i liked season 1 of The Bright Sessions (fantasy/scifi drama podcast). i still listened to s2 and half of s3 but the writing does get worse in the later seasons, alas. (s1 is fun tho!)
for history: i hear excellent things about Revolutions and if you do take a shine to that, it's like hundreds of hours to keep you busy lol. i listened to The Age of Napoleon podcast for ~20 eps while commuting and really enjoyed it; didn't know anything about Napoleon before and learned some things
for history-ish: Cheat! was a pretty fun relatively-lighthearted podcast that did non-murder non-serial-killing kinda true crime things. think: interesting instances of financial fraud, "dine and dash dater", weird instances of plagiarism or lying-about-background-for-admission type deals, etc. it's been discontinued but you can listen to the whole archive. i also liked the most recent season of The Last Archive https://www.thelastarchive.com/season-4-1 ; lots of random 1900s American history curios in there
science: i haven't listened yet but i've been looking forward to The Studies Show, which goes over science controversies and reads the studies to see what's up.
let's play...ish?: once i listened to Every Day's Great over the course of four cross-country flights even though i'd only ever played ~5hrs of Persona 4: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/every-days-great-persona-day-by-day/id1228998470 hosts are tremendously charismatic so if you're into "dudes chatting about a game that sure sounds interesting" it may be your kind of thing
documentaries: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is great if you love watching white collar crime. no idea if it's on netflix anymore but it was at some point
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Date: 2023-12-02 12:52 am (UTC)for history: i hear excellent things about Revolutions and if you do take a shine to that, it's like hundreds of hours to keep you busy lol. i listened to The Age of Napoleon podcast for ~20 eps while commuting and really enjoyed it; didn't know anything about Napoleon before and learned some things
for history-ish: Cheat! was a pretty fun relatively-lighthearted podcast that did non-murder non-serial-killing kinda true crime things. think: interesting instances of financial fraud, "dine and dash dater", weird instances of plagiarism or lying-about-background-for-admission type deals, etc. it's been discontinued but you can listen to the whole archive. i also liked the most recent season of The Last Archive https://www.thelastarchive.com/season-4-1 ; lots of random 1900s American history curios in there
science: i haven't listened yet but i've been looking forward to The Studies Show, which goes over science controversies and reads the studies to see what's up.
let's play...ish?: once i listened to Every Day's Great over the course of four cross-country flights even though i'd only ever played ~5hrs of Persona 4: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/every-days-great-persona-day-by-day/id1228998470 hosts are tremendously charismatic so if you're into "dudes chatting about a game that sure sounds interesting" it may be your kind of thing
documentaries: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is great if you love watching white collar crime. no idea if it's on netflix anymore but it was at some point
have a safe flight!