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If you listen to any podcast(s) you recommend, tell us about it
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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.
If you like NBA basketball, No Dunks!
- 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
My son loves Behind the Bastards!
I like Robert Evans
I’d recommend not listening to podcasts unless you’re specifically learning something.
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.
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
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.
Bone Valley, eight-episode, superb quality true crime podcast by Pulitzer prize winner Gilbert King.
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
For a Pulitzer prize winner to come up with “Bone Valley” as a title really makes you think 🤭
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)
Better Offline: explains a lot of things that are wrong with today’s tech. Mostly Ed ranting about enshittification/AI in everything
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Any specific episode to get me in?
Great pod
Oologies. A charming interviewer talks to experts in various disciplines.
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?
Yes, that’s the one.
Trueanon, if I ever make a manifesto I’m mentioning them in it
best podcast
Fax
The Magnus Archives is still the best podcast of all time, if you’re into audio dramas.
I also love The Deep 3, Thinking Basketball, and the No Dunks podcast for the NBA.
Armchair Expert.
My brother, my brother, and me- a fake advice show. Pardon My Take- national sports podcast. The Ringer F1 Show- ins and outs of Formula 1 Motorsport.
MBMBAM was good for the first couple hundred… then… not.
Well, that’s an opinion.
- welcome to nightvale - if you like kooky off the wall sci-fi stories
- We’re alive - Long form zombie survival podcast. I recommend starting from the beginning before moving to the newest stuff
- Alice isn’t Dead - mystery sci-fi trucker podcast
- Fictional - classical novels read with a bit of snark - new season coming soon
- That time that Planet Money read all of The Great Gatsby
- 99% Invisible’s book club synopsis of The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- The Truth
- What’s Ray Saying
