Deprogram, Safety Third, various HowStuffWorks series, Nosleep and Creepypastas, and also I have NewPipe so I mainly just listen to long YouTube videos as podcasts. Disaster Breakdown, Plainly Difficult, RMTransit, and Mentour Pilot are my current educational channels. Barely Sociable, Nexpo, Rob Gavagan for horror and true crime stuff. Some channels interleave the video and audio a lot more so they’re not as suitable for listening to.

If you like short and sweet (most eps. 20–30 min) and don’t mind being sad that it’s discontinued:

A World Without

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 Scathing Atheist - three atheist comedians talk about religious over reach on society.

God Awful Movies - those same three comedians talk about terrible religious movies

Cognitive Dissonance - two skeptical best friends from Chicago talk about the news.

Citation Needed - the guys from The Scathing Atheist and the guys from Cognitive Dissonance take turns reading essays based on Wikipedia pages and joking about them.

Behind The Bastards - hilarious and well informed host talks about histories greatest Bastards.

The Greatest Generation/The Greatest Trek - two guys review Star Trek episodes. Generation focuses on older trek shows, currently going through Voyager, Trek reviews the new shows as episodes release.

GoNintendo - Rawmeat Cowboy from GoNintendo and his friends talk about Nintendo news and utterly fail to stay on topic.

Dungeons and Daddies not a BDSM podcast …except that one time

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)

• Coder Radio
• Ask Noah Show
• Late Night Linux
• Linux Unplugged
• 2.5 Admins
• Self-Hosted
• Linux Action News

• 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

• 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.

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.

Financial Times Morning Briefing

Today Explained

Decoder

David McWilliams Podcast

Linux Unplugged Linux Action News Self Hosted Coder Radio

Late Night Linux

Behind The Bastards

Irish History Podcast

Blindboy Podcast

Drifting Off with Joe Pera: A Sleep Podcast

https://www.patreon.com/DriftingOffwithJoePera

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drifting-off-with-joe-pera/id1669125364

https://open.spotify.com/show/56Vb1dQgGFEFJ9r937U3pg

Drifting Off With Joe Pera is an evening comedy podcast from comedian Joe Pera and composer Ryan Dann. With low-key jokes, immersive soundscapes, and relaxing phone conversations, Joe’s narration and Ryan’s sound design will help you unwind and perhaps even fall asleep. Featuring guest composers and interviews with interesting folks, the podcast will be released on the first Sunday of every month. Sorry, it’s not more often but this is the fastest we can do thoughtful, quality work.

After the cancellation of Joe Pera Talks With You, I was glad to learn that Joe and his calming voice would be making new content. Especially content I can drift off with.

The Deprogram

If Books Could Kill

Last podcast I listened to was a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards. Breaking Down: Collapse is the one I listened to in its entirety most recently

At the moment, the Dollop and Behind the bastards are my mainstays. Both are as excellent and funny as they are depressing.