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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Where does The Nextlander Podcast fall here hmmmm

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Can we make a "Lives up to its name" option for Never Been A Better Podcast?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Wow, this is my first time running across a mention of those guys in the wild.

“Middle aged gamers talking about being confused in extraction shooters.” Maybe? I say that with love.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

People riff badly off each other thinking they’re funny with maybe only a few minutes of opinion devoted to the actual topic while recording themselves and calling it a “podcast.”

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 points 47 minutes ago

What about three white guys just hanging out and talking about the exact same crap they always do, but this time with a microphone in the middle? (This was my old podcast, The Masters of Divinity)

[–] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 minutes ago

Where does "two comedians listen to and critically analyze Alex Jones" fit?

[–] TheV2@programming.dev -1 points 37 minutes ago

The video series that is now labelled as a podcast

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 points 34 minutes ago

the Markiplier and Wade and other guy podcast is pretty funny

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes 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.

There's also a lot of special interest/hyperfixation podcasts. You know, like the history ones, or running, DND, tech, fictional world, essay, drugs...

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Where do you put The Magnus Archives and Darknet Diaries?

serialised audiobook?

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Recapping a movie but its longer than a movie could be fun, what if they have alot of odd distractions mid podcast with fun micro celebrities that just show up? They can go way off topic and eventually circle back. I could do this, I barely watch movies and it would be fun.

There must be a podcast that is notorious for this or something, it seems much less bad than the others.

[–] TheAvarageNerd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"Back to the Future Minute" is the one that came to my mind. Each episode talks about one minute of, well, back to the future - and looking it up right now, the length of each episode was somewhere between 15 min and over an hour. I stopped listening somewhere at the start of the second movie, but I remember actually really enjoying it. Maybe I should listen to it again.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

1 minute? Thats wild.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Catma@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

Is the Wheaton's podcast just a continuation of Levar Burton's podcast?

https://levarburton.com/podcasts/

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 hours 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.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 61 points 5 hours ago (11 children)

Also, D&D campaign

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

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

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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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My favorite here are Mystery Quest and the Apocalypse Players.

Though I might have a thing for humorous horror.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 hour ago

I love the Apocalypse Players. Just the right amount of madness.

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 82 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

you forgot

podcast about engineering disasters, with slides

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Shout out to November Kelly, Devon, and the entire Nate Bethea extended universe. Producing the only good podcasts on the internet.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago
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[–] stenAanden@feddit.dk 35 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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".

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 points 58 minutes ago

And to think the truth would have remained buried had Robert not consumed every gas station pill available.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Dua Lipa’s book club seems like it would be that top-right one but she seems to put real effort into it and she is actually a pretty good interviewer.

But I’m a fan so I’m probably exactly who the agent is thinking of in this scenario.

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