The Black Tower Podcast: A Wheel of Time Podcast
The Black Tower Podcast was originally founded in October of 2018 by Andrew and Aaron. Born out of a mutual love for The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, these two gentlemen set out to shatter the then-common mold that most WoT podcasts seemed to follow (which was not bad, but we wanted to do something different). Foregoing the chapter-by-chapter format that was, and still is, so popular, the Black Tower Podcast set its sights on topical discussions that would span the entire 14 book series, the New Spring prequel, The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time (commonly known as the Big White Book of Bad Art), The Wheel of Time Companion, and other associated materials.
Over the life of the podcast the hosts involved have changed as hosts needed to step away or moved on to create their own podcast. Currently the podcast is hosted by original founder Andrew and co-hosts Josh and Daniel. Though the members have changed, the format and atmosphere on the Black Tower Podcast has not. This is not one of those “family friendly” or “politically correct” podcasts as the hosts frequently use profanity, crude humor, and simply blunt and brazen statements - all under the umbrella of humor with no actual malice or ill intent.
From the topics of sexism, the Five Great Captains, individual characters, geographic and cultural locations, all the way to reviews and overviews of the books themselves, the Black Tower Podcast has made its mission to cover anything and everything related to The Wheel of Time. They’ve also managed to have several notable guests on the podcast, including, but not limited to:
- Kate Reading and Michael Kramer - the voices of the WoT audiobooks
- YouTuber Daniel Greene
- YouTuber Nae’blis
- TarValon Tees (no longer in service)
- YouTuber WoT Up!/Jon
- YouTuber Unraveling the Pattern/Lauren
- YouTuber Reading the Pattern/Rebecca
- YouTuber The Dusty Wheel/Matt
- Jason Denzel/Founder of Dragonmount
- Thom DeSimone/JordanCon & Dragonmount
- TarValon.net
In October 2020, BTP held its first ever in person event in Ogden, Utah and plans to continue these events annually on its anniversary on October 18th.