Podcasts sure, but I’m mostly thinking of good tv shows and webseries here, movie franchises and documentaries too. I want to set it going in VLC and turn the screen off, which is basically how I watch YouTube slop.

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    There are vast amounts of radio dramas that you can grab off the net. I spent some time downloading shows. Stuff decades old is old-timey and it absolutely was not for me. An example of something I really hated is Dimension X. It was one of the first sci-fi radio dramas.

    For the past few decades the radio became increasing unimportant and the format morphed into audio dramas. The Brits love the stuff. Just considering the UK alone - there must be 1,000s of hours an ungodly amount of sci-fi, horror, mystery, etc. Doctor Who-related stuff is a genre unto itself. I spent yet more time downing shows. Sadly for me audio dramas (UK or not) are not my taste either.

    The only thing I listened to episode after episode was an oddball, ultra-low budget zombie series called We’re Alive. I think after all the effort I made I wanted to find at least one thing I listened to from start to finish. It wasn’t that good. I could have stopped after season one - but damn the torpedoes - I listened to the entire thing.

    We’re Alive, A Story of Survival

    We’re Alive — A Story of Survival is a horror/post apocalyptic audio drama, originally released in podcast form. Its story follows a large group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse in downtown Los Angeles, California. We’re Alive premiered May 4, 2009 on iTunes, and concluded its fourth and last season on July 29, 2014.

    Apparently this link has all the episodes.

    https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/d1b39068-c10f-5817-8324-88ba173183cd

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      I’ve listened to We’re Alive a couple years back. I thought it was pretty ok. It’s better than most audio stuff of its ilk.

      It was interesting to listen to a longish audio full cast thing. I don’t like all the spinoff crap that came from it, though.

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      In a similar vein, I’m pretty sure Phil Hendrie’s archive is available online and he was on the air forever, he must have recorded thousands of shows.