The SWAMP

https://open.spotify.com/show/6oWMAFTuYVh60lkDuFTW7u?si=791df1f027c246f8

The SWAMP stands for Same Whack Ass Movie Podcasting and it is as the name suggests a podcast about movies and some of the hosts personal stories. It is one of the few podcasts that I have stayed with for a longer than a few months and that I find myself reaching for over my music playlists.

Sometimes the hosts skip between the movies they are discussing that week and their personal anecdotes quite at random, but I have some rhyme and reason to it. Now I very much enjoy hearing the ladies yap about their favourite ice cream flavours and opinions on Vronsky from Anna Karenina.

Neverafter 

https://www.dropout.tv/dimension-20-neverafter

Neverafter is one of 25 seasons of Dimension 20, a tabletop role-playing game show, streamed on the platform Dropout. It is an improvised show based on dungeons and dragons, although this specific season is quite different. The main premise lies in a retelling of classic fairytales with a horror twist.

The fascinating and unique thing about Dimension 20 is that it is mostly based in improvisation, which makes it´´ s stories feel closer to it´´´´ s audience. This specific season has 20 episodes around 2 hours long. Although they come in video form, I have spent most of them only listening to the stories, while doing household chores. The visuals are mostly 7 people sitting around a table making faces at each other.

In the beginning I found it hard to listen to people who had not prepared text and sometimes stumbled over their words or mumbled them or used names I did not understand, but I got better and now I have no trouble keeping up with stories that take even and hour or two at a time. 

Rehash

https://open.spotify.com/show/3NiXwyBwwDrKyWW5Zd31uY

Rehash is one of the few podcasts,  I listen to regularly. It is run by two women around my age, that also run a Youtube channel, which is where I first found them. They mostly discuss current pop culture phenomenons, that move the internet and often, as they say, rehash events and moments that have been forgotten or set aside.

I mostly listen to them whilst playing cozy computer games or when I am completing menial tasks our home. I find them very funny and approachable, so even though the content isn't sometimes very important or contributing much to my life, it is a nice way to fill the time, when my hands are busy, but not my mind.

A Great Divorce -ACOUP

https://acoup.blog

https://www.youtube.com/@AGreatDivorce

ACOUP translates to A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, which is a blog by a historian named Bret C. Devereaux, who teaches at the North Carolina State University, and read by Youtube channel A great divorce.

It is a collection of videos ranging from military history of the roman empire to the construction of medieval cities and even to commentary on several video games set in "ye olden times". I am mostly interested in the realities of medieval living and the way modern media has gotten or not gotten medieval logistics and cities right.

I think these video essays in particular are great because they not only entertain, but are also informative and very well researched and there are so many in its collection, you might never run out.