# Favorite Podcasts??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428 "2017-08-23T01:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/41 "2017-08-24T00:57:17Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > **You made it Weird** - Pete Holmes - I haven’t listened to this yet, but he’s very funny, so I have high hopes! He laughs a LOT. And he has slightly hippy ideas about how people work. It can get very deep. I usually find it a bit much, and I end up getting annoyed at him, so I don’t listen unless the guest is up my alley. He had Dan Harmon and Tim Minchin in close succession, those were good. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/42 "2017-08-24T01:49:01Z")
Let me third Dan Carlin’s **Hardcore History** my favorite is World War I _Blueprint for Armageddon_. I just started Kevin Stroud’s **History of English Podcast** , very interesting. He starts with proto-European and 98 episodes later is only at the Magna Carta. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/43 "2017-08-24T01:58:26Z")
Joe Rogan experience WTF with marc maron Lore Rachel Maddow Fareed Zakaria Freakonomics Sawbones Waking up with Sam Harris ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/44 "2017-08-24T02:47:27Z")
The Last Podcast on the Left Lore Myths and Legends Car Talk The How Stuff Works podcasts Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me A Way with Words Ask Me Another The Last Podcast on the Left is the best. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/45 "2017-08-24T14:34:40Z")
Just realized that I didn’t add a “second!” for **Last Podcast on the Left**. Their research is thorough and painstaking. They have also, over the course of a five-part series, come up with what I think is the best theory as to who Jack the Ripper really was: No one. At least, not any one person. Their conclusion was that two of the murders were committed by one individual, two by another, and one by a third person. The murders were completely unrelated. The newspapers portrayed it as a single madman because that sold more papers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@The\_Dope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dope)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/46 "2017-08-24T14:42:47Z")
no jumper is cool if you like hiphop/bmx/skateboarding/underground music ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/47 "2017-08-24T15:30:23Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > I just started Kevin Stroud’s **History of English Podcast** , very interesting. He starts with proto-European and 98 episodes later is only at the Magna Carta. I enjoy _History of English_ very much. Although given that it’s a podcast about language, Stroud’s slight southern accent occasionally makes his illustrative pronunciations interesting. 🙂 I also listen to Jamie Jeffers’ _The British History Podcast_, which is a narrative history of Britain, starting at the Ice Age and moving forward. It moves fairly slowly–he’s 250 episodes in, and the Normans haven’t even shown up yet–but that’s because, unlike a lot of histories of England, he doesn’t skip over the Anglo-Saxon era in his eagerness to get to the Vikings and the Normans. So rather than limiting his coverage of the early Middle Ages to Alfred the Great, as so many people do, you’ll learn about kings like Ida, Offa, Oswiu, Penda, and AEthelbald. People you’ve probably never heard of, but whose reigns were as interesting and eventful as any of the more familiar English kings of later years. Jeffers also has a breezy, irreverent style–he plays the Wilhelm Scream whenever one of King Ida’s many sons gets killed, for instance–which makes it fun to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/48 "2017-08-24T18:18:34Z")
Oh No With Ross and Carrie is very good. We listened to the series where they joined the Church of Scientology while driving back from seeing the eclipse. The Skeptics Guide to the Universe is a great podcast. I can’t stand Startalk. It should be called, “Shut up, guest, and let the star talk” because Neil deGrasse Tyson continually interrupts everyone with his banal observationa and lame jokes. Econtalk with Russ Roberts is the best economics podcast there is, IMO. Waking up with Sam Harris is my current favorite political podcast, mainly because A) it’s very smart, and B) Harris seems to making an equal amount of enemies on the right and left these days, so it’s a perspective you don’t get if you stay comfortably in the echo chamber of your own ideological programs. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/49 "2017-08-24T19:30:03Z")
[Criminal](http://thisiscriminal.com/) is very good. After being impressed by **Serial** , I subscribed to a bunch of true-crime related podcasts, but this is the only one I still listen to. Too bad it’s only monthly. HowStuffWorks does a bunch of good podcasts. My favorite is [Stuff to Blow Your Mind](http://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/), perhaps followed by **Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know** , **Foodstuff** and **Stuff You Missed in History Class**. Oddly, their flagship **How Stuff Works** podcast is the weakest, especially for science topics (the two hosts have very poor understanding of science). [Sawbones](http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/sawbones) and [Oh No Ross and Carrie](http://ohnopodcast.com/) are fun in a relaxed way, perfect for when I’m not in the mood for something more emotionally taxing (like **This American Life** ). [The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe](http://www.theskepticsguide.org/) is my favorite science/skeptic podcast. Skeptoid is good too, but short. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/50 "2017-08-24T19:36:44Z")
If you like This American Life and The Moth, try _[Snap Judgment](http://snapjudgment.org/)_. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/51 "2017-08-24T19:46:09Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > HowStuffWorks does a bunch of good podcasts. My favorite is [Stuff to Blow Your Mind](http://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/), perhaps followed by **Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know** , **Foodstuff** and **Stuff You Missed in History Class**. Oddly, their flagship **How Stuff Works** podcast is the weakest, especially for science topics (the two hosts have very poor understanding of science). I really dislike How Stuff Works because the two hosts are two guys who really think they’re funny when they aren’t at all. Same with “True Crime Garage”, they will stop a serious/interesting conversation to do some improv and it’s the dumbest most obvious jokes you can imagine. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/52 "2017-08-24T20:03:14Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > I really dislike How Stuff Works because the two hosts are two guys who really think they’re funny when they aren’t at all. That might be part of it, but I really think the biggest problem is that they seem to present topics they don’t understand, and aren’t interested enough to research properly. The other hosts on the HowStuffWorks network are much better - the hosts genuinely seem to be interested in what they are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/53 "2017-08-24T20:47:30Z")
Because of the recommendations here, I decided to check out an episode of _The Last Podcast On the Left_. Is it always like that? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/54 "2017-08-24T22:34:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Because of the recommendations here, I decided to check out an episode of _The Last Podcast On the Left_. > > Is it always like that? Is what always like that? I think the last podcast on the left has potential, but the constant banter reminds me of morning zoo radio and I find it a turn off. ---
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/55 "2017-08-25T00:11:58Z")
Would it be bad form to recommend one NOT to listen to? 😛 S-Town. yuck. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/56 "2017-08-25T01:23:10Z")
**Hollywood Babble-On** with Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman, usually done as a live show from the Improv. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/57 "2017-08-25T01:48:20Z")
Has anyone listened to Norm Macdonald Live? I enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/58 "2017-08-25T02:56:37Z")
> [@Peanut\_Gallery](#): > > Would it be bad form to recommend one NOT to listen to? 😛 > > S-Town. yuck. I mentioned it before, but I’m into True Crime podcasts but the podcast **True Crime Garage** which I’ve seen be recommended on other websites is incredibly bad. The two hosts are very dry but at the same time try to be funny and as a result the jokes never land. There’s so much filler in the podcast it’s astounding, they start each episode with a boring “What are we drinking” craft beer segment, then they’ll just play for minutes at a time 911 Calls or News Reports of the crime with absolutely no context or editing so they seem to take forever, then they’ll often repeat the same details of the case over and over again “just to remind listeners” despite the fact it’s an hour long podcast, nobody listening needs to rehear something that happened 20 minutes ago. The host and cohost love to talk in circles with one asking a question than the other answers, then for some reason asks the same question but slightly differently worded. It was so frustrating I gave up 3 episodes in which is 3 hours I’m never getting back. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/59 "2017-08-25T03:13:59Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Because of the recommendations here, I decided to check out an episode of _The Last Podcast On the Left_. > > Is it always like that? > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Is what always like that? Is _The Last Podcast On the Left_ always like the episode that I heard? I didn’t know quite how to describe it. > [@](#): > > I think the last podcast on the left has potential, but the constant banter reminds me of morning zoo radio and I find it a turn off. Yeah, something like that. It seems like there might be some interesting subjects that they talk about, but amid all the stupid jokes and bad voices it’s too much trouble to extract any good parts. It’s like eavesdropping on a frat house. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428/60 "2017-08-25T05:01:13Z")
[Hard Times and Weirdness.](http://hardtimesandweirdness.libsyn.com) The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. It’s generally recorded on the road, and they have a seemingly endless series of stories. They play 200+ concerts a year, and one of the things they set out to do was actually see the world as they travel it, not falling into that trap so many musicians do of seeing the world only as airports and concert venues. They are passionate fishermen and sportsmen, fishing everywhere in the world. If you only listen to one episode,[the one where Rev tells about his run-in with Ted Nugent](http://hardtimesandweirdness.libsyn.com/hard-times-weirdness-episode-11) is an absolute classic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/794428.md?page=4)