Author Topic: Podcasts/Netcasts- the best of them by topic. (Read 14487 times)

CLAY · « **on:** November 17, 2013, 03:47:08 PM »

Copied- you know, just in case...

All: I have become a huge podcast fan since giving up the Sirius radio. I figured we could use a library of vouched for podcasts about all things. List your favorites and how they should be categorized (humor, horror, science commentary, etc), and I'll try to sort them topically and list them on this first post. This might be a cool resource for us listeners to discover new podcasts. I'll start with a few that I listen to or have listened to; post up your own.

Motorcycling:
General:
The Pace Podcast: http://thepacepodcast.com/
The Wheelnerds: http://wheelnerds.com/
The Cleveland Moto podcast: http://clevelandmoto.blogspot.com/2011/01/cleveland-moto-podcast-episode-1.html
Cafe Racer Podcast: http://www.caferacerpodcast.com/

Racing
Motopod - http://www.motopodcast.com/

Automotive:
Autoblog - http://www.autoblog.com/podcasts/

Dramatizations:
Mystery
CBS Radio Mystery Hour: http://www.cbsrmt.com/synopsis.html
Horror
Pseudopod: http://pseudopod.org/
Underwood and Flinch (A Vampire Novel): http://underwoodandflinch.com/
We're Alive (A Zombie Podcast): http://www.zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/Main.html
Drabblecast (strange stories horror/scifi): http://www.drabblecast.org/
The No Sleep Podcast http://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/
Welcome to Night Vale http://podbay.fm/show/536258179
The Magnus Archives https://player.fm/series/the-magnus-archives-1363917
Knifepoint Horror https://player.fm/series/knifepoint-horror

Sci Fi
Escape Pod (SciFi): http://escapepod.org/
Anything and everything by Sigler - http://scottsigler.com
Secret World Chronicle (and almost anything narrated by Veronica Giguere

) - http://secretworldchronicle.com/
Union Dues - http://escapepod.org/index.php?s=Union+dues
Also, any of Mur Lafferty's fiction 'casts, though she's taken over the helm of Escape Pod and hasn't put out much of her own stuff lately.
Clarke's World Magazine podcast: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/podcasting/

Fantasy:
Pod Castle: http://podcastle.org/
Books or SF/Fantasy - Sword and Laser - http://www.swordandlaser.com/

Commentary:
This American Life (Usually real stories surrounding a theme): http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Snap Judgement. Storytelling with a beat. Similar to This American Life (which I also listen to) only cooler. http://snapjudgment.org/
The Moth. Real stories with no script told me the people to whom they happened. http://themoth.org/
The Truth, movies for your ears- Pretty cool and unusual short stories that have been dramatized and made available for your listening pleasure. http://thetruthapm.com/The_Truth.html
Literary fiction: The New Yorker Fiction Podcast. Current authors choose and read stories from The New Yorker's archives and discuss with the New Yorker fiction editor how the author and/or story influenced them. http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/fiction
History
Dan Carlin's hardcore History: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

General entertainment:
Rant Fu (by our very own Swingset): http://localnumber69.com/blog/podcasts/
Wil Wheaton's Radio Free Burrito: http://radiofreeburrito.com/
The No Agenda Show: http://www.noagendashow.com/
The Ihnatko Almanac -Andy rambles a bit but he's usually entertaining.: http://5by5.tv/ia
Radio Lab: Think 'This American Life' with a science-y bent. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/
A Way With Words- A show about American language, grammar, usage, etc.: http://feeds.waywordradio.org/awwwpodcast
Girl on Guy with Aisha Talor- http://girlonguy.libsyn.com/webpage Girl on guy is a show about art, culture, booze, comedy, family, physical injuries, psychological bruises, action movies, rock music, ninjas, zombies, failure, success, sacrifice, video games, and blowing shit up. it includes the weekly installment of self-inflicted wounds, the end of show apologia, a few big ideas and a surfeit of curse words.
99% Invisible:99% Invisible is tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. http://99percentinvisible.org/category/episode/

Tech:
TWIT - This Week in Tech - http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech
Tech - TNT (Tech News Today) - http://twit.tv/tnt
MacBreak Weekly: http://twit.tv/show/macbreak-weekly
This week in Google: http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-google
Security Now: Computer security http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

Humor
Kevin Smith's Podcasts: http://smodcast.com/
Hollywood Babble On: http://smodcast.com/channels/hollywood-babble-on/
WTF with Mark Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/
Wait Wait! Don't Tell Me!: NPR current events pseudo-game show with mostly comedians competing against each other. http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/

Paranormal:
Radio Misterioso: http://radiomisterioso.com/
Binalli of America: http://binnallofamerica.com/

Videogames
The Instance -WoW specific. Good info but it can go on way too long.- http://theinstance.net/

Music
The Watkins Family Hour -Sara Watkins (the ridiculously adorable fiddler) plays a semi-regular show with her brother and a bunch of guest musicians. They record it and release it as a podcast.: http://wfh.libsyn.com/
"Thanks for Giving a Damn" by Otis Gibbs. Otis Gibbs sits down with people from the music biz and they tell road stories about music history and bad gigs. Ridiculously entertaining, even if you don't recognize the name of the guest. http://otisgibbs.com/

Financial
The Motley Fool: http://fool.libsyn.com/
The Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=94411890
Peter Day's World of Business: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/worldbiz

CBC Podcasts:
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/
Recommended:
Vinyl Cafe - this is broadcast at least weekly although repeats are common. Stuart MacLean is often described as Canada's Story Teller.
Under The Influence - about advertising and marketing. You just have to be a consumer to really appreciate this podcast.
Ideas - general interest but very good usually.

Themes of an adult nature:
Sex with Emily- http://www.podcastone.com/Sex-With-Emily Emily Morse is a sex & relationship expert, author, talk show host & Bravo TV star. Sex With Emily is her podcast about sex, relationships and everything in between. As a "sexpert," Emily is known for her non-judgmental advice, accessibility and humor.
Savage Lovecast- http://www.savagelovecast.com/ Dan Savage is an author, a sex-advice columnist, a podcaster, a pundit, and a public speaker. Dan’s graphic, pragmatic, and humorous advice has changed the cultural conversation about monogamy, gay rights, religiosity, and politics.

Mr. Whippy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2013, 03:01:09 PM »

Excellent resource!

CLAY · « **Reply #2 on:** December 05, 2013, 08:45:45 PM »

So I've listened to a few NightVale and No Sleep podcasts. Interesting. Nightvale is a bit weird- a "live" radio show where weird stuff happens. No Sleep is better if you like stories. There have been a couple really good ones.

Max Wedge · « **Reply #3 on:** December 12, 2013, 02:03:36 PM »

Moto related:

http://www.kickngravel.com/new-blog/

Only 17 episodes, but some new ones come out occasionally.

http://motorbikemondays.com/

6 episodes so far new ones coming out.

MrsCablebandit · « **Reply #4 on:** December 12, 2013, 02:30:20 PM »

General Entertainment:

The Mike O'Meara Show: Daily 79-minute podcast (M-F) that touches on pop culture, news-of-the-day, and includes a daily audio vault. If you ever listened to Don & Mike in syndication...this is Mike, with Robb Spewak and Oscar Santana. http://mikeomearashow.com/

Big O & Dukes: Weekly podcast (recorded Tuesday night)...basically guys sitting around drinking beer, talking about stuff, ragging on each other. Once a quarter or so, their show is a seasonal beer review show. Their winter brew show just dropped this week. Big O & Dukes were on terrestrial radio in both Phoenix and Baltimore/DC prior to going online. Dukes is still on the air in DC in the afternoons doing sports talk with Lavar Arrington and Big O is Oscar Santana on TMOS mentioned above. There are several off-shoots of BOAD, such as Rally the Horde and the Hogcast (beer & BBQ podcast). http://bigoanddukes.com/

Papa Lazarou · « **Reply #5 on:** December 25, 2013, 09:10:53 AM »

Have fun.


Brian Butterfield / Peter Serafinowicz interview - Stuart Maconie BBC 6Music

JReazor · « **Reply #6 on:** May 19, 2014, 10:14:47 AM »

The Alton Browncast: Alton Brown podcasting about food (duh). https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-alton-browncast/id664503146

Bounce · « **Reply #7 on:** May 19, 2014, 10:37:50 AM »

Humor/Long Form Conversations: Nerdist
http://www.nerdist.com/podcasts-landing/

Tech: Tekzilla, DIY Trying
http://revision3.com/tekzilla/

http://revision3.com/diytryin/

chornbe · « **Reply #8 on:** May 19, 2014, 10:49:30 AM »

My podcast consumption has dropped WAY off now that my commute to work is ~7 minutes. :\

I can't do my work while listening to podcasts. There's something about listening to spoken word (vs. music) that takes me right out of the zone.

Max Wedge · « **Reply #9 on:** May 19, 2014, 10:50:56 AM »

Quote from: chornbe on May 19, 2014, 10:49:30 AM

My podcast consumption has dropped WAY off now that my commute to work is ~7 minutes. :\

I can't do my work while listening to podcasts. There's something about listening to spoken word that takes me right out of the zone.

Out of the listening to podcast zone or work zone?

chornbe · « **Reply #10 on:** May 19, 2014, 10:53:31 AM »

it takes me right out of the work zone. I don't have that kind of multitasking. Music is no problem, but not spoken word.

Max Wedge · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2014, 01:48:43 PM »

I have the opposite problem then. Work takes me right out of listening to podcasts zone.

Max Wedge · « **Reply #12 on:** September 09, 2014, 10:07:19 AM »

Found some new ones:

Adventure Rider Radio

Motorcycle Radio Podcast

Max Wedge · « **Reply #13 on:** November 21, 2014, 08:35:37 AM »

And another, for the Iron Butt set:

Long Rider Radio. 15 episodes so far.

JReazor · « **Reply #14 on:** November 21, 2014, 08:50:25 AM »

Here's a list of motorcycle podcasts that we compiled a few months ago.

Max Wedge · « **Reply #15 on:** March 20, 2015, 09:46:46 AM »

http://www.adventureriderradio.com/ Probably listed, but the last podcast with the interview with Glen Heggstad is full of awesome. Even if you know Glen's story, he is always an inspirational listen. I highly recommend you give a whirl past your ear bones.

Bounce · « **Reply #16 on:** March 20, 2015, 10:47:31 PM »

Tech News Today

replace the previously-recommended Tekzilla with Tekthing. Zilla was dropped by Rev3 and those people went off and launched Tekthing.

JReazor · « **Reply #17 on:** March 21, 2015, 07:16:21 AM »

Quote from: Bounce on March 20, 2015, 10:47:31 PM

Tech News Today

replace the previously-recommended Tekzilla with Tekthing. Zilla was dropped by Rev3 and those people went off and launched Tekthing.

I watched TNT for probably 6 or 8 weeks after Merritt got canned but the new host and format didn't hold my interest. I've since jumped ship to Tom's DTNS.

http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com

JReazor · « **Reply #18 on:** June 10, 2015, 07:14:16 AM »

A Cast of Kings

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cast-kings-game-thrones-podcast/id515836681?mt=2

The best GoT podcast I've found. There are 2 hosts. One has read all of the books, the other has read none of them. It's interesting to hear the 2 different points of view. I don't agree with all of their analysis but I enjoy the discussion.

Max Wedge · « **Reply #19 on:** June 10, 2015, 10:27:22 AM »

If you are into true crime stuff, my daughter recommends:

Sword and Scale.

I have listened to a couple, but they can be deeply disturbing.

squeezer · « **Reply #20 on:** December 05, 2015, 02:22:46 PM »

Short sci-fi serial:
The Message (by GE Podcast Theater)

8 episodes, most about 15 minutes.

Each episode is the weekly podcast of Nicky Tomalin, as she follows a team of cryptologists trying to decipher the first message determined to be from outer space. It's really fun and perfect for when you're driving around on short errands.

CLAY · « **Reply #21 on:** December 05, 2015, 10:58:29 PM »

Quote from: squeezer on December 05, 2015, 02:22:46 PM

Short sci-fi serial:
The Message (by GE Podcast Theater)

8 episodes, most about 15 minutes.

Each episode is the weekly podcast of Nicky Tomalin, as she follows a team of cryptologists trying to decipher the first message determined to be from outer space. It's really fun and perfect for when you're driving around on short errands.

||I have emrmdownlaoded but havnnt listened yet.

Meemuh · « **Reply #22 on:** December 07, 2016, 03:59:41 PM »

Anybody know if The Pace is coming back? Anyone?

squeezer · « **Reply #23 on:** December 07, 2016, 08:57:55 PM »

Quote from: Meemuh on December 07, 2016, 03:59:41 PM

Anybody know if The Pace is coming back? Anyone?

I'm guessing a couple of people around here know.

I think they're rebooting.

squeezer · « **Reply #24 on:** December 07, 2016, 08:59:27 PM »

Quote from: CLAY on December 05, 2013, 08:45:45 PM

So I've listened to a few NightVale and No Sleep podcasts. Interesting. Nightvale is a bit weird- a "live" radio show where weird stuff happens. No Sleep is better if you like stories. There have been a couple really good ones.

I started listening to NightVale last year. Start at the beginning. That is a seriously funny show.

Max Wedge · « **Reply #25 on:** January 06, 2017, 10:35:21 AM »

Tha Alton Browncast is back! Episode #65 with Brynn Smith on mixing drinks was inspiring. Going to try and duplicate her martini recipe.

edit: and its out again.

Max Wedge · « **Reply #26 on:** March 12, 2018, 09:03:21 AM »

So I have been listening to the Risk! True Tales Boldly Told Podcast. Best of number #10 was the first one I heard. Wow, some very powerful stories. Warning: if you are emotional, are sensitive to triggers, and people talking about their experiences with alternative lifestyles (the show is call Risk!, after all- so sex stuff will be talked about) then move on to something else.

#10 featured a girl who gave her kidney to a stranger, a guy who sold drugs until he made a mistake and was tortured by the drug cartel, and a cop who worked the human traffic division for 17 years. Powerful stories, emotional rollercoasters. Listen at your own risk.

It is a much more raw version of the Mortified Podcast, where people read from their diaries as a kid in front of an audience (usually comedians).

Also giving the Aubrey Marcus podcast a listen-some interesting stuff for the open minded.