Source: Tommy Siegel
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
Funny Leftists describing the abhorrent crimes of history.
Source: The Dollop, Behind the Bastards
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.
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?
No one mentioned Trashfuture, recommended, as a fan of WTYP and LLBD
well there’s your problem
Lions led by donkeys
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.
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.
Radiolab? Oh you mean D&D
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
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
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?
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.
I’m not sure David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart fits any of these.
Or Dear Hank & John either, for that matter.
Missing the science podcast, but I’m not sure there is a humorous way to say "explains a scientific concept over 30-150 minutes. "
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”?
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.
I listen to audio dramas and real-play rpgs.
- 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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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.
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