Reddit, I'm so bored at work. Please recommend some of you favorite podcasts to keep me sane.
What are your favorite podcasts?
Posted Jul 19, 2010, 1:47 PM UTC
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adam carolla show
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get it on, got to get it on, got no choice but to get it on, mandate get it on.
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Radiolab from WNYC, you can stream episodes from the website
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Stuff You Should Know (~30min. Two guys talk about topics ranging from serial killers to art thefts. Funny, interesting, informative. Sound only)
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/category/stuff-you-should-know/
The 404 (~30min. Three guys and sometimes a guest talk about technology, pop culture, current events, and odd stories. Hilarious. Sound and video formats; highly recommend video version)
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Thumbs up for the 404, the most hilarious Cnet podcast by far. Some of the old "subject to you" episodes have caused me to get some weird looks in the office.
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Verbose Asian Guy gets me every time.
I'm guaranteed a long-winded laugh each episode.
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SModcast is one of the funniest podcasts you'll ever listen to. Plus, it stars Kevin Smith (of "Clerks" fame).
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skeptic's guide to the universe. hands down the best.
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Ugh this podcast is boring, to each their own.
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Dan Carlins Hardcore History. Awesome podcast that focuses on realtively unknown parts of history, like the Eastern Frontmin WW2, or what it was like to be an Apache, or it offers a paradigm shifting viewpoint on the past, like slavery or what it was like to be a child.
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I really like his podcast too. He's a little over-dramatic, but he covers things in a very thorough manner. His four part series on the eastern front was amazing.
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Doug Bensons podcast "I Love Movies". If you love movies...
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Savage Love Cast
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"The Bugle - An audio newspaper for a visual world."
It's basicly John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman having strange conversations about current topics, it's hilarious.
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This, make sure to download the Worldcup Special and McChrystal Balls. Hilarious.
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If you like video games "Giant Bombcast" is great, also "Stuff you should know" is very interesting and I like "stuff your mama never told you" which is like stuff you should know with a focus on women and gender issues.
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I too used to get very bored at work and listen to podcasts. Here are some of my favorites:
- The Moth
- Democracy Now!
- NPR's Planet Money
- NPR's Science Friday
- NPR's Story Corps
- Podiobooks - free serialized audiobooks
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Anything by Rev3; however, I find the best ones are The Totally Rad Show, Diggnation, Scam School.
Also, they have been mentioned in this thread already, but The Moth and This American Life are amazing.
EDIT: How could I forget This Week in Tech!!
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Nerdist podcast
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The Tobolowsky Files featuring character actor Stephen Tobolowsky.
You know Stephen Tobolowsky. You may not know the name, but you know the face, and the voice, and at least one of the many indelible characters he's played over the past 25 years: goofy Ned Ryerson in "Groundhog Day" (one of the few actors to ever consistently draw more laughs than Bill Murray in scenes opposite Bill Murray), as frightening Klan leader Clayton Townley in "Mississippi Burning," as amnesiac Sammy Jankis in "Memento," bath-loving Hugo Jarry on "Deadwood" or, most recently, former glee club leader Sandy Ryerson on "Glee," to name just a few.
He's a quintessential Hey, It's That Guy!
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My 2 sources: twit.tv and revision3
Twit.tv is Leo Laporte's network, and has This Week in Tech, and This Week in Google. Both pretty great if you follow tech. They have some other shows too.
Revision3 is a bit more digg oriented, Kevin Rose is a cofounder, and they have stuff like Diggnation, Totally Rad Show, etc.
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A few of my favorites not mentioned:
- On the Media, public radio meta news
- My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
- History of Rome
- Adam Carolla's podcast
though that last one Adam tends go off on some nasty anti-mexican rants
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University of Andy. ("New beginnings. Happy endings.")
Also, the Best of YouTube.
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East Village Radio - Two for Tennis (Tues 6pm), Authentic S&*T (Friday 8pm), and Chances with Wolves (Mon 4pm). All shows are archived.
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TalkRadar is fantastic. The guys release a two-hour episode every week, and every second is hilarious.
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This American Life.
NPR rocks, I wish I had figured this out earlier in life. 22 now, so I haven't missed out on too much though...
This, plus all the old episodes are free to stream from their site.
I've listened to so many. Currently going through them all, one by one, chronologically. My personal fav is "the House on Loon Lake".
I like the one about the pig farms.