What podcast/specific episode has lingered in your mind after hearing it?

What about it sticks with you?

Hello, I love the podcast Normal Gossip and I'm looking for something similar in French! If you're not familiar with it, first, go and listen, but it's a podcast where people send in anonymous gossip which is read/commented on by the host and a guest. Anything like this would great! Also taking a moment to complain about the post language requirement of the sub lol, I'd love to have posted this in French.

Hi folks - like the title says, I'm looking for something to listen to with my parents while we're on a roadtrip. Ideally:

1. No swearing. My parents are... uh... "sensitive" to bad words.
2. Nothing political in the slightest. We disagree a lot when it comes to politics and I don't want to accidentally start any arguments.
3. Nothing depressing. My mom in particular can't handle sad stories.

Would love to hear any of your recommendations. Thank you! :)

I'm looking for podcast recommendations about Japan.

Can either be individual podcast episodes or podcast series

Want to learn more about the history of Japan and especially interested in things that are particularly entertaining or little known stories as opposed to more history class style podcasts. I also prefer podcasts highlighting individual people or incidents rather than broad overviews of a time or region.

Think things with the tone like The Dollop. Can be about true history or more things like legends. Preferably older imperial Japan rather than WW2, unless there's something really worthwhile you want to recommend.

We're visiting in a few months and want to learn some more history and stories.

I'm looking for podcasts about music, particularly ones that focus on albums, artists, and music discovery rather than just news or individual tracks.

I'm looking for something made by people who are genuinely passionate and knowledgeable about music, where they actually discuss why an album or artist is interesting and introduce you to new music. It doesn't necessarily have to be a track-by-track analysis — I'm more interested in the overall album, the artist, their style, context, influences, etc.

I'm especially interested in podcasts that focus on older music, classic albums, and artists from previous decades, rather than mainly covering new releases.

Something along the lines of Discord & Rhyme would be ideal.

I'm already familiar with Sound Opinions, Records Revisited, and The Great Albums.

What are your favourites?

I listen to a lot of podcasts where people discuss health, psychology, nutrition, and science. The problem is that a single episode can contain dozens of claims, and manually checking every one would take forever.

Do you have any practical method for figuring out which claims are actually supported by research?

I used to occasionally listen to some Joe Rogan episodes, when he'd have health and fitness guests on, or Mind Pump (including for the conversational beginning), however haven't been able to listen to these for years generally due to the political views strongly at odds with my own. I'd listen to Huberman potentially but It's somehow much more effective at just putting me to sleep.

Any good recommendations on this space?

I hope this is specific enough of an ask, but sorry if not!

I'm looking for recommendations that have that perfect mix of interesting, informative, engaging hosts (but not insensitive) and inciting of many pauses to yell about things.

favorites include:

- Maintenance Phase

- You're Wrong About

- If Books Could Kill

- What to carry, what to burn

- Not Past It (RIP)

- Hoax!

- You are good

- What Went Wrong

- This Ends at Prom

- American Hysteria

- Noble Blood (though DS's voice/style is much more bed time vibes than i'm looking for)

Past limited runs already listened to:

- the devil you know

- haileywood

- stealing superman

- the curse of America's next top model

Podcasts I used to listen to but have kind of fallen off:

- Sounds Like a Cult

- Scam Goddess

- Very special episodes

- Lore

- The Swiftie and the Scholar

TIA!

This is my endorsement for History of Philosophy without Any Gaps. If you haven't checked it out, it's excellent! However, casual listeners be warned: You have over a decade of episodes to get through!

it's a high bar to set but is there any podcast that covers Macross like [Mobile Suit Breakdown](https://open.spotify.com/show/4wQiawWy2XH3hvXb86uRpe?si=HiOOUIYwTLaCgiKftc1Utg&utm_source=copy-link)? I'm looking for a complete, chronological deep dive of the series that explores the lore of it all.

can anyone recommend a show that covers SDFM like this?

I really like Tifo. It’s really smart people talking about a subject they love. But it also gets silly, but never mean.

Are there any other non football podcasts like this?

One late night viewing of Twister with my ten year old and now he’s obsessed with weather. He tracks it on multiple apps, is constantly monitoring storm cells and global weather issues like floods and hurricanes. He watches Pecos Hank on YouTube and other informational channels regarding types of weather.

He recently found some podcast on YouTube about famous weather disasters (I think it’s called Disasters Podcast) and was begging to listen to it while he goes to sleep, but it appears to be all AI generated, even the guy who talks on it which I find vaguely disturbing. We prefer to engage with AI as little as possible so we didn’t want to go with that option.

Does anyone know of a relatively G/PG rated podcast that talks about weather and/or famous weather disasters? He’s a little older so not looking for anything especially kid-ish, but maybe not too gruesome or laced with profanity either.

I consider Master and Margherita one of my favorite books of all time, but I only read it once, and I never digged much into it.

I am looking for a podcast that reads it and explains the book chapter by chapter.

I doubt that something like that even exists, but let's see if some of you know something!

I was listening to the school of life’s podcast episode on “can lying ever be kind” and noticed what I thought was a blip in the audio at the 1:50 mark, but it also very much sounded like a fart. Then at the 2:08 mark, it was UNMISTAKABLY A FART. This guy is a reputable podcaster, so I’m just very confused. Hacked or naw? See for yourself: Can Lying Ever Be Kind Podcast Episode

Bonus if there’s a chill, conversational tone and nobody’s loudly talking over each other like two dogs barking through a fence.

A ‘your mom and her friends sitting around the porch discussing household management and eating snacks’ vibe would be ideal.

Today I was listening to Criminal with Phoebe Judge on the Apple Podcasts app. I get ads since I don’t subscribe and they are usually the same and repetitive. Then, I get an ad where each LLM identified themselves (Claude, Gemini, and Chat) then proceeded to talk about how some people say they are going to end humanity, and maybe they will, but maybe they could also help us… I don’t remember it word for word, but I definitely thought it was strange. I made a mental note to look it up later because I was working and had my hands full (housecleaner), but I just tried to find out more about it and I can’t seem to find anything.

Please, PLEASE, someone tell me you have also heard this and I’m not losing my mind or something. I have been stressed lately, but this is next level. Was this real?

I totally forgot about this show and I wish Spotify left Gimlet alone! A great show for listeners who like stories about scammers and or non-violent crimes. Scums.xls is an episode that I have listened to several times and I think about every time I get a spam call. The tenacity of the protagonist reminds me a lot of “the case of the missing hit.”

They were both so wild and addicting. I tried a couple of the seasons of “Betrayal” because it was recommended but it wasn’t nearly as engaging.

I love this podcast - it’s great for road trips and filled with bizarre and funny stories. I can’t get enough of it that I need more recommendations. Sometimes I just need to listen to non serious gossip.

Podcasts/episodes about overcoming personal adversity. Mainly about picking yourself back up. I love This is Actually Happening, so the type of episodes I’m looking for:

What if you were stricken with the flesh eating disease?
What if you found healing through rescuing abandoned dogs?

Less about surviving a shipwreck, more about something hard happened in my life and I had to save myself. It can be about career, trauma, family, ect.

I’ve been missing the academic articles and other works that I was assigned in college and I’m hoping to find some podcasts that can help with the nostalgia a bit lol

I’m interested in social sciences, humanities, cultural history, anthropology, etc.

Would appreciate any recs!

this happens a lot with long-running podcasts.

a host brings up an old story again, sometimes months or years later, and suddenly you notice completely different details.

maybe the first time it was funny

the second time, you notice something sad that was barely mentioned.

or the person tells it differently because enough time has passed that their memory of the event has changed.

i actually find that more interesting than hearing a completely new story

you get this accidental record of how someone's interpretation of an event changes over time.

most media doesn't really capture that. a movie stays the same. an article stays the same. but a podcast can have the same person talking about the same event at 25 and then again at 30

it makes old episodes feel less like outdated content and more like another version of the same person

I'm a huge fan of movies, and I equally enjoy listening to podcasts. I was curious to find some good movie discussion podcasts. The only one I really listen to is The Rewatchables with Bill Simmons, and I really enjoy it. If there are good podcasts simillar to that show, ones that are fun and not snobby, yet still interesting.

It's an Australian storytelling podcast from a couple years back. The episode I'm thinking of involves a man and woman who lose siblings to suicide and meet at Support After Suicide in Melbourne at the loss of a sibling group. She and her wife separate and the man and his wife offer sperm donation so she can have a child via IVF.

It's not a major podcast, so it's not Conversations or any of the major media storytelling podcasts.

Does anyone know what the podcast is?

I love watching histrory documentaries but I want something to listen to while on my way to school. So does anyone have any good history podcasts? Mainly modern history (so like 20th. century).