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Types of Podcasts, a guide

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Lost_My_Mind Mar 24

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.

TwoBeeSan Mar 24

Chewy and fuckface in the morning.

rImITywR Mar 24

Crazy Ira and The Douche

YaDownWitCPP Mar 24

Freebeer and Hotwings (actual name of a real morning show)

Catoblepas Mar 24

Oh no, that one made me chuckle. Am I a dad now?

YaDownWitCPP Mar 24

The test results have determined that you are a dad.

Krauerking Mar 24

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.

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.

SpaceNoodle Mar 24

Just attend your work meetings bruh

Krauerking Mar 24

Oh man if only…

But let me loop back to you about this when we figure out our org goals

SpaceNoodle Mar 24

Sounds like you need a weekly meeting to figure that out

UnderpantsWeevil Mar 24

I mean, if you want a lecture, YouTube has those in spades.

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.

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

idiomaddict Mar 24

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.

Like literally bite him

Cracks_InTheWalls Mar 25

Nah, bight. Like, address with the slack or loop of a rope.

NottaLottaOcelot Mar 24

I agree, I want the meat of the story, not pointless banter and sound effects that reduce information d density

SlurpingPus Mar 25

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.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

BBC

Herbal Gamer Mar 25

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.

MrsDoyle Mar 25

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.

Herbal Gamer Mar 25

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.

MrsDoyle 6d ago

I know, and I enjoy QI, it’s a great show. But in the podcast they pose as experts presenting facts.

Magister Mar 24

Being 55 and listening to FM radio (music, no talk), you are absolutely right.

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.

Lost_My_Mind Mar 24

Ah, the Joe Rogan audience.

I want to believe this is a world where there’s more than just those 2 options.

TwoBeeSan Mar 24

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.

GuyIncognito Mar 24

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.

PalmTreeIsBestTree Mar 24

They also taught me about the true story of Chris Benoit. It gave me the thousand island stare.

WILSOOON Mar 24

You forgot the ones where ist just a bunch of dudes getting absolutely hammered on camera, i.e. cold ones

you forgot

podcast about engineering disasters, with slides

UnderpantsWeevil Mar 24

Wrong, there’s 2 good podcasts. November Kelly, Devon, and Abigale Thorne do the Kill James Bond podcast.

UnderpantsWeevil Mar 25

It’s a banger

I’m also a big fan of November Kelly, Justin Rozniak, Liam Andersen and Victoria Scott on Well There’s Your Podcast.

tryagain Mar 25

I found my way in via Lions Led By Donkeys and now I’m addicted to WTYP and KJB. What a collection of lunatics.

UnderpantsWeevil Mar 25

LLD is excellent. If my dance card wasn’t already overflowing, I’d maybe listen to it more than once every month or two.

brie_cheese Mar 25

hey now, dont forget the McElroys. they got good stuff too.

captainlezbian Mar 24

It really is the most “this social media site” podcast in existence. Despite this it actually is very good

CelloMike Mar 24

I was about to say

-Roz probably

starman2112 Mar 24

Yay Liam!

EvacuateSoul Mar 25

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.

unemployedclaquer Mar 25

No one mentioned Trashfuture, recommended, as a fan of WTYP and LLBD

well there’s your problem

Lions led by donkeys

So like collapsing playgrounds?

driving_crooner Mar 24

I only listen to Citation Needed that is depressing pilled, and history of philosophy without any gaps that is really entertaining and funny

Munkisquisher Mar 24

There’s also the sex and relationship advice podcasts that make you feel way better about your own mostly functional relationship.

stenAanden Mar 24

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.

abbadon420 Mar 24

It should be titled “types of podcast: a guide for masochists”

paraphrand Mar 24

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.

whotookkarl Mar 24

Specialist who knows some topic really well but has no charisma or presentation so is perpetually locked at like 200 listeners.

brown567 Mar 24

Also, D&D campaign

We need the podcast equivalent of old radio shows, like acting out a story with sound effects

Catoblepas Mar 24

I feel like D&D campaign falls, spiritually, under ‘recapping a movie but it’s longer than the movie’

thejoker954 Mar 24

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.

There’s plenty of audio dramas, and actual plays that are more edited and produced than, say, Critical Role.

brown567 Mar 24

My personal favorite D&D podcast is Tales from the Stinky Dragon XD

Well if we’re strictly speaking DnD I guess it’d be Worlds Beyond Number’s main campaign (that’s DnD right?).

But Fun City, Gutter and Unend are my personal favs using other systems :)

bumblefumble Mar 24

Yeah The Wizard, The Witch and The Wild One is DnD and I can highly recommend it.

Gigasser Mar 25

Shout-out to the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast as well as the Acceptable Losses podcast for doing 40K and setting lore deep dives!