you forgot
podcast about engineering disasters, with slides
you forgot
podcast about engineering disasters, with slides
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 :)
Shout-out to the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast as well as the Acceptable Losses podcast for doing 40K and setting lore deep dives!
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.
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 feel like D&D campaign falls, spiritually, under βrecapping a movie but itβs longer than the movieβ
Then you've been listening to the wrong campaigns.
I didnβt say I disliked it! Iβve 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.
My favorite here are Mystery Quest and the Apocalypse Players.
Though I might have a thing for humorous horror.
Go, right now, right this second, and listen to all of Midnight Burger.
It is sooooooo good.
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.
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?
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.
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
Thereβs 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.
Funny Leftists describing the abhorrent crimes of history.
Source: The Dollop, Behind the Bastards
There's also the sex and relationship advice podcasts that make you feel way better about your own mostly functional relationship.
History podcasts are my catnip at the moment. I'm not alone.
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'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.
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?
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 thatβs what youβre in the mood for and it can certainly fill a long commute / chore. Just really not my cup of tea.
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.
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?")
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 agree, I want the meat of the story, not pointless banter and sound effects that reduce information d density
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
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.
Might want to try BBC's βIn Our Timeβ.
Or βThe History of Englishβ.
βArtHolesβ for biographies of some famous artists.
I also enjoyed John Siracusa's musings and rants about tech on βHypercriticalβ β 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 βAccidental Tech Podcastβ, 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)
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.
Being 55 and listening to FM radio (music, no talk), you are absolutely right.
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.
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 do you put The Magnus Archives and Darknet Diaries?
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