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.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 13 June 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Will M., Friday, 13 June 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Allen, Friday, 13 June 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Friday, 13 June 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 14 June 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Too Beautiful to Live with Luke Burbank: www.tbtl.net
― banjoboy, Saturday, 12 September 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I listen regularly to:KCRW: The Treatment, The Business, Good Food, Martini ShortWNYC: 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
― Squash weather (Eazy), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
And Adam Corolla.
I've been enjoying the Bat Segundo Show. The host can be kind of annoying, but he gets good guests.
― dr. johnson (askance johnson), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dr. johnson (askance johnson), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
things i listen to on the reg:
wnyc: radio labnpr: fresh air, news summary, all songs considered, driveway moments, pop culture, wait wait... don't tell me! pri: this american lifehbo: real time with bill mahernew yorker: fiction podcast (sometimes, i have a weird attention span w/ this one)new york times: front page, music popcastbbc: lebrecht interviews (sometimes)other: the moth podcast
― tehresa, Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dr. johnson (askance johnson), Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Tehresa, there's a Ted channel on iTunes podcasts that has just audio without video.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― tehresa, Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
(I love listening to those lectures while walking around town, especially this time of year.)
― Squash weather (Eazy), Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
A Life Well Wasted - "about video games and the people who love them". So so so awesome.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― to ehhhhhhrrrrrr (tremendoid), Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― to ehhhhhhrrrrrr (tremendoid), Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
My buddy Robert makes these.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Anybody explore iTunes U? There's a lecture class from Yale about the political history of Ancient Greece that's just great.
― shaane, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I listen to many mentioned already. Add Left, Right, and Center to the list.
― Super Cub, Sunday, 13 September 2009 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.filmjunk.com/podcast/
― DavidM, Sunday, 13 September 2009 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Futures in Biotech.
― Jeff, Sunday, 13 September 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Sunday, 13 September 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― tehresa, Sunday, 13 September 2009 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― Squash weather (Eazy), Sunday, 13 September 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Sunday, 13 September 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
What is TED? I refuse to install iTunes so I can't tell for myself.
― Leee, Sunday, 13 September 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.ted.com/
i think you'd be into it, leee!
― And I find myself shouting... BHOOT!!! BHOOT!!! (tehresa), Sunday, 13 September 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― jergins, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Scroll to top, first thing I mentioned and linked.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ha!! thanks, seriously, they are a treat
― jergins, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Andy's nonsense/weird historical references comedy is so purely British. I love it.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
And John's sarcastic outrage. They're both great.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
top notch back and forth , seems like they've been friends for a loong time
― jergins, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Jouster, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Am I overlooking an mp3 link to In Our Time or is it only available in RM?
― Super Smize (Leee), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
God I am a moran: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot/
― Super Smize (Leee), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Any more? I need stuff to listen to while breaking up video footage
― stop staring at my daughter (slight return) (admrl), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Aerial View, a talk show, is back on wfmu.org as a podcast (the feed is pretty weird so shows will appear late, and twice with different titles) - every show begins with the same three-minute collage of audio bits from movies, though, which is awesome the first few times you hear it, then it seems really self-indulgent, so I skip past that these days.
I can't stand Diane Rehm's regular show, but the Friday 'news roundup' shows (drshow.org) are great, and it has its own feed, so you can blow off the rest of the week. The non-domestic hour, the second one, is great when they have the guy from Foreign Policy on.
― Brakhage, Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
When Marc Maron's WTF podcast is good, it is awesome.
Recommended episodes: Maria Bamford, Robin Williams, Patrice O'Neal, Carlos Mencia...
You have to like stand-up comedy though.
― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG i just discovered the 'Stuff You Should Know' podcast from howstuffworks.com. I think it comes out twice a week and they cover a whole range of things. so far I've listened to 'Prison: Not as fun as you'd think', 'What Makes a Serial Killer' and 'How Tourette Syndrome Works'. Makes the work day zoom by which is the whole point of podcasts iirc
― sunny successor, Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Stuff You Should Know is a good one.
― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Thursday, 12 August 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
also louisck's 3 podcasts from like 2006 or something are pretty great. recognized the embryos of some later fully formed jokes in there.
― sunny successor, Thursday, 12 August 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
posted this on JF thread but seems apt
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/joe-frank-radio/id160740987
― stop staring at my daughter (slight return) (admrl), Thursday, 12 August 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
^ 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: checkGreat dialogue: checkGreat acting: checkGreat production: checkLots 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 MessageDigitsMy Dad Wrote A PornoDeath Sex & moneyComedy Bang BangReply 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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 June 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
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?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 June 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
oh and made it through about 3 minutes of "Terms".. such a good idea tho :/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 June 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
(i guess The Dollop is a cross between 1) make me laugh and 2) teach me something?)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 June 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
ok shit "hello from the magic tavern" is transcendent
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
ha ha Did you listen to the ILX episode of Reply All?
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
that one was GREBT obv
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
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.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
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).
― evol j, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
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.
― louie mensch (milo z), Friday, 25 August 2017 05:36 (six years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 August 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
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/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 21 July 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
yeesh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 July 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
Lol
― President Keyes, Saturday, 21 July 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
Big fan of Ben Rodgers' new podcast The Rodge Tapes. Talking with other Earwolf adjacent comedians about some obscure movies from the 80s/90s.
― cajunsunday, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link