A List Of 300 Unasked For Terms For Podcasts

Podcasts are fine. We all wouldn’t be here on this podcasting website reading about podcasting things if we weren’t all on the same page about that. But are we sold on just calling them “podcasts?”

I think I can do better. I’ve come up with a few suggestions for new names for podcasts. Some of them already exist, while others are new ones I thought of that I think could catch on. 

In order to give myself a point to get worn down, I had to decide on an arbitrary number of names to hit. Let’s go with 300.

Are they all going to be catchy? No, but I’m sure it’ll be fun to think of them!

Ok, Let’s get into it!

1. Podcasts.
2. Online Radio.
3. Godcast (Apparently a real one, according to WordHippo.com).
4. Podcat.
5. Eps.
6. Dad’s New Thing.
7. The One That Gets You Through It.
8. A Couple Of Old Friends from High School Hanging Out And Shooting The Shit.
9. Internet Radio.
10. The First Ever Audio Fiction Show.
11. The Show He Launched After Being Canceled.
12. Actors Recapping Shows They Were On.
13. The One That Was Set Up For Less Then $100.
14. Three And A Half Hours Of Video Game News.
15. Fifteen Minutes of Normal News.
16. The Ones That Represent Radio Fiction At The End Of The World.
17. Mobcast (another WordHIppo.com original).
18. A Pilot For A TV Show (Never Produced).
19. The Ones That Help You Build Audiences.
20. One With a British Guy.
21. Another Podcast With Only White Hosts.
22. Talking About Obvious Things Like Nobody Else Is Talking About.
23. Talking About Things Nobody Talks Like Everyone Is Talking About It.
24. The One That’s Finished.
25. Podcasts About Very Specific Things.
26. The Easiest Thing In The World To Make.
27. Conan’s Domain.
28. The Ones That Are Carried By Their Great Hosts.
29. The Parasocial Fast Track.
30. Direct Messages From Whatever God You Believe In.
31. Discovered Pods.
32. The First Ever Podcast Musical.
33. The Show That Got Her Canceled.
34. Plordcasts.
35. McElroy Family Dinner.
36. Two Gals Shooting The Shit.
37. The Money Making Podcast (Yes, They Exist).
38. Evidence.
39. Laughing at Crime!
40. The Thing That Happens Around SquareSpace Ads.
41. Long Apology Episodes.
42. The Best Role-Playing You’ll Hear.

43. The One Everyone Keeps Telling You To Listen To.
44. The One You Keep Telling Everyone To Listen To.
45. The One About Friends.
46. The Ones Making An Effort To Not Be Racist.
47. A Rewatch Podcast For A Show You’ve Never Seen.
48. Uncle Doug’s Thing He Doesn’t Want The Family Listening To.
49. Four Hosts, One Mic.
50. Ad Reads, The Experience.
51. Family Friendly Fun-casts!
52. Subscribed But Never Listened To.
53. Therapy Sessions.
54. Content To Sleep To.
55. Plobcasts.
56. The Ones That Learn From TV.
57. Audio Improv Scenes.
58. Audio Improv Scenes With Long Form Narratives.
59. The Pulled Audio Track From A Youtube Video.
60. The Pulled Audio Track From A Whole Ass TV Show.
61. Archivel Radio.
62. Turning On The Mic And Seeing What Happens.
63. The Writer’s Distraction.
64. The Ones With d/Deaf Representation.
65. The Ones that Feel like Homework.
66. Important Deep Dives.
67. Unimportant Deep Dives.
68. The Ones To Prep Your Kids For The Future.
69. Nice.
70. Direct Nerd Dispatches.
71. It’s Not Illegal To Podcast About This But It Is Ill-advised.
72. The Hip New Thing.
73. Books about Podcasts.
74. Your Quarantine Project.
75. An Excuse To Hang Out With Friends.
76. A Loosely Tied Together Collection Of Inside Jokes.
77. The Abandoned Ones.
78. The Ones On Twitter.
79. Podcasts…2!!!!!
80. Radio but Sexy.
81. Radicalization In Any Direction.
82. A Mistake, Probably.
83. “Noun: a digital audio file made available on the internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.”
84. The Ones Losing Listeners.
85. Mouth Sounds.
86. Popular TV Show: The Podcast.
87. Something To Play On A Road Trip Where Nobody Likes Music.
88. The Empathy Boosters.
89. No, Mom, It’s Not a Phase.
90. A Premise That Shouldn’t Make It Past 10 Episodes.
91. Voices To Shut Your Brain Up.
92. The One That Hits You Hard.
93. Aggressively Describing Everything Around You, Like Normal People Do In Normal Conversations.
94. This One’s Gonna Save The Marriage.
95. Podcasts about Podcasts.
96. This whole article was inspired by this one Hard Drive article about Waluigi, so this one’s for you, king. Waaaaaaahad-casts.
97. The Things They Release For Us To Write About Here.
98. Sick Convos With Rad Peeps.
99. Bad Podcasts.
100. “Good” Podcasts.
101. Meh Podcasts.
102. Writing Podcasts.
103. Earbud In Unlovable Earbud.
104. Just The Bits.
105. The thing your doctor recommends to you to cheer you up, and you unfortunately must inform them, “But Doctor, that’s my podcast!”
106. Philodcasts.
107. Funny Ones.
108. Scary Ones.
109. Sad Ones.
110. Intense Ones.
111. Relaxing Ones.
112. Science Ones.
113. Fantasy Ones.
114. Science Fiction Ones.
115. The Ones That Claim To Be Diverse.
116. Good Ones Made With A Little Money.
117. Bad Ones Made With a Lot of Money.
118. The Thing They’re Apparently Up To Now.
119. The Joe Rogan Rogan Joe Ho Bo Row Row Row Your Boat Experience: The Show.
120. The Ones With A Different Perspective Besides The Small Army Of Podcasts Hosted By White Dudes.
121. The One For SEO.
122. The Corporate One
123. The One That Has A Joke Premise That Couldn’t Last Past A Handful Of Episodes.
124. The Lovey-Dovey Ones.
125. The One That Seems Like A Good Idea But Doesn’t Stick The Landing.
126. Yes, You Can Swear
127. No, You Cannot Swear.
128. The Finance Smarty Pants Ones.
129. Shows That Sound Bad Out Of Context.
130. The Piggy’s Favorite Slop.
131. One Take, No Edits, Thousands Of Weekly Listeners.
132. The Ones That Cover Hard Topics That Need To Be Talked About.
133. Fully-Funded, Never Released.
134. The Lost Episode.
135. The First Ever Audio Movie.
136. The Repetitive Ones.
137. Phillip O. D’casts.
138. The NPR Ones, Or I Guess In This Case The NPP Ones Because The R Means Radio And The P Means Podcasts.
139. This One’s For Daddy (I’m Sorry).
140. Inarguably Human Experiences.
141. The Archived Ones that Need A Real Dusting Off.
142. The Ones About Food.
143. The One That Isn’t Reply All (Which By the Way All Of That Reply All Stuff Happened In March Christ What A Year).
144. Audio Drama (How Have I Not Said Audio Drama Yet?)
145. Oh Dang, These Things Can Be Game Shows?
146. The Ones That Spread Authorship.
147. Anime Sickos Podcast.
148. The Sexy Ones.
149. The Ones That Have Been There Since The Beginning.
150. The Kawaii Ones.
151. The Podcasts For Cool Guys.
152. An Onslaught Of Celebrity Shows!
153. Shows For All Kinds Of Minds.
154. The Retracted Fact Show.
155. The Ones You Stopped Listening To.
156. The Self-Improvement Ones.
157. The Correcting Misinformation Shows.
158. The Horror Ones That Hit Just Right.
159. The Sorta Just Kinda OK Ones.
160. The Explotitive Ones.
161. The Ones that Help You Feel Like You Belong.
162. There’s a pretty solid chance nobody has read this far.
163. If you have, why?
164. Am I fluffing the numbers by talking directly to you? Yes.
165. But I’ve written 161 of these already, so it’s probably fine.
166. I probably lost a lot of people at “Phillip O. D’Casts,” who by the way is my new original character that I love very much.
167. Phillip is an approachable and relatable 20-something trying to make it big in the big city.
168. That being Audio City, the city of podcasts!
169. He goes on a bunch of magical, relatable adventures, such as:
170. Trying to get a job, but he only has the skills of a podcastor!
171. Trying to date, but he must record every date!
172. Reckon with how the previous generation has left nothing for the next generation to build off of except societal rubble, and how it is likely we will leave even less to the next generation, regardless of our efforts.
173. Hunt for his great grandfather, Archduke Polly A. D’cast’s long lost treasure and make friends along the way!
174. If you want to hear more, be on the lookout for my upcoming Seed and Spark!
175. Oh wow, we hit halfway there a while ago.
176. OK, that was a bit to fluff up the numbers, let’s get back to some genuine silly names.
177. Fuck.
178. The Ones Built On The Backs Of Powerful Editors.
179. The Ones About Justice.
180. The Wrong Download File.
181. Kissing Noises.
182. The All American Podcasts (Not Like That).
183. The Refreshing Ones.
184. Hosts Talking Over Each Other.
185. Hosts Shouting Over Each Other.
186. The Quarantine Struggle Shows.
187. The Ones That Queer You.
188. Important History Deep Dives Of History That Needs More Attention.
189. A Big Property Taking A Dip Into Podcasting.
190. Rick’s Side Hustle.
191. Shows Where You See Yourself Represented.
192. Shows That Want You!
193. Yet Another True Crime Show.
194. The Thing You Listen To During Work.
195. A Not So Lonely Car Drive.
196. The Straight Ones.
197. The Not So Straight Ones.
198. The Very Not Straight Ones.
199. The Ones Specifically Designed To Tell Someone To Go Fuck Themselves.
200. Cops Favorite Podcasts.
201. The Conspiracy Shows.
202. The One Who Thinks A Twitter Account Is A Good Replacement For A Website
203. A Bad Movie Watching Podcast.
204. A Bad Bad Movie Watching Podcast.
205. Audio Medium That Looks Good.
206. Theoretical Empathy Interviews.
207. The Netflix Of Podcasting.
208. A Podcast With A Backlog That You Just Shouldn’t Bother With.
209. A Podcast With A Backlog That Is Necessary To Listen To All Of Before The Recent Episodes Even Make Sense.
210. Scott Aukerman Talking To Wacky Entrepreneurs.
211. Gaming Podcast That Spends The Majority Of Episodes Not Talking About Video Games.
212. Too Much.
213. The Ones You Listen To With Friends.
214. The Award Winners.
215. A Deep Dive History Podcast Longer And More In Depth Than Any Class You’ve Taken That Talks About The Things Your History Teachers Wish They Could HAve Told You About.
216. Memes.
217. Homestucks.
218. First Name Basis Shows.
219. From The Minds Of Discover Pods.
220. Reading Various Posts From Online, Such As Reviews Or Tweets.
221. The One You Host With Your Parents.
222. At this point, I was beginning to think this article was a bad idea, but then the New York Times released an article about how it is normal and expected to hate your spouse, so my imposter syndrome has been obliterated.
223. Lies.
224. Seasonal Ones.
225. The Ones That Have Gone Stale.
226. The Only Good One.
227. Your Podcast.
228. My Podcast.
229. Our Podcast.
230. Their Podcast.
231. Shows To Eat With.
232. Narrated Shows.
233. Tech Ones.
234. Business Ones.
235. A Podcast With The Premise Of Self-Imposed Suffering (Much Like This Article).
236. The One That’s Just Listener Mail.
237. Somewhere along here I lost the thread and started just listing out kinds of podcasts and also random little comments, but hey, what’s more podcasting then that?
238. The Mundane Ones.
239. The Ones That Help You Rediscover Old Loves.
240. Niche Ones.
241. Bobcast.
242. PodChrist.
243. PodCrap.
244. PodCod.
245. Longer Worse TikTok.
246. The One Your Partner Doesn’t Like, Mainly Because You Keep Talking About It.
247. Baby’s Newest Hyperfixation.
248. The One With The Annoying Fandom You Don’t Engage With.
249. The One With The Annoying Fandom You Are A Card Carrying Member Of.
250. The One You Don’t Like Listening To But You Still Stay Subscribed To For Your Own Personal Reasons.
251. The One You Swear You Will Get To.
252. Podcast-offs.
253. Podcast-aways.
254. The Show That Should Have Stopped A While Ago.
255. I’ve been running on fumes with this one since like 150.
256. I’m the one that set the goal of 300, so I can cut this off whenever.
257. I still appear to be going.
258. Why can’t I bring this level of needless determination to achieve personal goals to other aspects of my life?
259. Shit, OK, Um, Wod-Casts.
260. The One You Might Not Be In The Right Headspace to Listen to.
261. The One With Headspace Ads.
262. The One That Goes Through One Ear And Out The Other.
263. The Hopepunk One.
264. The Steampunk One.
265. Friends At The Table (the concept of friends being at a table, not the actual play podcast focused on critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interactions between good friends.)
266. My Funny Friend, My Friend Who Can Actually Stay On Topic, and Me (The Weakest Link).
267. Are You Sure You Want To Publish That, Bud?
268. The One In Your Mentions.
269. Notable Not Edited In Post.
270. The Salvaged Show Premises By Spiritual Successors.
271. The Non-Religious Religious Ones.
272. The Actually Religious Ones.
273. Podcasts about Books.
274. Podcasts…..3!!!!!!!!!!!
275. The Ace Podcasts (As In Asexual Ones)
276. The Ace Podcasts (As In The Good Ones. There Is Overlap)
277. The Podcasts We Made Friends With Along The Way.
278. Gamer Shows.
279. The Kazuma Of Podcasts.
280. The Sora Kingdomhearts Of Podcasts
281. Halloween Podcasts.
282. Thanksgiving Podcasts (These Feel Like They Might Be Real).
283. Christmas Podcasts.
284. The Game.
285. Alien Ones.
286. Gamer Ones (But Like For People Who Made Games.
287. Almost At The End of This List, Which Admittedly Hasn’t Been Funny For 100 Lines.
288. Takes On The Classics.
289. Projects Birthed From Isolation.
290. The Beaten Dead Horse Show.
291. The Ones That Don’t Really Matter In The Long Run.
292. The New One.
293. The Old One.
294. The First One.
295. The Last One.
296. The Bottle I Screamed Into And Threw Out To Sea (Counts As A Podcast.)
297. The One That Is Tied To A Time In Your Life.
298. The Podcast From Home.
299. Phillip O. D’Cast The Second.
300. The Podcast You Could HAve Listened To Instead Of Reading This Entire List.

If any of these wind up sticking, Venmo me! Feel free to let me know about any others you might think of online, or maybe just to complain! 

Happy New Year!