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I'm a little late to the party here, but I don't see it mentioned already so I have to recommend "372 Pages We'll Never Get Back". Mike Nelson (MST3K, Rifftrax) and Conor Lastoka (Rifftrax) give really detailed reviews of "books they expect not to like", aka badly-written books. Think Mystery Science Theater 3000, but with books. They're on episode 152 and the episodes run ~2 hours. Great for long car rides.
Surprised no one mentioned Bill Burrs Monday Morning Podcast, Your Mom's House, Time Suck, Scared to Death or Giant Bomb. Also the Josh Potter Show, Bad Friends and Are You Garbage are fun.
Sleep deprived and chuckle sandwitch
The Honeydew with Ryan Sickler, the Jason Ellis show, Behind the Bastards
Found my fitness by Rhonda Patrick, for nutritional/exercise science. One of the few podcasts I know that are actually science based, with proper sources and all.
Political Gabfest, The Intelligence (Economist), the Briefing Room (BBC), Battleground Ukraine, The Rest is History, any of the History Hit stable, Ezra Klein Show, Club Random, The Poetry of Reality, History of English
God Awful Movies. Mostly about glurge-y Christian propaganda, with a sprinkling of Orthodox Jewish "Spy Kids" ripoffs, Hindu mythology represented accurately, Mormon mythology buried in layers of revisionism, and whatever the fuck is going on with the Happy Science cult. Occasionally they'll cover secular fantasies like Mike Lindell's "docufilms," or medical advice from hippies.
The episode that hooked me was "Believe," which is Ebeneezer Scrooge apologism.
Our Fake History
Decoding the Gurus
Conspirituality
I listen to a lot more but these are the ones where I don’t miss an episode.
Daniel & Jorge Explain the Universe (physics)
Trillbilly's Workers Party (politics)
Save Your Sanity (relationships w/ toxic people)
Freakonomics Radio (economics methods applied elsewhere)
Two of my favorites
StarTalk by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Andrew Huberman's podcast
Very surprised no-one mentioned History Unobscured
Cashing In with TJ Miller. The first 200 episodes or so have some of the funniest conversations I've ever heard; it's just two friends who are genuinely hilarious hanging out. After the first 200 episodes, the show is still good, but before that is what I would call the Golden age of the show.