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.
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
I shamelessly steal ideas from them all the time. Fantasy Costco is in all my campaigns and always run by Garfield, the Deals Warlock. I even made an entire mini-campaign that took place entirely within Fantasy Costco.
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 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?")
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
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.
‘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.
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".
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.
I'd be interested in a list, most of the podcasts I listened to while commuting have ended.
And one of the still running podcasts is "372 pages we'll never get back", a funny book club kind of thing with books of dubious quality, and since I read along in between episodes it takes me forever to get to listen to those.
For the history podcasts, I listene to "The History of Rome" and "Revolutions", both by Mike Duncan, and "The History of Byzantium" by Robien Pierson.
The woman reading fairy tails and books is Abitlate (she also has the youtube channel Abitfrank)
For the group of people chatting format, I have "The Deprogram", which is a communist podcast about politics, and "Une invention sans avenir", a podcast about cinema, which is in French.
The daily fiction one is "La chute de Lapinville", also in French. And while I'm on the topic of French fiction podcats, " Les Donjons de Nahelbeuk" is of course a classic.
Yeah I vaguely recall Wil talking about it on some other pod, and he talked to Levar who was getting ready to wrap up hosting and gave Wil his blessing
Basically, yeah. He asked Levar if he'd mind if he (Wil) continued the podcast, and Levar gave him his blessing. I think Wil is focusing a bit more on unknown authors though.
I've played it for my boomer parent. The parental unit seemed to grasp it and then immediately forget. They do all that intro for the ones who know how dark it gets.
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
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.
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.
My favorite is friends who bullshit and call each other gay. At one point the comedian was that way. He just huffed his own farts so long he liked the smell.
They also taught me about an eric clapton song I didn't know about, athe one about having a small man go in your ass and control you like a giant robot, or maybe you're really large and the man is regular sized.
What about three white guys just hanging out and talking about the exact same crap they always do, but this time with a microphone in the middle? (This was my old podcast, The Masters of Divinity)
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.
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.
There's also a lot of special interest/hyperfixation podcasts. You know, like the history ones, or running, DND, tech, fictional world, essay, drugs...
People riff badly off each other thinking they’re funny with maybe only a few minutes of opinion devoted to the actual topic while recording themselves and calling it a “podcast.”
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"?
Shout out to the podcast Making Gay History which is an author of a book of the same name just publishing the interviews he did for the book. Beautiful and powerful stories, sometimes made all the more painful by hearing it in people's own voices.
It's exactly the sort of thing that podcasts were always capable of being known for instead of …this…
Recapping a movie but its longer than a movie could be fun, what if they have alot of odd distractions mid podcast with fun micro celebrities that just show up? They can go way off topic and eventually circle back. I could do this, I barely watch movies and it would be fun.
There must be a podcast that is notorious for this or something, it seems much less bad than the others.
"Back to the Future Minute" is the one that came to my mind. Each episode talks about one minute of, well, back to the future - and looking it up right now, the length of each episode was somewhere between 15 min and over an hour. I stopped listening somewhere at the start of the second movie, but I remember actually really enjoying it. Maybe I should listen to it again.
Look Listen, if you actually listened to My Favorite Murder, you’d know they use comedy to defuse the tension of what they are so scared about. Also they don’t care if you fucking like that or not.
I can’t say the same for others, since they are more serious.
I clicked on it and the first video recommended was a thumbnail of two guys sitting in front of microphones looking like that last image with the title "the bible is true cause it says so?"
So, scientists and skeptics on a talk show debunking fundamentalists and reactionaries on guest calls count as "low-iq comedians having a playful banter"?
I think that description fits dipshits like Tucker Carlson much better though.
And I don't like formal debates either as no debate I've ever watched to this day has had a moderator who would be willing to keep the debaters on topic and force concessions when they try to evade, move goal posts etc. I prefer live, online discussions much more.
And platforming morons is only bad when one can't debunk them, or when one is too kind and meek to actually properly push back. This is why I like Professor Dave and a lot of the people hosting The Line. They do not argue in that docile way typical of leftist commentators. They call their opponents out for lying, force concessions, and do not act kindly to them (unless they're literally just misguided).
Both sides are getting their clippable audio snippets and dragging around audiences to feel like they are fighting with them.
I truly don't agree that platforming extremists to argue against them for publicity and money is ever worth it. The sides lean against each other to grow larger and these are people who it is in their financial interests to not change their opinion. And religion debates are not productive, those are personal and faith based. Can't argue someone rationally out of something that wasnt rationally entered.
I was talking about the "playful banter with the most evil people in the world" text when I gave the Tucker Carlson example.
Their religion debates are mostly against evangelicals and biblical literalists, who generally do think that their beliefs are rational, so an in-depth deconstruction is really beneficial, a lot of the time not to the caller but to the impartial layperson viewer.
I understand your criticism here, but also one can't make do without the opposition making some content like this, especially when this sphere is dominated by uneducated right-wingers like Joe Rogan.
you forgot
Shout out to November Kelly, Devon, and the entire Nate Bethea extended universe. Producing the only good podcasts on the internet.
Wrong, there's 2 good podcasts. November Kelly, Devon, and Abigale Thorne do the Kill James Bond podcast.
It's a banger
hey now, dont forget the McElroys. they got good stuff too.
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!
I was about to say
-Roz probably
No one mentioned Trashfuture, recommended, as a fan of WTYP and LLBD
well there's your problem
Lions led by donkeys
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.
So like collapsing playgrounds?
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.
Shout-out to the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast as well as the Acceptable Losses podcast for doing 40K and setting lore deep dives!
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
I shamelessly steal ideas from them all the time. Fantasy Costco is in all my campaigns and always run by Garfield, the Deals Warlock. I even made an entire mini-campaign that took place entirely within Fantasy Costco.
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.
https://thedragonfriends.com/
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!
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
Oh man, have I got the movie for you. Do you like farces?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Back%2C_Mr._McDonald
Imaginary Advice
https://on.soundcloud.com/SCX8VSW8CKVILSMCRv
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.
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?")
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
Hmmm. Bite or fight? Both is good.
Like literally bite him
Nah, bight. Like, address with the slack or loop of a rope.
I agree, I want the meat of the story, not pointless banter and sound effects that reduce information d density
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.
Might want to try BBC's ‘In Our Time’.
Or ‘The History of English’.
‘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
Freebeer and Hotwings (actual name of a real morning show)
Oh no, that one made me chuckle. Am I a dad now?
The test results have determined that you are a dad.
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.
And his body weight in kratom every 6 months
‘Ello guvnah
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Daniele Bolelli's History on Fire
Mike Duncan's The History of Rome and also Revolutions
Robin Pierson's The History of Byzantium
iHeartPodcasts' Stuff You Missed in History Class
Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio
Roman Mars' 99% Invisible
Here are a few noteworthy podcasts
There’s also: Computer nerds talk about the most inane software topics imaginable.
And: AI bros who used to be Crypto bros talk about their latest scam.
There's also the sex and relationship advice podcasts that make you feel way better about your own mostly functional relationship.
Funny Leftists describing the abhorrent crimes of history.
Source: The Dollop, Behind the Bastards
History podcasts are my catnip at the moment. I'm not alone.
https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/awkward-moment-at-supreme-court-as-judges-phone-plays-podcast-mid-hearing/
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.
Types of podcast I listen to:
I'd be interested in a list, most of the podcasts I listened to while commuting have ended.
And one of the still running podcasts is "372 pages we'll never get back", a funny book club kind of thing with books of dubious quality, and since I read along in between episodes it takes me forever to get to listen to those.
Either French or English-speaking will do.
For the history podcasts, I listene to "The History of Rome" and "Revolutions", both by Mike Duncan, and "The History of Byzantium" by Robien Pierson.
The woman reading fairy tails and books is Abitlate (she also has the youtube channel Abitfrank)
For the group of people chatting format, I have "The Deprogram", which is a communist podcast about politics, and "Une invention sans avenir", a podcast about cinema, which is in French.
The daily fiction one is "La chute de Lapinville", also in French. And while I'm on the topic of French fiction podcats, " Les Donjons de Nahelbeuk" is of course a classic.
I have the same history podcasts but you forgot Dan Carlin somehow!
Great, thank you.
My most listened to podcast genres are:
Is the Wheaton's podcast just a continuation of Levar Burton's podcast?
https://levarburton.com/podcasts/
Yeah I vaguely recall Wil talking about it on some other pod, and he talked to Levar who was getting ready to wrap up hosting and gave Wil his blessing
Basically, yeah. He asked Levar if he'd mind if he (Wil) continued the podcast, and Levar gave him his blessing. I think Wil is focusing a bit more on unknown authors though.
I'm glad that of the 90 podcasts I subscribe to, none of them are in this meme
You forgot:
Independent media news show with a hyper-niche ideology covering political developments you had no idea were happening.
And also:
Marathon-length dramatic history reading with a beat-for-beat breakdown of events as they occurred.
Where do you put The Magnus Archives and Darknet Diaries?
serialised audiobook?
Where does "two comedians listen to and critically analyze Alex Jones" fit?
A blend of 2, 4 and 6
Knowledge Fight belongs in its own category
I've played it for my boomer parent. The parental unit seemed to grasp it and then immediately forget. They do all that intro for the ones who know how dark it gets.
My favorite type of podcast is Learn About A Weird Thing, which isn't on this list. Stuff You Should Know is a good one. Word up, Josh & Chuck.
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.
I mean there's also fiction storytelling and radio plays, which is about the only kind of podcast I listen to besides Cautionary Tales.
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.
Comedy podcasts about death, Mars news, and a random small English soccer team.
Once we were Spacemen?
No, but that's a good one. I was thinking of Dear Hank and John.
Where would it be Safety third here?
My favorite is friends who bullshit and call each other gay. At one point the comedian was that way. He just huffed his own farts so long he liked the smell.
They also taught me about an eric clapton song I didn't know about, athe one about having a small man go in your ass and control you like a giant robot, or maybe you're really large and the man is regular sized.
They also taught me about the true story of Chris Benoit. It gave me the thousand island stare.
The following don't seem to fit any of these (and they're all excellent):
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
What about three white guys just hanging out and talking about the exact same crap they always do, but this time with a microphone in the middle? (This was my old podcast, The Masters of Divinity)
Where does The Nextlander Podcast fall here hmmmm
Wow, this is my first time running across a mention of those guys in the wild.
“Middle aged gamers talking about being confused in extraction shooters.” Maybe? I say that with love.
Can we make a "Lives up to its name" option for Never Been A Better Podcast?
Specialist who knows some topic really well but has no charisma or presentation so is perpetually locked at like 200 listeners.
Interviewer who knows everything about the interviewee like creepy spying levels of detail
Cast that started going through a really long series that morphed and charged into something else over the course of the series review/analysis
Tommy Siegel's watching the wrong podcasts.
You know what? I think I have heard that recently?
They forgot "random, extremely niche hobby"
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.
Bottom left is wrong, should mainstream media spewing the propaganda they have been told to.
The murder podcast one is missing the classic goon line up, one tall skinny guy, short round guy and the big guy
Last Podcast On The Left?
Yup
The meme is that those are overwhelmingly hosted by and consumed by women.
There's also a lot of special interest/hyperfixation podcasts. You know, like the history ones, or running, DND, tech, fictional world, essay, drugs...
Shout out to "Saga Thing", two English history professors reviewing all of sagas of the Icelanders.
Also "No Gods, No Mayors", doing the same for all mayors ever (they admit it'll take a while)
And "Pontifacts", ditto for popes.
And "Totallus Rankium", ditto for Roman emperors, then American presidents, then pirates...
Dua Lipa’s book club seems like it would be that top-right one but she seems to put real effort into it and she is actually a pretty good interviewer.
But I’m a fan so I’m probably exactly who the agent is thinking of in this scenario.
If your podcast isn't fictional, spooky, and gay I don't want it.
Pseudopod? Welcome to Night Vale?
What about Hello From The Magic Tavern?
Not those exact ones personally, but yeah that's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
I listen to C list comedians make dark jokes about dark topics.
last podcast on the left?
That's the one
i got to go to their jk ultra tour in chicago, it was a blast
p.s. henry would be heartbroken to know you called him that hahaha
People riff badly off each other thinking they’re funny with maybe only a few minutes of opinion devoted to the actual topic while recording themselves and calling it a “podcast.”
Not sure that My brother my brother and me fits this chart.
I'm not sure David McRaney's You Are Not So Smart fits any of these.
Or Dear Hank & John either, for that matter.
Since we are listing our favorite pods,
Dinosaurs were not terrible lizards. >:-(
they were very good at being lizards, as demonstrated below
Ghost stories remind me about Lore.
I listened 100+ episodes a long time ago.
Yaoi News Network for peak political commentary https://youtu.be/qjpkJO0Y2lc
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"?
Shout out to the podcast Making Gay History which is an author of a book of the same name just publishing the interviews he did for the book. Beautiful and powerful stories, sometimes made all the more painful by hearing it in people's own voices.
It's exactly the sort of thing that podcasts were always capable of being known for instead of …this…
Is this about good Roman emperors?
I only listen to Citation Needed that is depressing pilled, and history of philosophy without any gaps that is really entertaining and funny
yorkshireman explains the machinations of intelligence agencies and the mafia
Did he seriously use Theo Von as the example for the bottom right podcast instead of Lex Fridman?
The All In podcast deserves a separate panel in this
the Markiplier and Wade and other guy podcast is pretty funny
You forgot the ones where ist just a bunch of dudes getting absolutely hammered on camera, i.e. cold ones
Recapping a movie but its longer than a movie could be fun, what if they have alot of odd distractions mid podcast with fun micro celebrities that just show up? They can go way off topic and eventually circle back. I could do this, I barely watch movies and it would be fun.
There must be a podcast that is notorious for this or something, it seems much less bad than the others.
Maybe How Did This Get Made? I haven't seen most of the movies in the episodes I've listened to
"Back to the Future Minute" is the one that came to my mind. Each episode talks about one minute of, well, back to the future - and looking it up right now, the length of each episode was somewhere between 15 min and over an hour. I stopped listening somewhere at the start of the second movie, but I remember actually really enjoying it. Maybe I should listen to it again.
1 minute? Thats wild.
Try "Kill James Bond". They start with the James Bond franchise, which they hate. I highly recommend their Cars 2 episode. It's unhinged.
I listen to three podcasts. One of them is one of these, the other two aren’t any of these:
Deep political analysis by former senior staffers from the last government of this country that you actually respected.
Daily news horror recap, but presented with just enough smarm and sarcasm so you don’t cry through the whole thing.
What necromancy did you pull to get the Lincoln administration to podcast?
Missing the science podcast, but I'm not sure there is a humorous way to say "explains a scientific concept over 30-150 minutes. "
I listen to audio dramas and real-play rpgs.
Shut up and take my upvote!
The video series that is now labelled as a podcast
LookListen, if you actually listened to My Favorite Murder, you’d know they use comedy to defuse the tension of what they are so scared about. Also they don’t care if you fucking like that or not.I can’t say the same for others, since they are more serious.
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Dead Rabbit Radio
i enjoyed the comic, and even the inclusion of theo vaughn.
but ive gotta point out that IQ is some nonsense
Does this count as a podcast?: https://youtube.com/@qnaline
I clicked on it and the first video recommended was a thumbnail of two guys sitting in front of microphones looking like that last image with the title "the bible is true cause it says so?"
So.... Yes. Very much so.
So, scientists and skeptics on a talk show debunking fundamentalists and reactionaries on guest calls count as "low-iq comedians having a playful banter"?
Not directly but I will call it an homage to it. Cause they are still platforming the extremists.
Its why no one thought Bill Nye's debates with creationists were a good idea.
I think that description fits dipshits like Tucker Carlson much better though.
And I don't like formal debates either as no debate I've ever watched to this day has had a moderator who would be willing to keep the debaters on topic and force concessions when they try to evade, move goal posts etc. I prefer live, online discussions much more.
And platforming morons is only bad when one can't debunk them, or when one is too kind and meek to actually properly push back. This is why I like Professor Dave and a lot of the people hosting The Line. They do not argue in that docile way typical of leftist commentators. They call their opponents out for lying, force concessions, and do not act kindly to them (unless they're literally just misguided).
Both sides are getting their clippable audio snippets and dragging around audiences to feel like they are fighting with them.
I truly don't agree that platforming extremists to argue against them for publicity and money is ever worth it. The sides lean against each other to grow larger and these are people who it is in their financial interests to not change their opinion. And religion debates are not productive, those are personal and faith based. Can't argue someone rationally out of something that wasnt rationally entered.
You asked about qnaline, not Tucker.
I was talking about the "playful banter with the most evil people in the world" text when I gave the Tucker Carlson example.
Their religion debates are mostly against evangelicals and biblical literalists, who generally do think that their beliefs are rational, so an in-depth deconstruction is really beneficial, a lot of the time not to the caller but to the impartial layperson viewer.
I understand your criticism here, but also one can't make do without the opposition making some content like this, especially when this sphere is dominated by uneducated right-wingers like Joe Rogan.
I understand fighting fire with fire, but dont mind me while I dont praise the arsonists.
What about the Nick Fuentes, Tim Pool, and other far right podcasters? Where do they fall on this scale?
Darknet Diaries: lmao we live in a surveillance state
YouTube personalities talk about stuff for 3 hours