If you'll excuse the gratuitous self-plug, I have a new podcast, Bunkum & Ballyhoo.
The tagline is "A Podcast About Bullshit", and it's all about con artists, showmen, hoaxers and liars in general throughout history - the first few episodes have a wartime theme, with the first episode looking at a South African masked wrestler who became a martyr for the far-right and the apartheid movement, and the second about an English wrestler who fought for the Nazis. The third will be about Jasper Maskelyne, a magician who supposedly helped turn the tide of World War 2 with his conjuring tricks.
It's just me talking about these things, so I keep it short and sweet - there's two episodes and one in the can, all coming in at under twenty minutes. It's been well received so far.
As for other stuff I've been listening to...
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back is a book club podcast by Mike Nelson of MST3K and Rifftrax, and Connor Lestowka of Rifftrax. They read bad books together and talk about them. I went right back to the start, when they covered Ready Player One, and have dipped in and out of other books they've covered since then. I can find Connor irritating at times, and some of the more improv-y stuff they do is skippable, but when it's just Mike Nelson being exasperated by the writing of someone like Ernest Cline it's fantastic. It probably helps that I've watched so much MST3K and Rifftrax over the years, so I find Mike's voice very relaxing.
Discworld Order - another book podcast, and a bit cheeky, as I've guested on this one. The host, Mark, who has read more fantasy books than anyone else I know, and a guest discuss Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, one at a time, in order. It's very flee-flowing, and always interesting hearing how people feel about books that usually mean a lot to them, but that we often hadn't read in years - what we got from them first time around, and what we get from them now. I was on to discuss Mort, and I really enjoyed it.
Weird Little Guys - A Cool Zone Media thing, Molly Conger looking at Neo-Nazis and far-right extremists in America, and how many of them are just sad weird freaks.
Dogg Zzone 9000 - again, a bit cheeky because I was on it. A spin-off podcast of 1900-Hot-Dog, the comedy website run by Robert Brockway and Seanbaby, formerly of Cracked, and basically internet comedy royalty in my book. Looking at weird old media, with no real set theme beyond that, but always funny and bizarre. I was on to discuss Rambo y sus Titanes, the Argentinian wrestling show based on the action figures based on the cartoon series based on the Rambo movies (based on the book First Blood).
Bigfeets - genuinely maybe my second-favourite podcast right now after Three Bean Salad. It's Brockway and Seanbaby again, joined by Jason Pargin. It's an episode-by-episode rewatch of the low budget Bigfoot-hunting reality show Mountain Monsters. I have never watched an episode of Mountain Monsters, and likely never will. But them discussing it is some of the funniest stuff I've ever listened to.