Behind the Basards, History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan, Hardcore History.

You are not so smart podcast

Basically a book club about psychology books

Lions Led By Donkeys! Weird and usually stupid military history, featuring everything from Roman warfare up to Vietnam.

I’ll also toss in Well There’s Your Problem. It’s an engineering disasters podcast. With slides (if you’re watching on YouTube).

While I don’t agree with all his politics, I do enjoy his style. He asks a question then he shuts up and lets the other side talk.

Doesn’t interrupt.

@ShawnRyanShow On YouTube.

• Behind the Bastards
• The Dollop
• Live Like The World is Dying
• Some More News
• It Could Happen Here
• Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
• Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
• The Film Reroll
• How Did This Get Made?
• Twenty Thousand Hertz
• The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

These are some of my favorites, I’m sure I’m missing some though.

404media.co has a really high quality one! They also got a 2024 award from EFF.

“Welcome to the podcast from 404 Media where Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason catch you up on the stories we published this week. 404 Media is a journalist-owned digital media company exploring the way technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL through investigative reporting, smart blogging, and breaking news. At 404 Media you’ll read, and hear, stories you can’t find anywhere else written by journalists who are leading experts on their beats.”

• Grumpy Old Geeks. A podcast of what went wrong on the internet and who’s to blame

I really enjoyed the early episodes of

How I built this with Guy Raz

I have been making a weekly podcast about amateur radio since 15 May 2011. It started life as “What use is an F-call?” and in 2015 was renamed “Foundations of Amateur Radio”. I’ve made over 700 episodes so far.

Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents.

It’s available as audio, text, email, RSS, YouTube and Morse code and can be found on many podcast platforms. It’s also available on amateur radio repeaters, as eBooks and on lemmy.radio and it can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

More info: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/

Feel free to ask questions.

Onno (VK6FLAB)

A podcast I like to listen to that hasn’t been mentioned yet: Opt Out

Opt Out is a podcast where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.

*Stuff you should know" is a fun podcast, two guys go over a random topic.

They aren’t experts in anything, but it’s fun to hear them try to explain what they’ve learned about everything from how cranes work to darker things like the Tulsa race riots.

Srsly Wrong

• a leftist utopian podcast made in Canada

Reply All

• it’s done now and is really only good until PJ leaves, but it was excellent for a while

Dungeons and Daddies

• four dads get sent to the forgotten realms while bringing their kids to a soccer game

The What If? Podcast

Turned Out A Punk

Something Rotten

Behind The Bastards

• Bonta Vista
• Worst of all Possible Worlds
• Well There’s Your Problem
• Trashfuture

I quite enjoy:

• philosophise this
• escape pod
• darknet diaries
• the skeptics guide to the universe
• the jordan harbinger show
• search engine (and reply all)
• stellar firma
• sawbones
• if books could kill
• True crime garage
• midst

Darknet diaries is one of my all time favorites.

If you like music analysis then Strong Songs is also interesting

And for a non serious listen I like to listen to Sherlock & Co, which is an amazing audioplay where Watson becomes a podcaster to deal with his PTSD. The adventures are self contained, so you can hop on any you like.