This History of Rome – Pretty much exactly what the title says. This is an old podcast. It started in 2007 and finished in 2013. It pioneered the history podcast genre. It was made by Mike Duncan, who went on to create…

Revolutions – Mike Duncan’s follow up to The History of Rome. It’s a similar format, but rather than a single on-going historical narrative, each season focuses on a different historical revolution. The original run of the show covered the English Revolution, American, French, Haitian, Spanish-American, 1830 French Revolution, 1848 European Revolutions, Mexican, and Russian Revolutions. He then concluded the podcast in 2022, but started it back up again late last year. This season is a fictionalized podcast about the Martian Revolution of the 24th century (told as a history from someone living well in the future of it). He’s said that once he’s done this season he’s going back to doing historical revolutions picking back up after the Russian Revolution.

If you’re at all techy or in to self-hosting or home automation, the Self-Hosted podcast is excellent listening.

Shout out to Linux Unplugged, from the same network, Juipeter Broadcasting

Plenty of audience participation, current and active.

They also have meetups, community stuff and are very fediverse involved!

General interest

• Hardcore History (the best!)
• A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
• Myths and Legends

Game history

• Retronauts
• Video Game History Hour (Video Game History Foundation)
• New Books in Game Studies (I haven’t listed yet, but the description sounds interesting anyway)

Talking about current video games

• Kit and Krysta
• Vic’s Basement (Electric Playground)
• Easy Allies (Haven’t tuned in since a lot their personalities left, but they’ve still got a solid crew)

A few not yet mentioned:

• Well There’s Your Problem - a podcast about engineering disasters
• Hard Fork - a weekly tech news show, with banter similar to what you could find on Reply All before that was ended
• The War on Cars - an urbanism-podcast
• The Urbanist Agenda - another urbanism-podcast, by the creator behind Not Just Bikes
• The Climate Denier’s Playbook - a climate-podcast
• Hyperfixed - by one of the hosts of Reply All

And a vote for previously mentioned podcasts:

• 99% Invisible - a podcast about design, arguably my favourite
• Darknet Diaries - a podcast about cybersecurity

The Fall of Civilizations is hauntingly beautiful

The only one I listen to anymore is the WAN show. I just never have time to listen to them anymore so it usually takes 3-4 days to finish it.

Everything from Cool Zone Media

Knowledge Fight including spinoffs

Triple J The Hookup

Rude Tales of Magic

Many good ones on channel zero

Darknet diaries. It’s about anything security, spy, hacking, some networking bots, etc. do NOT need to be a nerd to love it, recent episode was a guy who started tracking stolen bikes and found a crazy web of criminals though patterns.

Very well spoken, very well edited, very easy to listen to, even if you’re technically challenged.

Here are some I really enjoy, which I also use to fall asleep to.

• Fall of civilizations - great history show
• Sweet Bobby - Weird and fascinating story
• The Spy Who - Awesome storytelling about different spystories from around the world
• It could happen here - Podcast that tells how a second american civil war could happen
• Decoding the gurus - decoding weirdos like musk, jordan peterson and other scammers

Schumy vanna kaviyangal

The materialism podcast has stopped, but is absolutely worth listening to the backlog. It’s a material science podcast.

DOS GAME CLUB

What’s Left of Philosophy? - Good for elevating your philosophy game.

Darknet Diaries, it’s about hacking and each episode is a different story and has interviews with people that were involved in information security incidents, either the ones doing the hacking and/or those defending from and responding to attacks

Trueanon, if I ever make a manifesto I’m mentioning them in it