Your favorite podcasts, non-music edition

I feel so awkward when I listen to podcasts. Guess I'm oldfashioned or sumfing. :-(

it's just radio! what's awkward?

oh, i wish i would have thought to download some 'learn italian' podcasts a few months ago.

Yeah, I always listen to podcasts on the train, to or from work. Sometimes I'll save up a This American Life episode if I known I'm going on a long-ish drive somewhere (like out to the suburbs).

i have a ton of TAL podcasts piled up because i just never feel like listening to it anymore. i've been sticking with seven second delay, sound of young america, savage love, etc.

Really, the only ones I ever listen to are Sound Opinions, TAL, and Lost.

How do you guys listen to podcasts? During morning commute? At home?

One hour commute each way plus taking a walk during work lunch hour.

I listen to a lot of podcasts (allowed to do so for the entire 8h at work, I don't have 40h/w yet... one day). Most of mine are abt video games because I am a nerd and want to eventually work in the field.

1UP Yours -- 1UP's more console-based one, very amusing
Game Theory -- a more "vertical" podcast, I guess, but often educational. I just wish they'd focus more on the business and less on the base "hey that game's cool" stuff.
GFW Radio -- About PC gaming. Usually not actually thanking about PC gaming, instead complaining that their magazine tanked and discussing Lost theories. Probably the most laughs to minutes ratios ever.
One Life Left -- former Resonance FM games podcast.
Podcastle, Podtoid, Retroforce GO! -- three Destructoid podcasts about Euro gaming, American gaming, and retro gaming respectively.
Football Manager Podcast -- from the makers of the game. Mostly end up talking about football and not the game, I like their punditry.
Major Nelson -- basically Xbox PR, but some good interviews with industry heads.

Non-VG casts:
Fighting Talk -- sport in the UK. Lots of laffs.
Wait WAit Don't Tell Me -- NPR joeks, bruv.
Paul Goebel Show -- TV talk. A lot of sketchy jokes but sometimes funny and sometimes interesting.

I might have to add more reading this thread.

In no particular order, my favorite podcasts:

The B.S. Report: Bill Simmons occasionally talks about sports but ends up talking about 90210, The Smiths and Paradise Hotel 2. Always interesting guests!

GFW Radio: As much about video games as the B.S. Report is about sports. Four or five guys talking about life and the occasionally game or Lost theory.

NY Times Book Review: Usually three segments, two about a particular book or author and one about the sales trends of the week.

This Week in Tech/Mac Break Weekly: For all of your San Francisco news.

On Point: Tom Ashbrook hosts the best call-in-show on the radio for WBUR in Boston. Topics are usually about foreign policy but he’ll occasionally do a show on a new book or other cultural items.

How do you guys listen to podcasts? During morning commute? At home?

generally the morning commute, though I listen at home sometimes, too. And sometimes I switch it up on the commute and listen to music and read instead, because you can't listen to talk and read. Crossed wires.

Everything goes buzz buzz everything goes beep beep.

During commutes I watch television shows on my ipod, if I can manage it. On extra-crammed days (i.e. most days) it's difficult or impossible.

Too Beautiful to Live with Luke Burbank: www.tbtl.net

I listen regularly to:
KCRW: The Treatment, The Business, Good Food, Martini Short
WNYC: Leonard Lopate, Brian Lehrer (pick and choose shows)
Search Engine (show on Internet in politics and culture, very good)
CBC Tapesty (more spiritual than religious)
and all the TED talks

And Adam Corolla.

I've been enjoying the Bat Segundo Show. The host can be kind of annoying, but he gets good guests.

I listened to his interviews with Paul Schrader and Carl Wilson. The quality of the guests and the length of the conversation overcame the annoying bits.

yeah, I mean he's kind of likable, but I hate when he rambles on for a few minutes and then goes "what of that?" instead of formulating and actual real question.

things i listen to on the reg:

wnyc: radio lab
npr: fresh air, news summary, all songs considered, driveway moments, pop culture, wait wait... don't tell me!
pri: this american life
hbo: real time with bill maher
new yorker: fiction podcast (sometimes, i have a weird attention span w/ this one)
new york times: front page, music popcast
bbc: lebrecht interviews (sometimes)
other: the moth podcast

i tried ted but they were video and i often can't watch if i'm walking around or something and felt cheated by only listening

I also listen to, with varying frequencies:
this american life, sound opinions, on the media, to the best of our knowledge, in our time, speechification, nyrb, radio lab and npr story of the day.

Tehresa, there's a Ted channel on iTunes podcasts that has just audio without video.

Oh, wait, felt cheated by only listening

I like the audio more than the video in some ways, less distraction by how the folks look.

no i mean i felt cheated bc you needed to see what they were demonstrating to get it. if there's audio that doesn't depend on visuals, i'd be down. maybe that's not what you're talking about, though?

A few of the ones I've heard have been Powerpoint heavy, but most of those have a note on the track listing itself that it's mostly visual. I've listened to a bunch of them that work just as stand-along audio lectures.

(I love listening to those lectures while walking around town, especially this time of year.)

A Life Well Wasted - "about video games and the people who love them". So so so awesome.

haven't checked out TED yet

On Point: Tom Ashbrook hosts the best call-in-show on the radio

i would have to say so. I like Larry Mantle in L.A. about as much but he hews more to local topics (and i listen on the radio, not podcast). other than that i can only make time for counterspin, addicted to race (amateurish but i like the topics sometimes) and left right & center (i know i know but it's entertaining). i listen to wait wait don't tell me/car talk on the radio when i can

oh and pick and choose sound of young america. i still subscribe to radiolab but it's so dense i find myself putting off listening, all that stimuli kind of weighs on my head when i'm trying to drive. subscribed to on the media too but not really impressed tbh

A Life Well Wasted - "about video games and the people who love them". So so so awesome.

My buddy Robert makes these.

Anybody explore iTunes U? There's a lecture class from Yale about the political history of Ancient Greece that's just great.

I listen to many mentioned already. Add Left, Right, and Center to the list.

http://www.filmjunk.com/podcast/

Futures in Biotech.

Savage Love, TAL, Subgenius Hour of Slack. I subscribe to a few poker podcasts but have been deleting a lot of episodes lately without listening to them.

i love savage's stories on tal but i couldn't do savage love.

sub'd to ted talks audio today... we'll see how it goes!

Mia Martina's podcast (also on iTunes) is first-person dirty memoir stories. What makes them interesting is that they can be dramatic and suspenseful, erotic but not necessarily about successfully getting off. If I were in Hollywood, I would buy the rights to 'em and turn them into a Showtime series.

Good luck with the TEDs! Some of the ones I've liked audio-only have been Martin Seligman (head of the APA) on positive psychology, Malcolm Gladwell, Felix Dennis, Stew, um...

Savage Love is great...a couple of weeks ago a crazy woman with a history of relationship failures called in trying to justify/get sympathy for her position of extreme jealousy (to the point of wanting to slash tires and/or faces) of her bf's exes, and Dan totally went wild, calling her out for being Ne Plus Ultra Psycho Bitch. Very entertaining.

What is TED? I refuse to install iTunes so I can't tell for myself.

http://www.ted.com/

i think you'd be into it, leee!

thanks you guys for the TED talks, and thanks chaki for The Best Show. unmentioned here (then how did i find out about it?) is The Bugle. british, funny. that guy john oliver (last funny dude on the daily show) is one of the hosts

Scroll to top, first thing I mentioned and linked.

ha!! thanks, seriously, they are a treat

Andy's nonsense/weird historical references comedy is so purely British. I love it.

And John's sarcastic outrage. They're both great.

top notch back and forth , seems like they've been friends for a loong time

i also listen to "In Our Time" -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/

I missed this link the first time, somehow. I'm enjoying the newest episode about whether Leibniz or Newton invented calculus. So much context!

Anyone know any good TV podcasts? I tried the Paul Goebel Show but found he rarely talks about TV and the sound sucks, to boot.

Am I overlooking an mp3 link to In Our Time or is it only available in RM?

God I am a moran: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot/

Any more? I need stuff to listen to while breaking up video footage

What's the best 'interviewing interesting people' podcast? Not really into themed discussion podcasts, comics interviewing comics, etc.

i can't get down with Last Podcast on the Left, it's too much like We Hate Movies for murder lol

i love my favorite murder tho

xpost Wil Anderson's Wilosophy podcast is a pretty good longform interview show. A lot of comedians but he talks to other people too. it's not really comedic, just good convos

Just found In the Dark and enjoying it immensely. Gotta check out Accused and My Favorite Murder!

Hound Tall with Moshe Kashner might the most listenable Nerdist podcast - three comedians and a straight-man scientist/expert talk about a topic for 45 minutes or so.

Homecoming was pretty well done:

https://gimletmedia.com/homecoming/

^ I just finished this. It was AMAZING. Like as good as a great TV show. Maybe the only audio drama I've ever heard that I didn't actively hate?

Great script: check
Great dialogue: check
Great acting: check
Great production: check
Lots and lots of Catherine Keener and Oscar Isaac: Check

Head over heels I headed straight for Bronzeville, and... ruh-roh. Yeesh.

Apparently Amazon is spending $5M on new scripts for new audio dramas??

Other podcasts I tried recently that I did not like:

The Message
Digits
My Dad Wrote A Porno
Death Sex & money
Comedy Bang Bang
Reply All

I tried Hollywood Handbook and liked it for one episode but once I got into the next episode I was sort of like.... okay I get the joke now that's enough.

Seems like podcasts break down into:

- make me laugh
- teach me something (the recent plsuplus podcast about CRT TV recycling was AWESOME for this.. Production and presenting were both strictly bargain-basement but it didn't matter cause it was so damn interesting and well-reported)
- hold me in suspense

Are there other genres or is that it?

oh and made it through about 3 minutes of "Terms".. such a good idea tho :/

(i guess The Dollop is a cross between 1) make me laugh and 2) teach me something?)

ok shit "hello from the magic tavern" is transcendent

despite the host reminding me so much of tom scharpling that it's distracting. it's a show that i kind of can't believe matt berry ISN'T on. limmy should be on it too.

Other podcasts I tried recently that I did not like:

The Message
Digits
My Dad Wrote A Porno
Death Sex & money
Comedy Bang Bang
Reply All

ha ha Did you listen to the ILX episode of Reply All?

that one was GREBT obv

I've weeded out almost all comedy podcasts from my subscription list, since I think I only enjoy them when I'm binging a couple years' worth of them. Of course now that everybody's putting their 6 months or older stuff behind a paywall I'm not likely to go back and catch up.

pretty evenly split between politics (Crooked Media podcasts, mostly), sports (Bill Simmons, the Lowe Post, the Bill Barnwell Show) and laffs (Filmdrunk Frotcast and the $600 Podcast).

I'm listening to the Black Tapes Podcast - supposed to build into a Lovecraftian turn later on but six episodes in it's just sort of Unsolved Mysteries: NPR Edition.

Can't tell if I find the dialogue horribly staged and acted or if it's actually dead on and the Serial/Radiolab-style is just that bad.

there's a podcast called "containers" all about shipping containers but i'm not really sure it'll tell me more than the great bbc four doc i watched on the same subject a couple of years ago. still that sort of thing is "my jam."

there are some truly awful podcasts out there. the anna faris one. the guilty feminist. the outline world dispatch.

I was about to become the very last person in the world to check out "My Dad Wrote A Porno" but the 'about' page has just put me off it completely. It is the most off-putting 'about' page I have ever seen, it not only makes me hate this podcast I haven't heard, but also all other podcasts, all other media, and life in the 21st century in general.

http://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/about/

yeesh

Lol

Big fan of Ben Rodgers' new podcast The Rodge Tapes. Talking with other Earwolf adjacent comedians about some obscure movies from the 80s/90s.