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The average podcast in the top 10 is more than seven years old.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-01-09/podcasting-hasn-t-produced-a-new-hit-in-years
I tend to listen to silly/easy going podcasts like MBMBAM and Hello from the Magic Tavern but have recently started listening to the back catalogue of 99% invisible with Roman Mars. Last night I was listening to episode 225- Photo Credit, when I got a very pleasant and funny surprise at the 15ish minute mark. Roman had lifted a soundbite from an ep of MBMBAM where Justin jokes that he and Roman could do an intellectual podcast together. Justin roleplays only his side of the conversation, then Griffin jokes that it would be great if Roman filled in the blanks. Well Roman did, he lifted the soundbite and filled in the blanks and it brought me so much joy. This is old news in the podcast world, but I’m late to the party and just wanted to geek out over it.
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I love true crime, however, can’t stand how the host/writers feels the need to dumb down things for listeners. Like, we need all this exposition to explain very basic things. I just listened to an episode of Crime Show and the host made it clear that LOL meant laughter and that coordinates meant a GPS location. C’mon.
Any recommendations where the writers treat listeners as intelligent - basically where they tell us the story using facts and not a lot of exposition?
Thank you!
I’m a sucker for useless knowledge, especially if it’s weird and wonderful. It’s how I maintain a sense of wonder as an adult. Anyone know of any podcasts out there that fit this bill?
Edit: thank you all so much for the recommendations!!! I can’t wait to start checking these out, the little kid in me is doing the happy dance :D
I’m going through a break up where I have been depressed for too long and I need to do something. I know I have to work on myself and I want to be happy. I’m looking for some podcasts that talk about self love, motivation and just any that will help going through a break up and bettering myself.
Edit: THANK YOU everyone commenting their suggestions!! I appreciate it and will check out all of them ! (:
Just finished this super bingeable podcast on Wondery so of course I hopped over to Reddit to see what other people thought. Anyone else listened to it?
It’s about Miriam Rivera, who was on a UK reality show in 2003 called There’s Something About Miriam. Six guys are competing for Miriam to pick them as her beau while in the tropical setting of Ibiza. Oh, and the winner also gets 10,000 pounds. Oh, and Miriam still has a dick because she was actually born a man but the guys won’t find that out until one of them wins.
Yeah, so what a complete shit show. The producers of the show claim it was all about being progressive and challenging peoples’ ideas of gender and sexuality at the time. Uh huh. So it wasn’t based on deception and exploitation?
Anyway, the Harsh Reality podcast has a great storytelling style and interviews with multiple people from the Something About Miriam tv show and from Miriam’s life yet…they seem to want to paint …
the title is pretty self explanatory. i’m NOT necessarily looking for extremely quick or short reads (though that works too!), but rather books that are so good it’s impossible to put them down.
i’ve been in a reading rut and i’m trying to get out while i still can! hoping some really fantastic reads do the trick.
thanks!
Edit @ 9:00 pm EST: the amount of traffic this post has gotten has been SO HELPFUL. my reading list had just grown by about 500 books (so many excellent repeats and consecutive authors). and holy hell, i’m excited to read.
currently: a stranger in the house by shari lapena
Edit: Thanks for so many responses! I gotta lot to read lol
Any book that satisfies the following conditions:
- a seriously why has nobody even heard of this kind of book
- you’d die before you finished raving about how mind-blowing the book is
Bonus points for POC authors, translated works, LGBTQIA+, etc.
Are there any books in which someone chooses adventure over stability? I’ve always had a very adventurous life and now I’m tied down at my job as a web developer and I’m afraid to change things, afraid to, like in the old days drop everything and go on a hunch, so I could use some motivation in the form of a good story (fiction/non-fiction)
I like Dragon Age: Origins because of it’s very simple “Go get allies/get stronger to defeat the big bad” and how it’s somewhat linear but with alot of content nicely implemented in each segment of the game (Some more nicely than others ofcourse) and how the main character doesnt have a voice so that you can imagine their voice on your own (Except for in the combat but that’s not a problem as I almost never paid it any mind) and how they do the cinematic scenes and how your companions have their own opinions and reactions to your actions (Arguebly one of DA:O’s strongest points imo) and how many options you have for the character creation. The combat in DA:O isnt all that special in my opinion but I really like how simplistic it is most of the time and I really like the tactics system so that you can combine micro managing and having your companions actions be automatic depending on the situation. One of the things I like the most about DA:O is the …
I want a shooter game that isn’t the kind of game where you log on, join a match, and play for 10 - 20 minutes until it ends.
I’m looking for a shooter game, preferably first person, that has an active front that constantly changes based on how players play, and doesn’t end, even when you log off or quit the game.
I’ve recently tried Vampyr on the Switch and I really liked the fact that violence in that game is optional. But it’s not just optional, it’s actually woven into the game mechanics pretty well: choosing not to kill people has detrimental effects on your experience which gives the player an incentive to be violent and you can choose to resist it.
I generally dislike pointless killing in games, especially if the game doesn’t punish you for playing that way (e.g. GTA). I’m looking for games where violence is optional and choosing to be violent has consequences in the game world. Mind you, I don’t consider mindless police chases to be ‘consequences’. What I’m talking about is an actual effect on the story and the characters around you, changing the way they feel about you, etc.
Edit: thank you for your suggestions!