Podcasts

You might like Radio Lab. This American Life sometimes uses stories from the show.

Oooh Radio Lab is GREAT!!! I love it too. Did you listen to the one which featured Linda Thompson (talking about going mute (?)).

yes, that was a good one

Here's what I listen to:

Caustic Soda
Skeptically Speaking
Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Geeks in Running Shoes
How to Do Everything
Running With the Pack
Run Run Live
The 3 Non Joggers

Rather obvious where my interests lie.

anyone got any good shit i should hear?

my interests:

history, general story american life type stuff, books and especially 20th century modernist type stuff, music i won't have heard, jazz or experimental or really anything at all, maybe comedy if it's good, plus ANYTHING ELSE.

have basically never really got into podcasts properly. been subscribing to some of the recommended ones upthread tho.

anyone??

We have zero overlap in interests. I got nothing.

i have to say, i've been pretty hooked on 99% invisible

i like how compact they are—a few ideas in about 15 minutes, and then we're out

Ice-T's podcast is great.

Has he had any guests on who've asked if he's new to this?

The guests are barely a part of it honestly. They just hang out while Ice and Benzo riff about stuff.

listening now, hmm

up to episode 3, yeah it is great

I'm sort of confused by the how busy the Marc Maron thread is considering how the praise usually has to be qualified, "oh he had this great guest, too bad MM is so unprepared/obnoxious/not funny..."

There's a bunch of WAY better talk in podcast form out there which does not involve holding yr nose. Is anyone listening to Johnny Pemberton's show? It's fucking great. So is Duncan Trussell's...both funny & share a certain spontaneity & don't conspicuously steer the conversation. I don't really ever look to see who the guests are, it doesn't matter. Julie Klausner's I like too. Anybody else?

Duncan Trussell is horrible and his voice is worse than nails on a chalkboard.

"Had a great guest" is pretty much the only way any podcast is listenable - comics interviewing comics is pretty much guaranteed to be boring (unless, like WTF, it's not a 'comedy' podcast) and there's no one who can make a boring guest seem interesting.

ive never heard of any of those people. besides julie klausner.

maron is compelling. thats basically it.

That's ludicrous, tell it to Studs Terkel or Bob Fass. The opposite argument can be easily made—that a good interviewer can elicit fascinating stuff from the most seemingly mundane subjects.

As for Trussell's voice, two of my favorite "singers" are Dylan and Mark E. Smith & I could listen to Gilbert Gottfried or Howard Cosell or Carol Channing go on for hours, so one man's nails are another man's etc.

marc maron is a really unique interviewer. at his best he can really bring out some intense, deep stuff. at worst, he's whatever. but when he's on, he's on fire.

xpost I guess if your definition of compelling is solipsistic one-note self deprecation....

You should try those shows slocki

Klausner bugs me so much

But then she once again has a great guest and I repeat my old mistakes

Yeah I think she's best in small, periodic doses...I do think there's an element of unpredictability I like abt her though

i like jesse thorn's interviewing style, he gets good stuff out of people

That's ludicrous, tell it to Studs Terkel or Bob Fass. The opposite argument can be easily made—that a good interviewer can elicit fascinating stuff from the most seemingly mundane subjects.

To clarify, though, by boring I'm talking about comedian interviewing comedian wacky hijinks boring.

I'm enjoying the Adam Scott Aukerman "You Talkin' U2 to Me?" just from the sheer refusal of the hosts refusal to address the topic at all, with the exception of mentioning the premise of the show in passing during another of their extended tangents.

i hate to say this, but has anybody been listening to the new weekly 99% invisible? feels like it's been a real drop in quality.

Plz edit out one 'refusal' from my post, thank you. You get to choose which one.

By the way, you're listening to You Edit One Refusal From Me.

I'm a big fan of Tell'em Steve Dave which is Walt and Bryan from Comic Book Men (who are so much funnier in an unedited environment) plus Q from Impractical Jokers.

I also dig Mike and Tom eat Snacks featuring Michael Ian Black although they haven't uploaded a new episode in months.

The Champs is my new fave interview podcast.

what is a good episode of all of these shitty podcasts everybody

Another one that I find hilarious, though he hasn't done one in awhile, is Harris Wittels' Anaylyze Phish podcast in which he tries to convince disbelievers that Phish actually isn't terrible. The Tom Scharpling one was great!

http://i.imgur.com/1wCjKSs.jpg

I will never eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever listen to this podcast again!

co-sign the Champs. super-great

i listened to the hannibal buress champs episode
it has that awful guy
that awful guy

the dj?

i don't know
some guy
i heard him yuk-yuk-yuking in the background of an opie & anthony episode once
like ... those guys

he has a long thing in the hannibal episode about how he has probably only met six interesting women in his lifetime, what with women being less urgently compelled to form personalities than men are

that would be neal brennan

they got rid of dj douggpound a while back

oh don't mind him, that's just neal brennan.

xp

even moshe tries to ignore him on that crap

i've been getting into Kinda Neat, it's the best music-oriented interview podcast i've heard. mostly features L.A.-based rappers and producers.

http://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/07/what-upcoming-changes-mpr-will-actually-mean-listeners

public radio freakin out about missing the boat, apparently

Scott Woods has gathered up a few years of intermittent podcasts and put them in one place:

https://andyoucandancetoit.wordpress.com/

My wit and erudition is in there a few times, also three or four other ILX people.

Been enjoying Katie Halper's podcast/show. I guess it's technically a radio show, just also packaged as a podcast. A little ADD but witty and fun.

Fave new podcast I've run across is Outside Online: http://www.outsideonline.com/2060321/introducing-outside-podcast - I've been a fan of Outside's journalism (despite the "30 marathon continental divides you must conquer" lifestyle schtick mixed in) and the podcast is thankfully reflects more of that. The "Frozen Alive" episode is some of the most intense listening I've heard. Also check out "The Devil's Highway" and the Robert Young Pelton interview.

Just subscribed to Katie Halper's show, incidentally.

What brings you to _discontinue_ listening to a show?

For me, it's too many eps of the hosts being too dumb, or too snide/demoralizing/smug/NPR-nihilist-like if it's a political show. Or I'm behind too many eps and have no drive whatsoever to catch up.

What is everyone's threshold to how uninteresting the conversation has to get to just hit unsubscribe?