Podcast General Thread - Recommendations, Spergery, and the Losers Who Listen To Them

[Capital Punishment]

This is the designated shitting street for all things podcast (unless the topic is big enough for its own thread).


I'll kick things off with recommendations (mostly copied from another post of mine):

Right now I only have 6 pods I'm subscribed to because I have less time for them. Cox n' Crendor because I used to follow them and like their personalities, Crime in Sports (reason below), Our Fake History (reason below), The Conspiracy Farm (RB), The Dick Show (RB), and The Dollop (RB).

Now onto full Recs:
Casefile True Crime is top crime podcast in my book because its a chill Aussie reading a well written script. Small town murder and Crime in sports are well researched, hilarious, and long (usually about 2-3hr) true crime podcasts. Generation Why is hit or miss and are into PC politicing, but their old podcasts are great. Same with Court Junkie, Canadian True Crime, Thinking Sideways (RIP), Nighttime, Unresolved, True Crime Garage, The Trail Went Cold, and True Crime All the Time.

Our Fake History is my favourite history podcast done by an awesome dude separating historical fact from fiction. George Carlin's Hardcore History didn't really interest me, but I know a lot of people who enjoy it (same with "Revolutions"). Cults falls in between true crime and history, and I really enjoy the crisp narrating. The Dollop is a really fun history/comedy pod, but the hosts have been ranting about feels-lib politics for awhile. Not the most historically accurate, but really fun nonetheless.

The Conspiracy Farm tickles the old almonds, and they bring on interesting guests. I don't listen to it anymore, but Mysteries Abound is a great Creepypasta-esque show with legit bone-chilling stories and Aussie narration.

For comedy, its pretty much pick your poison. Literally every comedian has a podcast or five. If I Were You is a pretty good podcast headed by Jake and Amir of College Humor's glory days. The Dick Show is an obvious choice if you enjoy these forums. If you want a deep lore, fun, crazy podcast to get sucked into, listen to the glory days of Nobody Likes Onions. They were my first comedy podcasts, and their old shows in Tampa and LA are fun, drug fueled shitshows. Also one of the oldest podcasts, being founded in 2005. You'll have to trust me on this one, because the first 1000 episodes are behind a paywall on the Nlo website. There used to be Nlo Radio, which had all of the shows greatest hits in random order, but it looks like he removed that. I'll drop some classic bits in a spoiler. Patrick Melton, the host of NLO, is kind of an interesting lolcowish character. Might do some digging back into the history of the show and push out a thread on it.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Politics wise, there isn't a ton I've enjoyed. The Ben Shapiro Show if you like gay Jew politics. Just read the news, or recommend me something good.

Religious related stuff is also kinda iffy. Lotta mainstream, corporate squeaky toy Christianity. I enjoy 5 minutes in Church History. Just go to a church or read the bible if you need Jesus.

If you like football, Around the NFL is pretty good, but they have been politicking more and more. A symptom of living in LA I suppose. Dave Dameshek is solid.

For anything else you are on your own. If you find a podcast with an interesting premise, but their most recent episode is kinda cucked, listen to their older stuff. A lot of podcasts sold out to ad companies after a massive conference was held on monetizing podcasts a couple years ago. You might even be able to dig up a few cows, since I don't really see podcast drama mentioned on Kiwi Farms.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I recommend "The Dick Show", but you should really start with his previous Podcast with Maddox "The Biggest Problem in the Universe" for it all to make sense.

BPITU was great, but TDS does some really epic trolling.

 

[jewelry investor]

Cum Town

 

[Capital Punishment]

https://contrakrugman.com/
two lolbertarians sperg about paul krugman being wrong about economics, for 160+ episodes.
not really my cup of tea but maybe people with a hard-on for milton friedman will like it enough to listen to all of it.

Listening to lolbertarians sperg is my fetish. Thank you

 

[Tramadol]

Wrestling Soup: Great and funny podcast that even non-wrestling fans can get a chuckle out of
The Dick Show: Obvious great choice and has even had Nool on an episode.
The Daily Shoah: Great podcast if you want to hear retards rant about niggers and beaners, tbh merchant minute is really the only funny part of the show

 

[Frank D'arbo]

The Ricky Gervais Show

 

[IdaRita]

http://taughtbyapro.com/category/podcasts/page/10/
Tha only anmation podcast I find professional and helpful.

 

[QU 734]

If you enjoy sperging and infosec,
http://shows.galaxy15radio.com/decking/

 

[whitepumpkin]

Recs for the murder folks:

Spoiler

Canadian True Crime by Kristi Lee & Dark Poutine cover the Canadia crimes. Kristi Lee is an Australia who moved to Canada (Lord knows why) and she has a pretty pleasant voice, but she's rather soft spoken. I'd recommend giving her a listen in a quiet area or when you need background noise. Dark Poutine is by two guys whose accents are... interesting. They routinely cut into their episodes with little bits of commentary, so if you don't mind that, I'd recommend them for covering a few forgotten cases.

Casefile, the greatest thing to come out of Australia, is another banger. I'd call them an Australian podcast, because most of their murders are from there, but they cover England, America, and sometimes other interesting cases around the world. The Anonymous Host has a great voice and you can listen to him just about anywhere, which is nice. Some of the episodes featuring audiotape can be hard to understand, but it's not too bad. Usually ends up creeping you out more.

The True Crime Enthusiast covers the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland cases. Some I found to be really obscure, but others are semi-well known, like Sandy Hook. It's obviously not a professional podcast, but it is very charming to listen to. The host, Paul, is Welsh I believe, but he has a good clear voice. Especially when revealing his disgust.

The Last Podcast on the Left and Unresolved I throw in for the American podcasts. They don't cover just American cases, but The Last Podcast usually goes into the "Heavy Hitter" serial killers, cults, aliens, religion, and a lot of dick jokes. Which, not gonna lie, I appreciate. It's mainly a comedy podcast but they do go pretty indepth with what they research. I recommend The Donner Party episodes especially, because their arguing did lead to some interesting speculation on what exactly went down. Unresolved covers mysteries and crimes that have no ending, so if you need closure, I don't recommend it. It's still a fantastic podcast that covers not only American but international mysteries.

The one true crime podcast I will say I can't really get into is My Favorite Murder. I did really try, but they spent 10 minutes talking about themselves and then calls every victim a Sweet Baby Angel or something similar. Like you get stabbed? Oh sweet baby angel you poor baby girl. Maybe they've changed from the last time I bothered with them, which was last year, but it still creeps me out how much they would cry out for every female involved in a story, then spend 20 minutes talking about their next gig and therapy.

I would love other True Crime podcasts, though. Though most of the ones I do listen to, the narrator is either muffled/low quality or there's about 5 ads every 2 minutes...

 

[Capital Punishment]

Recs for the murder folks:

Spoiler

Canadian True Crime by Kristi Lee & Dark Poutine cover the Canadia crimes. Kristi Lee is an Australia who moved to Canada (Lord knows why) and she has a pretty pleasant voice, but she's rather soft spoken. I'd recommend giving her a listen in a quiet area or when you need background noise. Dark Poutine is by two guys whose accents are... interesting. They routinely cut into their episodes with little bits of commentary, so if you don't mind that, I'd recommend them for covering a few forgotten cases.

Casefile, the greatest thing to come out of Australia, is another banger. I'd call them an Australian podcast, because most of their murders are from there, but they cover England, America, and sometimes other interesting cases around the world. The Anonymous Host has a great voice and you can listen to him just about anywhere, which is nice. Some of the episodes featuring audiotape can be hard to understand, but it's not too bad. Usually ends up creeping you out more.

The True Crime Enthusiast covers the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland cases. Some I found to be really obscure, but others are semi-well known, like Sandy Hook. It's obviously not a professional podcast, but it is very charming to listen to. The host, Paul, is Welsh I believe, but he has a good clear voice. Especially when revealing his disgust.

The Last Podcast on the Left and Unresolved I throw in for the American podcasts. They don't cover just American cases, but The Last Podcast usually goes into the "Heavy Hitter" serial killers, cults, aliens, religion, and a lot of dick jokes. Which, not gonna lie, I appreciate. It's mainly a comedy podcast but they do go pretty indepth with what they research. I recommend The Donner Party episodes especially, because their arguing did lead to some interesting speculation on what exactly went down. Unresolved covers mysteries and crimes that have no ending, so if you need closure, I don't recommend it. It's still a fantastic podcast that covers not only American but international mysteries.

The one true crime podcast I will say I can't really get into is My Favorite Murder. I did really try, but they spent 10 minutes talking about themselves and then calls every victim a Sweet Baby Angel or something similar. Like you get stabbed? Oh sweet baby angel you poor baby girl. Maybe they've changed from the last time I bothered with them, which was last year, but it still creeps me out how much they would cry out for every female involved in a story, then spend 20 minutes talking about their next gig and therapy.

I would love other True Crime podcasts, though. Though most of the ones I do listen to, the narrator is either muffled/low quality or there's about 5 ads every 2 minutes...

Small Town Murder (and crime in sports if you like sportz) my dude. They do long, very well researched episodes on crazy murder cases you won't find anywhere else. Jimmy and James are top comedians and aren't completely cucked to top it off.

 

[whitepumpkin]

Small Town Murder (and crime in sports if you like sportz) my dude. They do long, very well researched episodes on crazy murder cases you won't find anywhere else. Jimmy and James are top comedians and aren't completely cucked to top it off.

Adding them to my playlist. I'm not a big sports person, but Crime in Sports? Sign me up.

 

[frozenrunner]

No Agenda is the best podcast in the universe. Now twice a week!

A fair warning: the hosts are not interested in partisanship, but the show centers on "media deconstruction," and as such they have to talk about what the media talks about. So whether you suffer from TDS or are merely sick of the 24/7 media circus, you may not like the focus on Trump or their lack of hostility towards him.

But if you have always known how full of shit the media is, you might appreciate NA.

 

[Polyboros]

My recommendations:

Spoiler

The Dick Show. Currently my favorite podcast. I typically can only stomach one "Comedian talks about the week" show at a time, and for over a year this has been the one for me.

Fans of the Dick Show should be aware of this, but even if not, I'd think this forum would really enjoy Who are these Podcasts? Carl and a rotating crew of guest host listen to a podcast, from the obscure to the big time(more big time lately), plays clips and rips into it. Discovered it a few weeks ago after his appearance on The Dick Show and have torn through most of his back catalog.

Hello Internet by Youtubers CGP Grey and Brady Haran(of a million channels, Periodic Videos and Numberphile). It's a rather aimless podcast, but Grey and Brady have an amazing chemistry together, and they typically only put out an episode every other week or so. Were it a weekly or more frequent podcast I might get burned out on it, but as an infrequent treat in my feed I enjoy it tremendously.

For History podcasts there are the obligatory Hardcore History and History on Fire(though I skip subjects a lot with Daniele if I'm not interested). Besides that I'm only currently listening to The History of Byzantium, a good fan sequel to the more popular History of Rome podcast, though he's currently getting a bit lost in the weeds in his between century synopsis. The Constant is a show I can only recommend starting. It's similar Our Fake History, which I enjoyed a bit but tired of after I think the second year, however I think The Constant goes over some more obscure stuff and has an interesting delivery. Unfortunately, dudes a cuck and a really great episode signals the down fall when he tries to equate shipping companies in the 1800s purposefully sending boats of men out to drown to profit off the insurance to gun manufacturers selling guns after Parkland. I pushed through a little further, but it got worse and worse until I quit. Another recommendation if you're looking for a lot of source material is The Lesser Bonapartes, they have an extensive catalog, and tend to focus on more obscure subjects. They are rather amateur about it, but in a charming way. Definitely a step above the ever present "Two Holes Read Wikipedia" format. Unfortunately, I've been off the show for about a year, the guy who makes it had a shakey year after amicably splitting with his original co-host and having some rough seas trying to cement a new format.

Two authors who do the Podiobook format(release the book for purchase, spend 30-40 weeks broadcasting the audiobook in segments for free while they write the next book) are Scott Sigler and Paul E Cooley. Sigler might be my favorite living Sci Fi author, he has several series all set in his own universe, though in different times(Several in the present, a few in different stages of the future). Reminds me a lot of Michael Crichton. Paul E Cooley isn't nearly as good, but enjoyable enough that I keep listening. Very similar subject matter, though he goes into supernatural horror more as well.

Last Podcast on the Left is about the only True Crime/Conspiracy/Supernatural podcast I can stomach. All the others feel like fan knock offs made by middle schoolers. Still enjoy, but it gets on shakey grounds at times when their TDS flares up.

Something I'm specifically looking for is a video game lore Podcast. I currently listen to Navi Tales, and it's alright... but very shallow and poorly done. What a really want is something similar to The Procrastinator's Podcast University Lecture series, where one guy goes super autistic and spends three really well researched hours going over the story of a game I'll probably never play(Kingdom Hearts, Guilty Gear both were very informative). And while the audience got cringey as fuck often, I really enjoyed having the aspect of someone who knew nothing listening along to ask questions of the lecture. There are at least 2 dozen series I could think off the top of my head I'd like to see this done for, and I can't find anything nearly as detailed.

 

[frozenrunner]

Last Podcast on the Left is about the only True Crime/Conspiracy/Supernatural podcast I can stomach. All the others feel like fan knock offs made by middle schoolers. Still enjoy, but it gets on shakey grounds at times when their TDS flares up.

I feel similarly about Stuff They Don't Want You to Know. It's a good podcast, and it's a lot of fun to momentarily go back to that childhood/young adult sense of credulity, wondering about alien visitation, the supernatural, and everything similar. Especially when they cover things you've never heard of before.

It's too bad they (and everyone from the How Stuff Works network) act like evangelicals about their progressivism and Trump hatred. In one of the most recent episodes they unironically gave a "trigger warning." It was all I could do not to delete it right there in annoyance.

Come to think of it, that's become a problem with a lot of the podcasts I used to listen to.

 

[Polyboros]

I feel similarly about Stuff They Don't Want You to Know. It's a good podcast, and it's a lot of fun to momentarily go back to that childhood/young adult sense of credulity, wondering about alien visitation, the supernatural, and everything similar. Especially when they cover things you've never heard of before.

It's too bad they (and everyone from the How Stuff Works network) act like evangelicals about their progressivism and Trump hatred. In one of the most recent episodes they unironically gave a "trigger warning." It was all I could do not to delete it right there in annoyance.

Come to think of it, that's become a problem with a lot of the podcasts I used to listen to.

That's exactly what happened with me and The Constant, I stopped in the middle of work to delete and unsubscribe from the podcast over retarded Trump spergery. I'm not even a big fan of Trump, but it's impossible to find even handed criticism of the man. It's either mildly annoying dick sucking, or absolutely cartoonish demonizing.

I stopped listening to Dan Carlin's Common Sense, after a long run up to the election of "I'm torn, i've always wanted an outside the establishment canidate, but Trump's not what I imagined” that I could really relate too, to a drunken ramble about democracy being over.

 

[Lensherr]

The only podcast I listen to regularly is the Joe Rogan Experience, because I really like his persona and the atmosphere where it feels like me and my friends shooting the shit makes it pretty relatable. My only problem with Joe is how dense he can be and how his somewhat left-wing bias can be irritating: this was particularly apparent when comparing his interviews with Tulsi Gabbard (Democrat congresswoman) and Larry Sharpe (New York Libertarian gubernatorial candidate), where he grilled the latter much more intensely than the former (this was especially apparent when he was discussing with Sharpe his proposed changes to the New York educational system).

 

[Cable 7]

The first 10-25~ episodes of The Official Podcast are solid gold when it comes to comedy and media happenings. I haven't fucked with the more recent episodes since the 1 year anniversary, but there might be something good there.

Also, I'll throw out Boof Boyz as one. Basically Chapo's Traphouse but filled with blacks and hip-hop references.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

BBC has launched its new 'Sounds' digital service, and commissioned a 'spoof' true crime podcast following an investigation into the events of H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, transposed to a modern setting. There are nice touches such as 4th wall breaking to elicit subscriptions and plugs for other (fictional) podcasts. The cast is excellent, and production values are BBC radio standard, i.e impeccable. The tension ramps up nicely, and there are some bizarre (but welcome) divergences from the source. I highly recommend it.

Edit: suppose I should include the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/player

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

I've been hooked recently on Mike Nelson's podcast '372 Pages We'll Never Get Back', which spoofs bad literature like TekWar and The Eye of Argon.

 

[Kamov Ka-52]

I really enjoy(ed) both the now concluded History of Rome and the ongoing Revolutions podcasts. Both are done by the same guy and are well researched.