Your favorite podcasts, non-music edition

top notch back and forth , seems like they've been friends for a loong time

i also listen to "In Our Time" -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/

I missed this link the first time, somehow. I'm enjoying the newest episode about whether Leibniz or Newton invented calculus. So much context!

Anyone know any good TV podcasts? I tried the Paul Goebel Show but found he rarely talks about TV and the sound sucks, to boot.

Am I overlooking an mp3 link to In Our Time or is it only available in RM?

God I am a moran: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot/

Any more? I need stuff to listen to while breaking up video footage

Aerial View, a talk show, is back on wfmu.org as a podcast (the feed is pretty weird so shows will appear late, and twice with different titles) - every show begins with the same three-minute collage of audio bits from movies, though, which is awesome the first few times you hear it, then it seems really self-indulgent, so I skip past that these days.

I can't stand Diane Rehm's regular show, but the Friday 'news roundup' shows (drshow.org) are great, and it has its own feed, so you can blow off the rest of the week. The non-domestic hour, the second one, is great when they have the guy from Foreign Policy on.

When Marc Maron's WTF podcast is good, it is awesome.

Recommended episodes: Maria Bamford, Robin Williams, Patrice O'Neal, Carlos Mencia...

You have to like stand-up comedy though.

OMG i just discovered the 'Stuff You Should Know' podcast from howstuffworks.com. I think it comes out twice a week and they cover a whole range of things. so far I've listened to 'Prison: Not as fun as you'd think', 'What Makes a Serial Killer' and 'How Tourette Syndrome Works'. Makes the work day zoom by which is the whole point of podcasts iirc

Yeah, Stuff You Should Know is a good one.

also louisck's 3 podcasts from like 2006 or something are pretty great. recognized the embryos of some later fully formed jokes in there.

posted this on JF thread but seems apt

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/joe-frank-radio/id160740987

i really like josh from the stuff you should know podcasts. he reminds me of every smart hippy stoner friend i've ever had. rad dude, great titles, stuff i really SHOULD know

I'm obsessed with Marc Maron's WTF podcast!
Love love love...

football weekly
in our time
a history of the world in 100 objects

A History of the World in 100 Objects is fabulous.

I'm a sucker for in our time

Listening to Joe Frank "Darlene", SO good

Any good stuff I'm missing? These are the pods I subscribe to:

Best Show Gems
Bruno & the Professor
The Bugle
C-Span Afterwords
C-Span American History
Comedy Bang Bang
Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Hardcore History
Dana Gould Hour
Firewall & Iceberg
Freakonomics
From Our Own Correspondent
Frontline
Gelmania
The History of Rome
How Did this Get Made?
improv4humans
In Our Time
le Show
Moyers & Company
Rachel Maddow Show
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Planet Money
On the Media
Pod F. Tompkast
Media Matters
The Professional Left
Propublica
Radiolab
Real Time
Ronna & Beverly
Slate Daily Podcast
Sound Opinions
Studio 360
Superego
This American Life
Thrilling Adventure Hour
The Tobolowsky Files
Too Much Information
Totally Laime
Truthdig
Uhh Yeah Dude
Vox & Friends
Who Charted?
WTF
The Young Turks
99% Invisible

The Smartest Man in the World - Greg Proops is pretty cool.

thanks-- I did listen to that one a few times and it pummeled me like Death Metal a bit. Like to try it again though.

If you're interested in TV writing, the Nerdist Writers Panel is very good.

Sounds cool. I'm wondering if there are any BBC pods people could recommend too. I kind of remember a sort of random blog thing being talked about years ago on ILE, but can't remember the name of it. Also, I'm interested in arty sub-TAL stuff like Too Much Information, 99% Invisible and the Memory Palace.

hah I know what you mean about Proops. I need to be in the right frame of mind to just drift along with him, there are times when his voice drills into my head and it makes me crazy.

have a few drinks, listen while you're cooking dinner or something. It's a bit more enjoyable that way, lol

I'm suddenly interested in podcasts. Especially ones that aren't music, aren't two people just chatting and aren't panel shows. I'm interested in what can be done with the podcast format that can't be done in any other format. I like the idea of drama/fictional podcasts - horrors, comedies, dramas... I tried out 'Welcome to Night Vale' and found it a bit lacking, more like being read out a bunch of gags and horror tropes but with no continuity or discernible plot arc. I have yet to try out Serial and Limetown. As I say, until last week I had never bothered to listen to a podcast.

I'm not yet sold on the fictional podcast-- I agree about Nightvale. Limetown seemed promising but it felt too rushed, and a lot of the voice acting was stilted, same thing with The Message which I never made it through. There are a lot of good non-fiction shows, often on a loose topic, like 99% Invisible (design), You Must Remember This (old Hollywood), Criminal, Life of the Law, and The Allusionist (language).

I listen to a lot of history podcasts--there are dozens of them now, of varying quality, besides the famous ones (Dan Carlin & History of Rome)

You Must Remember This is pretty great. I haven't listened for a while though but it looks like they're covering HUAC and the blacklist now, which is a compelling enough topic to lure me back in.

I mentioned the on the Comedy Podcasts thread, but will plug here too: Guys We Fucked. Basically ILTMI the podcast. I've been listening since last summer and in between new eps have gone back and binge-listened to the rest. It's not like it's a hidden gem of a podcast - it's doing really well on the itunes charts - but I haven't seen anyone else talk about it on ilx.

Secret History of Hollywood is dope - like a longform You Must Remember This. They just started a new series about Warner & it's great

Cultish-- the new Tina Dupuy podcast about cults seems promising

ooh that sounds good

I have to withdraw that recommendation for Cultish since she's putting it on hiatus after 3 episodes to go work for Alan fucking Greyson

West Wing Weekly with Josh Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway is my new favorite thing

it's only 4 eps in so far, covers 1 episode of the show each week chronologically

Last week's guest was Charlie
This week was Eli Attie, former Gore speechwriter who wrote on the show for 4 seasons starting s3
Next week's guest is Donna <3

Lots of great stuff, but also very succinct & low-key which I really like

Second captains

anyone listen to Risk? the latest one was pretty intense.

Scriptnotes is a fantastic podcast. It's mainly for budding screenwriters, but I enjoy it as process porn.
On The Media is reliably good look at the state of capital-J-Journalism.
NY Times Book Review is great for keeping my Amazon wish list well stocked.

I listen to too many podcasts but those three are my reliable go-tos. Cultish is a great idea for a podcast, hope it comes back one day.

I would like to find a good True Crime podcast...

Our local npr station has a show about podcast that covered a lot of the true crime ones out there. Didn't listen but it's prob a good place to start

http://m.wamu.org/#/programs/the_big_listen_a_broadcast_about_podcasts/16/04/10/csi_podcast

Criminal has some good crime stories: http://thisiscriminal.com/

Thanks, I'll check them out.

I still listen to podcasts on my ipod classic and I noticed I have about 40 GBs of unheard shows from my feed. And all I do is listen to podcasts the past couple of years.

I would like to find a good True Crime podcast...

Have you tried the Charles Manson season of You Must Remember This?

ding ding ding

sword and scale is worth a listen for true crime - the guy is kind of a dick sometimes (melodramatic, too opinionated), but it features some really interesting stories that'll send you down the rabbit hole, eg:

#5 & 6 a woman's son is kidnapped decades ago, takes all sorts of bizarre twists and turns

#11 & 12 the woman whose daughter dies and she insists it's a murder

#22 about the disappearing wife

#45 & 46 the carnation murders

the one about gypsy whatsername is CRAZY

wait which one was that

Just posted this in the comedy podcasts thread but you guys, "hello from the magic tavern" is so goddamn funny

xxxxxxxxxpost Speaking of the West Wing, I'm enjoying the "Keepin' It 1600" podcast (which is on the Channel 33 feed, I believe) hosted by Jon Favreau and Dan Ffeiffer from Obama's communications staff. It has a very dorky Sorkin feel where they're usually interviewing an ex-co-worker about this or that speech was written, or when they tested WHCD jokes on NSA guys in the hallway while Obama was in the other room killing Bin Laden.

Worst podcast: "How I Built This" interviewing dot-com founder assholes

it's like true crime podcasts a-go-go now

Accused - Cincinnati Enquirer true crime journalist digs into the Elizabeth Andes cold case. I really, really like this one. Does a lot of what I wanted & never got from Serial.

In The Dark - about Jacob Wetterling. Really good, lot of great interviews with old locals etc. A little flip at times but mostly good.

Casefiles - Australian podcast but covers international cases too. Really concise & well researched - and the dude sounds like my brother

i've been enjoying last podcast on the left a lot recently - tales of serial murders, the occult, extra-terrestrial shenanigans and conspiracies which is like 90% of all the stuff i'm interested in. funny, weird, unsettling and occasionally in very poor taste