Weekly experiments, nerdy tangents, controlled collapse.
Please Don't Listen turns weekly assignments into fast, messy group comedy: music machines, old hobbies, actual-play podcasts, Unity projects, trivia, sports betting, anime, and comics. The pleasure is watching a simple premise get heckled into a real take.
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Please Don't Listen is a comedy show about doing a different thing every week and then letting the conversation ricochet off the assignment. The format sounds simple. The result is a fast, cluttered panel where hobbies, games, podcasts, anime, comics, trivia, and bad ideas all get treated as legitimate material for jokes and arguments. One recent episode turns music hardware into a fight with tiny buttons, blank labels, and the question of how anyone is supposed to make art on something that resembles a calculator. Another returns to old hobbies and lands on the strange value of being an ideas person, even when the project never becomes a finished game, comic, or campaign. The show is especially comfortable around tabletop RPGs and game design. It can talk about actual-play chemistry, wrong party decisions, Unity experiments, and half-built creative ambitions without flattening them into neat advice. It also has a media-nerd streak that runs deep. Kagerou Project becomes a route into anime production problems, fan reputations, and remembered anime touchstones; Zot opens the door to Scott McCloud, clear-line influence, childhood adventure logic, and what comics can explain that other forms cannot. Still, the tone stays scrappy. Nobody sounds like they are presenting a lecture. The funniest stretches come when one premise keeps getting reworded, undercut, and piled onto until it becomes both sillier and more accurate. The show can be blunt, chaotic, and proudly unserious. It is also more observant than its fake warnings suggest. Please Don't Listen works best as a comedy feed for people who enjoy hearing friends test out an experience, mock their own competence, and accidentally produce good criticism while stepping on each other's sentences.
Made for: For listeners who like fast group banter, comedy podcasts with a media-nerd backbone, and conversations that treat bad ideas as useful raw material. It especially fits fans of games, comics, anime, tabletop RPGs, and hobby projects.
What sets it apart: The show changes assignments constantly, but keeps the same argumentative hangout engine underneath. Instead of polished reviews, it offers messy firsthand aftermath: trying the thing, failing at parts of it, then finding the real point through riffing.
Please Don't Listen to This, Your Life Depends On It! A bunch of friends do something different every single week, and then talk about it. Show not meant for human consumption.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Please Don't Listen makes unfamiliar hobbies funny by pairing genuine curiosity with a group instinct for riffs, objections, and oddly revealing comparisons.
Please Don't Listen turns a changing assignment into an excuse for friends to learn in public, compare notes, and chase each other's tangents.
Ponies have to pay to reach their problems, and somehow you know exactly how they feel.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A calculator-shaped music gadget, a kinder sequencer, and enough button confusion to make electronic music feel human.
Making music with machines first means making peace with the machines. This single-episode review follows a host moving through audio settings, speaker volume, and Spotify's auto-generated titles before landing on the funnier obstacle: a Pocket Operator that looks like a…
A ninth-year opener about unused ideas, creative momentum, and making things for the possibility of it.
Please Don't Listen begins its ninth year by fussing with its own calendar, then eases into a relaxed conversation about the pleasure of making things that might never leave the planning stage.
Heart of Hope turns tabletop format talk into a loose but useful chemistry test.
Heart of Hope gives Please Don't Listen a tight frame for asking what tabletop RPG actual plays really need. The hosts begin with their own limited history with the format, then weigh the familiar appeal of a full party making bad choices against the stranger pressure of a…
A loose Kagerou Days tangent becomes a sharp, funny talk about anime sound, production strain, and looping dread.
Please Don't Listen uses Kagerou Days as a springboard for a funny, wandering conversation about anime sound, rough production, and the weird momentum of a good tangent.
A bright, nimble discussion of suburban boredom, portals, and McCloud's gift for explaining comics.
Scott McCloud's Zot! gives Please Don't Listen's Panel Show a comic with a bright double life. What first sounds like a 1960s Batman punch effect becomes Jenny's story: a bored teenager bracing for another move, and for the awkward math of making friends when leaving again…
A loose Superman quiz spins from kryptonite hazards into Palafin's superhero turn.
Superman for All Seasons gets a warm, lively pass as the show revives its occasional Superman format and steers the room into a quiz designed to trip up the table.
A trading card lesson where paid ponies make other people's problems harder to solve.
Trading card games show up here as crinkling plastic, mysterious pulls, and rules that almost immediately invite baffled follow-up questions. The hosts open packs, pause over Shinx and a hollow Ooze Patrol card, then try to make sense of a pony-themed game built around action…
Tiny debates, treated with heroic seriousness.
The hosts rant about the declining quality of Pokemon games, citing poor graphics, lack of innovation, and negative employee reviews, while reminiscing about outdated office technology.
The hosts of Please Don't Listen attempt to learn trading card games for a listener-suggested episode.
Nick hosts a Superman-themed episode featuring Brainiac's Super-Quiz, where co-hosts Cam, Alex, and Seb answer trivia about Superman history, villains, and cultural impact.
Please Don't Listen Episode 388 frames David Cronenberg's 1999 eXistenZ around video-game immersion and virtual reality.
["Matt's hardware challenge turns Please Don't Listen Episode 365, \"Making Music With Machines,\" into a test of the Pocket Operator, the Novation Circuit, and the Ableton Move.", "Nick, Seb, and Alex open by fixing their audio routing and mocking Spotify's auto-generated chapter titles, including \"From Zelda to crocheting.\"", "They spend much of the episode mapping sounds to feelings, with church bells, xylophones, synths, theremins, harp, and A Tribe Called Quest's \"Midnight Marauders\" used as concrete examples.", "Seb says the Pocket Operator felt like a calculator, the Novation Circuit felt easier because of its labeled grid and loops, and Matt argues that hardware limits music-making more than talent."]
Please Don't Listen opens year nine by correcting the count from eight to nine and framing the episode around hobbies the hosts have left behind.
Please Don't Listen reviews Heart of Hope, a tabletop RPG actual-play that lifts Necronica mechanics into a custom cyberpunk setting.
The hosts discuss making a game in Unity, being idea guys, and their fear of SoundCloud going bankrupt.
The hosts share amusing and surprising facts they learned from a bar trivia night, including the location of the bobsled event in Cool Runnings and which planet has the shortest day.
The hosts of 'Please Don't Listen' discuss their experiences and strategies with sports betting in a comedic roundtable format.
Please Don't Listen Episode 355 ties Kagerou Project to Vocaloid, manga, anime, and albums, with "jinzou enemy" and Hatsune Miku at the center.
Seb and Nick place Scott McCloud's "Zot!" after "Understanding Comics," "Making Comics," and "Reinventing Comics," then tie it to "ElfQuest" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." They describe Zot as a solo comic from Eclipse and as a book that stayed out of print while still being taught in art school.
The hosts discuss the physical effects of aging and poor dietary habits, including weight gain, high heart rate from energy drinks, and diabetes from excessive juice consumption.
The hosts discuss the 1960s British TV show The Prisoner and its influence on modern media, then brainstorm how they would escape from the Village.
The hosts of 'Please Don't Listen' learn about trading card games with Sydney, opening packs and joking about their lack of knowledge.