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
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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.
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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/
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I feel like D&D campaign falls, spiritually, under ‘recapping a movie but it’s longer than the movie’
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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"
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I'm not sure David McRaney's You Are Not So Smart fits any of these.
Or Dear Hank & John either, for that matter.
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"?
Missing the science podcast, but I'm not sure there is a humorous way to say "explains a scientific concept over 30-150 minutes. "
- 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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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
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I listen to audio dramas and real-play rpgs.
You completely glossed over podcast that are more dramatically creations or just pure fiction. Something like welcome to night Vale is one of my favorite ones or horror story ones such as SCP archives or the no sleep podcast.
Have you listened to the magnus archives yet?
E: you'd think that, after typing "magnus" at least 300 times, my phone wouldn't autocorrect "magnus" to "major", and yet, it did.
YouTube personalities talk about stuff for 3 hours
I'm glad that of the 90 podcasts I subscribe to, none of them are in this meme
Darknet Diaries: lmao we live in a surveillance state
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.
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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".
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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.
Comedy podcasts about death, Mars news, and a random small English soccer team.
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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.
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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.
Bottom left is wrong, should mainstream media spewing the propaganda they have been told to.
There's also the sex and relationship advice podcasts that make you feel way better about your own mostly functional relationship.
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