yourself

    There’s a bunch of other financial coaching type podcasts that I’ve listened to, but I haven’t been much in the financial coaching game in a while