Podcasts - which do you listen to?

[Some-Mist]

Do you listen to any podcasts? which ones? I listen to quite a few myself but I'm interested in finding more than I'm missing out on.

I was also looking for a thread on here to talk about "Serial" which is the latest podcast series by the crew behind Chicago WBEZ's "This American Life" . It's a huge spinoff series which is gaining popularity pretty fast. I just got to the 4th episode and I'm hooked.

It's basically a journalist/radio personality investigating a high-school murder from back in the 90s (the guy is still in prison) where she goes around interviewing people involved with the killer, using recorded police/investigation interviews, and speaks with the killer directly. There is no physical evidence that he committed the murder, and she's invested enough in the story to try and figure it out.

I use pocketcast (android) to stream it, but it's also available on the "this american life" podcast website.
http://serialpodcast.org/

I also listen to
Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast for well over a year.
Marc Maron's "WTF" for around the same amount of time
Norm McDonald Live
Cracked
Harmontown
Stuff You Should Know
Jeff Garlin "By The Way"
99% invisible
and Jim Harold's Campfire

[JBC]

Retronauts
+1 Jim Harold's Campfire

Select Button
Hardcore Gaming 101
The Gaming of the Shrew

We Have Such Films To Show You
The Last Podcast On The Left

& this new one is pretty good so far The VirtuaCast

I'm just now getting into it, so some of these are of varying quality. Mostly I judge these based on how professional the hosts can be about it. Too much swearing or getting sidetracked is an instant no on my part. I've waded through a river of really bad ones hosted by dudes that want to tell you about their imaginary sex lives instead of staying on topic. It's really sad.

I get in a Creepypasta or Lovecraft mood every now & then and look up random readings to freak myself out.

[Ed Oscuro]

Do you listen to any podcasts?

Maybe once every other year. And it has to be pretty groundbreaking stuff for that...I'd be more likely to listen to a non-gaming podcast (science, history, etc.) for that.

[iconoclast]

Just pro wrestling (with some MMA) podcasts: Wrestling Observer Radio, Talk'n Shop, and the rest of the Figure 4 Weekly podcasts if I still want more. Sometimes I'll listen to the Colt Cabana, Steve Austin, Jim Ross, and Chris Jericho podcasts if they have an interesting guest on. That's about it.

[Icarus]

I mainly listen to trance podcasts.

Paul van Dyk - VONYC Sessions
Above & Beyond - Group Therapy
>> Also the older and superceded Trance Around The World by A&B
Armin van Buuren - A State Of Trance

[speedlolita]

Giant Bombcast
Idle Thumbs (sometimes, their gaming tastes aren't to my tastes and they're pretty pretentious)
8-4 Play
Steve Austin Unleashed/Show

[Damocles]

Occasionally Roguelike Radio, but not very often. My ability to tolerate some voices and personalities is very low.

[shmuppyLove]

Deeper Shades of House (http://deepershades.net)

Became a premium member not too long ago, hours and hours of top-notch house music, well worth the money.

[Mischief Maker]

Podcasts are the reason the Tower Defense genre exists.

I used to listen to "How did this get made?" regularly, but as its popularity grew its quality dropped. Favorite episode would have to be 88 minutes. Special mention for the Jack O'Halloran interview.

I listen to "best of" clips from the Joe Rogan experience every now and then.

I religiously seek out Patrice O'Neal radio interviews on Youtube. That's pretty podcasty.

[JBC]

My ability to tolerate some voices and personalities is very low.

This.

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

I listen to quite a lot of podcasts while I'm working, mostly:

The Video Games Show
Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces
The 404
The Nerdist
Implant Games
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
Filmspotting
The Moth

And a bit of whatever else seems interesting, Stitcher's recommendations are often quite good.

Edit: Almost forgot Adam & Joe's (now defunct) podcasts for BBC 6Music. I've heard them all before but they never fail to make me laugh.

[rancor]

I commute via train a LOT, so podcasts are my lifeblood. I really don't know how I managed before.

DVDASA (David Choe and Asa Akira)
Adam Carolla
Joe Rogan
Classic Loveline
Dan Savage
Real Time (Bill Maher)
Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla
Hospital Records (DnB)
If I've exhausted all of the above, I'll turn to This Amercan Life, or The Moth.

I started on Serial, and I think I went for three episodes before I gave up..

[Ex_Mosquito]

I listen to about 4 hours of podcasts a day, sometimes more. Not that many gaming ones though. My fav are:

Non-Gaming....

The Sceptics Guide to the Universe - My #1 science podcast
Skeptics with a K - Excellent UK based science and critical thinking Podcast
Be Reasonable - Exposes nutters
Passenger Seat Radio - I love this guy
Free Domain Radio - Excellent Philosophy Podcast. It has really changed the way I think about life.
The Joe Rogan Experience - A bit of everything. Brilliant.
Sick and Wrong - Comedy
The Complete Guide To Everything - Comedy

Gaming....

10Pence Podcast - UK classic arcade podcast. A bit too old sometimes, my arcade era is 85+
Midlife Gamer - I have zero in common with them as far as videogames go but they're pretty funny
All Gen Gamers - I love to hate this podcast. Fav quotes: 'was Shinobi in the arcade?'... And 'the Retron 5 allows you to play old games at 60fps, Snes f-Zero plays amazing in 60fps!' - Erm, it's 60fps anyway you bloody fools! :/ And Pete Dorrs' obsession with 'collecting' everything videogames related amuses me, even if its aimed at 5 year olds.

[BIL]

'the Retron 5 allows you to play old games at 60fps, Snes f-Zero plays amazing in 60fps!'

If I had a sig quote that would be it.

[options]

I loves me some podcasts. in fact, they've thrown a wrench into my Japanese study since I'm more likely to listen to just about anything other than my usual language stuff.

my faves:

Stuff You Should Know
Freakonomics Radio
KCRW's Design & Architecture
Stuff You Missed in History Class (I liked this a lot more with the previous hosts, tho)
News In Slow Japanese
Juan Epstein (interviews w/ mostly Hip Hop guests, but also actors, comedians and wrestlers on occasion)

the only game-related show I really check out is VGMmpire, but I gotta cherry pick those episodes since I haven't played many of the games they cover

[DJ Incompetent]

We Have Concerns [talk]
Donkey Wrangler to the Stars [mashups]
Solid Steel [eclectic mixes]
Super the Hardest [talk]
Tokyo Bliss [house]
Trust in Bass [dnb & dubstep]
Black Sun Empire [dnb & dubstep]
Drumcode [detroit techno]
Masters of Hardcore [gabber]
Above & Beyond - Group Therapy [trance]
Radio Clash [eclectic & talk]
iClub: Mashed [mashup & pop]

[drauch]

Asa Akira)

The porn star?

[Strikers1945guy]

Asa Akira)

The porn star?

Gotta admit that was my first thought >_>

Also I love joe rogans podcast.

[rancor]

Asa Akira)

The porn star?

Gotta admit that was my first thought >_>

That's the one!

David Choe is a world-traveling, nearly-homeless, bazillionaire who got in on Facebook early just by a stroke of luck and is an endlessly fascinating dude. My hero, really. You may have seen him hosting the Vice TV show, or his art on one of the Linkin Park albums.

Asa Akira like to fuck. A lot. She doesn't really have much to contribute beyond that.. haha..

[Lord Satori]

Nothing. Podcasts are pointless.

[rancor]

Nothing. Podcasts are pointless.

Could be said about a lot of things. What are you doing now that will be of any consequence in 100 years?

Thanks for your contribution. Post count +1.

[drauch]

Haha! Interesting that that's actually Asa. Sounds intriguing!

I love the idea of podcasts, but I'm having a hard time getting in to any myself. Being one of the top 10 misanthropists in the U.S. midwest, I typically hate listening to humans talk about just anything. Typically I just sit in my corner at work and listen to fucking Pimsleur Japanese and my boss fart incessantly.

Can anyone recommend anything to a hateful bastard? I have an interest in a gaming podcast, but I also feel like that could make me the maddest if it's just a bunch of twats talking about collecting or how hard Contra is. Or a movie podcast maybe, or even a Japanese language one if that's a thing.

Maybe I should just stick to Judge Dredd radio dramas.

[Vexorg]

I don't listen to a lot of them, but a few that I do listen to include:

BS Report (Bill Simmons at ESPN)
Alton Browncast (not a lot of cooking stuff in this one for some reason)
Adam Savage's podcast at tested.com

[JBC]

Maybe I should just stick to Judge Dredd radio dramas.

I'm so glad others in the US have discovered these. I listened to 'War Crimes' last week & it was incredible. One big interrogation/torture sequence of Dredd with all kinds of twists.

[Iron Peach]

All available on iTunes...

Roderick on the Line

My Brother, My Brother and Me

The Super Joystiq Podcast

The Comedy Button

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

Solid Steel [eclectic mixes]

Is this anything to do with the Ninja Tune label?

[Some-Mist]

lots of good ones here. haven't gotten into any gaming podcasts yet, but definitely gonna check some of these out.

actually surprised at the lack of comedy podcasts

[CStarFlare]

Only really listen to two:

Penn's Sunday School - been following Penn since I came upon Bullshit. Glad this has stuck around - he's done a few short-length youtube series that died after a year or so.

This Week In Virology - when Ebola was a big thing someone on Ars Technica pointed readers to TWIV. I stuck with it after they moved on from Ebola. Aside from being interesting, Vincent has a perfect sciencey-radio-guy voice.

A couple of the TWIV guys do another podcast called Urban Agriculture which I've dabbled in but it's too soon to say I actively follow it.

[DJ Incompetent]

Solid Steel [eclectic mixes]

Is this anything to do with the Ninja Tune label?

Why yes indeeeeed! It is the entire Ninja Tune label submitting a mix each episode. This is a valuable export from Europe.

If you search the podcast, you should be able to uncover a 1 hour show RSS with some wonderful audiovisual mixes added occasionally, also found on their Vimeo channel.
If you go to the soundcloud, it hosts their real 2+ hour shows channel. You can google some wizardry to convert their soundcloud into a podcast RSS. Or register their channel into your Sonos if you're fancy.

For everybody else, here is a place to start.
https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid ... show-25-10
In this episode, The War of the Worlds radio broadcast is dubbed with a soundtrack by Ollie Teeba of The Herbaliser. It is one of my favorite things and it should be one of yours.

The episodes expire, so here is a link to an old thing called Raiding the 20th Century by DJ Food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GO5W6FRZPM
It is another treat for the headphones and helps me play videogames better for reasons.

I'm just now getting into it, so some of these are of varying quality. Mostly I judge these based on how professional the hosts can be about it. Too much swearing or getting sidetracked is an instant no on my part. I've waded through a river of really bad ones hosted by dudes that want to tell you about their imaginary sex lives instead of staying on topic. It's really sad.

Can anyone recommend anything to a hateful bastard? I have an interest in a gaming podcast, but I also feel like that could make me the maddest if it's just a bunch of twats talking about collecting or how hard Contra is. Or a movie podcast maybe, or even a Japanese language one if that's a thing.

For you two, give We Have Concerns a try. It is pre-produced so it stays on point for the 20min. It often takes a science-y article about some kind of new advancement and deconstructs the advancement in comparison to today's world, basically explaining through little jaded funny skits how the new advancement or technology will be abused in a 4chan sort of conclusion. The hosts have large gaming backgrounds but don't talk about videogames, so they take perspectives we can relate to.

[Necronopticous]

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