My personal favourite is Beautiful/Anonymous. Tell me yours.

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        You know who else could benefit from listening to Behind the Bastards.

        The products and services that support this comment.

        Actually, nevermind, that would be too good of an ad transition.

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          Besides, they’re all busy on the island where censored hunts children for sport.

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      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.

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      +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.

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    The Dollap - comedic American history podcast

    Behind the Bastards - Robert Evans’ exposes some real rotten people with guests

    Bill Burr - I just really like his weekly podcast even though I have no interest in sports

    Knowledge Fight - this has been a hilarious/scary journey of 2 dudes reviewing Alex Jones Infowars since 2016

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    My three favorite podcasts gotta be,

    1. Behind the Bastards - They basically pick a “bastard” from history talk about them.
    2. Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History - Explainers about interesting (and often, grim) historical events in great detail.
    3. A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail - Three fellow nerds talk about nerd stuff.
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    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.

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    My favorites:

    • Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
    • Behind the Bastards
    • Radiolab
    • Stuff you should know
    • The Rest is History
    • Nature Podcast
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      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.

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      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.

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    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

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    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.

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      It’s actually a podcast about leftist takes on the news, and then they go into an engineering disaster after.

      They know the audience is split on the additional content, and they don’t care. Or they do care, and they land on the side of “we’re doing it anyway”.

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    I haven’t seen anybody else suggest it but “99% invisible” is one of my favorites.

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    Some I’ve been listening to lately:

    • Hard Fork - podcast about technology and science from the NYTimes that does a pretty good job of being varied and interesting.
    • Search Engine - newer podcast by PJ Vogt from Reply All about understanding weird or poorly understood topics.
    • Darknet Diaries - IT security stories, hacking, and red vs blue team defense of infrastructure.
    • Behind the Bastards - Stories about terrible people and their effect on society. Start with the Dulles Brothers or Kissinger.
    • Mother Country Radicals - Limited series about key members of the Weather Underground during the civil rights era.
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    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.

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      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.

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    Lions Led By Donkeys - fun, irreverent military history podcast that is still quite informative

    Hardcore History - more like an audio book that comes out once or twice a year. The WWI series is like 20- something hours BY ITSELF