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I'm half-joking, but I could use a "not just two guys joking around" tag. There's so many podcasts out there where I check them out because the topic sounds int
by personlurking 11y ago
I'm half-joking, but I could use a "not just two guys joking around" tag. There's so many podcasts out there where I check them out because the topic sounds interesting but most of the episode time is given to 'two guys joking around'.
- noahtkoch 11y ago100% agree. And not just "the two guys joking around tag" but the "we recorded this in one take and then published straight from garage band." That would be a significant improvement over the podcasts discovery tools inside of every podcasting app. That make it a lot easier for any of the new shows coming out that are trying to be like a Radiotopia or Gimlet style show, to be discovered.
- podcastrank 11y agoI agree, It's easy to waste a lot of time on these podcasts. I hope that over time with the voting, the best stuff rises to the top
- deftnerd 11y agoMight be enough to just tag certain podcasts as "amateur"
- drcode 11y agoI don't think that is such a great idea- Sometimes very professional people who are amateurs at audio production and amateurs at public speaking make awesome podcasts- The tag would need to be a lot more specific.
- JRutherford 11y agoAgree!! Mixergy does almost zero post production but has amazing content if you're in the startup space.
- vehementi 11y agoCan we have metadata ? Submittors can mark up "the talk starts at 1:22, topic X starts at 1:34, ..."?
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- MistahKoala 11y agoSeconded!
- Mahn 11y agoNow you have me intrigued, I didn't even know there was another type of podcast.
- jchendy 11y agoHere are some popular and excellent podcasts that have great production value: https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://freakonomics.com/archive/ http://freakonomics.com/archive/
- wrigby 11y agoGreat list! A couple more of my favorites are: Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/127413729/podcast/ http://www.npr.org/sections/money/127413729/podcast/ Startup (also by Gimlet): https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
- exhilaration 11y agoMy favorite podcasts: Excellent: This American Life 99% Invisible Very good: Planet Money The Memory Palace [historical narratives] The Moth On the Media Snap Judgement Good: Freakonomics Radio Lab Radio Diaries Occasionally good: The Truth [fictional radio dramas] Criminal
- solipsism 11y agoReally good list! I'd move On The Media to Excellent, it's really cream of the crop. And I'd throw Skeptic's Guide to the Universe in there too, for anyone who likes science. If you like ancient history, add Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.
- vcarl 11y agoAgreed on On The Media. It's basically just meta-news, but stepping back and looking at the narratives being presented is really interesting. Their recent show about this history of political polling was fantastic.
- fencepost 11y agoNot sure how I'd feel about that, it would make it easy to miss worthwhile stuff like a lot of "Back to Work" or "Home Work" - the first in particular has a lot of wandering around on some episodes but also can have some real gems. Seems like the scoring system could catch a lot of what you're concerned about.
- cellularmitosis 11y agoThis. In the "Haskell" episode of Programming Throwdown, they don't actually start talking about Haskell until 37 minutes in. ARGH. http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2014/07/episode-35-haskell.html http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2014/07/episode-35-haske...
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoWhile we're at it, some kind of "Does not interrupt the speaker" tag would be great. It absolutely drives me nuts, listening to stuff like This American Life or Radio Lab, where the person being interviewed never gets more than half a sentence out before the narrator overdubs themselves correcting or summarizing what the speaker is trying to say. I find it incredibly obnoxious. You brought this person on to tell a story: let them tell their story, goddammit!
- izacus 11y agoThat or cases where you have several people debating and you always have a "joker" who tries his/her best to interrupt someone else with lame jokes.
- navls 11y agoI feel the opposite. With those two shows the primary focus is telling a story. They aren't really conventional interview shows. It seems to me like a lot of the time, a narrator dubbing over the interviewee can help maintain the pace and focus of the show.
- henriquemaia 11y agoBy commenting here, I do not want to be that guy that just comes up to say "I second this", but, in a way, this is what I am doing. I also find it terribly obnoxious, and, in some sense, completely paternalistic. While on a broad reaching medium, like TV, when can accept that the presenter is trying to reach the least capable person out there in terms of understanding the message, on podcasts, being as they are so specific and targeted, doing the same just does not feel right (to me, at least). If the presenter breaks the rhythm of a guest to explain what the guest is saying is like rubbing in your face and saying "I'm sorry you can't understand this, but I'll translate it to you". If we reached the podcast, we probably CAN understand what the other person is saying. Thank you for pointing that out. It really gets to my nerves sometimes.
- citricsquid 11y agoI would refer to them as a subject podcast vs. a personality podcast. A site could provide a determination on the type by allowing listeners to review the composition of a podcast (eg: this podcast is 20% subject, 80% personality).
- metasean 11y agoIf CarTalk were still being produced, it would have a large personality rating. If I had dismissed it based on the large personality rating, I would have missed out on Click and Clack. My life has been better because of their personalities!
- jv22222 11y agoAlthough... a lot of people do like the two guys joking around podcasts, if they are joking around about great topics. Of course, I am biased, given that I make a two guys joking around podcast.
- dexterdog 11y agoBut usually that's because you already like the two guys. Few pairs can go off on a topic and not litter it with inside jokes that leave the new listener on the outside.
- jmadsen 11y agoor "came prepared with a topic", which is maybe what you're saying, but too many podcasts for a while were "So....episode 12...what do you want to talk about". I don't see this as much these days, but perhaps because I started to look for "non-current events" podcasts knowing that they were recorded earlier and better prepared.
- JRutherford 11y agoGood lord you're right. Nothing worse than two guys joking around!!