Good podcasts
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@booboo If you like history and people talking about the past, there's loads: The Rest Is History, Empire, We Have Ways To Make You Talk, History Hit, Not Just The Tudors, History Extra, You're Dead To Me and History Hack.
In terms of management, there's The High Performance podcast.
Not much that's great in terms of Rugby. I chuckled along to a few episode of The Good, The Bad and The Rugby over Christmas. Entertaining more than informative.
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@sparky I was going to mention The Rest is History. Great chemistry between the two hosts and thea enliven history by examining social history as well as the big stuff.
their series on the World Cup - taking a little-known historical story for each of the competing countries per episode.
Who would have known that a Cameroonian slave would become one of imperial Russia's leading generals and a member of the Tsarist aristocracy. Thoroughly recommend.
I listen to a few of the others you list but find them patchier, although you're dead to me is a nice length.
Performance wise The Great Fail can be interesting but is oe of my - when I've listened to all my regualrs types.
Between Two Beers has interesting (Kiwi) guests and a good reputation for longform interviewing but I find the hosts boring, so have never got into it.
I can recommend a number of pods of Fulham FC too
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@sparky @dogmeat So I download the first ep of The Rest is History - it's was a short podcast about the Loving couple (interracial couple in the US from the 1950s). Turns out there are two of the same name, I have downloaded the other one (which is the one I assume you're recommending) to listen to today.
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@booboo said in Good podcasts:
@Nepia said in Good podcasts:
@booboo said in Good podcasts:
Hi Team.
Any updates/new podcasts?
I've pretty much run out of internet, and am left to browse through ABC Conversations, given I'm nearly up to date on The Infinite Monkey Cage, and have revisited the full Brady Heywood series, and both 13 Minutes to the Moons ...
Needed while rebuilding front path ...
I've now listened to nearly all the Behind the Bastards (from my post above yours) and eventually got dialled into what the host was doing so take back my criticism of him not being funny. It's a good podcast if you want to hear about assholes.
Only dud episode was the one on Netanyahu as he did the typical thing these days of just ranting about Israel instead of the actual wealth of material about Bibi being a huge bastard himself.
I'm not up on the science type podcasts you mention but I'll add an episode of each to my list to have a listen to.
Neps
Would suggest you try the Apollo 13 series by both 13 Minutes to the Moon (although series 1 gives you the background) and Brady Heywood. The actual story is better than the movie.
The wrap up episode of the Brady Heywood A13 series includes the movie inaccuracies, and geeks out on some of the rocket science, and how the O2 tank actually got fucked up.
I'll try and track down your bustards pod and report back. I've tried a few of the podcasts further up the thread and lasted only a few episodes because attention span of a teena...
I'll add them to my list, but won't listen for a while as I've been immersed in space stuff over the holiday so will take a break.
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@Crucial said in Good podcasts:
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Listened to an ep called The Inventor Who Almost Ended the World.
About a man called Thomas Midgely. Not only invented leaded petrol and CFCs but ......I will leave that to the story
I thought the first season was great, the latest one hasn't been as good for me although the Midgely one was obviously very interesting.
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I enjoyed this interview with British war historian Antony Beevor:
In Vladimir Putin’s warped view of the past, Ukraine was only able to seek independence in 1991 because of a mistake made by another Vladimir nearly 70 years before. In his zeal to obscure Ukrainian national identity, Russia's dictator blames the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin for “creating” an independent Ukraine in 1922 “by separating, severing what is historically Russian land.” These two events – the Bolshevik revolution and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – are not connected only in Putin’s imagination. They are linked through a history of appalling violence and destruction. The place names of battles of the Russian civil war a century ago are familiar to anyone following today’s news of Russia’s military fiasco in Ukraine. In this episode, the esteemed military historian Antony Beevor discusses the parallels between the civil war that birthed the Soviet Union and Putin’s drive to turn Ukraine into a client state – a plan that has, thus far, failed. Moreover, the Bolshevik coup d’etat of October, 1917, far from an obscure bit of history, shaped the course of the twentieth century as few other events did. Antony Beevor is the author of "Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921."
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If you want to get into laptop general mode, the War on the Rocks podcast is pretty interesting.
War On The Rocks Archives - War on the Rocks
Join Ryan Evans as he speaks with soldiers, spies, officials, and scholars on a range of issues related to strategy, defense, and foreign affairs. Often recorded at bars in Washington and other world capitals, the original War on the Rocks podcast is for people who want to stay informed, with a...
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@Nepia said in Good podcasts:
@booboo said in Good podcasts:
Hi Team.
Any updates/new podcasts?
I've pretty much run out of internet, and am left to browse through ABC Conversations, given I'm nearly up to date on The Infinite Monkey Cage, and have revisited the full Brady Heywood series, and both 13 Minutes to the Moons ...
Needed while rebuilding front path ...
I've now listened to nearly all the Behind the Bastards (from my post above yours) and eventually got dialled into what the host was doing so take back my criticism of him not being funny. It's a good podcast if you want to hear about assholes.
Only dud episode was the one on Netanyahu as he did the typical thing these days of just ranting about Israel instead of the actual wealth of material about Bibi being a huge bastard himself.
I'm not up on the science type podcasts you mention but I'll add an episode of each to my list to have a listen to.
I used to listen to that until I found out who the host was. Robert Evans is a colossal wankbiscuit . He was part of cracked when it turned to shit and when the simps in charge of cracked got outed for being rapey bullies , he called them out on twitter once it was safe. He did nothing when he worked there though.
Not sure if you've seen his glowing coverage of Antifa continually attqcking the Portland police station and trying to set it on fire with cops inside or his similar fapping on about CHAZ 1 and 2 . CHAZ 2 is less well known but it started when some ferals remortgaged their house to pay for the legal bills of one if them who was involved in a hit and run , then couldn't afford the repayments and the bank foreclosed.. Evans and his mates completely misrepresented the whole thing decided they were fighting gentrification and the usual isms and phobes and occupied the neghbourhood . This is how Evans talks about taking over a neighbourhood turning into a lawless Soymalia and intimidating the residents
I'm sure the neighbours "deescalated him" , they didn't want him to make things worse by making a stand against his mates.
His "it could happen here" podcast here is pretty worthless because its so politically one sided.
I decided to look into who he was when after George Floyds death when he started wanking on about the police being "slavecatchers" . For someone who claims to be an investigative journalist his credibility went out the window when on one of his "slavecatcher" rants he repeated the BLM claim there'd been 5 lynchings on black men in 2020, even CNN and Snopes said that was a lie.
Did 5 Black Men Found Hanging in Trees Die by Suicide?
A meme surfaced amid international protests following the death of a Black man in police custody in Minneapolis.
You might enjoy Decoding the gurus is you like the concept of behind the bastards. Just a warning though one of the hosts has the most grating Northern Irish accent you'll ever hear .They give the people they cover the right of reply and a couple of them have come on the podcast.
Also The new gurus , unlike Evans Helen Lewis is actually funny . She managed to find someone who makes a living charging people the listen to him talk about the health benefits of drinking your own urine and perineum tanning . Tanning your taint in Canada in winter like he does takes some dedication imho
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Stories of our times launches new podcast series - The Feud - News UK
Stories of our times launches new podcast series -Â The Feud First episode of the five-part series available Thursday 13th October and available weekly Stories of our times podcast - from The Times & The Sunday Times - today announces the launch of a new five-part investigative series The Feud with...
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It’s potentially already been mentioned on here and I know it’s on Sky Sport but I really enjoy the Aotearoa Rugby Pod with James Parsons, Bryn Hall and Ross Karl.
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Chapo had a very entertaining podcast series on the 30 years war, and the English civil wars.
Podcast âś Hell On Earth
Companion microsite to the podcast miniseries about the Thirty Years’ War.
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Depending what you're into when it comes to Podcasts
Sports
No Laying Up - Golf Podcast
The Loop
The Howie Games
Locked on Dodgers
Son of a Butch with Claude Harmon
New Heights with Jason and Travis KelceEntertainment
Smartless
Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
War on the Rocks
