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0147 — Connie Don't Do Podcasts (Patreon)

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2025-10-10 17:00:07
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I believe I have grown tired of every single podcast I listen to. Their pet topics, bags of tricks, rage-bait and pandering — I want off the carousel.

I still listen to Neal Brennan, because his show actually has a focus. Stuff You Should Know can be fun when I don't have time to read the Wikipedia article they used as the script. Mike Birbiglia is as charismatic and insightful with his interviews as he is in his specials. But, dear reader, please help me. I can't sit through another three-hour podcast about MMA, bowhunting, and the slow joys of personal responsibility. I get it.

What do you recommend? What do you listen to that doesn't have a two minute ad for ZipRecruiter every three minutes? And is maybe actually heavy on the content, zero on the banter?

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jordan b.

someday I hope I get to use "Does it smell like wet dictionaries when you floss?!" in a conversation. All-timer line.

Isaac Guysaac

Intellectual podcasts are for people who drive Rivians I only listen to podcasts where two to four white guys do silly voices

Achewood

Good day friends! I regret that I’m traveling today and will miss chatting with you, but I will catch up with your comments throughout the coming days. Thank you for being here, and have a wonderful weekend! (And if you’d like to read about my trip through Lyon, Toulouse, and Barcelona, I’m keeping a busy diary in the Author’s Tier!)

Isaac Guysaac

I enjoy Podcast About List because it has the four best types of guy: long haired freakadoo, rotund Irish skateboarder, Hispanic fifteen year old, and prematurely bald

Josh Egbert

Ray's podcast playlist is from Hell, I just know it.

Pubdoggy

I mean, the Adam Buxton podcast is pretty great. Maybe you have to have skin in the game though (be English and about 50 years old?)

Bob the Fish Productions

Over here we have Radio 4 for providing this sort of material in half an hour or less, it works much better

Shepton

I'm very selective with my podcasts. I only listen to stuff that's very specific to my interests. Example: I grew up in England. Sometimes I am nostalgic for English stuff from my youth. I used to read a comic book called Sonic the Comic back in the 90s. I discovered an incredibly good podcast about that comic (Sonic the Comic the Podcast). The two hosts are just boundlessly enthusiastic about that particular comic that I have fond memories of. I've been re-reading the comic while listening to the podcast. It's been very fun, and they also routinely discuss British things that were particular to the 90s. I also enjoy The Greatest Generation, because I am a nerd that loves Star Trek and those guys are funny.

b.zap

Great Courses Plus, but best with video, lots of visual info depending on the subject.

Miles McMahon

I am not a podcast listener and only listen to ones that are very banter-heavy. Actually, I only listen to one podcast and it's where some nice people talk about silly newspaper articles and I only listen to it in the shower. the end, no moral.

Laura Prado

I love Cautionary Tales, Tim Harford is a treasure. Zero percent banter, and it keeps me fed with the kinds of facts Connie would call intellectual microplastic, but sure, I have them with my food, might as well get some through my ears as well.

Daniel M Ford

I think Connie is right and he should say it. When I get to hell the first thousand years of tooling around in my Subaru Brat will undoubtedly involve listening to every podcast my friends recommended to me. I do listen to a lot of audiobooks, though.

Joel Eckloff

Hardcore History. There are no ads, for one. And no banter, because there is nobody to banter with. You can find all of the episodes on archive.org, by the way.

Tim Melody Pratt

I mainly listen to fiction podcasts, mostly horror, which are more like audiobooks or old-school radio dramas than the extruded babble product most people mean when they say "podcast" Though Judge John Hodgman is always a good time, especially the "clearing the docket" episodes when they answer listener letters, often on a theme

s b

what is the best background music for a dinner party in the year of our lord twenty twenty five?

Bruce Wright

"Does it smell like wet dictionaries when you floss?" is an all-time epic line. Btw, the only podcast I follow is How Did This Get Made, which is two white guys and a very weird woman bantering for all they're worth. Books are for thoughts.

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

What do you mean *read* Ulysses? Read or "read?" And I tend towards the Liberal Redneck crew in terms of podcasts (Puttin on Airs, Weekly Skews, WellRed) but I don't religiously listen to any of them. I do catch every ep of "This Podcast Will Kill You" because it's very nerdy and firmly in my niche of disease ecology normally reserved for academics.

severecorvid

I occupy my ears listening to music. For some reason I always found it stressful to listen to videoless narration. As if my brain thinks it’s a conversation I need to be ready to respond to or some shit

Bill Cameron

Oh my goodness...you're right! I can finally hear "Ghosts of the Ostfront" without the shame of paying for a podcast! Achewood pays for itself yet again!

Kyle Cassidy

I mainly listen to podcasts about movies. Secret Handshake and Sleazoids for fun genre pictures, Projection Booth and No Podcast for Old Men for authentic big-brain analysis / interviews / histories, Blank Check and Movie Mindset for goofing-off-with-the-fellas enthusiasm. What I'd endorse as an underappreciated pod is Tale of the Manticore. Host is creating a fantasy story, but using the 1st Ed D&D rules* to resolve all fights, dangers, and uncertainties and then rolling with whatever outcomes arise. Adds real stakes to the narrative, and the production values are quite good for a one-man show. * technically it's the b/x rules, for the real TTRPG-heads out there.

Stavro

The Lonely Island have a retrospective podcast which I enjoy because I like the source material and it has a necessary end date when they run out of shorts to discuss

emitydna

My Brother, My Brother, and Me sits on the same shelf in my brain as Achewood. It is a trio of siblings from my neck of the woods opining on fast casual dining, playing silly word games, and occasionally giving advice to listeners in a shared all-inclusive universe of their own making.

Jenn

I HATE PODCASTS

Jay Y

Everyone's talking about the podcasts and not Ray hiding a smartphone in a sandwich to record Connie.

Eric Behrens

The Ringer’s movie podcasts - specifically The Big Picture & The Rewatchables - are good if you fancy yourself a movie fan

Marc Harkness

Strong Songs tickles my mind on a regular basis — a musician does a deep dive into a particular song, talks about the time and the motivation of the artist, and he recreates each song in his studio best he can. He talks about drumming and beats as sizzle, snap, and thump and explains rock songs in a way that my even rock-hating dad can learn from. I finally understood the point of Springsteen after the "Born To Run" episode.

Chris Dubie

Shortly before this strip dropped, an old friend followed me on Instagram from his new Podcasts page.

Ken Lowery

Yeah, I can only do the focused and researched stuff. Swindled is #1 with a bullet, and If Books Could Kill is close.

RBM

The Dogg Zone 9000 actually meets all your specifications. Zero ads too!

Elyse Renée

You Must Remember This is one of my faves, movie history type stuff. I’ve heard from other listeners that they sometimes get annoyed with Karina Longworth’s Very Enunciated speech and occasional voice impressions when quoting famous people but I find both amusing.

Amy Lewis

A little surprised that no one has mentioned Brain Tape, a comic-by-comic deep dive into Achewood arcs. It's hosted by someone who's as obsessed with Achewood as I am and her friend, who knows next to nothing about it. The first season gets down and dirty with the GOF; the second follows Phillippe's adventure at the transfer station.

Ian Stewart

I have a hypothesis that most people are exposed to content from the major podcasts mainly through clips, not through intently listening to the whole 3-hour mess. That would be how Joe Rogan is able to be seen as mainstream and somewhat reasonable, while also laundering a whole circus of freaks stolen straight off of Art Bell. Only the tiny minority that actually gets sucked down the pipeline into listening to the full-length epic mouth-defecations actually gets exposed to the really weird and offensive shit.

Ryan Boyle

Sixty Songs that Explain the 90s has become my favorite because the first half is Rob Harvilla reading an essay. His sense of humor is Achewood-compatible. The second half is banter about a song, and I usually don't finish listening.

majael

"A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" is one of the best ones going. I listen to a lot of others, but they're kind of specialized. What else could I mention... "If Books Could Kill" is a good one.

Dual Chort

Beef And Dairy Network. I think a lot of Maximum Fun podcasts, like the aforementioned Judge John Hodgman and My Brother, My Brother and Me have the ethos that you seek (MBMBAM has banter, yes, but it's flights of fancy, not chucklehead jerkoffs), but Beef And Dairy Network has its own elaborately constructed, utterly absurd fictional universe. Pat would fit in well as an antagonist.

Condorito

Man, last time I did such a thing I put on Sinatra, but the menu was described as "Itallian As Fuck", so ymmv

Condorito

I only listen to podcasts from Cracked alumni/expats. This was not intentional, it just happened that way

Steven McGraw

Same here all my favorite are just a group of friends clowning on each other. No pretense of intellectual content. Example: night of the living podcast.

Steven McGraw

Idk your tastes but "it makes a sound" is a very good short fiction podcast, total of 8 episodes

Steven McGraw

That is amazing, thank you for the recommendation

Charles Richter

I did a couple years of research on "My Fugitive," a podcast that started as an exploration of a documentarian's family connection to a man who went underground for 28 years rather than going to prison for maybe throwing a cherry bomb during a Vietnam War protest. It turned out to have surprising connections to the FBI's harassment and wiretapping of MLK Jr, and the coverups surrounding his assassination. To tell the story, it took suing the FBI and National Archives--the latter was happy to be sued, as it meant they got to hire more FOIA processors, but the FBI was more cranky, and added a slide depicting my colleague as a crying baby in their FOIA training materials. We got over 100,000 pages of FBI reports and memos out of the deal, though.

A Big Old Skeleton

I remain a big proponent of The Dollop, which is a great American history podcast that infuriates, entertains, and educates (sometimes). I tend to stay away from any podcast that does not have some actual Theme holding it together - so it has to be a history podcast or video game podcast or like, the one sports podcast I can stand (The Distraction, which also is smart enough to keep it at 45 minutes per episode, give or take)

48 Minutes of Dogs Barking : A Podcast About The Internet

I humbly submit my show, rife with ribald jokes and internet stuff. we talk about 3-5 wacky internet news items, crypto scams and then a semi-deep dive into a main topic- this past week for example we talked about PostPiper, a conservative attempt at re-creating Twitter using some not-great code.

Alexander Rediger

Podcasts are a different version of Ted Talks-- and they're both like the Discovery Channel-- no one ever discovers anything except the Bible, military weaponry, and elementary school civics lessons.

Alexander Rediger

I just listen to CumTown to fall to sleep at night-- just funny enough to shut off my brain.

Bradley Momberger

Glad to see that others have already recommended Judge John Hodgman and Hardcore History. I have to plug my newest favorite podcast, Lateral with Tom Scott, which dethroned JJHo after its six or so year reign at the top. Half of what I'd recommend otherwise is just syndicated NPR shows that I don't sit at my radio to listen to at a prescribed time slot.

Bradley Momberger

Also I'm starting a podcast and I make no apologies for this.

Dan Gibbins

The way I typically phrase it is "I'm an adequate white dude on the internet, of course I have a podcast," but I stick to analyzing and sometimes mocking movie remakes and Best Picture winners, and avoid what ever Sigma male grindset tomfoolery Barstool Sports is pushing this month.

Yamtaggler

I tend to gravitate more towards podcasts that are a vehicle for fiction rather than a way to hear a few jerkoffs hanging out. Stuff like The Magnus Archives, Welcome to Nightvale, and the various SCP podcasts are generally what I look for when I want something to keep me company while I'm doing the dishes.

GruntyGinMan

I mostly listen to hobby podcasts, which of course means Table Top Games(Battletech and Battlefront games) magic, and guns, although in the case of the last I stick to those of the very left leaning persuasion because most gun content creators are otherwise Bad People.

GruntyGinMan

Very occasionally I will listen to old Art Bell episodes as podcasts! The daily news roundups are an interesting peek into stuff I often forgot about that people were thinking about!

Tommy Wingo

Everything I love sounds like it’s related to Radiolab or This American Life, the exception being the Comedy Bang Bang universe. What I wouldn’t give for less ZipRecruiter ads (well, not enough to sponsor everyone and remove their ads . . .)

GruntyGinMan

I stopped listening to Carlin when he victim blamed Ukraine in 2014, and his "I'm not really a historian so I'm not really under an obligation to be thorough and correct" schtick was always a problem IMO.

Tim Melody Pratt

Creepy is pretty fun too! (I say that even though I sold them a story recently; I sent them something because I've liked them for years!)

Naomi

I came to the comments solely to ensure someone suggested Behind the Bastards

The Rorie Roundup

I started a podcast with my wife about dumb movies that make me cry. We recorded one episode and then had to stop because my roommate's cancer got bad and it felt weird to record a podcast next to the room of a dying man. He's dead now so maybe we can get back to it. https://open.spotify.com/show/1oXAMwYEYcZ33NHSDSNPC0 I am not trying to be flippant here! 2025 has been a shit of a year! I've been unemployed since January so was looking forward to doing some more creative stuff in my spare time, only for that endeavor to be cancelled in a most unjust manner. (I would obviously trade the podcast to bring back my roommate.) I don't think I'm expressing myself super well here and I apologize. Just a weird fuckin' year.

Tom P

I'm with Mr. Bear and this comments train is like a Talmudic commentary page full of old rabbis saying how long it should take to get laid, with the conclusion from the wisest rabbi of all being "each writes how long it takes him" and immediately getting on the express train to Heaven

The Good Poster

Really unsettling comic today. Saw the title and thought "Cornelius would be great on a podcast but you'd basically have to have a hidden mic to get him on one" only to click through and discover that was our Raymond's exact thought process. Don't know what this means. Gonna have to sit with this one.

Elyse Renée

Beef and Dairy consistently takes me by surprise and has me laughing out loud in public with their weirdo bits. Such good stuff.

Paul Kim

Acquired -- I feel conflicted about recommending this because the guys are kinda annoying and way too uncritical of the companies they cover, but they still do incredibly well-researched inside histories of big companies (and they have access to people who worked there, which gives them good access to unpublished information, though at the cost of being docile enough to maintain future access). The Revolutions podcast does histories of various revolutions throughout history, and right now the guy is doing a fun fictional "history" of the Martian Revolution that cribs heavily from historical events.

Elyse Renée

I guess I should also say MY PODCAST, called I’ll Show You Mine. I show my husband movies he’s never seen and he shows me video games I’ve never played. We have fun with it and it gives us an excuse to indulge in the media we both love.

s b

new competitor to iheartradio

Sedric and Charlie

I remember in my youth, going to social events where I knew nobody. In a desperate attempt to participate I would latch onto some animated cluster of people, people who probably all knew each other and who were engaged in lively banter, and I would hang meekly around the periphery as if I, too, were poised any moment to leap in with some naturalistic conversation of my own. Podcasts all feel like I'm still doing that, but away from the shameful gaze of others I did like one podcast ten years ago, whose members all fell out in an argument over money. None of its episodes are available on line any more

lake

Blowback is pretty sensational.

NotAnon

Uh, I watch Some More News a podcast about the weekly news that is now twice a week be cause of the Everything. I listen to CastleSuperBeast which is two millennial letsplayers my age talking about their lives game news and shooting the shit, and that's about it. I also occasionally listen to VersusWolves which is similar to the above except one of the millennials is an Irishman instead of a second Canadian

Sedric and Charlie

I used to follow all the Pacific North West Stories podcasts, which were all narrative dramas about broadly the same thing (podcast host wants to talk about one thing but stumbles onto an encroaching apocalyptic crisis in which they are coincidentally the Chosen One). I'm not recommending them, there's maybe one good season out of all of them, I only mention it because they always had ads for stuff like Bombas socks, products I was not familiar with, so I just treated them as in-universe lore, like Tarantino's use of Red Apple cigarettes in every movie

Sedric and Charlie

I had a similar 2023. Nobody died, but a lot of bad interpersonal shit kept compounding just as I was looking forward to starting a whimsical online art project

Rory Cleveland

Gotta recommend Search Engine and Hyperfixed, the descendants of the erstwhile Reply All. And I adore what John Moe is doing with Depresh Mode, although I have to be in the right headspace for it.

Sedric and Charlie

Oh bloody hell I read that as a child too. I regret giving my entire run away to a guy I knew in the early 2010s. It's not even whether they would've been worth anything, I just miss them and also he turned out to be a sack of shit

Tom Morris

Been listening to every single episode of the Blindboy Podcast. I discovered it about the same time I discovered Achewood in 2017. Sure he gets a bit repetitive but I still love it.

Shepton

Nice to meet a fellow Boomer! (That's what Megadroid, the "editor", called STC readers back in the day... I had completely forgotten that until recently revisiting the comic)

Sam J

I religiously listen to 99% Invisible, so I can interject the most minute minutia when I think a social gathering is getting too exciting. (Almost zero banter, the little that exists is effectively scripted. The head of this thing pre-dates podcasts as a medium; his dream and demeanor are still that of a semi-recognizable public radio star.) They have a short form one on titanium oxide. Another is a solid 30 minutes on why one particular building is purple. My personal favorite is the episode on why the artist that made the Chicago Bean is kind of a dick.

zaratustra

my school trauma is that i cannot abide people talking at me for longer than a mere few minutes

Billie Rinker

It's OK that you think you're not expressing yourself well. Grief and stress make us act weird and be less graceful. But for what it's worth I think you conveyed your meaning fine. I quit my podcast when I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the annoying saliva click noises, so you had a much better reason than me.

Uncle Elephant

Song Exploder. Nearly all the time, Hrishi cuts out his side of the convo, so there's zero banter, just a musician taking apart their song and telling the story of how they did it, and then they play it for you so you can hear all the things you didn't notice before. Not always great, but some really good ones that opened my ears and pulled back the curtain on the craft.

Eric Griffis

The British History Podcast. Zero ads and an Asperger level of detailed content.

Andrew Gillies

I personally love Behind the Bastards. They do deep dives into the worst people in history, but all the minutae like how Stalin used to make all of the senior Communist party guys stay up all night drinking and watching cowbow movies for like 8 years straight.

Gavin Byrnes

I don't like podcasts in general. There are some goods for sure, but it's so easy to get distracted and then I forgot what I've heard. I listen to Bill Simmons so that I can talk to my dad about listening to Bill Simmons, which is nice, but I preferred when I could *read* Bill Simmons.

Raia Fink

The Dollop is so good. Self-described as "The Dollop is an American comedy history podcast in which comedian Dave Anthony reads stories from American history to his friend and fellow comedian Gareth Reynolds, who usually has no knowledge of the topic that will be discussed, with the two commenting on and reacting to the stories."

NAK

i laughed my ass off at this one. thank you chris

Johnny Deans

Weird Studies, The Relentless Picnic, Behind The Bastards…

ladiesbane

Fuck a podcast. If you want something enriching, go to YT and browse YaleCourses or the like until you find a good topic, then glance at the transcript and decide if you need to have someone read it out loud to you for an hour. If you want something to listen to while you mow the lawn, there's music; if you want to hear funny hijinks, there are radio shows. Unless you would rather listen to modern buddies grab-assing instead of the Internet Archive of "You Bet Your Life".

Nicholas Williams

With Gourley and Rust is a luxuriant movie podcast with a focus on horror and thrillers. It's less about gore and death than it is about the fashions of yesteryear, obsolete kitchen appliances, and what makes a scary movie "cozy."

John Robinson

I'm a fan of Well There's Your Problem (a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides). You will never laugh harder about strangers dying in sudden, horrible ways. No ads beyond a 90-second midshow plug for their Patreon. Recommend Episodes 142 (Big Bayou Canot Train Wreck) and 160 (The 1960 Salad Oil Scandal, where no one dies but unutterably massive fraud proves just as funny).

Smoke

I listen to 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, which is a podcast by MST3K/Rifftrax's Michael J Nelson and Rifftrax writer Conor Lastowka. They cover books they expect to hate, and the title comes from the first book they covered, Ready Player One.

Tom

I second Search Engine, I like it enough I signed up for Incognito Mode for no adds whatsoever

Tom

Revolutions is excellent, looking forward to the next series on China

cody

Feel like I just got invited to the cool kids’ table, seeing our podcast overlap. Think I’ll go to bed right now just to end the day on that note.

Tom

That's...not how I heard it? tbf I maybe wasn't listening that closely.

DOOMFINGER

DESERT ORACLE RADIO: "THE VOICE OF THE DESERT"

Bungus Bronbo

There's an app called Libby where you can get audiobooks using library cards, that's what I listen to instead of podcasts.

Ruxine

I mostly avoid longform videos and podcasts, because I feel the format is suboptimal for my learning style. I find text to be much more accessible, less prone to mishearing, I can re-read a line if I need to, and I can speedread sections I feel don't expand my understanding. Most longform stuff becomes lengthy due to excessive explanation that has too much overlap with what I know already. Some of them, such as behind the bastards, delve into subjects with a depth and consideration I'm not capable of and haven't been able to find in text form, so I still listen to some of them, but I'm inclined to agree with Cornelius for the most part. Still, I'd listen to his podcast if he made one. I'm sure it'd be fire.

2scrogz

Grateful Dead. Europe '72. Not a single ZipRecruiter ad to be heard. ZipRecruiter was not even a twinkle in its founder's eye at that point... because the founder was probably not even born yet.

FactWino

Yup, started Blindboy this year. I’m going back to listen to old episodes. I’m a ten foot Declan.

FactWino

I like a boss a nova channel or playlist.

FactWino

Bossa Nova. Stupid autocorrect.

Tom Morris

Good luck to you. I don't think I'd listen to all of them if I started today.

rickward

Stuff You Should Know and 99PI are the only ones I listen to now, and not every episode of either. Twenty Thousand Hertz sadly turned into product placement long ago. The last podcast that felt fresh and new to me was ironically a special interest podcast from fifteen years ago—Scott Chesworth’s The Ancient World.