What podcast(s) do you recommend?

A few not yet mentioned:

Well There's Your Problem - a podcast about engineering disasters
Hard Fork - a weekly tech news show, with banter similar to what you could find on Reply All before that was ended
The War on Cars - an urbanism-podcast
The Urbanist Agenda - another urbanism-podcast, by the creator behind Not Just Bikes
The Climate Denier's Playbook - a climate-podcast
Hyperfixed - by one of the hosts of Reply All

And a vote for previously mentioned podcasts:

99% Invisible - a podcast about design, arguably my favourite
Darknet Diaries - a podcast about cybersecurity

The only one I listen to anymore is the WAN show. I just never have time to listen to them anymore so it usually takes 3-4 days to finish it.

The Fall of Civilizations is hauntingly beautiful

Everything from Cool Zone Media

Knowledge Fight including spinoffs

Triple J The Hookup

Rude Tales of Magic

Many good ones on channel zero

The materialism podcast has stopped, but is absolutely worth listening to the backlog. It's a material science podcast.

What's Left of Philosophy? - Good for elevating your philosophy game.

DOS GAME CLUB

Darknet diaries. It's about anything security, spy, hacking, some networking bots, etc. do NOT need to be a nerd to love it, recent episode was a guy who started tracking stolen bikes and found a crazy web of criminals though patterns.

Very well spoken, very well edited, very easy to listen to, even if you're technically challenged.

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People, basically someone calls in to talk about anything they want with the host (comedian Chris Gethard). The caller can hang up any time, the host must hang up after exactly one hour.

People call in to talk about so many different things, and Gerhard is really good at getting people to open up in a very genuine yet casual manner.

https://www.youtube.com/@doomscrollpodcast/podcasts ("Doomscroll explores online culture and politics in the 21st century.") (thoughtful one-on-one interviews with people that are active in youth culture, including people related to Chapo Trap House)

https://www.youtube.com/@spoonkid57/podcasts (a person who runs a Rust gaming channel talks with their friends about various things)

Unmade Podcast - 2 dudes talking podcast.

welcome to nightvale - if you like kooky off the wall sci-fi stories
We’re alive - Long form zombie survival podcast. I recommend starting from the beginning before moving to the newest stuff
Alice isn’t Dead - mystery sci-fi trucker podcast
Fictional - classical novels read with a bit of snark - new season coming soon
That time that Planet Money read all of The Great Gatsby
99% Invisible’s book club synopsis of The Power Broker by Robert Caro
The Truth
What’s Ray Saying

Trueanon, if I ever make a manifesto I'm mentioning them in it

Lots of great suggestions. If you want one that will make you mad, Swindled is a great one about white collar crime. Podcaster is left leaning (outwardly so) and it's (sometimes) therapeutic to hear him talk about some of the topics.

Darknet Diaries, it’s about hacking and each episode is a different story and has interviews with people that were involved in information security incidents, either the ones doing the hacking and/or those defending from and responding to attacks

Great pod

Search Engine - deep dives into interesting subjects

Your Kickstarter Sucks - sarcastic evaluations of bad kickstarter projects and other witty social commentary

Lateral - guests try to solve weird puzzles that require lateral thinking

Regular Features - regulars take turns telling a funny story each. They can be all kinds of different things. Songs, plays where everyone needs to get involved, or even true stories backed up with covert voice recordings.

That's Absurd Please Elaborate - regulars either explain something weird and interesting or listeners will prompt then with a question that they will go and research and explain in the podcast.

Horne Section Podcast - Little Alex Horne (of Taskmaster fame) interviews a guest alongside his band that will keep playing improv music of all kinds of different genres throughout. Regularly playing songs that end up being relevant to the guest, for example could be a funny retelling of their life or some fun word play on their name etc. the banter between Alex and band makes this one. They probably didn't even need guests to be honest.

A Problem Squared - 2 regulars each try to solve a question posed by listeners. Is often very intellectual but the two hosts are very witty and can find an interesting and funny way to explain someone's complicated concepts that anyone could understand and learn from.

James Acasters Perfect Sounds - each episode James shares an album specifically from the year 2016 to try and convince them that 2016 was the best year in music in an attempt to justify his obsession of trying to physically collect every album released in 2016. The reasons for it being 2016 specifically are very personal to him and uses each album to explain why. (This is like a companion piece/extension to a book he wrote prior on the same subject, except this time with other people involved and their opinions as well as the audible medium allowing him to share snippets of the sins they are talking about).

Some other ones I regularly listen to: Cox n Crendor Geekenders Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast C.R.E.A.M. (Cars Rule Everything Around Me - The TDC Podcast) SmartLess Windbreaker Better Offline (A good one for Tech Sceptics that hate the big tech monopolies)

This Podcast will Kill You. It's about illness causing pathogens and poisons. It's super cool they break it down so nicely. AND they cite their sources!!!

Yes. This one! Sawbones is good too(-a doctor and a comedian podcast)

Never Post - an audio magazine about the internet and stuff

acquired. deep dive into the history of major businesses. like ikea, rolex, tsmc, mars..

Morbid (True Crime/Mysteries)
Behind the Bastards (History/Biography with some humor)
No Sleep (Fictional Horror Audiodrama)--

This week’s Behind the Bastards about Jim Caviezel is hilarious.
I like Robert Evans
My son loves Behind the Bastards!

Better Offline: explains a lot of things that are wrong with today's tech. Mostly Ed ranting about enshittification/AI in everything

The Magnus Archives is still the best podcast of all time, if you're into audio dramas.

I also love The Deep 3, Thinking Basketball, and the No Dunks podcast for the NBA.

Oologies. A charming interviewer talks to experts in various disciplines.

I'm a fan of Lingthusiasm. It's two linguist friends chatting about interesting things in their field. They keep it pretty approachable for non-linguists (like me)

Though I've never studied lingthusiasm as a student, I have always preceived it as complex when I read something about it , I'll give this podcast a try

My brother, my brother, and me- a fake advice show. Pardon My Take- national sports podcast. The Ringer F1 Show- ins and outs of Formula 1 Motorsport.

MBMBAM was good for the first couple hundred… then… not.

Not Another D&D Podcast is the only one I reliably listen to.

Similar vein - 8 Bit Book Club.

Not another D&D podcast is what i always recommend if people want a dnd podcast. I stopped listening to it though since I listen to podcasts whilst sleeping now and ill easily lose track of what I have actively listened to and whatnot. Will eventually get back on it at some point though.
- Overcast premium has some history remembering stuff that might be helpful for you. I generally listen while doing chores so haven’t bothered with it in depth.
  
  Maybe try using sleep timers? Most apps offer that as well.

The Dollop is one of my all time favourites.

The three I listen to on a regular basis:

Adrift - stories of introverts and social awkwardness
The Cryptid Factor - sometimes about cryptids
Three Bean Salad - a random topic which they eventually might touch on and know nothing about

Is adrift hosted by Geoff Lloyd and Annabel Port?
- Yes, that's the one.

If you like NBA basketball, No Dunks!

My experience with basketball was terrible, should I say no thanks or give it a try?

Bone Valley, eight-episode, superb quality true crime podcast by Pulitzer prize winner Gilbert King.

Whenever I know that a podcast has a specific number of episodes I just wonder: what to do after finishing it? especially if I really get interested in it?... so what do you do in this case?
- Ha, good question, it was not easy. I've just been picking over at other content in the true crime genre trying to chase that dragon - I tried a couple of other podcasts that were recommended (Beyond All Repair and Death On The Ice), but what really ended up grabbing me next was "Who TF Did I Marry," which is a woman's 7-hour recounting on TikTok of her experience being married to a pathological liar, and how it feels as it slowly dawns on her. She's an amazing storyteller, strongly recommended
For a Pulitzer prize winner to come up with "Bone Valley" as a title really makes you think 🤭

Armchair Expert.

I'd recommend not listening to podcasts unless you're specifically learning something.

I’d recommend not posting on the internet unless you’re saying something helpful
Interesting, I've stopped listening to more than one podcast where the premise is "I learned about this thing and I'm telling you about it" when the podcasters got something wrong, got called out on it, and said "I'm not an expert, you shouldn't be talking me seriously." I've come to accept that podcasts are for entertainment only, and even if you think they seem well-researched, assume nothing you hear is true.
Always nice when people say something helpful.

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