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Feels like someone's podcasts are being heavily promoted
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Podcasts are a blight on humanity. I'm sure a couple are OK. But I've never found any to be worthwhile. Granted I don't delve through the cesspool to find any though. I don't relish listening to people talk ad nauseum about inane shit.
They're just radio shows you don't need a broadcast station to distribute.
Some are definitely better than others
Shrug
Nobody is forcing you to
Not only that, podcasts range a lot of different formats. Some are people talking to each other. Some are one person talking about a specific topic. Some are stories like books or movies but are radio dramas etc. I understand maybe not wanting to listen to anything you've found, but it's a bit like saying you don't want to read because it's always about the news. Lots of stuff to listen to/read.
That's all true. But I'm still firmly of the belief that the correct form of Podcast is some combination of British trans woman, Brooklyn journalism washout, and Philadelphia engineer talking about classic movies, election news, and engineering disasters.
I like the radio dramas a lot. It's different from a book on tape because it's made for the format. I drive quite a distance for work and it's a nice unwind.
Look at this fat cat capitalist who can afford a home that doesn’t have Podcast Gnomes in the walls.
they're called roommates
Right? I woke up the other night and the gnomes were playing Rogan and The Daily into my ears at the same time. The exterminator says it’ll be $10k to get rid of them permanently, and I just don’t have that.
One of the hosts from the knowledge fight podcast was called as an expert witness in the defamation case against alex jones where he lost the billion and the guy only knew so much about him because he started a podcast to research alex
And I never said otherwise.
It's the (what you consider to be) "inane shit" part that's the problem here, not the medium. I personally enjoy history podcasts, but more generally there's no shortage of non-inane podcasts out there.
I used blanket statements and some flippant hyperbole because I don't like any podcasts I've tried, but I'm aware the medium itself isn't the exact issue. It just lends itself to people filling the silence with banal chatter when there is nothing else to say.
Cinema podcasts, like a movie for your ears that you can’t see, are always fun. I like closing my eyes and letting my earnodes fill in what my eyes can’t see.
That actually sounds interesting. Didn't even know those existed.
A couple recommendations I have for this are
Ars Paradoxica - time travel without all the cliche
We're Alive - Zombie apocalypse focused on survival
The Left Right Game - A horror born from an urban rumor/legend/conspiracy
All mentioned are completed series so you can binge them all you like
Thanks for the recommendations. I'll give those a try. 🙂
Two other podcasts really worth listening to in my opinion are
Behind the bastards - they write a script telling about the worst people in history, their stories, what they did, how bad the shit they did was. Usually with some dark humor tones.
99 percent invisible - they cover all of the mundane stuff in life and put a spotlight on it. Again, it's scripted, written, information. Not just blindly talking about x thing, and they usually do interviews with relevant people, too. Its like actual reporting, but on the things you would never have thought should have reporting coverage.
Those sound reasonable. I like long informative videos on in the background so those sound like they might work out. Thanks for the suggestions. 🙂
Not a problem. I generally agree with you on meaningless words to fill the silence for most podcasts so I try to go for ones that have substance to them whether entertainment, education, or news