Just curious what are the top 3 podcasts you listened to this year on whatever platform. Antennapod released a feature that summarized your year and well the amount of hours kinda surprised me in a good way, haha.

Edit: Mine were

  • The let’s read podcast
  • Therapy gecko
  • How To Survive
  • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I’ve never heard of antennapod. How do ads work on it? Does it work well connecting to car Bluetooth? My wife signed up for duo Spotify, so I’m wondering if there’s any reason to switch since we’re already paying for that either way.

    I listened to an absolute shitload of 1upsmanship, but iHeart didn’t renew :(

    Other podcasts I listened to were Fake Doctors Real Friends (except during the strike), Behind the Bastards, Even More News, What A Day, and I’ve recently started Dungeons and Daddies and I’m fucking loving it.

    I also gave Your Favorite Band Sucks a shot, but I really can’t recommend it other than their episode on The Beatles. That one was so good that it made me want to know what they had to say about other bands I like, but they just came off as pretentious non-conformists who were bitterly jealous of the bands’ success, fame, and popularity. Their credibility as supposedly knowledgeable music experts went out the window when they said that Pearl Jam sucks, but Limp Bizkit and Creed are good. Everybody is entitled to opinions and preferences, but I expected more objectivity from a podcast that seemed to be aiming to challenge me to think critically about my music tastes and who I should give my money to. Telling me that Eddie Vedder can’t sing isn’t stating a fact or even a decent argument to begin to make to somebody who enjoys listening to him sing. I’ve ranted for too long about these guys here, but I just wanted to provide some supporting evidence to back up my claim that their podcast sucks. If only they did the same in their quest to explain how and why various bands suck… 🤔

    Behind the Police is a good, limited run that everybody should listen to. I think it’s only 6 episodes long and original aired in summer 2020 😬

  • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Blowback.

    If you want to know about the history of American wars and interventions, that is the best podcast by far.

  • rockandsock@lemm.ee
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    3 years ago

    The Right Time with Bomani Jones.

    I wonder what he’ll be doing next since he was let go from ESPN in the great 2023 purge.

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 years ago

      How is WAN show lately? I tried to listen a while back but Linus… comes off really, really full of himself and it was hard tolerate to get to the substance.

      • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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        3 years ago

        He def has an ego but, I think he’s a good person and I agree with the majority of broader ethical opinions he has so, nothing that turns me off a ton

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Behind the Bastards

      I really, really need to listen to more. My spouse made me listen to the Steven Segal episodes. Wow, I knew he was a jerkwad, but I didn’t know how extensively terrible he is.

      • Ergifruit [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 years ago

        it’s an extremely good podcast, plus they lost their sources so if you’re interested in a specific part, you can read up on it. i will say that some of the episodes are hard to get through. dark humor can only help so much, lol. but it’s a great way to learn stuff you might not have been exposed to. if you’re interested in that, you also might like Blowback. first season is the Iraq War, second is the unofficial US war with Cuba.

  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Making It - Bob Clagett (I Like to Make Stuff on youtube), Jimmy Diresta (on youtube), David Picciuto (Make Anything on youtube) discuss their projects, being a maker, being on youtube, etc.

    Safety Third - William Osman (on youtube), Allen Pan (on youtube), Kevin (Backyard Scientist on youtube), and guests (supposed to be Nigel of NileRed, but he never shows up). Nominally, they talk about being science youtubers, but it descends into chaos pretty rapidly.

    A podcast of 3 of my friends just shooting the shit, being morons to each other.

  • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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    3 years ago

    Well There’s Your Problem
    Black Box Down
    This Podcast Will Kill You

    Apparently, I like listening to stories about death and disaster

    • freebee@sh.itjust.works
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      3 years ago

      You might like some episodes of cautionary tales with Tim harford. Quite a few are about engineering oopsies with big consequences.

  • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago
    • Darknet Diaries
    • Chapo Traphouse
    • And a couple of NFL (gridiron) casts to catch what’s going on with the team I follow
    • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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      3 years ago

      Oh shit. Can’t believe you got my exact top 3. Especially since Cautionary Tales isn’t even BBC and likely much more of a niche show.

      • freebee@sh.itjust.works
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        3 years ago

        Haha great! I got into cautionary tales because of ‘more or less’, searched for Tim harford because I liked he’s presenting!

        • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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          3 years ago

          Oh wow. You really are me. This is surreal. Care to share your whole podcast list? I’d be interested in discovering new shows from someone with similar interests.

          • freebee@sh.itjust.works
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            3 years ago

            Sure, it’s mostly BBC and mostly science.

            My all time favorite podcast is Elements. It’s from 2014-2016, but still worth the listen! Every episode explores an element or a group of similar elements on the periodic table. Physics and chemistry is often very theoretical and weird and hard to understand (for me), but in this podcast it gets very applied and business oriented: which industry uses this stuff, why, how …? It was my gateway-podcast into the BBC really.

            • The documentary podcast: I often don’t listen, it very much depends on the subject
            • witness history
            • Discovery: same, depends on subject
            • The food chain
            • 50 things that made the modern economy
            • Unexpected elements
            • Hidden brain (shankar vedantam)
            • Radiolab (WNYC studios)
            • The climate question
            • Sliced bread

            One that doesn’t really fit the others but i liked very much: death in ice valley.

            And then a few in german and dutch language, mostly politics/society, i’m just gonna assume you don’t understand dutch or german ;)

            Care to share some of yours?

            • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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              3 years ago

              Awesome, thanks. Here are some of the ones I would recommend:

              The Reith Lectures - Lecture series from an expert on a topic. Tend to release episodes close to the end of the year only (episodes are releasing now talking about the state of democracy). The backlog is worth listening to.

              The Dream- investigative podcast looked at pyramid schemes and the world of wellness.

              The Jordan Harbinger Show - In-depth conversations with people at the top of their game.

              Playing God - Medical ethics. Life-and-death dilemmas. New medical technologies. Controversial treatments.

              Hot Money: The New Narcos - The backlog has excellent episodes about investigating the financing structures in the porn industry. They’re just preparing to launch a new series now but I don’t know what they’re going to look at now.

              You Are Not So Smart - about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.

              The Happiness Lab - the science of happiness

              Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, research-based parenting ideas

              CrowdScience - Listener questions about a science issue that the presenters then try to find experts to answer

              The Real Story - examination of some current event issue.

              The Inquiry - gets beyond the headlines to explore the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world.

              The Infinite Monkey Cage - a witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists

              Darknet Diaries - true stories of the dark side of the Internet

              Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwelllooks at things overlooked and the misunderstood

              Owls at Dawn - Two dudes from SoCal who studied philosophy, politics, and religion around the globe who decided to start a podcast where we could bullshit with impunity.

              If Books Could Kill - Two guys talk about books that are popular and tear apart how bad they are. I mostly find you don’t need to have read the book and the books tend to be pretty popular.

              The Forum - The programme that explains the present by exploring the past. Expert panel discussion about any subject area.

              Law in Action - legal magazine programme, featuring reports and discussion on matters relating to law (UK based)

              All Consuming - explore our culture of consumption through products that have changed the world.

              Sound of Gaming - video game soundtracks and an interview with a sound designer from a popular video game.

              Bad People - true crime with a criminologist and a comedian. This show has ended but the backlog is great.