Source: Tommy Siegel
I listen to C list comedians make dark jokes about dark topics.
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.
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.
- 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.
Where would it be Safety third here?
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 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/
My personal favorite D&D podcast is Tales from the Stinky Dragon XD
Shout-out to the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast as well as the Acceptable Losses podcast for doing 40K and setting lore deep dives!
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.
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’
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.
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?
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.
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.
Go, right now, right this second, and listen to all of Midnight Burger.
It is sooooooo good.Imaginary Advice
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.
Wrong, there’s 2 good podcasts. November Kelly, Devon, and Abigale Thorne do the Kill James Bond podcast.
It’s a banger
deleted by creator
Yay Liam!
It really is the most “this social media site” podcast in existence. Despite this it actually is very good
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.
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
Where do you put The Magnus Archives and Darknet Diaries?
serialised audiobook?
