My personal favourite is Beautiful/Anonymous. Tell me yours.

    • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tubeEnglish
      41·
      3 years ago

      +1 for Behind the Bastards. Robert Evans might be one of the few leftists around these days that I can tolerate to listen to for more than 5 minutes.

    • saloe@lemmy.ml
      31·
      3 years ago

      I tried it but wound up feeling the same way I do about the many nazi shows they used to play on History channel. I understand we should be wary of the villains of our past, but devoting hours of time laughing and talking about them seems disingenuous to the many many others who suffered from their actions.

  • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
    13·
    3 years ago

    My three favorite podcasts gotta be,

    1. Behind the Bastards - They basically pick a “bastard” from history talk about them.
    2. Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History - Explainers about interesting (and often, grim) historical events in great detail.
    3. A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail - Three fellow nerds talk about nerd stuff.
  • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    3 years ago

    DarknetDiaries

    It’s the podcast I’m listening to right now. If you’re interested in It you have to listen to it. The storytelling is just soo good. I really recommend the Episodes “Xbox Underground” and “Operation Bayonet”

    Most episodes aren’t actually about the dark Web and are instead about Cybersecurity.

  • notacat@mander.xyz
    12·
    3 years ago

    I never see this mentioned but Darknet Diaries is actually a really informative and entertaining podcast about hacking, the dark web, physical penetration testing (gone wrong), nation-state cyber attacks.

  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
    7·
    3 years ago

    I listen to so many, its hard to pick one. My current favourite is probably Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford. He does really good podcasts and I’ve followed him over from his BBC Radio 4 podcast (More or Less) which I also love.

    Cautionary Tales is about a major screw up from history and the systemic problems that caused it. It takes away from society’s bias to lay blame at the feet of the last known individual involved and looks at the whole causal chain leading up to an event.

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
    6·
    3 years ago

    My favorites:

    • Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
    • Behind the Bastards
    • Radiolab
    • Stuff you should know
    • The Rest is History
    • Nature Podcast
  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    No Such Thing As A Fish

    One more than one occasion I’ve been crying tears from laughter.

  • byzerium@feddit.de
    5·
    3 years ago

    Lage der Nation

    from Germany. It’s like the weekly newspaper, where a judge and a journalist sum up and talk about what is happening in and around Germany. I like how they put everything in perspective and that not everything is as easy as it seems.

  • funk@lemmy.ca
    5·
    3 years ago

    I haven’t seen anybody else suggest it but “99% invisible” is one of my favorites.

  • Nomadin@kbin.social
    4·
    3 years ago

    I love this thread! Many of my favorites have been mentioned. My first first few are acquired tastes, but I have come to really enjoy them.

    • Last Podcast on the Left - true crime, aliens, paranormal, horror comedy show
    • Timesuck with Dan Cummins - similar to LPotL, but single host
    • Knowledge Fight - commentary on Alex Jones and others with humor
    • Internet Today - opinion based comedy news for all things tech, gaming, etc.

    On the shorter side:

    • Everything Everywhere Daily - something new every day on various subjects
    • Today in History with the Retrospectors - short daily episodes bringing you curious moments from this day in history
    • Atlas Obscura - curious and wondrous travel destinations

    And a classic that I don’t think has been mentioned:

    • Stuff You Should Know - interesting discussion about a wide variety of topics

    I have added Chilluminati to try based on this thread.

  • fresh@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    3 years ago

    On The Media is the best news podcast. It reports on how stories are being reported, hence “on the media”, and in the process ends up being the most informative and deep reporting available. Journalists and academics love it, it’s a legendarily good show that started on NPR radio.