What Podcasts Do You Listen To?

[Ryan]

This article on Slate got me thinking about podcasts.

What podcasts do you listen to?

Here's my current list:

99% Invisible

This American Life

Selected Shorts from PRI

New Yorker: Fiction

The Moth

Slate's Culture Gabfest

Slate Presents Lexicon Valley

Marc Maron's WTF

HourTime

And two that have run their course: A History of the World in 100 Objects and Gaurdian Short Stories Podcast

[GaryF]

Currently:

Football Weekly (the Guardian)
The Anfield Wrap
The Football Ramble
Test Match Special
The Nerdist
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre podcast
WTF (Marc Maron)
Kermode Uncut

[Ryan]

Currently:

Football Weekly (the Guardian)
The Anfield Wrap
The Football Ramble
Test Match Special
The Nerdist
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre podcast
WTF (Marc Maron)
Kermode Uncut

Does Kermode Uncut have something to do with the literary critic Frank Kermode?

[meijlinder]

Let's resurrect this old thread since I need some additional podcasts to subscribe to.

Not that I have the longest commute, but I have at least an hour to 90 minutes total in the car each day. Since I can't stand commercial radio and have a hard time with audio books (prefer to read my fiction) podcasts are a great alternative.

My current list (of the English language ones):
The Grey Nato - watches, diving, hiking. Enjoyable even though I really only care about the watch talk
No such thing as a fish - QI in pod form (by the QI elves)
My dad wrote a porno - Hilarious!
Around the NFL

Enjoyed "Serial" (first better than second) and also the Manson Family segment of "You must remember this" (rest not so much)

[Fantasio]

Just have to recommend anything by Andy Zaltzman. Don't understand how his brain actually works, but find his humor extremely funny.

His main podcast with various friends:
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcas...=1000603213721

He currently also host BBC News Quiz and delivers in my opinion the best performance out of three regular hosts I've heard.
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcas...=1000603643170

Other podcasts I'm into:
- Infinite Monkey Cage (funny mix of science and humor)
- The Grey Nato (watches, gear and adventure)
- BBC 4 Comedy of the week (hit and miss comedy)
- Mark Steel's in town (hilarious banter in various places)
- No such thing as a fish (found with little help from mlcor)

Any other input for this thread last updated seven years ago.

[Raza]

Right now, the ones I listen to most are:

Oh No Ross and Carrie: A show where two formerly religious people investigate claims of the paranormal, parascience, and fringe religions by going undercover. Very interesting, at times quite funny, and highly informative.

The Adventure Zone: One of the McElroy Bros. shows. A live play TTRPG podcast where the McElroys and their father play DND and other similar games. Very fun, very funny.

My Brother, My Brother, and Me: Another McElroy show. This time is just the brothers, giving advice—terrible advice, given terribly. It’s a hodgepodge of bits and jokes, but I find it really funny and vert enjoyable.

Left Trigger, Right Trigger: A video game “book club”. Every week, there’s a topic and each person brings a game they feel embodies that topic. Sometimes the topics are normal, like movement or mechanics. Sometimes they’re crazy, like fruit or hats. And they episodes do often get out of hand. Still, good fun.

The Besties: Another video game podcast, but this one is more normal. The four hosts (two McElroys this time, instead of the full four like in TAZ) discuss new releases, video game trends, industry news, stuff like that. Fun fact. One of the co-hosts was fairly close to becoming my boss, but I, unfortunately, didn’t make it through the second round of interviews in favor of someone with a more traditional journalism background.

Those Happy Places: A podcast about theme parks, rides, and attractions that seeks to analyse them in the same way literature is analyzed. Very interesting to look at themed spaces and rides as storytelling venues, something I’d never really thought nor cared out before, but that I find fascinating now.

X-Ray Vision: After Jason Concepcion split from The Ringer and the Binge Mode podcast died, he went to Crooked and started this show with a new cohost. Again, another deep dive entertainment show, where they discuss hot movie and TV properties as well as the industry. I just started this one. It’s not as good as Binge Mode was in its heyday. But Binge Mode is gone now, so you take what you can get.

[mlcor]

Story of the week, could be anything the host feels is interesting:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...n/id1646691064

My favorite legal show, Serious Trouble (by the guys that used to do "All the President's Lawyers" (probably not of interest to non-US folks):

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...e/id1630160928

Cautionary Tales:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...d/id1484511465

Also still enjoying No Such Thing as a Fish, and @Fantasio's recommendation, Infinite Monkey Cage.

[Fantasio]

It's the end of the world and I'm slightly bothered, but not enough really.

https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcas...=1000652141516

[Raza]

I’m a huge fan of the McElroy family myself. They crack me up. I listen to:

The Adventure Zone:
Actual play TTRPG podcast where the three adult brothers (Justin, Travis, and Griffin) play with their lifelong radio broadcaster father (Clint, aka Mac aka the Planeswalking Janitor), who starts the show with absolutely zero experience playing Dungeons and Dragons or any other TTRPG. Very funny, with some actual good storytelling. Each “season” is its own campaign, with different characters and sometimes with different games (DND 5e, Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark, etc).

My Brother, My Brother, and Me:
Just the McElroy brothers, giving terrible advice and making comments on some current events. But it’s billed as an advice show. Need advice on what to do with the strange small room in your house? Fill it with children’s furniture, toys, and fake spider webs, then wallpaper over the door. Leave it as a nice surprise for the next owners. Other gems like that are available weekly.

Shmanners:
Travis McElroy and his wife discuss etiquette, the history of etiquette rules, and sometimes the lives of those who influenced etiquette throughout history. Very interesting podcast about mundane topics. For example, did you know “high tea” is actually a less formal, more middle class event than afternoon tea? I did, because of this show. The term “high” comes from the surfaces on which the tea and food are served. High tea is often served at a table height, such as a dinner table, and can include full sandwiches and more satisfying foods. Afternoon tea is meant to be served in the lounge or parlor, on the much lower coffee table, taken from your sofa or chair, eating only small finger foods. Fascinating stuff, if you like learning about the minutiae of what makes society such a stifling place to be. And yes, much of it is Queen Victoria’s fault.

The Besties:
Youngest Griffin and oldest Justin McElroy (former video game journalists) team with friends who are current video game journalists get together to discuss…you guessed it, how the Real Housewives would survive the zombie apocalypse. Nope, it’s video games, they talk about video games. I don’t play that many games anymore, but I still have a keen interest in gaming and the gaming industry, so it’s good to keep up with trends and get good critical analysis of games and the industry. Kind of niche, wouldn’t expect it to appeal to many here. But worth mentioning just in case.

The McElroy family actually does more podcasts than just these, I just can’t fit them all in. Also, one is about The Bachelor, so who cares about that?

I do listen to other non-McElroy podcasts, I’ll get to them in another post or come back and edit this one.


EDIT: Hmm, didn’t read the thread. Turns out I’ve posted before! Oh well. Enjoy this redundant post.

[pacifico66]

I listen to dadmeat https://www.dadmeat.com/
It's the fellas from Delco that had a series on comedy central their humor isn't for everyone but I bet @geoffbot would love it

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