Ranked facts, reckless guesses, maximum derailment.
10ish Podcast is a comedy list show where one voice has the research and another has to guess the ranking in real time. The facts matter, but the fun comes from the detours: movie arguments, mock outrage, old-friend needling, and questions nobody sensible would ask at a funeral.
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10ish Podcast takes the clean satisfaction of a ranked list and runs it through a loud, loose comedy filter. Each episode starts with a topic sturdy enough for trivia: couples' first meeting places, the largest economies in the world, film characters with the most portrayals, award-winning movies, Olympic sports, or long-running game shows. One person has the research. Another has to guess. That guessing-game structure keeps the show moving, even when the conversation takes a hard turn into old friendships, movie cameos, political irritation, or an extremely questionable hypothetical. The result is less a lecture than a contest between information and interruption. The facts still land. They just arrive wearing scuffed shoes. Nick Amell is the recurring center of the episodes, steering the list while letting sidekick hosts and returning guests shove the tone sideways. Dr. Buster brings a combative, absurdist chemistry that can turn a film discussion into a debate about multiverse theory or a game-show intro into a roast. Stephen Clark fits the old-friend rhythm, making an episode about how couples meet feel like an excuse to litigate long-running bits. Alex Johns helps push the GDP episode toward government complaints, Brexit, travel, and national power without losing the joke-first pace. Wok from Insensitive Culture gives the film-character episode a pop-culture edge, moving from George Lucas to Jesus, God, Mel Gibson, and Jim Caviezel with blunt reactions and quick pivots. Episode 300 shows the program's self-awareness, bringing back familiar voices, favorite moments, listener responses, and a little sentiment before the chaos reclaims the room. The show is at its best when it treats knowledge as a game rather than a sermon. It likes the list, but it loves the argument around the list. There is educational value here, especially for listeners who retain facts better when they come with teasing and nonsense attached. There is also a clear edge: crude jokes, sexual riffs, dark detours, and political swipes appear in the excerpts. That edge is part of the house style, not an accident. 10ish Podcast suits people who want trivia with personality, comedy with a scoreboard, and friends who can make even GDP sound like a reason to start a fight.
Made for: For comedy-trivia listeners who enjoy ranked lists, rapid banter, and facts delivered through friendly antagonism. It especially fits fans of movie talk, pop culture arguments, odd history, and game-night energy.
What sets it apart: The show keeps a reliable guessing-game frame while letting recurring sidekick chemistry do real comic damage. It feels researched, but never too polished to interrupt itself.
Nick Emel and guests deliver a mix of entertainment, education, and satirical banter as they cover fact-based Top 10ish Lists in history, true crime, food, pop culture, and more. One host is prepped with fun facts, but the other is guessing the list in real-time, creating an unpredictable rollercoaster of laughs, learning and chaos. With 250+ episodes exploring everything from the Top 10ish highest-grossing films to the smartest animals to the deadliest cults, there's a Top 10ish List for every weird little fancy. And if you're in the mood for a quick fix, our short-form series, THE TINY 10ISH, drops bite-sized episodes every first Monday of the month right here in this feed. Podcast cover a…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ranked facts become comic prompts as Nick Amell and his sidekicks guess, argue and wander toward each answer.
10ish Podcast turns ranked facts into a guessing game, with Nick Amell holding the answers while a rotating sidekick reasons aloud and gets cheerfully pulled off course.
A list of where couples meet somehow ends at a coffin; you're invited to guess along.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose milestone episode where podcast history feeds affectionate mockery and listener nostalgia.
Nick Amell uses Episode 300 as a relaxed anniversary lap, looking back to the podcast's summer 2018 start with Brandon Kaufman before bringing in familiar longtime guest sidekick hosts to revisit their own runs on the show.
A relationship statistic opens into school-memory sparring, loose trivia, and a wild funeral riff.
10ish Podcast turns a familiar relationship statistic into a loose, funny argument about school memories, guessing games, and the odd places couples first meet.
A GDP countdown repeatedly ambushed by wild guesses, grievances, and gleefully juvenile banter.
A ranking of the world's largest economies turns into a guessing game, with GDP facts repeatedly shoved aside by escalating nonsense. Nick arrives with the researched list and stray trivia; Alex counters with guesses, anti-government agitation, and enormous satisfaction when he…
A fact-based film ranking becomes a loose guessing game, with God's 351 appearances landing as the standout surprise.
Nick Amell turns film trivia into a lively pressure test as Wok from Insensitive Culture tries to guess a fact-based, top-10-ish ranking of characters who have appeared often in movies.
A movie ranking turns into a lively mix of Oscar trivia, multiverse talk, and comic detours.
Episode 296 turns a fact-based movie list into a loose, funny guessing game, with Nick Amell and Dr. Buster sparring over Oscar winners, multiverse logic, and the emotional whiplash of Everything Everywhere All at Once.
A live 250th-episode trivia game where the listeners outscore the hosts.
A 250th-episode celebration turns into a live Tennis Podcast trivia game, with Alex, Brad, Shiloh, and Steven trading guesses as listeners steadily pull ahead.
Thanksgiving trivia gets stuffed with bad arithmetic, host teasing, and one memorably unfortunate plumbing term.
Thanksgiving is mostly an excuse to rank, guess, and argue over whether an average 44-mile trip to a holiday meal counts as travel. Nick Amell brings the researched list and random trivia; Daniel Zafran answers with guesses, mock indignation, and cheerful resistance to nearly…
Broadway banter with a full-cast wink.
Joe Rogan's marathon one-on-one talks, from UFC judging debates to Bob Lazar's UFO claims.
Bateman, Hayes, and Arnett riff, then talk shop with guests like Adam Sandler.
Peter Sagal leads NPR's live news quiz, pairing celebrity guests with listener call-in games.
Comedian Chris Gethard takes one anonymous call a week and can't hang up first.
Host Nick Amell and guest Daniel Zafran explore the top five most loved and most hated Thanksgiving traditions based on survey data.
Nick Amell hosts a live stream celebrating the 250th episode of Tennis Podcast, featuring sidekick hosts Alex Johns, Brad Choma, Shiloh, and Stephen Clark.
Hosts Nick Emel and Dr.
Hosts Nick Emel and Buster play a guessing game where one tries to identify a top-10 list, starting with a humorous anecdote about Buster's birth.
Hosts play a guessing game where one tries to identify a top-10 list based on clues, mixing comedy and trivia.
Host Nick Amell marks the 300th episode of Tennis Podcast (a comedic top-10-lists show) with a retrospective format, bringing back recurring sidekick guests Brad Choma, Alex Johns, and Dr.
On 10ish Podcast, host Nick Amell has co-host Stephen Clark guess the top 10 places where recently engaged couples met their partners, based on a 2024 survey from The Knot of nearly 8,000 couples.
10ish Podcast's "Largest Economies in the World (by GDP)" counts down nominal GDP rankings, with Russia at #11, China at $19.5 trillion, and the United States at $30.3 trillion.
["10ish Podcast episode 297 ranks the most portrayed characters in film history, with Nick Amell citing 849-plus appearances for the devil and about 25 theatrical Batman films as the scale comparison.", "Nick and Wok from Insensitive Culture play a guessing game with a list built from Guinness World Records, statsignificant.com, IMDb, and Wikipedia.", "The ranked names include Santa Claus at 819 appearances, the Grim Reaper at 428-plus, Jesus Christ at 354-plus, God at 351, and Sherlock Holmes at 254.", "The episode folds in film-history context about the Lumiere Brothers' 28 December 1895 screening, the 1920s US output peak, and the rise of home VCR viewing in the 1980s."]
10ish Podcast episode 296 ranks the most award-winning films of the 21st century by Oscar wins rather than nominations or Golden Globes.
Hosts Nick Emel and Buster play a guessing game where one host reveals a top-10 list while the other guesses the items, starting with a humorous anecdote about Buster's birth.