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voxpoplar wrote
Reply to What podcast app do you use? by flabberghaster
I've been using antennapod for months and have no complaints about it at all
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in What podcast app do you use? by flabberghaster
oh ho ho ho if only you knew
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in What podcast app do you use? by flabberghaster
clearly you're not addicted enough to podcasts
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by Soleil in What podcast app do you use? by flabberghaster
Someone else suggested podcast addict to me and I tried it but I couldn't figure it out 😔
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to comment by Soleil in What podcast app do you use? by flabberghaster
loved podcast addict when i had an android
Soleil wrote
Reply to What podcast app do you use? by flabberghaster
I used Podcast Addict and Google Play and sometimes iheartradio for specific podcasts
hollyhoppet wrote
yeeeessssss finally
mm_ wrote
Reply to Welcome to nightvale has seemed to become more and more openly political these last couple of arcs by flabberghaster
oh interesting ill take a little dip back in, i loved it a few years ago and just fell out of listening for who knows why, feels like i try to describe it to people a lot
flabberghaster wrote
Ooh sounds cool
voxpoplar wrote
Reply to Lime Town season two just appeared by flabberghaster
I only remember two bits from the first series to be honest.
devtesla wrote
toasthaste wrote (edited )
I pretty much just listen to My Brother My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone, but I also there's The Polygon Show which is a podcast hosted by 4 ladies that is ostensibly about video games but tends to also be about a lot of other stuff like diet coke flavors and how come mario has nipples. They're all really funny and cool people and they bring me such joy, some of their episodes they even record live(like with cameras) and have videos on youtube which I like a lot!
Moonside OP wrote
Reply to comment by neku in The perennial question of podcasting: which ones do you like? by Moonside
giving a list of every podcast i listen to makes me feel strangely vulnerable like "heres all my dumb interests and my justifications for them"?? anyway Enjoy
Personally I unsubscribed from a few just because having the need to sort the wheat from the chaff made some podcasts appear lower in my esteem. The biggest problem being that they were too Terminally Online: people from Twitter discussing outrage they learnt about from Twitter. Like discussing the Szechuan sauce debacle as a great moral digressions or James Damore - in other words, issues that were discussed into the death in a few days.
Moonside OP wrote
There's some overlap in the ones I listen to with the ones already mentioned
Fan podcasts
The Steven Universe Podcast is produced by the CN itself and hosted by a fan. Story boarders, producers and VAs get feature quite a bit and it's nice to hear them shoot shit in a pretty relaxed setting.
Everything's Coming Up Springfield consists of its hosts discussing a Simpsons episode with a guest for about an hour, but the discussions have a tendency to enthusiastically follow through all sorts of diversions. I think the earlier episodes are the best and the first episode with Alex Hirsch on Bart's Comet is one of the best so give that a try at first. Later on the show starts losing its steam as the most memorable episodes have already been picked.
Infotainment and education
I'm going to be honest - I find both books and video to be way superior content delivery formats to podcasting for any kind of learning, so the more a thinky podcast strays away from current affairs, journalism, interviews or discussion a podcast goes towards didactic stuff, the less enthusiastic I get since I could be just working on my desk taking notes. Never-the-less, two shows I listen to are so well done that even with my misgivings I like to recommend them.
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps by Peter Adamson and History of Philosophy in India, by him and Jonardon Ganeri. Each episode is about 20 minutes long except for the interview ones that tend to be bit over half an hour long. I think this is roughly as good as has been done in the medium so far and perhaps as can be.
Miscellaneous podcasts
black fellas podcast (or is it African Dissent?) - an international tag team discusses various things from politics to dating as black people. Hasn't updated in a while and has only 7 episodes so far which means you can listen to them all and get it done, a thing I consider a positive.
My Worst Own Enemy is a somewhat rare beast, a mental health podcast. It's mostly not that self help orientated (which is good since I hate that kind of shit with passion) and mostly interviews scholars and practitioners in the field.
I tried to give a listen to The Adventure Zone and honestly I just couldn't pay attention to it enough or something. I usually listen while I'm on a walk but apparently the environment and its noises bring enough disruptions that I couldn't concentrate on the narrative. I've had similar troubles with audio books, which is a format I just can't digest at all. I stopped around the part after the murder mystery arc, but if you don't share my symptoms, go ahead! The first one in which they created their characters was fun, so it's not a thing you need to follow for 20 hours to get the first pay off.
neku wrote
video gam:
the giant bombcast is consistently very good but its like two to three hours long some weeks.
the giant beastcast (basically the same show from giant bombs east coast office) is ok but dan ryckert is so fucking dumb and obnoxious it makes listening extremely uncomfortable sometimes but everyone else on the show is great.
gayme bar is three old queens complaining about video games
everything else:
sawbones is a show put on by justin mcelroy of my brother my brother and me and his wife sydnee whos an actual real doctor and they talk about medical history. its good. also i could recommend mbmbam here but you already know what mbmbam is and also their last few episodes have been kinda bad
chapo trap house is bad but i listen to it anyway.
important if true is a show i really like thats basically like absurdist commentary on technology and culture in late capitalism???? (thats my description not theirs). probably difficult to start listening to without listening to the earlier episodes but i think theyre all really funny and interesting. they have a video game show called idle thumbs thats basically the same thing but ostensibly about video games
the outline world dispatch is basically some journalists from the outline talking to each other and folks from other outlets about the stories they publish. the episodes are about 10-15 minutes long and usually interesting though they changed producers recently and the quality took a dive but things seem to be improving again???
the orville will be cancelled is basically a recap show of seth mcfarlanes star trek clone "the orville" except the two hosts like star trek and really hate the orville?? its better than it sounds i guess but they havent updated in a while.
citations needed is a politics podcast where the hosts basically recap and explain media bullshit. the name is bad but the show is typically pretty good. kind of on the fence between liberal/socialist but not too socdem but even then its worth listening to.
giving a list of every podcast i listen to makes me feel strangely vulnerable like "heres all my dumb interests and my justifications for them"?? anyway Enjoy
musou wrote
most of the ones i like are music based. i like mine (ofc) and i like random movement's podcast, and i like the hospital records podcast, and the fokuz records podcast.
the talky ones i like are critical role, the adventure zone, street fight radio, and trillbillies workers party.
musou wrote
Reply to NEW ADVENTURE ZONE IS OUT by flabberghaster
i need to catch up on this show, i'm way behind. i heard they were experimenting with Fate Core rules? i might check out that episode out of order because i'm trying to familiarize myself with it for a game i got invited to
Dogmantra wrote
Reply to What podcast app do you use? by flabberghaster
I just go on the particular podcast's website and listen direct from there.