favourite podcast?

Strongbow10

Question is in the title folks, whats your fave podcast? no matter how embarrassing you think it may be, or no matter how boring you think it may make you look, what is it?

is it sport, music, movie related, current affairs, or what?

i'll go first, right now i am liking Dunphy's sunday morning show on newstalk

Silverfish

This week in tech. Can't beat a bit of Leo LaPorte.

And PaulDotCom Security, even if I only understand about 10% of it.

dr.bollocko

Moved from AH.

KeithM89_old

The Complete Guide to Eveything - very funny and last episode had Dave Hill as a guest

Also, best of youtube

bonzodog2

Dr Karl's Science phone-in on BBC5Live. It's on about 3AM on a Thursday morning, interesting if you like that sort of thing

Diabhal Beag

The Guardian Football Weekly

youcancallmeal

Either Engadget's tech podcast or Murph's Country Pages

This week in tech. Can't beat a bit of Leo LaPorte.

Its the most annoying podcast I have ever listened to! I don't even know where to start, first of all it should just be called 'Week in Apple' because they will talk about the tiniest bit of news from Apple for up to an hour while going off on annoying tangents every now and then. The people they have on the podcast seem to know very little about technology (Unless its Apple). There are ads where the host just tells you about how amazing audible.com is and then the guests will chime in with comments like 'OMG yeah its like so awesome, I havent read this much in years' (Its audiobooks your not even reading!!!). At least every 5 mins someone says something completely retarded. Okay I'll stop now, I needed to get that out of my system.

Detour

The Hamish and Andy podcast.

It's a 2 hour daily radio show condensed into a half hour (cuts out music, ads, news). To genuinely funny blokes, and the more you listen to it the funnier it gets. I'd really recommend it to anyone. I'd even rank it above the Ricky Gervais ones, which are also great.

spank_inferno

Giving a shout out to the TwoJacks

very low budget affair from 2 up & comings in LA

consistently brilliant

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

Anyone know where you can download the Ricky Gervais podcasts in mp3 format? Only Itunes on his official site

Kasabian

Tommy and Hector

nbrady20009

Definitely the Tommy and Hector show. Shame there is no music though.

Niallwithaz

If you're into games then I'd recommend the Giant Bombcast. Up to date with all the news and 'tis hilarious


http://www.giantbomb.com/podcast/

Sykk

Corsten's Countdown

JayeL

Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo, talkin about de fillums on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Not really around any more, but the Ricky Gervais show I thought was a great laugh.

Beeker

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Dr Karl's Science phone-in on BBC5Live. It's on about 3AM on a Thursday morning, interesting if you like that sort of thing

Love it along with Dr Karl on Australia's triple J
http://www.abc.net.au/science/drkarl/default.htm

Superbus

F1 Rejects

Probably the best F1 podcast out there, if you don't take it too seriously.

haydar

Anyone know any good podcast review websites?

colinod0806

My week is never complete without the Frank Skinner podcast

Nanoc

For me it's the Joe Rogan Experience, it can be a bit hit and miss recently but there are some gems, he does two or three a week and they can run to 3 hours so I don't get to listen to them all but they're fun!!

chocksaway

Stuff you should know from howstuffworks.com
Brilliant funny stuff: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/hsw-shows/stuff-you-should-know-podcast.htm

mickoneill30

I've loads on mine. But the only ones I listen to frequently are
This Week In Tech. - he has audible ads (amongst others )in his podcast. My podcast app has a 30 second flick forward option which skips the ads extremely easily.
Kermode & Mayo Film Reviews
The Infinite Monkey Cage - Brian Cox & Robert Ince discuss science topics with some humour.

Mr_Roger_Bongos

Can't believe no one has mentionned 'Fighting Talk',

Colin Murray presents a 'have i got news for you' in a sports style, with various contributors its always a very good laugh and you pick up sports knowledge at the same time!

I also like the Guardian football podcast and the Newstalk 'Off the ball'.

jaykhunter

I'm a massive wrestling fan so my favourite is a retro podcast by the LAW, called Review-a-Wai. They cherry pick events over the last 25 years and review a show, backstage scandal and generally have an interview with someone involved at the time. Really great stuff. It's so good it inspired me to make my own.

McG

Hardcore History is my absolute favourite but they're not very frequent.

Sephiroth_dude

Tales of tyeria (sp) every sunday night,its aguild war 2 podcast

bnt

I'm forever on the lookout for good short podcasts, so that HowStuffWorks one is looking very interesting to me. Scientific American's 60-Second Science is a similar idea, but covering more research-driven topics. I see they've expanded the 60-Second idea to cover more topics now.

I only have so much time to listen to podcasts, so I'm not going to waste it on listening to two blokes talking crap for an hour, as so many podcasts seem to be. It's not Radio, there is no excuse for waffling to fill a time slot. I like podcasts which don't mess around: start it up, get your message across, then stop. :pac:

Some more great short podcasts:
- News from Lake Woebegon - where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average. Garrison Keillor's long-running segment on A Prairie Home Companion, about a fictional Minnesota town.
- Spot of Bother: life is not peachy.
- War of the Roses: segment from a New York radio show in which the presenters catch cheaters by offering them free roses. Guaranteed to cure you of any notions of romance in your life. :eek:
- KCRW Martini Shot: snippets from a working TV writer about all kinds of things related to Hollywood.
- Skeptoid: debunking various forms of Woo.
and, naturally, The Bugle. The Times may have pulled their funding, but they're still going strong, despite Andy's obsession with attending more Olympics events than was strictly advisable. :pac:

ByronFrump

Ok, here goes. I don't watch TV or listen to the radio, so I listen to a tonne of podcasts. All of these are unbelievably good, so in no particular order, please check out...

All the usual show - e.g.: This American Life, RadioLab etc plus...
The Tobolowsky Files - true stories from the life of actor Stephen Tobolowsky (so good I learned to spell his name, just to tell people about it).
The Film Talk - Jett Loe and (Irishman) Gareth Higgens, two hyper articulate cinefiles discuss movies at breakneck speed and passionate intensity.
Boars, Gore and Swords, a Game Of Thrones Podcast
The Moth Podcast - true stories told live, always entertaining and features tonnes of famous writers, musicians etc
Savage Love - Hilarious and contentious weekly sex advice from writer and editor Dan Savage
The Age Of Persuasion - Canadian show by an advertising executive, explaining just how the industry bend us to their will
In Our Time - History of science art and intellectual thought from British Lord Melvin Bragg
Starship Sofa - Hugo Award winning news and stories from the world of science fiction every week (disclaimer - I sometimes read stories for the show)
Love And Radio - Trippy, freeform storytelling / interview show, with music. Kind of like This American Life
A Life Well Wasted - Occasional, beautifully edited show about art, games, storytelling etc - each episode features custom written music and art, a real labour of love.

Also - if you'd like to check out some homegrown efforts - I've produced a several Irish comedy podcasts - The Invisible Tourguide, The Emerald Arts, Technolotics, and my new weekly sketch comedy podcast Dead Medium.

If anyone would like info about equipment / technical side of podcasting PM me. I'd be happy to chat.

tim63

i rarely listen to live radio anymore, opting for pod-casts.
Mondays its a catch up on the weekend sport with

Ian Wright on Absolute Radio, the 606 phone ins, and the non league show,
then its
Christian O'Connell breakfast show on Absolute radio, then its anything that takes my fancy, i normally have about 5 days worth at any one time so a big choice, Katie Morgan the ex adult actress has her own pod-cast which is entertaining
http://havingsex.smodcast.libsynpro.com/rss

here's a few more

frank Skinner
Ian Collins wants a word
the Adam carolla show
the Dave gorman show
Simon Mayo's confessions
comedy of the week
Danny baker show
daily bacon
BBC documentaries
this american life
etc. etc.

talk sport do a few but they do tend to cut them off mid sentence which is annoying .....

conorc94

The only podcast I listen to is The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. It's enjoyable, but Rebecca Watson and Jay Novella can be annoying at times.

joseph brand

The Best of The Left podcast. Usually features clips from Rachel Maddow, Cenk Uygur (Young Turks), Sam Seder and Jimmy Dore.

They have a very user-friendly site here.

ScrubsfanChris

Kermode and Mayo - The films reviews are pretty honest and spot on, usually have a guest on as well. Alot of the podcast is specific to the week it airs.

The Kevin Pollak Chat Show - I can't recomend this enough, interviews with (alot of the time) big name celeb's that go on for 2 hours+ sometimes, while never feeling stagnant.
Personal favourites would be Bryan Cranston and Eddie Izzard, plus the 2 on 1 interview with Billy West and John DiMaggio (Futurama) from a couple of months back.

Ruggamatrix - A must for any Rugby fan, more Southern Hemisphere based, but lots of talk/interviews for HC and 6N times.

wnolan1992

Mostly into games, but there're a few others in here that are real gems. Just gonna list my entire podcast feed, as I'm very picky about what gets left there, and if a podcast makes it in for longer than a month I consider it to be excellent.

COMEDY

• The Comedy Button - Hilarious comedy show. Talking about virtually anything under the sun, a spin-off of the Gamespy Debriefings, but no longer a game-centric podcast.
• The Dave Gorman Podcast - The podcast of Dave's weekly radio show on Absolute Radio in the UK. Generally it's one of the standard "We take a quirky topic and you text us in your stories related to that topic for two hours" show, but there's a raft of extras thrown in, so many in fact that they have a special dedicated podcast mid-week that's just extra stuff.
• The Ray Foley Show - Daily podcast of the radio show, with an often brilliant podcast only segment at the beginning.
• Stop Podcasting Yourself - Two Canadian comedians, usually joined by another Canadian comedian talk about random stuff.

GAMES

• Destructoid's Video Game Podcast - AKA Podtoid. Discussing video games, but can also descend into outright madness, with sexual inuendo and crazy stories and skits thrown in.
• The Gamespy Debriefings - Now cancelled, but well worth a download anyway. The predecessor to The Comedy Button, the IGN and Gamespy staff try to discuss games, but invariably end up way off topic, with hilarious consequences. (Episodes 119-170 are the ones to get) This could probably go in the comedy category as well...
• The Geekbox - A podcast about games, TV, movies and comics, presented by Ryan Scott from The Comedy Button.
• Good Game [VIDEO PODCAST] - Australian TV show that discusses and reviews games, often with a tongue in cheek attitude, but still informative and fun to watch.
• IGN AU: Pubcast - Games podcast from IGN's Australian team. Imagine 5 Australians getting drunk and shouting about stuff into a microphone and you're halfway to the pubcast. :P
• IGN UK Podcast - IGN's UK team talk about games and movies with a focus on the UK side of things
• IGN's GameScoop - A weekly round-up of the big gaming stories.
• IGN's Podcast Beyond - Weekly podcast relating to the latest Playstation news, generally light-hearted and often laugh out loud funny.
• IGN's Podcast Unlocked - Weekly podcast relating to Xbox news. More serious than Beyond!, but still entertaining. Each week there's an interview with someone in the industry that is invariably fascinating.
• Rebel FM - Games related podcast with one of the guys from The Comedy Button.
• Sup, Holmes? - From Destructoid, a podcast where Johnathan Holmes talks to a person from the gaming industry about their work.

MISC.

• Football Weekly - Round up of the week's Premier League, Champions League, Serie A, La Liga and Bundesliga action. Well worth a listen, as they tackle things in a light-hearted enjoyable manner.
• Good Job, Brain! - A trivia podcast, taking a topic and doing quizzes on that topic.
• IGN's Knockin' Boots - 20 episodes so far, and even though there hasn't been an episode in a long time it's definitely worth a listen. Sex and dating advice for awkward nerdy gamers, given by some awkward nerdy gamers getting drunk on Captain Morgan.
• Tech Fetish: IGN's Gear Podcast - Funny podcast about tech.
• When Diplomacy Fails Podcast - A history podcast. Zach takes a war and discusses it for an hour. Very interesting as he generally takes wars that we wouldn't have studied in any detail in school.

OVERALL
I love them all equally, but if I had to choose a favourite, it would probably be The Comedy Button. I genuinely look forward to 11:30pm on Fridays because I know I'll have a new episode to listen to, and I listen to each episode at least twice in that first weekend after it's out.

joker jonboy

the infinite monkey cage.. with professor brian cox
stuff you should know is great too

SebBerkovich

Radio 4 Friday Night Comedy Podcast - usually featuring either The News Quiz or the Now Show.

Freakanomics Podcast - Brilliantly interesting stuff happens when you apply economic principals to things like getting a more stuff at Halloween or what happens to a town that has to pay directly to their town coucil for their street lights to be turned on

This American Life - Perfect. Never found a show thats equaled it in quality or longevity.

The Bugle - Generally Very funny satire from a Mr. John Oliver in New York talking to a Mr. Zaltzman in England.

jacool

agree with Radio 4 comedy and Frank Skinner
My other 2 are
Richard Herring's Podcasts from Leicester Square and
Radio Nowhere (specifically like Filmic, music from the movies)

Will certainly try some of those mentioned above though, so thanks.

withless

UH YEAH DUDE

e_e

Filmspotting - Proper in depth analysis of cinema, with a differently themed top 5 list every week and director/genre marathons. It's great for recommendations.

I do like Kermode & Mayo too but it's been getting into backslapping territory lately with the endless listener emails and in-jokes. Often drowns out the film talk which is why I listen really.

beans

No Agenda

I came across this after finding Dan Carlin's History and Politics shows, and being made aware of some podcast awards. No Agenda was on the list, and I dipped in and tried it and a few others.

It's tech-guy John C Dvorak and DJ Adam Curry speaking about all sorts of stuff. It began fairly free form (there are 500 shows out there in the archives), but has morphed over time to carry more of a media-watch, government-watch agenda (ironically).

But it's very entertaining, and great value for money (it's free, with optional donations). Everything they've done is available for download, and latter episodes often run to ~3 hours.

iamaiamai

Hardcore History .. because history

and

WTF with Marc Maron .. because comedians have an uncanny way of telling it the way it is. This is why we need comedy.

- The episode with Mike DeStefano is crazy.. actually threw me for a loop. You can listen to it for free here

LindowMan

My favourite podcast is that which was done by Karl Pilkington (of whom I'm a fan), Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant weekly between 2002 and 2005 on the XFM radio station (the station not only gave us Pilkington, Gervais and Merchant it also gave us the likes of Simon Pegg, Russell Brand, Justin Lee Collins, Alex Zane and Dermot O'Leary) .

The podcast is just the three of them having a series of pointless conversations. Thanks mainly to Karl, though, it is hilarious and it has me in tears of hysterics. Throughout January and February 2006, the podcast was consistently ranked the number one podcast in the world. It appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Record for the world's most downloaded podcast, having gained an average of 261,670 downloads per episode during its first month. By March 2011, the podcast has been downloaded over 300 million times and in 2010 the podcast was animated and turned into Channel 4's The Ricky Gervais Show.

If you can't find the podcasts anywhere then all five series of The Ricky Gervais Show are available on DVD.

666irishguy

Poolside with Dean Delray was good for classic rock yarns and opinions, he has started a new Podcast now along the same lines. I used to like Skeptics Guide To The Universe but they became too arrogant and condescending. I like Conspiracy Skeptic when the guy makes them. Jill Valentine UFO show is a hoot if you want something to pass a long drive.

krudler

Kermode and Mayo is good, agree there's too much backslapping though and it takes forever to get going, the Empire podcast is good too, some good interviews on that and specials with directors and actors, the magazine has been rubbish for years but the podcast is entertaining. I used to listen to the slashfilm (/film) podcast for ages but the guy who presents it's voice wrecks my head.

Kylo Ren

I recently started watching the very enjoyable series 'Comic Book Men' which is accomponied by a weekly podcast.

The best part of the show I came to find was Walt Flanagan and Bryan Johnson whom I later found out had their own podcast 'Tell em' Steve Dave'. I'm really loving this podcast (The stories Bryan has!) and have a whole back catalogue to listen to as I started on #1.

steve_r

iamaiamai wrote: »

- The episode with Mike DeStefano is crazy.. actually threw me for a loop. You can listen to it for free here

I listen to the WTF pod when I know the person being interviewed but skip it otherwise. from Google I see that this guy is a standup who since passed away, would I need to be familar with his work or is the podcast about the drugs/addiction stuff?

wp_rathead

The Bugle
Harmontown
A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume
It Got Weird (Nerdist)
Talking Rugby

iamaiamai

steve_r wrote: »

I listen to the WTF pod when I know the person being interviewed but skip it otherwise. from Google I see that this guy is a standup who since passed away, would I need to be familar with his work or is the podcast about the drugs/addiction stuff?

You wouldn't need to be familiar with his work - I wasn't.

It's more about his lifestory - his upbringing, how he got into comedy, and what he got out of comedy.

It's straight-talking but moving at the same time.

MadPatrick

I think I'd lose my mind at work without podcasts. I downloaded a few that I've seen here. Here are my current favourites.

The Skeptics Guide To The Universe and Skeptoid are my favourite science podcasts.

On the other side of the coin is Mysterious Universe, two guys talking about various paranormal stuff with good stories from listeners and other websites, they sometimes look at conspiracy theory type topics.

Comedy Bang Bang is really good , it's even spawned a TV show. Some top comedians doing some of their best work. Other good comedies are Answer Me This, FOFOP, "Santo, Sam and Ed", Good Job Brain and The Joe Rogan Experience.

Radio shows with the music, ads and news cut out are always a treat. My faves are Kyle and Jackie O, Sunday Night Safran and Hamish and Andy. All are Australian but are not limited to Australian topics.

BBC Radio 4 has good stuff too. Friday Night Comedy (Esp. The News Quiz) and Comedy Of The Week are quiet good.

haydar

Kyle and Jackie O is absolute poison!!!!

He is a complete ars hole.

beans

MadPatrick wrote: »

On the other side of the coin is Mysterious Universe, two guys talking about various paranormal stuff

MU is great fun. If you like that, you may enjoy Red Ice Radio - they do a free hour twice a week. Occasionally (and recently) they cover new-age stuff which isn't my bag, but it's a solid production and when it's good, it's great.