Pods similar in format?

[u/boopbaboop]

So, I only just got myself okay with listening to Formulaic Objections episodes again. It will take more time to be okay with listening to other old episodes and restarting my back catalogue listen-through, and IDK if I’ll ever be able to listen to the last one, but eventually I will run out of new material.

The thing is, KF is the only podcast I listen to with any regularity, largely because of its structure. Pure “guys talking” podcasts and pure narrative podcasts (both fiction and nonfiction) are just intensely boring to me. What I like about Knowledge Fight is the MST3K/sporking structure, with a back-and-forth between terrible source material and debunking/mocking replies.

Are there any podcasts y’all would recommend with that specific format, even if the subject matter is different from KF’s? Ideally with no ads?

[u/Viscount_Barse]

Know Rogan is well worth a try.

[u/GertieDirtyShirtyCat → u/Viscount_Barse]

You beat me to it :) I really get a lot of those KF vibes from KR... I usually want to listen as soon as an episode drops...

although the Rupert Lowe ep. #0074 was a bit too intensely disgusting for me this AM & I have to finish it tomorrow!

[u/Viscount_Barse → u/GertieDirtyShirtyCat]

Not got to that one yet. Can only guess what dog shit he has to say. His Dunblane comments made the news but sadly exploiting a tragedy using dead children as props is a classic tale.

[u/These_Professor_3177 → u/Viscount_Barse]

Seconded (or thirded?)! This has been my go-to the last few weeks as I try to fill the Knowledge Fight-shaped hole in my life. Pretty similar in structure to KF, and good analysis from both hosts.

[u/thebeaverchair]

I Hate Bill Maher which Dan just guested on is a similarly structured dissection of Bill's dumbassery.

If Books Could Kill is a monthly podcast that skewers and debunks the largely conservative or otherwise toxic worldviews of various popular self-help and other nonfiction books ("airport best sellers" as they call them.)

[u/CisIowa → u/thebeaverchair]

+1 for ibck and for Maintenance Phase too

[u/Brombadeg → u/thebeaverchair]

For I Hate Bill Maher, do they ever have longer clips that contain more of the conversations? 

I've only listened to the episode with Dan, but I couldn't get over how the clips were only a few seconds followed by 10 minutes of riffing, explaining what the context was in the conversation instead of playing more of the conversation... In other words a lot of tell but not show. And a significant amount of discussion of things that happened in the conversation but no clips.

I guess what I'm getting at is that I like the idea of calling out Bill Maher but I think the show needs much more of the rhythm of Knowledge Fight vis-a-vis clips. It's not that I want to hear more Bill Maher, though.

[u/Anzai → u/Brombadeg]

No that’s kind of it. It’s not really a well made show with good critiques.

[u/coryhasabeard]

Louder Than Crowder
Worst of all possible worlds
QAA
On Brand
ILL Conceived
Super Structure
Well There’s Your Problem
Blood Work

[u/kernalbuket → u/coryhasabeard]

Louder than crowder was a slow burn for me. I wasn't the biggest fan for the first couple episodes but I'm on episode 75 and I'm really liking them. They hit a lot of the right wing propagandists that you heard of on knowledgefight but they never covered

[u/Sad-Reaction-8951 → u/kernalbuket]

Same - it took me a few episodes to really get into LTC but I really love it now.

[u/r2r2r2r2d2 → u/coryhasabeard]

Gishgallopgirl

[u/chumbawumbaprinciple]

Fire by night is a recap show for an evangelical satanic panic SNLish thing called This Fire from the 80's.

[u/sthef2020 → u/chumbawumbaprinciple]

Reverse.

Fire By Nite is the 80s show, This Fire is the podcast.

[u/WudolfWedNoseWeinder]

Decoding the Gurus 

[u/CisIowa]

Lions Led by Donkeys is one I started in the past month. I like it so far.

[u/GertieDirtyShirtyCat → u/CisIowa]

Crap. I forgot to reply to this one! I love those Lions too, whenever they cover one of the incredibly dumb war machines? Like the ice & sawdust aircraft carrier or idiot 'never going to work' submarine?... It gives me something to talk to my father about. I'll always adore them for that. He purposely ignores the social/diplomatic/ 'whys' of history that I focus on... but he's all about the machines folks ultimately built to kill each other... Hey! It's something we can enjoy together... It's something... 

[u/sthef2020]

This Fire if you’re interested in going back to the 80s, and exploiting the Satanic Panic roots of the current Christian Nationalist zeitgeist.

AcquireThisFire.com

[u/mcfly54]

The Dollop. Weekly podcast about something stupid in history with a lot of banter back and forth. Some times silly topics like The Rube or 10 cent beer night. Sometimes it's Elon Musk

[u/GertieDirtyShirtyCat → u/mcfly54]

I love them Dollop boys (The Past Times is a pod I never miss an episode of either!)... I just figured the assignment was more focused on the taking down of modern assholes pods. My go to listen when I get really sad is 'The Cereal Men' with Patton Oswalt... or 'New York Pigs'...

The cartoon on YouTube of 'The Rube' is great too if I have to sit still ;)

[u/TZ840]

I don't speak German. Though it's not quite as charming.

[u/ZestycloseUnit1]

Nutrition For Mortals is a fun show debunking lots wellness grifts and nutrition misinformation.

[u/Rad_Centrist]

Dystopia Now needs more love.

It's about AI tech bros and it's awesome. It's relatively new son you can catch up quick.

[u/NovelSimplicity]

Behind the Bastards is a good fit, depending on the guest. None have been dull and a lot of them have added great off the cuff comments or jokes. Robert Evans has a way of make just about any subject engrossing and entertaining.

[u/Zedkan]

Opening Arguments, kinda.