Podcasts that nobody knows about

Chopemon

◉◉maru ah cool, it looks like most of those videos are the podcast audio

whatsarobot

Chopemon enthusiastic second on Three Bean Salad. it gets very Britishly silly at times, and when it hits, it’s borderline-brilliant. the musical interludes are inspired, and remind me of The Mighty Boosh. as a Canadian, i found their Canada episode both insightful and utterly bizarre.

started listening because Paul F. Tompkins recommended it on his podcast, Threedom, which also gets ludicrously funny at its best. it’s the lowbrow American version of Three Bean Salad.

EDIT: Benjamin Partridge is one of the hosts of Three Bean Salad, and his other podcast, Beef and Dairy Network Podcast, is the most straight-faced, conceptual, anti-comedy long-form work of fiction i’ve ever encountered. he’s doing something special with that one.

Chopemon

whatsarobot oh nice! I didn’t know about that one.

I found Three Beans through Mike Wozniak and his St. Elwick’s podcast which is another Very British comedy podcast https://twitter.com/stelwicksnews?lang=en

whatsarobot

Chopemon and i didn’t know about that one! look at us over here, diving into the Three Beaniverse.

edward

Probably only I didn’t know about this, but I only discovered Frank Cifaldi’s videogame history podcast yesterday and I’m really digging it.
Frank’s a great interviewer!

DaveedNoo

edward i only started listening to it about a week ago after someone else mentioned it on this forum!

Funbil

I haven’t talked about it on the forum, but just over a month ago I released the first game I’ve ever been the director and writer for. Surprisingly, it meant enough to someone for them to reach out and have me on their podcast for an interview about it. I’m going to continue not shilling my game on here, but if you wanted to listen to the podcast I think it was a pretty good conversation!

https://kritiqal.com/articles/kritiqal-care-ep-62-max-miller

edward

Funbil
Congrats! I’ll give it a listen

Syzygy

Funbil
Shill away, I think most of us are happy to see our fellows’ creative output.

whatsarobot

Three Bean Salad has become (to me) the funniest podcast there is. it strikes just the right balance between silly nonsense and brilliant iprov competence.

what podcast makes you laugh the most? i need some good laughs. i am aware of the Earwolf family of podcasts and have experienced mixed results.

@Chopemon i might need your help with this one.

穴

whatsarobot what podcast makes you laugh the most? i need some good laughs.

I really like a silly trainwreck of a podcast called Dr. Gameshow in which the two hosts play listener submited games with live callers and more often than not the games are terrible and nonsensical. The dynamic between the two hosts is really what makes this show imo.
This podcast has been cancelled from 3 different networks (including Earwolf) because it doesn’t have enough listeners and in 2020 the format changed to a zoom call rather than recorded live with guests.

It’s a really weird show that can be hard to get into because they have a ton of back history which is often referenced. the fact that the show is so hard to get into is often a joke in the podcast.

If you are into listening to back catalogs I think the beginning of their run with their current network (maximun fun) is a good place to start.

This is actually the podcast that made me get into the car accident that i mentioned a while ago 穴

beets

whatsarobot what podcast makes you laugh the most?

The Aunty Donna Podcast is the only other podcast I regulary listen too. I’d describe it as an improv comedy podcast, which leans heavily into the absurd. If you know Aunty Donna either through Youtube or Netflix, I’d say the podcast is their best work. I have no idea where I’d recommend starting. Maybe one of the End of Year Best Of episodes and then picking a episode from there.

The most recent episodes 321 - Finding Yeezus, 320 - Optimus Prime, 319 -Mr Hollywood have been pretty good, as was the three parter (from 312) A Fried Chicken Investigation.

As it’s Australian I feel like I should issue a LANGUAGE WARNING for the whole series. Probably not suitable around kids.

I have been meaning to listen to Three Bean Salad as I liked Mike Wozniak on Task Master.

Chopemon

whatsarobot try Gossipmongers. It was another British podcast hosted by comedians and until they destroyed it, was the best thing going.

The three hosts would read out funny stories and gossip sent in by listeners and would often having me L O L-ing.

At the end of the third season, the two male hosts decided that the female host was having too much success from the podcast and fired her. Without her, the podcast was dreadful and I think it died during/after the fourth season.

The first three are gold though!

Actually, just realised this will be difficult unless you use YouTube. The male hosts scrubbed the first three seasons from podcast services to remove the existence of the female host but you can find it all on YouTube.

whatsarobot

穴 thanks! i like everything you’ve described here (except for the car accident). the concept itself sounds great, but that back history and co-host chemistry is always what makes a podcast succeed or fail. (case in point: Three Bean Podcast has become funnier to me with each new episode, because i better understand and feel more comfortable with the world the co-hosts have created.)

i will give Dr. Gameshow a listen!

穴

whatsarobot he world the co-hosts have created.

Dr. Gameshow definitely has a world of it’s own.

Oh and i don’t know if you are familiar with the show Joe Pera Talks with You but one of the co-hosts Jo Firestone wrote some episodes and played one of the main characters in it
And here’s a clip of one of the other co-host doing a stand up bit that i think is brilliant.

whatsarobot

穴 i am currently listening to the latest episode (97. Haunted Boxes) and am already lolling pretty non-stop. the bit about “how old people talk” got me.

i love how unenthusiastic Manolo sounds about everything.

and yes, i am a big, big Joe Pera fan.

whatsarobot

beets i am not familiar with Aunty Donna, and i never listen to podcasts with my kids, so i will be giving this one a go as well. thanks beets! love your new avatar, btw.

whatsarobot

well that’s cheeky of them

whatsarobot

Chopemon it sounds as though they were quite dedicated to gossip, and went a bit meta in trying to create gossip about their own show. i’m curious to hear those first three seasons, but also a bit wary of supporting these two male hosts, who sound like they might be gigantic a-holes!

this reminds me of all the LOLs i used to have with Russell Brand and his BBC radio program (which was available as a podcast) until he self-sabotaged with Jonathan Ross when they prank called someone they shouldn’t have, on air. i don’t quite remember the details, but i’m still mad at Ross for getting ol’ Russ canceled.

Chopemon

whatsarobot The full story is that the two male hosts are Joe Wilkinson and David Earl, comedians that have been going for a while. The female host, Poppy Hillstead, is also a comedian but hadn’t had the same level of success. After season 3, she got an email from Joe and David’s agent saying that “her time had come too early” and she was fired from the show. The fourth season was a disaster. Just two men laughing at their own jokes. The fan reaction was pretty angry and they barely promoted season 4 then it just disappeared.

So, they are a-holes and they shouldn’t be supported. HOWEVER, since they scrubbed all of the official uploads of the first three seasons from podcast services and their youtube channel, the only way you can listen to it is through unofficial youtube uploads so none of their numbers go up.

Obviously, you may not want to listen anyway because Now You Know but if you can look past that, it is an amazingly funny show.

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