Recommend me a (non-gaming) podcast

zeroKFE wrote:

Those darn McElroy brothers are everywhere! (AKA, yet more hipster comedy shows)
My Brother, My Brother and Me -- An advice show for the mod-ren era. Listen, and learn.
The Satellite Dish -- Eldest brother Justin and his wife Sydnee talk about TV. Listen, and feel less bad about your TV addiction by sharing your love with the most charming married couple you'd ever like to meet.
The Besties -- Yes, I know this thread isn't for gaming podcasts. However, the dirty secret of gaming media super-band Polygon's only (at least for now) podcast is that it's really a lot more of a comedy show than a gaming show. Of course, as any MBMBAM listener might suspect, anytime you get even one McElroy brother involved in a show you basically have a comedy show, and this one has two of them.

Between these three shows each week I was starting to feel like I WAS a McElroy brother.

katy mentioned it over three years ago, but Pseudopod is a great horror podcast. It'd only as uneven as the genre itself, which is to say, very, but most of the pieces are tight. A few readers should upgrade their microphones, as Aleister did. And maybe try a little less emphatic melodrama.

I haven't listened in a while, but I'm in the middle of a recent abd promising story, "The Dark and What It Said."

muraii wrote:

katy mentioned it over three years ago, but Pseudopod is a great horror podcast. It'd only as uneven as the genre itself, which is to say, very, but most of the pieces are tight. A few readers should upgrade their microphones, as Aleister did. And maybe try a little less emphatic melodrama.

I haven't listened in a while, but I'm in the middle of a recent abd promising story, "The Dark and What It Said."

All of the Escape Artists podcasts are solid: Escape Pod (scifi), Pseudopod (horror), and PodCastle (fantasy).

If horror is really your bag, keep an eye out for the Nightmare Magazine podcast coming in the fall. It's edited by John Joesph Adams who has been very successful with Lightspeed Magazine, a semipro scifi (and now fantasy) zine, and it's associated podcast. He has quite a talent for picking awesome stories.

You might also want to check out Tales to Terrify. It's put out by Tony C. Smith, who runs the Hugo Award-winning and outstanding StarShipSofa podcast.

I'll shill a bit and mention the Bad Movie Podcast. This is only partly due to the fact that I sat in as a guest for the most recent episode.

OG_slinger thanks for the tips. After I hit the wall with We're Alive, I just fell back into gaming podcasts. I don't even listen to TAL or Radio Lab very much. Maybe I'll give one o' those a try.

Did a quick search and didn't see a mention for Uhh Yeah Dude, my personal favorite comedy podcast. Described as "A weekly roundup of America through the eyes of two American-Americans", the show is Hosted my Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Laroquette (son of actor John Laroquette). They poke fun at pop culture, off beat news articles, letters to Parade magazine, craigslist postings and other topics. Definitely not everyones preferred comedy style, but makes me laugh for an hour every week.

If you like Kevin Smith (and Batman) he has a fairly new podcast called "Fat Man on Batman" which is pretty good if you're in the right mood. He's had some really great guests so far and he basically just geeks out about Batman.

Why am I just discovering NPR's "Wait, wait! Don't tell me." humorous news quiz show now? When I was on vacation I caught an episode of the 10 O'Clock News on the BBC, which was awesome. In searching for clips and info about it on the web I found this NPR show with a similar format (I think the NPR show came first, surprisingly) and listened to my first show. If you like smart-ass comedians mocking the latest headlines and playing silly games for points that don't matter go grab it!

http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wai...

Mixolyde wrote:

Why am I just discovering NPR's "Wait, wait! Don't tell me." humorous news quiz show now? When I was on vacation I caught an episode of the 10 O'Clock News on the BBC, which was awesome. In searching for clips and info about it on the web I found this NPR show with a similar format (I think the NPR show came first, surprisingly) and listened to my first show. If you like smart-ass comedians mocking the latest headlines and playing silly games for points that don't matter go grab it!

http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wai...

Have you heard of this thing called "Car Talk"?

SuperDave wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Why am I just discovering NPR's "Wait, wait! Don't tell me." humorous news quiz show now? When I was on vacation I caught an episode of the 10 O'Clock News on the BBC, which was awesome. In searching for clips and info about it on the web I found this NPR show with a similar format (I think the NPR show came first, surprisingly) and listened to my first show. If you like smart-ass comedians mocking the latest headlines and playing silly games for points that don't matter go grab it!

http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wai...

Have you heard of this thing called "Car Talk"?

I love those two podcasts. I used to listen to them on the (gasp!) radio back in the day. Later (before they were podcasts), I also recorded those shows off of their live internet streams and copied them over to my mp3 player. Ah the memories!

Mixolyde wrote:

Why am I just discovering NPR's "Wait, wait! Don't tell me."

Have you heard of Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

It's another live, silly quiz show that pairs members of the audience with people who call in and they have to answer questions on six topics, including: current events, people, places, science, odds and ends, and things you should have learned in school had you been paying attention.

It's basically Wait, Wait! Don't Tell Me meets A Prairie Home Companion.

While we are on the subject of public radio podcasts, Live Wire! Radio is a good comedy/interview/music variety show that is primarily broadcast in the pacific northwest, but does appear sporadically in the rest of the country as well. The podcasts are currently in highlight encores as it's off-season for the broadcast, but new shows start next month.

I started working on a new podcast called Ken and Rob Talk About Stuff several weeks ago. They talk about all sorts of things really, so it's kind of hard describe what the show is about. RPG's, Boardgames, Movies, alternate history. It's kind of a quirky show.

Hey everyone, we just launched our third season of Good Luck, Have Podcast!. I would really like to hear what you guys think. It's a comedy dating show, where the four of us all go on OkCupid and try to find girlfriends. Season 3 is basically a new show, but I didn't feel like re-branding it and there are a few references to events in the first season. I recommend starting with this one.

Please listen, they're short and flow pretty fast. I am not above begging pathetically for listeners. If you listen, please tell me what you think! I really really really think you guys will like it a lot.

James Urbaniak (Dr. Venture of The Venture Brothers) has a new monthly podcast called Getting On With James Urbaniak, where he performs short, fictional pieces from a different writer each month. The first (and currently, only) episode, "The Wolf In The Kitchen," is the rambling, semi- and super-lucid thoughts of an insomniac, and is fantastic.

Someone - I think a Goodjer, actually - was retweeting @NightValeRadio a few weeks ago, and based on these three tweets I looked it up. It's Lynchian weirdness in the form of community radio from a fictional - and very strange - desert town. There's a YouTube trailer.

The Mental Illness Happy Hour is a truly fascinating, cathartic and honest interview show about mental illness that manages to be entertaining and inspiring at the same time.

You Made It Weird is a must-listen for comedy nerds, as long as you can get past Pete Holmes's somewhat spastic manner and non-stop cackling. The most candid comedian interviews I've ever heard come from this podcast.

I'm listening to a new podcast series called Relatively Prime. It's a show of interviews and stories about new things in the world of Mathematics and its intersections with other areas of life. It's really interesting stuff, even if you're not math geek. Give it a listen!

Likely skimming a bit.

I've been trucking along with the Savage Love Podcast. For those unfamiliar, it's an audio version of the alternative relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. The host can be catty, opinionated, hungover, or hopped up on cold medicine on his sick days, but the advice he gives is pretty damn awesome. It's managed to teach me new things and broadened some of my worldview of what a relationship can and should be.

Mixolyde wrote:

I'm listening to a new podcast series called Relatively Prime. It's a show of interviews and stories about new things in the world of Mathematics and its intersections with other areas of life. It's really interesting stuff, even if you're not math geek. Give it a listen!

Frak yeah. I will add this now. I've found math podcasts a hard bet to take. Here's hoping.

Don't know if people listen to The Nerdist podcast, but it you don't... the recent-ish one with Tom Hanks is fantastic. I'm not a huge Tom Hanks fan, but he's great on this show. Good stories, funny voices, generous with his laughter and interactions with the rest of the cast. Definitely worth a listen.

...edited because @lostlobster just beat me to the punch. I'll second his recommendation for this episode of The Nerdist. Good stuff.

I also just added Judge John Hodgman to my feeds. Never knew he had a podcast.

Lastly, 60 Minutes has an audio podcast. It's almost impossible to dvr the television show during football season.

Savage Lovecast is awesome. Yes he's catty and opinionated, but he is refreshingly honest, open, and blunt with his advice and takes on relationships. Sometimes I'm listening to him give advice to an older lesbian woman, and suddenly he drops a knowledge bomb that is startlingly applicable to my life as a young straight man.

F*** first.

Tested.com is doing their second-annual Oktoberkast podcast which raises money for Child's Play.

Last year's was a little un-even, but was still very entertaining overall. Some guests teased for this year include Jeff Green and Adam Savage. Plus, it's for a great cause so it earns my respect.

Squee9 wrote:

Savage Lovecast is awesome. Yes he's catty and opinionated, but he is refreshingly honest, open, and blunt with his advice and takes on relationships. Sometimes I'm listening to him give advice to an older lesbian woman, and suddenly he drops a knowledge bomb that is startlingly applicable to my life as a young straight man.

F*** first.

I just wish the levels were better on the recording. Dan's track is a pretty normal volume but I have to turn the volume up to hear the callers. Also, his rants on politics in the beginning of most of the episodes I've heard can get a little annoying as they have nothing to do with the subject.

Kick Ass Oregon History. An informative and surprisingly entertaining podcast about all the weird and awesome history that Oregon has to offer, from a mysterious mass poisoning at a mental hospital to the nation's first and only state-funded music festival to the sordid past of Portland's Chinatown district. Researched in depth by a local historian and narrated by a theatrical actor, it's an excellent podcast even if you aren't lucky enough to live in such a kick ass state.

padriec wrote:
Squee9 wrote:

Savage Lovecast is awesome. Yes he's catty and opinionated, but he is refreshingly honest, open, and blunt with his advice and takes on relationships. Sometimes I'm listening to him give advice to an older lesbian woman, and suddenly he drops a knowledge bomb that is startlingly applicable to my life as a young straight man.

F*** first.

I just wish the levels were better on the recording. Dan's track is a pretty normal volume but I have to turn the volume up to hear the callers. Also, his rants on politics in the beginning of most of the episodes I've heard can get a little annoying as they have nothing to do with the subject.

I like the open approach to sexuality- the approach that almost always it's okay to be into whatever kink your into and it's a matter of how to overall balance your life. I also like that he leverages his popularity against hypocrites and bigots. Back when I was listening, though, I felt like he would fall into being incredibly judgmental against things he disagreed with. I felt that his judgement against hypocritical conservative Christians often swerved into judging all conservatives (which I'm not) and all Christians (which I am). There's a line between being open and castigating d-bags who want to restrict your life, and narrowly making assumptions and stereotypes about everyone different than you and putting them in the same box. They hypocrisy of doing to progressive Christians or all Conservatives what fundamentalists have done to homosexuals (and other groups) just got me down and distracted from my enjoyment.

It was a long time ago, and I'd like to listen again. Also, he wasn't always judgmental this way- it was really more of a slow drip that got to me than a flood. It's not something I'm super sensitive to, and I understand the wave of intolerance individuals like Dan Savage face, it was more of a distraction that I had a hard time reconciling. Like I said, it was a long time ago tho-

Anyone know a good podcast covering the history of the British Isles?

Anyone here listen to Hardcore History? I've come to like it a lot.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Anyone know a good podcast covering the history of the British Isles?

There's The British History podcast or The History of England podcast.

You might also want to look through iTunes U to see if there are any history courses on there that might be up your alley. You also might want to search Librovox. They provide audio versions of books that are in the public domain and I imagine there's a history tome of two about Britain that would be in there.

SuperDave wrote:

Anyone here listen to Hardcore History? I've come to like it a lot.

It's one of my favorite podcasts. I jumped in just as he was starting his series on the Eastern Front of WWII and was riveted. The Roman Empire stuff didn't grab me as much, but I'm liking this current series on the Mongols.

fleabagmatt wrote:
SuperDave wrote:

Anyone here listen to Hardcore History? I've come to like it a lot.

It's one of my favorite podcasts. I jumped in just as he was starting his series on the Eastern Front of WWII and was riveted. The Roman Empire stuff didn't grab me as much, but I'm liking this current series on the Mongols.

I heard his WWII stuff was good, and gave it a shot. His delivery made it totally unlistenable for me.