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Posted 02 November 2013 - 10:29 PM

I'm looking for a new podcast. What are you into? I'm looking primarily for something funny, but want to hear about anything good.
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Posted 02 November 2013 - 11:18 PM

I have been doing some listening to The Ricky Gervais Podcast on my longer commutes. Its pretty funny. First season was free so you can check it out.
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Posted 03 November 2013 - 12:01 AM

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Posted 03 November 2013 - 12:28 AM

I listen to a whole bunch, but I guess my two favourites are This American Life and Selected Shorts. Both are brilliant, though Selected Shorts has more of a humorous slant. If you like This American Life then Snap Judgement might be for you.

I've also listened to Revolutions, which is a new-ish podcast focusing on, well, you can guess I imagine.

But yeah, This American Life and Creative Shorts. Listen to them.
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Posted 03 November 2013 - 04:04 AM

Radiolab is really good. It's kinda like This American Life except it focuses on science-y topics, and philosphy, sociology, that kind of thing...I hate to use the word "pop" for its negative connotations, but it doesn't go too deep down the rabbit hole for laymen to grasp the concepts covered, and the hosts are very engaging.
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Posted 03 November 2013 - 06:56 AM

The rooster teeth podcast:

http://roosterteeth.com/podcast/

They're the guys who make Red vs Blue. They both have a video and an audio version.

Personally I'd recommend listening to them from the beginning since the show was a bit funnier back in its raw form. It also suffers when the original crew are occasionally replaced by the younger staff.

EDIT: Oh and since you're into videogames I can also recommend the giant bombcast.

http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/

The show is like half video game discussion half nonsense.

This weeks show had me laughing out loud on my commute several times. I am pretty sure the other passengers thought I was schizo.

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Posted 04 November 2013 - 03:38 PM

Can never go wrong with Marc Maron's WTF podcasts. If you like to listen to stand up comedy and showbusiness behind-the-scenes stuff, or honestly, good conversation with witty smart entertainers, then its #1 by far. I also listen to Adam Carolla's podcast. I like funny stuff. Not much time for anything else. Besides, I listen to NPR news all day in the office, so I need the comedic interludes.
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Posted 05 November 2013 - 10:08 AM

Mostly Cbc stuff, ideas, age of persuasion/under the influence.
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Posted 13 November 2013 - 02:01 PM

I recently discovered Night Vale. A radio News program for the fictional, lovecraft/fallout inspired city of Night Vale. It's pretty fantastic.
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Posted 14 November 2013 - 01:57 AM

View PostMorgoth, on 13 November 2013 - 02:01 PM, said:

I recently discovered Night Vale. A radio News program for the fictional, lovecraft/fallout inspired city of Night Vale. It's pretty fantastic.


Yeah, I've loved it.
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Posted 14 November 2013 - 12:23 PM

Did you remember to take the necessary precautions? Also, did you call, as you promised, or did you simply sneak out in the wee hours of the morning pretending it never happened?
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Posted 14 November 2013 - 12:56 PM

Necessary precautions are always taken. I never go into the dog park, nor does my dog.
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Posted 09 December 2013 - 04:16 PM

I've been listening to Advice Hot Dog today. The two of them crack me up.

http://advicehotdog.com/

It takes them about two seconds to go off on a tangent and by the end you forgot what they were talking about.

They're using that comedy method where they try to play the conversation really straight but you can hear how much fun they are having underneath.
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Posted 17 November 2014 - 04:57 PM

Thread-surecction.

Having recently discovered a couple of great podcasts I thought I'd mention em here.

POP MY CULTURE is a really solidly laid out pop culture hour long podcast. Great selection of guests and the interviews take a very loosey goosey approach to things, which feels organic. The two hosts work well together and play off each other. There is some silly stuff in there too, but some of the gems make up for it. Worth a listen. http://www.popmyculturepodcast.com or on iTunes.

The other one I recently discovered is Dan Carlin's HARDCORE HISTORY podcast. Man, this is great, methodically laid out, clear and concisely voiced, a mostly unbiased look at major historical events, people, or civilizations. I started with the multi-part history of Genghis Khan and the Mongols called WRATH OF THE KHANS. I'm only on episode 2 of a 5 part series, but I'm 100% riveted. It's like listening to a non-fiction book on tape, and Carlin is very adept at speaking in a way that is informative but also evenly spaced enough to take it all in. He's not dipping super deep into the events on any kind of scale (I don't think he's got enough history background to do so), but he's a hell of a presenter of the topics and the overviews. It's basically a great primer to get one interested in a given historical topic, and further study it.

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Posted 17 November 2014 - 10:57 PM

One of my favourite podcasts is an Irish radio programme called TALKING HISTORY from Newstalk. The host is excellent, as he generally just sets up the guests and lets them explain their points, rather than trying to dominate the discussion himself, and equally keeps the guests from waffling. There may be a bit too much Irish history for people overseas, but they've had some really interesting and varied subjects.

Most of the podcasts i listen to are sports related, namely a few MMA podcasts, and a few NBA and NFL podcasts.
Football Weekly by The Guardian newspaper, is an excellent soccer podcast, very funny at times as well as having some good journalist contributors.

Grantland has a few good podcasts too. Hollywood Prospectus can be good(TV and Movies), The Moment can have some great interviewees (writers and filmmakers), The Lowe Post is a great NBA podcast.

Writing Excuses is a good short podcast with writing advice.

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Posted 16 December 2014 - 02:13 PM

Just listened to the first installment in Dan Carlin's GHOSTS OF THE OSTFRONT series, and the chilling notion of the Peschanka Bone Fields (after the battle of Stalingrad) is nothing short of gooseflesh inducing. I don't know if they ever existed for real...but the image taken of the bodies dumped at the time of the war is unreal...and makes me believe the bone fields DID exist...even if they've long since withered away or been buried.

Freaky.
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Posted 16 December 2014 - 04:04 PM

The Dave Gorman podcasts from Absolute Radio are great too.
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Posted 17 December 2014 - 05:18 AM

Two episodes (six podcasts) left to go in WE'RE ALIVE.... And I am utterly impressed with the storytelling. They managed to take what started as a fairly generic zombie story and turn it into something epic and human and awesome and the feels, omg some much the feels... Seriously, the setup to payoff ratio in this series is stunning.
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...free, worth your time. First season is a bit rough but after that it just keeps improving. The voice cast and effects people also steadily improve. By about halfway through S2 they start to hit their stride and then it goes from mildly entertaining to seriously engrossing. I'm looking fwd to hearing the end but also a little bummed.
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Posted 10 December 2015 - 02:10 PM

So... through a friend I've discovered the utterly compelling and brilliant 99% INVISIBLE which is a podcast about design and the 99% invisible things that shape our world. It's completely fascinating and well, well worth your time.

Then, through that I also discovered SONG EXPLODER which does pretty much what it says, they take a song by an artist and the artist "explodes" the song, dismantling the process behind how it was made and constructed and why.

Two podcasts that I've just discovered and become completely addicted to.
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Posted 10 December 2015 - 03:20 PM

Yeah, 99 % invisible is great.

I realise I posted about Serial's second season in the wrong thread.
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