The Podcast Hoard
The podcast that attempts to organize podcasts! Join your host Sydney as they try to make sense of the wide world of podcasts (or at least the ones they listen to).
Updates every other Wednesday.
Tumblr: thepodcasthoard.tumblr.com
The Podcast Hoard
General trailer
In this trailer, Sydney talks about what to expect from this podcast, and their reasons for creating it.
Music source site is purple planet.
Intro music: Open Road
Underlying music: Tranquility
Outro music: Ecstasy
Welcome to The Podcast Hoard, the podcast about podcasts. In this show, I- your resident dragon Sydney- will try to start organizing at least the podcasts that I personally listen to. Feel free to drop me a line on Tumblr at The Podcast Hoard if you have any suggestions you want me to check out. I’m always open to hearing new recommendations.
I figured I’d take this trailer to talk about my personal experience in this very ambitious project of trying to organize at least some of the nigh-uncountable podcasts that are out there.
Ever since I first started listening to podcasts, pretty much since I first heard about them probably over a decade ago, I wished there was some way of learning about them that wasn’t word of mouth. That there was a way to search by average length or genre. This is my rudimentary way of starting that. I also wanted some way for people to share the podcasts they love and review them that was somewhat centralized. Now, there are directories and websites and other things, but there’s very little way to search them unless you have a specific podcast in mind.
So I started a side blog on Tumblr and started with very very broad genres based on what I personally enjoy- science fiction, fantasy, TTRPG, horror, arts. An additional tag indicating if it’s a fictional or reality-based podcast will be used with each one.
I also wanted a way for people to get help in making a podcast and maybe start to find like-minded people to build a team. So I have general podcast help and specifically audio drama or fictional podcast help.
I also made a tag for each length I thought of. The length is based on the average length of the show as told to me by podchaser, a distribution site. Bite-sized is under 10 minutes, 10-15 minutes is short, 15-45 minutes is medium, 45 minutes to an hour and a half is long, and anything over an hour and a half is extra long.
This is just the infancy of the blog, I’m sure it’ll become much much more complicated in the future. But for now this works.
As far as what this podcast will be- for right now, it’ll be more in-depth reviews of the podcasts I’ve been listening to lately, interspersed with episodes where I give my experience on making a podcast myself.
I hope you tune in every other Wednesday as I fumble my way through this whole organizing thing. Thanks for listening to this episode. Feel free to drop by my Tumblr The Podcast Hoard if you have any suggestions you want to throw my way. Otherwise- happy listening, and I’ll see you in two weeks.