Please outline what each podcast is in terms or subject or genre, it helps narrow down to what people will be interested in and what to take a closer look at

I love Behind the Bastards with Robert Evans which tells the backstories of the awful people and institutions and practices that are evil, psycho/sociopathic, and often of current topical interest.

I also enjoy The Dollop which "tells stories of people and events of American history with Dave Anthony and his repulsive sidekick, Gary Reynolds)

The sheer evil and craziness of the bastards they focus on actually gets me pumped up and focused on the task i set for myself as a condition of treating myself or giving myself permission to listen and hang out :)

Evil people tend to be outsizedly productive so a little bit (the good bit) rubs off on me

About to cook up an 18 egg omelette to cover my breakfast sandwiches for the week

  • sunsofold@lemmy.zip
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    Used to love BtB, but the ads kept getting more invasive so I stopped when they got their Netflix deal and started even putting in-track ads on the YT versions.

    I have a few that I mildly enjoy:

    • ‘Hardcore History,’ ‘Common Sense,’ and basically anything else with Dan Carlin - His style is engaging and fun. He turns mountains of history into climbable hills. He doesn’t have ads, just a post-roll ask for a dollar to keep things going.
    • Final Show Films - various TTRPG actual play recordings from their twitch streams. Leans more toward characters and less toward the action hero style most of the time. Lots of systems, settings, etc. Great examples of avoiding meta-gaming. Preroll patreon ask only. Queer friendly, if that matters to you, but usually not focused on it if that sounds like their focus might be in the wrong place. Hours and hours of content you can enjoy whilst doing chores.
    • Push the Roll - Call of Cthulhu improv based on patreon suggested titles. Has Ross Bryant, pretty much the best thing ever to hit the TTRPG actual play world since microphones and dice.
    • Werewolf Ambulance - Two friends BSing about horror movies and occasionally others. Not deep, but nice. No ads.
    • Better Offline - Ed Zitron maligning AI companies endlessly. Fun when he does it with a guest. Mildly informative if not.

    I had more at one time but they often die or go bad somehow. These are the only ones I can recommend at the moment.