My interesting observation, which I say with love and respect is: When do you guys have time to sleep? Those are some pretty hardcore long podcasts there. I am forced to assume you don’t stay up-to-date on all of them all the time. I am curious as to how and when people are listening and assume those people with really long lists have large blocks of time they are looking to fill.
True?
I listen to Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me and This American Life on the ipod, but that’s only when I miss them “live” on the radio. For true “podcasts”, I listen to GWC and Smodcast. That’s it.
I agree with Solai - how on earth do people find the time to listen to all those podcasts? I find it hard enough to keep up with my four. Oh well.
Most podcasts come out only once a week, long commute to work and school, walking the dog, not much good on TV, Sitting in the lounge at school before class… You would be amazed at how much you can listen to if you carry your iPod around everywhere and only turn it off to talk to other people.
I sit at a computer all day at work. 8 hours, with breaks becomes about 6-6 1/2 hours, 5 days a week. It’s fairly easy to plan a playlist O’podcasts around that (especially if programs come out on a regualar schedual-if it’s monday it must be GWC/TWiT time)
My day to day life anymore is so erratic that I have down days where there is nothing good on the radio or television so I listen to podcasts instead. On other days I almost entirely do not listen to podcasts. Often while driving I do listen to something and my music selection is limited while the local radio stations play next to nothing I care to listen to. We have an AM talker with a sports/talk format, a country station, and an NPR relay of an affiliate that plays most classical during the week (very hazardous for me to listen to while driving). PCMag Radio, GWC, and more provide a void that I would otherwise fill with something from the radio.
There are times, I admit, that I have stuff downloaded that I just do not get to. There are a few weeks of GWC that I did not clear out enough time for listening to as I was rather quite busy. I never did catch up with those episodes as I felt it best just to soldier onward.
My list of podcasts being downloaded also changes periodically. Sometimes I just lose interest in a podcast. Sometimes I just cannot make a sufficient investment in it. Sometimes the podcast just has been crap for long enough that I wanted to reallocate bandwidth to something else.
I have very few seriously long podcasts. I do get a bit of BBC stuff as I used to be a listener to the BBC World Service via shortwave but for a few years now it is only accessible to most Americans via Internet. I have the Radio New Zealand National feed but only download what I am interested in and leave quite a bit not downloaded. Other things run 15 minutes or less and at least three to four feeds have “episodes” that run 3 minutes or less as they are news breaks from air.
My list looks long…but that does not indicate podcast episode lengths.
I listen to “Get This” , “Simply Hear” and “The Bill and dan show”
GalacticaWatercooler
GalacticaQuorum
Learn to Speak Spanish
The Onion Radio News
This American Life
Watching the Directors
Watching Theology
AP on Broadway
AstronomyCast
Astronomy Magazine Cast
Best of National Geographic Magazine
Firefly talk
Galactica Quorum
Galactica Watercooler
Grey’s McPodcast
NPR - Fresh Air
Slacker Astronomy
TV Guide Talk
Your Geek News
The 2 GWC casts
The Dennis Miller Show (his radio show minus the commercials)
The Force-Cast (best Star Wars podcast out there and absolutely hilarious; official podcast of theForce.net and Rebelscum.com)
I usually go on show “binges”; miss a month of a certain podcast and then listen to 4 at once.
All of you who list This American Life really need to check out RadioLab. It’s even been featured on This American Life and it’s very adictive.
I listen to what they post for free, but I’m not willing to give them my credit card for $6 a month… just on principle…
— Dismal the cheap bastard on principle
910 KNEW used to have it up in the hour segments on iTunes, but they had to take it down, so I’ve finally forked over the cash this past week. As funny as I find him to be, I don’t mind giving him a few bucks every month. Plus, they do it in one 1:40 block so I don’t have to keep switching over to the next segment.
I listen to two right now:
GWC of course
Anime Pulse
Periodically or in the past have listened to:
The Signal
Geek Entertainment (how I found out about BSG)
The Annotated Alchemist
Japanese Pod 101
And of couse audio books with favorites being The Dark Tower series by Stephen King as well as The Wheel of Time series although I only made it to book 5 or 6 on that one before I ran out of steam.
I’ve heard JJ Abrahms is in talks with Stephen King to direct a movie or mini-series of the Dark Tower which would be awesome.
Anyone know about that? And did I read somewhere in this forum that there is going to be a second Firefly movie which would be awesome-er!:D:D Last I heard, Joss Whedon retired his Firefly dream.:mad:
The Onion Radio News
Car Talk
This American Life
A Prairie Home Companion
Ron Moore’s (when available)
BSG Watercooler
I’ll listen while I’m picking up the house, mowing the lawn, or hiding in the garage from the family.
Self Plug:
The Elf and Dwarf - weekly fantasy, sci/fi, and gaming goodies.
Other Podcasts I try to stay up on:
Buzz Out Loud
This Week in Tech
The Instance
Extralife Radio
One more plug:
Wife Aggro- A nice relaxed gamer podcast.
Rorlins
These days, mostly GWC and Radio Free Hipster (music). Also, Singularity (an audiobook from podiobooks) and Ask A Ninja. There’s a few more that Ive dropped as work got busier.
OT–posted from my iPhone. How cool.
The Adam Carolla Radio Show
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
The Dennis Miller Show (selections)
Galactica Watercooler
The International Spy Museum SpyCast
Jamie, Jack and Stench
KCRW’s Good Food
KCRW’s Left, Right & Center
The Married Man Podcast
The McLaughlin Group
Real Time with Bill Maher
Starship Sofa
— Dismal
Wow… looking at some of these lists I really should browse around a bit more for podcasts
I currently only listen to regularly:
GWC
Real Time with Bill Maher
RDM commentaries (when the season is goin)
IGN podcast: Beyond(their ps3 podcast)
my favorites, aside from GWC of course have to be:
Diggnation
Geekscape
Totally Rad Show
AroundComics
SceneUnseen
Filmspotting
Smodcast
10th Wonder
Ask A Ninja
[Talk radio]
Opie and Anthony
Ron and Fez
SModcast
The Than & Sam Show
NEXT with el Jefe and J-Dubs
CT & Jivin
[Game Related]
Criterion Games - Crash FM
Insomniac Games’ FullMoon Show
Legendary Thread: 1UP’s World of Warcraft Podcast
World of Warcraft Chronicles
1UP Yours
EGM Live*
GFW Radio
[Music]
Hospital Records Podcast
[Geek]
Galactica Watercooler
Big Kev’s Geek Stuff
Mugglecast
PLA Radio