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Podcasts that kept going WAY past their expiration date
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There's an off putting desperation in most episodes now to strike on a funny bit.
Just a general feeling of "Is this funny? Well how about this? No? Fuck. Okay next thing".
Both the flagship McElroy podcasts feel like they're hanging on by their fingertips
Not really sure what you mean. She doesn't want to speculate?
RadioLab used to be my favorite podcast by a wide margin, but a few years ago they started doing a lot less science-y stuff and a lot more This American Life-ish human interest bullshit. I like TAL, but I didn't want more of it from RL.
Me!!! I still look forward to it every Saturday. Anthony, Arthur and Matt are awesome people (James is alright as well I guess ;) ) and I love listening to them discuss games. It's still as good as it ever was imo. They also talk a lot about obscure indie games that I would never have heard about otherwise that no other podcast ever talks about. The music special they do every year is one of my podcast highlights.
I have definitely fallen off The Comedy Button, though. Used to listen every week, now it's maybe once a month if the episode description sounds interesting enough or they have a guest on. I always check out the episodes Anthony returns for though. They never disappoint.
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I used to really like The Flop House, but eventually it just seemed like they would spend less and less time actually talking about whatever movie the episode was for. One of the last episodes I remember listening to was around two hours, and they maybe spent 30 minutes on the actual movie. The rest of it was just Elliott doing his shtick, which can be really grating if not unchecked.
Post Dan Bombcast was devesgating. I like Ben but the show needs some energy and heart to offset the grizzled gaming vets. I get that they have more industry insight than most but Idgaf about their equipment, the town they live and work on, and how e3 has changed. I need more enthusiasm about games and we've reached the point to where it's clearly just a job to them and it's very rare for their ramblings to resonate with fans.
Brad's still hot tho.
Brad's still hot tho.
I love Woolie and Pat but holy hell I cannot listen to a 3.5 hour podcast every week
Bombcast, but boy oh boy do I love the beastcast. I only listen to Bombcast when the beast crew is on it
The Besties just came back, and I am really, really enjoying it. Unfortunately, it is only on Spotify, but I just use the app on my phone to listen while driving.
Yeah, that's a big one for me. Kind of funny, because I burned out when they were playing Monster of the Week, and yet that podcast is why I started playing MOTW.
I still really like the boys and their content, just not that one anymore. MBMBAM is sort of in a rut, but I still enjoy it plenty enough to keep listening.
Elliott can be so funny but he's really ramped up on tormenting Dan. I remember a recent episode where Dan sounded so frustrated I really felt for him. If I remember right he basically just gave up on trying to get his point across because he kept getting interrupted--not the best for a podcast where we want to hear all three.
Probably the egregious example- there's a bunch of Trump impeachment podcasts that are still going, many trying to rebrand themselves as general-purpose political podcasts.
I stopped listening to MBMBaM a while ago and have been trying to catch up (I'm in the early 400s now) and every episode has ended with "okay we've recorded for exactly an hour, we can stop now" or "well, sorry this one wasn't funny, tune in next time I guess". Hearing that they're still doing this isn't exactly encouraging me to keep going.
Maybe I'm alone here but I really like where the Bombcast is at currently. Ben has really grown on me since he started and he brings some energy to the podcast.
Absolutely this. Honestly, looking back, only the first 10 or so episodes of the podcast are truly great.
Absolutely this. Honestly, looking back, only the first 10 or so episodes of the podcast are truly great.
The Crate and Crowbar suffered after it lost two of its main cast a couple of years ago, but I came back to it recently and Marsh is back on it so things are maybe looking up? But Tom Francis leaving is a big blow.
I generally am fine with leaving podcasts behind, they change, especially if they get super successful or people leave, and sometimes the changes make it feel like a different show and so I take a break or give it up for good. There are always new shows to discover.
I generally am fine with leaving podcasts behind, they change, especially if they get super successful or people leave, and sometimes the changes make it feel like a different show and so I take a break or give it up for good. There are always new shows to discover.
Haha, yeah. I usually just listen to half or less of the podcast (the actual movie discussion) and delete it after that.
Sometimes the emails can be good, but it's not why I'm coming to the podcast.
I don't mind it, I still like the movie discussions even if the ripping on Dan can get a bit much at times.
I feel like that's something a lot of comedy podcasts do: they get a shtick but then run it into the ground by dou long down in it or repeating the same joke over and over. Like treating Dan like shit on Flop House or back when I listened to Comedy Button the stuff like the racoon joke.
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The song selections aren't as varied as they were, and the punch ups are just ok now. I love Miel, but it's been weaker since his leaving.
I feel this way about that one Marc Maron and Kumail Nainjani episode. I'm okay with Maron, but I cannot stand Nainjani (who, unlike TJ Miller, seems to be a perfectly nice person, but who represents a black hole of charisma as far as I'm concerned).
i think hollywood handbook avoids this because they're are very conscious of it
i will say i dropped off of the flagrant ones because the off season episodes kinda dragged too much for me. i really wish it was seasonal but i get how it's difficult to do that while running a patreon
Yeah, he just doesn't have a good natural comedic rhythm, which is a shame because he tries to be funny A LOT. It's also weird because he has a habit of occasionally shutting down potential comedic bits that aren't to his taste. I still like him, but his attempts at humor can be rather cloying.
I remember there being quite a few tense moments with Darren and Shawn, it often seemed like they weren't big fans of each other. I always wondered what the deal was there.
Personally I felt like they found their footing after Darren left, the stretch after Anthony and Bobito became regulars was the best part of the show's run. I'm not sure what you mean by "pure griefing," it's been years since I've listened to the show but Shawn definitely used to tell stories about him and Rory trolling people while Darren was around, and I remember much more time being devoting to Anthony's dating life, Robert's traveling stories, Shawn's childhood, and other stuff like that than griefing.
While I think the podcast still has tons of steam left in it as a regular listener to Not Another D&D Podcast the bonus campaign they do monthly feels like it should have wrapped up and become a new things after awhile. It's not because Caldwell is a bad DM or anything. Far from it he's really good at it. It's just the story of the campaign wasn't so hot once it went from fun monthly adventures to somewhat more serious story of a man trying to kill gods every month. Granted maybe it's picked up again haven't listened to the last 4 episodes so maybe they turned it around. Also this could very well just be me missing the highs of some of the earlier episodes haha. The early parts of the bonus campaign were top tier comedy D&D for awhile.
Swindled is another podcast that I think is running out of steam recently. But I think that's cause the person doing the podcast is stretching themselves thin. heck I'm pretty sure they have a patreon version of the podcast that they are doing as well and the show got dropped for a while so that the creator could focus on that.
Swindled is another podcast that I think is running out of steam recently. But I think that's cause the person doing the podcast is stretching themselves thin. heck I'm pretty sure they have a patreon version of the podcast that they are doing as well and the show got dropped for a while so that the creator could focus on that.
HDTGM seems like it's best days are behind it. I think Paul, Jason and June are sick of it as well.
I recently went to a live Doughboys show and it's amazing to see so many enthusiastic fans for a self-described "bad podcast". Five forks!
Action Boyz has been great since day one and is easily my favorite. Cant wait to hear them cover Rumble in the Bronx on Monday.
I recently went to a live Doughboys show and it's amazing to see so many enthusiastic fans for a self-described "bad podcast". Five forks!
Action Boyz has been great since day one and is easily my favorite. Cant wait to hear them cover Rumble in the Bronx on Monday.
The Flint Water Crisis episode was amazing, and that was the season finale
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Thank you for going out of your way to find that for me. That is interesting
I've never understood this criticism. It's not like Dave just dry reads scripts.
Flint was great but I think it was one of 3 stand out episodes in a season of pretty meh episodes for me. Granted could also be that I wasn't a fan of the scam artists he choose to cover this season. there material was good but the people stories either fell flat for me or I found myself thinking that the episode was not appropriate for the scale of the topic they choose to cover (Specifically it was The Survivor episode that made me feel like it should have been left on the draft table.).
If nothing else, I take comfort in knowing that I am a greater negative than Greg is a positive.
It's weird, because I've been enjoying both MBMBAM and TAZ just fine lately, but a lot of people are complaining. I'm grabbing tickets to see them do MBMBAM in a month or two and I'm excited for that.
Lore.
I think they're tapped on stories to tell that are interesting. I used to love it, but the stories have gotten progressively more boring or are too complex to condense into a 30 minute podcast. Unobscured was born out of this, though, and that's really pretty awesome.
Also Phil from P1P is a treasure.
I think they're tapped on stories to tell that are interesting. I used to love it, but the stories have gotten progressively more boring or are too complex to condense into a 30 minute podcast. Unobscured was born out of this, though, and that's really pretty awesome.
Also Phil from P1P is a treasure.
When Anthony left I stopped listening and even then I found myself playing catchup most of the time because I couldn't be fucked to listen weekly.
I had been a long time listener -- I had followed the GFW Live and 1up Yours/FM crew for years but... I don't know. Right around 2016 I felt it was time to stop. I haven't listened to any of those guys in years even though I loved their work for so long. Rebel FM, The Comedy Button, The Geekbox, Good Job Brain! I just sort of stopped cold turkey.
Night Vale I don't think needs to stop or anything, I just wish it was as good as it used to be. Thankfully the latest season of The Adventure Zone is a return to form after Amnesty, so at least there is that. I don't think any of the McElroy shows are really showing their age. They are easily my favorite casts and I still listen weekly. I think I've listened to every single MBmBaM at this point and am not tiring of it in the slightest.
I stopped listening to it at episode 50, can't even believe it's still going as it didn't seem the kind of podcast that was meant to last.
Oh god, YES. I loved the early episodes and remember crying from laughter at the Flower introduction. But those real life references became too much too quickly.
I feel like this show would gain sooo much more energy is they just were honest with themselves and went to once a month they put out an episode.
I get that it cuts the revenue stream of having a bunch of content for the likes of patrion, but the podcast itself would have sooo much more content and energy if they waited for their once a month meetup.
Lovely to see another WHM fan. :D
I'll have to check out the other two you mentioned based on your WHM love and my horror love. :p
It was like once it became popular they gave up on the premise of the podcast.
I have the same thing with Carlin on some of the tangents he goes on. I remember one with the Persian series where he was on a tangent for like two hours and I was just mentally screaming "get on with it already!" The last Supernova episode seemed off to me as he kind of switched from telling the Japanese story to one more about the Western players. I still enjoy the overall content greatly but he does has his moments where I don't want to listen any more
More than anything though I just wish he put out his episodes quicker. I know he's busy with lots of things but he's only doing two episodes a year now. Right now I'm guessing Supernova goes for 5 episodes and 21-22 hours total, I would much rather have 7 episodes at 3 hours each just to keep the story moving better.
There's definitely felt like a "new class" vibe with Scott bringing in new voices the last couple years. I love it, a lot of recent regulars are consistently my favourite appearances.
Lore stopped being about folklore years ago and transitioned into Victorian era ghost stories. I tapped out then.
Him and Dan have the best rapport since Ryan passed. Loved their DBZ podcast.
There are two that come to mind for me, Last Podcast on the Left and Uhh Yeah Dude.
Last Podcast has some pretty good episodes but it's not often, that might just be my taste though. I'm really happy that they are able to live off the podcast and have a really successful Patreon so they can focus on the podcast more but I feel like it's hindered it too. They are producing more and more episodes to fulfill the Patreon rewards and it's a bit too much. They're gonna have to dig really deep into some history books because I don't know how much more serial killers, witches and occult stuff they can find to cover without re-covering past episodes.
Uhh Yeah Dude is probably my favorite podcast. I haven't listened to it in years. I don't think it's a podcast a lot of people know about but it's the prototypical "current news with a funny spin" type of podcast but the hosts (Jonathan Larroquette and Seth Romatelli) are such good friends and open about their personal lives. Talking about their own mental issues and past addictions in such a funny and charming way, but after so long it becomes routine. Kind of like the McElroy podcast issues people have stated earlier. Maybe I should go back and see what they've been up to, it's definitely been long enough.
Last Podcast has some pretty good episodes but it's not often, that might just be my taste though. I'm really happy that they are able to live off the podcast and have a really successful Patreon so they can focus on the podcast more but I feel like it's hindered it too. They are producing more and more episodes to fulfill the Patreon rewards and it's a bit too much. They're gonna have to dig really deep into some history books because I don't know how much more serial killers, witches and occult stuff they can find to cover without re-covering past episodes.
Uhh Yeah Dude is probably my favorite podcast. I haven't listened to it in years. I don't think it's a podcast a lot of people know about but it's the prototypical "current news with a funny spin" type of podcast but the hosts (Jonathan Larroquette and Seth Romatelli) are such good friends and open about their personal lives. Talking about their own mental issues and past addictions in such a funny and charming way, but after so long it becomes routine. Kind of like the McElroy podcast issues people have stated earlier. Maybe I should go back and see what they've been up to, it's definitely been long enough.
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Same. I used to really enjoy Podquisition, but now it feels like such a chore to listen to. I don't really like Conrad at all - I find him too cynical and snarky. I only listened to a handful of episodes after he came on board and then I gave up.
I like a healthy dose of cynicism in my gaming stuff - but between the three of them together, it just feels like too much sometimes.
Oh I strongly disagree, the last year has been really good IMO, especially since June is on more regularly than she has been in recent years past.