# What podcasts do you listen to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 15, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699 "2019-08-15T15:26:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pawkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@pawkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pawkins)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/1 "2019-08-15T15:26:31Z")
Hello! My favorite podcasts:The Tim Ferriss Show about health, The Minimalists Podcast and How to live to 200. I’d love to hear about your favorite podcasts ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/2 "2019-08-15T15:28:56Z")
Revolutions Hardcore History Common Sense (back when Carlin still did that show) Men In Blazers (soccer) Freakonomics (from time to time) This American Life (also from time to time - not sure if it counts as a podcast since it’s mainly a radio show) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/3 "2019-08-15T15:45:05Z")
Morning Joe Rachael Maddow Revisionist History Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/4 "2019-08-15T16:04:20Z")
Savage Love Magnum edition This American Life Car Talk Hardcore History Story Collider (stories about science) Risk: Tales you never thought you’d tell The Moth 99% invisible Invisibilia A Way With Words History of English (ok, super geeky but it starts with proto-indo-european and is up to Chaucer) Capitol Steps ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/5 "2019-08-15T16:43:48Z")
The Complete Guide To Everything The Skeptic’s guide To The Universe Sick & Wrong Cognitive Dissonance The Scathing Atheist Uhh Yeah Dude > [@pawkins](#): > > The Tim Ferriss Show about health, Heh. I was just talking with a guy whose name is Tim Ferris. I’m 99.9% sure he doesn’t have a podcast, though. Actually, I found you’re Tim’s pic and I’m 100% sure. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/6 "2019-08-15T16:55:49Z")
Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert. It’s fun and generally quite informative, especially when he has Experts on Expert shows with brain surgeons and psychologists and the like. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/7 "2019-08-15T18:04:57Z")
When do you all listen to this stuff? Whenever I try, which is generally in the evening, I fall asleep and miss everything past the first 15 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/8 "2019-08-15T18:18:42Z")
The only actual podcast I listen to regularly is _Best of Car Talk_, because WFAE quit airing it. I record several other public radio shows\* over the air each weekend and listen to them as if they were podcasts, sometimes even subbing in the podcast version if something goes wrong with my recording or if it’s fundraising season. I’ve been doing this (with programming changes) since about 1993, but since 2006, I’ve been doing it digitally and archiving to disk periodically, so I have a nice little archive. - namely, Radiolab, Wait Wait, Ask Me Another, Live from Here, This American Life, and the WESun Puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/9 "2019-08-15T18:31:23Z")
Too Fucking Many. The Good Place Futility Closet Behind the Rind Reply All Switched On Pop The Adventure Zone Sawbones Literature and History In Our Time The History of Philosophy The History of English The History of Rome En Clair The Allusionist Lingthusiasm Fiat Lex Slate Lexicon Valley A Way With Words Dear Hank and John Delete This Anthropocene Reviewed Death in the Afternoon The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry The Infinite Monkey Cage Slate Political Gabfest ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/10 "2019-08-15T18:44:38Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > When do you all listen to this stuff? Whenever I try, which is generally in the evening, I fall asleep and miss everything past the first 15 minutes. Speaking for myself, I have a lot of times when my work requires me to have my hands busy but my brain doesn’t need to be engaged and I get tired of listening to music but can’t really watch tv because I do need to watch my hands so a podcast is the perfect entertainment for that. I keep intending to load some episodes onto my phone to listen to in the car but I haven’t been doing much long distance driving lately and it’s hard to pick up the thread of the cast repeatedly as I interrupt it for various errands. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/11 "2019-08-15T18:53:49Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > When do you all listen to this stuff? Whenever I try, which is generally in the evening, I fall asleep and miss everything past the first 15 minutes. While I’m playing video games, cleaning, making dinner, driving, etc. I usually have about 2ish hours of time throughout the day that I spend listening to podcasts. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/12 "2019-08-15T19:08:35Z")
WTF depending on the guest. ID10T depending on the guest. Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast Your Mom’s House Bertcast ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/13 "2019-08-15T19:34:58Z")
History of Rome - I am up to the point where Julius Caesar is clashing with the Senate. I wonder how that will work out? 12 Byzantine Rulers Science Friday BBC Science in Action Planetary Radio Science Magazine Astronomy Cast Autour de la Question (French science) C’est pas du Vent (French environment) I listen when I am walking the dog, and just before going to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/14 "2019-08-15T22:52:20Z")
To the OP: I’m glad you started this thread, because I just started listening to podcasts regularly. On advice of my doctor, I walk for an hour everyday. Listening to podcasts is a great way to take my mind off the fact that I’m, you know, exercising. I’ve been looking for suggestions, so this is great timing. Here’s what I’ve discovered thus far: This American Life NPR Mountain Stage (Interesting and not-mainstream music) Serial (I’ve listened to all three seasons and found each of them entertaining) S-Town (Seven chapters of one interesting story) Behind the Bastards (This was suggested somewhere else on the Dope and I just started it. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the first four episodes) ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/15 "2019-08-16T00:04:26Z")
I think my two favorite that haven’t been listed above are The Dollop (one comedian reading a history story to the other) and My Dad Wrote a Porno (guy discovers his father’s erotic novel and reads chapters aloud to his friends). I like a lot of news and informational ones, but these two just make me laugh and laugh. Oh and Maddow’s Bag Man was a short series that was really interesting to me because I really knew nothing about Spiro Agnew and his disgrace. ---
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I listen almost exclusively while I’m driving and if it’s not funny I’m going to doze off and hit a tree. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/17 "2019-08-16T06:52:27Z")
Basic Brewing Radio is for homebrewing beer. For me, it is the perfect put me to sleep podcast. Reasonably interesting but not too interesting to keep me awake. The host James Spencer and regular Steve Wilkes are my generation, so I get all the jokes. There are no loud intros or commercials. Not sure how many episodes, but he records about 50 per year and the 500th show was quite a few years ago. The Brulosophy and of course Jamil show are great podcasts, but just not so suitable for sleeping. Nothing worse then waking up at 4:00am with a jarring heavy metal backed commercial instead of a nice droning narrator. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/18 "2019-08-16T09:03:33Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > I think my two favorite that haven’t been listed above are The Dollop (one comedian reading a history story to the other) and My Dad Wrote a Porno (guy discovers his father’s erotic novel and reads chapters aloud to his friends). I like a lot of news and informational ones, but these two just make me laugh and laugh. > > Oh and Maddow’s Bag Man was a short series that was really interesting to me because I really knew nothing about Spiro Agnew and his disgrace. I say this in every podcast topic here but take EVERYTHING in the Dollop with a massive grain of salt. They’ve committed a bunch of basic research errors in their subjects to the point I stopped listening to their podcast because of it when they started getting too obvious when they were talking about subjects I know a lot about. It’s mainly a lot of “Jumping to conclusions” based on the fact it’s very obvious whoever does the research just uses a single primary source and bases everything off that source. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699/19 "2019-08-16T09:12:48Z")
Lot’s. I consume a shedload of BBC Radio 4 programs as podcasts. One that I think will appeal to the demographic of this board is “[more or less](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd/episodes/player)” which is a measured look at the numbers and statistics in the news, the use and misuse thereof. I’ve had so many of my preconceptions overturned by the hard facts it presents. It is good to find yourself corrected on a regular basis. Also, for the surrealists amongst you there is the indescribable “[Athletico Mince](https://play.acast.com/s/athleticomince)”, Bob Mortimer and friend taking you on a journey through his…for want of a better word…mind. ---
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Here’s a selection from my current list. There’s an equal number I no longer listen to or have ended. Most of these are nerdy or sciencey or comedy. A couple I’ve listened to for many years. JV Club Never Not Funny Ologies Off Menu RHLSTP Half Hour Happy Hour Something Rhymes With Purple Probably Science Adam Buxton Podcast No Such Thing As A Fish Pratchat Art Of The Score Numberphile David Tennant Does A Podcast With… Curious Cases Of Rutherford And Fry Threedom [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to/838699.md?page=2)