Started in 2004 with 1up podcast and after that about the entire vg industry has/had a podcast that I have been listen to ever since then.
also off c this American life and stuff like serial etc.
Yes, I enjoy it too. It's in my list I posted above!
I'm really into the horror or true crime podcasts. Sadly a lot of the scary/creepy ones are not done that well done, there's only a few that I really like so far. But I'm always looking to try more.
For example the No Sleep podcast. There are some good stories in there once in a while, but unfortunately far too often they choose to adapt/perform a story that is just... bad. A lot of the writers submitting these stories don't seem to understand that every word has to be spoken or performed. That can make a huge difference in how something comes across to the listener.
That's why I enjoy Magnus Archives. These stories are often from a limited perspective, so there isn't really an explanation for why things happen or what the happenings are. We're not trying to solve what's going like in Black Tapes. The people telling the stories aren't figuring what happened through ancient texts or folklore. These eerie things just happen and we're left in the dark just like those people. Because of that, the story in Magnus Archives have such a great sense of creepy unknown.
Podcasts are the shit and are the single biggest reason I own a smartphone. I listen daily and here's my hot list of great shit.
1) Giant Bombcast
2) Night of the Living Podcast (Coming up on 10 years and these guys don't get HALF the listeners they deserve, and they're honestly great to their fans.). This is a podcast I financially support.
3) Sword & Scale but I don't feel good about it because of the host.
4) H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast- WAAAAY funnier than the title would lead you to believe. This is a podcast I pay to support.
5) The Black Tapes. This is legit as hell and I'll be ordering a T-shirt soon to support.
6) The Last Podcast on the Left. These guys are just that damned entertaining. Also getting a shirt because I like their logo and they deserve it.
7) The Purple Stuff Podcast. Jay from Sexy Armpit and Matt from Dinosaur Dracula host a nostalgia/horror nerd podcast that seems like it was custom made for me.
8) Goosebuds. A fun criticism of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps! books. Hilarious but isn't released on any schedule I can discern.
9) The Parapod Mysteries. Two seasons of one skeptical comedian tearing apart the kooky beliefs of his cohost. Great series of episodes from inside a haunted house. Season 3 coming someday?
10) Alice Isn't Dead/ Welcome to Nightvale/ Within the Wires- I'm grouping these all together because they share the same creators and they're all top-notch shit. Do yourself a real favor and listen.
I listen to a bunch of other gaming podcasts on and off- CAGcast, EZAllies, Jimquisition, and Player One Podcast. They're all good but when my backlog gets too long these ones usually get put on the back burner.
I'm way too into podcasts/podcasting. I was working on a Podcasting OT at one point but I was worried it might look like I'm plugging my own shit too much and well then I just got really busy.
Right now I've got like 30+ I listen to each week. 4 I'm on and 4 I am producing.
I'm way too into podcasts/podcasting. I was working on a Podcasting OT at one point but I was worried it might look like I'm plugging my own shit too much and well then I just got really busy.
Right now I've got like 30+ I listen to each week. 4 I'm on and 4 I am producing.
I've been into podcasts since 2007, I believe GFW Radio might have been my first. They get me through workouts, cooking, cleaning, and commuting. My current subscription list is a mix of gaming, technology, and finance.
It's been discussed here before but he gets a bit heavy-handed with the guilt tripping about donations. I'm not above financially supporting a podcast. Not at all. Podcasts and gaming are 90% of my entertainment and I want to support content I enjoy.
That said, there's the guilting and there was some ugliness on the official reddit where he asked for it to be taken down as a copyright violation evidently. It's all detailed in a sticky at https://www.reddit.com/r/SwordScale/ . Sometimes he seems to get a bit too "Into" the subject matter, in my opinion. I should probably just stop listening, honestly. I've been trying to find a better True Crime show and I see that Discovery has a Snapped podcast now that I'm hoping holds up.
Always enjoy podcast threads because I pick up so much new stuff to check out. Going to get on The Black Tapes this week.
My rotation right now is:
Giant Bombcast (video games)
CAGcast (video games)
PS I Love You XOXO (video games)
8-4 Play (video games)
Dunc'd On (basketball, specifically NBA)
The Vertical (NBA)
RealGM Radio (NBA)
The Instance (World of Warcraft)
My Brother, My Brother and Me (comedy / advice)
Film Sack (comedy, focused on older genre films)
You Must Remember This (history, focused on old Hollywood)
Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast (comedy)
Bill Simmons Podcast (mostly sports and entertainment)
Hardcore History (it's in the name)
Always looking for more, though. I go through a lot between listening during my commute, my job having pockets of time where I can listen while working at my desk, jogging, etc.
Love podcasts. I listen to them while driving and then while waiting before/between classes. My current 4 are Giant Bombcast, Giant Beastcast, StarTalk and My brother, My Brother and Me.
I also enjoy Hardcore History, Joe Rogan, Monday Morning Podcast!
Some suggestions, with a random entry point representative of the podcast;
Duncan Trussell Family Hour; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA3PcqmQ4ZE < Interview with his mom. This (and part 2) are some of the best podcasts I've ever heard. Sad, but uplifting.
Duncan is a comedian, but also a unique human being. He is this trippy alternative southern type of person. Listening to his podcast is an exercise in the human experience itself. The stuff he reveals about himself, and the introspection he has when he fails. He'll mention things like depression, the pitfalls, how he ended up getting a handjob at a massage parlor (and the subsequent shame). He'll rant about being sucked into VR linking it to theories of Terrence McKenna. His interviews with the likes of Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) , Dan Harmon (Community, Rick&Morty) and others are fantastic. He is a lot of fun.
Drunken Taoist; http://thedrunkentaoist.com/episodes/episode-7-zone-mike-v < Interview with the skateboarder Mike V. A controversial figure, and one I didn't know about. Mike V is a very intense person and it was fascinating to hear about the rise of skateboarding and the anger and resentment represented in that movement. Danielle Bollelli is a history teacher but one with a great approach. The way he delivers his stories and puts them into anecdotes in his conversations are fantastic. He has a great fun Italian accent and I get the vibe from him that he is a great person. He flows well with Duncan and Joe Rogan when they visit each others podcasts.
iTunes and iOS used to support enhanced podcasts which were m4a files that displayed images and links at set timestamps, but apparently Apple dropped support for them.
This depends on the app you use to consume podcasts and the podcast authors in particular.
A number of podcasts do support this, largely (and predictably) tech oriented podcasts (e.g., ATP, the DevTV network podcasts, etc). I use Overcast on iOS, which since Arment is a huge audio nerd, supports a lot of these things, like chapters, image changes, links, and so on.
If anyone's interested, I finally updated the Podcast OT with more recent shows and edited the OT to remove the broken images (and most images for easier browsing)
I didn't realize it was linked to I think 8 - Burned Out - Mind blown!
Any others in that style you'd recommend? I think Black Tapes was mentioned. I really really really REALLY want to avoid something like Small Town Horror because that was frustratingly terrible. It reminded me of the terrible stories on r/NoSleep.
For the record, I used to like r/NoSleep with stories of The Smiling Man, finding people in abandoned houses, getting stopped at a stop light by 'helpless' people, etc. But then, at some point, it turned into a creepypasta 'pretend its real guys!' board with "HELP MY MOTHER IS TRYING TO KILL ME - PART 8". Maybe that's how it always was...and I just got in during a good point. Because of this, I've avoided the NoSleep podcast. Should I bother with it...?
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Smartest Man in the World (Greg Proops)
Stuff You Should Know
Revisionist History
Criminal
Serial
This American Life
Nerdist
Intelligence Squared
Yeah. I heard Night Vale was good in summer 2013. From that I got into Harmontown because I needed something to listen to during my new campus media job that September.
Now I'm a freelance animator. Podcasts are now my life.
Mostly stuff that makes me laugh. Newest up top (still getting round to giving Bill Burr and Anna Faris a shot.)
It's been discussed here before but he gets a bit heavy-handed with the guilt tripping about donations. I'm not above financially supporting a podcast. Not at all. Podcasts and gaming are 90% of my entertainment and I want to support content I enjoy.
That said, there's the guilting and there was some ugliness on the official reddit where he asked for it to be taken down as a copyright violation evidently. It's all detailed in a sticky at https://www.reddit.com/r/SwordScale/ . Sometimes he seems to get a bit too "Into" the subject matter, in my opinion. I should probably just stop listening, honestly. I've been trying to find a better True Crime show and I see that Discovery has a Snapped podcast now that I'm hoping holds up.
I didn't realize it was linked to I think 8 - Burned Out - Mind blown!
Any others in that style you'd recommend? I think Black Tapes was mentioned. I really really really REALLY want to avoid something like Small Town Horror because that was frustratingly terrible. It reminded me of the terrible stories on r/NoSleep.
For the record, I used to like r/NoSleep with stories of The Smiling Man, finding people in abandoned houses, getting stopped at a stop light by 'helpless' people, etc. But then, at some point, it turned into a creepypasta 'pretend its real guys!' board with "HELP MY MOTHER IS TRYING TO KILL ME - PART 8". Maybe that's how it always was...and I just got in during a good point. Because of this, I've avoided the NoSleep podcast. Should I bother with it...?
Archive 81 is a similar premise, but personally it didn't click with me the way Magnus did. For the most part, Magnus has a singular tone and voice due to the narrator, which also helps with the issues I feel a lot of fictional podcasts suffer from (mainly mediocre acting and conversations sounding fake).
The new series that I'm hooked on (now that I'm all caught up with Magnus) is Sayer. Actually it shares a similar factor with Magnus in that it's told through a single actor. But besides that, completely different.
Sayer is a sci-fi story where the station's (completely sane) AI speaks to you, the new resident. Imagine a GlaDOS-style AI - dark humor and unsettling detachment - mixed with creepy implications about life on the station and sci-fi horror elements. I'd give it to episode 6 to see if it's for you. That was the episode that sold me on Sayer. The series is already finished.
Archive 81 is a similar premise, but personally it didn't click with me the way Magnus did. For the most part, Magnus has a singular tone and voice due to the narrator, which also helps with the issues I feel a lot of fictional podcasts suffer from (mainly mediocre acting and conversations sounding fake).
The new series that I'm hooked on (now that I'm all caught up with Magnus) is Sayer. Actually it shares a similar factor with Magnus in that it's told through a single actor. But besides that, completely different.
Sayer is a sci-fi story where the station's (completely sane) AI speaks to you, the new resident. Imagine a GlaDOS-style AI - dark humor and unsettling detachment - mixed with creepy implications about life on the station and sci-fi horror elements. I'd give it to episode 6 to see if it's for you. That was the episode that sold me on Sayer. The series is already finished.
Just downloaded episodes from My Favorite Murder, Sooo Many White Guys, My Dad Wrote A Porno, Pop Culture Happy Hour, The Watch, The Joe Rogan Experience, and The Duncan Trussell Family Hour.
After a year of pretty much sticking with the same subscribe list, I recently overhauled it massively. I started by checking out a whole bunch of shows that were new to me, almost like a podcast pilot season. I then purged dozens of shows including some of those new ones and some old favourites.
X-Files Files went. I like the show and was huge into it at one point, but the lack of regular updates makes me think in the long run there's no point catching up. I was halfway through but Kamil seems to have stopped producing new episodes. I'm also leaning away from shows with episodes that are 45 minutes and over.
I cut a bunch of fiction shows. Limetown had two episodes left but I lost interest. The Message, Black Tapes, Alice Isn't Dead all went without ever starting them. They had all sat there for months being overlooked, which was a sign. Might check out Alice Isn't Dead though; I like the premise, though I didn't like Welcome to Night Vale. Thrilling Adventure Hour is another I may revisit because it has an intriguing concept.
/Film's podcast never gripped me. Didn't particularly like the hosts or format. Directors Guild of America is an interesting concept but of the two dozen episodes only about three had directors I was interested in hearing from.
Death, Sex and Money and Love+Radio didn't have enough interesting content for me, and I couldn't identify their main topic or approach.
Gave Mortified a go but strangers telling stories to strangers is definitely not my thing. The Moth went for the same reason.
Stuff You Should Know has a fantastic premise and the hosts are ok but they seem to explore such boring topics and take way too long doing so. Half hour episodes would suffice. Found myself avoiding listening for months after initially listening to a bunch of the most interesting episodes. Thinking Sideways fell into this same category too and I ditched it long ago.
I've seen a few people mention Detective. I didn't recently delete it but I listened to the first episode last year and just found it so boring. The format of one guy recalling a story wasn't great to listen to for me. I feel inclined to give it another shot though.
This American Life is one I feel worst about purging but a) only the last few episodes are catalogued so catching up is impossible, b) not all subjects explored interest me and c) episodes are an hour long.
My list:
No Such Thing as a Fish
Answer Me This
Reply All
Criminal
99% Invisible
Serial
Nerdist
The Allusionist
StoryCorps
Radiolab
The Truth
No Extra Words
Honestly, as far as True Crime, I've only checked out S+S, and Detective by Discovery. I don't know if I'd consider Last Podcast on the Left a True Crime show since they talk about so much other stuff, but I do love their TC stuff.
Criminal is great. The topics they cover are so varied and interesting. Usually the stories behind a crime or crime in general. Police dogs, courtroom sketch artists and people who dive looking for evidence are three examples I remember.
Hey, some quick updates since we're nearing the end of the year:
1) The Podcast OT is up to 322 podcasts now, so there's probably something there for everyone if you're looking for new series
2) This site put together a great list of 100 great podcast episodes from 2016, Found some really cool new podcasts from there (Gravy, Reveal, This Is Actually Happening).
3) If you listen to a lot of audio dramas like The Magnus Archives, Hello From The Magic Tavern, and such, the Fictional Podcast OT is probably going to be doing a Best of 2016 voting, if you wanted to nominate favorites when that starts
