My personal favourite is Beautiful/Anonymous. Tell me yours.
Behind the Bastards!
Do you know who else listened to Behind the Bastards?
…the products and services that support this podcast🤷♂️
I love his segues.
I hope I spelled that right, it looks really wrong to me for some reason.
Came here to say this. I feel like everyone can benefit from listening to BtB
Definitely don’t binge it tho, it can be a lot.
+1 for Behind the Bastards. Robert Evans might be one of the few leftists around these days that I can tolerate to listen to for more than 5 minutes.
I tried it but wound up feeling the same way I do about the many nazi shows they used to play on History channel. I understand we should be wary of the villains of our past, but devoting hours of time laughing and talking about them seems disingenuous to the many many others who suffered from their actions.
My three favorite podcasts gotta be,
- Behind the Bastards - They basically pick a “bastard” from history talk about them.
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History - Explainers about interesting (and often, grim) historical events in great detail.
- A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail - Three fellow nerds talk about nerd stuff.
I wish Behind The Bastards would be in another format. Just can’t stand that style of podcasting
I honestly really like it. Their casual humor brings balance to the otherwise dark content of the podcast.
Yeah, they talk about some FUCKED UP stuff on there. I’m glad Robert, Sophie, and guest(s) can joke a bit about things between some of the atrocities.
DarknetDiaries
It’s the podcast I’m listening to right now. If you’re interested in It you have to listen to it. The storytelling is just soo good. I really recommend the Episodes “Xbox Underground” and “Operation Bayonet”
Most episodes aren’t actually about the dark Web and are instead about Cybersecurity.
Jack is the man. This is literally the only podcast I’ve ever listened to.
You may also like Hacking Humans and Malicious Life.
I listened to that! It’s amazing.
I never see this mentioned but Darknet Diaries is actually a really informative and entertaining podcast about hacking, the dark web, physical penetration testing (gone wrong), nation-state cyber attacks.
Darknet Diaries is absolutely excellent!
Yeah, I know little of IT (as I’m a mech engineer, in construction) but find the story telling to be so good it’s one of my favorite podcasts.
Darknetdiaries the name sounds pretty cringe but it is a really good podcast about digital crime.
Rss feed: link
Well, there’s your problem. A podcast about engineering disasters, with slides.
Which is, itself, a disaster.
I listen to so many, its hard to pick one. My current favourite is probably Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford. He does really good podcasts and I’ve followed him over from his BBC Radio 4 podcast (More or Less) which I also love.
Cautionary Tales is about a major screw up from history and the systemic problems that caused it. It takes away from society’s bias to lay blame at the feet of the last known individual involved and looks at the whole causal chain leading up to an event.
Excellent stories and wonderfully produced
99% Invisible. Produced in beautiful downtown Oakland California.
Love that podcast!
My favorites:
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
- Behind the Bastards
- Radiolab
- Stuff you should know
- The Rest is History
- Nature Podcast
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Opening arguments is also a good legal/political podcast for fans of 5-4
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No Such Thing As A Fish
One more than one occasion I’ve been crying tears from laughter.
Ok I love that!
Lage der Nation
from Germany. It’s like the weekly newspaper, where a judge and a journalist sum up and talk about what is happening in and around Germany. I like how they put everything in perspective and that not everything is as easy as it seems.
I haven’t seen anybody else suggest it but “99% invisible” is one of my favorites.
I love this thread! Many of my favorites have been mentioned. My first first few are acquired tastes, but I have come to really enjoy them.
- Last Podcast on the Left - true crime, aliens, paranormal, horror comedy show
- Timesuck with Dan Cummins - similar to LPotL, but single host
- Knowledge Fight - commentary on Alex Jones and others with humor
- Internet Today - opinion based comedy news for all things tech, gaming, etc.
On the shorter side:
- Everything Everywhere Daily - something new every day on various subjects
- Today in History with the Retrospectors - short daily episodes bringing you curious moments from this day in history
- Atlas Obscura - curious and wondrous travel destinations
And a classic that I don’t think has been mentioned:
- Stuff You Should Know - interesting discussion about a wide variety of topics
I have added Chilluminati to try based on this thread.
Everyone loves history or investigation podcasts in this thread!
On The Media is the best news podcast. It reports on how stories are being reported, hence “on the media”, and in the process ends up being the most informative and deep reporting available. Journalists and academics love it, it’s a legendarily good show that started on NPR radio.
