Source: Tommy Siegel
Funny Leftists describing the abhorrent crimes of history.
Source: The Dollop, Behind the Bastards
The following don’t seem to fit any of these (and they’re all excellent):
- Radiolab
- Savage Love
- Throughline
- Climate Denier’s Playbook
- The Urbanist Agenda
- CBC Embedded
My list includes 99% invisible, That’s absurd please elaborate, Lateral
I would like to add “last podcast on the left” for consideration on this list
you forgot
podcast about engineering disasters, with slides
Shout out to November Kelly, Devon, and the entire Nate Bethea extended universe. Producing the only good podcasts on the internet.
hey now, dont forget the McElroys. they got good stuff too.
Wrong, there’s 2 good podcasts. November Kelly, Devon, and Abigale Thorne do the Kill James Bond podcast.
It’s a banger
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I found my way in via Lions Led By Donkeys and now I’m addicted to WTYP and KJB. What a collection of lunatics.
LLD is excellent. If my dance card wasn’t already overflowing, I’d maybe listen to it more than once every month or two.
It really is the most “this social media site” podcast in existence. Despite this it actually is very good
Yay Liam!
So like collapsing playgrounds?
I was about to say
-Roz probably
I just wish they could let each other talk. Too much interrupting and talking over each other until one backs down.
First rule of autism fight club, everyone talks about autism fight club.
All at the same time.
No one mentioned Trashfuture, recommended, as a fan of WTYP and LLBD
well there’s your problem
Lions led by donkeys
Also, D&D campaign
We need the podcast equivalent of old radio shows, like acting out a story with sound effects
There’s plenty of audio dramas, and actual plays that are more edited and produced than, say, Critical Role.
Edit: Came across this site just now: https://audiodrama.directory/
My personal favorite D&D podcast is Tales from the Stinky Dragon XD
Well if we’re strictly speaking DnD I guess mine would be Worlds Beyond Number’s main campaign (that’s DnD right?).
But Fun City, Gutter and Unend are my personal favs using other systems :)
Yeah The Wizard, The Witch and The Wild One is DnD and I can highly recommend it.
This is awesome, thank you!!
I feel like D&D campaign falls, spiritually, under ‘recapping a movie but it’s longer than the movie’
Then you’ve been listening to the wrong campaigns.
I didn’t say I disliked it! I’ve probably spent more time listening to theory videos about ASOIAF than I did listening to the books, I like proverbially dissecting the frog. So a D&D campaign with 5 minutes of OOC discussion for every 1-2 minutes of gameplay is just my speed.
That’s why I love Thrilling Adventure Hour so much. Its funny and in the style of old time radio.
There’s plenty of high production podiodramas but they are more like a movie to me than old radio dramas.
I once listenee to a Batman podcast which was an audio drama that I think was actually produced by the people who own Batman.
The Adventure Zone is what got me into D&D. Balance is surprisingly easy to run as a home campaign
Re: radio shows… Back when I listened to podcasts, there were so many. I can’t speak to their current quality (I largely stopped listening to podcasts in 2020), but there was Wolf 359, The Far Meridian, The Magnus Archives, The Bright Sessions, Ars Paradoxica, Hello from The Magic Tavern, and a ton more that I never even heard of. Then there’s the literal fictional radio shows like WIDK and Welcome to Nightvale
My favorite here are Mystery Quest and the Apocalypse Players.
Though I might have a thing for humorous horror.
I love the Apocalypse Players. Just the right amount of madness.
Is almost as if you were asking about DnD poscasts…
Well no one mentioned Legends of Avantris… Check it out Torbek and Chuckles are comedy gold.Bitsy is my favorite XD
Radiolab? Oh you mean D&D
Go, right now, right this second, and listen to all of Midnight Burger.
It is sooooooo good.Woah! 50 episodes, the last of which was posted only a couple weeks ago! This shall bless my walks for a long time!
equivalent of old radio shows, like acting out a story with sound effects
Oh man, have I got the movie for you. Do you like farces?
Imaginary Advice
Honestly, this chart is sad. I have not listened to a single of any of these type of podcasts because I stay away from bad content.
It should be titled “types of podcast: a guide for masochists”
The Daily isn’t bad content, IMO. But like the comic said, it often covers the reality of our current world. So it might bum you out.
They forgot:
The Shouty and Mumbles Show
Dead podcast about your niche interest that produced three episodes in 2012.
The “informative” podcast where one host pretends to be an idiot to ask obvious questions so we can drag 3 minutes of content out to half an hour and sell more mattresses and socks.
Church sermons.
There’s also the hybrid ones where the two hosts are your first two examples at the same time. Shouty makes stupid questions stubbornly while mumbly tries to convince them they’re wrong.
- History podcasts ❤️
- Technical deep-dives
- Science explainers
- Local, county/city-level history
- DIY (and mishaps)
- Music: instruction, remix, reaction, and ASMR
- Cackling, celebrity gossip
- Movie and SFX tech and nostalgia (Star Wars, Star Trek)
- ASMR
- Transportation porn
- Board games
- Crypto and finance/investment bros
- Crafting
- Alternative energy: EV, solar, wind, and heat pumps.
- Cooking, including terrible-tasting stuff (like hot wings)
- OMFG: unboxings
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Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
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Daniele Bolelli’s History on Fire
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Mike Duncan’s The History of Rome and also Revolutions
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Robin Pierson’s The History of Byzantium
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iHeartPodcasts’ Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio
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Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible
Here are a few noteworthy podcasts
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History podcasts are my catnip at the moment. I’m not alone.
History podcasts are my catnip at the moment
Mine as well. Regular history for sure (I was an archaeology major after all), but also history mixed with category one, murders. I love a good historical unsolved mystery.
If your podcast isn’t fictional, spooky, and gay I don’t want it.
Pseudopod? Welcome to Night Vale?
Not those exact ones personally, but yeah that’s the kind of thing I’m talking about.
What about Hello From The Magic Tavern?
What about actual play podcasts? The only podcast I listen other is Glass Cannon. Or rather, shows in their network. Its the only place I get my TTRPG fix anymore
I didn’t really like their first podcast because it had too much combat. Do they change later on?
Their more recent stuff has better narrative, I think. Like I am really enjoying their Shadow dark campaign, I thoroughly enjoy their Delta Green campaign, Get in the Trunk. They don’t avoid combat but I think they do a good job of growing the show beyond rolling dice and excitedly shouting about 20’s or bemoaning 1’s. For me at least, I get they’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but they hit every note for me.
Ya know what? I don’t think the boomers were right. Their equivilant to podcasts was FM Radio having talk shows at 6am with wacky hosts that use slide whistles, fake laughs, and crazy sound effects every 3 seconds.
They didn’t have it right. There’s absolutely room for something way better…but those awful 80s morning shows were still better than these podcasts.
I just miss people talking about something they know in an organized and professional manner.
I just don’t care for random string of consciousness to pretend I am part of a conversation I can’t actually participate in.
Just attend your work meetings bruh
Oh man if only…
But let me loop back to you about this when we figure out our org goals
Sounds like you need a weekly meeting to figure that out
Let’s have a quick call to discuss how to organize these weekly meetings?
I will also rant about something offtopic for half an hour.
Can I call you NOW?
Circle back with me after our next one-on-one
I mean, if you want a lecture, YouTube has those in spades. I’ve got a few financial reports I listen to month-to-month. They’re very dry, info dense, and getting through them feels like dragging myself across sand paper.
I tend to prefer podcasts that mix in the history and the news with a few joking asides and tangents. Makes the show feel more human and less like I’m supposed to take an exam on it at the end of the week. And, frankly, I’ve found more hot tips in TrashFuture than anything UBS has dolled out.
Ugh yes. Podcasts are so low density for information per minute. No offence if that’s what you’re in the mood for and it can certainly fill a long commute / chore. Just really not my cup of tea.
I sort of hate podcasts. I don’t want parasocial relationships. I don’t want to hear in 30 minutes what I could have read in 3, with better options for following up (highlight -> search vs “what did they say? how do you spell that?”)
I don’t want to hear in 30 minutes what I could have read in 3
Seriously.
Annoys me about a lot of youtube videos and documentaries as well.
They can be, or they can be very dense. It depends what you listen to. Many podcasts are just radio shows that actually do go out over the air, but are also repackaged as podcasts. For those, they tend to keep the information dense. The other kind are the stuff that could never be a radio show because it’s just a few guys chatting for a few hours. But, IMO, those can be valuable too because it’s not being rushed to fit in a certain time slot.
If you want to know about alex jones you should check out the knowledge fight podcast, dan the one host who listens to alex then searches for sources to be able to properly rebuke him was brought on as an expert on alex in at least one of the sandyhook trials, dan and jordan do a decent job making the whole thing entertaining though some people don’t like how loud jordan is but he’s just not someone who hides emotions the kind of guy who might be at a real risk to bight trump if stuck close to him for too long
The formulaic objects covers stuff that happen court, episode 930 was fun to see alex uno reversed on when he got told that fire can’t melt stone buildings, episodes 960 and 961 alex waxes philosophical with gpt
the kind of guy who might be at a real risk to bight trump if stuck close to him for too long
Hmmm. Bite or fight? Both is good.
Nah, bight. Like, address with the slack or loop of a rope.
Like literally bite him
No Such Thing As A Fish: Four QI researchers each pick a fact they find out about and discuss it. Very good and has been going for years. It’s where I get a lot of my useless facts from.
I was a fan until they started talking about something I know quite a bit about. It was like they were regurgitating “facts” from a Ladybird book they read when they were five.
I can believe that. They’re panel show researchers, not some sort of high level expert on whatever so I’ve found that for a baseline of “interesting but maybe not super in depth” it’s fine for me.
I know, and I enjoy QI, it’s a great show. But in the podcast they pose as experts presenting facts.
I agree, I want the meat of the story, not pointless banter and sound effects that reduce information d density
Might want to try BBC’s ‘In Our Time’.
‘ArtHoles’ for biographies of some famous artists.
I also enjoyed John Siracusa’s musings and rants about tech on ‘Hypercritical’ — listened through it quite recently, despite it being a decade old. There was one episode where Siracusa went into a diatribe about filesystems and particularly HFS+ for two hours: what some modern filesystems can do and how HFS+ does none of that. It was great. Siracusa is now in the ‘Accidental Tech Podcast’, but it’s more of a conversation deal.
“Morning Zoo” is what that’s called.
My favorite podcast was a spoof on that concept. l wish they’d kept it up, it was a fun listen
Chewy and fuckface in the morning.
Crazy Ira and The Douche
but those awful 80s morning shows were still better than these podcasts.
No way. I’d listen to just about anything rather than slide whistles, fake laughs and sound effects.
Ah, the Joe Rogan audience.
I want to believe this is a world where there’s more than just those 2 options.
Being 55 and listening to FM radio (music, no talk), you are absolutely right.
So I think Behind the Bastards and The Dollop would fit as a subcategory under the first one of “journalists and comedians riff on some of the worst people in history as their producer tries to keep them on topic and avoid being cancelled”.
It also brought awareness about the Grand Rapids Murders and the alleged* involvement of Jamie Loftus.
And I said alleged but yeah let’s be real she did done those poor four people, may god rest their soul.
And to think the truth would have remained buried had Robert not consumed every gas station pill available.
‘Ello guvnah
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I’m not sure David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart fits any of these.
Or Dear Hank & John either, for that matter.
You completely glossed over podcast that are more dramatically creations or just pure fiction. Something like welcome to night Vale is one of my favorite ones or horror story ones such as SCP archives or the no sleep podcast.
Have you listened to the magnus archives yet?
E: you’d think that, after typing “magnus” at least 300 times, my phone wouldn’t autocorrect “magnus” to “major”, and yet, it did.
Where’s the “fashy youngster who believes if he misgenders trans people and calls all immigrants criminals, the evangelicals won’t ban his anime porn”?
