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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 interesting but most of the episode time is given to 'two guys joking around'.
Of course, I am biased, given that I make a two guys joking around podcast.
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'.
Although... 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.
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Here are some popular and excellent podcasts that have great production value: https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://freakonomics.com/archive/
My 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
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100% 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.
I 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
Does anyone have an efficient way to consume podcasts? If I want to quickly read an article I can skim certain sections and skip others etc., but there is rarely such indexing for a podcast and I would have to skip forward, listen for a lot of seconds to get context before I know if it's somewhere to skip past or not.
They allow you to do just that. Anyway, check it out. I use the Overcast podcast client (iOS), which supports this (among others).
Some podcasts even provide full transcripts (e. g, Freakonomics).
If the podcast provides neither of these then it's not feasible to skim it efficiently, in my opinion.
Maybe change "0 comments" to something like "Start a discussion" when there are no comments. Makes it seem like a graveyard when they're all empty.
I really like this. How does one go about learning more about improvements like these?
What about adding additional tags or attributes so we can filter by length of time, date published (vs date submitted to your site), publisher (npr, radiotopia, etc), guests (i.e., i liked this guest on Marc Maron's podcast, where else can I find him?), or sub-genre (i like true crime podcasts and sometimes I get that on Criminal, sometimes I get that on This American Life)