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Post by flyinggrayson on Nov 30, 2013 13:29:51 GMT -5
I poked around to see if there was a podcast thread somewhere but I didn't see one. Apologies if I'm like, breaking some kind of T.I. Rule here.
Basically, I've recently decided that I like listening to podcasts, especially in the car. I'd like to find some good ones I've never heard but boy, looking at podcasts is SO overwhelming and trying them out only to discard them has proven to be very time-consuming and kind of frustrating.
Here's what I'm listening to and enjoying right now:
Fat Man on Batman
Judge John Hodgman
NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour
Stuff You Should Know
This American Life
I love a good pop culture podcast and would like to find some good book-centric stuff in particular. I'll try anything that seems interesting though. Any suggestions?
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 30, 2013 14:50:48 GMT -5
If you aren't listening to My Brother My Brother and Me, you should be. Right now.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2013 14:53:22 GMT -5
These days, I listen to :
- Comedy Bang Bang
- Doug Loves Movies
- How did this get made?
- Dead Authors
- Harmontown
- The Bugle
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2013 15:02:22 GMT -5
Any Comedy Bang Bang with Paul F Tompkins or James Adomian is gold. For non-comedic podcasts, I'm a fan of On The Media, The Tobolowsky Files, and (if you're a word/grammar/language nerd) A Way with Words.
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 30, 2013 15:41:06 GMT -5
I don't know much about the podcast world, but I enjoyed Doug Stanhope's. They're appealingly sloppy interviews with colourful characters, and he gets some good stories out of them, and doesn't particularly foreground himself. Get to them through his website.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2013 15:55:14 GMT -5
Current podcasts I listen to, from favorite to least...
Comedy Bang Bang
How Did This Get Made
Doug Loves Movies
Harmontown
improv4Humans
The Duncan Trussell Family Hour
Savage Lovecast
Hollywood Handbook
By The Way, In Conversation with Jeff Garlin
Gameological in Stereo
Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin
WTF with Marc Maron
Old podcasts I love and still listen to regularly:
Gelmania
Mike Detective
The Pod F. Tompkast
Stuff I listened to and liked, but then got bored of:
Radiolab from WNYC
The Nerdist
Nerd Poker
Rafflecast
Owen & TJ Read the News
Professor Blastoff
Kickin' It Mary Lyn Style
You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
Topics with Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter
The Smartest Man in the World
Call Chelsea Peretti
Recommended video podcasts:
Getting Doug with High
Tubbin' with Tash
Comedy Central Stand-Up
Kevin Pollak's Chat Show
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Post by eldan on Nov 30, 2013 17:42:29 GMT -5
The only podcasts I listen to are WTF and Monday Morning Podcast. I feel like WTF's greatest days are behind it, but it's still worth listening to, and you should definitely check out the back catalog, he's done some of the best interviews in all of podcasting, in my opinion.
Monday Morning Podcast pretty much depends on whether or not you like Bill Burr. There's no frills at all, it's just him talking somewhat off the top of his head for an hour every week, so the quality really varies, but if you like Bill Burr, then you'll like this.
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Post by strelnikov on Nov 30, 2013 18:15:39 GMT -5
The Mothafuckin' PHONE SHOW: www.phonelosers.org/phoneshow/Four years. Brad "RBCP" Carter. A taxi hack named Legend. The drunken insanity of "Laugh Track Matt" Hillock. Prank after prank. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Nov 30, 2013 18:21:07 GMT -5
I only listen to one and it's pretty much only of interest to people around Detroit.
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Post by kitchin on Nov 30, 2013 21:20:07 GMT -5
The only podcasts I listen to are WTF and Monday Morning Podcast. I feel like WTF's greatest days are behind it, but it's still worth listening to, and you should definitely check out the back catalog, he's done some of the best interviews in all of podcasting, in my opinion. His musician interviews are great. Not sure there's much more I want to know about the standup comedy boom in the 1980s-90s. Not sure what the Larry King thing was about but I guess I know why he threw it on for Thanksgiving: to contrast with the sparkling Dick Van Dyke interview a few weeks ago. All he got from Larry King were canned stories. And odd social habits. The JV Club podcast is a more specific attempt at mining adolescence, girl only. My current list: LeShow with Harry Shearer - old old standby. Goes to 11. TV-eh - all about Canadian TV issues which even VCandian newspapers don't care about. Subsidized culture spawns its own odd culture. The hosts don't seem to understand that networks in that situation make web sites for other people in the industry, not for viewers. And other quibbles. Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, BBC film programme. They are two bickering loveables from red-brick universities. They don't like it if Naomi Watts cuts short and 10 minute interview by 90 seconds. Even if it's in a hotel room and they didn't even bother to show up in person. Left Right & Center, and other KCRW shows, news or music. Ariana Huffington left, Tony Blankely died, but it's still a good ole grudge match between Robert Sheer and anybody who believes the current shiny political B.S. Truth Dig. The same Robert Sheer's attempt to do Huff Post without celebrity gossip or shallow billionarism. Seems to be getting sparser. |
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Post by kitchin on Nov 30, 2013 21:24:07 GMT -5
Also, re WTF, Alison Brie discussing art college in California.
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Post by dＬᵒ on Nov 30, 2013 22:37:34 GMT -5
I've only have heavily gotten into podcasts since I got a smartphone again, since downloading and putting them onto my (now ancient) ipod was too much of a hassle, even when using itunes. Also I find it extremely difficult to read while people are talking so I mostly listen to them while working on graphics or just messing around since my car doesn't have any auxiliary inputs  Something I need to do is try and find some local ones, but finding RSS feeds is like pulling teeth, and also finding ones professional enough to even bother with. Also a giant fuck you if you only publish your shit through itunes or some proprietary flash player. I'm using podkicker, mostly because it keeps the files separate from the main system so the music app doesn't get all clogged up. The bad part is I have to wake the phone, input the pin, then find the app if it isn't immediately open, then press pause if someone tries to interrupt me. My talky podcasts:Ask Mr Bigs --I think it's defunct now, but basically it was where some guys cut up real phonecalls to work around a couple characters on a radio show. How Did This Get Made --I'm sure most of you are familiar with this. I've spent the past two months going through all of them; I keep going back and forth if I want to skip the mini-episodes, since sometimes they drag and yet there's still a couple gems in there. Shots Fired -- Hiphop news/interview. Left Earwolf, and still hasn't come back up yet. Tell Me Something I Don't Know -- mostly about graphic design and people talking about their careers, kinda boring, so I have to be in a certain mood for it. Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Podcast -- Featuring that non-rapper from Das Racist and his comedian brother. Just found it and I'm working my way through them. They do the recording themselves so it can sound pretty damn amateur. WTF -- I usually skip unless the person seems interesting to me. I hate how they all seem like they're four hours long. Yo Is this Racist -- The thing I really love about this is how short and to the point this is, even with the repetitive daily intros and outros. Music:
Starkillers Killer Radio -- funky house Mad Decent -- Connected to Diplo and Switch (the Major Lazor guys), pretty infrequent releases, my favorite recurring ones are the Luvstep ones by Flufftronix. Resident Advisor -- BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix -- I don't have a regular feed for these (british DMCA means they get taken down) so I mostly just mass download them from torrents or soundcloud at random. Also some artists like Skream & Benga will just post them on facebook so I feel especially non-guilty about downloading that way. Maximum Distortion -- recordings of local metal radio show (yes Virginia, there is a metal scene even in Utah) www.reverbnation.com/maximumdistortion/song/19136274-never-give-up-dont-ever |
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Post by Judge on Nov 30, 2013 23:22:37 GMT -5
Any Comedy Bang Bang with Paul F Tompkins or James Adomian is gold. Seconded. Honestly, if it doesn't have one of those two, I generally don't bother to listen. I know a really awesome podcast about Survivor, though. It's called The Purple Rock. Very hipster. You've probably never heard of it. |
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Post by GhaleonQ on Nov 30, 2013 23:38:19 GMT -5
I love a good pop culture podcast and would like to find some good book-centric stuff in particular. I'll try anything that seems interesting though. Any suggestions? Sure! I don’t think descriptions would be helpful, so I’ll just provide the subject. I always have them playing in the background when I’m relaxing or working at home, so I need a lot. S-tier Comedy Bang Bang (comedy) Jordan, Jesse, Go (comedy) The Cruncheons (video games) A-tier Bullseye (music) Improv 4 Humans (comedy) Insert Credit (video games) Player 1 Podcast (video games) Quiet; Panelologists At Work (comics) Recommended If You Like (comics) The Long Shot (comedy; they're still adjusting to losing Pepitone, so do the backlog) Topics (comedy) B-tier 1 Life Left (video games) 3 Percent Podcast (literature) Big Pop Fun (art) Blogging Heads (politics) Call Chelsea Peretti (comedy) Comic Books Are Burning In Hell (comics) Fitzdog Radio (comedy) Gameological In Stereo (video games) How Did This Get Made (movies) Issues, Et Cetera (religion) Inside Jobs (history) Judge John Hodgeman (comedy) Leicester Square Theater Podcast (comedy) Make It, Then Tell Everybody (comics) Mike And Tom Eat Snacks (food) Never Not Funny (comedy) Poetry Foundation Podcasts (literature) Retronauts (video games) Sklarbro Country (sports) Stop Podcasting Yourself (comedy) The Art Of Wrestling (theater/wrestling) The Comedy Button (comedy) The J.V. Club (comedy) The Little Dum Dum Club (comedy) The Pod F. Tompkast (comedy) The Sean Pod (comedy) The Season Pass (theme parks) Thrilling Adventure Hour (comedy) Totally Laime (comedy) Wait, What (comics) Walking The Room (comedy) What Are You Laughing At (comedy) C-tier 1 Bad Mother (parenthood) Bad At Sports (art) Comic Geek Speak (comics) Dave Hill’s Podcasting Incident (comedy) Ding-Donger (comedy) Don’t Ever Change (comedy) Girl On Guy (comedy) Hang Out With Me (comedy) Inkstuds (comics; S-tier guests, F-tier host) Kill Your Darlings (literature) My Brother, My Brother, And Me (comedy) No More Whoppers (video games) Pop My Culture (movies) Probably Science (science) Professor Blastoff (science) Tall Tale Radio (comics) The Bat Segundo Show (literature) The Dana Gould Hour (comedy) The Hat Decides (comedy) The Ink Panthers (comics; S-tier when Julia Wertz *heart flutters* is on as is the case with all podcasts) The K Ohle (comedy) The Mental Illness Happy Hour (psychology) The Minutes (comedy) The Mutant Season (business) The Nick DiPaolo Podcast (comedy) The Spiel (games) The Todd Barry Podcast (comedy) The Wolf Den (business) Weekend Confirmed (video games) W.T.F. (comedy) You Had To Be There (comedy) I also used to listen to video game music podcasts before they died/I got more obscure taste than they did. In general, for literature podcasts, do public radio. The anglosphere, generally, shouldn’t be ignored. Australia has surprisingly good ones. |
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Post by strelnikov on Dec 1, 2013 6:09:43 GMT -5
My talky podcasts:Ask Mr Bigs --I think it's defunct now, but basically it was where some guys cut up real phonecalls to work around a couple characters on a radio show. I have the vibe that "Ask Mr. Biggs" will do an episode this December because they did one last year. Maybe the guy/s behind it have to work more? |
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Post by pairesta on Dec 1, 2013 9:22:26 GMT -5
The only podcasts I listen to are WTF and Monday Morning Podcast. I feel like WTF's greatest days are behind it, but it's still worth listening to, and you should definitely check out the back catalog, he's done some of the best interviews in all of podcasting, in my opinion. I dipped back into WTF for the first time in I don't know how long recently. Listened to the Pamela Adlon interview (what a beautiful mess she is), the thoroughly excellent Sam Simon interview, Thom Yorke, and then that was about it and needed a break again. |
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Post by pairesta on Dec 1, 2013 9:25:12 GMT -5
The Flop House and We Hate Movies for two sides of the bad movie coin pretty much take up my weeks.
WTF on occasion.
Splendid Table for cooking. Less and less so, Good Food.
Recently finished the History of Rome, which is really great, but quite an undertaking (180 episodes or so). I picked up Mike Duncan's followup podcast Revolutions which is good if a bit dense at times.
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Post by Hachiman on Dec 1, 2013 11:27:37 GMT -5
A lot of the ones I like have been mentioned, but two that have not been brought up:
Get Up on This: New pop culture discussions. Interesting guests and the hosts keep things moving pretty quickly.
The Champs: Neal Brennan and Moshe Kasher interview (usually African-American) comedians and actors. Its damn near always hilarious, and they actually ask really difficult questions to the guests. The hosts are fairly insightful as well.
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Post by whisperingeye on Dec 1, 2013 11:41:43 GMT -5
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, except my most favorite, Stop Podcasting Yourself.
Mental Illness Happy Hour is one I download if I know the guest or if the description or the AV Club write-up makes it sound interesting.
Book Fight is great if you like literature or creative writing (and now that I reread the original post--hey, you do!). I've more or less given up on pursuing creative writing in any big way, but I still like listening to the hosts talk about their progress, especially since Mike started NaNoWriMo.
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Post by HipsterDBag on Dec 2, 2013 19:15:39 GMT -5
BBC World Service Global News
BBC World Service World Business Report
BBC World Service Business Daily
BBC World Service Documentaries
BBC Radio 4 Weekly Political Review
BBC Radio 4 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC Radio 4 In Our Time
RTE Radio 1 Today
Still trying to find a replacement for NPR's It's All Politics
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Post by maryworthfan47 on Dec 2, 2013 23:02:25 GMT -5
Does anyone else find that podcasts--especially comedy podcasts--have declined in general in the last year or so? I used to listen to CBB, Doug Benson, and Sklarboro every week, but now they've all become more miss than hit to me. I think that the talent has spread too thin and the higher profile is turning some podcasts into regular old talk shows. Bang Bang/Death Ray, for instance, was a regular rotation of Tompkins, Adomian, Nick Kroll and Jon Daly at the beginning, and it had no higher intent than for comedians to crack each other up. Now everybody has his own podcast and half of the time the guest is a higher profile non-comedian or a "comedy legend" with something to plug. If I wanted that, I would watch Jimmy Kimmel. It's too bad that Podmass back in Zion has become a useless feature, because I really wish there was a reliable rundown to save me the wasted time of a bad podcast.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Dec 3, 2013 11:28:41 GMT -5
I listen to too many podcasts:
Sports-related seasonal podcasts:
Iowa State CycloneFanatic podcast
Solid Verbal
ESPNU College Basketball
CBSSports College Basketball
BS Report (tend to listen mostly to his NBA focused stuff)
Podcasts I listen to on a fairly regular basis:
The Bugle
NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour
Slate Political Gabfest
Sklarbro Country
How Did This Get Made?
Professor Blastoff
Judge John Hodgman
Podcasts that have backed up on my iPhone waiting for a week where I have lots of boring computer time at work or lots of housework:
This American Life
Freakonomics
Stuff You Should Know
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Point of Inquiry
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Post by heroboy on Dec 3, 2013 11:38:36 GMT -5
Must listen on day of release:
- Comedy Bing Bong
- MBMBaM
- Nerd Poker (not great, but its a serialized show so I'm kinda invested at this point)
- Analyze Phish (no set schedule)
- Star Wars Minute
Listen Depending on Guest:
- Doug Loves Movies
- Who Charted
Will listen to sooner or later:
- Besties (2/3 of MBMBaM with a focus on video Games)
- Mike and Tom Eat Snacks (if they every release new ones)
- Cracked Podcast
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Dec 3, 2013 12:17:01 GMT -5
Does anyone else find that podcasts--especially comedy podcasts--have declined in general in the last year or so? I used to listen to CBB, Doug Benson, and Sklarboro every week, but now they've all become more miss than hit to me. I think that the talent has spread too thin and the higher profile is turning some podcasts into regular old talk shows. Bang Bang/Death Ray, for instance, was a regular rotation of Tompkins, Adomian, Nick Kroll and Jon Daly at the beginning, and it had no higher intent than for comedians to crack each other up. Now everybody has his own podcast and half of the time the guest is a higher profile non-comedian or a "comedy legend" with something to plug. If I wanted that, I would watch Jimmy Kimmel. It's too bad that Podmass back in Zion has become a useless feature, because I really wish there was a reliable rundown to save me the wasted time of a bad podcast. It does feel like the trend for a lot of shows, especially those I'd describe as having a semi-rigid format, is to move towards the interview-style show, which is unfortunate. |
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Post by flyinggrayson on Dec 6, 2013 13:06:40 GMT -5
Hey, thanks for all the great responses! For now I've added the following to try:
Star Wars Minute
My Brother, My Brother, and Me
How Did This Get Made?
Book Fight
Quiet! Panelogists at Work
Doug Loves Movies
I'll also dig through the WTF archives and pick out some interviewees who I'm particular interested in. I tend to binge on podcasts and then get bored and go looking for new ones so I copied all the recommendations to a file and will be looking at them again, I'm sure. Thanks!
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Post by haysoos on Dec 6, 2013 13:11:55 GMT -5
The only podcast I listen to on a regular basis is Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
I like it, but considering it's the only one I listen to, I don't have a lot to compare it with.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2014 9:43:23 GMT -5
WTF was up with the "Harmontown Nights Preview"? I mean, it was funny, but really scary at the same time. It sounded like Duncan Trussell wrote it.
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Post by eldan on May 4, 2014 22:52:50 GMT -5
Two others I've been listening to a bunch lately:
The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project
You Talkin' u2 to Me?
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Post by Paleu on May 4, 2014 23:51:14 GMT -5
If you like MBMBaM, you should check out Sawbones, the podcast that Justin McElroy does with his wife Sydney about medical history. Not as funny as MBMBaM (few things in life are), but surprisingly informative.
Also, listening to The Flop House has made listening to any other bad movie podcast difficult, though I do like We Hate Movies.
Read It and Weep tackles just about anything shitty (or at least batshit, a la Gozu or The Prisoner), be it a movie or book.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 5, 2014 0:27:38 GMT -5
Comedy Bang Bang: Scott Aukerman's weekly comedy podcast. No further explanation necessary (I expect most people here will have heard of most of these podcasts. I've fallen way behind on this one, and it'll probably be months at least before I've caught up.
Professor Blastoff: Tig Notaro and those two dudes' podcast about a bunch of comedians joking about science. I've only listened to a couple of these, but I intend on attempting to catch up in the near future.
Puck Podcast: Weekly podcast on the NHL. The hosts are pretty knowledgeable, do a solid job of covering the entire league, and are generally considerably less unbearable than most sports analysts in terms of being a bunch of asshole-bros.
Slate's Lexicon Valley: Fascinating though currently infrequent podcast about language.
This American Life: Ira Glass' weekly public radio show in podcast form.
Welcome to Night Vale: Excellent twice-monthly podcast that details the otherworldly goings on of the titular small town via its public radio announcer's commentary. I'd suggest starting from the beginning, but it doesn't take long for it to become very good.
WNYC's Radiolab: NPR affiliate's science program in podcast form. I'm also behind on this one, but I should catch up in the relatively near-ish future.
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