Sawbones!
A podcast about medical history with a doctor and an idiot (Justin and Sydney Mcelroy. yes, that Justin Mcelroy)
Cautionary tales: stories of how things went wrong
Darknet diaries: stories from the dark web
intelligence squared: thought provoking debates about anything and everything
The numberphile podcast: interviews with mathematicians by Brady Haran. If you like the kinds of videos Brady makes, you’ll probably like this too. You know, stuff like sixty symbols, numberphile, perioedic table of videos etc.
You are not so smart: podcast about psychology
your undivided attention: discussion and interviews about social media. What it’s like to work for a social media company. How social media influences your business, or how it affects your life. How different parts of it are intentional and some are unintentional.
Which ‘cautionary tales’, the search gave a couple results?
With Tim Harford, by Pushkin.
Hope you like it. It’s one of my favorites even though I Found it only about a year ago.
Thank you!
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Knowledge Fight
Nice Games Club
Hello Internet!
Ah hello, Tim.
Wolf and Owl - Two comedian friends show up completely unprepared and talk about anything, funny and wholesome.
Distractible is my go-to for a good laugh. Listen to the episode “Bob’s Fridge” to make your day better
I’m new to Distractible as of only a few weeks ago. I was working backwards until my brother said “no. Stop what you’re doing and listen to ‘Bob’s Fridge’”
It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
I recently Discovered the Blowback podcast and it kind of reminds me of Behind the Bastards podcast in subject matter. Revealing more of the happenings behind some of the US (and “western”) actions in various situations that most Americans probably consider cut and dry examples of “we’re the good guys” when it’s more complicated.
Like I didn’t know we, and many western countries, sold chemical weapons to the Iraqis throughout the 80s for them to use on Iran, and then used them as an example of how evil Saddam Hussein is when he invaded Kuwait (something something the us ambassador said we didn’t care about beforehand) and we needed to justify a war. West Germany sold chemical weapons to Iraq and protective gear to the Iranians.
It’s not so much US bad, but illuminating that the government does shitty things and supports shitty people and we should probably make that stop, or at least own it honestly.
Grey 17, a podcast about watching Babylon 5. Repeat viewers along with newbies.
I mainly listen to things based around or by improv comedy, so if that’s not your jam, keep on scrolling -
My Brother, My Brother, and Me (three brothers give often terrible advice to questions sent by listeners)
Hey Riddle Riddle (a riddle podcast by improv comedians who really really hate riddies and puzzies)
Dungeons and Daddies (the best D&D podcast by players who don’t really know how to play D&D and it’s not even close)
The Worst Idea of All time (originally the concept was two kiwi comedians watch the same film every week for a year and document and review that experience every week. Each season is a new movie and a new year. The films are always awful and they encourage you not to watch them)
Smartless (Will Arnet, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes interviewing other celebrities and famous figures. Only one of them each week know who they will be interviewing before they do so the questions are all improvised on the spot)
Quick Question with Soren Bowie and Daniel O’brien (two ex Cracked writers from the golden age of Internet comedy, who now write for Family Guy and John Oliver respectfully, ask each other questions)
I love MBMBaM but sometimes their episodes are such a hit or miss. I think it’s mostly the bits. I don’t mind the vampire one, but the perfume guy was too much.
Dungeons and daddies has legit some of the most hilarious interactions I have ever heard. Beth May (?) playing an emotionally detached step father is pure genius
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Film sack
Dr Karl
Star wars minute
Mr Ballen
All around science
The morning stream
These I listen to regularly. I have subs to many limited series around true crime (the teachers pet, shandees story, liar liar, the night driver) and other subs to podcasts listed here eg behind the bastards and some podcasts centered around pink bands and punk music but I rarely have time to listen to these regularly.
Podcasts I listen to every episode of is a small list nowadays: Five thirty eight and waveform. The first is for political and statistic wonkiness, the second is for consumer tech. They both have good banter between the presenters
Recently I’ve been listening to Well There’s You’re Problem; it’s 30% retrospective on engineering disasters 70% shitpost
The Plastic Pleasiosaur Podcast is a really fun sceptic/science podcast run by an old man and a femboy archeologist.
Saw Bones is a highly entertaining and informative medical history podcast run by a cool, bisexual doctor and her adult-baby husband.
Bizarre Podcast: Dogs Must Die is an once in a lifetime find: a tiny man describes every episode of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure to his very smart friend.
Love recommending podcasts!
- Like others have said, Behind the Bastards is great to find out about some of the worst people in history.
- In relation to that Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff is the opposite of Behind the Bastards. It’s about people who did cool stuff who became cool.
- Also in lieu of that, Bad Gays, it’s about bad gays in history. I think they’ve covered similar folks on BtB, but this is obviously from a queer perspective.
- Fad Camp and Maintenance Phase are great podcasts about dieting and wellness. Fad Camp is more about how damaging some of these diets can be, whereas Maintenance Phase is similar to You’re Wrong About (which I also recommend)
- The Weekly Planet are these two Australian guys who talk about movies, tv, comics and video games. They also have a YouTube channel called Me Sunday Movies where they’ll upload some of their podcasts. Like they have a running segment called “Caravan of Garbage” which is just sort of talking about a movie, tv show or game. Currently they’ve started going through the RoboCop movies.
- Also shameless plug, but Checkpoint is on the radio but they take their radio show and put it on a podcast. It’s a podcast about giving a 1up to diversity in video games. Most of us are from the LGBTQIA+ community and that’s where most of our perspectives come from, but it’s also just folks from any marginalised group. Lovely bunch of folks (if I do say so myself).
Uh yeah, I have some more, but like that’s politics or it’s writing related or spicyness in or out of the bedroom. But these are the ones I always recc.
The Soundtrack Show by David W. Collins! He talks about film scores, how they were made, and many other details. No music knowledge is required. Scroll through the episodes and pick any movie that looks interesting, but EVERY episode is so good!
