Your favorite podcasts, non-music edition

my favorite murder also real good

xxpost yeah all these "branded" podcasts like Placemakers and Open Account are annoying

somewhat interestingly Mystery Show, one of last year's ballyhooed podcasts, was axed from the Gimlet network

Christopher Kimball from America's Test Kitchen has a new podcast, I'm not sure anyone told him he was the worst part of ATK (and its radio show/podcast)

What's the best 'interviewing interesting people' podcast? Not really into themed discussion podcasts, comics interviewing comics, etc.

i can't get down with Last Podcast on the Left, it's too much like We Hate Movies for murder lol

i love my favorite murder tho

xpost Wil Anderson's Wilosophy podcast is a pretty good longform interview show. A lot of comedians but he talks to other people too. it's not really comedic, just good convos

Just found In the Dark and enjoying it immensely. Gotta check out Accused and My Favorite Murder!

Hound Tall with Moshe Kashner might the most listenable Nerdist podcast - three comedians and a straight-man scientist/expert talk about a topic for 45 minutes or so.

Homecoming was pretty well done:

https://gimletmedia.com/homecoming/

^ I just finished this. It was AMAZING. Like as good as a great TV show. Maybe the only audio drama I've ever heard that I didn't actively hate?

Great script: check
Great dialogue: check
Great acting: check
Great production: check
Lots and lots of Catherine Keener and Oscar Isaac: Check

Head over heels I headed straight for Bronzeville, and... ruh-roh. Yeesh.

Apparently Amazon is spending $5M on new scripts for new audio dramas??

Other podcasts I tried recently that I did not like:

The Message
Digits
My Dad Wrote A Porno
Death Sex & money
Comedy Bang Bang
Reply All

I tried Hollywood Handbook and liked it for one episode but once I got into the next episode I was sort of like.... okay I get the joke now that's enough.

Seems like podcasts break down into:

- make me laugh
- teach me something (the recent plsuplus podcast about CRT TV recycling was AWESOME for this.. Production and presenting were both strictly bargain-basement but it didn't matter cause it was so damn interesting and well-reported)
- hold me in suspense

Are there other genres or is that it?

oh and made it through about 3 minutes of "Terms".. such a good idea tho :/

(i guess The Dollop is a cross between 1) make me laugh and 2) teach me something?)

ok shit "hello from the magic tavern" is transcendent

despite the host reminding me so much of tom scharpling that it's distracting. it's a show that i kind of can't believe matt berry ISN'T on. limmy should be on it too.

Other podcasts I tried recently that I did not like:

The Message
Digits
My Dad Wrote A Porno
Death Sex & money
Comedy Bang Bang
Reply All

ha ha Did you listen to the ILX episode of Reply All?

that one was GREBT obv

I've weeded out almost all comedy podcasts from my subscription list, since I think I only enjoy them when I'm binging a couple years' worth of them. Of course now that everybody's putting their 6 months or older stuff behind a paywall I'm not likely to go back and catch up.

pretty evenly split between politics (Crooked Media podcasts, mostly), sports (Bill Simmons, the Lowe Post, the Bill Barnwell Show) and laffs (Filmdrunk Frotcast and the $600 Podcast).

I'm listening to the Black Tapes Podcast - supposed to build into a Lovecraftian turn later on but six episodes in it's just sort of Unsolved Mysteries: NPR Edition.

Can't tell if I find the dialogue horribly staged and acted or if it's actually dead on and the Serial/Radiolab-style is just that bad.

there's a podcast called "containers" all about shipping containers but i'm not really sure it'll tell me more than the great bbc four doc i watched on the same subject a couple of years ago. still that sort of thing is "my jam."

there are some truly awful podcasts out there. the anna faris one. the guilty feminist. the outline world dispatch.

I was about to become the very last person in the world to check out "My Dad Wrote A Porno" but the 'about' page has just put me off it completely. It is the most off-putting 'about' page I have ever seen, it not only makes me hate this podcast I haven't heard, but also all other podcasts, all other media, and life in the 21st century in general.

http://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/about/

yeesh

Lol

Big fan of Ben Rodgers' new podcast The Rodge Tapes. Talking with other Earwolf adjacent comedians about some obscure movies from the 80s/90s.