What are some good ad-free podcasts?
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Final v3 is funny cartoon man Noodle and his game-dev friend Sam talking about the creative industry. Mostly about why you shouldn't work in the creative industry.
Well There's Your Problem is two communists an anarchist exploring awful ways architecture and infrastructure can turn people into a homogeneous paste. Notably this one has slides to accompany the audio.
Kill James Bond is a review podcast for slagging off spy movies and related films.
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This is probably the pinnacle of what the modern documentary format should be.
Cannot recommend it enough.
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I used to like kexp song of the day but they changed the format.
Now I like https://kutkutx.studio/category/song-of-the-day/feed
Also many good shows on WFMU, some music, some talk. https://wfmu.org/podcast
My favorites are:
- Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine
- Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky
- Techtonic with Mark Hurst
- Bucci (warning this one is weird but in a good way
Other good ad free ones:
- Birdnote. https://feeds.simplecast.com/OB7SrYSf
- Derrière le son (French language) https://feeds.podcastics.com/podcastics/podcasts/rss/5423_17676b1841af819ae181d6abb1a2e320.rss
- Molly White's Citation Needed (interesting but lower production value) https://www.spreaker.com/show/6019906/episodes/feed
Let me know if any of these have ads I'm pretty sure they all don't.
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This has just let me recover a podcast where the feed from the site I was using stopped working, thank you
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A history of rock music in 500 songs is very good
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I'll have to sit down tomorrow to go through these ones, but thanks for listing them all out in such a nice format!
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Can you give a general idea of what sort of subject matter you're interested in?
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Geeknights - 2 geeks talking about geeky stuff which is not just 1 but 3 different shows.
Ludology - talks about boardgame design
Self-hosted podcast - this one has a couple ads but all related to the tech and usually includes discounts
Darknet diaries- I think this has a bit of ads but can't remember right now
Hackaday - news about random stuff and cool projects -
Give "the fall off civilisations" a go
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There’s a whole ecosystem of listener-supported podcasts using the “value for value” model popularized by “the Podfather” Adam Curry. You can find most of them on podcastindex.com or through a supported app like Podverse or Fountain.
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Walk the pod is a daily-ish ramble chat on various topics. It only has a Patreon plug
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I'm behind on my listening, but this is a top tier podcast!
Information dense but delivered in such an engaging format.
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The Dogg Zzone and Bigfeets.
Both absurd comedy by Cracked alum Robert Brockway, Seanbaby and Jason Pargin (the latter only for Bigfeets). Just a Patreon plug and nothing more.
