- Stories of Scotland - Jenny and Annie talk about Scottish history, culture, nature, and heritage in lovely accents and sometimes they get very silly
- Irish and Celtic Music Podcast - by Marc Gunn, the ‘celtfather’… I love a good jig
- Stuff You Should Know - stories of curious and strange things… a bit US-centric but they do ‘translate’ units (e.g. feet to meters) and I appreciate that
- The compassion Initiative - Just two guys from Brisbane talking compassion, with Stan and James, also nice accents
- Me the Mountain - Acoustic guitar music I listen on the bus in the morning half asleep; there are no new episodes since 2021 but I listen to the remaining ones on repeat
- WTF with Marc Maron - the godfather of podcasts, nice chats, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry…
…and for my German fellow lemmys:
- Haschimitenfürst - Der Bobcast - für alle ??? (Hörspiel-)Süchtigen
If you like short and sweet (most eps. 20–30 min) and don’t mind being sad that it’s discontinued:
Two buddies discuss what a world without a particular thing (one thing per episode) would be like. No color? No chairs? No numbers? They tackle these questions in often unapologetically unscientific, and always creative and hysterical ways.
The Doughboys - a podcast where they review chain restaurants (fast food to fast casual to high end chains). The hosts (Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell, comedians) have a love-hate relationship that makes it so fun and real. And their guests are the best.
My podcasts fall into two groups:
Linux/Tech
- Destination Linux
- Late Night Linux and its brethren
- Linux GameCast and its sister show LWDW
Urbanism
- The War on Cars
- The Urbanist Agenda
- Strong Towns Podcast
- Upzoned
They release on almost a daily schedule, so I always have something to listen to.
- Spout Lore (actual play dungeon world podcast which is an absolute blast of hilarity and wholesomeness)
- Dungeon and daddies (first season is a masterpiece, after that, your mileage may vary, they are going too often in the “too raunchy” for my taste but there are some good episodes still)
- Adventure Zones I recently dropped. I basically enjoy only the one off they do in the old West with ghosts and such. The main campaign is subpar since quite some time
- Not Another D&D podcast, I’m catching up with the first season still, sometimes they go for the “over the top” for no reason but there are some good moments. I absolutely loathe the sponsors they use (like fucking turbotaxes and other exploiting companies)
I had others but over time the quality dropped unfortunately.
I used podcast for infotainment and keeping updated with work related stuff as well once, but since the pandemic I don’t commute anymore and the time for podcast is basically just for when I cook or clean.
- Coder Radio
- Ask Noah Show
- Late Night Linux
- Linux Unplugged
- 2.5 Admins
- Self-Hosted
- Linux Action News
Thanks for the recommendations. Subscribed to all of them!
Behind the Bastards (weird/interesting historical shitheads; usually, they did one on Musk and the Submarine Guy)
The Dogg Zzone (if you read Cracked back in the day, two of the main writers, plus guests)
Stuff You Should Know (Stuff. You should know.)
The Dollop (More weird historical shitheads, and sometimes good stuff??)
My Brother, My Brother, and Me (because i’m a basic removed and love dick jokes)
Distractible (also because i’m a basic removed and love dick jokes)
The Dollop episode on Ronald Reagan (2 parter, number 400 I think?) should be required listening for everyone.
Committable https://committablethepodcast.podbean.com Gates McFadden Investigates: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/gatesmcfaddeninvestigateswhodoyouthinkyouare improv4humans with Matt Besser https://feeds.simplecast.com/kcpXyVdJMad in America https://www.madinamerica.com/mia-radio-2/ Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie https://reason.com/podcasts/the-reason-interview-with-nick-gillespie/
Wait!? Gates McFadden like Dr. Crusher?
Yes Dr. Crusher asks fellow Star Trek cast about their histories. She used to be a French clown. Heard about it from https://trekmovie.com/2023/01/31/exclusive-gates-mcfaddens-investigates-podcast-returns-in-february-with-more-star-trek-guests/