Recommend me a (non-gaming) podcast

Willie “Dills” Gregory left The Angry Chicken, a podcast about Hearthstone, and the show really suffers without him. He brought a highly technical and mostly accurate point of view to the show. Since he left I’ve taken to listening to that podcast at x2 speed, and skipping forward large chunks at a time as well.

I noticed a new We're Alive popped in my podcast feed this week. Looks like they're doing a ten episode story called Goldrush that takes place 17 years after the original story. Can't wait to see how this venerable audio drama holds up.

I've also been burning through the Beef and Dairy Network podcast. It starts "the number one podcast for those involved, or just interested, in the production of beef animals and dairy herds" and quickly morphs into a wonderfully absurd podcast about a world where there's only four meats--beef, lamb, pork and chicken. There are, however, unconfirmed reports about a mysterious fifth meat.

I Saw That Years Ago - Amanda Donohoe sucks the venom out of a boy scout in...LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM

http://istya.libsyn.com/ep-231-the-l...

So you guys, the Dollop has a new England/UK podcast, and my god so far it's bananas.

https://open.spotify.com/show/1j1iQY...

The glorious and hilarious Superego podcast is finally back!

Cross-Post from the Star Wars thread:

Vanity Fair has a pretty good podcast called Still Watching that features this season of The Mandalorian. I've listened to a few let's watch podcasts with Joanna Robinson and she's great. They dedicate each podcast to a deep dive of the last aired episode with no future spoilers. They are also doing interviews. The first episode has interviews with Jon Favreau and Carl Weathers. Good stuff.

The only downside is the series is also about The Crown so the episodes for each show are intermixed. I don't know why they aren't separate feeds.

Instead of starting a new thread, I figured I'd pose this question here and it maybe it would also be a way of recommending podcast.

What podcast got you into podcast?

For me, it was a The Escapist Podcast. I put on their Skyrim podcast while I was playing Skyrim and when it was done I moved onto the next episode. I caught up with their entire back catalog at the time while playing Skyrim. After realizing I enjoyed listening to this stuff, I found the app that I remembered was given away on the Amazon app store at one time, Pocketcast, and I haven't looked back.

Critical Role. I put it on while playing games that I don't need sound for, like Final Fantasy replays or time wasters like Risk of Rain. I watched/listened to 90+ episodes at 3+ hours each and caught up just in time for the beginning of the end of their campaign.

There was no specific one for me. I started downloading various CBC podcasts years ago because I had switched to a different job at the time that went 11PM - 7PM so my daily routine of eating breakfast and making dinner with the time-appropriate CBC Radio shows was ruined and I wanted to keep it up.

Probably around the same time I would have started listening to The Hot Spot because Gamespot was the only game review site I read much at the time and that was mostly because of the personalities.

I'm really loving Old Gods of Appalachia, a Lovecraftian horror podcast set in the Appalachian mountains. The narrator is fantastic, and the stories are genuinely unsettling.

For me it was Major Nelson. I was salivating for more Halo 2 info and he was covering that game pretty heavily with frequent quests from Bungie. I think I stopped listening after the game launched and didn't get back into podcasts until a few years later when I was working as a Photoshop person at a photo printing place and needed to listen to stuff to drown out the noise of the production machines.

I think it was The Hotspot for me. Then, Radiolab and This American Life got me into some other podcasts. I think I started listening with an iPod classic and then really started listening to podcasts with the iPhone 3G.

For me it was Stuff You Missed in History Class. I had a real short commute at the time and each episode in the early days was ~5 minutes long. I must've discovered GWJ and Three Moves Ahead shortly after that.

I grabbed a bunch of random podcasts on miscellaneous topics to occupy my time during a ridiculously long commute back in the mid 00’s. The only four I remember offhand are the original GWJ podcast, Gaming Steve, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, and Most People are DJs (a curated music show). I didn’t have an mp3 player at the time so I would burn a few dozen episodes of each show to data cd’s and listen to them on a discman.

ruhk wrote:

I grabbed a bunch of random podcasts on miscellaneous topics to occupy my time during a ridiculously long commute back in the mid 00’s. The only four I remember offhand are the original GWJ podcast, Gaming Steve, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, and Most People are DJs (a curated music show). I didn’t have an mp3 player at the time so I would burn a few dozen episodes of each show to data cd’s and listen to them on a discman.

Oh sh*t, Gaming Steve! Totally forgot about that one.

I'm not sure exactly what was first, because I picked up a bunch all at once just browsing through the original podcast directory shortly after the feature was added to iTunes. The original GWJ Radio was definitely among the first, though, as well as whatever 1up shows were happening at the time, This American Life, Major Nelson, and Gaming Steve. I probably also picked up something related to the old TechTV personalities or something (I suppose that probably would have been This Week In Tech by then?). Oh! And One Life Left, although wikipedia says that started in 2006, so that would have been at least a few months in. Ah, and it looks like the same goes for Penn Jillette's FreeFM radio show.

I started with some EVE Online podcast, can’t remember which. Then found a general mmo site with a ton of other casts... I think either Shawn, Sean, Cory, or Rob (it was a long time ago, okay), guested on one of them, and they plugged GWJ... I’ve been a listener ever since

Fantastic new podcast is out called Cautionary Tales.

We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “Messy” and “The Undercover Economist”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. Featuring original music and an award-winning cast including Alan Cumming and Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife), Toby Stephens (Die Another Day), Russell Tovey (Quantico) – and Malcolm Gladwell.

Can't recommend it enough.

I was listening to a podcast the other day, and I got an ad for....something, another podcast I think. The guy basically did a terrible Ron Burgandy impression, did not say who he was, did not say what his podcast was called, and did not say what his podcast was about. It was kind of amazing, especially given that this wasn't adtime on an obscure podcast.

zeroKFE wrote:

I'm not sure exactly what was first, because I picked up a bunch all at once just browsing through the original podcast directory shortly after the feature was added to iTunes.

same!

I probably also picked up something related to the old TechTV personalities or something (I suppose that probably would have been This Week In Tech by then?).

It also could have been DL.TV with Patrick Norton. For me it was that, TWiT, and Buzz Out Loud.

man, I miss those

Also, it used the podcast form but it wasn't really a podcast, just a song of the day: IndieFeed. That plus an eMusic subscription made the mid-2000s a much better time for music discovery for me than they ever should have been.

OH! and I almost forgot as it came a little later--the G4 Feedback podcast.

kazooka wrote:

I was listening to a podcast the other day, and I got an ad for....something, another podcast I think. The guy basically did a terrible Ron Burgandy impression, did not say who he was, did not say what his podcast was called, and did not say what his podcast was about. It was kind of amazing, especially given that this wasn't adtime on an obscure podcast.

Will Ferrell's actually doing a podcast in his Ron Burgundy character aptly called "The Ron Burgundy Podcast."

Radio vs The Martians! is my monthly pop-culture fix. Each episode is basically a panel discussion about some aspect of popular entertainment, from Deep Space Nine to vigilante fiction. They also run a sub-series covering the oeuvre of bodybuilding thespian Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's detailed and hilarious. It's a fun show. Both hosts, Mike and Casey, are two guys you'd like to have a beer with and Mike's a Jedi-master of analogies and metaphors.

I definitely started with Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast back in 2013. I commuted by bike the entire summer and podcasts finally clicked for me. I then started listening to GWJ again, after a failed attempt a few years earlier when I still commuted by train. My English wasn't good enough to follow in the noisy environment back then.

Next up were This American Life, which I no longer listen to since Trump and me growing impatient with lefty intellectuals 'discovering' Trump country over and over again. And We Have Concerns, who stopped in the meantime at its peak - which I respect

I Saw That Years Ago - The bronzed bodies of finely aged men are a thrill for... JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Tg...

iTunes

https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/...

OG_slinger wrote:
kazooka wrote:

I was listening to a podcast the other day, and I got an ad for....something, another podcast I think. The guy basically did a terrible Ron Burgandy impression, did not say who he was, did not say what his podcast was called, and did not say what his podcast was about. It was kind of amazing, especially given that this wasn't adtime on an obscure podcast.

Will Ferrell's actually doing a podcast in his Ron Burgundy character aptly called "The Ron Burgundy Podcast."

And the first time I heard it, I thought it was a cheap voice actor knockoff and not Will Ferrell himself either. So, your Ron Burgundy-alike is probably the real deal.

vypre wrote:
OG_slinger wrote:
kazooka wrote:

I was listening to a podcast the other day, and I got an ad for....something, another podcast I think. The guy basically did a terrible Ron Burgandy impression, did not say who he was, did not say what his podcast was called, and did not say what his podcast was about. It was kind of amazing, especially given that this wasn't adtime on an obscure podcast.

Will Ferrell's actually doing a podcast in his Ron Burgundy character aptly called "The Ron Burgundy Podcast."

And the first time I heard it, I thought it was a cheap voice actor knockoff and not Will Ferrell himself either. So, your Ron Burgundy-alike is probably the real deal.

I'm torn between feeling like that's incredible comedy and feeling that that's terrible advertising.

kazooka wrote:
vypre wrote:
OG_slinger wrote:
kazooka wrote:

I was listening to a podcast the other day, and I got an ad for....something, another podcast I think. The guy basically did a terrible Ron Burgandy impression, did not say who he was, did not say what his podcast was called, and did not say what his podcast was about. It was kind of amazing, especially given that this wasn't adtime on an obscure podcast.

Will Ferrell's actually doing a podcast in his Ron Burgundy character aptly called "The Ron Burgundy Podcast."

And the first time I heard it, I thought it was a cheap voice actor knockoff and not Will Ferrell himself either. So, your Ron Burgundy-alike is probably the real deal.

I'm torn between feeling like that's incredible comedy and feeling that that's terrible advertising.

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/WXfuedi.gif)

The first podcast for me must have been GFW Radio (Jeff Green et al.). That show did not last long, but wow, it sure was funny and I still cherish those early podcast listening days.

Hey, you should check out my new show, The Playlist. Each week, we take a piece of pop culture, and build you a playlist of storytelling across mediums that you'll love based on that initial seed. So far we've done Game of Thrones, Serial, The Walking Dead, and the films of Jordan Peele. In addition, our most recent episode highlighted our favorite books, films, television, games, and miscellaneous stories of the last decade.

Found a couple of new-ish tech podcasts that I'm digging:

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod is a podcast with Will Smith formerly of Tested and Brad Shoemaker from Giant Bomb. They do a deep dive into a single tech topic each week.

Marques Brownlee from YouTube also has a podcast called Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast. It's all about the tech he discusses on his video channel, so lately mostly televsions and phones.

Just some good tech chat to leave on in the background while I'm working.

PaladinTom wrote:

Found a couple of new-ish tech podcasts that I'm digging:

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod is a podcast with Will Smith formerly of Tested and Brad Shoemaker from Giant Bomb. They do a deep dive into a single tech topic each week.

Marques Brownlee from YouTube also has a podcast called Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast. It's all about the tech he discusses on his video channel, so lately mostly televsions and phones.

Just some good tech chat to leave on in the background while I'm working.

I have been listening to Brad & Will for about a month now and it is great.