cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/19617221
If you listen to any podcast(s) you recommend, tell us about it
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The materialism podcast has stopped, but is absolutely worth listening to the backlog. It’s a material science podcast.
A few not yet mentioned:
- Well There’s Your Problem - a podcast about engineering disasters
- Hard Fork - a weekly tech news show, with banter similar to what you could find on Reply All before that was ended
- The War on Cars - an urbanism-podcast
- The Urbanist Agenda - another urbanism-podcast, by the creator behind Not Just Bikes
- The Climate Denier’s Playbook - a climate-podcast
- Hyperfixed - by one of the hosts of Reply All
And a vote for previously mentioned podcasts:
- 99% Invisible - a podcast about design, arguably my favourite
- Darknet Diaries - a podcast about cybersecurity
The only one I listen to anymore is the WAN show. I just never have time to listen to them anymore so it usually takes 3-4 days to finish it.
- Morbid (True Crime/Mysteries)
- Behind the Bastards (History/Biography with some humor)
- No Sleep (Fictional Horror Audiodrama)–
This week’s Behind the Bastards about Jim Caviezel is hilarious.
Oh cool! I’m always a week or so late on Behind the Bastards, I wait until they put it on youtube so I can use sponsorblock and kill the ads. I like the coolzonemedia podcasts, but they’re way too heavy on the ads for me without a blocker
I like Robert Evans
My son loves Behind the Bastards!
I’d recommend not listening to podcasts unless you’re specifically learning something.
I held a similar view many years ago, applied to all media and religiously motivated. I believed pleasure was sinful. My views and beliefs have since changed. Why do you make this recommendation?
Certainly not due to religion I can tell you that much.
Most podcasts are simply brain-rot. They aren’t even entertainment any more, they’re just zombification at this point.
This constant need to be entertained by something is ruining people’s aptitude for their own thinking minds. Listening to podcasts seems to be a way for people to absorb WHAT to think, instead of HOW to think. Nobody I’ve seen who listens to these podcasts does so with a critical mind, because a podcast doesn’t converse back. They listen to podcasts to be told what to think about a subject, so they can regurgitate it later.
I appreciate your view and I think I probably agree with you. I work a manual labor job and I’m alone most of the time. I listen to many audiobooks on Libby and many podcasts. I’ve noticed over the past several months my thinking getting more muddled, almost like there’s just too much information in my skull. I’ve started to build audio breaks in my week where I go a day or two without consuming anything with earbuds. I feel better. On info diet days my mind wanders, I’m able to think about things more carefully, my workflow is more organized, and I think more about the people in my life.
Thanks for elaborating, I totally agree with you about this
I’d recommend not posting on the internet unless you’re saying something helpful
Being unable to recognize helpful advice, doesn’t mean I’m not being helpful.
Interesting, I’ve stopped listening to more than one podcast where the premise is “I learned about this thing and I’m telling you about it” when the podcasters got something wrong, got called out on it, and said “I’m not an expert, you shouldn’t be talking me seriously.” I’ve come to accept that podcasts are for entertainment only, and even if you think they seem well-researched, assume nothing you hear is true.
Always nice when people say something helpful.
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You’re welcome.
Oologies. A charming interviewer talks to experts in various disciplines.
Uhh Yeah Dude. 2 guys choppin it up since 2006.
Bone Valley, eight-episode, superb quality true crime podcast by Pulitzer prize winner Gilbert King.
For a Pulitzer prize winner to come up with “Bone Valley” as a title really makes you think 🤭
Whenever I know that a podcast has a specific number of episodes I just wonder: what to do after finishing it? especially if I really get interested in it?.. so what do you do in this case?
Ha, good question, it was not easy. I’ve just been picking over at other content in the true crime genre trying to chase that dragon - I tried a couple of other podcasts that were recommended (Beyond All Repair and Death On The Ice), but what really ended up grabbing me next was “Who TF Did I Marry,” which is a woman’s 7-hour recounting on TikTok of her experience being married to a pathological liar, and how it feels as it slowly dawns on her. She’s an amazing storyteller, strongly recommended
If you like NBA basketball, No Dunks!
The three I listen to on a regular basis:
- Adrift - stories of introverts and social awkwardness
- The Cryptid Factor - sometimes about cryptids
- Three Bean Salad - a random topic which they eventually might touch on and know nothing about
Is adrift hosted by Geoff Lloyd and Annabel Port?
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I’m a fan of Lingthusiasm. It’s two linguist friends chatting about interesting things in their field. They keep it pretty approachable for non-linguists (like me)
The Dollop is one of my all time favourites.
If you’re at all techy or in to self-hosting or home automation, the Self-Hosted podcast is excellent listening.
Shout out to Linux Unplugged, from the same network, Juipeter Broadcasting
Plenty of audience participation, current and active.
They also have meetups, community stuff and are very fediverse involved!
Not Another D&D Podcast is the only one I reliably listen to.
Similar vein - 8 Bit Book Club.
Not another D&D podcast is what i always recommend if people want a dnd podcast. I stopped listening to it though since I listen to podcasts whilst sleeping now and ill easily lose track of what I have actively listened to and whatnot. Will eventually get back on it at some point though.
Overcast premium has some history remembering stuff that might be helpful for you. I generally listen while doing chores so haven’t bothered with it in depth.
Maybe try using sleep timers? Most apps offer that as well.
I can’t have a sleep timer cause i need it to stay on for when i periodically wake up through the night. It’s so I don’t focus on my tinnitus and can no longer sleep.
