#2024 podcasts list

[angevon]

Here's an update to what I've been listening to during my daily commute.

Previous Podcast post: https://www.tumblr.com/angevon/738730790493552640/podcasts-im-listening-to-and-not

Still listening to:

Hey Riddle Riddle

Inn Between

Life with Althaar

Mission to Zyxx

No Such Thing as a Fish

Stellar Firma

Finished:

Blueberries Hill - a comedy podcast in a Peter Rabbit-like world, the actors are animals like Mr. Bear and Mrs. Rabbit. I like how there’s a coherent narrative to each episode, despite the ad-libbing. Makes the magic happen. Only 6 episodes.

DUST: Chrysalis - I found the ending a little anticlimactic, but it fit the narrative and I'm mostly satisfied with it. Recommended for anyone seeking a relatively short and self-contained sci fi narrative.

Sidequesting - Tal Minear has an enjoyable voice to listen to. I can’t say I loved this podcast, but it was wholesome and lgbt+ so I recommend it for that. My main issue is that I'm listening during my commute, and, particularly in the last episode, there are characters with hard-to-hear/ hard-to-understand voices. I just can't hear it well over the sounds of the road so it kinda frustrated me.

The Sword that Explodes - a barbarian named Clive quits the barbarian life to end up an adventurer instead, with a lady alchemist and a clever rogue. They get into various shenanigans. British style humor, only 7 episodes, seems to have been abandoned.

New!:

1865 - a dramatic reenactment of the events occurring directly after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The actor playing Edwin Stanton is enjoyable to listen to. Warning for coughing a lot, though.

Absolutely No Adventures - the owner of a small bakery was unfortunately born under ALL the signs. Everyone seems to think he’s the chosen one or whatever, and to him it really is “whatever” — he just wants to be left alone. Every episode he has to weasel his way out of being forced into saving the world by whoever’s found him next.

Bananas - funny news from around the world - what it says on the tin. Similar to Hey Riddle Riddle where it’s mostly a group of friends hanging out, with a focus on goofy headlines.

Death by Dying - this one is difficult to explain. The protagonist is an obituary writer for a small town, and each episode he’s explaining the death of a person in the town. But the stories are outlandishly entertaining. The narrator is fun to listen to.

Mission Rejected - when a secret agent chooses NOT to accept the mission, the mission gets passed down to, well, the B team. This is their story. It’s… okay? The humor doesn’t quite jive with me, but I keep thinking it might need more time to get better, so I haven’t dropped it.

Solutions to Problems - a human and an alien host a futuristic helpline radio show. The human is named Janet, which reminds me of The Good Place, and the alien is Loaf, short for Meatloaf, a name he chose for himself since his name in his native tongue is too difficult for Janet to pronounce. A relatively wholesome show with fun character rapport.

True Tales of the Illuminati - similar vibe to Mission Rejected. Stories about how the wacky Illuminati B team tries to accomplish Illuminati business. The first story was about them trying to get the Great Pyramids of Egypt built.

Victoriocity - in a cyberpunk New London, murder and conspiracies are afoot. Detective Fleet finds himself in the middle of the mystery and determined to solve it. This podcast has a fun narrative style, similar to Kingmaker Histories, but more humor focused, so I'm enjoying it.

Warlock - basically a magic school anime made into an audio drama, it even has a Japanese opening song. The characters are over-the-top and tropey, but that's the point. Despite the focus on combat, it's fun.

Zed 1 - a British couple and their hilarious shenanigans during the zombie apocalypse

Dropped:

Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet - started to get a real privileged feel from the hosts.

Tower 4 - season 2 is just plain frustrating to listen to. We know what’s going on, but the protagonist doesn’t, and he’s frankly being an asshole to the only people who can help.

The Judgies - too similar to Bananas

The Kingmaker Histories - a girl ends up with the valuable magic gem known as the Kingmaker inside her head. Now she’s on a journey to escape the people who want it from her. The world is interesting, an alternate-history-with-magic. Unfortunately, none of the characters have sold me and I decided I’m just not enjoying it.

StarTripper!! - this was fun at first, but got kinda horny…? An alien named Festin leaves his office job to travel the universe, in a style like Hitchhiker’s guide.

Tales of the Extraordinary - I honestly had a hard time following.

On hold…?:

Bridgewater - I like the mystery, but I’m not a fan of the dialogue patterns. I dislike when a dialogue has too much “character a says something, character b replies WHAT??? or repeats it again as a question” or similar. It really takes me out of the story. Put on hold due to being similar to Tower 4, but since I dropped Tower 4 I might come back to this.

Dungeons and Daddies - I’m already listening to a lot of dnd stuff via Dropout so I don’t need another one. Also, after one episode, I kinda only like the Druid haha.

Finding Pattersby - a ghost writer tries to find the guy he writes for, who went missing under mysterious circumstances. The protagonist has anxiety and the narrative generally feels real, I like him a lot. I was pretty hooked in the first couple of episodes but turns out it’s unfinished/ongoing. I don’t want to get invested haha.

Welcome to Night Vale - I do like this but it’s quite formulaic? Which is fine but after 100 episodes feels like it kinda wore out on me. I’ll come back to it at some point, I’m sure.

[christianstepmoms]

[fated-mates]

The Best Romance Novels of 2024! This is our favorite episode of the year, where we get to shout at you about the terrific books we read this year, and tell you all the ways romance continues to excite us.

It's the best and worst job, because we get to shout about books we love, but we are limited to only ten! And choosing ten favorites is very difficult! That said, we persevered, and here they are: Ten books we loved, books that delivered all the things we love in romance: bold heroines, big heroes, banter, complexity, conflict, impossible situations, and stories that swing for the fences. You're going to love these books.

Follow Fated Mates in your favorite podcast app.

[waywardted]

TOP FIRST TIME WATCHES OF 2024

tagged by dear @thesumdancekid! thank you 🫶

Rules: post 9 of your favorite films you saw for the first time this year (2024)

tagging (if you’d like to): @ohtendril @chainofclovers @talldecafcappuccino @howiehamlin @toomanygh0sts @cowherderess and anyone else who sees this and wants to!

[pokimoko]

My Spotify Wrapped 2024

(My top genre was, of course, 'fanfic writer'.)

[vinniedangerous]

Here it is! My Top 10 Best Rap Albums 💿 Of 2024!

Decided to end 2024 with a celebration of the great year hip-hop is happening artistically 🎤

Check out the full list on #YouTube & let me know what you think in the comments!

[annasellheim]

^^^All list of stuff I loved this year with links included.

[soapy-ocean-dragon]

Kinlist

Thought I'd make a proper kinlist so here's this:

Tyler Durden (Fight Club) ⭐️ (Permashifted!)

Paul Sheldon (Misery)

James "Bucky" Barnes (MCU)

Baby/Miles (Baby Driver)

Allied Mastercomputer/AM (IHNMAIMS)

Rusty Ryan (Ocean’s 11) ⭐️

Jack Twist (Brokeback Mountain) ⭐️

The Butcher (Malevolent (podcast))

A computer. Big chunky one from the late 90's. ⭐️

Cooper Adams (Trap)

Those that are highlighted in red are my stronger kins, and the one/s with the star (⭐️) beside them are my IDs. Names that are highlighted in blue are lives I feel less connected to.

I do ask that doubles of any of my IDs DNI. Nothing personal.

Looking for sourcemates for all except Narrator (fight club), as I've already found mine.

Will be updated every now and then.

-Tyler

[punkrockmixtapes]

It is that time of year again when nerdy people like me think that other people might care what they listened to or liked over the past year. If that is your sort of thing here are my year end music lists and if you are extra nerdy here is my podcast episode about it. You can listen via most streaming services or via this link

[fullregalia]

and i took that personally.

I actually was going to use this headline for 2022, but (Taylor’s Version) seemed a better fit at the time, and looking back on ’23, well, I really did take this year personally. 

One charge I am not beating is that I quote The Tempest every time I write about the ups and downs of aging: “Nothing ... doth fade, / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange.” However I’ve yet to find something that captures how bizarre life is better than the phrase “rich and strange.” This year was certainly no different. If you couldn’t tell from the abstruse posts about feeling insecure online, I definitely Went Through It (or at least lower case went through it, lest I be too overly dramatic here) with a strange friendship with a semi-notable person this year. It burned bright and fast and like all other normies who come into the orbit of people with a modicum of notoriety, even if you can hang, it hurts to get dropped for a shiny new thing. The best thing for me to do was to step away from Twitter in August and never look back. Sometimes I miss knowing what stupid thing is going on online (#GagCity) however, if I ever get around to finishing my novel, it’s great fodder for plot. (“How do you serve cunt in a roman à clef way?”)

Besides that personal drama, which wasn’t too bad (frankly, I just got caught up in a one-sided friend crush that took up a majority of Qs 2 and 3), the year was filled with so many interesting things: The movies are back, baby! Country music’s revival won me over. I went to Germany, Switzerland, England, Ireland, and I met a special needs Alpaca named Waffles in Litchfield, CT. Succession ended (RIP Kendall I could fix u), and The Bear’s Copenhagen episode made me cry. I read 30 books, and not all of them were garbage (though some of them truly were). I discovered a brown butter buttermilk cake recipe that I can't quit. It felt like live events were properly in the mix again too; I was able to convince more people to go to Cyclones games with me, but I’m still hitting up Lincoln Center solo (don't men know this is a big date flex??). And how could I not brag about seeing my favorite artist, Ed Ruscha, in the flesh at the opening night of his retrospective at MoMA. But I’ll get into all of that and more below. 

Since this annual recap is not a tradition I’m willing to step away from and never look back (yet), here are my highlights of 2023: 

Books

Thanks to my SAD in the winter, I plowed through the bigger novels in Q1 (e.g., Confederacy of Dunces, I Have Some Questions For You, Birnam Wood). Though the best books I read this year were slimmer like Big Swiss, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, and Trespasses. I believe someone tried to trendcast this, but I think short books have been a thing since ... checks notes ... people started reading? I am still trying to figure out if I cared about The Guest, but I suppose a sense of low-lying dread and hating the narrator meant it worked. I tried to add more urban history into the hold list (NYC, LA, and Palo Alto), but couldn’t get through the latter two before year-end so that’s going on next year’s reading challenge. Seeing as I do LA every January anyway, I’ll save the California books for the West Coast.

I’m a little disappointed that there weren’t many novels I couldn’t put down this year. But I really did focus on contemporary fiction and I think next year I should spend more time on both nonfiction and “canonical” works that I still haven’t gotten around to yet. That is, it may be time to start reading like my dad.

Music

If Spotify is to be believed (it is), I was in.my.feelings. this year (I was). My erstwhile friend crush was a huge Country head, and I am grateful that brief friendship brought more Country--both classic and contemporary--into my life. (I have joked that women will inhale an entire discography/filmography/oeuvre in a weekend for a crush, but honestly show me the lie.) I’ve always been into Americana and bluegrass, but it was good to dig deeper into true country. At the pottery studio I would start with Johnny Cash and just let the algo take it from there for the next 3 - 4 hours. Beyond the musicians I was already listening to a lot (John Prine, Willie Nelson) I listened to more Townes Van Zandt, Nikki Lane, Jess Williamson, and Tyler Childers. 

But of course my top artists were the same as every year: Coltrane, Paul Simon, Prokofiev, Steely Dan. Dean Wareham came up huge for me because I think I played “The Last Word” maybe 400 times this year. You get to the 2:53 mark with the sun shining on Memorial Day Weekend? That’s heaven on earth.

Music was my sanity this year more than it usually is. I had my sad playlist (Jeff Buckley, The Smiths, SZA) for the myriad breakup walks; my Drake playlist for running; my jazz playlist for cooking; and my work party afterparty playlist was even dowloaded by the bar for future use because I spent HOURS figuring out the best arrangement of Beyoncé into Fleetwoord into Dua and they got it. 

I also spent a lot of time behind the wheel with the windows down listening to prog rock, too. Told you I was going through it.

Movies

As the year progressed, my already incoherent listening habits became very movie-forward. That is, I started putting on more movie soundtracks to work to (Nebraska hive we stay riding!! Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross run me over with a truck!!!) and I basically only ended up listening to podcasts about movies (Big Pic, Blank Check, Rewatchables). But the synergy between music and movies was strong this year, as evidenced by the thrilling re-issue of Stop Making Sense and the Eras/Renaissance films. (As always, I implore you to listen to Wesley Morris about everything, forever.)  

After leaving Twitter, Letterboxed became my primary Social Network (lol). Thankfully it’s helping me keep track of what I watched this year. I did a lot of back-list catching up: I watched all the Miyazaki Studio Ghibli films in time to catch The Boy and the Heron the week after I got to The Wind Rises. In no particular order, my favorites: American Fiction, Oppenheimer, No Hard Feelings, Fallen Leaves, Past Lives, Maestro (but that’s because of Lydia Tàr), and because I quite sensibly spent most of this year catching up on Tom Cruise’s entire filmography, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, pt. I. This man will do anything to save cinema! I love it!!!!

The Lawyer Movie Draft match up of Blank Check and Big Pic was one of my favorite podcast episodes of the year. I definitely re-watched The Firm and The Pelican Brief after it. Luv u too, Michael Clayton.

Odds & Ends

My two goals this year were to leave NYC once a month and see a concert/show once a month. I was close to 100% on both, which was nice. If you go to Dublin, be sure to check out Bar 1661. I had an amazing lunch at this Italian place in Bern, Switzerland. If you are in London, I demand you go to Fortitude Bakehouse. As always, the BEC on a croissant at Arethusa is a religious experience. And Zapp’s chips + oysters + wine + this view in Maine = I can die happy. 

I saw three live podcast tapings--my second time seeing both Odd Lots and Who? Weekly and my first time seeing How Long Gone (I’m not proud of it, but I love those two bros and John Early was a great guest). Relatedly, Kate Berlant's one woman show lived up to the hype and Just For Us made me laugh enough I told my folks to see it. I finally saw ABT do Romeo & Juliet at the Met, and there were too many classical concerts to count (highlights being: the Made in Berlin string quartet at Lydia Tàr's Berlin Philharmonic, the Emerson String Quartet performing Shostakovich No. 12, and Chamber Music Society presenting the full Brandenburg Concertos).

On the TV front, for what I lost in Succession this year, I look forward to getting back in Industry next year. My "Smooth Brain Award" for best background streaming goes to And Just Like That and Suits for being too dumb to function. A friend has promised to watch The Curse with me, but that has yet to materialize. At some point I'm going to have to get Apple TV back so I can finally watch the new season of Slow Horses, the first two seasons of which I binged in about a week in February.

Since I’m not actively tweeting, I’m going to put my in/out list here. I was actually on the money with some of my predictions from last year (all light yellow everything and bankruptcy is chic again) however none of you fools got on the “friends holding hands in an 1800s novel way” and I didn’t see enough old bay fries at the bar to make me happy. Let’s see if I can improve my trend casting odds for 2024:

IN: robin’s egg blue, Acting Like You've Been There, cassis and soda, Harvey Wallbangers, Meg Ryan's curly hair in When Harry Met Sally, pretending you know how to sail, whistleblowing, marbled paper, voice notes.

OUT: hard seltzer, oversize blazers, Substack, the pop punk revival, calling things “transcendent,” renter’s insurance, engagement announcements on social media (just get married), Reykjavik, Threads.

I’m probably wrong on all fronts! This take on my predictions is likely also my mantra for 2024. Happy New Year, and to the two to three people who read this whole thing, may it bring you peace and prosperity. Praying the world becomes a little easier to be alive in next year, though I’m not sure that’s how things work these days. If I don’t abandon this effort entirely next year, I’ll be sure to recount what rich and strange experiences came about...

[swampflix]

Podcast #229: The Top 12 Films of 2024

Welcome to Episode #229 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss their favorite films of 2024. 00:00 Welcome 02:30 Wicked Little Letters05:41 Monkey Man08:56 Mars Express12:38 Longlegs20:48 How to Have Sex27:21 A Different Man33:19 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga44:30 The Taste of Things51:45 Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World1:01:22 She is…

[pieceoplastic]

Best Of 2024 - For Notekeeping

[I hesitated to make this end of the year list this time, because i agree with the sentiment, that the only list that counts is the one of the many people, who died in all those fucking wars. To be clear, i publish these end of year lists not with the goal to shift product, but as a way to keep notes. I have always been a list-nerd and i find it helpful to return to them in the future, to see…

[stillunusual]

An investigation into a murder-for-hire website gives tech journalist Carl Miller a window into the worst of humanity....

[surajworldnews]

Most Shocking Celebrity Podcast Revelations of 2024

From Armie Hammer addressing his cannibalism allegations to Kristin Cavallari talking about her “manipulative” DMs from Scott Disick, these stars had people talking. This year, the popularity of podcasts reached new heights and celebrities jumped at the chance to launch their own shows. While sitting down to record each episode, some of Hollywood’s biggest stars spilled the tea on their careers…

[jcmarchi]

Persona 3 Reload's Opening Movie Includes A Brand New Song And You Can Watch It Right Now

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Persona 3 Reload's Opening Movie Includes A Brand New Song And You Can Watch It Right Now

Persona 3 Reload is right around the corner – it hits PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on February 2. If you’ve ever played a Persona game, you’re likely familiar with the “opening movie,” which is the awesome animated opening to the game set to what is typically the main theme song. Ahead of Persona 3 Reload’s release next month, Atlus has released its opening movie, debuting a brand new track called “Full Moon Full Life.” 

In it, we get a look at the main character and the rest of the cast, as well as Persona, Igor, and more. As you might expect, the opening movie retains the flashy and stylish animation Persona has become known for over the years, and no surprise, it looks great. Atlus notes the trailer contains violent and sensitive content, however, so be wary of that before pressing play. 

Check out the Persona 3 Reload opening movie for yourself below: 

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For more about the game, check out Game Informer’s hands-on preview of Persona 3 Reload and then read Game Informer’s list of all upcoming video game remakes. After that, watch the newest episode of The Game Informer Show to find out why Persona 3 Reload is one of our most anticipated games of 2024. 

Are you going to check out Persona 3 Reload next month? Let us know in the comments below!

[vinniedangerous]

Is Tyler, The Creator’s ‘Chromakopia’ Redefining the Rap Genre?

Check out my “Top 10 Rap Albums of 2024” video out now