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"Homestuck Made This World" is a critical analysis of the webcomic Homestuck that morphs into a discussion about how the culture of the Internet changed immensely from 2008 to 2015.
"Lavar Burton Reads" is as it says, a podcast about an actor reading science fiction pieces.
Triforce podcast for silly and fun chats from the Yogscast members, Sips, PFlax, and Lewis
Love Triforce. Itβs one of the few that I actually manage to keep up do date on.
I listen to quite a few episodes by the Economist. Science Vs, Freakonomics are couple of others that come to mind right now.
By far Completely Arbortrary. A podcast about trees and tree related topics. The host are great, one of them you might recognize from the podcast Ologies if you are into science topics.
The hosts compliment each other well and deliver a funny, educational podcasts with fun series for certain months. Highly highly reccomend
History of English Podcast is fascinating. Especially if English is your first/primary language.
99% invisible.
This Podcast Will Kill You.
And for something light: UnderUmderstood.
Friends at the Table is the best podcast.
It's an actual play podcast run in game systems designed mostly for story generation, operated by people who who know there's no such thing as a monster, and I'd never seen anything like it.
They ran some seasons in a post-fantasy-apocalypse world, some in a Star-Wars-meets-Gundam science fantasy world, and one recently in a Western sort-of-horror setting. I started at the beginning, with Autumn in Heiron, featuring orc archivists who work magic using extremely specific shopping lists, undead pastry chef boyfriends, and an "evil" alignment of "destroy something rather than trying to understand it".
But for the impatient you can start with Marielda. Marielda is a series of heists by a crew of illegal knowledge dealers, in a fantasy city that sounds like New Orleans, patrolled by living statues and ruled by a god who forged the sun, whom our players proceed to fight.
The sci-fi side, which is running its fourth season now, starts with COUNTER/Weight, a game set in the aftermath of a mecha movie never made. It features a character who is "what if Han Solo used to be BeyoncΓ©", psychic hackers, and mechs who might be gods.
Also there's no sponsors because the GM is too punk for that.
Been really into hiking/backpacking lately so "Out alive" has been good.
Chilluminati. Jesse Cox who was previously on co-optional with Total Biscuit talks paranormal, internet stories and true crime. Jesse is a skeptic, his stoner co-host is way too into it and the third guy is neutral and just kind of laughs at it all. Better than it should be due to the balance.
Gastropod easily. They are so informative and itβs generally pretty entertaining if your into food and food history
Timesuck. The long form, research based style is a refreshing departure from a lot of the content I consume most days. Plus, each week is a different topic, so you get a good mix of history, cults, serial killers, and a little bit of everything in between.
Land of the giants is one of my favorites
Only about 1 season a year but each season is about the rise (and sometimes fall) of big tech companies
Unexplainable is cool too, about weird sciencey things that we don't have an explanation for
TrueAnon. I recommend the series about Elon Musk, "The Lamest Show on Earth".
Because that always comes up: Yes, the name is making fun of QAnon because it's not true. They started out talking about Epstein, and that's an actually true pedophile conspiracy.
You're Wrong About Maintenance Phase Sounds Like A Cult Scarred for Life Pod and the Pendulum
The first season of Good Assassins is incredibly gripping. It tells the story of a Jewish spy after World War 2 who spends months befriending a Nazi who escaped justice known as 'The Butcher' with the goal of killing him. It's a roller coaster
Stuff You Should Know and Conon O'Brien Needs A Friend