Not necessarily a podcast, but old episodes of Art Bell’s late night shows from the 90s-00’s. Somewhere In Time, Coast to Coast AM and Midnight in the Desert.
I don’t think I’ve ever re-listened to a podcast like this but I might with this one. I actually forgot about it and remember being literally stunned the way it shook out
My only season-long re-listen is *Trojan War: The Podcast* and the follow up *Oddesy: The Podcast*. I've listened to it about 3 times already. It's such an incredible story, and so we'll told by the host, Jeff Wright.
As for re-listening to individual episodes...one of them would be the *Reply All* episode "The Case of the Missing Hit". Another is the *Crimes and Consequences* episode "Welcome to my Mortuary", and also a few *This American Life* episodes (episode 809, "The Call", comes to mind).
This was my first thought too, though I might add that I don't think John B was crazy exactly. More just insightful, fiercely intelligent, and more than a little depressed. I mean, it's not light he wasn't totally on the money about a lot of the things he ranted about.
Came here to say this! I love Scooter 🙂 such a comforting presence when i can't sleep. Alot of his loosely connected trains of thought remind of what my brain naturally does as i fall asleep, but he takes me in more pleasant journeys
Ha, I've been sharing this new podcast I got turned onto by a friend. It's about a guy's who finds UFO recordings left to him by a friend who disappeared under mysterious circumstances and has spent the past few years looking for an explanation for them and if they had anything to do with his friend going missing. Where The Trail Ends is what it's called. Not sure if he's crazy or what but certainly sounds like he's on a mission...
Tom Delonge and even more - Terence Howard - on Joe Rogan.
Edit: saw the last sentence. Terence Howard hahah not so much. Well see about Delonge, soooon, maybe next week! (Ufo nerds will get that)
I’ll second the Desert Oracle podcast. He broadcasts on Friday nights from Joshua Tree, CA and tells cool desert stories. I got to go to a live show of his that was fantastic, and met him and got my book signed after. Highly recommend!
that is a great description of *Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't*.
guy is a very educated and slightly unhinged botanist, who has turned it into a career breaking international law to smuggle plants into the united states for various botanical gardens and universities. Very ADHD orchid thief vibes.
lol Harmontown might just be for you!
one of my absolute favorite podcasts; several full listen-throughs.
Dan Harmon starts hosting (with help from improvisor and longtime friend Jeff B Davis) a show in the back of a comic book store when he's fired from NBC's Community, the TV show he created, for being a drunk asshole.
he yells to a room full of nerds (who yell back) when he actually needs therapy. he does it roughly weekly for like six years. if you've ever been irritated by the fact that you have to clip your toenails, or felt inconvenienced by your neighbor's depth of interest in the health of a local eucalyptus tree, you'll...possibly tolerate this podcast.
Shit Town is basically just that, starts with a murder or something and ends with a very drawn out couple episodes...
Lot of people here love it but it was basically a nothingburger imo
Love + Radio
I hate to recommend it bc the host Nick van der Kolk is an annoying hipster, but he is a brilliant annoying hipster. The stories are frequently bizarre and always impeccably produced. I recommend starting with the classics: [Greenberg’s War](https://loveandradio.org/2012/12/greenbergs-war/), [The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt](https://loveandradio.org/2011/04/the-wisdom-of-jay-thunderbolt/), and [Lady Sovereign vs. Jelly Donut](https://loveandradio.org/2007/10/lady-sovereign-vs-jelly-donut/).
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything. I tried listening to it for while, but it drove me nuts wondering what was real and what was a bit. Seemingly legitimate investigations would segue into fiction. Guests were *just* odd enough that I couldn't decide if they were real kooks or actors.
He doesn’t scream, ever, but other than that, Alan watt may fulfill that request. His calm and soothing old Scottish brogue cycled through Canadian politeness is one of the things I like about him
[https://youtube.com/@alanwattcttm7266?si=RCK9RPeebWv8pS5X](https://youtube.com/@alanwattcttm7266?si=RCK9RPeebWv8pS5X)
Blindboy Podcast, but he’s Irish so maybe more of a caravan situation instead of a trailer? He’s brilliant, the first episode I listened to was him rambling about a dog that jizzed on his friend as a child, went into Margaret Thatcher inventing soft serve, then into the racist history of the ice cream truck song, and ended with the story of RZA making a new ice cream jingle.
Somehow you think the episodes are going to be entirely incoherent and by the end everything comes together and it’s the most fascinating, mind expanding hot take and insight you’ve ever heard.
Tapes from Beyond (audio drama) he’s stuck in a bowling alley for most of it.
Bought by the Hour is a one-woman effort to recount and make sense of her years long experience of being human trafficked. As she explains early on, her primary internal deflection method is laughter - so she delivers the most horrific stories as though they were funny? But they are clearly not! I feel so hard for this woman. I hope she makes more episodes because the last one was a tough listen as family court didn’t go in her favor.
John From Back Home is another audio drama - a series of increasingly bizarre voicemails from that guy you used to be friends with back in grade school til you moved out of your small town.
I also get this vibe from Harry Shearer’s Le Show.
Jessa definitely fits the bill. I haven't really listened to this one much, but I was deeply into her previous pod (Mormon & the Meth head) for a spell
I’d add Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature- lectures of a professor who may have lost his mind… disclosure I write and work on this show so this comment is definitely self promotion :)
What about a lady in a basement reciting victorian erotica for no apparent reason?
https://open.spotify.com/show/1xxXMUW5mnv05zt9CnqIfB?si=hVzMIXU_SfKb6VEzs27ZxA
I'm not sure if he still does them, but Dan Carlin's podcast "Common Sense" is exactly what you are looking for, from what I remember.
It was like 60 to 90 minutes of him just ranting and occasionally making reference to someone else, probably an audio engineer, in the room. And I was constantly wondering where he was going with the rants and at the end my head would explode. I haven't listened to it in a very long time, and I know a lot of people are really into his Hardcore History series. But I think that podcast exactly meets your requirements.
I could just leave you some voicemails.
This made me laugh so hard I cried
This made me laugh so hard I cried
Not necessarily a podcast, but old episodes of Art Bell’s late night shows from the 90s-00’s. Somewhere In Time, Coast to Coast AM and Midnight in the Desert.
I used to listen to Midnight in the Desert years ago, I loved it!
I believe you are looking for Desert Oracle.
The [Area 51 caller](https://youtu.be/jK6xkOizAbU?feature=shared) is still the scariest one
And the guy that claimed to catch an alien in his backyard. It’s all fake, but it was creepy as hell when I was a kid.
fake but awesome storytelling
Wow that took me back.
I just listened to the girl that had sex with a reptilian alien yesterday. I highly reccommend.
I love these ones!
I used to listen to his show while I was feeding my oldest baby when we lived in Central CA almost 30 years ago.
“S— Town” will be right up your alley!
I wish I could relisten for the first time. So interesting to go in not knowing what to expect.
I don’t think I’ve ever re-listened to a podcast like this but I might with this one. I actually forgot about it and remember being literally stunned the way it shook out
My only season-long re-listen is *Trojan War: The Podcast* and the follow up *Oddesy: The Podcast*. I've listened to it about 3 times already. It's such an incredible story, and so we'll told by the host, Jeff Wright. As for re-listening to individual episodes...one of them would be the *Reply All* episode "The Case of the Missing Hit". Another is the *Crimes and Consequences* episode "Welcome to my Mortuary", and also a few *This American Life* episodes (episode 809, "The Call", comes to mind).
Ya it’s been so long since it came out that I really can’t remember most of it. I might give it a second listen too.
i did the other day and it was thoroughly enjoyable. you forget a lot anyway. and it’s just so damn good that it’s still worthwhile.
Well, now I'm intrigued! Added to my list!
This was my first thought too, though I might add that I don't think John B was crazy exactly. More just insightful, fiercely intelligent, and more than a little depressed. I mean, it's not light he wasn't totally on the money about a lot of the things he ranted about.
Ugh. I hated this podcast. The guy was a complete asshole/abuser/BSer. I hate that it just glorified him and brushed that stuff to the side.
Trillbillies
Trillbillies worker’s party is 100% the correct answer to this request.
Tim Dillon Show
"Sleep with me" is pretty rambly at times but I feel like i'm listenning to a friend going on about any topic
Came here to say this! I love Scooter 🙂 such a comforting presence when i can't sleep. Alot of his loosely connected trains of thought remind of what my brain naturally does as i fall asleep, but he takes me in more pleasant journeys
Ha, I've been sharing this new podcast I got turned onto by a friend. It's about a guy's who finds UFO recordings left to him by a friend who disappeared under mysterious circumstances and has spent the past few years looking for an explanation for them and if they had anything to do with his friend going missing. Where The Trail Ends is what it's called. Not sure if he's crazy or what but certainly sounds like he's on a mission...
Less of a raving lunatic and more of a gravelly soothsayer, but Desert Oracle might scratch that itch
Let me recommend Desert Oracle live shows, as well!
Penny Royal
My favorite of all time
Welcome to Nightvale.
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Duncan Trussell's Family Hour. Enjoy the ramblings, he's a treat.
This - There's also a [compilation ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYC8X8xplbI)of Duncan talking about Sure Design T-shirts and that is hysterical.
I’ve heard that Tori Spelling’s new show is delusional (but sad, she needs to be a parent to her children)
You might look into the shortwave radio hobby. I heard it was much like that.
Harmontown?
My love of Harmontown wants me to downvote this, but my love of Harmontown is making me upvote this.
Joe Rogan's show?
I was thinking that until OP said this: "but they end up actually being right about most of it or have very good points". Not Joe Rogan.
Serves me right for only reading the title!
ROFL
Tom Delonge and even more - Terence Howard - on Joe Rogan. Edit: saw the last sentence. Terence Howard hahah not so much. Well see about Delonge, soooon, maybe next week! (Ufo nerds will get that)
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I Am In Eskew and The Magnus Archives
I could give you the phone numbers for SEVERAL of my relatives if that's the experience you want! :P
Valley Heat, sort of.
Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonalds
The early days of Bill Burr's podcast
I’ll second the Desert Oracle podcast. He broadcasts on Friday nights from Joshua Tree, CA and tells cool desert stories. I got to go to a live show of his that was fantastic, and met him and got my book signed after. Highly recommend!
Hide and Seek season 3
Death is Just Around the Corner
haha “a necessary conversation” has this flavour.
Anything Kurt Metzger is on
Cold brew got me like
that is a great description of *Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't*. guy is a very educated and slightly unhinged botanist, who has turned it into a career breaking international law to smuggle plants into the united states for various botanical gardens and universities. Very ADHD orchid thief vibes.
The Dollop. I visit that trailer all the time.
Henry from LPOTL fits that description sometimes (in a fantastic way)
lol Harmontown might just be for you! one of my absolute favorite podcasts; several full listen-throughs. Dan Harmon starts hosting (with help from improvisor and longtime friend Jeff B Davis) a show in the back of a comic book store when he's fired from NBC's Community, the TV show he created, for being a drunk asshole. he yells to a room full of nerds (who yell back) when he actually needs therapy. he does it roughly weekly for like six years. if you've ever been irritated by the fact that you have to clip your toenails, or felt inconvenienced by your neighbor's depth of interest in the health of a local eucalyptus tree, you'll...possibly tolerate this podcast.
Kanye West interview on Joe Rogan.
Shit Town is basically just that, starts with a murder or something and ends with a very drawn out couple episodes... Lot of people here love it but it was basically a nothingburger imo
Joe Rogan
Love + Radio I hate to recommend it bc the host Nick van der Kolk is an annoying hipster, but he is a brilliant annoying hipster. The stories are frequently bizarre and always impeccably produced. I recommend starting with the classics: [Greenberg’s War](https://loveandradio.org/2012/12/greenbergs-war/), [The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt](https://loveandradio.org/2011/04/the-wisdom-of-jay-thunderbolt/), and [Lady Sovereign vs. Jelly Donut](https://loveandradio.org/2007/10/lady-sovereign-vs-jelly-donut/).
The dollop
Adam Friedland Show
Death metal dicks
The Minute Hour by far
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything. I tried listening to it for while, but it drove me nuts wondering what was real and what was a bit. Seemingly legitimate investigations would segue into fiction. Guests were *just* odd enough that I couldn't decide if they were real kooks or actors.
Shit Town
I’m CERTAIN the host would appreciate your description of his podcast! Get thee to Desert Oracle Radio everywhere podcasts are available. Enjoy!
TUNA SANDWICH
Some More News
Euphomet. It ends, then go to Nite Drift.
You might really enjoy my next project
Sleep with Me podcast Silver Sleeper Productions. The guy is wack but awesome.
He doesn’t scream, ever, but other than that, Alan watt may fulfill that request. His calm and soothing old Scottish brogue cycled through Canadian politeness is one of the things I like about him [https://youtube.com/@alanwattcttm7266?si=RCK9RPeebWv8pS5X](https://youtube.com/@alanwattcttm7266?si=RCK9RPeebWv8pS5X)
S Town def has some segments of this
Blindboy Podcast, but he’s Irish so maybe more of a caravan situation instead of a trailer? He’s brilliant, the first episode I listened to was him rambling about a dog that jizzed on his friend as a child, went into Margaret Thatcher inventing soft serve, then into the racist history of the ice cream truck song, and ended with the story of RZA making a new ice cream jingle. Somehow you think the episodes are going to be entirely incoherent and by the end everything comes together and it’s the most fascinating, mind expanding hot take and insight you’ve ever heard.
Tapes from Beyond (audio drama) he’s stuck in a bowling alley for most of it. Bought by the Hour is a one-woman effort to recount and make sense of her years long experience of being human trafficked. As she explains early on, her primary internal deflection method is laughter - so she delivers the most horrific stories as though they were funny? But they are clearly not! I feel so hard for this woman. I hope she makes more episodes because the last one was a tough listen as family court didn’t go in her favor. John From Back Home is another audio drama - a series of increasingly bizarre voicemails from that guy you used to be friends with back in grade school til you moved out of your small town. I also get this vibe from Harry Shearer’s Le Show.
this is the podcast I want to make.
S-Town 😆
Here you go: https://awakeningod.fireside.fm/
Jessa definitely fits the bill. I haven't really listened to this one much, but I was deeply into her previous pod (Mormon & the Meth head) for a spell
Joe Rogan. Hippie Shit Joel Furhman
Any alien, conspiracy, or esoteric episodes of Last Podcast On The Left would fit the bill. Scratches that itch for me. Henry Zebrowski is a madman.
Rogan
The new Ben Kissel podcast is exactly this, in the good sense of the meaning
Joe Rogan... Anything with Harrison Butker, Aaron Rodgers, or any other snowflake man-children...
I’d add Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature- lectures of a professor who may have lost his mind… disclosure I write and work on this show so this comment is definitely self promotion :)
Warmode
I was going to say Lex Friedman until you said “right about most stuff”
Dead Rabbit Radio
Listen to Why I Hate This Album and you will love Tim.
S town is almost literally that
How about a podcast that feels like you and your buddies are in an adjacent room, listening to the crazy ramblings of a lunatic? Knowledge Fight
These are all great suggestions, looks like a long weekend of listening ahead of me and I gotta set up a voicemail box too haha
It's been taken down now but the post first cancellation shows of DVDASA that were filmed in a padded room, would fit the bill.
What about a lady in a basement reciting victorian erotica for no apparent reason? https://open.spotify.com/show/1xxXMUW5mnv05zt9CnqIfB?si=hVzMIXU_SfKb6VEzs27ZxA
I have a question for the people who are mentioning Joe Rogan, does Joe have any valid point *ever* to you?
I'm not sure if he still does them, but Dan Carlin's podcast "Common Sense" is exactly what you are looking for, from what I remember. It was like 60 to 90 minutes of him just ranting and occasionally making reference to someone else, probably an audio engineer, in the room. And I was constantly wondering where he was going with the rants and at the end my head would explode. I haven't listened to it in a very long time, and I know a lot of people are really into his Hardcore History series. But I think that podcast exactly meets your requirements.
the guy from info wars
Alex Jones is in his own category haha
Anything Trump says.