Asklemmy

Love me some Darknet Diaries and Hacked.

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.

Smartless

Drifting Off with Joe Pera: A Sleep Podcast

https://www.patreon.com/DriftingOffwithJoePera

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drifting-off-with-joe-pera/id1669125364

https://open.spotify.com/show/56Vb1dQgGFEFJ9r937U3pg

Drifting Off With Joe Pera is an evening comedy podcast from comedian Joe Pera and composer Ryan Dann. With low-key jokes, immersive soundscapes, and relaxing phone conversations, Joe’s narration and Ryan’s sound design will help you unwind and perhaps even fall asleep. Featuring guest composers and interviews with interesting folks, the podcast will be released on the first Sunday of every month. Sorry, it's not more often but this is the fastest we can do thoughtful, quality work.

After the cancellation of Joe Pera Talks With You, I was glad to learn that Joe and his calming voice would be making new content. Especially content I can drift off with.

Soooo many, but here are my top 5

1. The Daily Beans - News. With Swearing
2. Cognitive Dissonance - Two shouty atheists talk about stuff
3. The Skepticrat - Funny hot takes on the news
4. Behind the Bastards - All about the worst people
5. NPR Politics - 90% American, 10% international, but still about America

• Stuff You Should Know

• Barbell Medicine

• Ham Radio Crash Course

• 2 White Lights

Been binging a lot of Last Podcast in the Left. The David Miscagive (Scientology) and Joseph Smith (Mormonism) episodes are amazing takedowns of cult leaders.

Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, and Off Menu.

The Omnibus -- a weird collection of obscure knowledge and topics, hosted by Ken Jennings and John Roderick. I've learned about the Charge of the Light Brigade (and why a cardigan is called a cardigan), I've learned about John Wayne's yacht that was converted from a minesweeper ship, and about the Hillbert Hotel way to visualize infinite numbers. It's good shit.

Also will always recommend This American Life from NPR. Sometimes it can be a bit of a miss, but usually it's my favorite way to start the workweek drive.

• Bad Friends
• Take Your Shoes Off
• Tigerbelly
• Conan O'Brien needs a friend
• Darknet Diaries

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.

Behind the Bastards, Knowledge Fight, and Castle Super Beast!

Behind the Bastards The dollop Swindled Lions led by donkeys

If Books Could Kill

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.

Criminal, This American Life, Hard Fork, No Such Thing As A Fish

it’s kinda niche, but since you asked: The SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sans-internet-stormcenter-daily-cyber-security-podcast/id304863991

Welcome to Nightvale, though I haven't listened in a while.

How Did This Get Made is a pretty darn good comedy podcast about people reviewing terrible movies. Sadly most of the low-hanging fruit are already done though so newer episodes usually talk about some obscure movies I've never heard of.

Dungeons and Daddies not a BDSM podcast ....except that one time

The Deprogram

Very bad wizards is my favorite, a philosopher and psychologist discussing books, movies, and random other stuff related to morality and ethics

"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.

Have a word - a UK comedy pod

Lateral - Tom Scotts brilliant pod with some great guests

Red Web - they talk about mysteries online and offline

So many…

The Hidden Athlete (long form interviews with endurance athletes)

No such thing as a fish (fun conversational about random weird factoids)

Sawbones

The One You Feed

The Debaters (stupid Canadian comedy debates)

The Art of Manliness (dumb name, decent content)

Discovery by the BBC

Ologies with Alie Ward

The Emma Guns Show (idgaf about beauty stuff, but love her quality of life & mental health topics)

Trail Runner Nation

Maintenance Phase

You’re Dead to Me (bbc history in a light funny way)

If you like short and sweet (most eps. 20–30 min) and don't mind being sad that it's discontinued:

A World Without

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.

The Constant) - A History of Getting Things Wrong is my absolutel favourite this past year. I discovered it via Our Fake History, which I also love.

Daily Tech News Show has been a staple for a decade, and I followed Tom on other pods for years before that.

American Innovations - And really most of the Wondery catalogue.

Your Own Backyard: The Disappearance of Kristin Smart

If you into true crime you are going to love this.

"If books could kill" - two guys going through popular books like Rich Dad Poor Dad, Nudge, and Atomic Habits and ripping them apart.

Behind Bastard - each episode is about some bastard from Napoleon III. to Coco Channel.

The new guru from BBC. Is short series about the rise of new internet gurus.

Here is my list. I’ve been listening to all of these for a while now.

• Coder Radio (https://coder.show)
• Linux Unplugged (linuxunplugged.com)
• Dev Game Club (devgameclub.com)
• Screaming in the Cloud (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/)

The Dollop It's an comedy American history podcast One of the hosts researches crazy events or biographies and the other host has no idea wtf is the topic. Really funny shit. If you want to try a quick episode look up 380-the beaver drop

It's not exclusive American history, when they travel they'll do other countries as well

The It's always sunny podcast and The Nextlander podcast

One called 'who shat on the floor at my wedding'

Basically a comedy podcast (real life) where two people and their friend investigate who shat on the floor at their wedding in a kind of satire of true crime podcasts. It's thoroughly entertaining and I'm so invested in finding out who actually shat on the floor at the wedding now.

• Spout Lore (actual play dungeon world podcast which is an absolute blast of hilarity and wholesomeness)
• Dungeon and daddies (first season is a masterpiece, after that, your mileage may vary, they are going too often in the "too raunchy" for my taste but there are some good episodes still)
• Adventure Zones I recently dropped. I basically enjoy only the one off they do in the old West with ghosts and such. The main campaign is subpar since quite some time
• Not Another D&D podcast, I'm catching up with the first season still, sometimes they go for the "over the top" for no reason but there are some good moments. I absolutely loathe the sponsors they use (like fucking turbotaxes and other exploiting companies)

I had others but over time the quality dropped unfortunately.

I used podcast for infotainment and keeping updated with work related stuff as well once, but since the pandemic I don't commute anymore and the time for podcast is basically just for when I cook or clean.

• Stories of Scotland - Jenny and Annie talk about Scottish history, culture, nature, and heritage in lovely accents and sometimes they get very silly
• Irish and Celtic Music Podcast - by Marc Gunn, the 'celtfather'... I love a good jig
• Stuff You Should Know - stories of curious and strange things... a bit US-centric but they do 'translate' units (e.g. feet to meters) and I appreciate that
• The compassion Initiative - Just two guys from Brisbane talking compassion, with Stan and James, also nice accents
• Me the Mountain - Acoustic guitar music I listen on the bus in the morning half asleep; there are no new episodes since 2021 but I listen to the remaining ones on repeat
• WTF with Marc Maron - the godfather of podcasts, nice chats, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry...

...and for my German fellow lemmys:

• Haschimitenfürst - Der Bobcast - für alle ??? (Hörspiel-)Süchtigen

Brad and Will Made A Techpod, 99% Invisible, Ask A Spaceman, Stuff The British Stole, Star Talk, Mindscape.

3 gordos bastardos.

The Doughboys - a podcast where they review chain restaurants (fast food to fast casual to high end chains). The hosts (Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell, comedians) have a love-hate relationship that makes it so fun and real. And their guests are the best.

Dungeons of Drakkenheim, the most enjoyable D&D 5e live play campaign out there.