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History podcasts I like:

Revolutions. Well known; Mike Duncan goes through various revolutions through history in an excellent, detailed narrative.

American History Too!: two academics from the university of Glasgow have various guests on to discuss different topics from American history. They know their stuff and are really charismatic.

In Our Time: BBC podcast that's been going since the early 2000s. A panel of academics are interviewed and discuss a topic on which they are all experts. Incredibly well researched and interesting, though not especially humorous.

"I had no idea pod casts we so popular"

I'm sorry... what? The small child across the street from you has been running like four podcasts for the last two years, and your dog is getting ready to start his third one next week. Statically, you are running at least two of your own, apparently without even knowing. I'm recording my ninth episode this week, as I type this. This episode brought to you by Squarespace and Manscaped...

Science VS: They investigate the science behind trends. E.g. ozempic, protein powder, the male g-spot, weed strains etc. With citations for everything

Gastropod: The science and history of various foods

Radiolab: Documentaries on a wide range of subjects. Usually from an angle you wouldn’t expect

Wong Notes: Vulfpeck guitarist Cory Wong interviews other artists from a musician’s pov, which leads to much more interesting conversations than your usual interview

I grew up playing D&D and really enjoyed learning about the history of the game from When We Were Wizards.

Pendejo Time.

Jake and Thomas are two guys with fucked up pasts, just shooting the shit and improvising.

The only podcast that scratches the cumtown itch.

My favourite bit:

https://youtu.be/LZVAzirE60Y

Triforce (by Yogscast guys) is excellent.

It's just three funny, kinda nerdy, guys chatting shit. No scripting. Minimal ads. Funny stuff.

Cumtown. Three comedians from New York just riffing about anything and everything. I think it's hilarious (usually) and they have some imo legendary bits, like Ben Shapiro getting raped by Mr. Feeney when he was a kid, Judge Dredd vs. The Mask, them talking mad shit about Jordan Peterson and making fun of his voice; even just talking about a hypothetical of one of the guys buying $40,000 worth of chocolate to commit fraud with.

• RadioLab: so many great episodes on random topics, some absolute gold here.
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: relatively new, from the author of the best still book of the same name. So far, great!
• Planet Money: US focused but still really interesting. Economics focused, non political.
• The Inquiry: BBC deep dive on current affairs.
• The Forum: BBC deep dive on various topics, some really interesting stuff.
• Critical Role: its critical role....
• The Kākā: NZ focused economics and politics.
• Unexpected Elements: BBC science podcast.
• The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: very deep dive into the history of philosophy.

'Sawbones: a marital tour of misguided medicine' is a show about the history of medicine in the 'smart person explains thing to funny person' genre. Medical doctor Syndey Mclroy goes over the history of a disease or treatment at her Podcaster husband Justin.

Decoder Ring.

Security Now is great for getting Tech/Security industry information explained in a way that's fairly understandable even if you're not immersed in it.

Please Stop Talking.

The main podcast is usually just a bunch of hosts getting together to share life stories, discuss some random topics and laugh and joke around (sometimes jokes can be dark and/or very stupid, but I find them funny as hell).

Besides that, they do Poundering Spooky Tapes (by the way all their podcasts are based on PST acronym). They watch a (usually) horror movie and discuss it. There are also commentary tracks available if you want to watch the thing with their live commentary on it.

Perilous StoryTelling is a DnD podcast that they do, very entertaining to listen to. They have two campaigns available, Folk and Dagger did not have a proper ending to it due to a key member leaving not in the best way, while Subliminal Space is new and is still coming out.

And finally they record Press Start Turbo, a fully gaming related podcast where they cover news, do interviews with people from the industry and cover a game that they all play for the episode and share thier thoughts about it.

If you feel like getting even more depressed about the state of the world;

Popular Front is a grassroots war/conflict reporting podcast by british journalist Jake Hanrahan, about different ongoing and developing conflicts around the world.

Kinda depressing, but often times far, far ahead of the large media house news cycles. Also offers a little bit of hope, with reports of why and how people on the ground are going against oppression of various kinds.

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Third eye drops

Excellent podcast about philosophy, psychedelics and psychedelic assisted therapies, maps etc. Tons and tons of Dr's of science guests and the host is just amazing

Hey Riddle Riddle - best humor and host interaction of any podcast I've listened to.

Breaking Points has amazing coverage on American politics which matches up with reality unlike those CNN casters which keep getting "surprised" their coverage turned out to be wrong.

• NPR's Planet Money, Life Kit, Throughline, Body Electric
• Global affairs: The Rachman Review, Drum Tower, Foreign Policy Live
• Misc: HBR IdeaCast, Chasing Life, Hidden Brain, The Climate Question
• India related: The Morning Brief, Parley by The Hindu, Ideas of India, The Times of India Podcast, The Sandip Roy Show, Grand Tamasha

Time Suck with Dan Cummins

Join the Cult of the Curious and learn about a variety of topics including : cults, historic figures, serial killers and more. Some recent sucks have covered Alexander Hamilton, The Kidwelly Sex Cult, The Taiping Rebellion, The Gainesville Ripper, Elvis Presley, and The Dark Truth about Pornhub.

Hail Nimrod, good boy Bojangles!

• Crash Course Pods: The Universe, with John Green & Dr. Katie Mack. Talks about how the universe came into existence.
• Volts, with David Roberts. Talks about electrification and the energy transition.

I don't listen to many podcasts, but those two are pretty great.

Ken and Robin talk about stuff. Two TTRPG game designer/writers discuss gaming, history, conspiracy theories, occultism, and horror.