I like listening to historical podcasts, and my favorites are “The History of Rome” (which has finished) and its followup “The History of Byzantium” and “Hardcore History” . I’ve heard good things about “Revolutions” by the creator of “The History of Rome” but I haven’t checked it out yet.

Also I’ve been enjoying “Fall of Civilizations” a lot, but so far have only listened to a few of the episodes.

Big fan of Darknet Diaries.

• History on Fire (Italian Prof talks about interesting events and people)
• The Deprogramm (An iraqi, a slav and a american rant about things)
• Duncan Trussell Family Hour (Classical “guy invites interesting people to talk to”)
• Blowback (Historic events regarding american imperialism)

Massively depends on what you’re into.

That said, I follow these podcasts:

News related comedy:

• Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me from NPR
• Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
• The Bugle
• Breaking The News from BBC Scotland

DnD:

• Dicefunk (I recommend seasons 3 & 4 in particular)

Puns:

• Punwatch
• (also The Bugle sometimes)

Science communication:

• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• Daniel And Jorge Explain The Universe
• The Curious Cases Of Rutherford & Fry
• Supermassive
• A Problem Squared
• Creature Feature
• My Favourite Theorem

About Media:

• Failure To Launch, about TV pilots that failed to become full series
• Get Played, originally called “How Did This Get Played?” and focused on the worst games ever made, now about games in general
• Dream Factory, about plots of non-existing movies

Security/Hacking:

• Malicious Life
• Darknet Diaries
• Human Factor Security

History:

• You’re Dead To Me

Anything from Aaron Mahnke (or his company Grim & Mild). I especially enjoy Lore and Cabinet of Curiosities. For true crime, I like Murder, Mysteries and Makeup or The Casual Criminalist.

Reply all was great, but ended up really going to shit towards the end and never felt the same. Then it just stopped. Well worth a listen though.

Hello Internet - I love the hosts, though the show is over (or, on hiatus if you truly believe)

Cortex- I listen to this mostly because CGP Grey is on it (who also was one of the hosts on Hello Internet). It’s also nice for tech news/ productivity information, though sometimes I get a bit frustrated at the show

Dear Hank and John (or Dear John and Hank) - John and Hank Greene answer listener questions. I’m really a sucker for this “two guys talk at the mic” format lmao

Dungeons and Daddies- a DnD podcast with Freddie Wong that I find immensely entertaining

Well There’s Your Problem - an engineering disasters podcast. I really enjoy listening to the hosts, though they do tend to ramble. I like it, but might not be for every

Edit: Almost forgot, Wizards of Waverly Place Podcast. David Deloise and Jen Stone (The dad and Harper from the show) watch old Wizards of Waverly Place episodes and talks about them as well as has guests from the show on. This one can get a bit frustrating for me as the podcast feels a bit rushed, and their social media presence is very click baity. But I find it interesting none the less

I’d strongly recommend Dungeons & Daddies (not a BDSM podcast, it is indeed Dungeons & Dragons). It’s about 4 dads trying to save their sons in another realm.

Super digestible, not TOO strict about rules, and I die of laughter anytime Beth May says anything.

Hardcore History. The come out a few times a year and are incredibly long (some episodes are five hours), but listening to Dan Carlin talk is really engaging. Plus he has one of those voices you can fall asleep to.
It Could Happen Here. Keeps my righteous anger at ‘the man’ topped up.
Criminal Records. Fun crime podcast focussed on the weird and less heard of crimes in history.

I personally enjoyed Blowback. It’s a podcast about wars the United States were involed in. By the way, it doesn’t matter what season you start listening to since each season is a separate story, so you can pick S2 or S3 from the start as these were better made IMO

History:

• History of Rome
• History of Byzantium (spiritual successor to HoR) - ongoing but with an end planned
• British History Podcast (in depth) - ongoing but with an end planned
• Revolutions (various revolutions from HoR
• Blowback
• Hardcore History
• Fall of Civilizations

Horror:

• Magnus Archives
• The Lovecraft Investigations - unsure if finished

True Crime:

• Bear Brook
• Dirty John

Others:

• *Shut up and Sit Down (Boardgames)"
• Beef and Dairy Network (Comedy)
• Outer Reach (Sci-Fi)

Bold = Ongoing with no end planned

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Trashfuture is a great podcast. It is, ostensibly, a tech-pessimist podcast, but every now and then there are some great UK-centric politics that bleed through since they are based in the UK. All of the host are kind of leftist weirdo Marxists and they really take the piss out of “technology companies” that are nothing more than shell games of moving things around that have been around forever and calling it a tech company. One of my favorites.

Revolution Now! by Peter Joseph

Behind the Bastards, a deep dive into the various shit people of history. Episode one is Saddam Hussein: Erotic Novelist.

There’s nearly 700 episodes, and I’ve yet to run tio a dud. Loads of great guests. My only gripe is that it’s a touch Amerocentric, but other than that I’d recommend it to basically anyone. Not kid friendly, in case that wasn’t obvious.