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I listen to C list comedians make dark jokes about dark topics.
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Types of podcast I listen to:
- History podcasts (the best type)
- That one French daily fiction podcast about a fictional city that's a mix of realistic and absurd
- A woman reads fairy tales and old novels
- A small group of people (always the same + tye occasional guest) discuss the one thing they're all fascinated by, with a different thematic each day.
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.
- 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
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.
I mean there's also fiction storytelling and radio plays, which is about the only kind of podcast I listen to besides Cautionary Tales.
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.
Where would it be Safety third here?
Where does "two comedians listen to and critically analyze Alex Jones" fit?
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.
A blend of 2, 4 and 6
Knowledge Fight belongs in its own category
They forgot "random, extremely niche hobby"
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/
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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.
I feel like D&D campaign falls, spiritually, under ‘recapping a movie but it’s longer than the movie’
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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
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?
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you forgot
podcast about engineering disasters, with slides
No one mentioned Trashfuture, recommended, as a fan of WTYP and LLBD
well there's your problem
Lions led by donkeys
Shout out to November Kelly, Devon, and the entire Nate Bethea extended universe. Producing the only good podcasts on the internet.
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Yay Liam!
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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.
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.
My most listened to podcast genres are:
- Fans of a sports team celebrate or commiserate
- Cheerful people look at the world through the lens of economics
- A professional voice actor reads me cool short stories
- A science reporter lets scientists gush about their cool discoveries
- Science myths are investigated and sometimes debunked, in an entertaining way (with citations)
- A storyteller tells true stories about mistakes and what we can learn from them
- BBC Foreign Correspondents talk about the stories behind the stories
- The current world is examined from a perspective of how the media delivers the message
Is the Wheaton's podcast just a continuation of Levar Burton's podcast?
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.
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
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".
‘Ello guvnah
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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)
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 Goda, 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...
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.
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.
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.
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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.”
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