Podcast Swap

[KyleW]

the herd is fucking terrible

the following are good, pay attention

this American life
radiolab
the thrilling adventure hour
the moth

[islandman]

^^^That's a 'you' problem.

[Disgustipated]

Originally Posted by KyleW

the herd is fucking terrible

the following are good, pay attention

this American life
radiolab
the thrilling adventure hour
the moth

You need to click and save my link. Funny, great guests from Adam Carolla to Dana White to Howie Long to Terry Bradshaw. Plus fantastic segments about finance and romance.

[Disgustipated]

Originally Posted by islandman

^^^That's a 'you' problem.

Gah!!!

[Balladeer08]

Originally Posted by Recidiva

What'cha got that I can try out?

I've got a bunch of short science ones at the top of my list:

StarDate
EarthSky
60-second space
60-second science
60-second health
Brainstuff.

Stuff You Missed in History Class can be great, depending on the topic

Skepticality is fun

The Moth Podcast is people telling personal stories, often hysterical.

Pritzker Military Library is VERY good. Interviews with living Medal of Honor winners (rare critters, them), historical military topics, all extremely well done.

The Daily Madden is fun. I love Madden, he says interesting things, and some very odd phrases.

They Signed, about the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Makes a great companion to The Thomas Jefferson Hour.

The International Spy Museum. They don't broadcast often, but it is good stuff.

The Oakland Raiders Finest Hour podcast. These guys actually talk football, not trash. Analyze the games, grade the players, and are generally informative. Unlike a couple of other podcasts I've listened to, where the hosts just seem to thing that cursing endlessly on a podcast makes them terribly hip.

I think I've got about 60 programs on my playlist. I don't listen to broadcast radio any more, and am much happier for it.

[KyleW]

Originally Posted by Disgustipated

You need to click and save my link. Funny, great guests from Adam Carolla to Dana White to Howie Long to Terry Bradshaw. Plus fantastic segments about finance and romance.

I'll check it out.

nothing can be as bad as the herd

[islandman]

Originally Posted by KyleW

I'll check it out.

nothing can be as bad as the herd

If you think Colin is bad, check out Mike Francesa sometime. You'll feel the need to hurt yourself.

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by islandman

Finally got a chance to listen to yesterday's episode. Brilliant and funny!

Thank you so much for introducing me to it.

You're welcome! I love those guys!

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by Sinny

This American Life. I Ira Glass. He first introduced me to David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell. If you listen to Radiolab, I am sure you know TAL. My all-time favorite Radiolab was the episode where they featured the guy who went from nerd to cool by changing the part in his hair, then he sent a letter to Jimmy Carter encouraging him to do the same. And he did. Fun stuff.

Diane Rehn Show, she does great interviewing. So does Terry Gross on Fresh Air.

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is fun.

This American Life is definitely a keeper.

I think the others were rougher for me because they were single subject interviews and I was not up to listening to Barbra Streisand for an hour.

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by islandman

The AnandTech podcast.

Lifehacker podcast.

Newshour - daily BBC news podcast.

Savage Lovecast.

Anandtech was unfortunately too technical for me, I wasn't learning, I was just listening to people talk about stuff I didn't learn anything about the stuff.

"Oh, and you guys know about the 4478KS series, right?" *knowing laughter*

No explanation of what the 4478KS series was (names of technical terms changed to protect their identities and also because I had no idea what they really were talking about.)

I loved Lifehacker.

I really liked Newshour, a good change on worldview.

Savage Lovecast was a little too rambly and ranty for me. Seems he picks something that bugs him at the beginning and goes off on a mini rant about...being nice to airplane personnel? I didn't have a good experience, might try again later.

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by cjh

marc maron - wtf

to get the true significance of it, though, you have to listen to the first 20-25 episodes.

I'll have to go back to the beginning. He's a little too manic for me in the episodes I got. Seems to be mainly interviews about stuff I don't really care about. I might be more interested if it were a little bit shorter and more compressed, but over an hour of it wasn't appetizing.

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by SeanH

Another one from the beeb: The Infinite Monkey Cage.

This was awesome! I loved this. Great blend of humor and opinion and analysis and fact.

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by mediocre

You gave me Caustic Soda already and thank you for that.

Econ Talk is one of my favorites. Today he talked to an organic farmer about the business of running an organic farm. Last week it was about reading F A Hayek.

Also, Dan Carlins Hardcore History. It isn't updated often but when it is the show is long and informative and with different takes on historical events.

I liked both of these. I learned a lot about farming and Ghenghis Khan! Feeds my sense of random trivia.

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by phrodeau

Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Car Talk

From The Top with Chris O'Reilly

Obsessed with Joseph Scrimshaw

Thank you for making these recommendations. I always feel bad when I ask someone to offer advice and I don't like them, but tis pity tis true. Dang.

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by Disgustipated

http://www.foxsportsradio.com/cc-com...st=petrosmoney

I saw the word "sports" and that was all I needed to see. Alas!

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by KyleW

the herd is fucking terrible

the following are good, pay attention

this American life
radiolab
the thrilling adventure hour
the moth

I already have TAL and Radiolab. I'll check out the others, thanks!

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by Balladeer08

I've got a bunch of short science ones at the top of my list:

StarDate
EarthSky
60-second space
60-second science
60-second health
Brainstuff.

Stuff You Missed in History Class can be great, depending on the topic

Skepticality is fun

The Moth Podcast is people telling personal stories, often hysterical.

Pritzker Military Library is VERY good. Interviews with living Medal of Honor winners (rare critters, them), historical military topics, all extremely well done.

The Daily Madden is fun. I love Madden, he says interesting things, and some very odd phrases.

They Signed, about the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Makes a great companion to The Thomas Jefferson Hour.

The International Spy Museum. They don't broadcast often, but it is good stuff.

The Oakland Raiders Finest Hour podcast. These guys actually talk football, not trash. Analyze the games, grade the players, and are generally informative. Unlike a couple of other podcasts I've listened to, where the hosts just seem to thing that cursing endlessly on a podcast makes them terribly hip.

I think I've got about 60 programs on my playlist. I don't listen to broadcast radio any more, and am much happier for it.

Thank you! Going to check those out. I have always disliked radio for the commercials, and for some reason public radio irritates me more because they are just as intrusive as commercials in their guilt trips, plus their "endorsement" announcements are commercials anyway. Double irritation!

[mediocre]

Originally Posted by Recidiva

I liked both of these. I learned a lot about farming and Ghenghis Khan! Feeds my sense of random trivia.

Geeze, made it through all the Khan episodes? You have a lot of time on your hands.

Glad you liked.

[Recidiva]

Originally Posted by mediocre

Geeze, made it through all the Khan episodes? You have a lot of time on your hands.

Glad you liked.

Not all of them, but just the latest one. That's my kinda stuff. Obscure and well researched.

[islandman]

*bump*

As I'm in need of a few new ones.