Podcasts

[JammieDodger]

Just added three recommended here, thanks guys.

I listen to Adam and Joe, Mark Kermode's Film Reviews, Scientific American (dreadfully dull when they bang on about whackos, though) and TWiT.

Also, when they release a new episode, ITIdiots and their Mac show too.

 

[oneblood]

Smodcast.

 

[jpeirpont]

Anyone checkout Oxford University's podcasts?

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/

 

[Britalian]

Stephen Fry's Podgrams are wonderful. Through iTunes. And some of the Ricky Gervais ones.

 

[Thomas]

I subscribe to the Robin Meade podcast, and not because I'm a news junkie.

 

[Gradstudent78]

Smodcast, /Filmcast, Fitcast, TEDTalks

 

[Fabro]

Terry O'Reilly's series Age of Persuasion, which is a series on the history and practice of advertising. It's CBC radio at its best. The main page is here: http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/
but you can get the podcasts on iTunes.

 

[mcpaul]

www.manager-tools.com next to my iphone, the greatest find of the second half of this year.

 

[YoungAmerican]

Originally Posted by Fabro

Terry O'Reilly's series Age of Persuasion, which is a series on the history and practice of advertising. It's CBC radio at its best. The main page is here: http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/ but you can get the podcasts on iTunes.

I've really enjoyed this one as well.

I feel obliged to mention my own Jordan, Jesse Go! It's a comedy-talk show. Also Coyle & Sharpe: The Imposters, which is amazing, surreal put-ons from the early 1960s in San Francisco.

My favorite talk show is Jimmy Pardo's Never Not Funny. Jimmy's one of the funniest comics in the country, and certainly the quickest. I'd always hoped he'd go into broadcasting (above and beyond the TV hosting he's done), and this is just as good. The show isn't about anything, but it also never lags or droops. Amazing stuff, and hilarious.

I'm also a big fan of The Best Show on WFMU and Seven Second Delay, two talk shows from the Jersey Giant, freeform superstation WFMU. The former is a traditional talk show in some ways, though the host, Tom Scharpling (also a writer for Monk) sort of plays a game of "who's the real Tom" with callers whenever he can. The centerpiece of each show is an in-character call from Tom's comedy partner Jon Wurster (who's also the drummer for Superchunk, among other bands). Surreal and brilliant. Seven Second Delay is co-hosted by Ken Freedman (the manager of WFMU) and Andy Breckman (the showrunner of Monk), and it involves complicated "radio stunts." They are two of the highest-concept live radio shows I've ever heard of, and they're both great, though both are also aquired tastes.

 

[KhouriC]

i dont listen to any podcasts but i have a question, how long is the typical podcast? Do most people listen to these in the car or what?

 

[YoungAmerican]

Originally Posted by KhouriC

i dont listen to any podcasts but i have a question, how long is the typical podcast? Do most people listen to these in the car or what?

They vary widely. I produce the Coyle & Sharpe podcast, which is about five minutes a pop. One of my other shows, Jordan, Jesse Go!, is about 70 minutes.

People generally listen to them any time they'd otherwise be listening to the radio. In the car, on the bus, walking the dog, while working out, on their computers while they work, that kind of thing.

 

[larsrindsig]

Keith and the Girl. Nuff said.