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I love podcasts on English and word origins, and I’m a fan of Words Unraveled, a relatively new podcast by Jess Zafarris and Rob Watts (aka RobWords). This episode on swear words was a hoot.
Bonus: they swear all though the show, and you probably won’t see a single ad because of that 
Another English language and word-origins podcast that I’ve enjoyed, but haven’t been listening to of late, is A Way With Words with Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.
A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about languageA Way with Words – A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about languageLanguage examined through family, history, and culture: new words, old sayings, slang, word origins, linguistics, dialects, and more.
@drahardja added to the play list, thank you. and have you come across https://www.youtube.com/@TomaytoTomahtoPodcast
YouTubeTomayto TomahtoI say tomayto, but you say tomahto. Why? What cognitive, economic, racial, or social factors led you to say tomahto and I tomayto? How did you acquire the ability to produce and perceive coherent sentences? These are some questions that linguists attempt to answer scientifically. Led by Talia Sherman, a Brown University undergrad, Tomayto Tomahto is a podcast exploring language: what it is, how it works (both cognitively and in practice), and its relationship to politics, history, pedagogy, AI, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, computation, and more!
All episodes and videos are written, recorded, produced, and edited by Talia Sherman.
Artwork by Maja Mishevska
@drahardja if you haven’t heard it “The History Of English Podcast” is quite good. Long and exhaustive and not especially funny/fun, but every episode has points that surprise me.