The Podcast Thread

Knex*

Have been meaning to start a thread along these lines for ages.

Are there any podcasts that you listen to regularly, or which podcasts do you recommend?

To start off, ones that I listen to regularly would be:

Joe Rogan
(I use his Youtube channel)

The Joe Rogan Experience podcast is a long form conversation hosted by comedian, UFC color commentator, and actor Joe Rogan with friends and guests that have included comedians, actors, musicians, MMA instructors and commentators, authors, artists, and porn stars. The Joe Rogan Experience was voted the Best Comedy Podcast of 2012 on iTunes.

I listen to these depending on the guest that are on, and the shows vary between being extremely interesting, hilarious, or both. This may not be for everyone, but I relate to an awful lot of what Joe and his regular guests speak on, and have no problem listening to a 3 hour podcast regularly.

The Bugle Podcast
(They also have a handy soundcloud page)

The Bugle, one of the universe’s leading satirical comedy podcasts, featuring John Oliver (star of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart) and Andy Zaltzman (not a star of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart), lives on.

Since its birth in October 2007, John and Andy have dispensed their weekly doses of satire and bull**** to an estimated potential global audience of 7 billion people. They have left no political hot potato unbuttered, and have presided over, and/or caused, and/or commented on (delete according to preference) the downfall of several of the world’s least desirable despots and dinner companions.

I find this to be a very topical, interesting, and often hilarious podcast. Generally the podcasts are relatively short, at 30-40 mins, and it makes for some enjoyable and easy listening. John Oliver is coming to fame in the states for his satircal show, "Last Week Tonight", recently as well.

History Podcast

Dan Carlin Hardcore History

It's a hard recipe to master, but when passion and reason are finely blended the results can be unpredictable and intoxicating. They can also be maddening. This is part of the attraction of Dan Carlin. Original and outside-the-box thinking on current events and history to be sure, but could he also be woefully out of step with conventional wisdom?

He talks fast, he's loud, he's a deep thinker who adores history and who will challenge your view of the world, while he does the same thing to himself. He's a bit of a throwback to something from the past, and yet not quite like anything else yet seen. It's a New Media/ "eye of the beholder" sort of thing. You'll have to decide for yourself. His style is not for everyone. It's not meant to be.

Really loved some of these. He makes historical events so damn interesting, and really helps bring it to life. Also, I really like how he gives his opinions and version of things, all of it stemming from solid research, which helps make the podcast far more interesting and listenable.

His podcasts on Gengus Kahn was outstanding.

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I also listen to some Sport Podcasts, mostly American Football ones. Although I haven't found any that I would listen to on a regular basis, tbh.

So folks, what podcasts do you listen to, and why?

Slattsy

I dont know who any of those peoples are.

wp_rathead

Mine are all comedy:

The Bugle
If you like your political satire then you will LOVE this podcast - involves John Oliver chatting with Andy Zaltzman about the week. They created the phrase "****eulogy" - used when a dictator dies

Harmontown
Creator of brilliant show Community, Dan Harmon joins with his friend and comedian Jeff Davies to talk shight, interview people and play Dungeons and Dragons - very funny.

You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes
When I first started listening to Pete Holmes I couldn't stand him, but he gets really good guests on for 2-3 hour unedited chats. He can be extremely narcissistic and I find myself rolling my eyes alot at him - but the podcast usually flows with persons career, persons childhood, persons love life, persons religion. The episode with David O'Doherty and episode with Moshe Kasher are my two favs.

A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume
Ken Plume chats with most TV Show writers and comedians over skype for about hour and half to two hours. Is very relaxed and makes for a great listen. Graham Linehan is a regular and is brilliant.

Slattsy wrote: »

I dont know who any of those peoples are.

Great contribution there mate - well done
If you don't know John Oliver you really are missing out

grohlisagod

Marc Maron's WTF podcast. He's an American comedian and the podcast consists of interviews with other comics, actors, musicians etc.

His chat with Louis CK is probably the best I've heard. They were friends for years before falling out so there's some really interesting back story there. He has good interviews with Jon Hamm and Conan O'Brien too.

CarefulNow!

Tiesto

judge jules

kutski

the right hook and off the ball

D'Agger

Currently subscribed to:

Freakonomics
How Stuff Works
Bill Burr
Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo
Above and Beyond
Musical Freedom
Laidback Luke
Sigma Nutrition Radio
David Mitchells Soapbox

Very much after getting into podcasts so glad this thread was setup - nice idea Knex!

everlast75

Bill Burr is the only one I listen to, purely because I don't have that much time.

Thanks for the tip on the Bugle - love Jon Oliver and am downloading now!

Knex*

Few nice suggestions I'll be checking out already. Cheers, folks!

Had meant to say Bill Burr, as well. Although I haven't listened to him for a while. Loved listening to him talking about his gig when he was in Ireland. Had been at Vicar Street when he visited, and it was incredible.

He loved how we as a crowd were so different in how we reacted to other countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV7x6PjHymU

wp_rathead

everlast75 wrote: »

Thanks for the tip on the Bugle - love Jon Oliver and am downloading now!

Unfort they are on hiatus until September due to John Oliver having the HBO show- but even listening back on old episodes are still fantastic

D'Agger

I've Jon Olivers show on series link but haven't seen any episodes of it yet, looks very good though!

Wompa1

My favorites are Norm MacDonald Live and Joe Rogan.

I would say Ricky Gervais if it was still going on. I use to always listen to Bill Burrs but it goes through phases of just sucking. Norms is almost always great, it's not a regular podcast, it's completely a comedy show.

I don't have a television anymore. I don't listen to the radio outside of Opie and Anthony on Satellite every once in a while. If I'm working late in the evenings, I'll throw on one of these. Rogans is great, though he's a little bit too talky, he should let the guests speak more.

The Best:

Comedy:

Norm MacDonald Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWiHJYoHWyO56dlo_vjTleA

Radio:

Opie and Anthony:
http://opieandanthonypodcast.libsyn.com

Regular Chat Podcasts:
Joe Rogan:
https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerfulJRE

Steve Austin:
http://www.podcastone.com/program?action=viewProgram&programID=436

Bill Burr:
http://www.billburr.com/podcast

source

Still untitled: the Adam Savage project
Stuff you should know
Irish history podcast
Stuff you missed in history class
Ted talks

Sorry for the lack of links I'm posting from mobile.

paddy1990

the tom leykis show

Stone Deaf 4evr

Nerdist podcast, mostly interviews with comedians but the hosts are very funny too.

grohlisagod

Knex. wrote: »

History Podcast

Dan Carlin Hardcore History

It's a hard recipe to master, but when passion and reason are finely blended the results can be unpredictable and intoxicating. They can also be maddening. This is part of the attraction of Dan Carlin. Original and outside-the-box thinking on current events and history to be sure, but could he also be woefully out of step with conventional wisdom?

He talks fast, he's loud, he's a deep thinker who adores history and who will challenge your view of the world, while he does the same thing to himself. He's a bit of a throwback to something from the past, and yet not quite like anything else yet seen. It's a New Media/ "eye of the beholder" sort of thing. You'll have to decide for yourself. His style is not for everyone. It's not meant to be.

Really loved some of these. He makes historical events so damn interesting, and really helps bring it to life. Also, I really like how he gives his opinions and version of things, all of it stemming from solid research, which helps make the podcast far more interesting and listenable.

His podcasts on Gengus Kahn was outstanding.

Been listening to the Mongol podcasts. Excellent so far but Christ they're long!

Waillee123

I would and am advising everyone I know to listen to Serial!

It's very good. Basically an ex-journalist exploring a case where a boyfriend got prosecuted for killing his ex-girlfriend 15+ years ago in Baltimore. There are numerous holes in the testimony of the friend that put him away and ended up with probation. They use court recordings, suspect interviews, talking to friends of the people involved at the the time, retracing steps and actions etc. Interesting thing is that the host doesn't believe the accused is innocent but points out areas that there may be issues with the prosecution.

Its, as expected a series and done through podcast. It's the True Detective of podcasts but not fictional.

Listen to first 15 minutes of first episode and you will be hooked. Thank me later!

keane2097

I wrote this post some time back on a different forum, might be of interest here:

A few days late with this but I listen to a load that aren't sport that might be worth a spin for you.

99% Invisible - a show about elements of design that you typically wouldn't even notice. Used to be around 5 minutes long but they've expanded out to 20 minutes or so in recent times which has me not listening as much. Can be very interesting and gives you a look at the creative processes that go into the design of all sorts of things that you would never even think of.

History of Rome - BBV favourite, amazing podcast describing the rise and fall of the Roman Empire in digestible 20 minute episodes. The eps are delivered perfectly, giving you the perfect mix of facts, insights, personalities and comedy. Couldn't recommend it highly enough, although the standard of it increases dramatically after maybe 10 eps or so once he gets out of legend and into real history.

In Our Time - BBC history show. Melvin Bragg picks a random topic each week and gets guests on to talk about it, ranging from Shakespeare's plays to a law passed in Britain in 1815 to keep corn prices artificially high (this week's). Very good mostly, although the odd time the subject matter can be overly dull.

New Yorker fiction - Each month a noted author reads a favourite passage from the works of another author, then discusses it after. Almost always terrific although regularly leaves me a bit depressed as authors tend to pick out scenes dripping with pathos to read out.

New Yorker Political Scene - A new one in my rotation, a quick weekly look at what's been going on in the political scene in the US. As someone who typically doesn't watch the news this is a great snappy update to give you the flavour of what's going on in the US and elsewhere, acts as a good signpost to go read up on stuff that sounds interesting.

New Yorker Planet Money - As above started listening to this in the last couple of months. Hard to really define as it can vary wildly enough topic-wise, but again another short and sweet one where you'll get a 15 minute rundown of some cool topic or other. Last one I listened to was all about the Lincoln car brand's attempts to get themselves back into a position of strength in the market, how they once were kings of luxury cars and how they declined. Another one was about a wonderdrug that was developed in the US to combat opiate addiction, the opposition to it from the DEA and how the only place most addicts can get it is from street dealers.

NPR TED Radio Hour - Here they pick out some TED talk or other and expand on it. Considering the vastness of the TED library this is pretty good as they pick out some of the best talks so you don't have to and explore the topic in more detail, often getting the original talker and other experts in on the act. A bit like Radiolab, not quite as good I guess but still great.

On the Media - Similar to the New Yorker Political Scene but around an hour long and they usually do one political story (big on questioning the NSA at the moment), something from pop culture and something else random (e.g. identity theft or something topical like that).

Radiolab - Probably doesn't need description from me. If you haven't listened to it just download an episode.

WTF with Marc Maron - "Comedian" Marc Maron interviews random famous people. There's usually ten minutes or so at the start with Maron going on himself in bizarrely unfunny manner, but tbf the interviews he does with all sorts of people are pretty awesome. Examples recently were Johnny Knoxville and Moon Zappa, but it could be anyone really. I find it a cool way to learn about aspects of culture that I'd have no exposure to otherwise.

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn - Similar to the Marc Maron one, they do stories about selected bits of culture and interviews with various people. I love this one personally. Lately they did an interview with Bill Withers that was beyond belief and had a hilarious episode about this movie "The Room" that's meant to be the worst of all time.

Bonus ****e but strangely addictive ones:

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - I don't really know how this works but it kind of does. It's essentially bad Harry Potter fan fiction disgracefully badly voice acted and all with the goal of teaching people about logic and rationality, so there will be episodes that centre around selection bias, Baye's theorem and random other stuff like that. Should be terrible but is actually wildly popular and I find myself listening to it a lot.

We're Alive - Basically a radio drama effort where a zombie apocalypse goes down and the survivors try to keep on trucking. It's probably pretty bad tbh but it's just a bit of a guilty pleasure that I find myself looking forward to every week.

I have more if anyone is interested but those are the ones I listen to most regularly.

The History of Rome is the undisputed champion of podcasts IMO, should be listened to by everyone.

Should also be mentioned that Second Captains is a seriously good sports podcast by some of our own, perhaps gets forgotten about a bit sometimes.

The Radiolab podcast is excellent beyond belief as well. I'd recommend especially one they did a while back tracing the origin of disease outbreaks which I believe was called "Patient Zero". Pretty relevant at the moment and showcases the insane level of research they do for all of their episodes.

New Yorker fiction is one I struggle to listen to at times because it's almost always ridiculously moving.

D'Agger

Was going to listen to the patient zero podcast last night Keano but decided to download Above and Beyonds three sets from Maddison Square Garden instead - still feel I made the right choice belting it into work this morning!

To echo - Radiolab is very, very good. If you like Radiolab - then you'll enjoy Stuff to blow your mind - they have some brilliant content - one I listened to recently on the spiral of silence was pretty cool.

Scroobius Pip has started a podcast with a few weeks now and has some brilliant discussions on music, but also just general chat - very good guests starting off with Russel Brand, Zane Lowe (didn't expect to enjoy it but really did) & DJ Yoda - would recommend. Also - never knew pip had a stutter which makes his music all the better to me - 'You see a mouse trap, I see free cheese and a fúckin challenge' :pac:

Will definitely check out the History of Rome, many thanks for the recommendation, sounds right up my street

keane2097

If you don't love the History of Rome you are dead inside. Like I said, the first bunch of episodes are based on the mythology of the foundation of the city, but once he gets onto stuff for which there are actual sources it's superb. His comparison between Aurelian & Sandy Koufax is probably humanity's greatest ever achievement, but you've a lot of episodes to get to there.

The Black Oil

Current subs

A Prairie Home Companion (US public radio) Garrison Keillor's slice of America.
From Our Own Correspondent (BBC) Catching up with various correspondents posted around the world.
Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo/Wittertainment (BBC) Some backslapping elements, but I still enjoy it. Not so keen on the stand ins, most of the time.
The Political Junkie (US public radio)
Planet Money (NPR) Good mix of topics, not always quantitative easing. :pac:
Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) Skewed, obviously, but can produce good debate. Sometimes tedious digs and cheap shots.
Snap Judgement (NPR) New to this, found it quite moving.
X Files Files - For my fandom needs

Infrequent

This American Life - perhaps the high watermark of radio
Documentary on One (RTE) Haven't listened a lot, but those I've checked out have been powerful.
On Point from WBUR - panel/guest discussion on various topics, heavy and light. I'd listen to Liveline if it were closer to this.

fergus1001

Currently subscribed to:

interactive distractions
gamers with jobs
giantbomb cast
super the hardest
joystiq podcast
the filmcast

generally listen to them going to sleep

scottmcb04

love No Such Thing as a Fish, brilliantly funny... writers of QI gather weekly to talk about their favourite facts of the week

RDM_83 again

'In Our Time' is well worth checking out, the format is more debate like than most podcasts which might not be to some peoples tastes but the guests on are the top of their fields.

'The History of the Crusades' Been listening through this for ages, I have the feeling its relying on a fairly narrow range of sources but for whats an amateur effort it puts a huge amount of time into something that would be covered in an hour or two by other shows, (its on episode 85 at the minute :-o )

The New Books in --- Network involves interviews with the authors of books on topics such as Military History or Anthropology, its a bit variable but I like the way it covers a really wide range of topics from Muslim Womens experiences of campus life to Genocide

The Black Oil

I mentioned the RTE Documentary on One above. I listened an episode about how dad's cope with their children's addiction to heroin. Well-worth a listen.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2009/1105/646268-fathers_house/