you forgot

podcast about engineering disasters, with slides

Also, D&D campaign

We need the podcast equivalent of old radio shows, like acting out a story with sound effects

Honestly, this chart is sad. I have not listened to a single of any of these type of podcasts because I stay away from bad content.

Ya know what? I don't think the boomers were right. Their equivilant to podcasts was FM Radio having talk shows at 6am with wacky hosts that use slide whistles, fake laughs, and crazy sound effects every 3 seconds.

They didn't have it right. There's absolutely room for something way better.......but those awful 80s morning shows were still better than these podcasts.

So I think Behind the Bastards and The Dollop would fit as a subcategory under the first one of "journalists and comedians riff on some of the worst people in history as their producer tries to keep them on topic and avoid being cancelled".

• History podcasts ❤️
• Technical deep-dives
• Science explainers
• Local, county/city-level history
• DIY (and mishaps)
• Music: instruction, remix, reaction, and ASMR
• Cackling, celebrity gossip
• Movie and SFX tech and nostalgia (Star Wars, Star Trek)
• ASMR
• Transportation porn
• Board games
• Crypto and finance/investment bros
• Crafting
• Alternative energy: EV, solar, wind, and heat pumps.
• Cooking, including terrible-tasting stuff (like hot wings)
• OMFG: unboxings

There’s also: Computer nerds talk about the most inane software topics imaginable.

And: AI bros who used to be Crypto bros talk about their latest scam.

There's also the sex and relationship advice podcasts that make you feel way better about your own mostly functional relationship.

Funny Leftists describing the abhorrent crimes of history.

Source: The Dollop, Behind the Bastards

Types of podcast I listen to:

• History podcasts (the best type)
• That one French daily fiction podcast about a fictional city that's a mix of realistic and absurd
• A woman reads fairy tales and old novels
• A small group of people (always the same + tye occasional guest) discuss the one thing they're all fascinated by, with a different thematic each day.

History podcasts are my catnip at the moment. I'm not alone.

https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/awkward-moment-at-supreme-court-as-judges-phone-plays-podcast-mid-hearing/

I'm glad that of the 90 podcasts I subscribe to, none of them are in this meme

My most listened to podcast genres are:

• Fans of a sports team celebrate or commiserate
• Cheerful people look at the world through the lens of economics
• A professional voice actor reads me cool short stories
• A science reporter lets scientists gush about their cool discoveries
• Science myths are investigated and sometimes debunked, in an entertaining way (with citations)
• A storyteller tells true stories about mistakes and what we can learn from them
• BBC Foreign Correspondents talk about the stories behind the stories
• The current world is examined from a perspective of how the media delivers the message

You forgot:

Independent media news show with a hyper-niche ideology covering political developments you had no idea were happening.

And also:

Marathon-length dramatic history reading with a beat-for-beat breakdown of events as they occurred.

Where does "two comedians listen to and critically analyze Alex Jones" fit?

What about actual play podcasts? The only podcast I listen other is Glass Cannon. Or rather, shows in their network. Its the only place I get my TTRPG fix anymore

Where do you put The Magnus Archives and Darknet Diaries?

My favorite type of podcast is Learn About A Weird Thing, which isn't on this list. Stuff You Should Know is a good one. Word up, Josh & Chuck.

I mean there's also fiction storytelling and radio plays, which is about the only kind of podcast I listen to besides Cautionary Tales.

Where would it be Safety third here?

You completely glossed over podcast that are more dramatically creations or just pure fiction. Something like welcome to night Vale is one of my favorite ones or horror story ones such as SCP archives or the no sleep podcast.

Comedy podcasts about death, Mars news, and a random small English soccer team.

My favorite is friends who bullshit and call each other gay. At one point the comedian was that way. He just huffed his own farts so long he liked the smell.

The following don't seem to fit any of these (and they're all excellent):

• Radiolab
• Savage Love
• Throughline
• Climate Denier's Playbook
• The Urbanist Agenda
• CBC Embedded

What about three white guys just hanging out and talking about the exact same crap they always do, but this time with a microphone in the middle? (This was my old podcast, The Masters of Divinity)

Specialist who knows some topic really well but has no charisma or presentation so is perpetually locked at like 200 listeners.

Interviewer who knows everything about the interviewee like creepy spying levels of detail

Cast that started going through a really long series that morphed and charged into something else over the course of the series review/analysis

Where does The Nextlander Podcast fall here hmmmm