Ten Pence Arcade Podcast just restored the first 125 episodes that had been missing from their RSS feed. : )
ive been downloading many of these seminaries from UC berkeley’s tang center for silk road studies in audio form to listen as podcasts and they are all great. makes me miss being in school, a little bit.
this recent, not listed on youtube as of yet, series of panels on political institutions and relations of the chinggisid (and subsequent eurasian dynaties’) courts is super fascinating
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listened to a bunch of Respect the Dead which is about discussing awful people from history, now thankfully resting in piss. kinda like Behind the Bastards except sillier and gayer
its funny!! even when they touch heavy shit they keep it pretty light and focused on mockery. i liked all the hosts in advance from yt video essays, theyre likable and solidly leftist, its fun listening to them marvel at some of the absurdly clownshoes horrible things these people did, especially when theyre some weirdo i didnt know much about (like crack-smoking, perpetually white-girl-wasted ex-mayor of Toronto Rob Ford, or Gwen Shamblin the insane diet cult leader)
edit: alright holy shit i just listened to the Eugene Mulvehill/Action Park episode and i’d recommend that as the first episode to try. or at least read up on what a fuckin bonkers unsafe operation Action Park was. (I dont even want to spoil the reveal about the Cannonball Loop)
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I’m listening to No Rangers Allowed and having a fantastic time. I had put it off because I didn’t think TTRPGs were for me, but I miss you all and it’s good to hear your voices. Eerie to listen to them from a time before we had met though…
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Ttrpgs are for everyone!
Actual play podcasts are not though, that much is true.
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no rangers allowed is great I wish there were more episodes
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You and me both brother
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i recommended it to one of my coworkers when we were chatting about actual play casts the other day 
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Another lost soul…
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Henry James, the 420-year-old loquacious elf, is whom I aspire to become one day.
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“Diary of an Arcade Employee” podcast
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listened to this while chilling on my backyard. great, fascinating talk on the history of a medieval armenian city during the age of mongol conquest and caucaso-mongol life and political economy in general
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i listened to this while having a really bad day at work and the healing power of funny trans women brought me back to life
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Mike’s Amazing World of DC History: a guy who collected every single DC Comics story through 2010 talks about the company’s earliest, often highly obscure serialized comics. Oddly mesmerizing.
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Imagine the nerdiest possible comics history podcast. This is it.
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interview starts at 12:30
maron gets solondz to open up a lot more than many other interviewers cuz they’re both from the same area. todd talks about working on a novel for three years in ELEMENTARY school, being defined by failure, not being cool enough for the factory, and how hes NOT obsessed with pedophilia!!. lots of good stuff in here (it was right around when dark horse came out so you might have already listened to it its not new)
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^ Comic book creator interviews, largely focused on old super hero stuff
^ More comic book creator interviews, largely focused on a certain group of modern-ish largely Marvel/Image writers–but still having a wide variety of creators sprinkled throughout the large episode archive; interview style can be a bit fanboyish
“Charts the rise and fall of Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons”; maybe slightly overproduced documentary-style podcast using interviews with Gygax family members and co-workers including his first wife Mary Jo—they grew up across the street from each other—his eldest son Ernie Jr., and Rose Estes, who created D&D’s “Endless Quest” choose-your-own-adventure book line. As a story of a creative guy who made a ton of bad life and business decisions, it can be a bit of a downer, but hey I grew up with D&D and couldn’t stop listening until the end.
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The podcast I’ve most enjoyed stumbling onto recently has been Worst of All Possible Worlds. Yes, it is another podcast about popculture, and they don’t cover anything obscure, but it is saved by the virtue of
- They do actual comprehensive research!
- They’re former-ish theater kids, and have some idea of how to make jokes land.
- As god as my witness they do skits that aren’t bad. Good skits in a podcast! I didn’t think that was physically possible.
- They all had a Christian upbringing which involved Adventures in Odyssey (except for the one catholic one) which is something I’ve never had exposure to. The episodes where they fill in this blind spot of mine are like MST3K with a false Jesus.
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idk where else to post this but the nice guys & dolls of [duckfeed.tv](http://duckfeed.tv) are doing their annual 48 hour charity stream to benefit [point of pride](https://www.pointofpride.org/) this weekend and i beseech any of y’all with the inclination to check it out
the podcast thread i made where i link/talk them up a bunch felt like a good elsewhere to post this
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