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Do you listen to podcasts?

Elessar

So I'm sitting here listening to a podcast from Empire about movies (something I love) and trying to like it. I can't. It's just three people chatting randomly and laughing at their own terrible jokes. And I don't think it's this podcast. I don't think I have the patience to sit through random musings of random people.

But looking through the iTunes store and there are thousands of podcasts on every conceivable topic, so they're obviously popular. Do you listen to any?

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DEFTLEFTHAND

I really enjoy Artie Lange's podcast. Just a naturally funny guy.

12Phase

Yeah some of the science ones are great.

Straight Edge Punk

I've a long list of podcasts I use to get me through the work day and then any long car journies.

Serial series 1 was fantastic, series 2 isn't as good IMO. There is also Undisclosed which is a follow on to Serial and also very interesting.

For my comedy needs I go with Kevin Smith and his Smodcast collection, if you are into him then there are hundreds of hours to catch up on,dont just write them off if you don't like his movies however.

Scroobius Pip and his Distraction Pieces podcast is also a favourite of mine, always has an interesting guest involved which includes Blindboy of the Rubber Bandits this week.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Listen to a couple of work related ones and the news talk football and guardian football. Makes the commute very enjoyable.

ED E

You betcha!

Serial
99% PI
Memory Palace
Hello Internet
Cortex
This American Life
Liftofff
Security Now
The enquiry (BBC WS)
Recode Decode

ja1986

eviltwin wrote: »

Loads. I love podcasts. My current favourites are crime and mystery. Thinking Sideways, The Generation Why, Sword and Scale and a really good Irish one Those Conspiracy Guys.

Iv listened to all of sword and scale and am struggling to find more of the same. Haven't heard of those conspiracy guys, will give it a bash tomorrow thanks

OldMrBrennan83

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BoJack Horseman

Used to be a big radio nut, but have moved to podcasts in a big way.
my subscription list is 18 podcasts strong.

mansize

Graham Norton
Ru Paul's What's the T
DJ Anto

Books4you

I love listening to them. Favourites are:

Serial - Season 1
The Moth Podcast
The Joe Rogan Experience
99% Invisible
Freakonomics
Radiolab
This American Life

Also...Liveline. I'm Sorry. Can't get enough of Joe in the evenings! ;-)

Patty O Furniture

Elessar wrote: »

So I'm sitting here listening to a podcast from Empire about movies (something I love) and trying to like it. I can't. It's just three people chatting randomly and laughing at their own terrible jokes. And I don't think it's this podcast. I don't think I have the patience to sit through random musings of random people.

But looking through the iTunes store and there are thousands of podcasts on every conceivable topic, so they're obviously popular. Do you listen to any?

How long are the Empire podcasts, & is there one's from Total Film, as sometimes i read either depending on content.

Books4you wrote: »

I love listening to them. Favourites are:

Serial - Season 1
The Moth Podcast
The Joe Rogan Experience
99% Invisible
Freakonomics
Radiolab
This American Life

Also...Liveline. I'm Sorry. Can't get enough of Joe in the evenings! ;-)

Well eat your heart out, he's on this evening on with Ray D'arcy :P

Books4you

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

How long are the Empire podcasts, & is there one's from Total Film, as sometimes i read either depending on content.

Well eat your heart out, he's on this evening on with Ray D'arcy :P

Well Holy God! As much as I like good old Joe, I just don't think even that could get me to watch Darcy! Thanks for the heads up though.

Chain Smoker

99% invisible
the Best Show
The Dollop
Cane and Rinse
Retronauts
Battleship Pretension
Between the Sheets
Review A Wai
The Lapsed Fan
The Canon
Cinephiliacs
The Projection Booth (depending on topic)
We Hate Movies
The Flophouse
Football Weekly
My Brother My Brother and Me
The Memory Palace
Hardcore History

I'm forgetting a few...

eviltwin

ja1986 wrote: »

Iv listened to all of sword and scale and am struggling to find more of the same. Haven't heard of those conspiracy guys, will give it a bash tomorrow thanks

I've yet to hear anything as professional as Sword and Scale but The Trail Went Cold is not far off.

AnonoBoy

Comedy Bang! Bang!

Turtyturd

Tend to go on binges of listening to them.

Favourites include;

This American Life
Monday Morning Podcast
The Doug Stanhope Podcast
Stone Cold Podcast
The Partially Examined life
Sword and Scale
Hardcore History
Welcome to the Nightvale
Snap Judgement

I find that with a lot of podcasts the topics and content can be good but the medium lends itself to people who think they're funnier than they actually are and it kills the podcast. Case in point the Attitude Era podcast.

carter10

Big fan of podcasts, listen in the car instead of radio. Most have been mentioned above would also include:
Criminal
and if you're into running Runner Academy is excellent

bnt

Does anyone have any recommendations for short podcasts? 1/2 hour max.

eviltwin

Others I like are Caustic Soda, True Crime Garage, Here Be Monsters, Last Podcast on the Left, Stuff You Should Know and Stuff Mom Never Told You.

carter10

bnt wrote: »

Does anyone have any recommendations for short podcasts? 1/2 hour max.

http://thisiscriminal.com/

ja1986

eviltwin wrote: »

I've yet to hear anything as professional as Sword and Scale but The Trail Went Cold is not far off.

Yes I definitely prefer the layout of s and s, will check this out too. Serial was the one to get me into podcasts,like that style too.

Hugo Stiglitz

I listen to Bill Burr's podcasts from time to time.

PrettyBoy

The whole idea of podcasts is fairly new to me but I came across The Joe Rogan Experience on YouTube last year and now I listen to it most days while driving or working. I find a lot of his guests and the topics they cover really interesting and a lot of the time they're funny too.

Diabhal Beag

Bill Burr's podcast
Comedy Bang Bang
Hollywood Handbook
U Talkin U2 To Me?
Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project
Stuff You Should Know

Basically just light-hearted stuff. Used to listen to Rogan and stuff like that but they can really get up their own hole after a while.

OldMrBrennan83

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GalwayGrrrrrl

I like No Such Thing as a Fish- from the makers and researchers of QI. Also enjoy Radio Headspace / relaxing if you can get past the irritating accent on the main presenter.

Agricola

Good podcasts can be a bit like good porn. You can't define it, but you know it when you see it, or hear it in this case. I've had a few favorite podcasts over the years and a good few of them finished up for various reasons. Since then I've listened to some of the contributors of these podcasts on other shows and it just doesn't work. A lot of it is down to humour I suppose. Too many of them are lads trying too hard and failing miserably.

At the moment, I'd listen to Kermode & Mayo, Talking History from Newstalk, In Our Time from the BBC and various amateur games podcasts.

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I have been listening to the Jocko podcast of late. He is a retired multi decorated SEAL who commanded during the Battle of Ramadi and led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War.

But his podcast is mostly about BJJ which I do - and self discipline and control - and things as mundane as weight lifting and diet. It is an amazing podcast to listen to in many ways - and dull in many ways - and sometimes he becomes a caricature of himself - but I really enjoy it and get a lot from it.

lertsnim

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Sometimes he will talk about the UFC but it wouldnt be too often. He usually ends up talking about anything.

OldMrBrennan83

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