My personal favourite is Beautiful/Anonymous. Tell me yours.
Behind the Bastards!
Do you know who else listened to Behind the Bastards?
…the products and services that support this podcast🤷♂️
I love listening to behind the bastards on blue aprons child hunting island.
I love his segues.
I hope I spelled that right, it looks really wrong to me for some reason.
Came here to say this. I feel like everyone can benefit from listening to BtB
Definitely don’t binge it tho, it can be a lot.
+1 for Behind the Bastards. Robert Evans might be one of the few leftists around these days that I can tolerate to listen to for more than 5 minutes.
I tried it but wound up feeling the same way I do about the many nazi shows they used to play on History channel. I understand we should be wary of the villains of our past, but devoting hours of time laughing and talking about them seems disingenuous to the many many others who suffered from their actions.
My three favorite podcasts gotta be,
- Behind the Bastards - They basically pick a “bastard” from history talk about them.
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History - Explainers about interesting (and often, grim) historical events in great detail.
- A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail - Three fellow nerds talk about nerd stuff.
I wish Behind The Bastards would be in another format. Just can’t stand that style of podcasting
I honestly really like it. Their casual humor brings balance to the otherwise dark content of the podcast.
You know what doesn’t bring balance to the otherwise dark content of the podcast?
Products and services, ofc.
Yeah, they talk about some FUCKED UP stuff on there. I’m glad Robert, Sophie, and guest(s) can joke a bit about things between some of the atrocities.
I’m a big fan of the following:
Maintenance Phase: discusses health/diet fads and scams
You’re Wrong About: debunking the popular (but misinformed) narratives surrounding many well-known events of the past
Underunderstood: going down the rabbit hole of strange “ungoogle-able” questions (this one really fills the void Reply All left behind)
Darknet Diaries: super riveting cybersecurity (or just general security) stories
Also can really recommend darknet diaries.
Gonna check out the others you have listed.
Darknetdiaries the name sounds pretty cringe but it is a really good podcast about digital crime.
Rss feed: link
I love this thread! Many of my favorites have been mentioned. My first first few are acquired tastes, but I have come to really enjoy them.
- Last Podcast on the Left - true crime, aliens, paranormal, horror comedy show
- Timesuck with Dan Cummins - similar to LPotL, but single host
- Knowledge Fight - commentary on Alex Jones and others with humor
- Internet Today - opinion based comedy news for all things tech, gaming, etc.
On the shorter side:
- Everything Everywhere Daily - something new every day on various subjects
- Today in History with the Retrospectors - short daily episodes bringing you curious moments from this day in history
- Atlas Obscura - curious and wondrous travel destinations
And a classic that I don’t think has been mentioned:
- Stuff You Should Know - interesting discussion about a wide variety of topics
I have added Chilluminati to try based on this thread.
Man, LPotL has really come a long way in their research depth and quality. Started listening for the true crime but I like their paranormal and cult stuff more.
Some of my favorite ones are their in-depth historical pieces. Their Black Plague and Manhattan project episodes left me emotionally devastated for days afterwards.
Agreed! They have matured a lot… well, at least in the depth of research. 😂
99% Invisible. Produced in beautiful downtown Oakland California.
Love that podcast!
They’re uptown now.
I never see this mentioned but Darknet Diaries is actually a really informative and entertaining podcast about hacking, the dark web, physical penetration testing (gone wrong), nation-state cyber attacks.
Yeah, I know little of IT (as I’m a mech engineer, in construction) but find the story telling to be so good it’s one of my favorite podcasts.
My favorites:
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
- Behind the Bastards
- Radiolab
- Stuff you should know
- The Rest is History
- Nature Podcast
DarknetDiaries
It’s the podcast I’m listening to right now. If you’re interested in It you have to listen to it. The storytelling is just soo good. I really recommend the Episodes “Xbox Underground” and “Operation Bayonet”
Most episodes aren’t actually about the dark Web and are instead about Cybersecurity.
You may also like Hacking Humans and Malicious Life.
Jack is the man. This is literally the only podcast I’ve ever listened to.
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.
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 personally like Latteral with Tom Scott
No Such Thing As A Fish
One more than one occasion I’ve been crying tears from laughter.
Ok I love that!
The Dollop, Behind the Bastards, Dungeons and Daddies, and The Rest is History are my standbys.
I also listen to The Constant, Levar Burton Reads, 99% Invisible, The Always Sunny Podcast, Past Gas, and Twenty Thousand Hertz.
Love Always Sunny. I just finished all fifteen seasons and I want to talk about it all the time.
The Greatest Generation: a Star Trek podcast by a couple of guys who are just a little bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast. Ben and Adam watch an episode of Star Trek and discuss it with lots of dumb jokes. Worth listening from the start!
Dungeons and daddies for dnd and campaign: sky jacks for star wars rpg
The Adventure Zone as well for DnD. Love those guys. They hit my sense of humor so perfectly and Griffin is an excellent story teller.
Good recommendation. I have been listening to this before bed for the last 2 weeks and been loving it. I originally just started listening to try to understand how a DnD game actually works, but they are hilarious. Viva La the great wizard Taco!
