What are interesting and entertaining podcasts to listen to? [English, French, Italian]

[maggiwuerze@feddit.org]

True. Weird, wonder why that has vanished from the web...

[mrstag@lemmy.world]

It got too close to the truth!

[goosehorse@lemmy.world]

Maybe you typo'd that description of S-Town, but it was definitely non-fiction/investigative journalism!

Growing up in a rural area and having experienced a period of social isolation in my young adulthood, that story absolutely haunts me.

[almacca@aussie.zone]

That's a great list, but are there even enough hours in the day to listen to all of those? That seems like a lot.

I've been meaning to listen to Behind The Bastards, but the back catalogue of that podcast alone would keep me going for weeks.

[almacca@aussie.zone]

'The Weekly Planet' is the only one I listen to regularly. Couple of blokes from Melbourne, Aus talking about pop culture, but I'm mostly there for the funny banter and obscure Australian references.

I binged on Tony Martin's 'Sizzletown' a while back. It's a 'late night talk-back podcast' - basically Tony doing a bunch of characters that 'call in' to the show. Pretty funny, especially the first couple of seasons.

[snumbers@lemmy.world]

Love this. Bookmarking tons of stuff.

I'll add: A Sense Of Rebellion. Miniseries about the confluence of the rise of computer science and intellectualism and psychedelic culture at MIT in the 50's and 60's.

[crazi_man@europe.pub]

I listen at x2 speed, so a 40 min podcast only takes 20min. Skipping ads, etc brings it down to 18 min or so.

I don't go looking through backlogs unless there's a particularly interesting and specific old episode.

I don't listen to all new episodes. If an episode is uninteresting then I skip it.

It is worth listening prospectively because most do episodes about topics that are relevant on current discourse and current events.

If I listen regularly then I can keep up just fine with new releases. 40 min to work and back, maybe another 40 min of listening in the gym. Then if I skip ads/titles/endings, and listen at x2 speed, then I effectively get through over 4 hours of content every day.

[almacca@aussie.zone]

Thanks for the explanation. I don't know if it's just my age, but I find I can't enjoy content at anything other than 1x speed, but I can see how it helps to play things faster. There's just SO MUCH content, and every episode of BTB looks interesting to me.

[prancingpotato@lemmy.world]

Warning, all content below is In french :

• if you like audio adventures, fantasy (and are quite fluent in french) I urge you to try "reflets d'acide". Imagine that your typical D&D session is narrated, with meta jokes and lots of wordplay !
• Le comptoir Sécu, Which is a periodic review of cyber security news.
• a list of content creators that you can find in podcasts ( or youtube), pretty politicals : clément victorovitch (rethoric analyst, with a heavy focus on french politics, pretty mainstream but hard leaning left. Mathieu burgalassi ( french journalist focusing on fighting fascism and alt-right, everything he does is heavily sourced and he also did some debates)

[crazi_man@europe.pub]

You have to train your ear slowly and build up speed gradually. My wife and brother both used to laugh at the x2 gibberish I listened to. They started building up slowly, and now they both also find it way too annoying and slow to hear x1 speed content (including YouTube and videos).

Listen however you find it most enjoyable.

[mouette@jlai.lu]

Listen 6 hours of Henri Guillemin speaking about La Commune de Paris

[drstevebrule@mander.xyz]

I really enjoy Flightless Bird. It's a New Zealand journalist that moved to America to report on all of the things he finds strange about the US. As an American I have fun listening his fascination of all the weird things here especially when it comes to corporate america.

[awaysaway@sh.itjust.works]

I think you might Like ScienceUnscripted!

[crazi_man@europe.pub]

Thanks I'll check it out