What podcasts did you listen to the most this year

Behind the Bastards
Darknet Diaries
The Daily

What will Darknet Diaries give me?
- Show website:
  
  True stories from the dark side of the Internet
  
  This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network.
  
  Wikipedia:
  
  Darknet Diaries is an investigative podcast created by Jack Rhysider (/riːˈsaɪdər/), chronicling true stories about crackers, malware, botnets, cryptography, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, and Internet privacy, all subjects falling under the umbrella of "tales from the dark side of the Internet".

I've never heard of antennapod. How do ads work on it? Does it work well connecting to car Bluetooth? My wife signed up for duo Spotify, so I'm wondering if there's any reason to switch since we're already paying for that either way.

I listened to an absolute shitload of 1upsmanship, but iHeart didn't renew :(

Other podcasts I listened to were Fake Doctors Real Friends (except during the strike), Behind the Bastards, Even More News, What A Day, and I've recently started Dungeons and Daddies and I'm fucking loving it.

I also gave Your Favorite Band Sucks a shot, but I really can't recommend it other than their episode on The Beatles. That one was so good that it made me want to know what they had to say about other bands I like, but they just came off as pretentious non-conformists who were bitterly jealous of the bands' success, fame, and popularity. Their credibility as supposedly knowledgeable music experts went out the window when they said that Pearl Jam sucks, but Limp Bizkit and Creed are good. Everybody is entitled to opinions and preferences, but I expected more objectivity from a podcast that seemed to be aiming to challenge me to think critically about my music tastes and who I should give my money to. Telling me that Eddie Vedder can't sing isn't stating a fact or even a decent argument to begin to make to somebody who enjoys listening to him sing. I've ranted for too long about these guys here, but I just wanted to provide some supporting evidence to back up my claim that their podcast sucks. If only they did the same in their quest to explain how and why various bands suck... 🤔

Behind the Police is a good, limited run that everybody should listen to. I think it's only 6 episodes long and original aired in summer 2020 😬

How do ads work on it?

Antennapod is essentially an MP3 player app for Android which downloads the MP3 files it finds in podcast feeds. If the MP3 file contains ads, those will be played (but you can skip them). If there are no ads in the file, there are no ads.

Does it work well connecting to car Bluetooth?

I think it supports Android Auto.

My wife signed up for duo Spotify, so I'm wondering if there's any reason to switch since we're already paying for that either way.

Spotify does not really have podcasts, in the technical sense. Spotify simply decided to usurp the word, but use it for "internet on-demand streaming radio show gated with accounts and DRM" rather than "downloadable audio file discovered via RSS feed file".

In any case, Antennapod is free, as is almost the entire regular podcast universe.
- Thanks! I always download my podcasts while on Wi-Fi anyway because we're on Google Fi. This way, our phone bill for two is usually under $60/month since we don't use much data.
  
  Since it's free, there's no reason for me to not try it out!
AntennaPod doesn't have any in-app ads, but the podcasts you listen to will still have them.
- Thanks! That makes sense. I'm sure I'll still experience the same amount of ads, but can still skip them then.
- I wonder if something like sponsor block is feasible for podcasts 🤔
AntennaPod is great. It's open source and has everything you need. The only ads are whatever the podcast has in them, but you can skip forward past them. I also pay for Spotify, but I still use AntennaPod for podcasts.

According to Antennapod:

In Our Time
Thinking Allowed
Revolutions

However, I was listening to a LOT of Philosophize This prior to switching to Antennapod, so I expect that that would really take first place.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape

The History Of Rock Music in 500 Songs

What The Fuck Is Going On with Mark Steel

Blowback.

If you want to know about the history of American wars and interventions, that is the best podcast by far.

Lateral with Tom Scott (game show about random and obscure trivia, heavily inspired by QI)
Beautiful/Anonymous with Chris Gethard (hour long phone conversations with anonymous callers, it can get either super deep and emotional or just batshit insane)
A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein (queer politics and culture)

I just switched to Antennapod, so I don't have data from this year yet. I would guess my top three were:

Kill James Bond
538
possibly This Day in Esoteric Political History, but those shows are really short.

Linux Unplugged
Linux Lads
Linux After Dark
Linux Downtime
Linux Matters
Linux Userspace
Linux Actio News
Linux + Open Source News, by TLE
Late Night Linux
Coder Radio
2.5 Admins
Traceroute
Darknet Diaries
Tech over Tea
The Homelab Show
Selfhosted
FriendsPerSecond

Anyone see a pattern? 🙃

You subscribed to the first 15 things that pop up when you search for "Linux"? :D
- not quite ahaha, im just a big fan on linux related content :P
Way more than 3, lol.
- Haha opsi..

Top 3 on antennapod:

Crime Junkie
And then they were gone
True Crime Couple

Knowledge Fight! Pretty much the only I regularly listen to. It's two friends listening to Alex Jones. The premise is that one of them knows nothing about the insane stuff Alex Jones spouts and the other one has researched it and kinda shows it to Jordan (the one who knows nothing about Alex). They are hundreds of episodes and the show is still as funny and informative as day one.

The Formulaic Objections episodes are fantastic. Somebody made a Spotify playlist of them and the trial recaps.
- Thank you for providing a starting point! Jumping into a long-running show can be daunting. I’m going to check this one out.

• Click Here • Ask Noah Show • Linux Unplugged • Self Hosting • Darknet Diaries • The Privacy and Security OSINT show.

A shame the privacy and security osint show is no longer gonna be producing podcasts.. Not indefinite though, so one can hope he comes back 🤞

Well There's Your Problem
Black Box Down
This Podcast Will Kill You

Apparently, I like listening to stories about death and disaster

You might like some episodes of cautionary tales with Tim harford. Quite a few are about engineering oopsies with big consequences.

Making It - Bob Clagett (I Like to Make Stuff on youtube), Jimmy Diresta (on youtube), David Picciuto (Make Anything on youtube) discuss their projects, being a maker, being on youtube, etc.

Safety Third - William Osman (on youtube), Allen Pan (on youtube), Kevin (Backyard Scientist on youtube), and guests (supposed to be Nigel of NileRed, but he never shows up). Nominally, they talk about being science youtubers, but it descends into chaos pretty rapidly.

A podcast of 3 of my friends just shooting the shit, being morons to each other.

Ologies with Alie Ward

Last Podcast on the Left

Someplace Under Neith

Fraudsters

Behind the Bastards
Blowback

I didn't listen to any other podcasts because there's enough in these series to fill my work time and induce a rabid research of the topics discussed.

Behind the Bastards The Daily Zeitgeist Factually!

Revolutions
History Of The Great War
Aristoteleen kantapää

Where's the feature in AntennaPod? I've only found the total numbers

Knowledge fight
Qanon Anonymous
God Awful Movies

The History of WWII podcast from Ray Harris JR

Myths and legends podcast from Jason Weiser

Levar Burton Reads from Levar Burton

I use Google podcasts for the first and podcast addict for the other two. But these were all marathoned when I didn't have an audiobook to listen to while I'm at work, so they weren't consistently listened to through the year

Google podcasts is shutting down, just FYI.

I think I listened only one podcast.

It's finnish. It's about a woman who decided to be an self-sustaining mother (not to be mixed with single parent) and her thoughts and research between before and after getting the child.

Blindboy
Weird Studies
Feel Better Live More

No Such Thing As A Fish
For F1's Sake
F1: Chequered Flag

History of philosophy without any gaps

The WAN Show

Shaping Fire

Conspiracy Theories, a Spotify Original From Parcast

Sold a Story

Tuesdays with Stories!
We might be Drunk (Weekly epsiodes)
IDKAT with Jim Jeffries (probably)

99pi. I started from the beginning two years ago, and now I am just 40 or so episodes behind.

5-4 You're Wrong About (listening to back catalog) Planet Money

The Glass Cannon

The Daily Beans

Behind the Bastards

5-4 - learned a lot about how much the supreme Court socks.

How Did This Get Made - I have laughed out loud listening to every episode I've ever listened to of this podcast.

Drum Tower - art, history, current events lend a look into China presented by correspondents in China, Taiwan and SE Asia.

According to pocket casts I listened to a ton of No Such Thing As A Fish. I would say my next best is This American Life but apparently I only actually listened to 2 episodes? I think I unconsciously transitioned to listening to mostly audiobooks this year

I mostly listened to:

Behind the Bastards
Cautionary Tales
Knowledge Fight
Search Engine
The Dollop
Swindled
Pod Save America

To a lesser extent:

Lions led by Donkeys
Slow Burn
Stuff they don’t want you to know

As I list these out I realize none of the podcasts have a very happy theme.

If you like D&D, improv comedy, and/or Anthony Burch (he wrote Borderlands 2), then I have a happier podcast recommendation for you: Dungeons and Daddies. 4 dad characters find themselves in the D&D universe and need to rescue their children. Burch runs the campaign. Dad jokes aplenty. I'm only a few episodes in so far, but my wife is much further and says it's incredible. I'm already very sold on it and have been since like episode 2.
- I’ve never played D&D but have a general understanding of the concept and how it’s played. I listened to the first episode and they definitely started to hit their stride towards the end of the first episode, I’m mostly through the second episode and starting to really enjoy it. Thank you for the recommendation!

Distractible
Cartoon Dumpster Dive
SCP: Simply Creative People

Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
Canadaland
Invisible Choir

A mixture of comedy, news and true crime, all on Podcast Addict.

Science Friday
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
99% Invisible
The Truth

Fall of Civilisations
The Thing About Austen
Revolutions

Maybe I'm just a dummy. I can't figure out where antennapod tells you this?

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You need to update the app if you don't do that automatically.
I don't see it either.
You need the latest update, then it shows up as a card on the home screen of the app.

I struggled with finding it as well, as I have the Queue-screen as my root screen.
- Thanks. I had to set home as my default page and then it showed up

I don't use antennapod, but at a guess mine would be:

DF direct
Selfhosted
Critical Role

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe was my top for this year.

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no such thing as a fish the adam ragusea podcast lateral with tom scott

I've tried out quite a few, but the ones I've stuck with are:

Destination Linux: I haven't listened to it in a whule because I barely have any time left for it, but it can often be very interesting and educational.

Tech over Tea: It's an Interview-style podcast where Brodie Robertson, a well-known Linux YouTuber, interviews a member of the Open Source community, usually a developer, about their project and you could often get some interesting insights into the life and responsibilities of an open source developer, as well as some interesting stories during development and insights into what the future of the project might look like.

Are those podcasts any good for Linux noobs? I recently bought a used Steam Deck and love the OS so much that I'm considering building a beefy Chimera OS desktop to rival my PS5 in the living room and also replace my 2015 gaming laptop. I'm hesitant because I haven't seen much info on how Chimera does outside of gaming since I still want to be able to also do standard browsing and stream TV/movies.

I don't know much about programming, so I'm a little nervous about where to start with making sure I'm prepared for troubleshooting Linux issues that I know I'll encounter. I did okay with Windows issues but I've heard nothing but complaints about 11.
- You can watch them but they aren't made to be educational, so if you're looking for educational content, I'd say DL is okay, while Tech over Tea, while it is my favorite, is not exactly a channel used to learn about Linux. If you want to learn Linux as a career, I'd point to Learn Linux TV. Learning about Linux for general usage, I'd recommend CTT, DistroTube, InfinitelyGalactic, OldTechBloke, and The Linux Experiment.
- Linux Unplugged and Selfhosted are the podcasts I started to listen to when getting into Linux. Otherwise I posted a full list of other Linux podcasts that I like in the comments 👍

Not much of a podcaster. I only listen to Toni and Ryan. They’re hilarious.

Poorhammer is the only podcast i listen to

Levat Burton Reads
Darknet Diaries

Omnibus. Ten Percent Happier. Madigan's Pubcast.

Strike Force Five and Off Topic

{THUNDERCLAP}

Jung & naiv And Aufwachen Podcast

Are the best ones.- but they are german

Für mich: Logbuch Netzpolitk, Lage der Nation, UKW, Raumzeit, Forschergeist, Hoaxilla. DAS PODCAST UFO, Stay Forever und "WTFM 100, Null" für's Entertainment. Aber Jung & Naiv ist auch super. Tilo auf der Bundespressekonferenz ist immer ein highlight.

The Nerd Nest

Two Cool Moms

Monday Morning Podcast

Shut up and sit down, funniest board game podcast

I haven't listened to many podcasts lately, so this will be over the past couple years.

Destination Linux
Highside/Lowside (motorcycle podcast)

Office Ladies is pretty much the only thing I listen to. I'm almost through s3.

De stemming
Met het oog op morgen
Europa draait door (although I did start listening a lot less to it, it’s still pretty high up on average)

This Week in Virology
Nocturne
Serious Trouble
The Daily

Basic tech bro stuff but, WAN Show

How is WAN show lately? I tried to listen a while back but Linus... comes off really, really full of himself and it was hard tolerate to get to the substance.
- He def has an ego but, I think he’s a good person and I agree with the majority of broader ethical opinions he has so, nothing that turns me off a ton

The Right Time with Bomani Jones.

I wonder what he'll be doing next since he was let go from ESPN in the great 2023 purge.

https://www.youtube.com/@righttimebomani - he's keeping it going
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  https://www.piped.video/@righttimebomani
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Distractible
Judge John Hodgman
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It

Runners up:

Comedy Bang Bang
Brain Leak

AntennaPod told me my favourites are:

F**kface
Wolf and Owl
Darknet Diaries

Top 47,858 Games

Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod

538 Politics

Next 3 are probably 8-4 Play, The Adventure Zone, and Rude Tales of Magic.

the infinite monkey cage
cautionary tales
crowdscience

Oh shit. Can't believe you got my exact top 3. Especially since Cautionary Tales isn't even BBC and likely much more of a niche show.
- Haha great! I got into cautionary tales because of 'more or less', searched for Tim harford because I liked he's presenting!

By hour count this year:

Behind the Bastards
The Dollop
The Best Thing Ever (used to be called Read it and Weep)

Bitcoin dad pod Linux unplugged Ask Noah Office ladies 2.5 admins

These are my top five this year.

285 hours listened to this year? Yeesh.

Darknet Diaries
Chapo Traphouse
NFL Stock Exchange + a couple of other NFL (gridiron) casts to catch what’s going on with the team I follow

Can Apple Podcasts or like a regular podcast app use OSINT to dox you with this info?

Uhhhhhh, probably not? Using antenna pod at least and you don't need to create an account. Subscriptions are just stored in a local OPML file.

Got me through a lot of walking/jogging

Stuff You Should Know
The Office Ladies
The Always Sunny Podcast

EMS 20/20

That’s pretty much it. For anyone curious they take user submitted EMS calls and review/critique them. I find it funny as hell but their humor certainly won’t be for everyone. And if you’re not even tangentially working near the EMS field it might not be interesting at all.

comedians/musicians on joe rogan

1001 album reviews podcast

the lex fridman review with todd howard

i dont listen to a lot of podcasts

According to Podcast Addict:

ID10T with Chris Hardwick (2d11h)
The Noclip Podacst (2d8h)
Last Podcast on the Left (1d16h)

Tales from the Stinky Dragon
The Wan Show
Let's learn everything
Lateral
The urbanist agenda
Cortex

Last Podcast on the Left

Pod Save the World

Crime in Sports

Security now

Ask a spaceman!
Late Night Linux
Global News Podcast (by BBC )
Physics World Weekly Podcast

Lately, I have started listening to Soft Voice, and I enjoy it too.

Generation Loss - its a podcast about movies that doesn't take itself too seriously
The Jeff Gerstmann Show - games
Blowback - American imperialism is horrifying

Tabletop Gold (Pathfinder 2 play through)
Not Another D&D Podcast (D&D play through)
The Ezra Klein Show (NYTimes opinion columnist, has super interesting guests and experts)

How Did This Get Made

Hello From the Magic Tavern

The White Vault.

Hadn't heard of "How Did This Get Made", gonna check it out. Thank you!

The No Agenda Podcast. ITM!
Theo Von
The Morning Stream

These are my staples.

Maybe I'm just a dummy. I can't figure out where antennapod tells you this?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Learn Japanese with Masa-Sensei

Kino Kingdom (film podcast by some friends of mine)
Talk of the Devils (Manchester United podcast)
The Rest is History (guess)

Podcasts are for Americans/retards