• brown567@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    2 months ago

    Also, D&D campaign

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

    • Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

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

        • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          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.

    • thejoker954@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Aeri@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        I once listenee to a Batman podcast which was an audio drama that I think was actually produced by the people who own Batman.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      2 months ago

      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_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • brown567@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        Woah! 50 episodes, the last of which was posted only a couple weeks ago! This shall bless my walks for a long time!

  • stenAanden@feddit.dk
    453·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    232·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolOP
      19·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • wabasso@lemmy.caEnglish
        92·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • jtrek@startrek.website
          61·
          2 months ago

          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?”)

          • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            I don’t want to hear in 30 minutes what I could have read in 3

            Seriously.

            Annoys me about a lot of youtube videos and documentaries as well.

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 months ago

          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.

      • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

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

      • [object Object]@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
        21·
        2 months ago

        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

      • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        2 months ago

        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@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          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@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 months ago

            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@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

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

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 months ago
    • 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
    • grissino@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 months ago

      • 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

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    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”.

  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
    11·
    2 months ago

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

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    Funny Leftists describing the abhorrent crimes of history.

    Source: The Dollop, Behind the Bastards

  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
    7·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    7·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    81·
    2 months ago

    My most listened to podcast genres are:

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
        1·
        2 months ago

        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

  • SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org
    6·
    2 months ago

    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.
    • brsrklf@jlai.lu
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org
        4·
        2 months ago

        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.