Good Podcasts *Mostly Off Topic* (Off-Topic)

by cheapLEY , Saturday, September 05, 2015, 22:10 (3600 days ago)

I've been really getting into podcasts lately. I always listen the the Starside Lounge, of course, and the Ready Up Live podcast. I usually try to make time for Guardian Radio, but not always.

That's how I started. Now I can't seem to stop. I've been listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio, but those can be hit or miss for me. Listen to TED Radio Hour every now and then.

My recent favorite that I just started a few days ago is Welcome to Night Vale (website link, not podcast link).

Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life.

The podcast typically airs on the first and fifteenth of every month, and consists of "news, announcements and advertisements" from the desert town, located "somewhere in the Southwestern United States". In an interview with NPR, Joseph Fink said that he "came up with this idea of a town in that desert where all conspiracy theories were real, and we would just go from there with that understood.

It's as ridiculous as it sounds, and it's incredibly funny, and sometimes creepy. I fell in love with it about halfway through the first episode.

So, to the point, I just wanted to throw that out there for folks, and wanted to ask what others listen to. I realize this is a hugely broad subject as there are podcasts about nearly everything. So apart from sharing what you listen to, does anyone have any other podcasts similar to Welcome to Night Vale?

I've tried listening to some that are just readings of short stories and such, but I can't listen to those. I can't listen to audiobooks; I just lose focus when people read to me. But the presentation of Welcome to Night Vale tells a story in a pretty unique way that's not just someone reading a story.