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Behind the Bastards. I've almost caught up, but I've picked up a long list of other pods to binge.

Or I could finally get around to watching a youtube tutorial on how to build a guillotine.

A lot of people already know the absolutely excellent history of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan. However there are a lot of other history podcasts out there which also do "the start to finish format", inspired by Mike Duncan. Some good ones I have listened to include:

Pax Britannica: A great podcast with good story telling ability about British history, with a focus on the British empire. It begins with the Henry VII and ends with Queen Elisabeth.

Russians rulers podcast: A great podcast that starts with the very first tsar of Russia and follows through the history of the whole country by focusing on the ruler of the time. It begins with Rurik and ends in Putin. However he already finished the leaders years ago so now he does slapshot episodes about various other Russian history topics which is also very interesting.

Fall of civilisations podcast: this is a great one with some of the best story telling in podcast form available. For each episode he chooses a civilization which collapsed in some form or another. He then tells their history from start to finish and but focuses on the decline and how it was to live in those last years. It's really dramatic sometimes but it's really informative, well researched and I highly recommend it.

Okay and now this is not a history podcast but it's still a dear one to me: Sunday school dropouts. It's a podcast by a wholesome married couple composed of a former presbyterian Christian (now atheist) and a "non beliving sort of Jew" (his words) that read through the whole bible for the first time. They begin with a episode on the book of genesis and continue to the book of revelation. Best way to follow along is to read the bible at the same time and after every bible book (most can be read in under an hour) you listen to the episode afterwards. But you can also listen to it blindly because they do summarize everything. Okay so why do I like this one? The bible is a truly interesting book but the discussion in our media about it is horrible. It's either the most anti religion people or the "capital A atheists" discussing it or it's religious people themselves, both of course approach it with very preconceived notions. But this is just a calm podcast where two non Christians seriously read it through, do their research and they discover that some is total garbage and some of the stories are so beautiful they couldn't stop from crying during the show. Also the hosts are very entertaining and easy to like. I believe everyone should read the bible at least once to simply know what's it about. It's the most important book published in world history after all. They finished already and then did two seasons of just random pieces of interesting bible lore which was also fun to listen to.

On the comedy side like MBMBAM:

• My Dad Wrote A Porno - 3 people reacting to an "erotica" book series that one of the guys' dad published (I would say the books are maybe only 5%-20% explicit, depending on the chapter) (some of the characters' voices can be annoying/grating, and the narrator tends to repeat sentences after they react to them which can be annoying as well)
• No Such Thing As A Fish - the behind-the-scenes staff of the show QI bring up interesting facts and tidbits from history/nature/etc. (each episode is split into 4 parts where each member brings up a fact and the others react to it and bring up related facts)
• If I Were You - Jake & Amir from CollegeHumor giving advice to listeners (mostly in a sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek way but sometimes genuinely), mostly about relationships/dating
• SmartLess - Jason Bateman and Will Arnett (Arrested Development) and Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) interview a famous person each episode where only one of the hosts known who it is beforehand (it gets better after the first few episodes, though some conversations are less funny/entertaining than others)
• Office Ladies - Jenna and Angela from The Office (US) reacting to each episode of the show and bringing up behind-the-scenes stuff (some of episodes include interviews with other cast members/staff)
• Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - Conan interviews a famous person each episode (I like the interview part better than the introduction, and similarly to Smartless some conversations are less funny than others)

I have kind of a boring job that allows me to wear headphones all day so I have a ton.

Music related: -60 songs that explain the 90s -20,000 hertz -No dogs in space

History/Politics (humorous/lighthearted): -The dollop -Behind the bastards -Cool people who did cool stuff -You're wrong about -American hysteria -It books could kill

History/Politics/News and Current Events: -Congressional dish -The lawfare podcast -Straight White American Jesus -American history tellers -In our time with Melvin Bragg -Lions led by donkeys -Reveal -Throughline

Science/Tech/Art/Design: -99% invisible -Articles of interest -Ologies -You are not so smart -Science vs. -Sawbones -This podcast will kill you -The last archive -Proof

Spooky/strange/macabre: -Box of Oddities -The shallow end -Lore -Cabinet of curiosities -Radio rental -Spooked -Monsters among us -Real life ghost stories -We can be weirdos

Misc: -No such thing as a fish -The blindboy podcast -The bugle -The gargle -Darknet diaries -Craphound, the Cory Doctorow podcast -Off menu -Criminal -Swindled

Stuff You Should Know. So good and has a massive backlog of awesome episodes. Always new topics. And they update frequently. Been listening for years!

The Common Descent podcast has two paleontologists discussing ancient life on Earth. Every episode focuses on a specific era or group of creatures and what we know about their evolution and speciation. There are really good episodes on the "big five" mass extinctions when major changes led to a fundamental reorganization of living groups on the planet.

The only podcast I listen to with any regularity is Knowledge Fight. Listening to a couple of dudes dunk on Alex Jones is cathartic.

Darknet diaries

Ted radio hour

Dan carlins hardcore history

Lingthusiasm! It's basically just two linguist friends chatting about the weird and interesting oddities in their field. It's delivered at a level easily understandable to me that has never studied linguistics

No Such Thing As A Fish - 30 mins a week where 4 professional trivia compilers and comedians take turns sharing odd facts they've learned over the years

Hardcore History - like a history lecture from your favorite high school social studies teacher, but compressed into a professionally produced 4 to 10 hour audiobook

FiveThirtyEight Politics - analysis of political opinion polling in the US. no ideological opinions either way, just strategy and political science applied to current events.

The Magnus Archives - a found-footage horror fiction anthology series where the real story turns out to be about the character we hear narrating the stories

There’s no such thing as a fish

The Worst Idea Of All Time

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - great for particle and astrophysics

Never seen it with Kyle Ayers. Kyle invites comedians to write scripts for movies or TV shows that they've never seen. Then they do a brief table read of the script. Then they play games that Kyle has created. It's a lot of fun, it usually very light and a lot of fun.

Dumb people town. It's the podcast I have continually listened to constantly. Since like 2013 or 2014. Listeners will send in articles of news stories they find of people being dumb or doing dumb things.

• WTF - Marc Maron's podcast with really great long-form interviews of comedians, actors, and other public figures.
• Radiolab - about science, nature, and the human experience. Interesting and educational.
• Don't Ask Tig - comedian Tig Notaro and a guest answer listener questions asking for advice. Usually funny and heartwarming.

Nobody's mentioned it yet, so I'll suggest Well There's Your Problem. It's a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides.

99% Invisible. So much random knowledge.

I'm currently enjoying "A Problem Squared". A comedy / educational podcast hosted by 2 Australian comedians (who live in the UK), Matt Parker (Stand-up Maths on YouTube) and Bec Hill.

"Für mich gibt's nur einen Podcast: Fest und Flauschig!"

'Fest und Flauschig' is a great German Podcast, which takes an authentic look at current world events with humor, satire and heart.

Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes.

I only listen to Lateral, so I guess that's my favourite...

5 Minuten Harry Podcast

It's one of those "analyze every frame of a movie" podcasts that looks at Harty Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Sorcerer's Stone). The host and producer is a well known german youtuber who has previously made the most iconic german parody dub for the Harry Potter movies.

The Dollop

Probably Science

The Little Dumdum Club

• darknet diaries - stories about hackers
• stuff you should know - interesting things you may not know about
• Real Canadian true crime - stories of real murders in Canada

Ologies with Alie Ward

It’s a nice light introduction to a diverse array of fields you probably don’t know a ton about. It makes a good “drive to work” podcast.

Making Sense - with Sam Harris Ologies The Ancients (from History Hit) Tides of History Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman Mindscape with Sean Carroll

Comedy Bang Bang

Hollywood Handbook

Hey Randy

Knowledge Fight

These are my "must listens" every week.

Honorable mention for another CBB Presents, Full Throttle! With Bob Ducca - extraordinarily brilliant, probably the hardest I've ever laughed at a podcast in my life. Limited run, so it's concluded. He tells a story about posing as a monkey in a traveling circus that is somehow both tragically beautiful, and snot running down your face funny.

-Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine -Casefile -Ologies with Alie Ward -Short History -This Podcast Will Kill You

Lingthusiasm

Sidenote by ASAPscience

Drk Mode (the misspelling of "dark" is deliberate)

Cold Ones

Literally anything on actual radio stations

KEXP song of the day: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/song-of-the-day/id121393815

This Week in Tech: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-tech-video/id478840375

Twenty Thousand Hertz is indeed good.

I mostly hear:

• SciShow Tangents
• Numberphile Podcast
• The unmade podcast
• Tiny Matters
• Through the web
• Twenty Thousand Hertz

Sometimes:

• Universe Today podcast
• this week in tech
• Eons: mysteries of deep time (hoping for a new season)
• TED Talks Daily
• Narcosis Into the deep

And some more german podcasts:

• radioWissen
• SWR2 Wissen
• WeltraumWagner
• c't uplink
• Heise Show
• 11km

And some more stuff. Mostly science and knowledge podcasts.

RIP: The Friendship Onion

And recently: The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks

I used to listen to a lot of podcasts back when I worked in an office but now the only one I listen to on a regular basis is

Trash Taste

I'll also sometimes listen to

Safety Third

Well all I'm going to say is RIP Hello Internet

I'm a little late to the party here, but I don't see it mentioned already so I have to recommend "372 Pages We'll Never Get Back". Mike Nelson (MST3K, Rifftrax) and Conor Lastoka (Rifftrax) give really detailed reviews of "books they expect not to like", aka badly-written books. Think Mystery Science Theater 3000, but with books. They're on episode 152 and the episodes run ~2 hours. Great for long car rides.

Surprised no one mentioned Bill Burrs Monday Morning Podcast, Your Mom's House, Time Suck, Scared to Death or Giant Bomb. Also the Josh Potter Show, Bad Friends and Are You Garbage are fun.

• Short History Of…
• The Soundtrack Show
• Stuff You Should Know