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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

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.

Global public square by Fareed Zakaria.

Pivot by Kara swisher and Scott Galloway

On Point.

Freakonimics.

99% invisible.

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

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

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.

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 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.

Metis in Space!

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

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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

• 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.

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