🎧 What Podcasts am I Listening To? May 2017 Edition

When gRegor became the third person in a week to ask me what podcasts I listen to, I realized that this is something that changes a lot, and might be worth taking the time to review periodically!

I tend to think of my podcasts by category, so I'll attempt to break them down below.

Obligatory (several people recommended them and/or they're advertised everywhere):

• S-Town (yep, it is really very good. also, it is finite!)
  
• 99% Invisible (everything is designed by people and that is beautiful and troubling)

Comedy

• My Favorite Murder (❤️ so funny. also, sometimes completely horrifying!)
  
• My Brother, My Brother, and Me (gotta love those McElroys)
• The Adventure Zone (the McElroys play D&D and are remarkably wonderful)
• Harmontown (hilarious and off-putting)
  
• Mouth Time with Reductress (Reductress has a podcast. YEP.)
• CoolGames Inc (two silly boys make up video games)
  
• ILLUSIONOID (hilarious improvised old-timey sci-fi radio dramas)
• 28 Plays Later (an American cartoonist and an Australian actor and game reviewer are good friends)
• Scared Yet: The Podcast (the same American cartoonist from above and another American cartoonist talk about what kinds of horror scares people good)

Tech

• Revision Path (weekly interviews showcasing Black designers and developers. Maurice is great and this podcast is great)
  
• The Contrafabulists (taking apart mainstream tech stories to find the people and issues beneath)
• This Week in the IndieWeb (disclaimer: I make this podcast)
  

Narrative

• Welcome to Night Vale (weird and fun and funny)
• Alice Isn't Dead (weird and fun and spooky)
• The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air (adorable and artsy)
• SAYER (scifi and horror. returning soon with Season 4!)
• Thrilling Adventure Hour (live old-timey radio shows. so funny. still putting out content despite being "over"!)
• Within the Wires (weird and spooky and sad)

Gaming (RPG and Otherwise)

• The RPG Academy (disclaimer, I am part of one of the shows there)
  
• She's a Super Geek (fun people playing interesting RPGs focusing on women as GMs)
• Modifier (discussions about making games accessible and more!)
• One Shot (hilarious people playing interesting RPGs)
• Party of One Podcast (fun single person playing interesting RPGs with one GM)
  
• Play Dead (serious conversations about death in games. reminds me of one of my favorite YouTube channels, Caitlin Doughty's Ask a Mortician)

Friends' Projects (disclaimer: I have been a guest on some of these)

• Springtime for Springsteen (silly dudes ostensibly talking about Bruce Springsteen)
• Hobo Radio (Joel and Lars give each other such a hard time about everything but mostly pop culture)
• TheCurioso (Joe and Chris investigate the unusual and report back)
• Baltimore Improv Group Podcast (sketches and interviews with local improv friends. disclaimer: I help produce this podcast)
  
• The 4-Play Sex and Comedy Podcast (by lovely local folks and improv friends)
  
• Monarch Broadcasting (my co-host Jonathan teaches his student to make their own podcasts!)
  
• Uncanny Creativity (Brian is an improv buddy)
• Expert of Nothing (local Baltimore comedy game show)
• Friends with Black People (hasn't updated in a while but one of my favorite ideas for a podcast)
  
• We Have to Ask (disclaimer: I co-host this podcast. Comic improvisation in alternate realities)
  

Politics and World Issues

• Code Switch (super good 
  
• Pod Save the People (❤️ @deray)
• Baltimore: The Rise of Charm City (Stacia L. Brown is amazing)
• Hope Chest: A Podcast (seriously, listen to Stacia L. Brown)
• Sidedoor (from the Smithsonian. started listening because I read they hired Stacia L. Brown to help produce)
  
• Seminars About Long-term Thinking (longer TED talks about deeper issues like whether human culture can survive 10,000 years)
  
• Dan Carlin's Common Sense and Hardcore History (now extra upsetting in this political climate!)

Whew! This took a while. I have a frightening number of podcasts in my reader (I use AntennaPod).

What do you think? Any surprise overlaps? Anything you want to check out, or suggest that I check out?