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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I can't imagine any podcast entirely based around that theme would have any ability to avoid just becoming that after like five shows

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Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Yeah, if you're gonna do a debate podcast between a christian and an atheist, you may as well start with theodicy and free will, then probably the creation of the universe, because that's pretty much what most of the other questions will circle back to eventually.

That said, if the christian podcaster doesn't hew to a particular solution to the problem of evil and also have a corresponding theological position on free will/predestination, it's kinda hard to see how anything interesting is going to come of the debate since those are the building blocks of Christian apologetics and if they can't at least advance a coherent position, they're really not in a place where they're going to be able to debate in any kind of a meaningful way. Not saying that a discussion between a christian and an atheist couldn't be the basis for an interesting podcast, just that it isn't going to be a debate unless both sides are at least reasonably equipped to actually debate.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
I'd love to see one of those youtube atheist types try to debate a Thomasian scholar and just get destroyed

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
A tangled skein of bad opinions, the hottest takes, and the the world's most misinformed nonsense. Do not engage with me, it's useless, and better yet, put me on ignore.
Yeah, I guess I am more specifically looking for something that doesn't have like, a religious agenda per se, but still provides a really compelling argument for it. I know that's oddly specific, but

edit the next day because I want to bitch about something but I don't want to make a new post: Jesus loving Christ, I somehow deleted five seconds from every single narrator track in Auxacity for the next episode of a podcast. It renders the entire thing unusable. How the gently caress did I do this?

credburn fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Sep 13, 2017

HanzoSchmanzo
Apr 11, 2011

Any recommendations for good actual play podcasts?

Looking for something well produced and horror themed, but which can still be funny sometimes.
I guess call of cthulhu stuff?

Will also entertain any interesting fantasy/dnd stuff.

In the interest of equivalent exchange, I will offer up Pretend Wizards, Tabletop Escapades, and Six Feats Under.

theironjef
Aug 11, 2009

The archmage of unexpected stinks.

You are looking for Campaign, One Shot, maybe Neo Scum.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

HanzoSchmanzo posted:

Any recommendations for good actual play podcasts?

Looking for something well produced and horror themed, but which can still be funny sometimes.
I guess call of cthulhu stuff?

Will also entertain any interesting fantasy/dnd stuff.

In the interest of equivalent exchange, I will offer up Pretend Wizards, Tabletop Escapades, and Six Feats Under.

Chapo did a few episodes that were good. Not a lot out there for call of cthulhu. Glass Cannon is a pretty good actual play Pathfinder podcast.

totally losing my mime
Aug 3, 2012

The quiet can scrape
All the calm from your bones.
But maybe it should.
Maybe we need to be hollowed
To get up and grow,
And stop fucking around,
To kick off our braces and start straightening out
Fun Shoe

HanzoSchmanzo posted:

Any recommendations for good actual play podcasts?

Looking for something well produced and horror themed, but which can still be funny sometimes.
I guess call of cthulhu stuff?

Will also entertain any interesting fantasy/dnd stuff.

In the interest of equivalent exchange, I will offer up Pretend Wizards, Tabletop Escapades, and Six Feats Under.

RPPR Actual Play might be close to what you're looking for. I'll admit that I haven't listened it in awhile so I can't vouch for quality but it looks like they're pretty diverse in their systems and do some Cthulhu/Delta Green sessions from time to time

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Mr Hootington posted:

Chapo did a few episodes that were good. Not a lot out there for call of cthulhu. Glass Cannon is a pretty good actual play Pathfinder podcast.

If you've always thought that modern Cthulhu stuff doesn't get deep enough into Lovecrafts' themes of racism and fear of race-mixing, the Chapo Cthulhu episodes are for you.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
also spoken word jazz, you gotta be a fan of some spoken word jazz

Rick
Feb 23, 2004
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
There is an actual play podcast thread in Trad Games: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3743698&perpage=40&pagenumber=10#pti21

Lampsacus
Oct 21, 2008

credburn posted:

Is there a good atheist/theist debate podcasts? I'm listening to "A Christian and an Atheist" which is pleasant, but I've listened to eight episodes and so far it's pretty much the atheist guy asking why God is so mean and the Christian guy saying well, that's a good question!
The best is Atheist Experience which is where christians call up saying god is real because their life changed and then the hosts explaining that doesn't count as evidence and then they all roll down the street until they hit a concrete wall where they lie until they die of thirst because its just as productive as the show.

Kazak_Hstan
Apr 28, 2014

Grimey Drawer
I loved the old Stuff Mom Never Told You podcast but I don't like the new hosts. One of their voices is just grating to me, and it seems like it's half kvetching now when it used to be mostly analytical. Cristen and Caroline were just very good podcast hosts and it is too bad HowStuffWorks got rid of them.

Any recommendations to fill that hole?

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer
I've been binging Lore. It's really good IMO.

This is a general thought, not a response to the above post. Sorry!

mrfart
May 26, 2004

Dear diary, today I
became a captain.
frankie boyle released his own 'podcast', the promethiad.
However, the first episode is his latest stand-up routine,
the second episode seems to be him reading every column he wrote for the guardian since 2015, but uncensored.
It's fascinating but I havn't been able to get through that second one and I think it would have been better cut up into smaller episodes.

Don't know if he's planning to do a lot and/or regular updates.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
Casper mattresses is in some poo poo and is suing bloggers for giving their mattresses bad reviews online, continuing the theme of podcast sponsors being dogshit companies.

Kazak_Hstan
Apr 28, 2014

Grimey Drawer
I bet Harry's razors are just fuckin razors and not special at ALL

life is a joke
Mar 7, 2016
Not going to the post office
Beds that get delivered to my home
Boxes of food that I assemble with my family
Ziprecruiter (which I do use seeking jobs but all podcasts advertising the perks for job posters)
Sonos speakers


These are the things I want to hear about every day for years.

Kazak_Hstan
Apr 28, 2014

Grimey Drawer
It's sort of weird how small the pool of podcast advertisers are, and how heavily concentrated in newer tech / web companies they seem to be. It stands to reason the population of podcast listeners consumptions patterns aren't that niche and weird.

DivineCoffeeBinge
Mar 3, 2011

Spider-Man's Amazing Construction Company

Kazak_Hstan posted:

I bet Harry's razors are just fuckin razors and not special at ALL

Harry's razors are actually really good hth

life is a joke
Mar 7, 2016

Kazak_Hstan posted:

It's sort of weird how small the pool of podcast advertisers are, and how heavily concentrated in newer tech / web companies they seem to be. It stands to reason the population of podcast listeners consumptions patterns aren't that niche and weird.

That reminds me, squarespace - build it beautiful

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

Harry's razors are actually really good hth

Ya especially at 10 bucks a pop, handle and razor at target. That's like 4 dollars more than a plastic bag full of disposables for a big time increase in quality

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


life is a joke posted:

Not going to the post office
I wonder every time I hear that ad, do Americans mail a lot of stuff or is that a weirdly niche thing to advertise to the general public?

Song For The Deaf
Aug 10, 2006

I HAVE TO USE MY SOUND SWORD NOW.
They’re talking to small businesses.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
I'm glad that whatever loophole made Draft Kings legal got closed because having people shill for what was effectively unregulated online gambling was incredibly skeezy. I think the worst though was this one company that was pushing "crowdsourced microloans" that if you looked at the fine print was basically just you putting up the collateral for someone else's high risk payday loan.

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer

That's why I sleep on a Lisa mattress, who sponsored this tour.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Kazak_Hstan posted:

It's sort of weird how small the pool of podcast advertisers are, and how heavily concentrated in newer tech / web companies they seem to be. It stands to reason the population of podcast listeners consumptions patterns aren't that niche and weird.

It's all done by through one company that sets up the advertising deals

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Song For The Deaf posted:

They’re talking to small businesses.

There must be some data out there that people who listen to podcasts disproportionately either run a small business or have a side hustle that they hope to turn into a small business because it seems like half the ads I hear on podcasts, regardless of genre, target that particular demographic.

Harminoff
Oct 24, 2005

👽
Owning a small business probably gives someone the flexibility of listening while working while most 9-5 jobs don't.

Mattress talk a got a tuft and needle which I don't think I've heard an add for. Now I just need to justify spending $100 on their pillow.

Kazak_Hstan
Apr 28, 2014

Grimey Drawer

Guy Goodbody posted:

It's all done by through one company that sets up the advertising deals

I would listen to a podcast about how this world works.

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
I got a Tempurpedic mattress 10 years ago for like $2500, which was half price, because my aunt has worked for the local furniture company all her adult life. That's my mattress story. It's not that much better than a spring mattress.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
The Headgum network retroactively adds ads to old episodes of podcasts that join them and having an algorithm insert a full ad mid-sentence is so bafflingly wrongheaded.

Rapid 99
Jan 30, 2015

Hero will never give up,
never hide,
never be defeated,
never accept evil.

Kazak_Hstan posted:

I would listen to a podcast about how this world works.

I have gone through about 80 episodes of Reply All in less than a week (driving cross country) and this is the sort of thing they cover all the time, though I don't think they've done podcast ads specifically. One or two episodes in particular did a deep dive into the world of Google AdWords.

Given that Reply All also has Squarespace ads, I wonder if they have to back off that specific subject.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

smidgeonnn posted:

I have gone through about 80 episodes of Reply All in less than a week (driving cross country) and this is the sort of thing they cover all the time, though I don't think they've done podcast ads specifically. One or two episodes in particular did a deep dive into the world of Google AdWords.

Given that Reply All also has Squarespace ads, I wonder if they have to back off that specific subject.

Reply All is fantastic and the recent two parter was one of the most infuriating things I've listened to in recent memory, the hammer drop at the end of part 1 where you find out the entire thing is being organized by Trump people to try and raise anti-immigrant sentiment was bad enough but the end of part 2 when the skip tracer has a huge crisis of faith about effectively sending the man to his death and then you find out that he wasn't even an undocumented immigrant in the first place is just...ugh. I never thought I'd be rooting for a drunk driver who committed vehicular manslaughter but there you are.

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



The Reply All two parter where they track down would be tech support scammers to a call center in India is amazing.

especially when they then go to India to stalk/meet them

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
Reply All is seriously so good, for every piece of hard-hitting investigative journalism you get something fun and silly like the origin of those crazy CGI animated GIFs that dominated web 1.0 or explaining loss.jpeg to their boss. The hosts can be kind of goobers at times but it's still a great show.

Harminoff
Oct 24, 2005

👽

Snowy posted:

The Reply All two parter where they track down would be tech support scammers to a call center in India is amazing.

especially when they then go to India to stalk/meet them

If you are interested in this type of thing there are a few people on twitch/YouTube that set up vm's and call these people to waste their time. Pretty interesting.

Kazak_Hstan
Apr 28, 2014

Grimey Drawer
#2 the secret gruesome internet for doctors is pretty good

I'll have to give this podcast a try

Rapid 99
Jan 30, 2015

Hero will never give up,
never hide,
never be defeated,
never accept evil.
I'm all caught up now and I'm sad.

Guy Mann posted:

Reply All is fantastic and the recent two parter was one of the most infuriating things I've listened to in recent memory[/spoiler]

The Espinosa interview was annoying, but nothing will top that interview with a smug as gently caress politician in the episode about ISPs collecting and selling user information, wherein the only argument he posed was "if it bothers you so much then just stop using the internet."

mrfart
May 26, 2004

Dear diary, today I
became a captain.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/oct/29/best-podcasts-of-2017-part-1-from-the-buzziest-to-politics-and-brain-food

Guardian article about the best podcasts of 2017.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
what kinda good medical podcasts are there? I already have Sawbones and We're No Doctors.

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