Do you listen to podcasts and if so, which ones? Mine are:
- The Instance (WoW-related)
- Feast of Fun (formerly Feast of Fools) (gay-themed talk / comedy show)
- Friday Night Comedy on BBC 4
- Stephen Fry podcast
- Onion News Video podcast
I do not listen to podcasts.
I hold the podcast idea in contempt.
Who the fuck listens to podcasts?
Have never listened to one.
I have listened to a few. Haven't bothered in months. I have a radio, & a TV.
Quote from: Martinus on August 13, 2009, 10:21:33 AM
Do you listen to podcasts and if so, which ones?
Stackoverflow.com (software development) and the occasional bloggingheads.tv entry (general political).
Let's see...
Audio
-CNET Buzz Out Loud
-Cato Institute Daily Podcast
-Radio Derb (John Derbyshire from NRO)
-The Economist
-G. Gordon Liddy Show
-CNET MP3 Insider
-The Onion Radio News
-PCMag Radio
-West Virginia University Athletics
Video
-CNET Buzz Report
-Cranky Geeks
-The Digg Reel
-Diggnation
-CNET Loaded (Natali del Conte :perv: )
-Onion News Network
-Tekzilla
-Weather Angels (woo-hoo, New Zealand skanks!)
-WVU Athletics video
I'm not a pod person... :tinfoil:
I listen to The Soup or something like that.
The History of Rome: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
Quote from: Neil on August 13, 2009, 10:24:14 AM
I hold the podcast idea in contempt.
You hold listening to people talk about a topic in contempt?
I also frown on podcasting. I remember hearing so much about it and then when I actually found out what it was...LAME!
Quote from: garbon on August 13, 2009, 01:28:08 PM
I also frown on podcasting. I remember hearing so much about it and then when I actually found out what it was...LAME!
It can range from some lame person blabbing about whatever to basically being a radio show about a topic. I have found some pretty good ones over the years.
Quote from: Valmy on August 13, 2009, 01:22:42 PM
The History of Rome: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
Truly awesome, I've been following this since the Social War.
Audio
The Economist
The Onion Radio News
Onion AV Club Talk
This Week with George Stephanopolis
Video
Fareed Zakaria GPS
Onion News Video
Also some random stuff from iTunes U, including
A shitload of uploads of lectures from Stanford on classical history, currently 1/3rd of the way through a great podcast on Hannibal. Stanford is great on iTunes
Some interesting stuff from UCLA's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (or something), some very interesting lectures on (surprisinginly) Mid-Eastern history.
Random Russian conversations by Oxford, for practice
Radio-Pirate, mostly.
Otherwise, I'm not particularly fond of hearing things. I prefer reading. Hence, I waste time on forums like this one. Once I've listened to radio for 3.5hrs in a day, I've had my quota filled.
Just listened to this rather good 'desert island discs' interview with Robert Hardy, he of portraying Churchill and all things Longbows:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/e7d6124c (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/e7d6124c)
Lovely anecdotes about being friends with Richard Burton, being taught by Tolkien and CS Lewis at Oxford and causing a stir in Judy Dench's hoes. :cool:
Finally someone brought this back.
Bloggingheads is wonderful.
Quote from: Queequeg on October 25, 2013, 04:49:25 PM
Bloggingheads is wonderful.
Not fucking wonderful? Must suck.
So yes, I'm reviving an old thread, sue me.
Has anyone been listening to Serial (currently sponsored by This American Life)? I finally listened to it on the plane (listened to 9 eps) after being recommended it several times. Pretty interesting cold case stuff about murder in '99 in suburban Baltimore*. Apparently last episode of this season's story came out today.
*I like how they have referenced Owings Mills Mall a few times as I'm like I've been there! Though I trust it was a much more vibrant place back in '99. -_-
These days it's Feast of Fun, Red Bar Radio and News Quiz/Now Show (BBC4)
The Bugle.
Easily the funniest thing I've ever heard. John Oliver is a genius satirist and coupled with the word smith Andy Zaltsman it's just pure awesome.
Quote from: garbon on December 18, 2014, 10:39:22 AM
So yes, I'm reviving an old thread, sue me.
Has anyone been listening to Serial (currently sponsored by This American Life)? I finally listened to it on the plane (listened to 9 eps) after being recommended it several times. Pretty interesting cold case stuff about murder in '99 in suburban Baltimore*. Apparently last episode of this season's story came out today.
Yeah, I hear it's all the rage. I remember that murder case.
Quote*I like how they have referenced Owings Mills Mall a few times as I'm like I've been there! Though I trust it was a much more vibrant place back in '99. -_-
:lol: It was pretty much on its last legs then. Now in 1988, different story.
The Greatest Podcast of all Time is, naturally, is Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast episode 3.1 onwards.
Quote from: Valmy on December 18, 2014, 01:58:52 PM
The Greatest Podcast of all Time is, naturally, is Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast episode 3.1 onwards.
I was wondering if you were listening to that. What do you think of it? I am enjoying it, but I knew next to nothing about the French Revolution before hand, and was curious what people who knew more thought.
Quote from: sbr on December 18, 2014, 02:11:12 PM
Quote from: Valmy on December 18, 2014, 01:58:52 PM
The Greatest Podcast of all Time is, naturally, is Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast episode 3.1 onwards.
I was wondering if you were listening to that. What do you think of it? I am enjoying it, but I knew next to nothing about the French Revolution before hand, and was curious what people who knew more thought.
It is great. I know each story very well so I eagerly wait until he gets to it and he does not disappoint. I wish there was a little bit more about the areas outside of Paris, and the Protestants and so forth but nothing is perfect. Just classic Duncan.
Still despise podcasts.
Fuck, I thought DisturbedPervert was back. :(
I've been worried he succumbed to the effects of dozens of STD infections.
I'm listening to Mike Duncan's stuff (am completely caught up on the French Revolution, which is his 2nd best thus far after the English Civil Wars). Dan Carlin is always at the top of the list, though I like his WW I segments less than I did his Roman and Mongol shows.
I am probably going to get into Serial some time soon and maybe leap back over to The History of China podcast when I find the time.
Quote from: Habbaku on December 18, 2014, 03:56:33 PM
I'm listening to Mike Duncan's stuff (am completely caught up on the French Revolution, which is his 2nd best thus far after the English Civil Wars). Dan Carlin is always at the top of the list, though I like his WW I segments less than I did his Roman and Mongol shows.
I am probably going to get into Serial some time soon and maybe leap back over to The History of China podcast when I find the time.
He goes too fast during the English Civil War stuff I think. Still great though. His American Revolution one was puzzlingly subpar. I mean it was good and all (and even had a few tidbits I didn't know before) but compared to what I expected from him it was a disappointment.
He is taking his time with the French Revolution one. This is going to be an epic suited to the subject.
I think you are right regarding the speed, which is why I suspect the French Rev. might eclipse his coverage of England when it is completed and I have time for a complete re-listen. The American one was amusing and comedic, at times, but, agreed, didn't seem quite up to snuff. I did enjoy all the cracks at Rhode Island's expense, though.
I've gotten into listening to lectures on iTunesU, on my way back and forth to transit.
Great, now I've got Cameo stuck in my head.
Revolutions
Real Time with Bill Maher
History of Philosophy without any Gaps
History of England
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
The Economist Podcast
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on December 18, 2014, 04:11:25 PM
I've gotten into listening to lectures on iTunesU, on my way back and forth to transit.
I liked Sapolsky's Human Behavior Biology a lot. Thank God for Stanford.
Quote from: Queequeg on December 18, 2014, 06:24:20 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on December 18, 2014, 04:11:25 PM
I've gotten into listening to lectures on iTunesU, on my way back and forth to transit.
I liked Sapolsky's Human Behavior Biology a lot. Thank God for Stanford.
I'll check that out
I would have pegged you for the Bulliet pre-modern Persia course (Columbia). It's got Aryans, wheels, obscure doings in the Elborz mountains, qizilbash, all sorts of queequeggy goodness.
Quote from: Habbaku on December 18, 2014, 04:11:15 PM
I think you are right regarding the speed, which is why I suspect the French Rev. might eclipse his coverage of England when it is completed and I have time for a complete re-listen. The American one was amusing and comedic, at times, but, agreed, didn't seem quite up to snuff. I did enjoy all the cracks at Rhode Island's expense, though.
There was definitely some stuff there that I thought was interesting, but overall, I could not get past thinking "Yeah, but the American War of Independence wasn't even a revolution...."
Freakonomics is pretty interesting.
Quote from: garbon on December 18, 2014, 10:39:22 AM
So yes, I'm reviving an old thread, sue me.
An old, lame thread. :P
Quote from: garbonI also frown on podcasting. I remember hearing so much about it and then when I actually found out what it was...LAME!
Just started listening to Revolutions but I loved Mike Duncan's History of Rome.
Listen to Dan Carlin regularly, love when a new Hardcore History comes out because it usually means I will have several productive hours of cleaning the house.
CBC's Quirks & Quarks.
Will have to check out some of the others referred to here.
Quote from: Berkut on December 22, 2014, 11:05:27 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on December 18, 2014, 04:11:15 PM
I think you are right regarding the speed, which is why I suspect the French Rev. might eclipse his coverage of England when it is completed and I have time for a complete re-listen. The American one was amusing and comedic, at times, but, agreed, didn't seem quite up to snuff. I did enjoy all the cracks at Rhode Island's expense, though.
There was definitely some stuff there that I thought was interesting, but overall, I could not get past thinking "Yeah, but the American War of Independence wasn't even a revolution...."
Like I said above, i've only listened to the first couple of episodes starting at 0.0 so I haven't gotten very far into it but he did bring up an interesting point of "what is a revolution" in that very first episode. What is the definition of a "revolution", did the people at the time think it was a revolution, etc. Without listening to those episodes yet, I could see the American War of Independence being considered so.
Quote from: PRC on December 23, 2014, 12:05:55 AM
Quote from: Berkut on December 22, 2014, 11:05:27 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on December 18, 2014, 04:11:15 PM
I think you are right regarding the speed, which is why I suspect the French Rev. might eclipse his coverage of England when it is completed and I have time for a complete re-listen. The American one was amusing and comedic, at times, but, agreed, didn't seem quite up to snuff. I did enjoy all the cracks at Rhode Island's expense, though.
There was definitely some stuff there that I thought was interesting, but overall, I could not get past thinking "Yeah, but the American War of Independence wasn't even a revolution...."
Like I said above, i've only listened to the first couple of episodes starting at 0.0 so I haven't gotten very far into it but he did bring up an interesting point of "what is a revolution" in that very first episode. What is the definition of a "revolution", did the people at the time think it was a revolution, etc. Without listening to those episodes yet, I could see the American War of Independence being considered so.
Yeah, I listened to all of that...and concluded that he decided to include it because it made a nice transition from the English Civil War to the French Revolution.
The justification was pretty transparently bogus, IMO.
But I don't want anyone to think I am warning them off by any means - I love the Revolutions podcast, and think they are all very well done.
Just came across the bbc podcast for the history of the Royal Navy over the last 120 years:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/britainsea/all (http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/britainsea/all)
Oh, this might also be interesting to some, it's yesterdays BBC Radio 4 10+ hour adaptation of 'War and Peace' staring John Hurt:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/warpeace (http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/warpeace)
NB only available for download for 14 days.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on December 18, 2014, 07:00:51 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on December 18, 2014, 06:24:20 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on December 18, 2014, 04:11:25 PM
I've gotten into listening to lectures on iTunesU, on my way back and forth to transit.
I liked Sapolsky's Human Behavior Biology a lot. Thank God for Stanford.
I'll check that out
I would have pegged you for the Bulliet pre-modern Persia course (Columbia). It's got Aryans, wheels, obscure doings in the Elborz mountains, qizilbash, all sorts of queequeggy goodness.
Just saw this, geeking out.
Podcasts are for hipsters, so none.
Princesca listens to a few. One is some thing that's supposed to be NPR set in a Silent Hill-type town. I listened to it with her in the car once and thought it was stupid, but she loves it. She also listens to some astronomy podcasts.
Marc Maron
Quote from: Caliga on January 02, 2015, 04:57:18 PM
Princesca listens to a few. One is some thing that's supposed to be NPR set in a Silent Hill-type town. I listened to it with her in the car once and thought it was stupid, but she loves it. She also listens to some astronomy podcasts.
Sounds like Nightvale to me. Haven't listened to any, myself, but friends rave about it.
Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon V is out now.
Quote from: Neil on August 13, 2009, 10:24:14 AM
I hold the podcast idea in contempt.
Two questions...
What is the podcast idea?
Do you hold radio in contempt?
This podcast hatred is bizarre. Podcast is just a medium of delivery. Hating podcasts is like hating, say, VoD.
Quote from: Martinus on January 08, 2015, 02:08:01 AM
This podcast hatred is bizarre. Podcast is just a medium of delivery. Hating podcasts is like hating, say, VoD.
What, you never saw the 'The invasion of the Body Snatchers'? That's how it starts man.
Quote from: Martinus on January 08, 2015, 02:08:01 AM
This podcast hatred is bizarre. Podcast is just a medium of delivery. Hating podcasts is like hating, say, VoD.
Or books.
Quote from: PRC on January 08, 2015, 01:48:48 AM
Do you hold radio in contempt?
Talk radio? Generally yes.
Quote from: Martinus on January 08, 2015, 02:08:01 AM
This podcast hatred is bizarre. Podcast is just a medium of delivery. Hating podcasts is like hating, say, VoD.
Yep. It's like a bunch of olds whining about kids watching TV instead of listening to the radio.
Quote from: Habbaku on January 08, 2015, 01:49:45 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 08, 2015, 02:08:01 AM
This podcast hatred is bizarre. Podcast is just a medium of delivery. Hating podcasts is like hating, say, VoD.
Yep. It's like a bunch of olds whining about kids watching TV instead of listening to the radio.
It is odd, especially as for someone like me, it is as Marty says a means of delivery and 99%% of what the podcast programme downloads are just mainstream network radio programmes in the first place.
So listen to it live, or not at all?
And you fucktards give my analog ass shit.
Fuck you, you filthy fuck. Hope your gamma detector gets stuck.
:pinch:
Revolutions, Hardcore History, and Freakonomics are my current favorites.
Quote from: garbon on December 18, 2014, 10:39:22 AM
Has anyone been listening to Serial (currently sponsored by This American Life)? I finally listened to it on the plane (listened to 9 eps) after being recommended it several times. Pretty interesting cold case stuff about murder in '99 in suburban Baltimore*. Apparently last episode of this season's story came out today.
I just finished it. I liked it, but I never felt that she really engaged with the evidence as a whole. There are certainly issues with individual pieces, but she never really examined how unlikely it was that everything would have played out the way it did if Adnan
wasn't involved.
Quote from: Kleves on January 08, 2015, 03:31:18 PM
Quote from: garbon on December 18, 2014, 10:39:22 AM
Has anyone been listening to Serial (currently sponsored by This American Life)? I finally listened to it on the plane (listened to 9 eps) after being recommended it several times. Pretty interesting cold case stuff about murder in '99 in suburban Baltimore*. Apparently last episode of this season's story came out today.
I just finished it. I liked it, but I never felt that she really engaged with the evidence as a whole. There are certainly issues with individual pieces, but she never really examined how unlikely it was that everything would have played out the way it did if Adnan wasn't involved.
[spoiler]I don't know. In that last one, where they talked a lot of hypotheticals, I think they made a strong case that he would have to have been a stupendously unlucky dude to have not been involved but had it all go down like that.[/spoiler]
Bar one (which I listen to when I play WoW), I listen to all my podcasts while falling asleep. It has an advantage over live radio that I know what to expect (so I won't get awoken by loud music for example) and it's interesting enough to keep me listening, but boring enough to make it easier for me to fall asleep. I can also listen to it on my iPhone and (unlike watching tv in my bedroom) it does not emit light (which causes insomnia).
Quote from: garbon on January 08, 2015, 04:28:53 PM
[spoiler]I don't know. In that last one, where they talked a lot of hypotheticals, I think they made a strong case that he would have to have been a stupendously unlucky dude to have not been involved but had it all go down like that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]She did do a bit of that, but I didn't feel she really tied it all together. If you look at everything - loaning the phone and the car, the phone calls to people only Adnan knew, the cell evidence that shows that Jay and Adnan were together in Leaken Park that night, asking Hae for a ride on the day of the murder and Jay saying that was his plan for the murder, while Adnan changes the story he gave to police, etc. it seems pretty clear that he was involved in the murder. But the host concludes that, had she been on the jury, she would have acquitted him, and that who knows, maybe it was a serial killer. I just felt that she couldn't/didn't want to conclude he was guilty, and the evidence was always considered in that light.[/spolier]
Quote from: Kleves on January 08, 2015, 08:56:12 PM
Quote from: garbon on January 08, 2015, 04:28:53 PM
[spoiler]I don't know. In that last one, where they talked a lot of hypotheticals, I think they made a strong case that he would have to have been a stupendously unlucky dude to have not been involved but had it all go down like that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]She did do a bit of that, but I didn't feel she really tied it all together. If you look at everything - loaning the phone and the car, the phone calls to people only Adnan knew, the cell evidence that shows that Jay and Adnan were together in Leaken Park that night, asking Hae for a ride on the day of the murder and Jay saying that was his plan for the murder, while Adnan changes the story he gave to police, etc. it seems pretty clear that he was involved in the murder. But the host concludes that, had she been on the jury, she would have acquitted him, and that who knows, maybe it was a serial killer. I just felt that she couldn't/didn't want to conclude he was guilty, and the evidence was always considered in that light.[/spolier]
[spoiler]That's probably a fair analysis though from all the evidence she presented, I think I may have had to do the same as a jury member. I felt like I had more questions than anything by the end of the podcast.
On a side note, I don't understand at all how that defense attorney could have ever been a good one. On those recordings, she was so grating that if she really sounded like that in person, as a jury member I would have just ignored everything she said. -_-[/spoiler]
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 08, 2015, 02:55:01 PM
So listen to it live, or not at all?
And you fucktards give my analog ass shit.
Not everyone's schedule is as uncluttered as yours.
Are you this opposed to DVRs, or in your case Betamax?
Quote from: sbr on January 08, 2015, 09:19:52 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 08, 2015, 02:55:01 PM
So listen to it live, or not at all?
And you fucktards give my analog ass shit.
Not everyone's schedule is as uncluttered as yours.
Are you this opposed to DVRs, or in your case Betamax?
Please Be Kind, Rewind and read again. I'm not the one spewing hate about podcasts, Trestman.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 08, 2015, 09:28:37 PM
Quote from: sbr on January 08, 2015, 09:19:52 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 08, 2015, 02:55:01 PM
So listen to it live, or not at all?
And you fucktards give my analog ass shit.
Not everyone's schedule is as uncluttered as yours.
Are you this opposed to DVRs, or in your case Betamax?
Please Be Kind, Rewind and read again. I'm not the one spewing hate about podcasts, Trestman.
I thought you had a DVR Seedy?
Oh for fuck's sake. :bleeding: Now you're just yanking my chain. :mad: Ass.
Quote from: garbon on January 08, 2015, 08:59:38 PM
On a side note, I don't understand at all how that defense attorney could have ever been a good one. On those recordings, she was so grating that if she really sounded like that in person, as a jury member I would have just ignored everything she said. -_-
Fran Drescher, Attorney at Law.