Favorite Podcasts -- recommendations and preferences?

riskybryzness posted a pic said Mon, Sep 17th 2018 at 3:02pm ET

@Targaryen and I were talking about this today and exchanging podcast recommendations. A few of my personal favorites are Alice Isn’t Dead, Tanis, The Black Tapes, Rabbits, Welcome To Night Vale and Levar Burton Reads.

What are some of your favorite podcasts and what do you look for when selecting one?

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Targaryen said Mon, Sep 17th 2018 at 3:18pm ET:

@Riskybryzness didn’t like but I could recommend Limetown. Additionally Darkest Night and Homecoming as well. We listened to a few of the same ones.

For this falls under D&D actual play (people actually playing D&D or some other type of game) on a podcast. I typically like the heavy role-play style Turncloaks

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Moose said Mon, Sep 17th 2018 at 3:55pm ET:
- Criminal: Pretty loosely-themed podcast about crime. Episodes range from telling the story of Carry A. Nation, the prohibitionist who would bust into bars with an ax, or visiting a body farm where forensic anthropologists learn how bodies decompose. I usually like their true crime stories more than the interview ones but there’s rarely a dud.
- Slow Burn: Season one tells the story of Watergate, specifically aiming to highlight what it was like for people at the time when none of the facts were out. Season two is in the middle of doing the same for the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.
- Story Break: Three writers sit together and give themselves an hour to “break” the story for random movies, be it the Joe Camel story, Clippy the Paperclip, or even the Kelloggs Cinematic Universe. Some aren’t great, but if you’re going to listen to one, I strongly suggest the Jar Jar Binks movie. It is canonical as far as I’m concerned.
- Up and Vanished: I just started and then quit listening to this podcast. What an empty fart did that turn out to be. I wouldn’t bring it up except I needed to vent about it.
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vinuash said Mon, Sep 17th 2018 at 6:18pm ET:

I’ve only ever really committed to The Dollop (listen to the competitive tickling episode, I think it’s number 3)

And You Must Remember This which is about the first 100 years of Hollywood. They do a really good series on Charles Manson too

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reg036 said Mon, Sep 17th 2018 at 8:45pm ET:

LOL doubt anyone else would enjoy my favorite podcast as it’s kind of a cult favorite one now.
ITM!

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- @reg036 Thank you for your courage.
  
  therealjrn said Mon, Sep 17th 2018 at 10:16pm ET
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- reg036 said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 10:19am ET
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QuietDelusions said Mon, Sep 17th 2018 at 10:02pm ET:

RISK! - all the way. Real people telling their real stories, most that are way too inappropriate for NPR. I’m very behind on Lore, but now that it’s fall, that’ll probably rise back to the top.

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Kevin said Mon, Sep 17th 2018 at 10:47pm ET:

I like the Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr…

http://billburr.com/podcast-2/

I’d like to see Meh advertise on his podcast – I wonder what he would say about this site?

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luvche21 said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 12:24am ET:

I’m not much of a podcast person, but I’ve fallen in love with The Good Place and The Good Place podcast: https://art19.com/shows/the-good-place-the-podcast

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amazedblue said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 2:00am ET:

Ologies with Alie Ward

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jpm37 said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 7:58am ET:

Reasonable Doubt-best hour of the week; Mark Geragos and Adam Carolla talk about legal cases and politics
The Adam and Drew Show-Loveline as a 5 times a week 30-40 minute pod
Adam Carolla Show- 5 times a week interesting guests and a look at the news
Film Vault-a different top 5 movie list every week
These are all uncensored and occasionally get into NSFW topics

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- @jpm37 I love me some ACE
  
  moonhat said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 10:38am ET
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tohar1 said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 8:57am ET:

What is a “podcast”? As usual, I get to the party after it’s been busted by the cops, and everyone who wasn’t arrested has long gone home…

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- @tohar1 Basically, youtube vlogs or talkshows without any pictures. BORING.
  
  medz said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 10:40am ET
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- @medz Sounds like I’m really missing out!
  
  tohar1 said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 11:03am ET
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- @tohar1 Podcasts can be video even though most of the early ones were audio only.
  
  duodec said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 1:16pm ET
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- @duodec
  /define podcast
  
  NOUN
  - 1 a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new instalments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.
  VERB
  - 1 make (a digital audio file) available as a podcast.
  medz said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 3:01pm ET
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- @medz
  /giphy raspberry
  
  duodec said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 3:16pm ET
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- @duodec @medz I get videos in my podcast feeds from time to time. It’s kind of annoying when one comes up and I’m driving, and suddenly realized they’re doing something visual. Then I have to get my phone out and skip to the next audio episode or change podcasts.
  
  djslack said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 4:01pm ET
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- @tohar1 Podcasts feel kind of like having a DVR for radio shows. Some radio shows (esp. NPR) are put out as podcasts after they are broadcast. For example, Fresh Aire and Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me. Also The Daily Show with Trevor Noah comes out as an audiopodcast the next day - The Daily Show For Your Ears. The majority of podcasts are original content but the experience sums up as listen to people talk about something you are interested in and getting to decide what time you do it.
  
  Pamela said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 2:42am ET
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moonhat said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 10:39am ET:

Sword and Scale…too good and creepy

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riskybryzness said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 12:39pm ET:

I accidentally just discovered Ostium and I can’t put it down, if anyone likes good creepy stories–this is a great one so far.

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duodec said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 1:13pm ET:

We were fans of TechTV before G4/Comcast killed it off. We still follow Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte, and The New Screen Savers, on twit.tv

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- @duodec Man I loved that channel before it went hard 24/7 Cops reruns. I feel like a lot of it’s content was before it’s time. Like Arena? That would work fairly well now.
  
  Targaryen said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 2:49pm ET
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djslack said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 2:25pm ET:

Matt & Mattingly’s Ice Cream Social and Penn’s Sunday School are both very entertaining to me and NSFW. Comedy, magic, and entertainment are covered here.

Mike Rowe’s The Way I Heard It reminds me of the Paul Harvey stories I used to hear my dad listen to on the radio. I’m usually pretty good at figuring them out, but that doesn’t make them any less fun to listen to.

Freakonomics and Radiolab provide me with as much NPR content as I can handle.

99 Percent Invisible tells interesting design related stories.

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- @djslack Radiolab is good, ran into that in college.
  
  Targaryen said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 2:50pm ET
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- @djslack 99Percent is a favorite. I like looking at how design functions. Have to agree with you on your other 2 picks too.
  
  Joy823 said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 3:03pm ET
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craigthom said Tue, Sep 18th 2018 at 11:10pm ET:

RadioLab, which sounds so pretty i don’t even care what the subject is.

Kermode and Mayo film review, which is more fun than a movie review program should be

A Way with Words, about, well, words and American English

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- @craigthom I was hoping there would be at least one other person who is a Wittertainment fan.
  
  cf1 said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 8:13am ET
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- @cf1 I should be famous because of the podcast, but I’m not.
  
  When Mark and Simon took their summer break in 2013 they joked a little about taking a cruise together. It may have been mentioned by the substitute hosts while they were gone, but it was just a little spur of the moment joke.
  
  Two minutes into the 20 September 2013 podcast they read an email I sent to them thanking them for the cruise.
  
  The next week they read a letter from another listener about the cruise (she referenced mine), and the rest is history.
  
  So while a cruise itself that summer wasn’t my idea, I’m pretty sure THE cruise became an ongoing gag because of my letter.
  
  craigthom said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 8:48am ET
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- @craigthom I think I have a vague recollection of that. I really like that gag so thank you! I’m waiting for them to come pick me up and whisk me off to Wittertainia. I’m going to expatriate there.
  
  cf1 said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 9:25am ET
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- @craigthom I have never listened to the NPR podcasts but I do try and catch them when I’m driving. I always love listening to A Way with Words and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.
  
  riskybryzness said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 4:25pm ET
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- @riskybryzness A Way with Words is independent, so they get no money from NPR or PRI or MPR or the stations that air it. All their money comes from listener donations.
  
  I just thought I’d add a little guilt to the mix.
  
  craigthom said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 11:05pm ET
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compunaut said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 1:19am ET:
Current list (gradually evolves over time)
- RadioLab
- A Way with Words
- Sports? (with Katie Nolan)
- Tested (Adam Savage does a lot of maker/builder vids)
- BOLTR (Bored Of Lame Tool Reviews): foul-mouthed Canadian hilariously deconstructs power tools & other objects in search of quality (or lack thereof)
- Living Big in a Tiny House
- Jay Leno’s Garage
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- @compunaut I seem to burn a lot of time on YouTube in the same places you do. Especially with AvE, Tested as well.
  
  Speaking of YouTube, I discovered a good talk show last night with a genius premise. Celebrity guests are interviewed over ten chicken wings with increasingly hot sauces applied.
  /youtube hot ones Neil Degrasse Tyson
  
  “I ate two bites, bitch!” made me laugh.
  
  djslack said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 9:30am ET
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- @djslack I think I watched all of those!
  Alton Brown was my favorite, but Padma Lakshmi - she’s as hot as the wing sauces
  
  compunaut said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 1:02pm ET
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- @compunaut Alton Brown was great. I’ll have to go find the Padma Lakshmi episode, I thought that was just me.
  
  djslack said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 1:44pm ET
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- @compunaut @djslack Padma is a badass.
  
  riskybryzness said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 4:24pm ET
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therealjrn said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 1:39am ET:

http://www.expandedperspectives.com/

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Pamela said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 2:54am ET:

For anyone who likes science fiction I would recommend Escape Pod. It does one science fiction short story a week. Some of them are original and some of are previously published (usually within the last few years). They use a variety of narrators. The audio isn’t quite professional level but it’s quite good.

I’ve also listen to Thought Spiral. Comedian Andy Kindler and comedian/TV writer get together and talk, mostly about themselves and about comedy. They don’t talk about politics or the news - unless there’s news about a comedian i.e., Louis CK. It’s not for everyone but I enjoy it.

The people who do Escape Pod do two other short story podcasts: Podcastle (fantasy) and Pseudopod (horror). I don’t listen to those but I’m am sure fans of those genres would enjoy them.

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- @Pamela I always considered myself more of a science fiction fan than fantasy, but I think, in general, the writing on Podcastle is significantly better. And I’ve been listening since Steve or whatever her name is now was doing Escape Pod and the others hadn’t started yet.
  
  I do get a bit annoyed by some of the peripheral stuff (especially that guy who gave us his interpretation of every story, I really hate “And…we’re back!”, and I don’t give a shit what people in the forum are saying), but those things are easy enough to skip.
  
  I didn’t make it through the first episode of Pseudopod. It may be great, but I bailed after that guy lost his third finger, and I haven’t gone back.
  
  craigthom said Wed, Sep 19th 2018 at 4:34am ET
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