Recommend me a (non-gaming) podcast

I'm wondering why I haven't seen My Brother, My Brother, and Me here yet? I thought I found it through GWJ but not in this thread, I guess it could have been in another one.

Either way, this podcast is hilarious. It features the brothers McElroy, with whom you may be familiar with from the Joystiq podcast.

My Brother, My Brother and Me is an advicecast for the modern era featuring three real-life brothers: Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy. For about one-half to two-thirds of an hour each week, with new episodes dropping every Monday, the brothers McElroy will answer any query sent our way, each fielding questions falling into our respective areas of expertise. We operate like a streamlined, advice-generating machine

After a seven month hiatus, The Skeptical Viewer podcast resumed last week. It started as a show examining the popular Ghost Hunters Syfy series and it's various spinoffs and copycats, but has evolved into a general investigator and debunker of pop culture supernatural phenomena. Last week's episode was about how the Outer Limits scifi series influenced the infamous Betty & Barney Hill abduction, this week was about the cast of Ghost Hunters International hunting the ghost of Robin Hood (possibly not realizing he's a fictional character).

I could hardly recommend Hardcore History adequately enough to match the entertainment and information packed into that show. It only comes out every month or two but it is exceptional.

Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but I stumbled across a podcast I'm really enjoying.

H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

They disect each of his stories, and it's really fun to read the story and then listen to the podcast.

Yay! I've loaded up on new podcasts. Thanks all (my selection was getting a little thin.)

El-Producto wrote:

Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but I stumbled across a podcast I'm really enjoying.

H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

They disect each of his stories, and it's really fun to read the story and then listen to the podcast.

That podcast is fantastic. I instantly knew this was going to be staying on my list. I've never really gotten into Lovecraft's stories. This is a great way to do it.

Higgledy wrote:

Yay! I've loaded up on new podcasts. Thanks all (my selection was getting a little thin.)

El-Producto wrote:

Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but I stumbled across a podcast I'm really enjoying.

H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

They disect each of his stories, and it's really fun to read the story and then listen to the podcast.

That podcast is fantastic. I instantly knew this was going to be staying on my list. I've never really gotten into Lovecraft's stories. This is a great way to do it.

This is a big win - listening to their back catalog now

I recently used this thread to delete podcasts that aren't clicking for me anymore, and repopulated my iTunes with new and shiny stuff.

So a big shout out to We're Alive, a radio drama about a zombie outbreak, delivered in 15-20 minute podcasts. I'm only a handful of episodes in, but it's well polished, and surprisingly good.

Jonman wrote:

I recently used this thread to delete podcasts that aren't clicking for me anymore, and repopulated my iTunes with new and shiny stuff.

So a big shout out to We're Alive, a radio drama about a zombie outbreak, delivered in 15-20 minute podcasts. I'm only a handful of episodes in, but it's well polished, and surprisingly good.

They've started giving recap episodes of season one (kinda redundant if you can still get the old episodes.) Hopefully season 2 will kick off shortly.

What do those of you with no iPods and no want for iTunes do to manage podcasts in Windows?

google reader rss feed is what I use.

LordJezo wrote:

What do those of you with no iPods and no want for iTunes do to manage podcasts in Windows?

I use J River Media Jukebox. It's free, although they have a paid "Media Center".

Still using version 12.x, as version 14 took away the DSP mode that allows me to play files at a higher speed. But I haven't tried the last version of 14.

I've tried a bunch, and this one allows me to do a lot of stuff I haven't found elsewhere, such as forcing genres automatically to "podcast" so that my Sansa Clip's will always put them in the right folder.

You could also look at Media Monkey.

Higgledy wrote:
Jonman wrote:

I recently used this thread to delete podcasts that aren't clicking for me anymore, and repopulated my iTunes with new and shiny stuff.

So a big shout out to We're Alive, a radio drama about a zombie outbreak, delivered in 15-20 minute podcasts. I'm only a handful of episodes in, but it's well polished, and surprisingly good.

They've started giving recap episodes of season one (kinda redundant if you can still get the old episodes.) Hopefully season 2 will kick off shortly.

First episode of season 2 is up. I really wish the episodes were longer or less time between them. Great show but cliffhangers are kill me!

It's August so 90% of time I listen to football (the proper one) podcasts, but I've found something new few months ago and been enjoying ever since: Ideas from CBC. I think it's already been mentioned sometime ago, so yeah, just seconding. Start with four-part Evolution of Charles Darwin (back from May) and see where it takes you.

UCRC wrote:

It's August so 90% of time I listen to football (the proper one) podcasts, but I've found something new few months ago and been enjoying ever since: Ideas from CBC. I think it's already been mentioned sometime ago, so yeah, just seconding. Start with four-part Evolution of Charles Darwin (back from May) and see where it takes you.

Can you recommend some good football podcasts?

LordJezo wrote:

What do those of you with no iPods and no want for iTunes do to manage podcasts in Windows?

Juice

Tanglebones wrote:
UCRC wrote:

It's August so 90% of time I listen to football (the proper one) podcasts, but I've found something new few months ago and been enjoying ever since: Ideas from CBC. I think it's already been mentioned sometime ago, so yeah, just seconding. Start with four-part Evolution of Charles Darwin (back from May) and see where it takes you.

Can you recommend some good football podcasts?

Sure. I watch EPL most of time though, so I have no problem listening to podcasts that are almost exclusively about English football. Therefore YMMV.
1. Football Weekly - best football podcast out there, I think, great crew.
2. the Game podcast - hosted by always excellent Gabriele Marcotti, featuring the Times writers, they love to have in-depth analysis of two-three selected English games from the weekend. While FW is mostly friendly banter about world of football, theGame is more topical.
3. (Jesus, how come I even listen to this if don't live in UK is beyond me:) BBC's 5 live 606 football phone-in is great for post-match reactions. A lot of that is crap you will want to just skip, but sometimes it's interesting to get a feel of live radio show.
4. Much better one: World Football Phone-In, also from BBC. It's my new favourite, there's Tim Vickery and Jonathan Wilson (yaaay for Jonathan) and they talk mostly American football, even MLS, so you might already know it. It's got that nice intimate feeling of small radio talk-show because it's being broadcasted in the middle of the night, I think.
5. Other ones are Arsenal podcasts so I gather you might not be interested

UCRC wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
UCRC wrote:

It's August so 90% of time I listen to football (the proper one) podcasts, but I've found something new few months ago and been enjoying ever since: Ideas from CBC. I think it's already been mentioned sometime ago, so yeah, just seconding. Start with four-part Evolution of Charles Darwin (back from May) and see where it takes you.

Can you recommend some good football podcasts?

Sure. I watch EPL most of time though, so I have no problem listening to podcasts that are almost exclusively about English football. Therefore YMMV.
1. Football Weekly - best football podcast out there, I think, great crew.
2. the Game podcast - hosted by always excellent Gabriele Marcotti, featuring the Times writers, they love to have in-depth analysis of two-three selected English games from the weekend. While FW is mostly friendly banter about world of football, theGame is more topical.
3. (Jesus, how come I even listen to this if don't live in UK is beyond me:) BBC's 5 live 606 football phone-in is great for post-match reactions. A lot of that is crap you will want to just skip, but sometimes it's interesting to get a feel of live radio show.
4. Much better one: World Football Phone-In, also from BBC. It's my new favourite, there's Tim Vickery and Jonathan Wilson (yaaay for Jonathan) and they talk mostly American football, even MLS, so you might already know it. It's got that nice intimate feeling of small radio talk-show because it's being broadcasted in the middle of the night, I think.
5. Other ones are Arsenal podcasts so I gather you might not be interested ;)

Sweet, thanks!

We're Alive is starting up new episodes. For all those jonesing for great zombie audio drama.

I'm really enjoying History of Rome.

wordsmythe wrote:

I'm really enjoying History of Rome.

Is he still doing that? I listened to it a few years ago, good stuff.

I just wanted to plug Geeks On. It's not specifically a gaming podcast. I don't know if it's been mentioned here before, but they've slowed down a good bit on releasing new episodes. However, I'm glad I checked out their most recent one (the 27th). It is the shortest 90-minute interview I've ever listened to, with David Brin. Very good interview, well worth a listen even if you don't subscribe to the podcast.

NSMike wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

I'm really enjoying History of Rome.

Is he still doing that? I listened to it a few years ago, good stuff.

It's taking off, actually. There's (probably) a book deal that he refuses to talk about and he's arranged at least 1 tour of Europe for listeners next year, if not two.

oilypenguin wrote:
NSMike wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

I'm really enjoying History of Rome.

Is he still doing that? I listened to it a few years ago, good stuff.

It's taking off, actually. There's (probably) a book deal that he refuses to talk about and he's arranged at least 1 tour of Europe for listeners next year, if not two.

In a similar vein Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is very good. Episodes are extremely infrequent but high quality. His latest two episodes: Death throes of the Republic have been fantastic (they contain spoilers for the Roman empire though :P.)

I absolutely love the Now Playing Podcast, finding myself a bit giddy whenever it appears on my podcast rotation.

The guys do retrospectives on each entry of well-known movie franchises, including Star Trek, Saw, Friday the 13th, Back to the Future, and many others. They generally just have a good time talking about the movies, without the pretension that most other film podcasts bring to the table.

A good place to start is the Star Trek series; it's fun to hear them dig up the dirt on why some were good while others were so very, very bad.

KillerTomato wrote:

I absolutely love the Now Playing Podcast, finding myself a bit giddy whenever it appears on my podcast rotation.

I usually find that I either click with a podcast straight away or it hangs around in my list for a while before eventually being deleted. I've clicked with 'Now Playing.'

I believe I've seen it mentioned here before, but in the past few weeks I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of Marc Maron's podcast: WTF.
It's not safe for work (one of his current sponsors include Adam & Eve), but if you've ever been curious about the minds inside the people that can make us laugh and can tolerate Marc's consciously self-absorbed ramblings at times then there are absolute moments of brilliance to be found.

I've been listening to Stuff You Should Know for a few months now and I think I'm about done with them. When they have a good episode that actually gets a lot of useful information out there on a particular subject I love it. It seems lately though that more and more often they're just sitting around telling stories about the one time they had something happen to them loosely related to the topic or what somebody thinks may be happening but nobody's sure. There's just a couple minutes worth of relatively useless info surrounded by a lot of pointless filler.

Are there any other good podcasts out there that have a similar setup? Different topic every week that goes in depth on a particular subject?

Kehama wrote:

I've been listening to Stuff You Should Know for a few months now and I think I'm about done with them. When they have a good episode that actually gets a lot of useful information out there on a particular subject I love it. It seems lately though that more and more often they're just sitting around telling stories about the one time they had something happen to them loosely related to the topic or what somebody thinks may be happening but nobody's sure. There's just a couple minutes worth of relatively useless info surrounded by a lot of pointless filler.

I don't really mind the hosts veering off on tangential anecdotes- what drove me away is the increasingly sloppy research in their episodes, and allowing personal beliefs to color their work. In an episode several months ago, for instance, they referred to the story of Cain and Abel in the Old Testament as though it were historical fact, apparently not understanding what an allegory is.

Holy heck. Six pages in and no one has recommended The Drabblecast!?! Get thee to iTunes and subscribe to this wonderfully quirky weekly fiction podcast. Each 30 minute or so episode includes Drabbles, which are 100-word user submitted stories; a short fiction piece that covers the spectrum of scifi, horror, and fantasy; and some exceptionally creative stuff from the host, Norm Sherman. Donate enough to the podcast and the man will write and record your very own song.

If you like scifi, you need to subscribe to Tony C. Smith's Starship Sofa Aural Delights. If you think Escape Pod is the shiznit, then you best subscribe seeing how it's up for a 2010 Hugo for Best Fanzine, the first time in history that a podcast has ever been nominated. Tony has managed to build an amazing network of talent--readers, contributors, and scifi authors who are willing to have their stories on his show. He's even kicked off an segment where he rings up scifi authors and interviews them. Some, like his interview with Ray Bradbury, are short, but others go on for 45+ minutes of amazing material. His shows typically have a flash fiction piece of a few minutes, some kind of fact article or review, and a longer main fiction piece. He doesn't shy from longer material and some the stories can go for an hour and a half or so.

Lastly, I'll shill a little for The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. Big and Rish put out a solid weekly fiction podcast that is typically done up full cast style, which means every character is voiced by different people. The stories run the gamut of straight fiction, some horror (especially around Halloween), fantasy, and scifi and typically run 45 minutes or an hour followed by some commentary. What turned me on to this podcast is that Big and Rish are writers themselves so they talk a lot about writing, pop culture, etc. They also do two writing contests a year: the Broken Mirror Story Contest where writers are given an idea and have to write a short story about it (it's fun to see all the different takes on the same concept) and October Scary Stories. What's great is that the contests are open to anyone and you get like a month to go from an idea to finished story.

Full disclosure: I'm actually a slush pile reader for The Dunesteef, meaning I get to read everything that's submitted and (hopefully) weed out the crap.

Good selections here. I'm going to download a few. This one is a video podcast but I really enjoy it. It is called Scam School and it has tips to get free drinks from your friends at a bar with simple magic or logic tricks. Take a look. I think you will like it.

Here are a few I like that I didn't see mentioned in my quick skim of the thread:

60 second science - Exactly what it sounds like. 1m/weekday

BBC History Magazine podcast - 2-3 ~15m segments, once a month

Quirks & Quarks - 3-5 science interviews, once a week. Should be coming off summer hiatus any day now