Darknet Diaries, it’s about hacking and each episode is a different story and has interviews with people that were involved in information security incidents, either the ones doing the hacking and/or those defending from and responding to attacks
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Any specific episode to get me in?
Episode 53: Shadow Brokers
Episode 71: Information Monopoly
Episode 72: Bangladesh Bank Heist
Episode 73: WannaCry
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A few not yet mentioned:
- Well There's Your Problem - a podcast about engineering disasters
- Hard Fork - a weekly tech news show, with banter similar to what you could find on Reply All before that was ended
- The War on Cars - an urbanism-podcast
- The Urbanist Agenda - another urbanism-podcast, by the creator behind Not Just Bikes
- The Climate Denier's Playbook - a climate-podcast
- Hyperfixed - by one of the hosts of Reply All
And a vote for previously mentioned podcasts:
- 99% Invisible - a podcast about design, arguably my favourite
- Darknet Diaries - a podcast about cybersecurity
Darknet diaries. It's about anything security, spy, hacking, some networking bots, etc. do NOT need to be a nerd to love it, recent episode was a guy who started tracking stolen bikes and found a crazy web of criminals though patterns.
Very well spoken, very well edited, very easy to listen to, even if you're technically challenged.
This History of Rome -- Pretty much exactly what the title says. This is an old podcast. It started in 2007 and finished in 2013. It pioneered the history podcast genre. It was made by Mike Duncan, who went on to create...
Revolutions -- Mike Duncan's follow up to The History of Rome. It's a similar format, but rather than a single on-going historical narrative, each season focuses on a different historical revolution. The original run of the show covered the English Revolution, American, French, Haitian, Spanish-American, 1830 French Revolution, 1848 European Revolutions, Mexican, and Russian Revolutions. He then concluded the podcast in 2022, but started it back up again late last year. This season is a fictionalized podcast about the Martian Revolution of the 24th century (told as a history from someone living well in the future of it). He's said that once he's done this season he's going back to doing historical revolutions picking back up after the Russian Revolution.
- Morbid (True Crime/Mysteries)
- Behind the Bastards (History/Biography with some humor)
- No Sleep (Fictional Horror Audiodrama)--
I like Robert Evans
This week’s Behind the Bastards about Jim Caviezel is hilarious.
Oh cool! I'm always a week or so late on Behind the Bastards, I wait until they put it on youtube so I can use sponsorblock and kill the ads. I like the coolzonemedia podcasts, but they're way too heavy on the ads for me without a blocker
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My son loves Behind the Bastards!
If you're at all techy or in to self-hosting or home automation, the Self-Hosted podcast is excellent listening.
Shout out to Linux Unplugged, from the same network, Juipeter Broadcasting
Plenty of audience participation, current and active.
They also have meetups, community stuff and are very fediverse involved!
The Fall of Civilizations is hauntingly beautiful
Oologies. A charming interviewer talks to experts in various disciplines.
Better Offline: explains a lot of things that are wrong with today's tech. Mostly Ed ranting about enshittification/AI in everything
Here are some I really enjoy, which I also use to fall asleep to.
- Fall of civilizations - great history show
- Sweet Bobby - Weird and fascinating story
- The Spy Who - Awesome storytelling about different spystories from around the world
- It could happen here - Podcast that tells how a second american civil war could happen
- Decoding the gurus - decoding weirdos like musk, jordan peterson and other scammers
General interest
- Hardcore History (the best!)
- A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
- Myths and Legends
Game history
- Retronauts
- Video Game History Hour (Video Game History Foundation)
- New Books in Game Studies (I haven't listened yet, but the description sounds interesting anyway)
Talking about current video games
- Kit and Krysta
- Vic's Basement (Electric Playground)
- Easy Allies (Haven't tuned in since a lot their personalities left, but they've still got a solid crew)
Thanks for the recommendations. No idea Victor Lucas had a podcast, I’ll have to check it out.
Lateral - guests try to solve weird puzzles that require lateral thinking
Regular Features - regulars take turns telling a funny story each. They can be all kinds of different things. Songs, plays where everyone needs to get involved, or even true stories backed up with covert voice recordings.
That's Absurd Please Elaborate - regulars either explain something weird and interesting or listeners will prompt then with a question that they will go and research and explain in the podcast.
Horne Section Podcast - Little Alex Horne (of Taskmaster fame) interviews a guest alongside his band that will keep playing improv music of all kinds of different genres throughout. Regularly playing songs that end up being relevant to the guest, for example could be a funny retelling of their life or some fun word play on their name etc. the banter between Alex and band makes this one. They probably didn't even need guests to be honest.
A Problem Squared - 2 regulars each try to solve a question posed by listeners. Is often very intellectual but the two hosts are very witty and can find an interesting and funny way to explain someone's complicated concepts that anyone could understand and learn from.
James Acasters Perfect Sounds - each episode James shares an album specifically from the year 2016 to try and convince a guest that 2016 was the best year in music in an attempt to justify his obsession of trying to physically collect every album released in 2016. The reasons for it being 2016 specifically are very personal to him and uses each album to explain why. (This is like a companion piece/extension to a book he wrote prior on the same subject, except this time with other people involved and their opinions as well as the audible medium allowing him to share snippets of the sins they are talking about).
Some other ones I regularly listen to:
Cox n Crendor
Geekenders
Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast
C.R.E.A.M. (Cars Rule Everything Around Me - The TDC Podcast)
SmartLess
Windbreaker
Better Offline (A good one for Tech Sceptics that hate the big tech monopolies)
I'm a fan of Lingthusiasm. It's two linguist friends chatting about interesting things in their field. They keep it pretty approachable for non-linguists (like me)
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The Dollop is one of my all time favourites.
- welcome to nightvale - if you like kooky off the wall sci-fi stories
- We’re alive - Long form zombie survival podcast. I recommend starting from the beginning before moving to the newest stuff
- Alice isn’t Dead - mystery sci-fi trucker podcast
- Fictional - classical novels read with a bit of snark - new season coming soon
- That time that Planet Money read all of The Great Gatsby
- 99% Invisible’s book club synopsis of The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- The Truth
- What’s Ray Saying
The only one I listen to anymore is the WAN show. I just never have time to listen to them anymore so it usually takes 3-4 days to finish it.
I love Knowledge Fight. I came across Know Rogan podcast after seeing it linked a lot on the KFddit and I find it really good as well. If you like KF give KR a shot
I gave the Know Rogan guys' other podcasts a shot but they weren't for me. The Know Rogan one was good I even joined the Patron for it.
Thanks! With this I'll feel better tomorrow.
LeVar Burton Reads
It's exactly what you see on the label. Curated collection of short stories read by Mr. Buron. There are very few "to be continued" episodes, so you can pretty much jump in wherever and have a listen.
The Magnus Archives is still the best podcast of all time, if you're into audio dramas.
I also love The Deep 3, Thinking Basketball, and the No Dunks podcast for the NBA.
Not Another D&D Podcast is the only one I reliably listen to.
Similar vein - 8 Bit Book Club.
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This Podcast will Kill You. It's about illness causing pathogens and poisons. It's super cool they break it down so nicely. AND they cite their sources!!!
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DOS GAME CLUB
Origin Story - two people (from British print media) go into the backgrounds of terms, groups, ideologies, and people in the news.
I'd recommend not listening to podcasts unless you're specifically learning something.
Interesting, I've stopped listening to more than one podcast where the premise is "I learned about this thing and I'm telling you about it" when the podcasters got something wrong, got called out on it, and said "I'm not an expert, you shouldn't be talking me seriously." I've come to accept that podcasts are for entertainment only, and even if you think they seem well-researched, assume nothing you hear is true.
Always nice when people say something helpful.
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You're welcome.
I held a similar view many years ago, applied to all media and religiously motivated. I believed pleasure was sinful. My views and beliefs have since changed. Why do you make this recommendation?
Certainly not due to religion I can tell you that much.
Most podcasts are simply brain-rot. They aren't even entertainment any more, they're just zombification at this point.
This constant need to be entertained by something is ruining people's aptitude for their own thinking minds. Listening to podcasts seems to be a way for people to absorb WHAT to think, instead of HOW to think. Nobody I've seen who listens to these podcasts does so with a critical mind, because a podcast doesn't converse back. They listen to podcasts to be told what to think about a subject, so they can regurgitate it later.
Thanks for elaborating, I totally agree with you about this
I appreciate your view and I think I probably agree with you. I work a manual labor job and I’m alone most of the time. I listen to many audiobooks on Libby and many podcasts. I’ve noticed over the past several months my thinking getting more muddled, almost like there’s just too much information in my skull. I’ve started to build audio breaks in my week where I go a day or two without consuming anything with earbuds. I feel better. On info diet days my mind wanders, I’m able to think about things more carefully, my workflow is more organized, and I think more about the people in my life.
I’d recommend not posting on the internet unless you’re saying something helpful
Being unable to recognize helpful advice, doesn't mean I'm not being helpful.
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People, basically someone calls in to talk about anything they want with the host (comedian Chris Gethard). The caller can hang up any time, the host must hang up after exactly one hour.
People call in to talk about so many different things, and Gethard is really good at getting people to open up in a very genuine yet casual manner.
Unmade Podcast - 2 dudes talking podcast.
Lots of great suggestions. If you want one that will make you mad, Swindled is a great one about white collar crime. Podcaster is left leaning (outwardly so) and it's (sometimes) therapeutic to hear him talk about some of the topics.
acquired. deep dive into the history of major businesses. like ikea, rolex, tsmc, mars..
Search Engine - deep dives into interesting subjects
Your Kickstarter Sucks - sarcastic evaluations of bad kickstarter projects and other witty social commentary
Never Post - an audio magazine about the internet and stuff
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