Knowledge Fight
Trailer Park Boys Park After Dark
The Daily Zeitgeist
Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know
Last Podcast on the Left
True Crime Garage
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here
The Best of Coast to Coast AM
StarTalk Radio
Really? no, Really?
Stone Cold Steve Austin has one too if wrasslin’ is your thing. He did an amazing episode about a woodpecker I can’t seem to find anymore. Everything else is just talking shop about the biz.
These are all still active podcasts as far as I can tell. The first four are probably my favorite of the bunch. I’ve listened to podcasts for close to 40 hours a week some weeks. Sometimes I get the urge to look up what the people I’ve listened to for hundreds of hours look like. Just to see how close my imagination is to reality. Never acted on it but it is an itch I want to scratch.
If you’re into HP Lovecraft - there’s a brilliant dramatisation/reworking of his stories setup as a real investigative podcast called “The Lovecraft Investigations”.
There are four seasons: 1, 3 and 4 are on BBC Sounds:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06w5zwg?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Season 2 is available on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/the-lovecraft-investigations-the-whisperer-in-darkness/The+Whisperer+In+Darkness/Ep.+1+–+The+Whisperer+in+Darkness.mp3
Love this. Bookmarking tons of stuff.
I’ll add: A Sense Of Rebellion. Miniseries about the confluence of the rise of computer science and intellectualism and psychedelic culture at MIT in the 50’s and 60’s.
So many excellent suggestions, I have to ask. Where do y’all find the time to listen to all of this!?
You Made It Weird, with Pete Holmes. Really fucking funny comedian Pete has had lots of interesting guests. Usually starts with relatively normal stuff, but usually by the end of any given episode he gets into “Do you believe in God?”, “What do you think happens when we die?”, and “You ever do ayahuasca?” territory. Pete is SMART and has been going on his own spiritual and philosophical journey for a while, and it feels like every guest is another step on that journey. Look up the episode list and find someone you like and listen to their conversation.
I have two recommendations from BBC Podcasts:
13 Minutes to the Moon
And
History of Music (hosted by Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason)
Warning, all content below is In french :
- if you like audio adventures, fantasy (and are quite fluent in french) I urge you to try “reflets d’acide”. Imagine that your typical D&D session is narrated, with meta jokes and lots of wordplay !
- Le comptoir Sécu, Which is a periodic review of cyber security news.
- a list of content creators that you can find in podcasts ( or youtube), pretty politicals : clément victorovitch (rethoric analyst, with a heavy focus on french politics, pretty mainstream but hard leaning left. Mathieu burgalassi ( french journalist focusing on fighting fascism and alt-right, everything he does is heavily sourced and he also did some debates)
Ty and That Guy. They mostly talk about movies, especially 80s and 90s movies, and that’s my jam.
Valley Heat. It’s a fictional podcast about a guy who’s a freelance insurance adjuster who thinks his pool guy is using his garbage can as a drug drop. He talks about his neighbors and all the weird stuff they do. One guy has a car wash in his driveway and turns his garage into a 80s style arcade and night club. He gets mad at his wife’s yoga instructor because he sent her a mermaid emoji through venmo. It’s chock full of zaniness.
I really enjoy Flightless Bird. It’s a New Zealand journalist that moved to America to report on all of the things he finds strange about the US. As an American I have fun listening his fascination of all the weird things here especially when it comes to corporate america.
