I’m not gonna lie about having fallen in love with the new era of podcasting that revolves around the rogansphere, it gives me a bit of humanity while studying endlessly in my room.
However.
I’m not rich and or famous, which means I can’t really relate with whatever the fuck is on their agenda. Audemaris Piguet watches, 911 GT3RSs, 1.2M dollar houses an hour from austin, etc.
Which means
I 100% rather watch video essays made by normal people talk about what I’m thinking when I watch the “bro casts” which is usually “oh fuck off, why are y’all playing dick measuring contests” or “Jesus fucking Christ it is obvious you’re speaking through your ass, I hope someone grills you on everything you said wrong.”
It all translates to I miss the company of my high school friends, I don’t miss the gay jokes and having to sit quietly through their bullshit.
I’d suggest YouTubers that deep dive into controversy, science, or current events. It might be tough to stumble upon, depending on which side of the algorithm you’re on, but I’m a sucker for hour long documentaries on game design and development history.
The thing I absolutely love is to see is the real outside world and the interactive conversations between friends in podcasts.
I can’t sit through 50min of still shots and bullet points, but, if you have what seems like a real conversation mixed in with video of an experience, I get hooked.
This of course is extremely rare as it would make for a horrible life with an extremely high production cost (think Neistat’s OG videos where he’d go around NYC and film his daily life).
What isn’t rare is other people mixing both the podcast energy with the irlstream energy to make a cohesive story. It doesn’t sit right with me that it’s just mainly drama but I’ll take what I can get.
Do you want JUST casual conversation podcasts? Or podcasts that have a “topic” but there’s lots of friendly bullshitting around the topic of the day? I listen to 10+ hours of podcasts a day, I might have recs if you specify.
Edit: I offer because none of the podcasts I listen to are out-of-touch millionaires complaining about their Rolexes lol.
Not OP, but if you have a recommendation for podcasts that have a “topic” but there’s lots of friendly bullshitting around the topic of the day, I’d love to hear some!
Get Played (Two, then three hosts talk about weird/bad video games. Two hosts are or have been in the video game industry in some form.)
Doughboys (This is a long shot as they get REALLY weird sometimes lmao. Don’t listen if you don’t like jokes about cum. But two dudes go to and review fast food restaurants.)
Podcast: The Ride (Theme park dorks talk about theme parks/rides with full understanding of how dorky they are but they’re funny about it.)
Underunderstood (This one is a lot more controlled than some of the others, but I really enjoy it. They investigate questions “the internet can’t answer” aka a lot of weird stuff the internet thinks is a mystery just requires some digging.)
Fraudsters (A bit more topic-focused but again they’re very loose, not rigid and riff a lot. Talks about famous and not so famous fraud cases.)
I could do much more but they’ll lean more topic-focused or chat-focused.
I’m not gonna lie about having fallen in love with the new era of podcasting that revolves around the rogansphere, it gives me a bit of humanity while studying endlessly in my room.
However.
I’m not rich and or famous, which means I can’t really relate with whatever the fuck is on their agenda. Audemaris Piguet watches, 911 GT3RSs, 1.2M dollar houses an hour from austin, etc.
Which means
I 100% rather watch video essays made by normal people talk about what I’m thinking when I watch the “bro casts” which is usually “oh fuck off, why are y’all playing dick measuring contests” or “Jesus fucking Christ it is obvious you’re speaking through your ass, I hope someone grills you on everything you said wrong.”
It all translates to I miss the company of my high school friends, I don’t miss the gay jokes and having to sit quietly through their bullshit.
I’d like to recommend a few non-rogansphere podcasts:
Thank you friend 🩷
Obligatory Knowledge Fight shout out.
The Rogan-centric episodes might be a good place to start.
I’d suggest YouTubers that deep dive into controversy, science, or current events. It might be tough to stumble upon, depending on which side of the algorithm you’re on, but I’m a sucker for hour long documentaries on game design and development history.
The thing I absolutely love is to see is the real outside world and the interactive conversations between friends in podcasts.
I can’t sit through 50min of still shots and bullet points, but, if you have what seems like a real conversation mixed in with video of an experience, I get hooked.
This of course is extremely rare as it would make for a horrible life with an extremely high production cost (think Neistat’s OG videos where he’d go around NYC and film his daily life).
What isn’t rare is other people mixing both the podcast energy with the irlstream energy to make a cohesive story. It doesn’t sit right with me that it’s just mainly drama but I’ll take what I can get.
Do you want JUST casual conversation podcasts? Or podcasts that have a “topic” but there’s lots of friendly bullshitting around the topic of the day? I listen to 10+ hours of podcasts a day, I might have recs if you specify.
Edit: I offer because none of the podcasts I listen to are out-of-touch millionaires complaining about their Rolexes lol.
Not OP, but if you have a recommendation for podcasts that have a “topic” but there’s lots of friendly bullshitting around the topic of the day, I’d love to hear some!
Absolutely! Heres a totally random assortment!
Your Kickstarter Sucks (Two dry funny guys mock dumb/weird Kickstarter campaigns)
Get Played (Two, then three hosts talk about weird/bad video games. Two hosts are or have been in the video game industry in some form.)
Doughboys (This is a long shot as they get REALLY weird sometimes lmao. Don’t listen if you don’t like jokes about cum. But two dudes go to and review fast food restaurants.)
Podcast: The Ride (Theme park dorks talk about theme parks/rides with full understanding of how dorky they are but they’re funny about it.)
Underunderstood (This one is a lot more controlled than some of the others, but I really enjoy it. They investigate questions “the internet can’t answer” aka a lot of weird stuff the internet thinks is a mystery just requires some digging.)
Fraudsters (A bit more topic-focused but again they’re very loose, not rigid and riff a lot. Talks about famous and not so famous fraud cases.)
I could do much more but they’ll lean more topic-focused or chat-focused.
Perfect, I’ll definitely give some of those a whirl. Thanks!
I guess casual conversation that matters sort of? I’d appreciate some of your favorites.