Podpodcastcast

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!!!

This episode the crew is joined by Ash, an excellent podcaster in their own right, who's trying to bring some professionalism, business, and freaks to the pod. Become enraged as Sam talks out of order about the fantastic NPR podcast Planet Money, and how he won't shut up about economics. Get genuinely interested by Ash's podcast, The Dream, a investigative pod about scams with a weird final turn. Fall ill with ball-fever as Honor waxes poetic about sports and Go! My Favorite Sports Team, another pod by famed youtube buffoon Markiplier. Tune in as Ash, through sheer force of will, makes the ep good this time!!

Checkout Ash and all their stuff!

https://ko-fi.com/asherlark

https://www.twitch.tv/asherlark

https://www.youtube.com/@asherlark5136

https://soulmates.libsyn.com/

The pods we talk about today

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-dream

https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hn3qhWe5NqnhLFKytyfFW

Welcome back for another book club episode with Sam and Honor! The crew is talking Midnight Burger, an episodic sci-fi fiction pod about a late night diner that crisscrosses the cosmos through time and dimension, righting wrongs and being goofy. It's a good pod (spoilers) so this is an extra long ep, because our delightful hosts won't shut up. So strap in as our heroes gush over the character work and voice acting, argue over what is appropriate pod listening behavior, and try to make sense of Sam's rant over insanity of the most recent seasons. This is a fun one, so tune in!

Check out Midnight Burger!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midnight-burger/id1537653218

https://open.spotify.com/show/3flVB3CeXIfVHwXjcKkNk8?si=612ad413bc2c43a5&nd=1&dlsi=997705efd7cf44f9

Welcome back to another Podpodcastcast round table!! The crew are joined by Carly, fan of Distractable and noted haver of bad takes. Join Sam as he reviews Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club and gets irrationally angry over her distaste for Star Wars and peanut butter. Relate to Honor as she gets mildly disappointed in her pod for the week, and is forced to be the voice of reason. Oh, and they talk about JoJo Siwa. Plus listener mail!!!

Email us as [email protected]

Pod Links for Spotify

Distractible: https://open.spotify.com/show/2X40qLyoj1wQ2qE5FVpA7x?si=e811ef15779343f0

Faerie: https://open.spotify.com/show/2luefy24L2m5FOxSZ4eiFi?si=fae4528839ca4b32

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6g4V179CojjvrUgy5B62CY?si=f8c804dd2918455d

Pod Links for Apple Podcasts

Distractible: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/distractible/id1567659047

Faerie: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faerie/id1693440524

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/star-wars-old-canon-book-club/id1686249893

Welcome to the second ever Podpodcastcast book club episode, aka bookbookclubclub. In todays adventure, our intrepid hosts set out to tussle with the beast known as the Chuckle Sandwich podcast, a talk show hosted by youtubers Jschlatt, Ted Nivision and formerly Charlie Slimecicle. Join Honor as she tries to explain incredibly niche internet lore while Sam curses Brady for coming on last episode and forcing him to listen to this. Listen in as our hosts discuss everything from whether Charlie was actually that good of a host, to the obligatory D&D episodes, to whether Sam and Jschlatt are both doomed to be canceled. Tune in for a fun ep!

Hop in with Sam, Honor, and special guest Brady from the YouTube channel Bradius in the first ever round table episode of Podpodcastcast! Listen as Honor brings up Critical Role - assuredly the first of many D&D podcasts to be discussed - and Sam immediately begins his hater arch. Be dismayed as Sam confesses this podcast is a rip off of Thumbcramps, a video game review pod he loves despite it being "just no good". Finally, feel bad for Brady as the other two yell at him for not liking podcasts enough to pick between the Nintendo Voice Chat, Linus Tech Tips' WAN Show, and the Chuckle Sandwich podcast.

In this very first ever book club episode, Honor and Sam review ... not a podcast. Dust is a science fiction audio drama podcast by Gunpowder and Sky. Sam says Dust is mid, but the story of Season 3, Chrysalis, is magnificent. Join the team as both of them gush over this short story that contains more interesting storytelling and beautiful presentation than many movies and TV shows. An incredibly strong start to Podpodcastcast, hang with Sam and Honor as they discuss just how awesome this podcast is.