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No such thing as a fish is good fun. Made by the people behind the scenes of QI. Richard Herrings Leicester Square podcast has some good guests. The Nerdist also has some good guests Stuff you should know. 40 minute approx in length about random subjects Cracked is similar to sysk |
The Podcast Recommendation Thread • Page 7
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mrcrumley 630 posts
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Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoAnyone listen to 99% Invisible? I've only heard a few episodes but it's fantastic.
It's generally pretty short at around 20 minutes. The podcast is about design and architecture but that's a pretty wide remit. So, for example, I'm listening to an episode right now about a small town called Snowflake, which is designed to cope with the needs of people who suffer from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (people who become ill from household chemicals, exhaust fumes, etc.).
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'd highly recommend Open Source 
it's this really new gaming podcast that is a little rough around the edges but getting better each week. Plus, the host is like totally sexy.
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Rodney 5,029 posts
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Registered 15 years agoTruth Dig is a good podcast for weekly news round ups. It's a bit US centric but covers weekly world news fairly well and his interesting guests.
Real Time with Bill Maher is entertaining.
My current favourite is Barbell Shrugged which is a weightlifting/crossfit podcast but actually very funny with interesting guests on each week.
Cracked podcast is pretty good too. -
BeardedGamerUK 2,184 posts
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Registered 8 years agoI highly recommend the following podcasts : Bloody Good Horror, Horroretc. and 1951 Down Place. Good fun to listen to and the people on each podcast aren't annoying, for the most part .gif)
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Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSome more podcasts I've started listening to and enjoying:
Radiolab
Everything is Stories
Radio Diaries (although I don't think this is on at the moment)
Love + Radio
improv4humans
The first four are all informative documentaries and interesting stories, stuff like that. The last Love + Radio was fascinating, about a normal guy who just decided to start robbing banks for the thrill of it.
improv4humans is very funny as well. A few comedians, led by Matt Besser, take suggestions and perform sketches for an hour or so. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoThis week's Comedy Bang Bang is absolutely hilarious, proper belly laughs. Check it out. -
BillMurray 9,736 posts
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Best podcast. Best. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agohttp://serialpodcast.org/
Serial is a podcast where we unfold one nonfiction story, week by week, over the course of a season. We'll stay with each story for as long as it takes to get to the bottom of it.
Season 1: On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She'd been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Some people believe he’s telling the truth. Many others don’t.
Sarah Koenig, who hosts Serial, first learned about this case more than a year ago. In the months since, she's been sorting through box after box (after box) of legal documents and investigators' notes, listening to trial testimony and police interrogations, and talking to everyone she can find who remembers what happened between Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee fifteen years ago. What she realized is that the trial covered up a far more complicated story, which neither the jury nor the public got to hear. The high school scene, the shifting statements to police, the prejudices, the sketchy alibis, the scant forensic evidence - all of it leads back to the most basic questions: How can you know a person’s character? How can you tell what they’re capable of? In Season One of Serial, she looks for answers.
It's essential listening, really. Five episodes in now and it's totally gripping.
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Tomo 19,565 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI just listened to episode 5 too. It's absolutely brilliant. I don't normally go for podcasts, but this has my girlfriend and I hooked, constantly discussing theories. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoIt's taking a fair amount of willpower not to Google the case.
I do wonder if they've discovered something, rather than the ending just being "mibbes aye, mibbes naw". -
TheSaint 20,950 posts
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Registered 16 years agoYeah I'm totally gripped to this as well, it's great. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSo, what do we think about Adnan after last Thursday's episode? I'm beginning to think he probably did it, but the conviction isn't actually safe. I just don't see how you could convict someone on what we've heard so far, even if you do 'get' the right guy. -
Ziz0u 11,006 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI'm not sure. I'm taking it as it comes but I should probably start drawing some conclusions.
Does anyone know if this is all concluded in, erm, real time?
If I were to Google it, would it say Adnan acquitted etc if that were the case?
Not that I'm going to! But I'm nervous to even read the discussions on Facebook in case some dickhead posts a "spoiler".
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Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI'm not sure of the exact process, but we're not far behind them. I think they're maybe one or two episodes ahead of the listeners right now. So it's not far off week-to-week, or it might actually be week-to-week. -
TheSaint 20,950 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI'm struggling to understand how Jay's testimony wasn't totally torn to shreds by the prosecution. It seems to be pretty much the main case against him but riddled with contradictions and changes.
Obviously we are only getting snippets of the trial but it seems to me that he was really let down by his defence team. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoThere was the snippet in the first episode about the lawyer defending Adnan. His mum (I think) reckoned that the lawyer deliberately threw the case to make more money off the appeal process. Koenig seemed to be taking those concerns seriously, but the lawyer in question died some years back.
I suspect we'll find out Jay's fate later. I doubt he'll talk to Koenig for the podcast, but I'd be pretty confused if he didn't serve any time for what sounds like, by his own account, assisting Adnan in burying the body and stuff. -
Memoryleak Interviews is a good relatievely new one. It's interviews with game developers, if you liked Irrational Interviews or Tone Control then you'll probably like this. -
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine is great..
Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin welcome you to Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine. Every Friday, they dig through the annals of medical history to uncover all the odd, weird, wrong, dumb and just gross ways we've tried to fix people over the years. Educational? You bet! Fun? We hope!
.. the first episode is about why we decided drilling holes in people's heads was a good idea. Justin McElroy is the same from My Brother, My Brother and Me and Polygon and him and his wife obviously find each other hilarious, which is really infectious.
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effinjamie 998 posts
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Registered 18 years agoJust finished Serial, still not sure what to think. Definitely think the conviction is unsound, seems to me like there's more than a few people not telling the whole truth. -
The British History Podcast. Done by a British guy with an American accent, strangely enough. Interesting stuff. Also still listening to Hardcore History. -
Necro-thread powers GO
Does anyone know of a semi-active japanese music podcast? -
1Dgaf 5,211 posts
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Registered 15 years agoA HatchetJob show is available. Our games of 2014.
http://hatchetjob.libsyn.com/hj111-the-2014-hatchetjob-awards -
Reviewer_ 359 posts
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Registered 6 years agoOllyJ wrote:
They've stopped plugging stuff so much now.
Ocrovastru wrote:
I used to quite like this, but they ramble a lot and neither are that funny to be honest, also they spend A LOT of time plugging stuff.
I regularly listen to "The Complete Guide to Everything"
www.TGTE.com
Good stuff.
Also, for audio dramas www.radioarchive.cc (yes, that is .CC)
Adam and Joe is easily better. and very similar.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is great. -
Ruckly 1,066 posts
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Registered 7 years agoGot into podcasts, was looking for recommendations so I thought I'd share first:
Two Plus Two Pokercast
Obviously only really works if you like poker. If you do one of the hosts likes MMA so you get a bit of that, plus a rundown of all the weeks poker news and some strategy. It's funny and really long so it can make a few hours pass.
Serial
The new one's up. It's about Bow Bergdahl (sp?), the American soldier who went AWOL and spent five odd years as a Taliban captive. Perhaps not as compelling or complex as the first one, but a good listen and great for some of the backstory to American foreign policy (including a rather interesting part about how some Taliban warlords surrendered to the Americans at the start but then got shipped off to Gitmo, meaning that no others never would and so they kept fighting).
Freakonomics
You've probably all heard about the books 'exploring the secret side of everything. Just always interesting.
The Art of Manliness
A more decent idea of manliness - being a good father, some exercise advice, some general information and self improvement. Always great.
The Moth Podcast
Apparently telling stories in front of an audience like you're doing standup is now a thing. I thought this sounded like utter bollocks but they have some utterly stunning stories - some are funny, some are about important historical events, some just break your heart.
Outlook
BBC world service, extraordinary first person stories from around the world. Does exactly what it says on the tin, opens your mind to other cultures
This American Life Oustanding production values and hugely inbteresting topics - reaches 2.2 million Americans apparently so it's big leaugue stuff. Always compelling.
Honourable mentions to Stuff You Should Know, Stuff You Missed in History Class, The Lapse Storytelling Podcast, the Eurogamer Podcast, History Extra Podcast and for poker fans the Weekly Poker hand with Jonathan Little and the Mental Game with Jared Tendler. The last one is very onteresting if you are in to self improvement - the guys works with professional poker players to hone fine edges but he's also worked with golfers and pool players so if you want to improve your game at a sport like that where mental fortitude is key, then it's a great listen. -
Just listening to Adam Buxton's podcast, Richard Herring's Leicester Square one and Scroobius Pip's. All conversation interview things.
Although its more of a radio thing, it was in my podcast app; and I'm unsure if we'll see any new episodes I really enjoyed the Jon Ronson on... series. Each episode is based around a theme rather than any individual person. -
OllyJ 4,866 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI like Adam Buxtons Podcast, and The Complete Guide to everything. There's something about listening to people just chat and digress and go on tangents I like. For me, a podcast just needs to non annoying and naturally funny people chatting, makes long drives pleasurable! -
TheSaint 20,950 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSomeone Knows Something is worth a listen for people that liked Serial. The presenter investigates the facts around the mysterious disappearance of a five year old boy in his home town back in the 70s. -
David_Richardson 1,332 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHowler Radio is pretty good for atmospheric footy stories. -
Videogamer is still my go to gaming podcast. Scammell is hilarious and Miller can be quite a charismatic dude. Have been tempted to pay the patreon fee to get the extra bit, but so far have managed to do without.
The recently released The Computer Game Podcast is pretty decent if you listened to Joypod before.
it's this really new gaming podcast that is a little rough around the edges but getting better each week. Plus, the host is like totally sexy..gif)
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