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"The Europeans" — a podcast about, well, Europe.

HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast- Readings with interspersed commentary. Both hosts enjoy the material and their commentary tends to be on topic and stays brief. Good production value with music and editing to keep things tight.

History That Doesn't Suck - Prof. Jackson goes through US history linearly, one episode at a time. Very tight, but informative narrative structure. Tons of episodes.

The Silt Verses - A fantasy horror podcast where gods are real, spawned solely through belief, feed on sacrifices (usually human), and have been corporatized. It's amazing and the series just recently finished so there's no waiting for the next episode to drop. Easily the best podcast I've ever listened to.

Sawbones - An awsome medical history podcast by Justin and Dr. Sydnee McElroy. Sydnees part is pretty obvious, she's a family medicine doctor and she researches and presents historical bits about all the ways we have tried to do medicine throughout history. Justin is just Justin, he's a podcaster and games journalist by trade so he's mainly there as a layman and as comedic support.

The Magnus Protocol - Fantasy horor that I'm having trouble expplaining but it's damn good. It's made by the same creators that did the magnus archives. When they announced it on kickstarter after the magnus archives was finished they quickly earned over $700,000 so that should be some indication of how much people liked the magnus archives and the budget for the show.

Darknet Diaries is just amazing, it's always really interesting, I never get bored

The Lockdown is a pretty good podcast about digital (and physical) privacy and security

The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show by Michael Bazzell @ inteltechniques.com was really great, but they took it down last year. Fortunately there is still a torrent of the full archive of the show floating around: https://lemmings.world/post/11120738

The Ask Noah Show is all about Linux and open source software

Basically everything produced by Jupiter Broadcasting is just awesome, including Linux Unplugged and Self-Hosted

Linux Matters can also sometimes have really good content (Here's their Mastodon profile: https://ubuntu.social/@linuxmatters)

Brodie Robertson's Tech over Tea (I'm sorry I don't have a better way to link to it than Apple Podcasts)

The Linux Experiment's weekly Linux & open source news podcast (which you can also follow from the Fediverse btw, Castopod is just an awesome piece of software)

The Greatest Generation - Star Trek rewatch podcast. Rekindled my love for the greatest franchise in history. Hosts approach the show from a tv production background

Spout Lore - the best real-play podcast, in my opinion. Dungeon World with incredible world building despite almost everyone being named Greg

Blank Check with Griffin and David - film analysis from the film critic for the Atlantic and Arthur from the Tick / Orko / Watto, covering a director's entire filmography each series

Marvel by the Month - Reading every Marvel comic, one month at a time. Has a gaggle of comic book industry legends as regular guests, talks about the context in which the comics were written, theme and interstitial music are bangers

Talk of the Devils (Manchester United podcast) The Athletic FC (general football) Kino Kingdom (movie podcast by two of my friends) By Far The Greatest Team (football history, my uncle is one of the hosts) The Rest is History (er, history) Doom Tomb (doom metal) Page 94 (UK politics)

Every drag queen podcast, as well as Nicole Byer's Why Won't You Date Me? which has a lot of drag queen guests,will teach you more about sex than you ever had any idea about. A sex therapist telling Vanjie not to use Tic-tacs to douche with is absolutely wild.

I listen to a lot of the BBC Sounds podcasts... possibly because I'm boring and British.

My favourites are:

• In Our Time: 3 academics and a host discuss an academic topic in deep detail. Science, humanities, arts, etc. Some episodes are more interesting than others but depends on your personal interests. I like the philosophy ones because I studied it at university.
• The Today Podcast: UK news and current affairs.
• Screenshot: Film critics Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode discuss the history of cinema by picking a theme or motif to explore per episode, i.e. "Mermaids" was a recent one.
• The Digital Human: explores technology trends and how they affect individuals and society.

This American Life has nearly 30 years of excellent content. I know it is popular so maybe not worth mentioning, but I think there is a good reason this OG is still around. It is superb. So many little hidden gems.

One of my favorites is the first section of What Lies Beneath:

A beloved drawing goes missing from Mr. Ablao’s third grade classroom. The class holds a funeral for the drawing, which accidentally unleashes a much bigger feeling than anyone anticipated.

But there are many, many more.

Not so much a podcast but I've just finished listening to the BBC radio comedy series "Cabin Pressure"

Turns out it's quite dangerous to laugh that hard when you're driving, not recommended

Written by John Finnimore and has Benedict Cumberbatch as the pilot, but Roger Allam and Stephanie Cole absolutely steal the show with their sarcasm and banter

• Knowledge Fight
• Behind the Bastards
• Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Last Podcast on the Left - Three guys that covered true crime, the morbid, the crazy and everything in between while cracking dark humor over it all. I used to listen to this heavily from 2017 through 2021. I believe before I just stopped listening. They lost one of their longtime hosts recently to controversy a while back and I haven't been interested in picking it back up.

The Prancing Pony Podcast - This is an acquired taste because it appeals to fans of Middle-Earth and everything Tolkien. Two hosts offer insight and depth reading of the legendarium, starting from Silmarillion through Hobbit and up to the Lord of the Rings. I think they're close to wrapping up Return of the King soon. Very informational podcast to get into if you're a fan of the lore.

Sequelisers - A group of hosts take bad unnecessary sequels to beloved films and attempt to fix them, while offering insight as to why the sequel in question was a bad idea in the first place.

CUPodcast - Again, another acquired taste because this only has a small following and it involves video games. It's hosted by Pat Contri who is known as PatTheNESPunk on YouTube along with co-host Ian. They basically cover the gossip and general news rounds with gaming.

The Abroad In Japan Podcasts is a really great listen, short but regular episodes and there's a decent amount of variety in what they talk about

I liked Opt Out a lot, but in recent years it has quite few episodes. It's main topic is privacy and related technologies, in every episode they have a guest related to the current topic.

• Behing The Bastards - informing, well researched bits of history with hilarious hosts
• The War On Cars - The name is a bit of a joke. Interesting discussions around how our cities are designed.

Omnibus with Ken Jennings and John Roderick is very entertaining and educational. You'll either love the chemistry between the hosts or find them insufferable.

Knowledge Fight - a podcast all about Alex Jones. Over 900 episodes, so a huge backlog of you enjoy it, but you can just start with the most recent episode.

Revolutions - does a deep dive on 10 different major revolutions. You can start from any series beginning, but I would recommend listening in order. French, Haitian, and Russian are my three favorite.

Smartless is fun.

Science Vs is short and interesting.

What's Her Name is great for true stories on historical women you may not have heard of.

If Books Could Kill tears into popular books.

Why Did You Tell Me That goes into interesting topics with comedy.

Last Podcast on the Left is mostly true crime but might cover other interesting true stories. The lads are funny.

No Dogs in Space is a great music one that covers bands in series. Mostly punk and alternative.

I haven't listened to any since I no longer spend my work day in the car, but if you're a dork like me, you might enjoy:

Tales from the Magic Tavern: A man from Chicago gets sucked into a portal and finds himself in a fantasy world of wizards, Orcs, and a nasty little shapeshifting badger. There is a structured plot line, but all dialogue is improvised.

Hey Riddle Riddle: That nasty little badger from Magic Tavern started his own podcast that focuses on riddles. They ask each other riddles and the listener can try to solve them as the hosts figure it out. Also, full of silly improv scenes between riddles

Dungeons & Daddies: Follows a D&D game in which a group of dads and their sons are transported from our world into the Forgotten Realms. The Dads must use their newfound D&D powers to save their children. Very funny, AMAZING STORY. The DM does a great job, and was a lead writer for Borderlands 2, if that means anything to you.

Get Played: Originally they only covered terrible or bizarre video games, but expanded to weird/ mind bending games. They introduced me to some really good underrated Indy games.

Here's the Situation: Two Improvisors that present each other with scenarios and they just give their honest opinion on it. For example, of you could only eat one candy for the rest of your life, what would it be? What if there was an organized draft (like in sports) and only one person could claim each candy? How much do you think you could sell an actual magic item for on eBay? They ended it years ago, but it was fun to bring the situations back to my family and see what they thought.

Tech won't save us. Great series in my opinion. Great if you want to hear about tech in general and it not always be a good thing.

99 percent invisible - fantastic podcast on a variety of topics. Roman Mars goes into detail about every day things and concepts.

Dungeons and Daddies. DnD podcast. Great for road trips. My wife and I were crying laughing at some parts.

American Hysteria. A look into the real and not so real stories that make America.

My dad wrote a porno

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

Please listen to: × Kill James Bond (very funny leftist film critique)

× The worst of all possible worlds (funny absurdist pop culture reviews)

× worlds beyond number (DnD live play podcast)

The only podcast I liked is no long being produced - The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show.

Personal favorite: Eggplant.show

Candid conversations with game creators that dive deep into the art, craft, and process of making games.

Making Sense with Sam Harris