― Amon (eman), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Guymauve (Guymauve), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
The Rock n Roll Geek show.Plays mostly the kind of rock that's not fashionabl;e at the moment plus some punk stuff but mostly talks. He's a really genuine guy and the honesty of it, the lack of shiny gloss bullshit makes it great.
― mei (mei), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
This is a friend of my roommate, i haven't listened to a lot of it but what I heard was terrifically hilarious, fun and vulgar.
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Anybody find anything interesting_
― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't go a single day without someone saying "podcasting" but I can't find a single podcast worth listening to.
― mikef (mfleming), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Hopefully he'll keep it up.
Listening to podcasts at work is better than listening to the same twenty prerecorded CDs our college radio station broadcasts over summer break.
― channing, Friday, 5 August 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Firesign Theater is GREAT - they're a classic surreal stoner baby boomer comedy troupe
Simulacrum - v funny fake interviews with celebrities
Slate Magazine is hit or miss
― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
my friend and i have been trying to get a radio show for ages but it's not working out
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
A copy of Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
With the lame mp3 encoder: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ (probably comes with the Audacity download, I don't remember)
$5 a month mp3 hosting from LibSyn: http://www.libsyn.com
That's about it.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
haha
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
This week's podcast is DJ Jonny Sender of Konk from March 2005. Track list below.
Podcast: http://www.alldisco.net/podcast.xml
war - galaxyfantastic aleems - hooked on your lovin'instant funk - got my mind made uppositive force - we got the funkhappy song (bootleg edit)eurythmics - sweet dreamschic - good timesincredible bongo band - apachefirst choice - love thangMoody Boysfalco - machine brenntelectric mind - zwei (dub)jago - i'm gonna gobilly frazier & friends - billy who?Brenda and the Tabulations - Let's Go All the Way Down
― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Listen to them... in the car? On the subway? It's basically surrogate radio for an iPod. Not so exciting, but still useful.
― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Also Probe ministries ( http://www.probe.org/ ) does a pretty good and informative talk show about various topics in Christianity or society.
There some okay science ones like "Science and Society"
I've also found a few language ones. Depending on which language you want to learn you can search through itunes store directory. I got one called "HESS Chinese survial guide."
― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 1 October 2005 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link
how about good podcasts in french???
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 12 August 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I've decided to utilise the full functional capacity of mypod. At the momment only listening to those available via itunes. Currently sampling:
Radio4's Best of Today Amnesty International NPR's It's All Politics Newsweek New York Times Op-Ed Slate Rob Da Bank's Sunday Best The Onion Ricky Gervais
These all fairly obvious. Can anyone offer me anything a bit more off-beat and esoteric? Not that I am either of those things but i might like to be.
― Uptoeleven, Monday, 20 August 2007 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Tom Ravenscroft's Channel 4 one still going?
― Mark G, Monday, 20 August 2007 10:48 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck! that was good, that. and i've forgotten all about it. arse.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
The Sound of Young America Jordan, Jesse Go! Never Not Funny
― jeff, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
R U Sirius has a show with interesting guests sometimes
― zappi, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i like radio lab a lot. very sound rich, but doesn't come out very often (probably b/c the quality is so good).
― sweet tater, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I listen to:
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! (NPR panel show about the week's news) The Paul Goebel Show (beat the geeks tv nerd talks about tv and says funny things) Fighting Talk (BBC 5 sports panel show... I like panel shows, what can I say?) Escapepod (Sci-fi short stories read to me! Yum!) Hooting Yard (Cool prose, I think? I dunno, I love it but I don't get it)
That's it for now. I am sure I will listen to more as time passes though, I keep adding to it.
Ps. RIP Stycast
― Will M., Monday, 20 August 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost HA! I had just come here to say Radio Lab! We are of one mind.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/
― kenan, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I listen to all the standard NPR ones (Wait Wait, Fresh Air, TAL), the Elvis Mitchell show on KCRW, the Harry Shearer show on KCRW, the Design and Architecture show on KCRW, Sound Opinions (laugh it up, rock snobs), and a couple DJ shows of friends.
― kenan, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Just added to the iPod:
NYer Comment Sound of Young America Intelligence Squared Resident Advisor Beats in Space Tha Hunga Mixtape Show (unsigned hip-hop)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Avoid RadioLab nowadays, btw. My post from 11 months ago couldn't be more wrong now. It's just stinking up the joint lately.
― kenan, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeez, I'm crabby today. I sound like Harry Shearer! Who, not incidentally, is also off my love list. "Curmudgeon" is a great-sounding word until you find yourself listening to the opinions of one. :(
― kenan, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Trying to figure out how to get vlogs on this piece.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to use whatever this is called now on XP, but it's been a while.
― kenan, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Anybody know anything else I ought to add?
This American Life & RadioLab are no gos for me I'm afraid.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
for all-talk, I started this thread a while ago, and there's some good recommends there.
Your favorite podcasts, non-music edition
I'm still happy with The Bugle, even though the jokes stop being novel after a few eps, but John Oliver is always good with the nearly outraged "omg this is ridiculous!" tone of delivery, and Andy Zaltzman on a good week still comes up with solid-gold chunk of absurdity. Something about the Archbishop of Canterbury conducting a funeral and launching into some weird tirade making fun of the corpse... "You're dead and you know you are!" I laughed for like a week. Your mileage may vary.
Actually, On The Media is probably the show I look most forward to every week. Make of that what you will. And though it depends on the featured DJ (Don Letts clearly needs a swift and mighty kick in the groin and to be hauled off the radio with a giant vaudevillian hook), I do like the fabric podcast. It's mostly Brits deeply appreciating the American soul and funk records that us yanks take for granted and have mostly forgotten about.
― kenan, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard the first episode when it was on This American Life and wanted to hear the rest, but not right away. So thanks for the reminder.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:51 (seven months ago) link
Is there a good podcast that is just people being interviewed about their life stories?
I listen to a meditation podcast and I realized that's 60% of what I enjoy about it, the interviewer will ask them questions about their life - often one question will get the interviewee talking for twenty minutes or more, no interruptions, no editing (that I'm aware of.)
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Sunday, 27 August 2023 19:07 (seven months ago) link
Rick Rubin’s Tetragramatron podcast is kinda this - long form subject interview & he’s a very “get out of the way” interviewer so it’s not “chatty”. I’ve only cherry picked a couple of episodes based on the guests though.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 August 2023 19:44 (seven months ago) link
I listen to loads of podcasts but nothing readily springs to mind, lukas. But that meditation podcast sounds interesting - what's it called?
― (picnic, lightning) very very frightening (Chinaski), Monday, 28 August 2023 12:47 (seven months ago) link
The people interviewed are not normal by any means, but Love and Radio is all life story interviews with 95% of the interviewee’s questions removed + sound design added.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 28 August 2023 21:39 (seven months ago) link
Chinaski, it's called Guru Viking, here's an episode I like (although I listen to the podcast rather than watching the YT versions): https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=QeInQkKyGYc
The quality of interviewees varies wildly, as you'd expect. I only know one of them who got caught up in a sex scandal but I'm sure that number will grow over time, given the population he's drawing from (dharma teachers usually.)
Other good ones, not all in the life story vein:
https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=gX0UtTH_rzYhttps://www.youtube .com/watch?v=3UFVYAhLMps
Deconstructing Yourself is a similar podcast, fewer and shorter episodes but more consistently high-quality guests.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Monday, 28 August 2023 22:00 (seven months ago) link
Blowback is back
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 01:44 (seven months ago) link
Cheers lukas, both look really interesting. On a similar note, Sharon Salzberg's Metta Hour is good. I really liked the interview with Mark Epstein: https://art19.com/shows/metta-hour-with-sharon-salzberg/episodes/8f354ef2-af54-4a09-8dcc-9b1ba6ed040a
― (picnic, lightning) very very frightening (Chinaski), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:24 (seven months ago) link
It looks like Tom Smith has rebranded a load of episodes of his podcast Serious Enquiries Only into the early episodes of a new series called Where There's Woke which is going to be an ongoing series looking at absurd Righy Wing and Middle Left scares based on the idea of wokeness. Serious Enquiries Only will continue as a series of interviews with scientists and other experts. He's just been looking at some sci fi tropes with an Astrophysicist which has been pretty interesting.I think I've just wound up relistening to a show I heard as a Serious Enquiries oNly shortly after he separated from his old podcast co-host after a scandal. He had to reclaim this show when teh female co-host distanced herself from him in the wake of his Opening Arguments co-host being separated from I think he is still using the podcast name. Thankfully spotify have stopped upping that podcast to me. That podcast had been on Cleanup on Aisle 45 which is now cohosted with Peter Strzok and AG from Daily Beans/Mueller She Wrote.
― Stevo, Saturday, 9 September 2023 12:40 (six months ago) link
I can’t remember who recommended it, but We’re Not So Different (medieval history) is SO GREAT. Just friendly, incredibly knowledgable nerds discussing humeral theory, peasants, sex etc and crucially, not being annoying about it!
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 10 September 2023 12:18 (six months ago) link
That said it is a little unbalanced.. I would like the guy to engage a little more.. but at any rate a great example of the “information straight into my veins” genre
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 10 September 2023 12:57 (six months ago) link
Its one ive listened to for a while so i may have recommended it. Female presenter is doing stuff with History Hit too. & that has a numberof good shows on. Do love Kate Lister's Betwixt The Sheets too. I think shes appeared on that too.
The Ancients and Not Just The Tudors both have great episodes too
& I just listened to Angela Saini guesting on Patented talking about the Patrarchy.
― Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:05 (six months ago) link
Two great podcasts about made-for-TV movies are back after hiatuses with new episodes: Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie - which kicked off its new cycle with a two-part episode looking at the 1976 film The Boy in the Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta - and Made for TV Mayhem Show with Amanda Reyes. Both highly entertaining.
― Josefa, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:47 (six months ago) link
ooh that medieval one sounds interesting, i will give that one a go
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 September 2023 15:02 (six months ago) link
It was female presenter on Were not So Different that referred to The Guardian as TERF central which I don't think I'd heard before. May give her politics which is a large part of the perspective.
― Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:21 (six months ago) link
I can't remember either presenter's name offhand but I have listened to pretty much all of the show. Picked up on it a couple of years ago and have gone backwards as well as forwards . Leftist perspective on medieval and slightlyu later history . & it's all been pretty great.
I really like Media Eval too the one looking at medieval set films etc from a historical perspective . It's normally been pretty great though I don't really agree with the Little Mermaid with them. The main presenter has been busy with work so the show's been on leave for the alst few months hope it's coming back soon.
Also Let's Talk About Myths , Baby where a Canadian feminist looks back at mainly Greek legends which ahs been fascinating but I've fallen way out of sync with it over lasty couple of years after having largely caught up with it before that.
― Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:53 (six months ago) link
Got to give a big shout out for Deep Foucs on various jazz and improvised music. Playing back largely unheard tracks by a featured artist with commentary by a guest with some connection to the artist. I'm just listening to the 1st of a set of 3 on Wes Montgomery. I need to hear the one on Larry Young too.
Think I may have mentioned the show when i first found it a few months back but do keep hearing new performances on it.
― Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:54 (six months ago) link
Ok I take it back about We’re Not So Different. The woman is really grating on me. She’s a know-it-all, which is fine, because that’s the point of the podcast. But I wish she would just relay the information without all the “it be like that” Twitter-speak gumph, and I wish she weren’t so utterly pleased with herself
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:26 (six months ago) link
I mean, whatever. She’s great. She’s fine. She knows a ton. And that’s what I’m after. I can even get over the “, right?” thing.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:41 (six months ago) link
i find she whips through details a bit fast for me at times
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:36 (six months ago) link
Eleanor's great. I even learnt her name now.Also found out that I had a load of early episodes I still hadn't heard. Don't think I have listened to the Medieval Asia series or things before that. Did come in during the Historical materialism series and i think went back over the earlier stuff on Food. I thought i had gone back further but now still have a load I haven't heard. Listened to the Introduction episode a couple of days ago.
She introduces herself as an expert on the 14th century, the best century. I think I have enjoyed her when I've heard her. Wouldn't mind catching some of her lectures.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:49 (six months ago) link
Drapetomaniax a retelling of black US history as though it was dealing with current media. I just heard teh first episode and thought it quite fun. That was talking about Forest Joe a maroon outlaw.I think each episode has guests in historic roles etc. Think I will listen to a few more of these.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:36 (six months ago) link
just listened to the fifth season of leon neyfakh’s fiasco, a history of the aids crisis. i can’t recommend it highly enough. not usually a podcast guy but it really hooked me in, finished it in a day
― flopson, Sunday, 12 November 2023 19:25 (four months ago) link
yeah it was a+ moving & infuriating the blood bank stuff was eyeopening, i only knew a little bit about that before
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 November 2023 20:01 (four months ago) link
i gasped when the former member of act up's treatment action group were trying to block the accelerated release of the protease inhibitor triple cocktail. really interesting on the sociology of activism/science/medical ethics. i was largely ignorant of this history so a lot of it was major twists. fav episode probably the bath houses one tho
veg is thereany season you would recommend listening to next? should i start with slow burn?
― flopson, Monday, 13 November 2023 08:02 (four months ago) link
The Iran Contra season of Fiasco is really good. Slow Burn is great too though, you really cant go wrong with either
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:58 (four months ago) link
I will second Slow Burn -- although I stick to the seasons rather than the "decoder" eps. the season about Clarence Thomas told me everything I didn't know about that guy and explained everything
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 13 November 2023 16:02 (four months ago) link
Mailchimp is apparently refusing to collaborate with, or even advertise on, podcasts that employ unionized staff (even though they are denying it)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled
Sign a letter to Inuit (who owns Mailchimp) here:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-intuit-mailchimp-no-monkey-business-quit-union-busting
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 December 2023 12:31 (three months ago) link
Intuit, though.
― peace, man, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:18 (three months ago) link
ha whoops
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 December 2023 15:53 (three months ago) link
Intuit are the people who own TurboTax right? fuck that company forever. they absolutely don't give a shit about that letter though
― budo jeru, Friday, 15 December 2023 16:59 (three months ago) link
yep they are evil
― rob, Friday, 15 December 2023 17:01 (three months ago) link
A good friend of mine worked for Mailchimp for a while, they like to cosplay as a "progressive" company but they will cut you without hesitation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 December 2023 21:43 (three months ago) link
I'm pretty certain that I heard of the Castro podcast app here on ilx, but can't find the thread where it was mentioned. Anyway, it's done; they are out of business and their domain seems to be unregistered. Does anybody have a good podcast app to recommend that has similar features?
― beard papa, Saturday, 6 January 2024 21:33 (two months ago) link
i dont know of any others that sideload so answer may be no? i have used Overcast for years. it gives me no problems & is v good to use.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 January 2024 22:39 (two months ago) link
I use Podcast Addict and it's fine.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 6 January 2024 23:08 (two months ago) link
There is no good replacement if you’re used to Castro’s inbox/queue system. I was able to sort of mimic it in Pocketcasts using filters, but it’s not the same.
― Jeff, Saturday, 6 January 2024 23:29 (two months ago) link
I discovered Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks over winter break and have been ear-hoovering up as many episodes as I can. Led by a Yellowstone wildlife biologist who specializes in bears, it goes into detail about dangerous wild animal encounters, while providing a respectful context for why these things occur, as well as a slew of biological and behavioral facts about the animals. Warning that it can get sad at times, because by the very nature of the stories they're engaging with, the humans and animals don't always survive. It's co-hosted by the biologist's brother, who provides a dorky kind of comic relief, and a mutual friend of theirs. The brother's voice reminds me a lot of Matt Stone's character from Cannibal: The Musical, but he's more of an affable dork than an annoying one. Highly recommend.
― peace, man, Monday, 8 January 2024 12:37 (two months ago) link
new season of Blindspot is covering lesser-known stories & people from the early days of the AIDS Crisis & it is so goodThis season hosted by Kai Wright of WNYC3 episodes out so far, second episode on the Harlem Hospital Pediatric Ward is quietly incredible Similarites might be drawn to the Slow Burn season on AIDS but this is a much much deeper dive, much more focused on marginalized groups whose stories were less likely to be told
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 02:28 (one month ago) link