I use Antennapod to listen to podcasts, but previously had used Google Play Music and Spotify.

Finding new podcasts is usually through recommendation. Friends have recommended several podcasts, podcasters that I like have had collaborations or recommendations for other, similar podcasts, and I’ve picked up a couple from similar discussions as this one. Once a member of a live play podcast was promoting it where I work and I gave that a listen for a while. I don’t typically use a service or discovery tool to find new podcasts, though. Sometimes I’ll search a topic and see if something pops up, but usually I see one I recognize having heard about and pick that one.

Three recommendations of my own are:

Mission to Zyxx - An improvised science fiction sitcom following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote and chaotic Zyxx Quadrant… better known as the “ass end of space.”

The have five seasons of their original run, and have recently started a new loosely connected series. A friend discovered this one, not sure how they found it, and we all listened to it together. Tons of fun if you have other people you can convince to listen along!

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong - A podcast about exactly what it says it is: examining the bad ideas, mistakes and accidents that misshaped our world.

This was one of the podcasts I found through a similar discussion as this one. I’m a huge fan of weird and strange history, and Mark delivers. They are usually independent of other episodes, unless numbered, so feel free to hop in anywhere. I started from the beginning, and the quality has noticeably gone up, but I never had an issue with the earlier episodes.

History for Weirdos - A deep dive into the strange obscure and relentlessly entertaining portions of human history. Married couple and armchair historians, Stephanie & Andrew, discuss the often overlooked parts of humanity. Whether the subject is an obscure event that has confused historians for centuries or a historical figure that doesn’t get enough credit, we have you covered.

This is one of the podcasts I discovered by searching “weird history”. They have started taking longer breaks recently, while other things in life have started taking more and more time. They cover wide swaths of history from Ancient Greece to Prohibition. They are (or used to be, haven’t checked recently) fairly active on social media as well, with pictures relevant to podcast episodes, or from trips they take to locations they’ve talked about.

I listen to mostly far left podcasts about various topics.

1. Mostly through crossover episodes where hosts of one show appear in one I already listen to.

2. “Well There’s Your Problem” a funny podcast about engineering disasters and “Behind the Bastards” a funny podcast about some of the worst people in history.

I listen to podcasts for minimum 2 hours per day. However, it’s mostly audio dramas, and the only podcast I listen to is Behind the Bastards.

For finding audio dramas, I use The End.

Many of the ones I have listened to were mentioned on other podcasts.

I don’t really have much I would recommend, but mostly because the quality is inconsistent and I don’t know you. Econtalks has always been mostly good, just with some annoying guests. I haven’t listened as much since October 7th as it has taken up a lot of the host’s attention.
Gzero World can be interesting sometimes. A bit produced but okay.
Here Comes the Guillotine is fun. Scottish comedians joking darkly.
There are some good TTRPG actual play podcasts. I’d highlight Final Show Films, the Apocalypse Players, and Push the Roll. Quality varies but sometimes really fun. Zizek & so on can be interesting if you like Lacanian psychoanalysis and the like.

The Dogg Zzone 9000 for fans of cursed media from the wrong universe and the brave men and women who function as garbage archeologists.

I rely entirely on what my husband puts on, I don’t really seek out podcasts myself. That being said, I’ve enjoyed Behind the Bastards, Some More News, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and Maintenance Phase. If you like garbage I can also recommend Skin Suit and Dan Savage’s Lovecast. He also wants me to mention Ologies by Alie Ward.

How do you find new podcasts to listen to,

I honestly have only been selecting ones that come up on my yt feed, e.g by clips or entire episodes, and that has given me enough to chew on.

What are 1 or 2 podcasts that you would recommend to others?

Heh. They’re all boring!!

Well, the only one that’s both high prod value and i can be confident anyone will enjoy is The Rest Is History by 2 british historians, but content warning because it describes horribly violent things sometimes.

I’ve listened to a few about interviewing actors or celebrities, like *inside of you *by Michael Rosenbaum and Rob Brydon’s podcast, but you see those kinds of podcast don’t make you want to tune in for every episode. Because it would be superfluous.

I mostly pay attention to posts asking for recommendations just in case there’s a little gem of a podcast made out of passion.
Once or twice a year I try one of those I hear ads for and end up deleting them soon after.

One of these gems if you’re into it is The History in the Bible Podcast. From its website:

…a layman’s guide to a century and more of research into the Biblical texts and the archaeological evidence behind them.

I found it surprisingly interesting and some of Gary’s sarcastic jabs made me chuckle from time to time.

I follow more than I have time to listen to. Here are a few:

Stuff You Should Know

Hidden Brain

Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me

This American Life

I use the old fashioned radio to find podcasts. I listen to CBC Radio 1 here in Canada which has programs they highlight random podcasts.

I listen to “The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge” daily because I’m a politics nerd. Highly recommend if you want insight on how Canada operates and how the world works.

I like Last Podcast on the Left. Comedians on true crime, the paranormal, conspiracies, and history. Their humour isn’t for everyone, but it serves to leaven the subject matter.

I mostly like Marcus on that show, and his music history podcast No Dogs in Space is pretty good too. Great to have someone explain stuff like the Stooges without the “you had to have been there” attitude.

I’ll hear podcasters mention other podcasts or I’ll look up opinion threads on podcasts for specific genres.

• Dark Horse (Use logic and reasoning to talk about politics and also talk about evolutionary biology)
• Matt Beall (similar to Joe Rogan but more often has more interesting guests)
• Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons (bi-weekly tech news and bi-weekly tech people interviews, tends to focus on privacy)
• Informed with Aaron Siri (Lawyer who has focused his career on holding Big Pharma accountable for bad vaccines now interviewing people about their experiences on the subject)

Excluing few exceptions, the vast majority of podcasts I’ve discovered have been via the podcasts I already listen to.

Modern Wisdom is the one I’d most recommend giving a shot, though I can’t imagine it to be very popular among the userbase of this platform.

I use antenna pod and will look on apple podcasts if I want to see things categorized.

Podcasts I listen to regularly (politically tinged)

• conspirituality
• there are no girls on the internet
• 404 media podcast
• democracy now’s daily show
• tech won’t save us
• the final straw
• drop site news

Fun:

Caleb hearon’s so true podcast makes me laugh regularly

What are 1 or 2 podcasts that you would recommend to others?

The Romesh Ranganathan Show, The Harry Hill Show, The Weekly Planet and Once We Were Spacemen.