My personal favourite is Beautiful/Anonymous. Tell me yours.
WTF with Marc Maron is a comedy podcast of interviews with comedians, actors, writers, and musicians. They’ve hosted some great guests such as Cillian Murphy of Oppenheimer.
Stuff You Should Know. Also a comedy podcast that is essentially a literature review on a plethora of topics covering everything from whether Mallory summited Everest to how HIV works.
Three major ones for me: Dudesy, What’s It Called, and Never Seen It. All great comedy podcasts!
- The Unmade Podcast - Podcast about podcasting ideas
- Smashing Security - IT security news
- Eagle Nine: Locked - Story podcast
- World’s Greatest Con - Season 1 is about misleading Nazis on DDay, Season 2 is about Game show cheating, Season 3 is about infilitrating research about the paranormal.
My two favorites are Darknet Diaries and Dark Dice.
Stuff You Should Know and Conon O’Brien Needs A Friend
Dungeons and Daddies, Behind the Bastards, and the Always Sunny podcast. To a lesser extent, “that happens.”
Upvote for an actual play to try out. I’ll happily add:
Redemption (a star wars podcast, just changed their name to smuggler’s blues)
Friends at the Table, they play different systems and have fun running them. Players are having fun, but it’s not a comedy podcast.
The Magpies, blades in the dark play. Not humor.
And Spout Lore, it started off as the GM trying to have a game with depth and it’s a scaffolding held up by dick jokes. (Imagine that however you’d like)
I am not a D&D a person and my husband very much is. He loves actual play podcasts and desperately wants me to love them too, but I just can’t.
Dungeons & Daddies is the solution. It’s pure gold. It’s the first and only podcast I’ve ever joined a Patreon for. (I admittedly do also appreciate many parts of The Adventure Zone, but the daddies are comedy start to finish. No weird sappy awkward dramatic improv taking itself too seriously.)
Love Always Sunny! I just finished all 15 seasons of the show on Disney Plus and am really enjoying the podcast. The Dayman Cometh episode made me so happy.
The Dayman episode was amazing!
Been really into hiking/backpacking lately so “Out alive” has been good.
This Podcast Will Kill You.
I am a nerd so The Rest Is History
I guess we’re both nerds. I love that podcast.
History of English Podcast is fascinating. Especially if English is your first/primary language.
One of the greatest of all time, imo. It’s still great on a relisten, too!
Climate Denier’s Playbook is great. After enjoying Rollie’s YouTube stuff for so long it’s nice to see it translates well with bouncing off someone instead of just monologuing.
Opening arguments is also a good legal/political podcast for fans of 5-4
Hey! I’ve listened to Opening Arguments, too. They’re just not my favorite like 5-4.
I think 5-4 is the best legal podcast out there. It’s refreshing to hear legal takes from a leftist perspective by people that know what their talking about. It helped keep me sane in law school.
It’s (Probably) Not Aliens-Podcast debunking Ancient Aliens on the History Channel.
The Magnus Archives- Horror podcast about an institute that investigates paranormal activity.
Knifepoint Horror-Horror anthology podcast.
Sonic the Comic the Podcast- A podcast reviewing the British Sonic the Hedgehog comic issue by issue. An interesting look back at 90s nostalgia, even if you aren’t British.
Blowback. I’m only on the first season which is about the Iraq war, and it’s great so far. Great use of audio clips from Bush admin officials to prove their points.
Oh that one is 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.
I’m a big fan of No Such Thing as a Fish.
It’s a bunch of researchers for a funny British panel show (QI) talking about their favorite fact they’ve discovered that week.
One of my favorites.
