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

Michal , 10 days ago

• 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.

multifariace , 10 days ago

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.

108 , 10 days ago

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

sylver_dragon , 10 days ago

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

BonesOfTheMoon , 10 days ago

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.

Archer , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

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

kambusha , 10 days ago

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

GissaMittJobb OP , 10 days ago

I'd be interested in this as well.

I follow the Duolingo Spanish Podcast, which has had some moderately interesting stories over the years, but I'd like to hear something a bit more challenging for sure.

kambusha , 10 days ago

I have 2 that I've finished that I could recommend:

• El verdadero Robo del Siglo (duolingo actually has a short version of this; but this is the original one in pure Spanish)
• La Cruda (Argentinean podcast, where he interviews an expert/specialist in a very specific field; e.g., a pilot, ER medic)

Donebrach , 10 days ago

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.

Swerker , 10 days ago

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

richieadler , 10 days ago

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

ArmyTiger , 11 days ago

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

jbrains , 11 days ago

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

Passerby6497 , 11 days ago

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.

chikaygo , 11 days ago

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)

theilleist , 11 days ago

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.

blindsight , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

I've heard about this one before, but I'm downloading an episode now.

The one thing I hate about QI is that I've already seen it all and there aren't any more episodes.

Edit: That was great. It totally scratched the QI itch. Among many other tidbits, I now know how leech treatments were discovered, that there's a specific frequency that is arousing for badgers and sets off car alarms, and that in one year, over 700 American students were arrested for owning pagers.

Edit: Holy shit. The author of Goodnight Moon literally died from an overly-enthusiastic "can-can kick". She did it to prove she was feeling fine... (ironically) but she dislodged a blood clot that instantly killed her.

theilleist , 10 days ago

Well now I know you're the type of person who starts a podcast newest to oldest instead of the other way around lol

DrZoidbergYes , 10 days ago

Anna from No Such Thing as a Fish recommended an Australian podcast called Smart Enough to Know Better years ago and I've been thoroughly enjoying both since. And I would say if you get the opportunity to see No Such Thing as a Fish live go for it. They are excellent live.