What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year?

I love Behind The Bastards and It Could Happen Here. They do have significant episode counts. BtB does a great and looooooong series on Henry Kissinger that I think is a prime example of what you are going to get. If you listen to that one and don't enjoy, I would move on from them.

I have exclusuvely been listening to "The History of Rome" by Mike Duncan

still not done with it lol

No Such Thing As A Fish!

From the makers of BBC's "QI," a (nearly) endless collection of useless facts that will not change your life, but will make you more fun to talk to at parties. Not that you go to any parties.

Lions lead by donkeys

Well There's Your Problem

Kill James Bond

The Delta Flyers

Decoding The Unknown

P3 Dokumentär

Damn Interesting

English:

• Lateral
• Darknet Diaries
• Artifexian
• Exolore
• The White Vault (caught up on old episodes)
• World's Greatest Con

German:

• Geschichten aus der Geschichte
• Geschichten aus dem Altbau
• Darwin gefällt das
• Mord auf Ex
• Bayern 3 True Crime
• Weird Crimes

All in no particular order.

It Could Happen Here is often talking about what's going on that week in the world. I wouldn't try to listen to their whole backlog, but I usually catch an episode or two a week.

Behind the Bastards is great. Since I found it (Summer 2020, I'd reckon), I've listened to most of what has come out since.

Cool People who did Cool Stuff is a sort of spin off of btb. Deep dives on people and movements who were resisting the bastards. It's only been going on a couple of years, so the backlog is more manageable if that's your thing.

I listen to Past Times on the Dollop feed most weeks. The Dollop is another deep dive history podcast. On Past Times, they read headlines and articles from different newspaper every week. Usually from the late 19th through early 20th century, but they've gone as far back as the 1600s.

Anything by Jamie Loftus is great. She's mostly done short run things on a single topic. She's on the Bechdel cast, too which I listen to occasionally.

You might enjoy The Deprogram, which has a less daunting backlog.

I just figured out I can see my own playback stats. For this year, my top ten in order of most played:

• Last Podcast on the Left
• Behind the Bastards
• Harmontown
• Hardcore History
• Wizard and the Bruiser
• That Happens
• The Bugle
• State of the World, NPR
• Hood Politics with Prop
• The Rest is Politics

I think I like your list better.

I listen to these podcasts at work

• Unfuck the Republic (unftr)
• Behind the Bastards
• The Deprogram

I also like to listen to news, video essays, and speeches while working. It helps keep the variety up. Something else to consider is getting a library card to checkout audiobooks on some streaming apps

Behind the Bastards and Knowledge Fight are my two favorites, and I sprinkle in some Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and Today Explained

• Behind the Bastards
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
• A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail
• Cozy History

You might also like:

• Search Engine
• Tech Won't Save Us
• Moderated Content
• Mystery AI Hype Theater

•Bear Brook

•We’re Here to Help

•Reveal

•Radiolab

•Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me

• Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons
• Surveillance Report
• 2.5 Admins
• Self-Hosted
• Philosophize This
• Frequent Miler

• Chapo Traphouse
• Canadaland (all)
• America This Week
• Weird Studies
• Hermitix

I was never a podcast person until I listened to Otherworld. It gives a platform to people to tell their paranormal stories without sensationalism or judgement. They cover a wide range of topics from hauntings to cryptids to aliens. Really cool stuff even if you're a skeptic

• Where things fell apart
• Conan O'Brien needs a friend

The Cool Zone people do put out a ton of content, I don't know how they do it. I commute and hour each way to work, and between Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, that gets me through almost the whole week.

I know they all have other shows now too. I have listened to Margaret Killjoy's Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff a few times now as well. It's like BtB, but more like the BtB Christmas Special where it focuses on people that have tried to make positive changes instead of the villains. It's nice to have the same quality content but with a somewhat positive spin.

If you want to get into it without it taking up all your time, see if Robert's or Margaret's topic is something that really looks good, or if it doesn't you can check out ICHH, which is split up into segments anyway and you can enjoy that in smaller portions.

Besides those, I enjoy Threedom (comedy show with Scott Aukerman of Comedy Bang Bang, Paul F Tompkins who was Mr Peanutbutter on Bojack Horseman, and Lauren Lapkus of Jurassic World, OitnB, and a ton of other things), How I Built This with Guy Raz, and Planet Money from NPR.

• Rough Translation
• P3 Dystopia
• Madigan's Pubcast
• Omnibus

• The Daily Beans
• Jack: A Special Counsel Podcast
• Cleanup on Aisle 45
• Opening Arguments
• Dear Old Dads
• The Scathing Atheist

Recently I've started listening to Off Menu

Castle Super Beast is what I put on for grinding in video games. Woolie Madden & Patrick Boivin from SBFP made their own podcast after dissolving the channel, and it's now been going on for about as long as their old podcast. It's about a bunch of nerd bullshit like video games, but with a slight veneer of a focus on industry news.

• Tosh Show
• Talking Counter
• HLTV Confirmed

Sometimes listen to

• The Daily
• StarTalk
• Behind the Bastards

I'm fully in the Nick Weiger podcast universe so I listen to:

• Doughboys
• Doughboys Double
• Get Played
• Get Played Season Pass

Which are all comedy podcasts with similar people appearing. They're about chain restaurants, random side bullshit, Video Games, and Anime respectively. Then I also listen to:

• Quick Question with Soren and Daniel
• The Film Reroll

Which is a podcast by 2 former cracked writers which is the only reason people listen to them and a podcast about playing through movies as role playing games

Fall of Civilizations podcast.

Great insight it a number of civilisations that have collapsed throughout human history. Explains their rise, peak and of course collapse in great detail.

The Indicator by Planet Money from NPR: they talk about what they feel are important indicators for the current economy, and expand on various economic topics in ways that I think anybody can understand, and are rather short.

The 1A from NPR: they talk about various topics that are affecting the US. They like to get people to chime in with their views, and have some experts on the topics to discuss context and how certain groups are or aren't pushing for changes. Its usually close to an hour long, and not all topics interest me, but they do talk about fake news, presidential elections, housing, mental health etc.

Planet Money from NPR: longer form discussions of economics, somewhat similar to the Indicator, but not as short form and they really expand on economic stories that I think are really interesting. Some topics include how, many, random people, can relatively accurately determine the weight of a cow (and how this defines the economy), the real estate trail that recently occurred and its background.

Any recommendations for podcasts in Spanish? Preferably where people speak in turn (not where 3+ people are speaking at the same time).

https://www.theblindboypodcast.ie

Hosted by Blindboyboatclub, who is an artist and author. An eclectic podcast containing short fiction, interviews and comedy.

Been going through Behind the Bastards and I enjoy it a lot. I started from the beginning which was excellent for understanding some of the memes and ongoing jokes.

I skip the “It Could Happen Here” episodes personally because they are very long and tend to bring me down, but they’re also really good and they really highlight the vulnerabilities of contemporary systems of government.

Behind the bastards is great, but don't bother subscribing to ICHH, those get out into the feed weekly. I'm not a fan of the daily series (too hit and miss for me, and I have too many as it is), but the original season or two were good.

Other than that, I've been working on catching up to current on the dollop (us history) and staying current on Some More News (news/current events), Beau of the Fifth column (current events/analysis) and knowledge fight (mainly Alex Jones/InfoWars analysis and deconstruction). I'll listen to In Retrospect (pop culture nostalgia analysis) or Security Now (tech news/concept breakdowns) or Risky Business (tech news) as I have time.

The only podcasts I listen to are the unexpectables ones. I don't even really like DND but MontyGlu is an amazing voice actor and role player... Like you can tell she genuinely cares for her NPCs and can tell the differences in characters from the nuisance of her characters and the candor in which they speak. I haven't had much luck finding that else where. And that's ignoring the fantastic world she has built for her players.

WARK.

My pocket cast stats: You've listened for 115 days 14 hours

Honorable mentions not yet seem in this thread (English only):

• The Guardian: The Audio long read - full articles read by real people (30-45 min.)
• Economist: Drum Tower - China correspondence about culture and politics
• Aquired - 3h+ episodes about tech IPO and the history of companies. Sounds boring but it gives a look behind the curtain of the tech industry from the 30s to today (fun example episode: PowerPoint)
• WNYC: On the media - Meta talk about media topics and enshittification
• Law and Chaos - Previously on Opening Arguments, now in their own podcast: US justice topics, GOP bashing and of course: Trump

Global public square by Fareed Zakaria.

Pivot by Kara swisher and Scott Galloway

On Point.

Freakonimics.

99% invisible.

I wanted to finish Wheel of Time, but couldn't slog my way through all the books again, so I listened to the Dragon Re-Read. A ton of fun conversation and saved me so much time and reading.

• Python Bytes
• Talk Python to Me
• The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
• Behind the Bastards
• Geeks without God

Give Srsly Wrong a shot! The Wrong Boys are funny and earnest and I always learn something from them.

• The Decentered Podcast - discussions about fediverse projects and interviews with the people working on them
• SANS Daily Stormcast - daily cybersecurity alerts
• Risky.biz - weekly cybersecurity news and discussions with industry professionals
• Security Now - weekly cybersecurity news and topical deep dives
• NPR: Up First - daily US and global news
• LeVar Burton Reads - LeVar Burton reads short stories

Serious Trouble, by the further hosts of (and essentially a continuation of) All the President's Lawyers.

Nocturne, by Vanessa Lowe. A podcast about the night, and things that happen during the night. Favorite episodes: Night ways about what ancient people use to do at night and how archeology and anthropology are changing their perceptions; Finding the Void about a guy who lived inside a mall; On the North Face about a guy who got lost while climbing Mount Shasta; What's Would You Do about the fear of night.

I usually check in on The Daily like once a week to see if anything interesting has been covered.

And This Week in Virology, which I got into during the pandemic. Usually the weekly update on Friday on what contagious diseases are currently circulating, and about half the time their Sunday episode.

F**k Face and Face Jam were my jam, but I have no clue how long they’ll be around what with Rooster Teeth being shut down. Otherwise, I try to keep up with Factually! as often as I can.

• Even More News
• Behind The Bastards
• Party Girls
• Translash
• Antifada
• Tech Won't Save Us
• Better Offline
• Factually
• Knowledge Fight
• The Hamilton Morris Podcast

The one podcast I listen to every week as it comes out is Lateral, a trivia show hosted by Tom Scott with rotating guests.

Other than that, I have a thing for casual and conversational history podcasts, including:

• The Lesser Bonapartes (old but gold, the full backlog's only available on spotify under the title 'From the desk of Glen')
• Dead Ideas
• Some 'leader ranking' podcasts with the same formula: Rex Factor (British monarchs), Totalus Rankium (Roman Emperors and then American Presidents) and Pontifacts (Popes)

I’ll always recommend Blowback. Specially season 3. Death to America.

Guys: A Podcast About Guys and

Guys+: A Podcast About "Guys: A Podcast About Guys"

Metis in Space!

Brad and Will made a Tech Pod Last podcast on the left Nextlander Old Gods of Appalachia

NECRONOMIPOD

You get: Aliens Cults Cryptids Conspiracies True Crime

And so much more. It may just be three dudes from Ohio bullshitting around in a basement but I fucking love it

I'm a sucker for true crime, so I would recommend anything like that.

Then there's No Such Thing as a Fish, which I find fun. Star Talk... Oh and I've been listening to that one with Zach Braff and Donald Faison where they rewatch Scrubs together and talk about each episode together with a relevant guest per episode. The Scrubs one happens during the pandemic as well, which they talk about sometimes, and it's interesting to hear how they are reacting to it and losing their loved ones.

I listen to a lot of podcasts. Lately it has been

English:

• Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast
• Desert Skies
• Copperheart
• Derelict
• Tower 4
• The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings
• SCP Archives
• Margareth's Garden
• Thirteen

Swedish:

• P3 Dystopia
• P3 Dokumentär
• USA-podden
• Gräns
• Det Politiska spelet
• Europapodden
• Radiokorrespondenterna Ryssland
• Rollspelsklubben

And probably a dozen more

I've been listening to a lot of This American Life this year. Gosh the stories are good.

Also this is pretty woowoo and the commercial part is really heinous but the Expanded podcast by To Be Magnetic is genuinely a really good self help podcast. It's a lot of white women in fedora schtick but their advice is actually really very good.

Hard Fork - I love the hosts and the current popular tech news Pantsuit Politics - some really thoughtful nuanced views (Sarah can get a little spicy but it’s fun and informative) Knowledge Fight Maintenance Phase (only releasing intermittently right now but the hosts are hilarious and it’s good info about all things health and nutrition…good myth debunking)

And these ones are very popular and probably not unknown to you but I listen to Up First (NPR) and The Daily every single day as they’re good, short to moderate length current news podcasts…relatively unbiased.

I also listen to Pod Save America, Slate Political Gabfest, FiveThirtyEight, The Bulwark and Strict Scrutiny for a wide range of political arenas (lefty, righty, polling, judiciary…not in that order necessarily)

For college football fans, Shutdown Fullcast, the only college football podcast. They occasionally accidentally talk about football.

Never been one for podcasts but man—the past few years have been super inundated with Drawfee and the related Secret Sleepover Society content on YouTube. It’s just so comforting as background noise while working.

• This week in Tech
• This week in Google
• No such thing as a fish
• Waveform
• Vergecast

I subscribe to a few more, but I often skip them, but the above i listen to every episode.

I like listening to people play RPGs. I mostly enjoy them playing Pokemon but have run out of them I used to listen to M&M and now listen to DnD.

Not a lot, but several haven't been mentioned yet:

• Darknet Diaries
• SANS ISC StormCast
• 538 Politics
• Lawfare
• Rational Security
• Perun - Technically a Youtube series, but there is a podcast feed for the audio