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Franchescanado posted:What's the deal with Nerd Poker's downloads? I listened to the first few episodes, but now it's down everywhere. Adventure Zone and Glass Cannon are both good. Drunks and Dragons is good until 100ish drop it afterward.
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Franchescanado posted:Are there any other good D&D podcasts? I'd prefer a group that's funny. I like Harmontown, and I like Nerd Poker. I've tried Critical Hit, but get bored by the rulebook chats and they're slow to start adventures. I only play 5e, and I know enough about 4e, but I'm honestly down for any other editions, or even roleplaying games outside D&D. I really enjoy Role Playing Public Radio's set up. They play a huge assortment of games. One Shot is also good, their episode 92. Legend of Five Rings was one of the best storytelling podcasts I've ever heard. And I went in knowing nothing about Five Rings.
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I just wanted to pimp out The Hilarious World of Depression: https://www.apmpodcasts.org/thwod/ I'm not sure refreshing or comforting are quite the right word to use, but it's almost therapeutic to hear how other people go through a condition that is very often crippling. I hope it does something to destigmatize depression and other mental health issues because goddamn, do they suck.
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Mr Hootington posted:Adventure Zone and Glass Cannon are both good. Drunks and Dragons is good until 100ish drop it afterward. what happened after 100? I listened for a while but fell behind ages ago and just never bothered.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:what happened after 100? I listened for a while but fell behind ages ago and just never bothered. it is specifically episode 81 when they introduce the new party member and things start to get weird and disjointed plus the guy who plays Thom does not want to play Thom for the next 30ish episode.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I really enjoy Role Playing Public Radio's set up. They play a huge assortment of games. has RPPR gotten better mics/audio quality yet? the levels are always extremely hosed up among other things. its often very hard to hear people talk unless the volume is high, and then every time they laugh or start screaming it blows out the speakers.
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The latest The Truth (Dark End of the Mall) is pretty good.
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I'm working my way through this thread (Waaaay late to the whole podcast thing) but I have a few favorites that others might get a kick out of The Greatest Generation "A Star Trek podcast from two guys who are a little embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast." Twice a week the two hosts Adam and Ben (who work in some capacity in the film/tv industry) discuss an episode of ST:TNG, in order. They recently hit both the halfway point in the series and 100 episodes of the show. They tend to point out things like how Worf seems to have an issue opening doors, Data appears to be suicidal, and Geordi is the worst kind of PUA. If you like TNG you're probably in for a treat. If you don't, they don't take it very seriously. I would recommend starting from the beginning, as the in-jokes of Kevin Uxbridge's Real Doll Emporium, "Drunk Shimoda" and Picosby might need a little background. My Dad Wrote a Porno A trio of British friends read and review one of the least erotic pieces of published literature ever. Oh and it was written by one of the three's retirement aged father, for extra awkwardness. I can't imagine there's anyone here who hasn't heard of this yet. And the title is really very accurate. He didn't write "erotica". No, it's like he literally wrote a porno level quality story, complete with nonsensical logic as to why these people are always having the most banal, poorly written sex. Also, despite the fact the the author has fathered a child, he seems to have a very poor understanding of how sex and the human body actually works, specifically all the lady parts. IIRC, season 3 should be starting up very shortly. TV Crimes: A work of podcast justice Wil Wheaton and Mikey Neuman find very specific, terrible, episodes of "classic" TV shows and specials and take them to task for their lack of common sense, continuity, or for thinking that computers are magic, as well as other, more terrible logical leaps. From a Beverly Hills 90210 "Drugs are Bad" special, to a Virtual Reality episode of Murder She Wrote, to the entire concepts of Thunder in Paradise and Baywatch Nights. After going through each episode both hosts will make a courtroom style argument for why the people behind these shows should be punished in a court of law. If you don't like Wil Wheaton, you probably will not like this podcast. If that doesn't bother you, the fact that there are only 10 episodes and it updates very infrequently might also turn you away. OTOH, if you like hearing about old(er) TV shows and how weird and out of touch they were, it is a fun listen. D&D Is For Nerds Three friends and their long suffering DM play through several different campaigns of D&D. If you like hearing grown adults rolling dice to see how many times they get laid on a sea voyage, you'll probably get a kick out of this. They are on the third or fourth such campaign now. They tend to not take the game very seriously, which can either be good or bad depending on how you like your games to go. Dinosaur Park A spin-off of sorts from D&D above, a series of three self contained stories (two behind a paywall IIRC) where two heroes are put through the wringer at an alternate reality Jurassic Park. Join the adventure as Joel and Other Joel are given a grand tour of the park before it opens, have their daughter kidnapped, and need to mount a rescue mission with Vince Vaugn and Guy Who Looks Like George Costanza, But Isn't George Costanza. I've only gotten through the third in the series, as I think the first two are behind the paywall, but I will consider buying them to get the whole set. Plumbing the Death Star And from the same people as the last two on this list, a podcast where they ask the questions that don't really get answered in pop culture. Like "Is Batman a failure?" "Is Jonathan Kent from Man of Steel a bad father?" "Does John Hammond even understand what a theme park is supposed to be?" I'll be honest, I really wanted to like this podcast, but the hosts all tended to be a little shouty for my liking. You can't really argue with the width and breadth of the topics they cover, so if you find a topic you like, you'll probably enjoy at least that episode.
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Was wondering about podcasts and had a question: What attracts you to celebrities that create their own podcasts? Wouldn't whatever attracted you in the first place get old after while?
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Mr Hootington posted:Adventure Zone and Glass Cannon are both good. Drunks and Dragons is good until 100ish drop it afterward. Thanks. Adventure Zone is perfect, and Drunks and Dragons is pretty good.
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Another request for history podcasts! Iiked the idea behind Hardcore History, but Carlin's intense voice and dramatic music is too over the top for me. Is there something of a middle ground between that and History of Rome? (which is downright soporific). Also, I too gave Sword and Scale a listen after a recommendation early in the thread, and gee, I sure regret not reading further! The dude interviewed a veteran 9/11 operator, which was genuinely interesting, except most of the episode was just playing hosed up call recordings and then asking the poor operator what he thought. 10 straight minutes of a lady breaking down after discovering her dead grandchildren  Listen to Criminal podcast folks. It's good and not audio gore-porn.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Another request for history podcasts! Iiked the idea behind Hardcore History, but Carlin's intense voice and dramatic music is too over the top for me. Is there something of a middle ground between that and History of Rome? (which is downright soporific). History of Rome dude can be a bit dull but I've really enjoyed his Revolutions series, it's almost peppy.
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I've really gotten into one recently called Our Fake History, pretty interesting and relatively short but not to short (30-50 minutes)
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Wake_N_Bake posted:The latest The Truth (Dark End of the Mall) is pretty good. Thanks, that was good. Very "twilight zone".
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100YrsofAttitude posted:History of Rome dude can be a bit dull but I've really enjoyed his Revolutions series, it's almost peppy.
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Are there any good podcasts about drugs and doing drugs?
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Business posted:Are there any good podcasts about drugs and doing drugs? Improv4Humans has a few awesome 420 episodes where the guests get BLAAAAZED and then do sketches. It's very funny. There's Getting Doug with High, but "Good" is up for debate. There are some really great episodes, but it has been almost unwatchable/unlistenable for a little over a year now (unless you like Doug Benson getting a creepy with female porn stars). The group live shows are pretty great. They're all on YouTube, but you can download audio versions only for free as well. There's Joe Rogan's show, but I don't advocate DMT use, or his comedy, so...
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Business posted:Are there any good podcasts about drugs and doing drugs? Say why to drugs. quote:The internet is full of misinformation about recreational drugs - both legal and illegal. Dr Suzi Gage, a psychologist interested in understanding associations between substance use and mental health, tackles one substance per episode - providing information about what we know - the harms, but also potential benefits of these substances. There's no hype, no spin and no judgement, just information.
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Starting a new job where I can listen to whatever, but I can't stream it, so I've gotta load up my phone with some podcasts. I like listening to NPR while I'm driving, enjoyed season 1 of Serial (haven't listened to season 2) and enjoy all major US sports so people talking about sports is cool too. I love comedy podcasts but mostly have stuck to earwolf stuff. I've downloaded Slate's Working and Criminal and enjoyed the first episodes of each. What else should I look into?
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You need a science or history podcast.
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Franchescanado posted:You need a science or history podcast. Yeah this is a good direction to go. Anything US History or WW2 would be a good start for me, I had garbage history teachers in high school. Re: science, I'm very much a general 'oh that is cool and interesting' kinda guy so if it's engaging, regardless of the subject, I'll probably like it. Any tech podcast recommendations would also be cool, I'm currently learning javascript and am playing around with iot devices, so tutorial podcasts or podcasts about advances in tech would also be great recommendations.
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Doesn't look like there's a thread for Limetown. Which is understandable, seeing as there's only 6 real episodes. But it's pretty amazing. You can get through the whole thing in a day or two, and it's really really good theater of the mind type stuff. Anyone else listened?
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UWBW posted:Doesn't look like there's a thread for Limetown. Which is understandable, seeing as there's only 6 real episodes. But it's pretty amazing. You can get through the whole thing in a day or two, and it's really really good theater of the mind type stuff. Anyone else listened? I enjoyed it. Wish they would carry on. If you liked that, you should probably like The Message
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CzarChasm posted:TV Crimes: A work of podcast justice I enjoy everything about this podcast except for the fact that roughly 50% of any given episode is run through a chipmunk voice filter for no reason. It's like they're afraid listeners are too ADHD to just listen to two guys make jokes about bad TV without overediting everything.
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Old Canadian radio comedy as a podcast: the Frantics! Sort of the proto Kids in the Hall.
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SilentChaz posted:Retronauts is still going. So I figured out what happened here, I had a feed that itunes says was still good but wasn't ever adding any new episodes. Which sucks, but, I finally fixed it and hey I have roughly 3 years worth of good retro video game podcasts to listen to now. CzarChasm posted:Plumbing the Death Star And from the same people as the last two on this list, a podcast where they ask the questions that don't really get answered in pop culture. Like "Is Batman a failure?" "Is Jonathan Kent from Man of Steel a bad father?" "Does John Hammond even understand what a theme park is supposed to be?" I'll be honest, I really wanted to like this podcast, but the hosts all tended to be a little shouty for my liking. You can't really argue with the width and breadth of the topics they cover, so if you find a topic you like, you'll probably enjoy at least that episode. I don't listen to every episode they make just due to already having a library of podcasts that I'll never get through, but, when there's a major "nerd" movie out, these guys always come straight from the midnight release and then talk about the movie in a generally funny way. And since they're usually the first to market because they're from New Zealand or some poo poo, which means I can listen to the podcast on my way home from whatever movie I just saw, which is especially nice when I make the 40 minute drive to the IMAX. Rick fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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I'm liking some of the 'reply all' episodes. Like 'boy in photo', which is basically internet wannabe detectives poo poo driven to new heights. The 3parter about a convicted murderer who has his own blog that is handwritten and then typed out by his mom gets really intense.
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Reply All is pretty good, especially in its production values, but some of the episodes seem to be "generic NPR sob story" and not "a show about the internet".
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I really like Reply All. One guy's staccato laugh kind of makes my neck hairs stand up but it's not a big deal.
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The ones where they introduce their largely oblivious boss to the craziest deep dives of internet culture like loss.jpeg or half a-press memes are so great.
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GobiasIndustries posted:Starting a new job where I can listen to whatever, but I can't stream it, so I've gotta load up my phone with some podcasts. I like listening to NPR while I'm driving, enjoyed season 1 of Serial (haven't listened to season 2) and enjoy all major US sports so people talking about sports is cool too. I love comedy podcasts but mostly have stuck to earwolf stuff. I've downloaded Slate's Working and Criminal and enjoyed the first episodes of each. What else should I look into? Do you like weird stuff? Try Blurry Photos.
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I downloaded an episode of Blurry Photos. It started off with this weird terrible attempt at a comedic radio play, or something. After like five minutes of that I just deleted the episode.
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Somebody recommend me a daily(ish) podcast that's at least an hour long. I used to listen to Adam Carolla and KATG every day but both of those lost their appeal years ago and I kinda miss having daily consistent content.
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Kaptain K posted:Somebody recommend me a daily(ish) podcast that's at least an hour long. I used to listen to Adam Carolla and KATG every day but both of those lost their appeal years ago and I kinda miss having daily consistent content. Alex Jones has a 4 hour show that might be right in your wheelhouse.
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Mr Hootington posted:Alex Jones has a 4 hour show that might be right in your wheelhouse. Why would you ever suggest that to anybody?
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Franchescanado posted:Why would you ever suggest that to anybody? VVV edit yeah I agree, just didn't know if you got it or not (and I have listened to a ton of Carolla over the years, so I'm not above this or anything) pangstrom fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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pangstrom posted:I think it's a way of saying "well if you liked that garbage maybe you'll like this garbage" Yeah, but that's just mean. No one should have to listen to Alex Jones, he doesn't even listen to himself.
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pangstrom posted:I think it's a way of saying "well if you liked that garbage maybe you'll like this garbage" I used to like garbage and then I stopped liking it so I'm seeking some non-garbage sorry if that wasn't clear 
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I've been working my way through Thirty Twenty Ten, as far as fluffy pop culture comfort food goes there are definitely worse ways to kill 90+ minutes each week. The gimmick is that each episode explores that week in pop culture exactly 30/20/10 years ago, it's not only a fun nostalgia trip and modestly educational but it's also a great conversation starter to be able to go "Hey, King of the Hill just turned 20!" when you're out with friends or whatever.
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Guy Mann posted:I've been working my way through Thirty Twenty Ten, as far as fluffy pop culture comfort food goes there are definitely worse ways to kill 90+ minutes each week. The gimmick is that each episode explores that week in pop culture exactly 30/20/10 years ago, it's not only a fun nostalgia trip and modestly educational but it's also a great conversation starter to be able to go "Hey, King of the Hill just turned 20!" when you're out with friends or whatever. I'd like to hugely co-recommend this podcast and every other podcast made by this network, they're all my favorite but Thirty Twenty Ten is the best of them and honestly one of the best podcasts out there because it can appeal to almost anyone.
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