What other Podcasts do you listen to?

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#241

Thanks! I’ve popped in to do some lurking before, but only now gotten around to actually posting. :smiley:

And definitely thanks for pointing out the Gamma Quadrant - I’ve really been enjoying this one! Now that I’m almost caught up on GWC, I’ll need something else to fill my podcast-listening hours, and this is working quite well. A couple of the hosts seem a bit negative at first, but as time goes on (and the episodes get better), that wears off and you can tell they all really enjoy DS9 … I just finished their overview of the first season.

#242

i am still getting used to Gamma Quadrant. i like how the hosts will tease each other about given an episode a bad score or favorable score. there are a couple times when two would give an episode 1 and one would give an episode 4. though i don’t really enjoy the ratings themselves. They might as well do away with it.

They are getting into Maquis story soon, I’ll see how it goes then.

#243

Everyone run over and download the Weird Things podcast. Many know Brian Brushwood and Justin Robert Young from NSFW who join Andrew Mayne for the funniest and smartest podcast since GWC.

#244

I’m glad you are enjoying it. I agree, it took them a little while to get into a groove, but they eventually do and it’s more fun as time goes on.

#245

the newest two episodes of Tobolowsky files have me laughing and tearing up like a mad man.

#246

… and Skeptoid

#247

If you like Penn & Teller’s BS on Showtime, try listening to the Unofficial Penn Jillette Radio Show. Hilarious and he had some great guests.

#248

As of right now I listen to, regularly:

GWC
Smodcast (smodcast.com)
Tell Em’ Steve Dave (smodcast.com/stevedave)
Mo and Glo(ria) (smodcast.com/moandglo)
This American Life (thisamericanlife.org)
Hardcore History(If it frakkin updates ever) (http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php?page=hharchive)
40k Radio (40kradio.com)
Giant Bombcast (http://www.giantbomb.com/podcast/)

Uh…I think that’s it

#249

High five on hardcore history!

#250

I am very surprised to see so few people listing Radio Lab in their podcasts. Have people not tried it? It is beyond brilliant. Imagine combining the content of Stuff You Should Know with the form of This American Life with a depth of audio quality that is virtually unsurpassed.

As Audra would say, “Do eeet! Do eeet Now!”

#251

Both The GF and I find it overproduced, actually. I quite like TAL, but try to catch it on the radio.

#252

Astronomy Cast

Last four episodes are top ten mysteries of the solar system and top ten mysteries of the milky way. Dr. Pamela Gay used to be on the pre-iTunes era Slacker Astronomy podcast. This is where she’s at today. Have you seen any missing supernovae?

Spitzer Space Telescope Podcast

Describing latest observations from the infra-red space telescope. All the new astronomy stuff that shows up on the Discovery channel a year later.

Sentient Developments

A news round up for all things Singularity. No updates since '08. The Terminator got him.

60-Second Psych

The psychology of 9999 different things. Each 60-Second cast is… 90 to 240 seconds.

Coverville: The Cover Music Podcast

Really fun, imaginative themes for each show. Covers for one band, covers of one song, battle between cover bands. Ever heard Dark Side of the Moon as Nintendo game music? It’s here. And when a cover is better than the original, you might discover for yourself a great new band. I did!

#253

Ha. I can understand that. Part of the point of course is the over-production of it in experimenting with sound enhancing and adding to the experience… “Theatre of the Mind” approach. Even so I agree that they do occasionally step over the line into overproduction. I forgive them this as the fundamental content is so good, so interesting and usually so unexpected it makes the whole thing worthwhile.

#254

Of course. I think it bugs me because they also do that faux-spontanity thing. The Car Talk guys do it to, but it doesn’t grate because the production is so simple.

#255

Word. I couldn’t take it any more, and I stopped listening.

The Moth, thankfully, has dropped the intro music.

The Onion Radio News Network is frickin’ hilaaaaarious. Every time.

New Steve-Dave Smodcast isn’t as good as Smod Prime, but as a fanboy, I dig it nonetheless.

#256

The 28th podcast, The Affliction of Love, of The Tobolowsky Files is just amazing.

#257

[ul]
[li]Fear the Boot[/li][li]Podge Cast[/li][li]Kicked in the Dicebags (explicit)[/li][li]H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast[/li][li]All Games Considered[/li][li]Atomic Array[/li][li]Dice, Food, Lodging[/li][li]Happy Jack’s RPG Podcast (explicit)[/li][li]The Voice of the Revolution[/li][li]Filmspotting[/li][li]The Commandline[/li][li]Postcards from the Dungeon <- duh! I produce it.[/li][/ul]

Mostly RPG related podcasts, with the notable exception of GWC (of course, which is why I didn’t even list it). The list grows every once in a while, when I try new 'casts. Then I pair it down a bit, when I figure out what I like and what I don’t. Also, when my commute was longer, I had more 'casts in my hopper and now that my commute is only about 40 minutes, I don’t have as much time to listen … so I’ve dumped a few more.

I rarely listen to the radio in my car, any longer. I nearly always listen to a podcast or, if I’m feeling like music, I’ll listen to something on my iPod. I kind of treat my 'cast list like a talk radio station that only programs content I’m interested in. Now, if there really was a talk radio station in Boston that focussed on RPG’s, movie’s, and computer programming - I’d be all over that!

#258

StarShipSofa (a personal fave, since they’ve published a couple of my stories along side the good stuff) now offers an enhanced podcast (you currently need to use the ‘advanced’ menu in iTunes to grab it.) Minor enhancement the first time through, but huge benefit if you want to revisit a particular segment.

#259

My favorite new addition to my podcast list is A Way With Words, which in a public radio show about words. I learn some interesting stuff every week about where words came from, slang, idioms and more about words than I ever thought I could. It also helps that the hosts are actually pretty funny.

#260

Did you put your flash fiction stories from SSS here in the writer’s forum? I really liked Faerie Husbandry. :smiley: