Anyone here love podcasts?

[Blackscare]

I would have put this in another forum but it seems there's nothing that quite covers this format.

I fucking love podcasts, partly because I like the whole audio-based information/entertainment intake thing more than passively sitting in front of a T.V. It makes more sense to me, I'd rather have something entertaining being pumped into my ears while I do shitty shit like work, it makes it more fun. Also, that frees up time once I get off work for drugs and revleft.


But really what got me hooked (after getting into BBC/NPR/etc news) was the comedy stuff. There seems to be a community of stand-up comedians that are pioneering it as a new format (new because, unlike radio, there's no censorship, little/no overhead, and absolute creative control for comedians). While some of the more tradition "talk show" things are great, like WTF, I really love shows like SuperEgo and the Pod F. Tompkast that seem to be bringing back the radio drama/comedy form in a very refreshing way.


Anyone into this? Have any good suggestions? Particularly, I'm looking for a good left-wing political podcast but I'm having some trouble so far, in that I haven't found any.

Here's a few that I'm enjoying right now:

WTF w/ Marc Maron
The Pod F. Tompkast by Paul F. Tompkins
SuperEgo
Doug Loves Movies by Doug Benson
Jay and Silent Bob get old - Kevin Smith and the guy who plays J.
Comedy Bang Bang

The first four are particularly good.

[wunderbar]

I like CounterSpin, The Moth, Stuff You Missed In History Class, This American Life (haven't listened in a while though), and the Ricky Gervais podcast.


I'm looking for a good left-wing political podcast but I'm having some trouble so far, in that I haven't found any.


CounterSpin (put out by FAIR) is the closest thing I can find to a "left wing" podcast, but I wouldn't really call that left-wing. I had heard about a podcast called "Best of the Left", but after listening to an episode realized A: it's a liberal/progressive podcast instead of radical/revolutionary left, and B: it's a compilation of clips from recent episodes of shows like Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, Daily Show/Colbert, etc.

I just looked again for left-wing podcasts and I found one called WeAreMany, affiliated with ISO. I'm downloading a couple episodes right now to listen.

[MarxSchmarx]

I don't like Counterspin. It's the same show every episode! Going after the capitalist media everyweek is really like shooting fish in a barrel. Somebody's got to do it and it has nice bulletpoints on their website, but listening to them drone on and on how the rich that run the show are screwing everyone else - I don't need to be reminded of that in tedious minutia everyweek. But I'm not their target audience I suppose.

Anywho, most podcasts are just talk radio programs made available anytime. It's great if you're a radio nerd but I don't see how it has an appeal really outside of that demographic.

I listen to the "alternative radio" podcast because I can't get it on my local radio stations. And there are a few "extras" that the radio shows release online that I like - one such is glen ford's commentary which is incredibly well written and spot on, even if I can't stand his politics.

[Susurrus]

I listen to WhaChow sometimes, and enjoy going through the old Penny Arcade podcasts. And I love the NPR shows, though I ususally just listen to them on the radio.

[Blackscare]

Anywho, most podcasts are just talk radio programs made available anytime. It's great if you're a radio nerd but I don't see how it has an appeal really outside of that demographic.

I know what you mean partly, there's a lot of stuff like the Joe Rogan Experience of the Adam Corolla podcast (blech) that are basically just radio talk shows. WTF with Marc Maron is pretty cool even if it basically follows that form, because it's all about personal neurosis and such, the host uses it as sort of a self-therapy thing.

Superego breaks the mold though, it's done as a series of sketches much like you would hear in a radio program from the 1950's, but every sketch is done as a "case study" of a certain personality disorder. Check out their version of H.R. Giger (paranoid personality).

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[Blackscare]

Here's another Giger. I love it, if you're familiar with the artist and have heard him interviewed, it's a hilarious exaggeration of his actual mannerisms/etc.


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[khlib]

I listen to Savage Love podcasts :/