I really enjoyed the first series until they started taking themselves seriously, went to space, and each episode became an hour of Griffin talking to himself and roleplaying drama with his brothers.
I liked the arc that their dad ran, and I assume the one they’re doing now is fine, but I got too bored waiting for the characters to finally meet each other and gave up. I still check in on the live episodes though!
@Moose I definitely agree that the Balance series was head an shoulders above the other campaigns, though I think it is a structure thing. It felt like the less structure that is imposed on them, the less organic they felt about it. With the Balance series, there were rules dictating enough that I think they were able to spend more time just enjoying themselves and it showed.
With their current series, it feels like there is so much open for them that there is as much time spent whittling down what they will do as actually doing anything and I feel like it shows.
@compunaut They are my first podcast (don’t know how I went up until a few weeks ago without listening to any) and I am terrified at the thought that there are only a couple more episodes before I am caught up. I’ve dropped far too many series on Netflix after binging what they have out like I am with this and don’t want the same to happen with this!
All fiction podcasts eventually get stale. I listened to Night Vale for years before dropping it (around the time the books started coming out) and haven’t missed it.
I would listen to a fiction podcast about Meh’s HR though.
It ends at episode 14, which is a good thing for a fictional show to do. I can’t recommend it because I don’t know what constitutes good radio drama, and I haven’t listened to more than a couple episodes, but there you go. Kind of oldschool “woo~ mystery aliens military” sci-fi. Has characters, apparently. I might finish it, still.
I’ve never listened to a fiction podcast. My regulars are Judge John Hodgman, Spilled Milk, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Ask Me Another, The Next Track, The Memory Palace, Movie Sign with the Mads, and Song Exploder. Those are way more than I can keep up with on my short commute.
That said, I do have Bubble downloaded for the road trip my wife and I are taking over thanksgiving.
@SSteve Ask Me Another is such a great road-trip listen!
If you like these, you might like Everything Is Alive. It’s Ian Chillag, who’s done a bunch of NPR stuff, interviewing inanimate objects. The first episode, he interviews a can of soda, and it’s really poignant in a strange, funny way.
Well since you asked, my favorite right now is Dispatches from the Multiverse, which is my own improv comedy sci-fi podcast, inspired by the '90s TV show Sliders, and by another great improv comedy podcast, Hello From the Magic Tavern.
Other great fiction podcasts I enjoy include Mission to Zyxx, King Falls AM, and Wolf 359.
I didn’t even realize that fictional podcasts were a thing.
Although if someone would have asked me “Do fictional podcasts exist?”, I would have said “hmm, I never heard of one, but I am sure they probably do”.
I am aware that BBC Radio 4 still does radio dramas and BBC Radio 4 Extra is a digital only station that airs repeats from BBC4 archives. The fact that most of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s content is archival repeats, I have always considered them as different than “podcasts”, but I don’t know if I was right in my thinking.
I like “Myths and Legends” it retells the original versions of a lot of famous (and some not so famous) myths and legends and does it in a humorous way.
A different myth each week. Unless it’s a rare 2 parter or 3 parter.
Same guy that does that does one called “fictional” where he recaps a famous novel from classic literature.
In the spirit of the season, it is fitting my favorite FICTION-BASED podcast is a horror-themed podcast, White House Press Briefing.
Recently, episodes have been released with increasing irregularity and podcaster changes. But each one never disappoints to scare the bejeebus out of the listeners around the world.
The next episode is likely to be released November 7th, and it is widely expected to be truly crap-yer-pants scary.
I’m more an audiobook listener, but the audio version of a story I enjoyed was released as a podcast: http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/ They started with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and have since started narrating other rationalist fiction (which often starts with the premise “what if we didn’t give everyone the idiot ball all the time and occasionally let characters make decisions real people might in their situations?” and lets the scenario run from there).
The Glass Cannon Podcast is the best podcast hands down.
Tanis and ostium.
Serial and The Truth. Also Lore, but it claims to be true-ish.
@shampshire
But isn’t Serial non-fiction?
@DVDBZN @shampshire Don’t you think news is closer to reality TV than to a representative depiction of reality?
What isn’t fiction, really?
@DVDBZN Yes, I meant The Messge. No idea how I mixed up those two.
The Adventure Zone
@eilaer I’m not consistent with my listening, but it’s the only podcast that remotely qualifies
@eilaer came here to say this one also.
I really enjoyed the first series until they started taking themselves seriously, went to space, and each episode became an hour of Griffin talking to himself and roleplaying drama with his brothers.
I liked the arc that their dad ran, and I assume the one they’re doing now is fine, but I got too bored waiting for the characters to finally meet each other and gave up. I still check in on the live episodes though!
@Moose Interesting. I felt that Clint’s campaign was the weakest. Of course I still listened to the whole thing.
@Moose I definitely agree that the Balance series was head an shoulders above the other campaigns, though I think it is a structure thing. It felt like the less structure that is imposed on them, the less organic they felt about it. With the Balance series, there were rules dictating enough that I think they were able to spend more time just enjoying themselves and it showed.
With their current series, it feels like there is so much open for them that there is as much time spent whittling down what they will do as actually doing anything and I feel like it shows.
@compunaut They are my first podcast (don’t know how I went up until a few weeks ago without listening to any) and I am terrified at the thought that there are only a couple more episodes before I am caught up. I’ve dropped far too many series on Netflix after binging what they have out like I am with this and don’t want the same to happen with this!
I didn’t have to read past WtNV. That will always win.
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What is a podcast? Sounds like a really bad Body Snatchers remake.
@hchavers seconded. How does one even find or listen to these “podcasts”?
Are these what old people with Zunes call audiobooks?
I have never once listened to a podcast. I am the antimillennial.
Pods casting:
All fiction podcasts eventually get stale. I listened to Night Vale for years before dropping it (around the time the books started coming out) and haven’t missed it.
I would listen to a fiction podcast about Meh’s HR though.
Podcasts, the lazy person’s way of saying I’m a broadcaster, I’m in radio, I have five listeners.
I don’t really listen to podcasts, but I did always enjoy A Prairie Home Companion on NPR.
I enjoyed Bubble, set in a sci-fi world of aliens, monsters, mutant powers, but then about the tedium and stress of jobs, dating, family, and friends.
https://maximumfun.org/shows/bubble
@dave this reminds me… There was someone writing a fictional story for meh, but it tapered off and never finished. What happened to that?
Glass Cannon & Adventure Zone - I love Adventure Zone but Glass Cannon consistently makes me laugh to tears
I’m mostly a non-fiction listener but I did enjoy “We’re Alive” during my long drives. Gotta love a good zombie drama
Hello From the Magic Tavern (https://hellofromthemagictavern.com/) is pretty entertaining.
@lowearthorbital love so so much
@lowearthorbital Seconded! I loved this one so much that I was inspired to start my own podcast heavily inspired by them.
I guess I’m one of the rare people who don’t really care for podcasts…?
@LindyNC73 Guess so.
@InnocuousFarmer Giggle! Right on! Now I know!
Steal the Stars is a show.
It ends at episode 14, which is a good thing for a fictional show to do. I can’t recommend it because I don’t know what constitutes good radio drama, and I haven’t listened to more than a couple episodes, but there you go. Kind of oldschool “woo~ mystery aliens military” sci-fi. Has characters, apparently. I might finish it, still.
Don’t have time for the fiction ones…
I enjoy the ones that are almost radio dramas or have excellent production value and design.
i picked welcome to nightvale because it was close enough to “alice isn’t dead.”
@jerk_nugget did you see they have a book?
@riskybryzness i did not, i’ll have to look it up, thank you!
@jerk_nugget If you have the kindle app, you can read it free: https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Isnt-Dead-Joseph-Fink-ebook/dp/B076H245LF/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540406894&sr=8-1&keywords=alice+isn't+dead
I’ve never listened to a fiction podcast. My regulars are Judge John Hodgman, Spilled Milk, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Ask Me Another, The Next Track, The Memory Palace, Movie Sign with the Mads, and Song Exploder. Those are way more than I can keep up with on my short commute.
That said, I do have Bubble downloaded for the road trip my wife and I are taking over thanksgiving.
@SSteve Ask Me Another is such a great road-trip listen!
If you like these, you might like Everything Is Alive. It’s Ian Chillag, who’s done a bunch of NPR stuff, interviewing inanimate objects. The first episode, he interviews a can of soda, and it’s really poignant in a strange, funny way.
@dseanadams They just mentioned that podcast on the episode of Spilled Milk I listened to yesterday. I guess that means I should listen to it. Thanks!
Well since you asked, my favorite right now is Dispatches from the Multiverse, which is my own improv comedy sci-fi podcast, inspired by the '90s TV show Sliders, and by another great improv comedy podcast, Hello From the Magic Tavern.
Other great fiction podcasts I enjoy include Mission to Zyxx, King Falls AM, and Wolf 359.
I do love The Adventure Zone, but lately I’ve been all about Not Another DnD Podcast. It’s collaborative storytelling at its best.
@indiebass Adventure Zone is grade A
@Commma
I didn’t even realize that fictional podcasts were a thing.
Although if someone would have asked me “Do fictional podcasts exist?”, I would have said “hmm, I never heard of one, but I am sure they probably do”.
I am aware that BBC Radio 4 still does radio dramas and BBC Radio 4 Extra is a digital only station that airs repeats from BBC4 archives. The fact that most of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s content is archival repeats, I have always considered them as different than “podcasts”, but I don’t know if I was right in my thinking.
I like “Myths and Legends” it retells the original versions of a lot of famous (and some not so famous) myths and legends and does it in a humorous way.
A different myth each week. Unless it’s a rare 2 parter or 3 parter.
Same guy that does that does one called “fictional” where he recaps a famous novel from classic literature.
I don’t listen to podcasts
In the spirit of the season, it is fitting my favorite FICTION-BASED podcast is a horror-themed podcast, White House Press Briefing.
Recently, episodes have been released with increasing irregularity and podcaster changes. But each one never disappoints to scare the bejeebus out of the listeners around the world.
The next episode is likely to be released November 7th, and it is widely expected to be truly crap-yer-pants scary.
I’m more an audiobook listener, but the audio version of a story I enjoyed was released as a podcast: http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/ They started with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and have since started narrating other rationalist fiction (which often starts with the premise “what if we didn’t give everyone the idiot ball all the time and occasionally let characters make decisions real people might in their situations?” and lets the scenario run from there).