Podcasts

Avoid RadioLab nowadays, btw. My post from 11 months ago couldn't be more wrong now. It's just stinking up the joint lately.

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. :(

Trying to figure out how to get vlogs on this piece.

I used to use whatever this is called now on XP, but it's been a while.

Anybody know anything else I ought to add?

This American Life & RadioLab are no gos for me I'm afraid.

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.

If you like John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman you should try and find their BBC radio show, The Department.

kenan I'm listening to On The Media's most recent show now, they're interviewing this guy and I am actually seeing red.

actually? LITERALLY?!

(A friend and I have now taken to inserting the word "figuratively" anywhere that someone might be tempted to misuse the word "literally." As in, "Jeez traffic is so slow. It's figuratively going to take us all day to get there!")

Valid!

OH I totally forgot the resident advisor podcast

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast.aspx

Haha subscribed to that one a couple days ago.

u know i don't really follow sports at all but i kind of love sports lore and stories (and esp movies) and i have been LOVING the bill simmons 30 for 30 podcast. where can i see these movies??

Listened to this for the first time this morning. He's a great storyteller. And oh what stories.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

they're shown on espn. i found a public torrent with the first 15 (?) episodes on it. i wonder if any have come out on dvd. i've not heard.

xp to slcki

also there is a 30 for 30 thread, they might know of youtubes etc

i found some!

doing some excruciating & labour/time intensive art work in my room this week & have been listening to a lot of this american life can u guys recommend me some other cool stuff to listen to. don't care abt what rly, current events, history, quirky anecdotal shit, nerdy stuff

thx in advance ilx

*blows kiss*

doing some excruciating & labour/time intensive art work in my room this week & have been listening to a lot of this american life can u guys recommend me some other cool stuff to listen to. don't care abt what rly, current events, history, quirky anecdotal shit, nerdy stuff

Some starters:
http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/
feed://www.hometowntales.com/htpodcast.xml (RSS link, website kinda broken at the moment)
http://twfps.com/

thanks, i was looking for a good bbc one

I am listening to the Quarter to Three podcast (which focuses on movies). it's absolutely ace.

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.