What I hate are waaaay overproduced podcasts like More Perfect. They have interesting content but it is like some movies where they seem to cut to something else every five seconds and the hosts are overly chirpy and energized. Sucks because the info they are relaying is good. How they do it is what sucks. You can listen to one example here (below). Fascinating story if you can tolerate listening to it.
BtB does not seem too bad to me. They are both pushing the same info and trying not to just read a laundry list of crap of whoever it is they are on about (which would be deadly dull).
If you like to make fun of bad movies, I would recommend The Flop House. I think the best espisodes are when they have a guest, especially Hallie Haglund. I prefer it over How Did This Get Made because Jason Mantzoukas gets on my nerves.
Stuff You Should Know, a spinoff of How Stuff Works. The co-hosts Josh and Chuck present a reasonably well researched treatise on a variety of topics, sometimes biographical, sometimes scientific, sometimes miscellaneous other. Their banter is free flowing and tangents are numerous, but always entertaining. Recent listens have included “How Monopoly Works” “How Cabbage Patch Kids Work” and “How Black Friday Works”.
seconded (although I listen on YouTube). Tom Holland (not the actor) and Dominic Sandbrook discuss anything that happened in the past, from wars and social movements, to the occasional true crime (they did Jack the Ripper recently). They go very deep into well-documented detail, if that’s your bag.
Retired DJ/talk radio host Paul Harris has been podcasting bits of his old shows, which were promoted as “talk radio for people who don’t listen to talk radio.” For example, his 2018 interview with Dr. Demento can be found on this page.
This story from 1938 is from a podcast called “This One Time in Kankakee” – an ongoing collection of offbeat stories from Kankakee County.
One that I enjoyed from way back in the 2010s was Mike Duncan’s History of Rome.
The format is simple. Each episode is a monologue, about 20 minutes, going through the history of Rome from Aeneis to Romulus Augustus.
Two science oriented ones that I like are Science Friday and the AAAS Science podcast. Both are interview format, either with journalists or scientists.
The Last Podcast on the Left is by far one of my favorites. They do true crime and historical events. I think they are a better version of Behind the Bastards. LPotL are very well sourced and I can’t recommend them enough. The only drawback for some is they can be quite crude, but it usually adds to the humor.
For video game stuff The Nextlander Podcast can’t be beat!
I agree. I follow both and immediately listen to LPOTL (except Side Stories). Behind the Bastards is one of my “I’m all caught up on everything else” backups.
Cold War Conversations, Listening to America (LTA was formerly The Thomas Jefferson Hour), and C-Span’s Lectures in History. I too liked Hardcore History but hadn’t listened in awhile.
I like history podcasts, but a lot of the ‘recommended’ ones are just crank-out corporate serials with no depth.
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I **do **listen to WWDTM but I consider that primarily a radio show.
Another podcast I listen to, 20 Thousand Hertz, which is about sound, did something really clever in an episode (it’s an older one but I have been working my way back as well as forward) that made me laugh out loud. The episode title was “One weird trick to stop snoring” and I will spoiler what happens in case anyone cares to listen…
The episode begins about snoring and the suddenly they cut to “Never Gonna Give You Up” You’ve been Rickrolled and then the real episode begins, about the history of Rickrolling (it’s origin, the history of the song etc.). It was really funny and totally got me and was an interesting episode to boot, complete with an interview with Rick Ashley himself.
I started listening to A Slob Comes Clean and I’m finding it really useful and often applicable beyond the main subject of cleaning, decluttering and organizing.
For example she said not to try to do things consistently when you’re trying to make a change. Instead of telling yourself, “I have to do this every day from now on,” say, “No, I just have to do it today.” It’s less intimidating that way.
That could apply to any change you’re trying to make. Very ADHD friendly.
Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. Fortunately he recorded many episodes before his death and they are very entertaining if you enjoy old Hollywood.
You Must Remember This with Karina Longworth. This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century.
The Rialto Report. A podcast and article series documenting the Golden Age of Porn. It consists of oral history, audio, photo, and documentary archives. Even when they cover people or topics I’m not really interested in, it is still fascinating about a world I know very little about.