Podpodcastcast

Is that the top of a mountain rapidly falling out of the sky? Nope, it’s this episode of Podpodcastcast!! It’s finally time to tackle the biggest baddie in the realm of Dungeons & Dragons podcasting… or at least a part of it. Sam’s brain might just explode if it was forced to endure that many hours of straight podding, so join the crew as the pick apart a much more manageable, end-of-the-world, mega-intense tragedy story. EXU: Calamity is just one of many series of Critical Role’s esteemed and revered chronicles within Matt Mercer’s world of Exandria, in just about as ancient history as you can get. Digging through the rumble, Sam and Honor search for answers. Does rolling dice make a story more intriguing? Is it possible to summarize this plot in 19 hours? How cool can a cool audio fight scene really be? Will we finally find out what counts as a long podcast?!? All that and more, on this episode of… Podpodcastcast!!

Pod we talk about: 

Critical Role (Exandria Unlimited: Calamity)

(Dungeons & Dragons, RPG actual play, audio drama, well produced)

We’d love to hear your thoughts, email us here:⁠[email protected]⁠

Theme music by Jasper

Show art by Honor’s sister, get more of her art at ⁠redbubble⁠.

The PPCC gang has stuffed so much podcast review content in this episode, it’s a crime!! And if you don’t report us to the man, we’ll hand it over, for free!!! This week's accomplice, Liz, brings Guilty Pleasures, a movie and TV review podcast for loving all the things you know you shouldn’t. I mean, a movie is no podcast, but Liz says that this pod rocks at highlighting fun films and is great for keeping up with TV and movies in the world of  pop culture, without the pretentiousness that can come with some film critics. Sam counters that visual media gobbledygook, with a good ol’ fashioned audio drama, in the form of Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. This little anthology might be the perfect treat for fans of mystery and the classic detective. Honor rounds out the case with some thoughts on table top role playing game podcast Realms of Peril and Glory and their attempt to push the bounds of podcasting by playing the game, Blood on the Clocktower. This social deduction game has so many moving parts and side conversations, is it even possible to make into a podcast? Honor seems to think so, so let’s jump in to find out! All this plus what our AI overlords really want, the league of gingers, the mafia, the Comanche dub for Prey 2022, the continuation of the “Are Plays Musicals?” debate, and so much more!!! Get in before the lawman does!

Pods we talk about:

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

(audio drama, mystery, classic fiction)

Realms of Peril & Glory

(rpg actual play, not just D&D, well produced)

Guilty Pleasures

(movies,, TV shows, review podcast, down to earth)

We’d love to hear your thoughts, email us here:[email protected]

Theme music by Jasper

Show art by Honor’s sister, get more of her art at redbubble.

Hey there star fans, it’s time to dive into deep space with our review of StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson! In this episode, Sam and Honor get into their first science pod to finally fill their nogs with something other than D&D and Joe Rogan. The Podpodcastcast crew has been stuck in the weird information soup of conspiracy theories, so they decided to turn to the single best source of truth: the preeminent space guy with a mustache. StarTalk is a biweekly podcast where famous astrophysicist, Niel DeGrasse Tyson, and guests dig into scientific topics from the days’ headlines as well as answer fan questions on the nature of the universe. And we have our own questions: How fast is a proton? Is Honor actually a nerd? How hypnotizable are we? Does Joe Rogan still make a more entertaining pod? And is this show actually any good? We’ll try to answer all these questions and more, on this episode of Podpodcastcast!!! 

Pod we talk about:

StarTalk

(science, infotainment, interview, listener questions)

We’d love to hear your thoughts, email us at: [email protected]

Theme music by Jasper.

Show art by Honor’s sister, get more of her art at redbubble.

Hailey joins Sam and Honor on this episode of Podpodcastcast to bring a little cool and a lot of chaos to the show.  This episode, Sam’s showing this geeked up nerdy brain as he reviews The Rest is History, one of the premiere history pods out there. Honor counters his intellectualism with a good ol’ fashioned audio drama in The Far Meridian. This show takes a character in a Midnight Burger-esque traveling lighthouse and pulls them through a plot that’s more literary fiction than diner based sci-fi. Finally, Hailey conjures a ghost from Sam’s past as she brings up the H3 Podcast and its Frenemies era. That show’s co-hosts have so much thinly veiled rage and so many screaming matches, it really does remind you of Podpodcastcast. So join the crew as they mix all these pods in a bottle then shake it up and blast it all over your dripping, sloppy eardrums. Tune in! It's good!!!

Pods we talk about:

The Rest is History

(history, british, banter)

The Far Meridian

(audio drama, poetic, theme heavy, unfinished)

Frenemies, a part of the H3 Podcast

(talk show, YouTube drama, crazy co hosts)

We’d love to hear your thoughts, email us at: [email protected]

Theme music by Jasper
Show art by Honor’s sister, get more of her art at redbubble.

We know what you’re thinking … you want Podpodcastcast to talk about the Telepathy Tapes!!! Well fear not, because your pals Sam and Honor are diving in the biggest documentary podcast this year with the simple question, “What da heeeeell!?” Show host Ky Dickens purports to have discovered evidence that non-speaking autistic people have supernatural abilities pertaining to the human psyche, i.e. they can read minds. And the craziest wrinkle in this whole fantastic tale: She’s actually pretty convincing. Join the gang as they wade through the murky waters of evidence in an audio medium, powerful Joe Rogan shoutouts, psychic chat rooms, Twitter threads, and theories that question everything we know about everything. This is a pod that will make you question your own mental faculties. So tune in!

Pod we talk about:

The Telepathy Tapes

(documentary, mind powers, fringe, popular)

We’d love to hear your thoughts, email us at: [email protected]

Theme music by Jasper.

Show art by Honor’s sister, get more of her art at redbubble. 

In this episode, our reunited heroes venture into an odd collection of pods with a new friend. Sam confronts the celebrity invasion of podcasting in Hildy the Barback and the Lake of Fire, a fantasy audio drama starring Melissa McCarthy. Honor delves into the world of online marble races with Jelle's MarbleCast. Apparently there are online mable races, and they have their own sports radio shows. Who knew? Plus, special guest Jasper, destroys the format by bringing on three pods he’s never listened to but would like to. Did we mention he’s also the genius behind the themethemsongsong? Well he is, and if you want to learn more insider secrets and generally have your ears blown off by an amazing podcasting experience, tune in to this episode of Podpodcastcast!!!

Pods we talk about:

Hildy the Barback and the Lake of Fire

(audio drama, celebrity, comedy)

Jelle's MarbleCast

(sports talk radio, marbles, weird internet niche)

Welcome to Night Vale

(audio drama-ish,  creepy horror, famous)

Couch Surfing

(interview, youtuber)

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast(short stories, weird)

We’d love to hear your thoughts, email us here:[email protected]

Theme music by Jasper

We’re starting off the year strong with the most popular podcast of all time!!! The Joe Rogan Experience is a beast of a pod with hundreds of thousands of reviews, millions of listeners, and guests that would make Johnny Carson jealous.  The podcast also has a few reputations. Depending on who you ask, the JRE is a bastion of truth on a censored internet, a looney bin of conspiracy theories and misinformation, or simply a really solid comedy talk show. Whatever you’ve heard, Sam and Honor are diving into this mega-podcast to answer the ultimate question: is it good? The crew investigates Joe Rogan’s divisive reputation as they try to figure out why so many people like it. Most importantly though, what lessons can Sam and Honor learn so that Spotify will sign them for a 200 million dollar deal? All this plus dragons, Trump, information soup, the UFC, and a couple of thousand hours of dudes talking. Come along and see just how crazy things get!!

Pod we talk about:

The Joe Rogan Experience

(interview, comedy, long, crazy super popular)

We’d love to hear your thoughts, email us here:

[email protected]

Welcome to the first annual Pody Awards!!! We’re so excited for you to join us for the biggest event in podcasting as we hand out our Pody (podcast of da year) and Potty (podcasts of terrible trauma, ya-know?) awards. Podpodcastcast has talked about so many amazing, mid, and amazingly mid pods this year, and we’ve decided to wrangle them all together to talk about the best and the worst. We’ve had so much fun this year giggling with guests, communing with the community, and of course pondering pods, but the time has come to answer PPCC’s ultimate question: Which radio show is the best radio show? So join Sam and Honor as they delve into the pods that they couldn’t stop gushing over and those that they wish they could forget. And after the awards are all handed out, our hosts present Podpodcastcast Wrapped. Spoiler alert, it's been an awesome year thanks to all you fabulous listeners! So, if you’re feeling festive and you have a hunger to know the empirically best entertainment in an audio medium then tune in to this episode of Podpodcastcast!!

Email us at:

[email protected]

Do you like celebrities, musicals, and the persistent weed of the internet that are Reddit stories? Boy do we have the episode for you. Tag along with Sam and Honor plus special guest and 4 times speed netflix watcher, Marissa, as they dive into the best pods around. Sam’s bringing SmartLess, a celebrity interview podcast hosted by known funny men, Will Arnet and Jason Bateman, as well as actor Sean Hayes who Sam is told is also famous. Honor’s talking about musical podcast 36 Questions, which she assures us is a real thing. Plus Marissa exposes the gang to the beauty of Two Hot Takes, a show that nominally exists to give people advice, but ultimately thrives off the joy of finding out that other people are crazier than you. Perhaps the most diverse list of pods we’ve had on, you're bound to find something you like or join Sam in raging at. All that plus toxic relationships, whether musicals are just plays, Hugh Grant impressions, poop knives, and more!!! 

Pods we talk about:

SmartLess

(interview, celebrity, comedy)

36 Questions

(audio drama, musical, great sound design)

Two Hot Takes

(Reddit stories, advice)

Welcome to another episode of Podpodcastcast. Have you been sleepwalking through life waiting for an audio drama about a dream based apocalypse featuring the voice acting talents of famed YouTube game Markiplier? Then wake up!!! This is the pod for you! Edge of Sleep is a successful, crazy podcast, and Sam and Honor have wildly different feelings on how good it is. Join in as they argue over whether this pod is actually good, and if it needs more elephants, whales, sleep demons, or convenient plot holes. Buckle in, this one is strange!

Pod we talk about:

The Edge of Sleep

(audio drama, apocalypse, spooky, insane story)

This the episode, the gang is accompanied by the one, the only, Genny!!! Although Sam introduces her as a 20 foot tall giant robot, she’s in fact a very funny podhead herself! She brings on beloved advice show Dear Hank and John, by the Green brothers of Internet fame. While Genny dives into her nostalgic pod, Sam tries to be a gal-ly and  figure out why Call Her Daddy is the number one podcast among women. And naturally Honor chats about audio drama Where The Stars Fell, which sounds so wild, it almost loops back around to making sense. All this and more on today’s episode of Podpodcastcast!

Pods we talk about:

Call Her Daddy

(interview, advice, popular with women)

Where The Stars Fell

(audio drama, fantasy)

Dear Hank and John

(advice, brothers, funny)

Honor and Sam are back this week with the legendary true crime podcast, Scamanda. Immensely popular because of its absolutely insane story, the crew is taking a peek to see if this pod finally brings them over to the true crime train. So strap in as Podpodcastcast explores fake cancer, miracles babies, wire fraud, investigative journalism, and a maybe weird amount of voice acting for a true crime pod.

Pod we talk about:

Scamanda

(true crime, popular, insane story)

In this episode of Podpodcastcast, the crew keeps up with trends and talks about the new podcast, Talk Tuah with Haliey Welch, born the weird baby of a viral meme and Jake Paul. Join Sam, Honor, and James as they try to understand how the internet can just decide you’re famous now and how they monetize  it for themselves. It’s definitely not a good podcast, but it still might be entertaining. Plus two very good pods: Up First by NPR, a very serious pod about news and serious adult things, and Dimension 20, a bunch of silly nerds playing that game from Stranger Things. All that and more on another amazing episode of Podpodcastcast!

Pods we talk about:

Up First

(news, NPR, morning)

Dimension 20: Misfits and Magic 

(D&D, real play, fantasy, Harry Potter, )

Talk Tuah with Haliey Welch

(interview, meme, comedy, maybe bad in a good way?)

This episode, join Honor and Sam as they try to uncover the secrets of the universe like how does AI work, how long is a long podcast, and most importantly, is the famous sci-fi audio drama Wolf 359 actually good. It's got a high bar as Podpodcastcast's first ever 5/5, and there's some contention over whether it quite makes it over that line. All this plus spaceships, aliens, Sam's attack position, being wrong, prohibitionists, Zach Valenti's gorgeous voice and more on today's episode of Podpodcastcast!

Pods we talk about:

Wolf 359 (audio drama, sci fi, character focus, maybe long?)

Sam and Honor make a triumphant return to the studio in this episode featuring comedy, Conan, D&D, worldbuilding, birds, and entirely too much Jimmy Stewart. Friend of the show, Claire, comes on to stop mom and dad from fighting and to claim that the Dungeons and Dragons podcast The Adventure Zone, made by the McElroy Brothers, from My Brother, My Brother and Me, is the “greatest story ever told.” Honor brings a hard to describe, hyper immersive audio drama Birds of Empire, which contains overflowing myths and lush soundscapes and absolutely not enough birds. Sam tries to keep up as he describes Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, a celebrity interview pod that has made him cry laughing. Those and other silly bits on this episode of Podpodcastcast!!!

Pods we talk about:

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

(comedy, celebrity, interview, ginger)

Birds of Empire

(audio drama, immersive, fantasy, far future)

The Adventure Zone

(D&D, real-play, comedy, the McElroy brothers)

Sam and Honor are finally reunited! Or they already reunited? It's all a little confusing in this episode about time traveling audio drama Untrue Stories. Untrue Stories is a wild ride across literary dystopias, authors' preferences on tea, and many silly bits. Join our brave heroes as they try to figure out whether this pod is good or not. All this plus live banana eating, omnibuses, fetturedo alccine, and more on this episode of Podpodcastcast!

Pods we talk about:

Untrue Stories

(audio drama, sci fi, witty, for literature nerds)

Holy moly this episode is as packed as it's title is!! Sam and Honor have brought on musician and absolute audio expert Elizabeth, and she's made this ep chalk full of great pods!! The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers make an appearance as Sam's musical comedy celebrity dream crushes, Honor pulls out the unmemorably named Wolf 359 and claims it this the best pod they've reviewed so far, and Elizabeth puts on her academic cap and takes a long drag off her thinking pipe, as she dives into the beautiful anthropology of folklore and otherwise engaging tales from Lore. This ep is so jammed we don't even have time to tell you about what happened to Steve Jobs, why Sam can't play Lonely Island in the car, or when Elizabeth will release the worm song!! You'll just have to tune into find out!

Pods we talk about:

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

(comedy, celebrity, rewatch, SNL)

Wolf 359

(audio drama, sci-fi, character rich)

Lore

(documentary, folklore, spooky, informative)

The Magnus Archives is one of the most popular horror podcasts of all time, and in today's cautionary tale Honor has somehow convinced her good friend Sam, a noted coward, to listen to its sequel, The Magnus Protocol. However the only thing that terrifies Sam is how bad this pod is. Oh, you heard that right, this one's about to get heated!! Join Sam and Honor as they get into it over whether the podcast is a total stinker! What is Honor's secret plan?! Why can't Sam stand the British?! Will they ever reconcile their differences?! Find out on this episode of Podpodcastcast!

It's the D&D episode!!! It was only a matter of time until Sam and Honor succumbed to the temptation to gush over pods about their shared hobby of uber-nerd table top game Dungeons and Dragons. Turns out goblin lord and paperwork-as-game fanatic Vanir was the ultimate catalyst they needed in order to dive deep into the world's most popular roleplaying game. Join the crew as they talk about the wonderful ways that worlds of orcs and elves are brought to life by some of the very best podcasts. Tag along as we explore the scene, from the hugely popular Dimension 20, to the lesser known but very charming Rolling With Difficulty. Sam will also talk about D&D is for Nerds, the mythic D&D pod that you can finish in less than a billion hours! Get out your pocket protector and your twenty-sided die because this one is about to get nerdy 🤓

The pods we talk about this ep:

Dimension 20

D&D is for Nerds

Rolling With Difficulty

It's true crime time listeners!!! Join Honor and Sam as they dive deep into Serial, the godfather of podcasts. Even though Sam and Honor aren't big true crime kids, they have so many thoughts on Sarah Koenig's award winning pod, currently produced by the New York Times. This review, they have some things they love, and some things they just can't get past. But will they fall in love with true crime? Will they make it through the three other seasons no one talks about? Will Honor ever make it out of the van she's recording in?! All this and more on this episode of Podpodcastcast!!!