Podcast General Thread - Recommendations, Spergery, and the Losers Who Listen To Them

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The Losers Club, a bunch of nerds who sperg about Stephen King's books and other media. They love the author but don't spare critiques when his writing is shitty, IMHO it's a well-balanced podcast, fun to listen to. A remastery of old episodes is currently going on, so a few episodes are missing.

On the front of narrative podcasts, I quite like The Magnus Archives. Jonathan Simms, new Archivist of the Magnus Institute (an organization that studies paranormal events), is given the task to make audio recordings of the written statements the Institute gathered in the course of its activity. Every statement reports a strange/creepy/disturbing happening recounted by a witness. While at the beginning all these events seem just random encounters with the paranormal, the more the story proceeds (and the more Jonathan's skepticism crumbles), the more it's clear that all those happenings are linked together. It's very well-written, and it has that kind of "Weird-horror" vibe that I like a lot.
 
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Listening to lolbertarians sperg is my fetish. Thank you
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You should probably try the show Tom Woods does interviewing various guests. He often has good coverage of issues despite the libertarian point of view. His episodes with Scott Horton and Lew Rockwell are particularly good.

Some others:
 
Some recommendations to try:
  • The Memory Palace - Short mood pieces and stories, "history-ish" with a unique tone. Based on real events, but with a layer of invention sometimes about real people's feelings and motivations. Done by an out-and-out leftie, but good enough to tolerate the isolated obligatory wokeness every few episodes.
  • Uncanny Japan - Horror author and schoolteacher runs through the supernatural, the interesting and weird about Japan, especially stuff based in cultural traditions and superstitions.
  • GigaBoots Podcasts - a few separate podcasts all in the one feed, including "Big Think Dimension", a good funny couple of hours of gaming news and discussion each week, Gamer Premonitions, where they put out semi-sane to nutso predictions about an upcoming game, and Armchair Devs, where they try and pitch revivals of a dead or broken game series.
  • The Cryptonaturalist - a guide to weird and unnatural, but narrated by your distant third cousin who is a birder and probably lives in a truck and might be cursed.
  • Twenty Thousand Hertz - a podcast about the history of sound, how it's made, designed and distributed. Produced by a group of IRL sound engineers, so excellent quality.
  • Ear Hustle - Podcast from inside California's "rehab" prison, telling stories of daily prison life and various topics. At least worth listening to the "Cellies" episode.
  • The Seanachai - finished now, but was one of the great early podcasts. Short stories and funny diversions, by someone who was one of the first to dive into the potential of the medium.
  • Damn Interesting - extremely infrequent releases, but every episode is well worth it. All are a 30-60 min dive into some interesting, out-of-the-way piece of history
 
Nick the Rat - The only weekly show broadcasting live from the sewers of Brooklyn, NY. Usually covers a spooky topic (including EVP's, cryptozoology, ghosts, etc.). Hosted by a rat that usually gets pretty drunk by the end of the show, a lizard-like alien that reads the news, and live callers. Pretty good music, too.
 
Any suggestions for good gaming podcasts to replace Giant Bomb? I still like the regular GB podcast but I'm only sticking with them as I've listened for so long, and I've pretty much given up on the Giant Beastcast due to Alex being whiny and cynical and Abby knowing nothing about video games and just injecting politics into everything.
 
Gonna put a recommendation in for Dead Rabbit Radio. It's a daily paranormal, true crime podcast. I know the podcast scene is flooded with these already.

The guy is entertaining in a easygoing way, keeps putting out new episodes daily and just covers strange topics that he comes across. He explicitly goes out of his way to NOT bring politics into it.

He's got alot of heart for what he's doing which is nice.
 
What happened to the Poz Button? The Zencast page is gone.
 
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I really enjoy(ed) both the now concluded History of Rome and the ongoing Revolutions podcasts. Both are done by the same guy and are well researched.
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As a history sperg who likes podcasts as a way to kill time on long drives, I really wanted to like History of Rome, but wasn't all that impressed. With the disclaimer that I stopped around 50 episodes in, I didn't think the presenter was very good at structuring his content in an engaging way, alternating between shallowly eliding over important stuff and getting bogged down in trivial minutiae. Also (minor, but a huge personal pet peeve) he talks quietly and has trouble maintaining a consistent speaking tone, which means you have to constantly adjust volume while listening and driving to be able to hear clearly, especially on the highway.

It's possible that the production gets better later, maybe I'll give it another shot sometime.

As far as good history podcasts, I really enjoyed Scott Chesworth's The Ancient World as a very quick and shallow overview that covers a lot of material. For more focused, Patrick Wyman's Fall of Rome (which I believe was either done as a doctoral thesis or adapted from a doctoral thesis) is excellent.
 
History of Rome gets way better as it goes on, since it goes from "guy doing an experiment" to "accidentally created a new full time job for himself"
 
Last Podcast on the Left - True Crime/conspiracy theory/paranormal/cult podcast with a humorous take on things. Their humor can get a little dumb at times, but I enjoy it.

Stephen King Cast - Single person doing the show who is a huge King fan just talking about his passion for the guy's work. Not terribly informative, but I find it comfy to listen to.

Sword and Scale - Crime podcast that's more serious than LPOTL
 
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As a history sperg who likes podcasts as a way to kill time on long drives, I really wanted to like History of Rome, but wasn't all that impressed. With the disclaimer that I stopped around 50 episodes in, I didn't think the presenter was very good at structuring his content in an engaging way, alternating between shallowly eliding over important stuff and getting bogged down in trivial minutiae. Also (minor, but a huge personal pet peeve) he talks quietly and has trouble maintaining a consistent speaking tone, which means you have to constantly adjust volume while listening and driving to be able to hear clearly, especially on the highway.

It's possible that the production gets better later, maybe I'll give it another shot sometime.

As far as good history podcasts, I really enjoyed Scott Chesworth's The Ancient World as a very quick and shallow overview that covers a lot of material. For more focused, Patrick Wyman's Fall of Rome (which I believe was either done as a doctoral thesis or adapted from a doctoral thesis) is excellent.
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With the early episodes of History of Rome, it wasn't just that there were production issues, Mike Duncan's actual performance was pretty dry. If you listen to early and late episodes the difference is pretty stark.

There was another problem in that he was most interested in that period around the fall of the Roman republic and early empire, and it showed as he progressed with the series when it really seemed he was just fulfilling a commitment by continuing. Also to be honest, Dan Carlin did the fall of the republic better anyway.

With Revolutions, The American revolutionary war was good as was the English civil war, where he started to hit speed bumps was with things like the the Mexican revolution. He had this kind of strange idea that comes from literature but which doesn't belong in history, that a man like Pancho VIlla can be best analysed by just looking at specific periods of his life, which allows the mass murdering period to be compartmentalized. Hence the progressive early period, and the murderous late period where he was wiping out whole Mexican villages.

His description of early Villa and the División del Norte, is glowing. Praising it's organisation, discipline, love for/by the people, and enlightened leadership. He glosses over the fact that Álvaro Obregón soundly defeated Villa and wrecked the División del Norte at the battle of Celaya, with a much smaller army.

He has an obvious political bias against Obregon, and even implies that when Villa kidnapped him earlier in the revolution (when they were on the same side) he should have executed him.

His history of the Russian revolution is just fucking tedious, 6 episodes on the minutiae of details of communist thinking, an obvious POV that the Mensheviks would have made the revolution into less of a bloodbath. Also a pretty fringe belief about the main cause of the split between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.

He's appeared on the Chapo Trap House podcast, but I think from his twitter feed (he hates tucker carlson) that he's more sympathetic to identify politics than them.

I still listen, but I'm always on the lookout for a better history podcast.
 
How Did This Get Made? Is the only bad movie podcast worth listening to. It’s just closest to my loud and immature sense of humor. I always watch the movie before listening to the episode because no matter how shit the movie is (Birdemic, The Hottie and the Nottie, and Hello Mary Lou should definitely be watched first) it just adds another level to my enjoyment.

And Parcast podcasts are great. My favorites are Cults, Serial Killers, Crimes of Passion, and Supernatural. One of the most important things that make a good podcast is the host’s voice and Vanessa Richardson has a real good one.

Redhanded is also a great true crime podcast. Some of their episodes; like Marcus Wesson, Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, the Goler clan, and Steven Pladl; are disgusting and will piss you off. But the hosts deliver it in such a way that makes them easier to digest.

An easier listen is The Futility Closet. It’s a short burst of useless information and entertaining puzzles.

Til Death Do Us Blart is a podcast I will force my family to gather round and listen to every year.
 
I’m looking for some podcast suggestions, if anyone has some. A lot of the ones I used to like have been super virtue-signally since either the Autism Holy War or Trump’s election.

I’d gone through a bunch of back catalogues of the ones I like, but that‘s out too. I’m not sure what I’m looking for - I enjoy Talk is Jericho, Lou Reads the Internet, Sawbones (sometimes), Roguelike Radio, Decoder Ring Theatre, & the Attitude Era Podcast.

I used to like Giant Bomb, Idle Thumbs, Three Moves Ahead, My Brother My Brother & Me, Watch Out for Fireballs, Read It & Weep and The Flop House before they began to suck.

I also listened to a bunch of now-inactive podcasts - Rabbits (which I really loved), DG Radio, Flip the Table, and Spitball Sessions.

I don’t want any horror podcasts, and I know Dan Carlin, but I’m looking for something I don’t need to pay close attention to. Any suggestions would be awesome, though.
 
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I've listened to the Sleepycast podcast religiously ever since it came out and repeatedly since it stopped. It does have a few cows in it but it's interesting to hear what life as an animator/artist is like and it felt like a bunch of friends just shoot the shit with funny topics. It was a different time before OneyNG founded a let's play channel, before StamperTV became a hobo, before Zach became a goblin.
 
Myths of the 20th Century, is an at times pretty interesting podcast, that looks at some odd aspects of history that might not get the attention they deserve. It does lean Alt Right when it touches on Politics, but depending on the episode they don't push it that hard. Some of the episodes are worth a listen, and the hosts seem to know what they're talking about even if you disagree with their analysis.
 
Sorry to necro a bit of a dead thread but I wanted to bring up how weirdly seethingly political My Brother my Brother and Me has been lately, do any kiwis listen to it? Ive missed the last few episodes because its been weird since the election, ranting about wanting to spank Donald Trump, Ted Cruz pissing his pants, asking pizzerias to be on the right side of history, etc. And I figured the podcast general thread would be the place to talk about it.
 
Dr. Ricearoni dijo:
Sorry to necro a bit of a dead thread but I wanted to bring up how weirdly seethingly political My Brother my Brother and Me has been lately, do any kiwis listen to it? Ive missed the last few episodes because its been weird since the election, ranting about wanting to spank Donald Trump, Ted Cruz pissing his pants, asking pizzerias to be on the right side of history, etc. And I figured the podcast general thread would be the place to talk about it.
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I haven't listened to the more recent episodes of MBMBAM mainly just some of the older ones. Even back in the older episodes they sometimes talked politics but I don't remember it being to the same extent as what you described. If the newer episodes are really that bad in terms of politics, I'm glad I didn't keep up since that sounds obnoxious.
 
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