The Scathing Atheist - three atheist comedians talk about religious over reach on society.
God Awful Movies - those same three comedians talk about terrible religious movies
Cognitive Dissonance - two skeptical best friends from Chicago talk about the news.
Citation Needed - the guys from The Scathing Atheist and the guys from Cognitive Dissonance take turns reading essays based on Wikipedia pages and joking about them.
Behind The Bastards - hilarious and well informed host talks about histories greatest Bastards.
The Greatest Generation/The Greatest Trek - two guys review Star Trek episodes. Generation focuses on older trek shows, currently going through Voyager, Trek reviews the new shows as episodes release.
GoNintendo - Rawmeat Cowboy from GoNintendo and his friends talk about Nintendo news and utterly fail to stay on topic.
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Friend of mine introduced me to Behind the Bastards. Very much enjoy Robert Evans and his guests. Finishing the Josh Duggar series.
On the other side with the same feel, Cool People who did Cool Stuff is also great and the two cross over very closely.
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My podcasts fall into two groups:
Linux/Tech
- Destination Linux
- Late Night Linux and its brethren
- Linux GameCast and its sister show LWDW
Urbanism
- The War on Cars
- The Urbanist Agenda
- Strong Towns Podcast
- Upzoned
They release on almost a daily schedule, so I always have something to listen to.
Soooo many, but here are my top 5
- The Daily Beans - News. With Swearing
- Cognitive Dissonance - Two shouty atheists talk about stuff
- The Skepticrat - Funny hot takes on the news
- Behind the Bastards - All about the worst people
- NPR Politics - 90% American, 10% international, but still about America
I’ve been listening to CogDis since they had something like six episodes. It’s great seeing how far they’ve come.
I just added Cognitive Dissonance to my podcast feed. Are there any standout episodes that you would recommended grabbing?
Attempting to ping @[email protected] so they see this question too. Is that a thing on lemmy?
Smartless
I really like all three of those guys but for some reason the podcast doesn’t work for me. It feels forced or disingenuous or something I can’t quite put my finger on.
It took me awhile to like them, I see what you’re saying. I think it’s the interviews that are what really keeps me. They have honest conversations with their guests because they know them. It’s definitely a bro culture type pod.
If Books Could Kill
Love me some Darknet Diaries and Hacked.
I love me some darknet diaries. I haven’t checked out hacked, how would you say it compares?
Dungeons and Daddies not a BDSM podcast …except that one time
Deprogram, Safety Third, various HowStuffWorks series, Nosleep and Creepypastas, and also I have NewPipe so I mainly just listen to long YouTube videos as podcasts. Disaster Breakdown, Plainly Difficult, RMTransit, and Mentour Pilot are my current educational channels. Barely Sociable, Nexpo, Rob Gavagan for horror and true crime stuff. Some channels interleave the video and audio a lot more so they’re not as suitable for listening to.
Ever listened to Well There’s Your Problem? You mention Deprogram and Disaster Breakdown so I’m suprised WTYP isn’t also listed
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Stuff You Should Know
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Barbell Medicine
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Ham Radio Crash Course
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2 White Lights
I just started listening to Stuff You Should know a few weeks ago, I really like it. Since I started at ‘the beginning’ it is a bit of a walk down memory lane, currently around 2009, it’s really funny and a bit strange… Are you up to the current episodes, is it still Chuck and Josh doing all the talking?
Yep! They’re still the hosts. It’s as good as ever.
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it’s kinda niche, but since you asked: The SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast:
“Oh No Ross and Carrie” They go participate in all kinds of “fringe science” or spiritual stuff and report on it in a very funy but, in my opinion, largely respectful way.
I’m sure it’s all true.
- Bad Friends
- Take Your Shoes Off
- Tigerbelly
- Conan O’Brien needs a friend
- Darknet Diaries
+1 for Darknet Diaries. got anything else to recommend in that nerdy/edgy genre of story telling?
Someone already mentioned Hacked on here, but some others are:
- Hacking Humans
- Malicious Life
- Modem Mischief
- What the Shell?
Some additional security related ones include:
- Caveat
- CSO Perspectives
- CyberWire Daily
- Paul’s Security Weekly
- Research Saturday
- Risky Business
- Security Now
If you like short and sweet (most eps. 20–30 min) and don’t mind being sad that it’s discontinued:
Two buddies discuss what a world without a particular thing (one thing per episode) would be like. No color? No chairs? No numbers? They tackle these questions in often unapologetically unscientific, and always creative and hysterical ways.
