Lots of interviews with a varied list of guests.
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Hello Internet!
Ah hello, Tim.
Distractible is my go-to for a good laugh. Listen to the episode “Bob’s Fridge” to make your day better
I’m new to Distractible as of only a few weeks ago. I was working backwards until my brother said “no. Stop what you’re doing and listen to ‘Bob’s Fridge’”
It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
A lot of my faves have been mentioned (BtB, wtyppod, Bad Gays), so here’s a few I haven’t seen lited here.
Discussion Podcasts
It’s Not Just In Your Head: Therapists talking about the intersection of mental health, capitalism, and treatments (problems with how we go about it and what we could change).
The War on Cars: What it sounds like, urbanists talking about biking, transit, issues with car oriented development.
Tech Won’t Save Us: Interviews with people, having critical conversations of different technologies. Discusses issues of tech, capitalism, surveillance, and more.
Total Liberation: Leftist podcast discussing a variety of topics about the decay of capitalism and how we can recreate and liberate ourselves.
Audio Dramas/Story Podcasts
The Punumbra Podcast: I listen to the Juno Steel series, it’s about a private detective on Mars. Great story and characters, a bit more humorous but will also destroy you emotionally in the best way. Also very queer!
The Bright Sessions: People with super powers go to therapy. I really loved the world they created and how they relate the super powers and mental health.
Scare You to Sleep: Scary stories read in a calm voice. The stories are really good, I actually like the hosts original stories that she sometimes reads quite a lot.
Knowledge fight
Behind the bastards
Ear hustle
- You Are Not So Smart: You’ll marvel at both how flawed our reasoning can be and how well we make up for it by being collaborative creatures
- Behind the Bastards: Everything you don’t know about the worst people in all of history, including people you didn’t even know of
- Twenty Thousand Hertz: Stories of pretty much anything as long as it works well in an audio medium. Best sound design in the game; like candy for your ears
- Cautionary Tales (Tim Harford): Stories of people making huge mistakes or taking insane risks. Fun because sometimes the mistake was trusting their intuition instead of a rigorous process, but just as often it was ignoring their intuition in favor of a rigorous process
- Build for Tomorrow, formerly Pessimists Archive: History of people freaking out about new stuff that is totally benign today but they thought would ruin civilization. Like mirrors, bicycles, teddy bears, pinball machines
- Team Human: Kind of the opposite. All about how “progress” has harmed indigenous people, minorities, women, etc. and talking to people about how to address our modern problems with “anti-human” technology and economics
Edit: I somehow forgot to add Knifepoint Horror, but I just read that someone else recommended it and I’m very disappointed in myself because it’s such a good horror podcast that I literally physically got chills when I read its name. So good. Fuck, I would even put it at the top of this list if it weren’t dependent on being in the mood for spoopy stories.
60 songs that explain the 90s.
Paleocast. They interview guests to discuss all kinds of life that existed throughout the Earth’s history. There’s a lot of coverage of dinosaurs in pop culture but there’s a huge diversity out there to explore.
Judge John Hodgman. It’s about people with silly disputes, and John and his bailiff Jesse Thorn way in on them. What’s great is even though the disputes are silly, they both come at the cases with such thoughtfulness and empathy, listening to the show will make you a better and kinder person. Also sometimes Jean Grae guests bailiff’s and she is amazing too.
Voice mail dump truck (embrace the chaos), a more civilized age
Matt and Shane’s secret podcast. They’re funny if you have 15 year old boy humor like me.
The Plastic Pleasiosaur Podcast is a really fun sceptic/science podcast run by an old man and a femboy archeologist.
Saw Bones is a highly entertaining and informative medical history podcast run by a cool, bisexual doctor and her adult-baby husband.
Bizarre Podcast: Dogs Must Die is an once in a lifetime find: a tiny man describes every episode of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure to his very smart friend.
Grey 17, a podcast about watching Babylon 5. Repeat viewers along with newbies.
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