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[serene]

If you know me, you know I'm a late adopter. I didn't get online until 1998. I got my first cellphone a year or two ago. And now, I've "discovered" podcasts.

Favorite podcasts, please? So far, I've got NPR concerts running, and I'm about to download the Skeptoid episodes. Any other suggestions? I dislike "talk radio", but I love news and interview shows. I love folk music, world music, rock music, and weird eclectic stuff.

autographedcat, you told me about a science-fiction story podcast, I think -- can you remind me about that?

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[eeyorerin]

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! from NPR does their weekly show as a podcast. I love it.

Everything else I listen to is usually related to a TV show I'm watching, so I doubt they would interest you, but I can list them if you want.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool. I'll get Wait Wait.

What do you mean about the TV show things? Are they interviews about the shows, or...? Which shows? See what a n00b I am? :-)

[eeyorerin]

I am really into Lost, and when the show is airing they do audio podcasts which contain interviews with the cast and crew and segments where the executive producers take questions from fans. (If you ever see firesign3000 and I making jokes about panstless banjo playing or playing Politburo, they are inside jokes from those podcasts.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun! stonebender and I are really into Lost, and we even hung out on the newsgroup for a while (something like alt.fan.tv.lost or something). Those people were NUTS, but it was fun in short bursts. :-) I'll have to look up their podcast.

[eeyorerin]

Oh, cool, another Lost fan! The podcasts are occasionally informative but more often hilarious festivals of "wow, the producers are crazy in a good way."

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yeah! The thing that irritated us about the newsgroup, though it was great for helping us remember how things related to each other, was the sheer number of Lost fans who have no sense of adventure, but want all their questions answered every week, and get pissed off if ends are left untied. I mean, um, DUH, it's a mystery, folks! Right?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Subscribed. Thanks again!

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Most of my favorites come from the CBC's podcasting site. (http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting) The ones I'm enjoying most right now are 'Between the Covers' (updates 3x/week with chapters of a book - current selection is 'the restoration of emily' which is quite good) and 'Quirks and Quarks' which is the science podcast gold standard, in my opinion. Tapestry (their world religions one) is also interesting, as is 'special delivery' (updates on news stories/features of interest).

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm going to see if I'm able to download some of those. (Am I misremembering, or do some sites only give you access if you're in their country?)

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Some do, but I'm glad to say that's not one of them. I'm in Seattle and I can download them all just fine. <3

[red-silk-robe.livejournal.com]

I *HIGHLY* recommend the BBC Friday Night Comedy podcast. News Hour is BBC 4 radio's version of Daily Show meets Wait Wait don't tell me.

Also, if you like Stephen Fry, he has a podgram that is really wonderful as well!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

File this under Wierd and Eclectic: Coverville (http://www.coverville.com/). This is a collection of interesting covers of well known and not so well known songs. Par example: "Baby Got Back" as a croony love song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltjbnyvq_SI), Cake doing "Mah Na Ma Na" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs), and Johnny Cash doing NiN's Hurt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go).

You can also subscribe to Audible.com (http://www.audible.com/) and get the "News from Lake Wobegon" every week. Personally, I don't, because I use Public Radio Fan (http://www.publicradiofan.com/) to find an NPR station nationwide that's playing my desired NPR show, like PHC, or Afropop Worldwide. OH hey! I just remembered! Afropop Worldwide (http://www.afropop.org/) has a weekly podcast!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool, thank you! I love love love love LOVE Afropop Worldwide. It was on my old station (in San Diego) at a time that meant I heard it every week. I haven't found it here yet. Do you remember The World Cafe?

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

Not nearly so well, I'm afraid. the Roanoke NPR station gave me "Wait Wait!", PHC, Afropop, Thistle & Shamrock, and that interesting British wordplay game show whose name I can't remember.

[bafleyanne.livejournal.com]

I can't remember if you like a cappella music, but if you do, I love the Acapodcast (http://www.acapodcast.com/). Also, TMBG has a podcast that I find amusing. :)

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[desert-dragon42.livejournal.com]

http://www.escapepod.org is a science fiction podcast, http://www.podcastle.org is fantasy

I enjoy both of them.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I download "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!" (I see someone already alerted you to that :)), and, something I absolutely love: "Car Talk" :).

Music? Magnatune. They aren't Evil :).
http://magnatune.com/podcasts/

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Oh, also "The Writer's Almanac", Garrison Keillor.

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/podcast/

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

That anonymous one was me... sorry.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Got This American Life. Savage is too hostile to bi and fat people; he raises my blood pressure.

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

I would be remiss if I didn't mention my very own Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast at blacktiemartiniclub.com It's uh... like a variety show that's been hit on the head? Part Le Show and part SCTV I guess.

It's not quite science fiction but 118 migration www.118migration.com is a story about a world taken over by zombies where very few zombies actually show up. Kind of a psychological thriller. I have a small but meaty role in it as the main villain of the first series of it.

For quick bites I also like the 100 word story podcast www.podcasting.isfullofcrap.com

History according to Bob www.summahistorica.com

and Scientific America's 60 second science... which I don't have a link for.

And my all time favorite interview show Start The Week is on hiatus now but it should be starting up again in October. It's a BBC Radio show featuring four or five interesting people discussing each other's project. Anything from arts, politics, books, plays, etc. It's much more of a conversation than most interview programs in that each panelist is familiar with all the other's work.

And for often surreal extreme leftist humor/music/cynicism from Australia Kaputt Radio www.kaputtradio.libsyn.com is fabulous but makes my show seem totally normal by comparison.

James Randi, Stephen Fry, and Kevin Smith all have interesting podcasts too.

I could go on but I'll leave it at that. about 90% of my media intake is podcasts so I have an absurd number of things I subscribe to.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was gonna recommend 60-second Science too.

An interview show I like is KERA's Think (I believe you can find this via the NPR website). They now seem to be podcasting 2 shows a day--each is almost an hour long, so it's more something you'd probably just pick and choose from, or let pile up (like I do, though every once in a while I'll go through and delete the stuff I haven't listened to that I've decided I'm not that interested in).

[firecat]

http://www.sffaudio.com/ is an SF podcast about SF available on audio. (I read the blog but don't listen to the podcast, because I mostly don't like listening to podcasts.)

The podcast I do listen to is http://audiodharma.org/ -- which is usually fairly atheist friendly. Sometimes it's about ethics and sometimes it's about arcane buddhist subjects.

There are a bunch of knitting-related podcasts that I also don't listen to, but let me know if you want a list of them.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

It was Escape Pod: http://escapepod.org/

Also, my own favourites:

NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
Stephen Fry
NPR's Fresh Air
BBC History magazine
Polyamory Weekly

(I get all of them via iTunes. Let me know if you can't find one, and I'll go hunt it up for you.)

[nooks.livejournal.com]

The things I listen to that have not already been mentioned are Escape Archive (http://www.escapearchive.com/) (which is really just a complete copy of the early Escape Pods—there's some good stuff in there), Pseudopod (horror podcast which I'm going to guess you've already heard of or would not like) and In Our Time (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/), which is an unusual Radio 4 program where academics are invited to talk about ... ideas?

Their science archive (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_science.shtml) should give you a clue as to the subject matter. Lots of it is not really covered in depth, but I've usually learned something by the end (I now know everything I'll ever need to know about the Fisher King, for example).

[waywardcats.livejournal.com]

In addition to the great suggestions you've already gotten I can recommend the following as well:

Politics: Real Time with Bill Maher
http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/downloads/

Cooking: Cook Illustrated (video)
http://www.cooksillustrated.com/podcast/default.asp
or
Splendid Table
http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/about/podcast/

Misc: Time's 10 Questions
http://www.time.com/time/10questions
The quality can sometimes be poor, but the people are interesting.

NPRs Driveway moments
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5183216
News, but always compelling stuff

Have fun!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[minimo.livejournal.com]

Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average) www.Paulandstorm.com

They Might Be Giants www.dialasong.com

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

You, as always, are a goddess.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Coverville (http://www.coverville.com) -- a great resource for fans of song covers. I've heard some great stuff there.

Podiobooks (http://www.podiobooks.com/) -- serialized audio books in podcast form.

Stephen Fry's podgrams () -- 'nuff said, really. :)