I spend a lot of time listening to podcasts or listening just to audio of YouTube videos.

Most of what I listen to is fully scripted and edited, often with just one person talking. A small amount of what I listen to have two people with unscripted conversations that are edited to keep the episode on topic.

I’ve tried listening to fully unedited live conversation podcasts with anywhere from 2 to 4 people talking, and every one of them has driven me absolutely crazy. I usually pick episodes based on the topic in the title, to always find that either nobody in the podcasts knows/cares about the topic, or only one person knows about it. It results in conversations turning into mindnumbing rambling about nothing or one person explaining a topic to another person who is uninterested or just stupid.

If there is a podcast with multiple hosts that actually share an interest in a topic and keep it reasonably on topic I would really like to try it out.

  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Why?

    Why are you looking for this specific format if all other examples have been unpleasant for you?

    The only thing I can think of is that you are promoting something using an alt account. I’m sure there are more reasons why someone might, but I’m just drawing a blank. Like, if you had an interest in something and were looking for a podcast on that topic then I would get it. I really don’t get the motivation here though

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      2 days ago

      They don’t dislike the genre overall. They just came across many podcasts they didn’t enjoy and are asking for recommendations based on their specified criteria.

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        2 days ago

        That’s believable, but it’s just not what I see in the words even after a quick reread. To me it reads like they skipped that bit. A few examples probably would have gone a long way to changing that and helping with suggestions