Podcasts While Quarantined And/Or Working From Home

The Drew and Mike Show podcast is great for those of us who grew up listening to 101.1 WRIF out of Detroit. 

All Fantasy Everything: If you want to hear a bunch of comedians - usually Ian Karmel, Sean Jordan, David Gborie and a guest - do fantasy drafts of all sorts of random topics (Taco Bell Menu, Unconventional Bangers, Commercial Ad Jingles), this is your bet.

I love Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Very informative and entertaining.

“Your Own Backyard” Kristin Smart disappearance podcast by Chris Lambert.

Here's my list: 

Fun: 

Hard Core History and Hard Core history addendum. Dan Carlin is by far the best history podcaster I know about. Maybe the best podcaster. If you haven't listened to him and are a history fan, I'm jealous and you should take this time to get aquainted. Maybe start off with some of his for purchase older things (available on itunes) like ghosts of the ostfront or Wrath of the Kahns. 

History on fire. Good, not as good as Carlin but good. 

Lore: Interesting tidbits of history and lore. 

Unexplained: Like Lore, but a bit more mysterious. 

Haunted AF: New to this, but it's good Lots of listener stories. 

Ghosts in the Burbs: Great stories, well delivered. 

The Cold War; what we saw.  I like it alot, but I keep having to fact check it. 

Hillbilly Horror Stories: Great paranormal stories. 

Graveyard Tales: Paranormal stories, they read them to you. Awesome chemistry between the hosts. 

CBS Mystery THeater/Old Time Radio I love old time radio. 'Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men....'

Daily Wire/Ben Shapiro - sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's loud and sucks. I prefer Shapiro in debates; on the podcast sometimes he sounds like he's on coke. 

Joe Rogan: He has excellent interviews. I disagree with him on many issues but I love his willingness to talk to people. 

BBC Alistar Cookes Letters to America: A history teacher put me on him in the 80's and I loved it. These are collections of his letters to America going back to the 70s.

BBC Voices of the Great War: Interviews by the Imperial War Museum of British vets. Great. 

Sports: 

Locked On Wolverine PodCast  I really like Isiah Hole and his takes.

Michigan Man podcast Okay??? Great quality, sometimes a bit milquetoast for me. 

In the Trenches: Love Jansen

News:

several Economist/BBC feeds. I think the media here just is so clickbait-ey and too close to the respective parties. This isn't perfect but I think better. 

Religion/philosophy: 

Word on Fire, Robert Barron - Bishop Barron is a smart, smart dude. Excellent to listen to. 

Called to Communion, Dr. David Anders - like Bishop Barron, but easier to listen to. 

Catholic Answers. - Trent Horn is my favorite host. 

True Crime: 

Don't talk to strangers and You know they knew are two that cover the Oakland County Child Killer. Scary, and so very sad if you have kids. But I'm hooked because I remember my Mom warning me about him and being careful on the way to the bus stop years afterward. 

I found out that in the 70's there was a child pedophilia ring on North Fox Island run by a rich dude from down state. How a person can do that.....

Revisionist History and Philosophize This!

Coffee with Scott Adams. Scott is an independent who has some of the most interesting takes due to his background in persuasion. He keeps it positive and upbeat. 
 

Also the Naval podcast series is fantastic - focuses on how to get rich. Naval Ravikant might be one of the top 5 or 10 smartest people in the world. 

The Clark Howard Show

Freakonomics Radio

Science Weekly

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Science Vs.

PBS NewsHour - Science

Syzygy Explore the Universe

This Week in Science

Stephen Fry’s 7 Deadly Sins

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stephen-frys-7-deadly-sins/id1365035136

Worth getting out your thesaurus for.

For sports:

The Lead by the athletic from Wondery, a daily national sports story about a :30 or less listen

michigan insider Sam Webb WTKA 

News:

No Bullshit News : Charlie Leduff about an Hour and a half of mostly local news stories you won’t get on the 3 letters

Crime:

Already Gone by Berkley’s Nina Innsted, mostly local crime stories.  Some decades old, some more recent.  All tragic.

Paranormal:

paranormal Podcast by Jim Harold about an hour and a half of bizarre, creepy stuff

Beyond the Darkness with Dave Schrader, paranormal talk.   Dave also has The Holzer files on Travel Channel, currently filming season 2 of that.  Season 1 was excellent.  And he was great on Midnight in the Desert but just left that show to do Holzer files.  

Jim Harold’s Campfire more creepy sh!te

Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast is incredible!

Both in-depth and very entertainingly explained, he details all the major (and some minor) events, people, places, and effects of every European revolution from The English Civil War up to his current chapters about the Russian Revolution. His History of Rome podcast is similarly badass, I just personally prefer the Age of Revolutions era over nearly any other in history. 

Order of Man founded and hosted by Ryan Michler. Great podcast/movement for men on personal development in many areas of life. 

Shameless Plug for my wife.  

Vault Studios puts out some great true crime podcasts.  They have a few  multi- part podcasts:

The Officer's Wife

Bardstown

They also have a weekly half-hour podcast.

True Crime Chronicles 

My wife is the female voice on True Crime Chronicles and was heavily involved in the other 2 but not the narrator.

Coast to Coast AM.  

Lot's of topics: paranormal, aliens, pandemics, secret space program, true crime, big foot, Atlantis, etc.

If you like Eli's OT Mystery posts here, you'll like Coast to Coast AM.

Business Wars (e.g., Sony vs. Nintendo, Nike vs. Adidas, Coke vs. Pepsi)

How Did This Get Made (funny actors talking about bad movies)

Curious City (about Chicago, so you really have to like Chicago)

Hidden Brain

The Drive with Peter Attia (long form medical-related podcast)

A buddy of mine recommended Sports Wars (about the greatest sports rivalries - no UM-osu yet, but there is Brady/Manning). 

Conan O'Brien and chill?

All of these are pretty popular, but...:

BBC Newshour - 45 minute daily news update during shower, shave, etc.

WTF - Marc Maron's personality isn't for everyone, but he interviews plenty of A-listers and people behind the scenes for a solid 45 minutes. Springsteen, Louis CK, Beastie Boys, Mavis Staples, Bourdain, Irwin Winkler was good, Aaron Sorkin, Rob/Carl Reiner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Obama, Letterman, recently Brad Pitt and Leo. Hearing the 20-year paths of regular dudes like Jon Bernthal and Walton Goggins turn into famous people is pretty interesting and in some ways relatable

Serial - really popularized the format of serialized limited series crime podcast, was released live weekly. High school girl is murdered, ex-bf convicted. Is he really guilty? Lots of interviews and piecing together what happened that day, updates re: ongoing court appeals

Cold - Powell case in Pac NW, Mormons, a bizzare family, missing wife presumed murdered. Lots of media coverage. The husband later does something terrible. Tons of recordings made by the husband and his weirdo dad. 

Bear Brook - use of current DNA techniques to unravel old cold cases. Barrel found in the woods, woman and child. Years later, another barrel found nearby with more bodies.

S-Town - begins as true crime, becomes deep dive into persona of this eccentric southern dandy who is a master clockmaker in deep south Alabama and his possible hidden family fortune

Catch and Kill - by Ronan Farrow, who broke the Harvey Weinstein story (and is the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen... or is it Frank Sinatra?). By digging into the Weinstein case, it becomes clear there is a tactic used by powerful people to have media outlets buy exclusive rights to people's stories using NDAs, which are then buried by those media companies that are loyal/bought by those powerful people. Other tactics like intimidation of family members, etc.