I'm an active reader, lurker and very rarely, commentator on ALOTT5MA. One thing I haven't seen lately is a recommended list of podcasts that you all (we all) are listening to. My regulars are boring: Alan's podcast with Dan Fienberg, the B.S. Report, Marc Maron, Penn Jillette... What is everyone else listening to? I'm going to be in the car more than usual this fall and that's prime podcast time for me. I'd love suggestions.Pop Culture Happy Hour! I also very much enjoy Slate's sports podcast Hang Up And Listen, and am squeezing in some ESPN Fantasy Focus Football podcasting as part of my draft prep, but seriously, start with Our Friend Linda Holmes, along with Stephen Thompson, Glen Weldon Who Writes About Books And Comic Books, and Trey (with an 'e') Graham (like the cracker).
Thursday, August 25, 2011
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There's another Renee?! I thought I was the only Renee Thing Thrower. Guess I need to change my commenter name.
ReplyDeleteI'll second the love for Pop Culture Happy Hour. I also regularly download This American Life. NPR Fresh Air's interviews are great. Extra Hot Great's a pretty fun pop culture-related podcast, though I prefer Pop Culture Happy Hour. The Moth also is really good (it has people from all different backgrounds telling a 15-minute story about some majo event in their lives).
ReplyDeleteIf you're a sports fan, the Sports Poscast with Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski and the Jonah Keri podcasts are fun. The standard bearer for sports podcasts is the Tony Kornheiser Show. He seemingly has been on vacation all summer, but I'm assuming he'll be coming back soon now that football season is about to start.
I will let you two resolve this.
ReplyDeletePCHH is my main squeeze when it comes to podcasts. It's the only one I always listen to.
ReplyDeleteRyan & Ryan, when they're covering a show I watch or general TV landscape.
I'm also recently getting into Extra Hot Great. Another pop culture round table, faster-paced and wackier (more radio-show-y) than PCHH but with similarly smart contributors.
A Way with Words, sometimes. Good for those who enjoyed the Friday Grammar Rodeos.
These do all have something in common...a core member of the cast is a woman. It seems like the podcast world is something like 30-to-1 all-male to at-least-and-usually-only-one-female. So I try to support the ones that buck the trend. Plus I like the variety of voices in my earholes.
I do miss the official LOST podcast somethin' fierce, though.
I'll secong This American Life and add Wait Wait Don't tell me. If you are at all interested in science or the way things work than I'd recommend Radiolab from WNYC as well.
ReplyDeleteI second Extra Hot Great and PCHH and throw in All Songs Considered, The Film Pigs, Mike and Tom Eat Snacks. I also like Jeff Goldsmith's podcasts. He has them listed as the Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith, but they used to be under Creative Screenwriting. Some really interesting interviews with screenwriters --how they got their starts, what inspires them, why they made certain choices for screenplays and stories. The podcasts for "Up" and the annual Oscar-nominated screenwriters roundup are really good.
ReplyDeleteIf you can still find them, NPR's In Character and 50 Great Voices podcasts were excellent.
My favorite TV-related podcast (non-Sepinwall/Fienberg edition) is TV on the Internet with Todd van der Werff (writes for the AV Club and LA Times) and his wife (who is also pretty awesome).
ReplyDeleteMy staples are EHG (though depending on the topics, I may skip a segment, but Game Time is invariably awesome), PCHH, and Firewall and Iceberg. I'll listen to Simmons whn he has a particularly interesting guest, but not with regularity.
ReplyDeleteI have heard good things about Mike and Tom Eat Snacks, but have not yet sampled.
The Tobolowsky Files. Stephen Tobolowsky is a great character actor, but he's an amazing storyteller. I can't recommend this podcast too highly, particularly for long car trips.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, PCHH, and if you like that, try The Onion AV Club's podcast Reasonable Discussions.
Many of my favorites (PCHH, EHG, Hang Up and Listen) have already been covered, but I've also been enjoying How Did This Get Made? (Paul Scheer and others choose a crappy movie to see and discuss), NPR's Splendid Table and the Guardian's Football Weekly (covers European soccer leagues).
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you have all just greatly improved my commute.
ReplyDeleteFight to the death it is.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy Stuff You Should Know. BBC Radio did a great series, a History of the World in 100 objects, hosted by the director of the British Museum.
ReplyDeleteAs long as it's not To The Pain, because we don't sanction those.
ReplyDeleteI second (or third, or fourth) the noms for Mark Maron, PCHH, This American Life, and definitely Radiolab (cannot say enough what an aural delight that one is), also enthusiastically endorse The Bugle (audio newspaper for a visual world) with John Oliver and Andy Saltzman; Girl on Guy (a fairly new podcast hosted by Aisha Tyler); Rachel Maddow (becasue she's crazy smart and we share the same name and haircut); Planet Money from NPR (good for dinner party conversational fodder); Star Talk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (ditto); and for all you lefty pinkos out there, Best of the Left (gives you lots of ammunition for the family Thanksgiving get-togethers). Oh yeah, and of course the TED talks, that s**t will keep you entertained all day long, although its mostly videos.
ReplyDeleteJordan, Jesse, Go - The guys behind Maximumfun.org (where Judge John Hodgman is located) do a really professional podcast -- they've been working together since their college radio days at UC Santa Cruz. Jesse Thorn helped teach Maron about podcasting.
ReplyDeleteSplitsider has done some great posts reviewing comedy podcasts.
Also good from BBC - Witness (9 minutes of historical goodness on a daily basis). BBC Documentaries are some of the best in depth news reporting I've found. In Our Time is like going to a panel discussion of professors moderated by a journalist who thinks he knows more than any of them (although that one is my favorite sleep inducers as well -- e.g., 45 minutes on the state of the Medieval University).
I've gotten quite hooked on podcasts for passing time on commutes. Some favourites of mine:
ReplyDeleteCBC Radio 3 podcast with Grant Lawrence offers up the best of Canadian Independent Music. It's been around for ages and introduced me to a lot of new music. CBC Radio in Canada has a pile of great podcasts up on iTunes, including Q, an interview show with Jian Ghomeshi.
The movie nerd in me got hooked on Doug Loves Movies, with comedian Doug Benson hosting a panel with amusing guests who have a freeflowing conversation about movies, followed by a round of The Leonard Maltin Game, sort of Name That Tune but with movies.
The Nerdist podcast was a gateway podcast that got me interested in Maron, Doug Benson, Paul F Tompkins, and more. Hosted by Chris Hardwick with Jonah Ray and Matt Mira, it's a pretty loose but geeky conversation with a guest. In the later episodes there are "Hostful" episodes without a guest which are just as entertaining. Some ALOTT5MA favorites have included Donald Glover, Neil Gaiman, and Ed Helms. It really celebrates the "forget the frustration of trying to get something made in traditional media, let's just do something we love" aesthetic behind so many of the best podcasts out there.
The Paul F Tompkast is a highlight of my month, with comedian Paul F Tompkins improvised monologues, live sketches from his live show at Largo in L.A., and a regular call with Jen Kirkman. Also recommended: Superego, the improvised sketch show.
For biting takes on the news, I highly recommend The Bugle Audio Newspaper, a weekly look at the news (mainly from a British perspective) with Jon Oliver and Andy Zaltzman. Frequently provokes gut deep laughter in me, it's funny, angry, satirical, and often punny.
Finally, I'm working my way through Sklarboro Country, a weekly sports podcast with comedic twins Randy and Jason Sklar firing an avalanche of riffs on sports stories of the week. I'm not a sports guy but it's hilarious in it's non-stop sports and pop culture references.
Other favourites: This American Life, WTF w/Marc Maron, The Tobolowsky Files, Comedy Film Nerds, The Smartest Man In The World with Greg Proops, Comedy Bang Bang (formerly Comedy Death Ray).
For other links, check the weekly PODMASS column from The Onion A.V. Club is a great place to start for funny and engaging recommendations.
Dang, sorry didn't realize how long that was.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to stick with plain old Renee since the other Renee said she is very rarely a commentor and I am a sometime commentor. Sometime is more frequent than very rarely. Is that okay, other Renee?
ReplyDeleteExtra Hot Great and Pop Culture Happy Hour are my top two candidates for the "wait what, it's been a whole hour already?" award. Sometimes they open new cultural doors, and other times they just provide welcome texture to something I thought I knew. I remember being particularly glad that a group of friends wanted to Super 8, because I'd seen that EHG would be discussing it and I wanted to be on the inside.
ReplyDeleteThis is not to say they're without issues: I identify SO closely with Stephen Thompson at times, but his "illiterate buffoon" schtick was tired the first time he asked for book recommendations, and he's still persisting with it over a year later. If you have issues with snooty pretension (I don't), you may find Trey Graham cloying, and the EHG crew can slip into insular jokes and references going back to their TWoP days. But that's all just needless picking, they really are fantastic.
I also make time for Bill Simmons, one each for fantasy baseball and football, Firewall and Iceberg, Sound Opinions (music talk from Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis), This American Life, Radiolab, The Moth (oral storytelling often featured on TAL), Planet Money, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Savage Love (revered sex/relationship advice columnist cum turboactivist Dan Savage does his own take on Loveline), and Joe Posnanski's admittedly rink-a-dink affair (if only for the repeated Mike Schur gabfests).
Since when have we not liked long posts?
ReplyDeleteI have been having trouble sleeping lately and have been using podcasts to help me clear my mind of worries and anxieties so I can fall asleep. This post couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you all!
ReplyDeleteMine are always TAL and Wait Wait, but man am I excited to try some new stuff.
So, there's Renee and Rarely Renee?
ReplyDeleteI'm not a huge podcast person, only because I prefer reading over listening. But I think podcasts are awesome and wish I could read transcripts!
ReplyDeleteThat being said- when I had a longer commute, I got into a bunch of them. I second the recommendations of Nerdist, Mike and Tom Eat Snacks (yes, they talk about snacks), This American Life, Wait Wait and Savage Love.
I also LOVE LOVE LOVE PCHH, and it reliably makes me laugh out loud while listening (often while walking down the street or on public transportation). Radiolab is often on when I am working on a quilt project as is This American Life and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. I used to listen to The Moth and Dan Savage too (when I had a cubicle job and needed more stuff). Oh and Firewall and Iceberg. Quitting the cubicle job meant my only MUST listens are PCHH and Firewall and Iceberg and my favorite FAVORITE podcast:
ReplyDeleteToo Beautiful To Live (shorthand TBTL) hosted by Luke Burbank--frequent panelist on Wait Wait and former cohost of the Bryant Park Project--and his longtime friend and producer Jen Andrews. It started as a newer younger approach to talk radio on KIRO in Seattle as an actual nightly radio show for about a year and a half (that was released in podcast form), and it has now been a podcast only for nearly two years although I guess on the weekends KIRO broadcasts the highlights from the week. They talk about pop culture and news and call bullshit on fake trend stories and find nutty things on the internet and they talk about their lives and interesting things in the lives of their listeners (Nathan the artistic roller skating champion, Drew McFrizz ex bank robber, another listener who is going blind). They solve mysteries (where does the term butt rock come from and why does no one on the east coast know what it means, how do all those shoes get on powerlines, what is the name of that fancy rich person silver dome food cover) and they reenact things they love. They have on bands they like sometimes and sometimes comedians (Andy Haines and Hari Kondobaloo are on pretty regularly). They and their listeners defend things they love even if no one else does and they explain why things matter (pop culture things). They talk a lot about their own lives and I feel like they are a part of my family, and they feel like the listeners are a part of their families. Sometimes they do live shows (so far in Seattle, Brooklyn, LA, and Chicago). As an urban 30 something who watches TONS of TV, likes to be up on the world, reads a lot, reads online news and the new yorker, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, worries that people in the world are getting awfully mean to each other for no reason, and thinks we could all be nicer TBTL seems to be tailor made for me. If that sounds like home to you, please listen to TBTL (plus Watts thanked me for recc'ing this to her for a road trip last year).
Word of warning, they are kind of meta and they do have some sort of inside jokes BUT they are easy to catch up on, in part because 90% of the jokes only last a week before being replaced by new ones. They also frequently have one off segments and technical difficulties (because well radio personalities are doing it without the assistance of the technical board engineers behind them) but all that stuff is pretty endearing and when TBTL is kind of straying the farthest from "good" (or polished) radio it tends to find pure gold. I would reccomend listening to a whole week to give them a fair chance.
This is a little embarassing - podcasts, what are they? This is an ipod thing, right? I don't have one.
ReplyDeleteThey sound great. As an avid NPR listener and long commuter it sounds like the kind of thing I would like.
Can anyone give me a basic explanation of how they work, what tech is needed, and costs?
I apologize for the luddite questions!
So happy this is a thing. You guys are very thorough and covered pretty much everything I listen to, but I will make a recommendation if you are a fan of college football:
ReplyDeleteESPNU's College Football podcast, hosted by Ivan Maisel. Any time he welcomes Beano Cook in, it's a ton of pigskin knowledge. Beano knows everything - he will casually drop refereneces to the line of the 1959 Iron Bowl - and Ivan has a fun background, growing up in Alabama as a good ol' SEC boy before attending Stanford and getting versed in the ways of the PAC10 (12). Also, Maisel just has an awesome radio voice.
I second Doug Loves Movies. I've decided that Doug's laugh is one of the happiest sounds in my week.
ReplyDelete"Sometime" is more frequent than "very rarely" in the same way that there's a big difference between "mostly" and "all" dead.
ReplyDeleteIf my mom knew how to operate podcasts, she'd be a Moth subscriber. When she comes to visit now, she asks me, "You got any more of that story show to listen to?"
ReplyDeleteI've played the "Lost and Found" episode from RadioLab for no fewer than 4 people now. And I cried every time.
ReplyDeleteYou MUST listen to MATES. I made the mistake of listening to the Muffin episode while I was shifting (reshelving) books in the Reference room. I was literally doubled over trying to conceal my laughter, which nevertheless came out in a series of muffled squeaks.
ReplyDeleteI was fortunate to see live tapings of Nerdist and WTF at Just For Laughs Montreal. They haven't been released yet but they were both terrific, especially Nerdist with Reggie Watts and discussing his process.
ReplyDeleteDoug Benson is bringing his Doug Loves Movies show to Toronto in September and I'm already working on my nametag. And I wouldn't have bought tickets or their albums without the podcast turning me on to them. As a tool to promote their comedic voice and shows, it's a hell of a tool. Maron said he was unbookable before he started WTF and it pretty much saved his life and career, by doing something he wanted without being beholden to the industry.
For films, my go to podcast is actually a radio show: Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC5Live Radio. Check back in September on it, though, as the regular hosts, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, are on holiday 'til then. Kermode's rants are legendary (even, in one memorable case, waking a listener from a coma - a friend replayed Kermode's "Angels and Demons" review). To give you a taste, despite what he says at the beginning of his review, here's his "Sex and the City 2" rant; it really gets going around 6:45 just before he starts singing "The Internationale." (I'd say it gives Lindy West's excoriation of SATC2 a run for its money.)
ReplyDeleteNow, if we're going to talk music-oriented podcasts, I'd recommend two from Seattle's KEXP: "Music that Matters" and "Song of the Day." And from Chicago's WBEZ, "Sound Opinions." And I wish the Folk Yourself podcast was updated more than it is.
I favor Fresh Air for my "listen while I fall asleep" needs. And TAL, but Fresh Air updates weekdaily!
ReplyDeleteSo should I be Sometime Renee? It sounds like sometimes I'm Renee, sometimes I'm not.
ReplyDeleteDon't think I saw it mentioned yet -- How Stuff Works is awesome. Josh and Chuck take an article from Howstuffworks.com (a Discovery partner) and then they break it down and make it fun. They are just delightful.
ReplyDeleteI'll endorse a lot of the ones mentioned above - The Nerdist, WTF, This American Life, Fresh Air, The Moth, etc. I also enjoy listening along when my husband is playing the Baseball Prospectus podcast in the car. I often don't get all the technical jargon, but it's still entertaining.
And finally, if you're a parent, check out the DadAesthetic podcast (and their website - http://dadaesthetic.com/).
Every podcast I currently listen to seems to have been mentioned: PCHH... though I wish she would stop saying "kicky music" and come up with different adjectives for "esteemed producer" Mike Katzif. This American Life... can't remember last time I heard it on the radio; Planet Money... I have literally listened to every. single. episode. Radiolab... I have almost caught up such that I will have listened to every. single. episode (love the one about toxo-plasmosis and the wasp that invades other bugs and takes control of them). Only did The Savage Love podcast a couple times but would recommend it. The Moth... I wish I could have some story-worthy weeks every once in a while. On The Media... I don't have time to watch cable news or network news and get most of my other news through RSS and the filter of blogs, so it's nice to get at least a meta-treatment of the news.
ReplyDeleteCouple others that I used to listen to but just don't have time for anymore... Jordan Jesse Go and The Sound of Young America. I enjoyed what Jordan and Jesse were doing. Sounded like they were really having fun with it.
MATES is the best thing out there.
ReplyDeleteMike and Tom Eat Snacks is my favorite right now.
ReplyDeleteGood 10-minutish ones: The Moth, History Palace, 99% Invisible (great one about design).
Others: Sklarbro Country, Sound Opinions, On the Media, ESPN Baseball Today, All Songs Considered, Wiretap, Musicheads.
Good eclectic music podcast, WNYC's Soundcheck with John Schaeffer.
ReplyDeletePodmass is a great place to start, but they get stuck on old favorites (though not my favorites) a little too much. And for some reason they keep updating about the one-joke Apple Sisters every week. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteFreakonomics Radio
ReplyDeleteA podcast is a way to subscribe to a
ReplyDeleteA podcast is a regularly updated feed of a radio or radio-like program that is mae availble for download as an mp3 file. You don't need an iPod per se, but anything that can play mp3 files. I use iTunes to subscribe to podcasts, but there are other programs that can manage subscriptions. Most podcasts are free -- paid podcasts (like the Ricky Gervais show) are pretty rare.
ReplyDeleteYou can listen to podcasts on any device/machine that can play mp3s, generally. This could mean your computer or even your phone, smart or not. Basically, a podcast is just a sound file. iTunes has sophisticated ways of subscribing to and managing podcasts, but it's by no means required for podcast listening in most cases. (For example, I listened to last week's Pop Culture Happy Hour by streaming it from the NPR site on my laptop.) If you're familiar with RSS feeds, a lot of podcasts will offer episodes that way, so you get the new ones delivered to you rather than having to seek them out.
ReplyDeleteI think most of the podcasts listed in this discussion are free.
If you want more specific help, shoot me an email and we'll figure it out. I'm amywatts on gmail.
Earwolf has a lot of great podcasts, some of which already mentioned here. Comedy Bang Bang is their flagship show, and it's a comedy show that generally has a comedy person and an improvisor doing bits and games (a very big generalization). It's not for everyone, but it the funniest people in America are on that show, doing bits for free! Earwolf also has "How Did This Get Made" and "Who Charted" which are incredibly easy-listening podcasts generally about movies and charts, respectively, and involve yet more LA-based comedians and improvisors (I don't listen to Sklarbro Country regularly but same deal, only for sports). I recommend all for anyone who is "into" comedy or UCB-style improv.
ReplyDeleteI am totally oversubscribed to podcasts and I don't get around to listening some for long enough that iTunes stops updating them. But here are some favorites that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
ReplyDelete-All Songs Considered is NPR's music show. If you're into the the types of music that fall into the indie/NPR scene, it's great.
-Breaking Bad Insider - The weekly commentary about Breaking Bad with showrunner Vince Gilligan and editor Kelly Dixon, plus a rotating group of cast and crew. These may be used for DVD commentary or extras, too.
-This is My Next Podcast - Tech news from the writers at This is My Next (formerly from Engadget). It's a long rambling roundtable about technology news.
-The Talk Show and Hypercritical: Two Mac-focused podcasts, both co-hosted by Dan Benjamin (with John Gruber on The Talk Show and with John Siracusa on Hypercritical.)
And the ones that I regularly listent to and have already been mentioned: Firewall & Iceberg (who need a real awesome 80's style theme song.) Judge John Hodgman, Sound of Young America, Planet Money, Radiolab, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and continuing the complete Venn diagram overlap between Thing Throwers and their listeners, Pop Culture Happy Hour.
Sound Opinions, Soundcheck, Fresh Air and On the Media are all public radio shows that I enjoy but haven't gotten around to subscribing to the podcasts yet.
Seconded. Podcasts tend to be my one full-on pop culture blind spot; I'm psyched to start investigating. Thanks to everyone (and to Less Frequent Renee for inspiring the topic).
ReplyDeleteYes, I miss that weekly (or sometimes weekly) dose of Darlton as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm particularly partial to my own ;)
ReplyDeletehttp://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-paper-machete/id392020034
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I am coming in late and, like Andrew, feel myself oversubscribed already, but there are some from this discussion (like MATES) that I'm bound to add. I do listen to a bunch of stuff that is at least tangentially work related, so maybe that's where to cut....Here are my regulars, non-work division, many of which have already been mentioned:
ReplyDeletePop culture: PCHH and Neda Ulaby's Culturetopia and Sunday Puzzle (all NPR); Firewall & Iceberg.
Politics/News: The Political Scene (The New Yorker); Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
Funny: Judge John Hodgman.
Sports: BS Report (when it doesn't exclusively dwell on NBA, which I don't follow, except that I do find Simmons's chats with David Stern endlessly fascinating so I'll listen to those); ESPN Fantasy Focus Baseball.
Long form stories: This American Life.
I sample other stuff here and there, too.
One that hasn't been mentioned: This Week with Larry Miller--the stand-up comic. It's kind of the anti-Maron--no guests, very little angst or vitriol. Just telling funny stories, with an optimistic bent, either from life or show business.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I also love Maron.
Tony Kornhieser is back on the DC air next Monday, the 29th. For those of us not in the DC area, the podcast should be available shortly before we learn who killed Rosie Larsen.
ReplyDelete(For those that don't listen, before his summer break they began uploading the podcast on a one day delay - although a shortened version is available direct from ESPN - to much consternation and some fine reader mail entries).
Damn, forgot to mention How Did This Get Made! Their discussions of the craziness of Burlesque and Sucker Punch are brilliant, but the high point is their take on the completely crazy Mac & Me.
ReplyDeleteI subscribed to Girl on Guy after Tyler was on the Nerdist this week; she's hysterical.
ReplyDeleteMany of my regulars have been cited above (PCHH, Firewall/Iceberg, WWDTM, TAL, Mike and Tom Eat Snacks) but the one I love the most is The Kevin Pollak Chat Show. He gets his guests via personal relationships--no publicists! And has had some truly fantastic guests--Damon Lindelof, Allison Brie, Joel McHale, John Cho, NPH, John Landis, Nick Offerman...he just chats with his guests for an hour (sometimes more!). It is really awesome. Tip--iTunes has both video and audio--I download both to my computer but only audio to my phone--they take up a lot of space.
ReplyDeleteI'm OK with Rarely Renee. I like the idea that I can be someone else part of the time too.
ReplyDeleteI just got off a plane logged in and found all of this. My next several (hundred?) hours in the car just got far more enjoyable. Thank you all...
ReplyDeleteI just got off a plane logged in and found all of this. My next several (hundred?) hours in the car just got far more enjoyable. Thank you all...
ReplyDeleteI just got off a plane logged in and found all of this. My next several (hundred?) hours in the car just got far more enjoyable. Thank you all...
ReplyDeleteAnd then I managed to miss a comma and post the same comment 3 times. Forgive me!
ReplyDeleteAnd then I managed to miss a comma and post the same comment 3 times. Forgive me!
ReplyDeleteAnd then I managed to miss a comma and post the same comment 3 times. Forgive me!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Leonard Maltin game?
ReplyDeleteDoug reads snippets from a review of a movie by Leonard Maltin. He also gives the year, the star rating, and the number of listed actors. The guests then do a Name that Tune style betting round, who can guess the movie with the fewest number of names (Oh, and the names are read from bottom up. So if there's 12 names, and you bet 2, you'll hear the 11th and 12th billed actors.) The other clue you have is the category, like "Summer Blockbuster" or "Dead Man Walken - films in which Christopher Walken dies" or "In Theaters Now."
ReplyDeleteIf you like PCHH, Firewall/Iceberg, I'd highly recommend The Kevin Pollak Chat Show. It is an hour+ of Kevin with a celebrity guest--usually someone he has a friendship with since he doesn't use publicists to book the show (he got Fred Savage via Twitter request, for example). The interview is really in depth and he's had GREAT guests--NPH, Allison Brie, Joel McHale, Damon Lindelof, John Landis, Stephen Toblowksy, the Man in Black, Jon Hamm, Paul Rudd, etc. There is both an audio and video version--I usualy download both but only put the audio on my phone (and I might go back and watch the video if I especially like the guest).
ReplyDeleteGreat drinking game related to the Fireberg podcast: take a drink everytime Alan says 'ok'
ReplyDeleteI'll second The Bugle! An absurdist take on the news that lives at the nexus between the Daily Show and Monty Python. Great starting point is Episode #99 in which Berlusconi gets beaned in the face with a ceramic souvenir cathedral. Hilarity ensues.
ReplyDeleteI suspect this comes too late to be useful, but a (admittedly quick) scan of the above didn't show the essential-to-me Coverville, a 2-3 times weekly podcast of all cover songs. Host Brian Ibbitt is up to show 800 almost, so lots of archives to play with.
ReplyDeleteThanks to you folks I checked out "How did this get made?" last night, the Smurf episode - HILARIOUS
ReplyDeleteAlso dove into Mike & Tom Eat Snacks, which had great potential but I think I just started on a not-so-great episode ('tato skins) Mike & Tom improv well together.
Haven't seen it mentioned on here yet...for those history geeks out there, How Stuff Works' "Stuff You Missed In History Class" podcast never fails to entertain me. Whether exploring the little-known facts about famous figures (the Medicis, for example) or bringing you up to speed on a more obscure historical figure such as "the Indiana Jones of Botany", the podcast hosts can keep me intrigued even through long trail runs. Podcasts run from 5 minutes (some of the early ones) to more like 15-30 normally.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the MATES suggestion - I have a road trip coming up in a couple of weeks and should be able to get through it better now.
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