Podcasts

  On 5/7/2012 at 2:02 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

He's insanely funny when he gets all crazy but his brain is bananas in general no matter what he's talking about. I just laughed maybe the hardest the last 6 hours at his podcast clip of him wisperinglike a serial killer half the time about Shooting Craps In Las Vegas.

The best part is after he's done going on some huge rant, he completely admits to how full of shit he is.

Yup, Bill Burr is amazingly awesome, I had seen all of his stand up but thanks to this thread reminding me of his podcast, yesterday was one of the most lazy entertaining days of my life. In total I probably listened to his podcasts on his site and went through unseen and unheard Bill Burr clips on Youtube for a total of 8 hours yesterday... Lazy Sunday to teh max.. hah

Do anyone know any good history podcasts?

recently been getting into the proopcast. wasn't convinced at first but he snarked me over. i like it when he tells the audience to shut up

http://gregproops.tumblr.com/

and Indoor kids too. gaming podcast

http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/the-indoor-kids/

  On 5/17/2012 at 6:01 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

recently been getting into the proopcast. wasn't convinced at first but he snarked me over. i like it when he tells the audience to shut up

 

http://gregproops.tumblr.com/

 

and Indoor kids too. gaming podcast

 

http://www.nerdist.c...he-indoor-kids/

Oh shit... completely forgot about the Greg Proops podcast. I listened to it a while back but stopped just because I had so much other stuff to listen to. Also, does anyone else find Kumail's wife kind of annoying? Personally, I think Blair Butler would make a better co-host.

  On 5/17/2012 at 10:05 AM, Npoess said:

Do anyone know any good history podcasts?

? :)

I used to listen to one called 'In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg'. It was pretty good.

adam carolla

boiler room

djhistorycom's

ed banger

electronic explorations

ghostlycast

icasea select

komputer cast

stones throw

upitup

xlr8r

i haven't listened to any in forever though

Here's another shout out for Radiolab.

Radiolab.

Yeah.

Resident Advisor

Kered Kast

Data Transmission Podcast

DMX Krew

Com Truise

Shur-I-kan

Viral Radio

GoNintendo

  On 5/17/2012 at 10:05 AM, Npoess said:

Do anyone know any good history podcasts?

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is more of a what if rather than a super-factual show, but it occasionally raises some very interesting questions/debates.

Yes, I find the Hardcore History podcasts super interesting. Especially the 'Ghosts of The Ostfront' episodes he did was amazing. Must listened to them 3 or 4 times. I wish he would cover more WWI/WWII history though.

Maybe you know some Audiobooks or something similar to those episodes?

  On 7/10/2012 at 8:48 PM, takeshi said:

I used to listen to one called 'In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg'. It was pretty good.

Thanks :) Will check it out.

getting a lot of good suggestions from this thread. thanks to all of you cats.

my contributions:

• Stuff You Should Know (general knowledge topics, but it's usually interesting, and well done over all)
  
• The Casual Distractions (a friend of mine is half of this project...not very active the past year but there's a backlog full of good stuff, and they may start doing new ones soon.)
  
• Bleep Podcast (don't think anyone mentioned it yet)
  
• Old Time Radio Mystery Theater (exactly what it sounds like, if you're into that sort of thing)
  

keep the audio podcasts in particular coming folks

  On 7/11/2012 at 12:01 AM, Npoess said:

Yes, I find the Hardcore History podcasts super interesting. Especially the 'Ghosts of The Ostfront' episodes he did was amazing. Must listened to them 3 or 4 times. I wish he would cover more WWI/WWII history though.

 

Maybe you know some Audiobooks or something similar to those episodes?

 

  On 7/10/2012 at 8:48 PM, takeshi said:

I used to listen to one called 'In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg'. It was pretty good.

 

Thanks :) Will check it out.

If that's the one that I am thinking of, Im not sure if its on audiobook, but there is an absolutely amazing and harrowing book called Ordinary Men....about Polish citizens that were formed into an SS extermination squad...really breaks down those imposed boundaries we all comfortably dictate the war from, "Nazis=pure evil", "Hitler is the embodiment of the Christian Devil" etc. etc...this book made them incredibly human (especially considering the fact that they weren't even German...some of them fought in the Polish Army against the Nazis!) and it makes the whole outlook more human but simultaneously far more terrifying because you no longer have those comfortable objective black/white connotations about the Second World War and the Holocaust.

also the author Christopher Browning got involved in a legendary debate with pseudo-historian Daniel Goldhagen over this book...Goldhagen accused him of sympathizing with perpetrators of genocide....until Goldhagen's work was ripped apart on the opposite premise with far far more evidence against him.

There's this really interesting sub-group of historians within Third Reich studies that inherently oppose each other, intentionalists vs. functionalists which might shed some more light on these really intense disputes.

http://mentalpod.com/

i really like this one

if you deal with mental illness at all it's awesome

if you don't, it's probably still pretty funny.

i dunno.

  On 5/17/2012 at 7:23 PM, takeshi said:

  On 5/17/2012 at 6:01 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

recently been getting into the proopcast. wasn't convinced at first but he snarked me over. i like it when he tells the audience to shut up

 

http://gregproops.tumblr.com/

 

and Indoor kids too. gaming podcast

 

http://www.nerdist.c...he-indoor-kids/

 

Oh shit... completely forgot about the Greg Proops podcast. I listened to it a while back but stopped just because I had so much other stuff to listen to. Also, does anyone else find Kumail's wife kind of annoying? Personally, I think Blair Butler would make a better co-host.

no i like Emily. although i never heard the original host version. they have great chemistry. must confess i don't listen every episode but when i do i enjoy

  On 7/10/2012 at 9:14 PM, Squee said:

Here's another shout out for Radiolab.

 

Radiolab.

 

Yeah.

radio....lab....interesting....

recently I've been enjoying Pete Holmes' you made it weird especially the greg proops one (http://www.nerdist.com/2012/03/you-made-it-weird-32-greg-proops/). gonna check the ron runches one today as he is funny man. oh and look a bill burr episode (http://www.nerdist.com/2012/02/you-made-it-weird-23-bill-burr/) i haven't heard yet. i love the video game names he come up with especially the lego ones.

forgot to mention a recent favorite:

richard herrings leicester square theatre podcast or as the cool kids are calling it RHLSTP

http://www.comedy.co...ng_lst_podcast/

especially enjoyed the stewart lee one. and the

  On 7/11/2012 at 7:19 PM, Jimmy McMessageboard said:

  On 7/10/2012 at 9:14 PM, Squee said:

Here's another shout out for Radiolab.

 

Radiolab.

 

Yeah.

 

 

radio....lab....interesting....

I listened to a Radiolab Podcast yesterday about people who have face blindness. Really interesting!

  On 7/11/2012 at 7:19 PM, Jimmy McMessageboard said:

  On 5/17/2012 at 7:23 PM, takeshi said:

  On 5/17/2012 at 6:01 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

recently been getting into the proopcast. wasn't convinced at first but he snarked me over. i like it when he tells the audience to shut up

 

http://gregproops.tumblr.com/

 

and Indoor kids too. gaming podcast

 

http://www.nerdist.c...he-indoor-kids/

 

Oh shit... completely forgot about the Greg Proops podcast. I listened to it a while back but stopped just because I had so much other stuff to listen to. Also, does anyone else find Kumail's wife kind of annoying? Personally, I think Blair Butler would make a better co-host.

 

no i like Emily. although i never heard the original host version. they have great chemistry. must confess i don't listen every episode but when i do i enjoy

 

I do have to admit Emily has grown on me a bit, since I first started listening to it. I think it's just the way she, sometimes, agrees too much with what everyone is saying. It reeks a bit of her being afraid of giving her opinion and probably just wanting to be a good host. Like I said, it doesn't bother me as much anymore because she can be genuinely funny. The previous co-host, on the other hand; she's was on a recent episode and just came off like ass. Not funny, not really that articulate. Made me appreciate Emily a lot more.

Also, a question for everyone... do you actually find comedic sound effects during a radio show/podcast funny? I'm of the opinion that 99.9% that shit is comedy death. I've been listening to The Champs lately and their dj (DJ Douggpound) is fucking terrible. The sound isn't great already but he frequently interrupts interviews with irrelevant audio clips that make everyone say, "wtf was that?!" I know he's got some connection to Tim and Eric so maybe he's TRYING to work on some "so bad it's good" level but it just comes off bad. Having said all this I will admit to Bald Brian making me chuckle a few times when I used to listen to Carolla's podcast.

comedic sound effects = bad for sure

i heard a podcast recently where they tried to put live sound effects in but for some reason it didnt record so there were just gaps and then them laughing about the sound effect. they didnt try it again

I need some recommendations again.

What's some good movie podcasts?

this sound can comedically enhance anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp2B9lpjd9Q

  On 7/17/2012 at 11:56 PM, Npoess said:

 

What's some good movie podcasts?

I like mark kermode so I enjoy the 5live podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj

and they seem to do less and less actual reviews but I also enjoy the ropeofsilicon podcast http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/category/podcast/

the slashfilm is another good one but I don't listen too regularly

  On 7/17/2012 at 11:56 PM, Npoess said:

I need some recommendations again.

 

What's some good movie podcasts?

definitely this http://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/

I think someone in another thread here brought this to my attention

I never would have guessed Werner Herzon had such a fun sense of humor http://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-pancake-man/