Podpodcastcast

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

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