Podcast Suggestion thread
 

I know we've discussed serial before but I've recently really got into the convenience of podcasts. Wondering what you guys are into. Some of my suggestions are The Nosleep Podcast, which is horror stories from the reddit board Nosleep. Very high production quality and some truly creepy stories. I also recommend the Freakonomics podcast!

Hardcore History is by far my favorite thing going.

Seconded.

I've even gone back and bought the older episodes. It's great.

I really enjoy Three Moves Ahead, a computer strategy game podcast with a more adult focus than others.

I'm on the Comedy Bang Bang and Welcome to Night Vale trains... but I'm catching up, so no spoilers. :)

Comedy Bang Bang and How Did this Get Made anchor my comedy listening - I know there's a ton of new stuff on the earwolf and wolfpop networks, but there's only so much time.

Still plugging away through Go Bayside, I'm about 80% done.

I like Hardcore History, but it's more of a binge every 4-5 months thing when he comes out with something new.

Most of the Wrestling Observer podcasts for Pro Wrestling and MMA

Not much sports anymore now that Bill Simmons is gone. I'd love to find a replacement but I find most sports talk so boring. Sometimes I can do the Mike and Mike or SVP and Russillo daily best of shows.

Now that I'm about halfway through the last book and almost done season 3 of the show, I'm starting to look for a Game of Thrones podcast, but the two I tried were duds.

I listen to a lot of podcasts. Here are 3 current favorites:

Revolutions - A History podcast that examines various historical revolutions. He's completed the British and American revolutions, is almost done with the French revolution and Haiti is up next. He also did the History of Rome, which is MASSIVE.

Startup - Just finished its second season, but its behind the scenes at a tech startup. The first season is about the starting of the company that makes the podcast which gives fantastic insight into how tech companies begin. The second season is good, but not as great as S1.

Answer Me This - Two british people answer questions from listeners. Fun humor and comes out once every other week which is nice since it's less of a commitment.

This interests me. Is every week a new revolution? I was confused by the format.

I listen to Giant Bombcast and the Giant Beastcast every week. It's a gaming podcast where they talk about the latest gaming news. Really good personalities.

I also second How did this get made...I love bad movies and I love The league so it's a natural fit. Great stuff

I too enjoyed the first season of Start Up and found the second one less compelling.

I usually listen to Hang Up and Listen during a run each week.

Great thread. Thanks.

I listen to Hawkeye Nation. Probably not in many peoples taste here. But its good for Iowa football and Basketball.

I look forward to hearing more suggestions.

Scoob is that board games or video games?

Video

I havent got into Revolutions yet, but I got through the whole 180-ish episodes of The History of Rome and thought it was great. Mike Duncan is like Dan Carlin without the arrogance and off-topic rambling.

My other regulars are:

In Our Time: BBC thing, each week a presenter and three university professors discuss something really clever. Recently it's been Extremophiles (organisms that live in extreme conditions), Frederick The Great, and Utilitarianism. It's hit or miss, some weeks I just dont care enough about the subject to stick with it.

The Cycling Podcast: British again, ex-professional and two journalists discuss latest happenings in the world of bicycle road racing. Tour de France has just started so they're onto two podcasts per day.

Smodcast: Cant give up on it, even if too many episodes now are just Kevin Smith getting high and giggling at his own jokes. Still enough funnies to keep me coming back.

No he does a series on a particular Revolution. So there were 15 on the British and Americans and there's now like 42 on the French.

I agree that Mike Duncan's like Dan Carlin but more low key, which I like.

I find it hard to track Mike Duncan. I'll be listening when I'm walking the dog and I realize my mind has wandered for 5 minutes and I've missed 1/3 of the podcast. That never happens with Dan Carlin. At the Duncan level of podcast tone and enthusiasm, I'd rather just read the material, because all he's really doing is reading to me in a monotone voice. This is why I'm more drawn to louder, usually comedy-based podcasts, and Carlin is the closest I can get to that kind of dynamism in the history podcast realm.

Like you, I enjoyed the first season but disliked the second. It didn't help that Dating Ring was a terrible company that you could tell from the start was not going to succeed in the way they wanted to. The business was just not scalable.

I can't decide if they picked Dating Ring because 1) they really wanted to explore the "women in the start-up scene" narrative or because 2) no one else was as desperate as Dating Ring for free publicity that they would show what a shit-storm their company was on the inside. Probably a bit of both.

I can't compare the two, since I've never listened to Duncan, but I really like Dan Carlin's delivery and excitement. He really seems to love the material and the passion for it shows. Also, he seems to be a pretty big geek - with all of his various Lord of the Rings references - which I enjoy.

Anyway, podcasts I listen to:

99% Invisible
The Dirtbag Diaries - outdoor adventure stuff
Freakonomics
Market Foolery
Planet Money
Reply All *
Startup *
This American Life
The Tony Kornhesier Show (currently on summer break)

* - These two (along with Mystery Show) are from Gimlet Media, the original startup profiled in season 1 of the Startup Podcast. I'm not sure how Gimlet plans on making a ton of money either (I imagine ad buys for podcasts are pretty low cost), especially with only three shows. I'm not a fan of Mystery Show at all, and Reply All is losing me. I just don't care about what they are covering.

Yeah, what a disappointment. The premise is great: ordinary person goes out to solve every day "mysteries." But the chosen mysteries are boring, the execution is horrible and the host is just as bad.

I have given Reply All a chance on a topic by topic or episode by episode basis. Just ok, in my mind.

Great thread! I listen to mostly L.A. and San Diego sports podcasts. There are a few that are "Must Listen" as soon as they're available and they are:

Pencils Down - Pumpy's Podcast!
Freakonomics - Among some of the podcasts: "What's the Best Exercise", "Should Tipping Be Banned", "There's No Such Thing As A Free Appetizer", and lots more. You'll learn a thing or 2.
60 Minutes - CBS's Award Winning Show
ESPN Olbermann - Sports and sarcasm
Star Talk Radio - My favorite. Where pop culture and science colide. Knowledge and comedy.
48 Hours - Crime
Frontline - Documentaries. One of my favorite show was concussions in the NFL.
Stuff You Should Know - Learn stuff

So at my current job, I listen to podcasts probably 25-30 hours a week so I have a huge list.

Wall Street Journal This Morning
Rachel Maddow
Lowe Post
Jim Cramer's Mad Money
Puck Podcast
All About Android
Blackhawks Insider
Cheap Heat (Wrestling podcast)
Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast
Talk is Jericho
The Ross Report
We Study Billionaires
Dave Ramsey Show
The Diane Rehm Show
Force Cast (Star Wars)
InvestED
Six Figure Side Gig
This American Life
The Best Soccer Show Podcast
Radiolab
Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast
60 Minutes
Effectively Wild (Baseball)

Heh....you named 3 of my favorite podcasts that I listen to on a consistent basis. Other ones that I tend to listen to are the following:

Stuff You Missed in History Class (Feed) - This podcast focuses on people and events not often discussed in history books or that we have limited information to. Covers history over a swath of cultures and countries, but I would say a large percentage of it focuses on American history

Science Friday (Feed) - While I am not a huge science buff, I do like to hear anything about our current advances in science and technology and how it is changing how we interact with the world. On top of that, the podcast also questions what we have learned in our past. Pretty good podcast.


NPR: StoryCorps (Feed) - My daughter and I enjoy this podcast. These are simply personal stories of people around the United States told through the person or people who experienced them. They could be talking about contemporary struggles or triumphed or just people who want to record memories of an event that happened decades earlier. Good heartfelt stories that are in a short enough format to consume and great for road trips.

Serial (Feed) - If you are into audiobooks (especially non-fiction) or want something different to hear on a road trip plus you are interested in listening about a real life murder case, this is an excellent podcast. The entire 12 episode podcast focuses on this one murder that occurred in 1999 in Baltomore. A high school student by the name of Hae Min Lee (Korean female) was murdered at a park. Her former boyfriend, Adnan Syed, is accused and charged with her murder. The interviewer speaks to Adnan in jail as well as a host of other people (friend from school, teachers, jurors, etc.). Eagerly awaiting season 2.

The Truth - Movies for your Ears (Feed) - If you are into Audio Dramas, this is one of the better ones out there. Ever since I had listened to the podcast, We're Alive, a while back I tried to find something comparable to it. What I best like about this podcast is that each podcast does not follow the same story. It also have a Twilight Zone sort of vibe because they are short stories with a deep meaning.

I second In Our Time on BBC - very interesting 'academic light' discussions on a wide variety of topics.

I kinda cut back lately, but still find time for Savage Love.

Yep, both have a good premise, but I find that I care none at all about the actual topics they have picked. Reply All started out better, but has gone downhill lately.

Let me echo the love for 99% Invisible. It's really great stuff and the archives are full of fantastic shows that will be just as powerful today as they were when they first aired.

Also let me echo the disappointment/dislike for The Mystery Show. I was so excited based on the premise but in the end it's far more philosophical than exciting. I get and respect what they're trying to do, but it's not something I'm interested in for my podcast.

Today's episode of Startup confirms to me just how much more I like the show when it's about Gimlet than about Dating Ring. I found the whole discussion around advertising ethics fascinating. I enjoy hearing that they're getting bigger much faster than expected. Interesting stuff to me.

How we have gone 29 posts without mentioning WTF with Marc Maron is beyond me. He just recently had the President on.

Agreed that the latest Startup episode is what I signed up for.

I tried WTF with Marc Maron, and maybe it was just that one episode, but I felt like an outsider the entire time. Kinda like when I listened to Nerdest. The lack of long term history with the show made me feel like I was missing something.

My feelings about WTF are this: you'll like it if you're a fan of his guest of the week. I'm not hot on Marc as an interviewer, and I don't really know what's in it for a listener if s/he doesn't care about the guest.

Art bell returns this week as well for any old Coast to Coast fans...I believe there will be a free live broadcast, with a 5 dollar month fee for the show on podcast.

YES!!! OMG I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!! He had a trial run last night, I think he was more of a guest. Dunno, I fell asleep which is what usually happens if I listen live. We (Antmeister and I) are Time Travelers. Show's on live on July 20th. Man, this makes me so happy.

I'm super excited too, but in the back of my mind hoping he doesn't quit in a week or something!

Eh, I like the TV show but that usually is all the Maron I can take for the calendar year.

This is actually happening - I've been obsessed with this podcast recently. What happens to someone whose whole life changes in an instant. Fascinating, happy, sad and so many other emotions. Rated high on iTunes.

Anyone have any good TV/pop culture podcasts now that firewall/iceberg, Hollywood prospectus, prince movies have all ended? Been a rough few weeks for suddenly ending podcasts.

I found the Woooo!cast on a flight over the weekend. It's a weekly show with Ric Flair talking about his life in wrestling. For any NWA fan from back in the day, I think you'll have a lot of fun with it.

Wooooo!

I've recently started listening to podcasts quite a bit and some of my favorites are:

Criminal
Hardcore History
FiveThirtyEight Elections
Lore
My Favorite Murder
Serial
Stuff You Missed in History Class

Aside from the others I've mentioned in this thread, I've picked up the Star Wars Minute - every episode breaks down a single minute of the star wars movies. It's Light-hearted, funny, the episodes are short, and its just nerdy enough (to where the obsessions with star wars minutia are funny rather than comic book-guy angry).

Here's my list of podcasts (I've just really started and some of these I haven't listened to much and might cull):

Conversation Parade - An Adventure Time podcast
Howler Radio
Freakanomics Radio
Men in Blazers
Presidential
RadioLab
Serial
This American Life
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
Welcome to Nightvale
The Liturgists Podcast
Hot Takedown (by 538)
Elections (by 538)
Backstory
99% Invisible
Myths and Legends Podcast
Alice Isn't Dead
Philosophy Bites
Flash Forward
The Memory Palace
Neighbors
Love + Radio
Here Be Monsters
Another Round

Recent finds of mine that are getting some attention:

Slate's The Gist (current events, random topics, opinion)
Reply All (tech leaning story telling)
Surprisingly Awesome (trivia/science/history)
Death, Sex & Money (storytelling)
Bullseye (pop culture)
How To Do Everything (quirky)
Hidden Brain (science, psych)
Judge John Hodgman (quirky, humor, trivia)
First Draft (NFL draft chat, but weird Kiper/McShay interchange is the real star)

For most of these, I skim through titles and listen when I see something that hits me. I have given The Gist a daily listen (<30m) for a few weeks, and about 70-80% of it is a hit for me... a pretty high ratio.

I like Mike Pesca on Hang Up and Listen, but haven't ever downloaded the Gist. I'll give it a shot.

I find him insufferable on The Gist. He seems to think he's much more clever than he actually is.

So... a quick follow up. This is an oddball offering, but the basic idea is people call in with various questions or problems, and the two hosts try to help solve their problem. It's more humorous than informative.

However... for my money the best thing in the show is the promo pieces. They have to do their reads for Caspar Mattresses or whatnot, and they fairly often go way off script and into really weird tangents. And the very best is when they do their obligatory read for the "NPR One" app -- where they totally play along and pitch it with great gusto, saying things like "...if you wanted to listen to this podcast, STOP... and go get the NPR One app so you can listen to something else, probably something else that's much better than this."

I doubt this endorsement will move many to subscribe, but I find them engaging for some reason.

So...here's my addition to the discussion.

Crimetown -- A 30 minute or so weekly podcast detailing the mob history of Providence. They're 12 episodes in and it's kept my interest. I'm not sure how long the season will last or what their city will be.

Criminal -- A biweekly look at criminals of various stripes. Some are serious while others are largely comedic.

Hardcore History -- I think my favorite aspect of this is how it breaks all the rules of podcasting (length, consistency of release, etc) while still being largely compelling.

Freakonomics

How Did This Get Made -- Enough has been said here about it.

How I Built This -- An NPR weekly that focuses on the people who built various successful products and services. Recent episodes have covered 5-Hour Energy, Chesapeake Bay Candle, Atari & Chuck E. Cheese, and Crate & Barrel.

Mere Fidelity -- An intellectual look at a variety of topics pertaining to the Christian faith.

Pass the Mic -- A look at the church from an African American perspective.

Presidential -- WaPo did a weekly podcast on each president leading up to this past election. Excellent introductory material.

Revisionist History -- Malcolm Gladwell's history podcast. He only did about 10 episodes.

Wrestling podcasts -- Jericho, Cornette, Schiavone, Pritchard, Ross, and Stone Cold.

Stuff You Should Know -- I like some of the shorter form podcasts like this one to rapid fire topics that I might want to learn more about later.

The Tim Ferriss Show -- I just eat up everything he does. I'm also getting ready to read Tools of Titans for the next few months.

The Way I Heard It -- Mike Rowe's podcast is interesting in that it's short (5-6 minutes per episode) and treated as a mystery each time. I get some of them right, but several have been surprises even at the reveal.

This American Life -- I just like the variety and the way that everything is treated well.

The Moment with Brian Koppelman -- A great interview series that hits a variety of guests that I don't hear on a lot of my other regular podcasts. Recent episodes have featured Evan McMullin and Marcus Samuelsson.

The Liturgists and The Bad Christian -- two podcasts that are done by folks who have dropped out of traditional Christianity but still engage with it as a way to give a voice to those in a similar situation.

So the Obama Bros are the latest podcast land hit. If you are a lefty, you'll enjoy Pod Save America, but for my money Pod Save the World is a really great listen. Less overtly political--a one on one sit down with a former foreign policy expert or government official. Really great stuff.

The Joe Rogan Experience

Ross Matthews has a great podcast.

Also, Cheap Ass Gamer is a great podcast for gamers.

I've recently started listening to Pardon My Take by the Barstool Sports guys and find it to be pretty decent. Their antics are pretty 'bro-y' but they bring enough general goofiness and smarts to the table that I'm willing to forgive the lamer moments.

Anything by the McElroy clan. My Brother, My Brother And Me is their original work, but I am currently working my way through the back catalog of The Adventure Zone, their actual-play D&D podcast with the brothers and their dad (start at the beginning, as Griffin is clearly telling a long-form story amidst the dick jokes, pop culture throwbacks, and dice rolls).

If you want a good intro to MBMBAM, check out the complete first episode of their Seeso tv version on Youtube - short version is that it is an advice show, but really it is three very funny guys having fun with one another.

I have listened to the Dan Carlin podcasts for years and they are great, just don't come out very frequently anymore.

Only stuff I can add that has not been mentioned is:

EconTalk - Pretty good discussions on relevant and interesting economics topics.

Eddie Trunk - Good discussion and interviews with 80s, 90s and some older classic musicians.

Pardon My Take is my favorite sports podcast these days. Both guys are hilarious. It's kind of a rib on sports media but they also have some hilarious interviews with some big guests. Does take a little while to understand some of the inside jokes and humor but it's great.

And I'm not a Barstool fan either. One of the hosts runs the infamous PFTCommenter twitter account.

PFTCommenter (@PFTCommenter) | Twitter

Their weekly breakdowns of the NFL as Berman are great.

Heavy heavy satire. I'm a fan. They get some normally pretty buttoned up guests to relax themselves and give a good interview.

I like pretty much all the Barstool podcasts. KFC Radio and Podfathers, especially.

Ha well said RM.

I don't think I ever laughed harder than the end of this. Yes, it's extremely juvenile and no, I don't care.

They lost me a bit at "Look at me just chuggin' away, huh?". We don't say "eh?" as much as you think but that sentence right there gets an "eh" 10 times out of 10.

+1

They're usually 2-3 hours long, so I'll only listen to 1 or 2 week (if he does multiple podcast in the week) depending on who the guest is.

The moon landing was fake, chemtrails are real, etc. I don't have time for a genuinely braindead imbecile like Rogan.

Liar City - a Podcast where each episode they take a historical story about a major lie (broad definition, but often some major con man or something similar) and break it down to give you more detail, the after story after it left the media, etc. it's quite interesting imo.

If you try it out, the first Idano... year of it... they're getting their feet wet a bit and the rhythm, quality of delivery, etc is rough. So, may want to skip ahead.

The cover things from Jim Jones, to satanic panic, to Traci Lords, to the Delorean guy, etc, etc

One year later and here is my updated list:

Sports
The Audible
Commitment Issues (Rivals.com)

True Crime
Criminal
My Favorite Murder
Serial(Well, the first season anyway)
Crimetown

Politics
FiveThirtyEight Politics
NPR Politics
Politico's Nerdcast

History
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Misc
Lore
This American Life

Someone KNows SOmething is pretty good too. The second season was better than the first as the first season kind of went off-track a few times. The first season is about a 5 year old boy that went missing 40 years. Definitely still worth the listen.

The second season is about a woman who also went missing on New Years about 20 years ago. The host is a good story teller and you will hear a lot about dog descriptions... which are hilarious.

He doesn't believe conspiracy theories anymore.

Hardcore History has been a revelation for me. Outside of that, nothing has really kept my interest over a period of months. I think Criminal generally had a good variety of different cases, but I stopped listening sometime last year after a string of not-so-interesting episodes.

Nerdist podcast can be awesome when they have specific guests, but Chris Hardwick really harps on about the same topics a lot of the time and all too often guides guests onto similar topics.

I agree, Criminal has really gone downhill. Was great for a while.

I've started both Cultivated and Trailblazers recently.

Cultivated is that rare bird where evangelicals take an intellectual approach to their role in culture and I find it fascinating compared to much of what I grew up with.

Trailblazers, hosted and narrated by Walter Isaacson, is another podcast about change makers in the world but kept under 45 minutes. It's only 2 episodes in, but both have been excellent at giving a big picture background to the topic of the episode before breaking down the detail of the latest disruptor that they're focusing on. The first is disruption in the film industry and the second is photography.

Been listening to "Biscuits" a lot lately.

It's a podcast of two guys who hate the NHL discussing what's going on in the NHL every week.

JJ Watt has been their white whale guest. He let them know he'd be interviewed if the fans could raise $50K for his charity. They blew through the goal in about 8 hours.

I suggest CT & Jivin start podcasting again. :)

I'll throw out a recommendation for:

Important If True

It's generally focused on sort of pop culture / tech news, but is really quite free form in terms of topic. Like any good podcast (IMHO) you end up getting a lot of personal stories from the hosts, etc.

This is a "new" podcast in a technical sense, but the hosts literally just realized they were getting tired of being tied to a nominal video game podcast that constantly wandered off topic (Idle Thumbs) and launched a new show that just focused on the off-topic stuff. So they're bringing years of rapport to the table for this.

Important If True - Idle Thumbs Network

Also while it's basically going to be a sporadic podcast at this point, I would still recommend their original show (Idle Thumbs). It's a different take on video game podcasts than you're going to find elsewhere. They all work in game development, so they are often able to really go deep on game mechanics, writing, and basically the best and worst parts of games and really do a fantastic job discussing why they think those things succeed or fail.

Okay, I read that twice. Thought about it three times. And I'm still sitting here at "wait ... what?"

Do they hate, like, "the current state of the NHL" or something?
U.S. professional leagues specifically?
Pro hockey?
Anything more than the Original Six?

How does this work exactly?

I want to give the opportunity to another FOFC'er to describe the podcast more in depth, but it's two gentlemen who love hockey and watch the NHL. They discuss what's going on in the league and they just tend to (in a comedic way) point out how the league may not always be making the best of decisions.

Up & Vanished - true crime type of podcast on the biggest case file in Georgia history. 12 years after the fact it seems to have indirectly led to finding the people responsible.

Some great fiction podcasts going on right now.

Homecoming is fantastic. It's done by Gimlet that does the Crimetown podcast. People like David Schwimmer, Amy Sedaris, David Cross, and Catherine Keener doing the voice work. Season 1 was perfect and the first episode of season 2 just came out this week.

The Message and lif-e.af/ter by Panoply/GE Podcast Theater is just as good as Homecoming and has its two semi-related seasons done. Don't know if they're going to do a third piece and start tying it all together more closely, but I hope they do as it's been phenomenal so far.

Limetown was really good as well. Told through the lens of a reporter for an NPR equivalent gives it a perspective the others don't have.

Alice Isn't Dead has been okay so far. They've gotten more mileage out of the Thistle Men than I thought would work and season two has been better than the first one.

I haven't started Welcome to NightVale yet, but they're the creators of Alice Isn't Dead so they're on the list.

A third fiction podcast in the Night Vale lineup is The Orbiting Human Circus (Of the Air) with a cast that includes Tim Robbins and Mandy Patinkin. You can check out all of their stuff under the Night Vale Presents moniker.

Deadly Manners: An old timey dinner party murder mystery narrated by Levar Burton and starring people such as Kristen Bell, Anna Chlumsky, and RuPaul (seriously).

Ear Hustle: Real stories told by inmates at San Quentin. Easily the best new podcast this year.

Fictional: Usually 2 part summaries of class fiction writing. Basically a well read audio version of cliff notes.

Uncivil: Historical look at the Civil War, largely from an African American perspective, poking holes in many of the wildly inaccurate things taught in schools (especially in the south).

Download: A weekly discussion of the top news in the tech world.

I finally get it now.

Yeah, this sounds terrible.

This isn't for everyone but Last Podcast on the Left is kind of a weird comedy podcast that talks about really messed up stuff in history. Mainly focuses on serial killers but things like the Dyatlov Pass Incident and such are discussed. Like I said, it's not for everyone but pick an episode with a top that might interest and give it a listen.

A couple of guys at work put me onto the My Dad Wrote a Porno podcast. Just like it says on the tin, the premise is that a guy's 60 year old father decided to try and cash in on the 50 Shades of Grey hype train by trying his hand at erotic fiction, and the podcast involves the son and two friends reading the book line by line and commenting on it. I'm 6 chapters into the first book, which is hilariously badly written, but it's the commentary and critiquing by the son and friends that really makes this shine - it's an awful lot funnier than it probably sounds, especially if you get the British style of humour.

No Such Thing As A Fish is worth a listen.

Four researchers for QI (BBC comedy show) research a quirky/silly fact, and then discuss. Simple, pointless format, but very funny and Quite Interesting

+1

The Indicator from NPR Planet Money: A quick (8-10 minutes) rundown of a key economic indicator each day.

Akimbo: Seth Godin is podcasting now, nuff said.

Booking the Territory: A pro wrestling podcast focused on the territory days.

Sandra: Fiction podcast about the humans who actually answer questions as an AI named Sandra. Kristen Wiig and Alia Shawkat are the main voice actors.

Slow Burn: Season 1 focused on the Nixon impeachment. They're working on season 2 about the Clinton impeachment. Pretty clearly trying to be first to the Trump impeachment if it finally happens.

Complete the list is my go to podcast. A trivia game where 3 people/teams have a list of at least 12 things they have to get. Its twice a week now.
I've just started Welcome to Night Vale....I will continue with that.

Puzzle Warriors 3. This is a podcast for the mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest. Several of us FOFC folks play it. So its good to here their take. Plus they talk about pie. Yum!

https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Po...cast-p1180939/

I've been listening to the Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons podcast by Carey Parker. He's basically a privacy/security advocate. He gives lots of advice on how to protect your privacy online and on your phone, with an emphasis on how to stop Google and Facebook from monitoring everything you do online and selling your information to whoever might want it. I've started implementing a lot of the things he suggests. It's worth a listen if you are concerned about protecting your privacy.

True Crime genre: Dirty John and its sister Dr. Death were both good for a listen. Crimetown has returned with season 2, but I will probably let it build up some episdoes before I go in. Serial is also back, and it has been getting better reviews than Season 2.

Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara is usually a pretty good listen.

I have fallen into a trap, courtesy of John Green. He is the guy who wrote a book The Fault in our Stars that I cannot imagine I would ever read. But apparently he and his brother Hank have been doing video podcasts for some time, and have a real following.

I really, really like them both, but especially John. So, submitted for your consideration:

The Anthropocene, Reviewed - John spends 20m or so each episode delivering a "review" (Amazon style, 5-star scale) of seemingly random things from life around us. Topics have ranged from the soccer penalty shootout to "the yips" to the Taco Bell breakfast menu. Easy non-spoiler preview here: if you are in for 5 minutes of one episode and it's not for you... then it's not for you. You've lost 5 minutes of your time. Me? I listened to one, and then fairly rapidly went back and listened to all 12 or so episodes.

Dear Hank and John - this is the brothers' weekly offering. Basically, like Car Talk without the cars - people write in with various questions, either advice or information, and the brothers try to answer. It's clever and funny. And basically same as above, I suspect it's either for you or not for you, and you will likely know rapidly.

I am enjoying Against the Rules with Michael Lewis. I now picture James Harden as a guy working for a company that services student loans.

After watching the Aaron Hernandez documentary, I listened to the Gladiator podcast by the Boston Globe. I did not follow his whole situation closely when it happened. WHEW! There is a lot of there there.

+2, I miss CT and Jivin!


Love that podcast!!

Parcast has several podcasts I listen to. Among them are:

Female Criminals - Female felons. One of the episodes is about Griselda Blanco, the cocaine godmother. I believe Cocaine Cowboys 2 is about her.

Great Women of Business - I encourage anyone with young daughters to listen to this podcast about female entrepreneurs and how they got started. #girlpower

Kingpins - leaders of organized crime like Al Capone and Pablo Escobar.

Cults - out of all the podcasts i listen to, this is one of my faves.

I mentioned it previously but, This is actually happening is one of my alltime favorites. Stories about real heart wrenching events that dramatically change people's lives. It's absolutely phenomenal. It's the one podcast that I make it a point to listen to when there's a new episode.

American Elections: Wicked Game - Wondery - Feel The Story
Excellent break-down of evey Presidential election. Hosted by Lindsay Graham, who does several other podcast worth listening to.


Office Ladies podcast on Earwolf
Pam and Angela re-watch the series! Interesting tid-bits from behind the scenes, along with interviews from the actors, writers, and production crew.

If you are interested in the business side of soccer, I recommend listening to The Price of Football. It is English football centric, but they do a great job discussing the economics of the sport on a more micro level,

This is technically a YouTube video, but is likely listens pretty much like a pod... and is all about FOF, in the event anyone around here still plays that.

Slow Burn season four about David Duke is... whew.

Smartless..... you're welcome.

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I've been enjoying Event Horizon on YouTube, which is a science podcast where the host (John Michael Godier) talks with a guest (seems like usually a physicist of some sort) about stuff like the Fermi paradox, whether we are in a sim, is there alien life, etc.

I've been enjoying the All My Movies podcast by Dan Murrell. It's available on YouTube as well as Apple and other traditional sources for podcasts. In each episode, he does a deep dive into one of the movies in his collection of DVDs, VHS tapes, and Blu-rays. He talks about how each movie came to be, as well as highlighting things that worked well/didn't work well. It's really well done, and I recommend the YouTube version because he includes a lot of visual stuff that would be lost in the pure audio versions. He tends to do touchstone movies for our generation, like Jaws, T2, Groundhog's Day, Star Wars, The Dark Knight, etc. He clearly has a vast swath of knowledge about movies and pop culture in general. He also occasionally covers a clunker movie, like Jaws 4: The Revenge. They're all good.

Good recommendation. These are great. I also have enjoyed Revisionist History and Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.

Some history podcasts that I've been listening to during workouts and grinding on The Show.

Age of Napoleon - as the title suggests, it's a podcast about the events of the Napoleonic era. The host is a history buff and pretty good storyteller. Insane amounts of research goes into it and you'll learn just about everything you've wanted to know about Napoleon and that era. He's 100+ episodes in and at the War of the Fourth Coalition right now. It's given me so many hours of entertainment that I donate each month to the show.

The History of Egypt - similar to the Age of Napoleon (and I think inspired by it), this one covers Ancient Egypt. It's a little trickier to keep up with because there are so many characters, gods, and regions with names that are tough to remember. But I've learned a lot just listening casually. Host is very knowledgeable and a pretty good storyteller, although a bit dry at times.

Radio War Nerd - Hosted by Mark Ames who wrote for Exiled Magazine during the crazy 90's and early 2000's in Russia. His co-host is John Dolan (war nerd) who is an incredibly knowledgeable professor that has a knack for storytelling and some dry wit. They talk about war and cover both historical ones and modern ones. But their real niche is in covering conflicts that are not widely covered in the States (South America, Asia, etc).

I'd recommend finding a topic in their massive catalog and jumping in. Personal favorites of mine are the series on Yeltsin's coup, Arab conquests (pre-Islam) and the Bangladesh Genocide. They often have great guests on (historians, journalists) to cover the topics. They do cover some modern stuff as Mark has vast knowledge of Ukraine/Russia from his time there and John has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Middle East. It's a tough show to describe as it's not like other history podcasts. The conversations are casual and they aren't reading off scripts. Just riffing on topics.