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.
Where would it be Safety third here?
They forgot “random, extremely niche hobby”
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.
Where does “two comedians listen to and critically analyze Alex Jones” fit?
A blend of 2, 4 and 6
Knowledge Fight belongs in its own category
I mean there’s also fiction storytelling and radio plays, which is about the only kind of podcast I listen to besides Cautionary Tales.
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.”
Where does The Nextlander Podcast fall here hmmmm
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.
Can we make a “Lives up to its name” option for Never Been A Better Podcast?
There’s also a lot of special interest/hyperfixation podcasts. You know, like the history ones, or running, DND, tech, fictional world, essay, drugs…
Shout out to “Saga Thing” , two English history professors reviewing all of sagas of the Icelanders.
Also “No Goda, No Mayors”, doing the same for all mayors ever (they admit it’ll take a while)
And “Pontifacts”, ditto for popes.
And “Totallus Rankium”, ditto for Roman emperors, then American presidents, then pirates…
the Markiplier and Wade and other guy podcast is pretty funny
Where do you put The Magnus Archives and Darknet Diaries?
serialised audiobook?
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)
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.
My most listened to podcast genres are:
- Fans of a sports team celebrate or commiserate
- Cheerful people look at the world through the lens of economics
- A professional voice actor reads me cool short stories
- A science reporter lets scientists gush about their cool discoveries
- Science myths are investigated and sometimes debunked, in an entertaining way (with citations)
- A storyteller tells true stories about mistakes and what we can learn from them
- BBC Foreign Correspondents talk about the stories behind the stories
- The current world is examined from a perspective of how the media delivers the message
Is the Wheaton’s podcast just a continuation of Levar Burton’s podcast?
Basically, yeah. He asked Levar if he’d mind if Wil continued the podcast, and Levar gave him his blessing. I think Wil is focusing a bit more on unknown authors though.
Yeah I vaguely recall Wil talking about it on some other pod, and he talked to Levar who was getting ready to wrap up hosting and gave Wil his blessing
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.
Try “Kill James Bond”. They start with the James Bond franchise, which they hate. I highly recommend their Cars 2 episode. It’s unhinged.
“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.
1 minute? Thats wild.
