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I listen to them a lot, but primarily just Movie/TV/Sports discussion I play in the background, rarely anything too informative or serious. Now Playing and The /FilmCast for starters.

If I want to devote more attention I go with Audiobooks.
 
I love podcasts! They make long drives and work bearable, even enjoyable sometimes. My definite favorite is the Super Best Friend Cast, love those guys! The Sleepycast and Giant Bombcast are also great. There are still tons on my radar I haven't gotten into yet like Maddox's podcast, TheNeedleDrop, and How Did This Get Made
 
Why hasn't the podcast evolved at all? Here we are 12-13 years later and it's basically the same technology that it always was.

Why can't episodes have timestamps and chapter stops? Why can't they have a visual component? If the participants are discussing something that would be helpful to see, why can't they pop up a thumbnail of it on my phone screen to look at? If the participants are discussing a particular article, video, or website, why can't I click on a URL embedded in the audio file and go to that site/video/article?

It's a shame that the format hasn't really been anything more than bulk audio on demand. At this point everyone listening almost undoubtedly has a touchscreen phone, GPS, and internet connection. Those things really ought to be utilized in some fasion.
 
butalala said:
2005 here. Podcasting since then. It's kinda weird how it's gotten so big recently while I've been doing it most of my adult life. What is the catalyst for the growth? Is it all the dollars Audible is pouring into the market?
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Funny you should say that. I was thinking the other day there seems very little money in the business. I listen to a variety of shows, yet, most podcasts all run the same ads if they run ads at all. Audible, mattress, diy dinner and razors. Where are the premium companies? where are local car dealers? It's been what, 10 years, audible still the biggest ad buyers. I guess Google and Apple are the only one can take it to the next level, yet, they seems not that interested.
 
Werd said:
I listen to them a lot, but primarily just Movie/TV/Sports discussion I play in the background, rarely anything too informative or serious. Now Playing and The /FilmCast for starters.

If I want to devote more attention I go with Audiobooks.
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I only really listen to two movie podcasts. We Hate Movies for humor (I tried How Did That Get Made and Flophouse, and they didn't click) and I Was There Too. The last one is really good; the host interviews actors and extras who were in smaller roles in famous movies. Vasquez in Aliens, Marvin in Pulp Fiction, the Apple Store guy in Winter Soldier, Lt Kagan in Inglorious Basterds, and so on

Prototype Viktor said:
The Dollop
Changed my life in the fact I'll relisten to them over and over
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Ditto. Once I listened to the most recent, I tend to go back to listen to the early ones
 
I'm addicted to podcasts to the point where I base my schedules around them and only play games that aren't dependent on their sound.

It's a nasty way to live and I don't recommend it.
 
luoapp said:
Funny you should say that. I was thinking the other day there seems very little money in the business. I listen to a variety of shows, yet, most podcasts all run the same ads if they run ads at all. Audible, mattress, diy dinner and razors. Where are the premium companies? where are local car dealers? It's been what, 10 years, audible still the biggest ad buyers. I guess Google and Apple are the only one can take it to the next level, yet, they seems not that interested.
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Yeah, it's the same handful of companies doing most of the ads from almost every podcast I listen to. And even big, popular podcasts ask for donations or to click a link to Amazon to support them. I can't imagine podcasts are making much money.
 
NPR TED Radio Hour never gets enough love in these threads.

Will change your life and blow your mind.

Nothing but Easy Allies for gaming and their D&D podcast can be fun to listen to sometimes
 
border said:
Why can't episodes have timestamps and chapter stops? Why can't they have a visual component? If the participants are discussing something that would be helpful to see, why can't they pop up a thumbnail of it on my phone screen to look at? If the participants are discussing a particular article, video, or website, why can't I click on a URL embedded in the audio file and go to that site/video/article?
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I mean, really how much would that catch on? Most people are listening while driving, or playing games, or have their phone in their pocket. Having links and stuff like that would be a waste because only a tiny subsection of people would even see those things while listening

And they have evolved in other ways. Better quality, famous guests and hosts, serialized shows with complex sound effects and full casts of voice actors, and so on
 
My list so far. I'd recommend most of them.

Gaming:
Giant Bombcast - GiantBomb.com gaming podcast
Beastcast - GiantBomb East gaming podcast
Super Best Friendcast - Super Best Friends / Two Best Friends Play
PS I Love You XOXO - Playstation podcast with IGN's former Beyond hosts
Kinda Funny Games - Former IGN members?
Podcast Beyond - IGN's Playstation podcast, brrrap brrrap.
Watch Out For Fireballs - Retro games podcast
Abject Suffering - Bad games podcast
Twin Humanities - Two british dudes talking about Dark Souls. Lovely accents.
Bonfireside Chat - Lore-heavy Demons/Dark Souls/Bloodborne/Souls-like podcast.

Tech:
404 Show - Jeff Bakalar + Tech Bakalar.

Science-ish:
Skeptics Guide - Science / Universe
Mysterious Universe - Humorous science / universe

Comedy:
Comedy Bang Bang - some tall lanky white guy + guests
With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus - 'fake' podcast episodes with the host being the guest
Comedy Button - brrap. IGN/former IGN people.

Horror:
HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast - HPL, duh.
Knifepoint Horror - Horror stories/short stories. **REALLY GOOD!**
 
Yeah, I'm super into them now. It's funny because I resisted listening to them for the longest time until a friend of mine told me to check out Serial. Note I don't even listen to music anymore.

Here's my list of podcasts:

-This American Life - General news and interesting stories
-The Cracked Podcast - Topics of interest with a more pop slant
-RadioLab - Topics of interest with a more science slant
-More Perfect - RadioLab spin-off and deep dive on the Supreme Court
-Freakonmics Radio - Topics of interest with an economics slant
-On the Media - Mostly news but presented as an examination of its dissemination via media
-Hardcore History - Deep dive on various historical topics
-Common Sense - Dan Carlin's opinions on current events
-Invisibilia - Interesting stories, supposedly focusing on elements around us we can't see
-Hidden Brain - Human psychology
-Reply All - Technology
-History on Fire - Deep dive on various historical topics
-The Arkham Sessions - Psychology of Batman: The Animated Series
-Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell's unique perspective on various topics
-Only Human - Stories about health and wellness
-Note to Self - Technology with a humanistic slant (how do we use it? How does it affect our lives?)
-Science VS - Analyses of controversial topics through science
-Open for Business - Starting up businesses
-Serial - This American Life spin-off, focusing on one story per season
-The Alton Brown Cast - Alton Brown interviews interesting people


And here's some I haven't listened to yet:

-StartUp - Season 1 is supposed to be about starting up Gimlet Media, and season 2 onward is about starting up businesses
-The Sporkful - Food related
-The Longest Shortest Time - Kids (about them; not for them)
-How to do Everything - GAF recommendation

I dropped these:

-Unpopular Opinion - Comedy and current events. Dropped because their humor doesn't jibe with me
-Gastropod - Food related. Dropped because hosts are too boring
-Paleocast - Paleontology. Dropped because hosts are too boring
-Mysterious Universe - It's about space? The one episode I listened to was all pro-conspiracy theory, though, so I dropped it
-How Did This Get Made - Movies. Dropped because their humor doesn't jibe with me


I seem to strongly prefer the WNYC/NPR/Gimlet "flavor," so a lot of the ones I like are quite similar. I also tend to dislike Earwolf stuff, except for The Cracked Podcast. The others are unaffiliated, I think, except for Revisionist History, which is Panoply. I might look into more of their shows eventually.
 
butalala said:
2005 here. Podcasting since then. It's kinda weird how it's gotten so big recently while I've been doing it most of my adult life. What is the catalyst for the growth? Is it all the dollars Audible is pouring into the market?
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luoapp said:
Funny you should say that. I was thinking the other day there seems very little money in the business. I listen to a variety of shows, yet, most podcasts all run the same ads if they run ads at all. Audible, mattress, diy dinner and razors. Where are the premium companies? where are local car dealers? It's been what, 10 years, audible still the biggest ad buyers. I guess Google and Apple are the only one can take it to the next level, yet, they seems not that interested.
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You guys should listen to this one episode from a podcast called Acquired. It is episode 16 and they talk about the podcasting business and why it is this way (in terms of the ad space). In the episode they spoke about the fact that Apple could take the space to the next level since they sell phones that use default players, which the casual market doesn't care much to switch away from.
 
First one I ever listened to was an IGN comics one about 8 years ago. Looking back it wasn't great but I still enjoyed it. After that some Kevin Smith, some Beyond, and dabbled in a few others. Only one I've consistently listened to for years has been TESD.

I've tried Bombcast and some other popular ones but they are usually too long, require me to listen to a lot of previous episodes, and/or have too many members that overwhelm and confuse me.
 
My favs are Stuff You Should Know (watching the [understandably failed] TV pilots on YouTube right now, actually), The Complete Guide to Everything (two guys from NYC talk about life, pretty funny), and Bonfireside Chat (in depth discussions about the Dark Souls series, which can also be pretty funny. A must for any serious fans of the series.)
There's a lot more than that which I won't bother listing here. This American Life and SYSK are great starter podcasts. I've dropped a ton of podcasts but don't regret listening to any.

I love Podcasts for the time they fill in my life. I do not mind driving anywhere anymore.
 
I've recently started listening to Harmontown from the beginning mostly for the D&D adventure but the whole thing is fantastic. I'll eventually branch out from there but I'm hooked on just the one at the moment. It seems like a great medium for me and there is so much out there
 
Septimus Prime said:
Yeah, I'm super into them now. It's funny because I resisted listening to them for the longest time until a friend of mine told me to check out Serial. Note I don't even listen to music anymore.

Here's my list of podcasts:

-This American Life - General news and interesting stories
-The Cracked Podcast - Topics of interest with a more pop slant
-RadioLab - Topics of interest with a more science slant
-More Perfect - RadioLab spin-off and deep dive on the Supreme Court
-Freakonmics Radio - Topics of interest with an economics slant
-On the Media - Mostly news but presented as an examination of its dissemination via media
-Hardcore History - Deep dive on various historical topics
-Common Sense - Dan Carlin's opinions on current events
-Invisibilia - Interesting stories, supposedly focusing on elements around us we can't see
-Hidden Brain - Human psychology
-Reply All - Technology
-History on Fire - Deep dive on various historical topics
-The Arkham Sessions - Psychology of Batman: The Animated Series
-Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell's unique perspective on various topics
-Only Human - Stories about health and wellness
-Note to Self - Technology with a humanistic slant (how do we use it? How does it affect our lives?)
-Science VS - Analyses of controversial topics through science
-Open for Business - Starting up businesses
-Serial - This American Life spin-off, focusing on one story per season
-The Alton Brown Cast - Alton Brown interviews interesting people


And here's some I haven't listened to yet:

-StartUp - Season 1 is supposed to be about starting up Gimlet Media, and season 2 onward is about starting up businesses
-The Sporkful - Food related
-The Longest Shortest Time - Kids (about them; not for them)
-How to do Everything - GAF recommendation

I dropped these:

-Unpopular Opinion - Comedy and current events. Dropped because their humor doesn't jibe with me
-Gastropod - Food related. Dropped because hosts are too boring
-Paleocast - Paleontology. Dropped because hosts are too boring
-Mysterious Universe - It's about space? The one episode I listened to was all pro-conspiracy theory, though, so I dropped it
-How Did This Get Made - Movies. Dropped because their humor doesn't jibe with me


I seem to strongly prefer the WNYC/NPR/Gimlet "flavor," so a lot of the ones I like are quite similar. I also tend to dislike Earwolf stuff, except for The Cracked Podcast. The others are unaffiliated, I think, except for Revisionist History, which is Panoply. I might look into more of their shows eventually.
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They're not serious.
Unless you think Russian Spetsnaz Black Ops Dolphins are out to kill you.

Which they could be.
Seriously though, give it another listen.
 
More_Badass said:
I mean, really how much would that catch on? Most people are listening while driving, or playing games, or have their phone in their pocket. Having links and stuff like that would be a waste because only a tiny subsection of people would even see those things while listening

And they have evolved in other ways. Better quality, famous guests and hosts, serialized shows with complex sound effects and full casts of voice actors, and so on
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At the same time, I don't think it's that much extra work to include a podcast with what are basically just annotations and timestamps. It's so lame that if you want to avoid hearing a spoiler-discussion of a game or movie, the hosts basically just say "Skip forward a few minutes and hope it works out."

If you're listening while driving or playing games, wouldn't it just be much more convenient for them to say "Skip to the next chapter stop to avoid spoilers"......instead of forcing the user to pull out their phone and use the inevitably shitty audio scrubbing feature of their podcast app?
 
This American Life

Radio Lab

Giantbomb

Beastcast

How Did This Get Made

Comedy Bang Bang

Harmontown, didn't listen to this for a long time but I recently got back into it.


I've listened to a bunch of different podcasts over the years but those are the ones that I've stuck with and pretty much listened to all of them.
 
Prototype Viktor said:
The Dollop
Changed my life in the fact I'll relisten to them over and over
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Listen to walking the room? Dave called me out personally on that podcast because I was fighting with him on facebook when that podcast was ending. He would post "well thats that" and I told him vaguebooking was below him. He says in the beginning of the last walking the room "Jeremy can go fuck him self" and greg backs me up a bit. Walking the room was / is my fav podcast of all time. The ones with patton oswalt are so good.
 
border said:
At the same time, I don't think it's that much extra work to include a podcast with what are basically just annotations and timestamps. It's so lame that if you want to avoid hearing a spoiler-discussion of a game or movie, the hosts basically just say "Skip forward a few minutes and hope it works out."

If you're listening while driving or playing games, wouldn't it just be much more convenient for them to say "Skip to the next chapter stop to avoid spoilers"......instead of forcing the user to pull out their phone and use the inevitably shitty audio scrubbing feature of their podcast app?
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But that has more to do with the actual app than the show itself. And each app is different, so would that even work?
 
Septimus Prime said:
Yeah, I'm super into them now. It's funny because I resisted listening to them for the longest time until a friend of mine told me to check out Serial. Note I don't even listen to music anymore.

Here's my list of podcasts:

-This American Life - General news and interesting stories
-The Cracked Podcast - Topics of interest with a more pop slant
-RadioLab - Topics of interest with a more science slant
-More Perfect - RadioLab spin-off and deep dive on the Supreme Court
-Freakonmics Radio - Topics of interest with an economics slant
-On the Media - Mostly news but presented as an examination of its dissemination via media
-Hardcore History - Deep dive on various historical topics
-Common Sense - Dan Carlin's opinions on current events
-Invisibilia - Interesting stories, supposedly focusing on elements around us we can't see
-Hidden Brain - Human psychology
-Reply All - Technology
-History on Fire - Deep dive on various historical topics
-The Arkham Sessions - Psychology of Batman: The Animated Series
-Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell's unique perspective on various topics
-Only Human - Stories about health and wellness
-Note to Self - Technology with a humanistic slant (how do we use it? How does it affect our lives?)
-Science VS - Analyses of controversial topics through science
-Open for Business - Starting up businesses
-Serial - This American Life spin-off, focusing on one story per season
-The Alton Brown Cast - Alton Brown interviews interesting people


And here's some I haven't listened to yet:

-StartUp - Season 1 is supposed to be about starting up Gimlet Media, and season 2 onward is about starting up businesses
-The Sporkful - Food related
-The Longest Shortest Time - Kids (about them; not for them)
-How to do Everything - GAF recommendation

I dropped these:

-Unpopular Opinion - Comedy and current events. Dropped because their humor doesn't jibe with me
-Gastropod - Food related. Dropped because hosts are too boring
-Paleocast - Paleontology. Dropped because hosts are too boring
-Mysterious Universe - It's about space? The one episode I listened to was all pro-conspiracy theory, though, so I dropped it
-How Did This Get Made - Movies. Dropped because their humor doesn't jibe with me


I seem to strongly prefer the WNYC/NPR/Gimlet "flavor," so a lot of the ones I like are quite similar. I also tend to dislike Earwolf stuff, except for The Cracked Podcast. The others are unaffiliated, I think, except for Revisionist History, which is Panoply. I might look into more of their shows eventually.
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Wish they'd come out with season two of Science Vs already...

Great list, covers most of mine, I also listen to
99% invisible (great design podcast)
IDEO futures (startup/venture design stuff)
Adam Ruins Everything (in depth talk with guests from his show),
Bite (all about food)
Presidential (biography of one US president per episode)
The British history podcast (exactly what it says)
Economist (...)
You are not so smart (about the foibles of the human brain)
Planet money (npr show about finance)
Stuff you should know. (the how stuff works podcast with fun hosts)

I was into hello internet (CGP Grey and Brady from numberphile) and cortex (CGP grey) but there's just too much content rich stuff that's not 'two guys talking'. The economy of time and all that.
 
I love listening to podcasts; as many have already stated, they're great for commuting to and from work (I cycle mainly, so I can't read a book) and even just to have on in the background when I'm doing household chores on my days off (I'm a shift worker so I'm usually left at home by myself for long periods).

Current ones I listen to include:

Comedy
Hollywood Babble-On
SMoDcast
Tell 'Em Steve-Dave
Jay & Silent Bob Get Old (noticing a theme here?)

Gaming
Gamers With Jobs
Independent Characters (Warhammer 40k)
Life After The Cover Save (40k again)
The Overlords
 
I used to listen/watch a FUCKTON of podcasts from about 2011-2013, then slowly whittled it down to nothing, and then in 2015 I've been slowly rebuilding a podcast library. Basically I started with a lot of comedy/gaming/geek culture podcasts: The Nerdist, WTF with Marc Maron, Machinima, The Onion, Penn Point, ++ Good Games, GeekBox, CineGeek, The Smartest Man in the World, F+ Podcast, Giant Bombcast, Superbestfriendcast, one that was hosted by Garnett Lee and Jeff Cannata and then another one that had Jeff Cannata and a couple other guys that would review comics and games and movies and other stuff. Fatman on Batman was another one. There was a comic books related one from The Nerdist network.

Yeah. A lot. Almost decidedly way too fucking many. I slowly started dropping them due to them either getting cancelled, losing interest in the subject matter, beginning to dislike the hosts, or all of the above. Then last year I slowly built it back up. Now I listen to:

The Art of Slaying - Buffy the Vampire Slayer retrospective. One of the best retrospectives I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Sometimes I go back and listen to it just because I enjoy the pure, intelligent discussion about the show. Also helps that I just love the show.

Jay and Miles X-plain the X-Men - another retrospective, only this one is focused on the ENTIRE X-Men franchise. Detailing the comics from the Silver Age. Again, intelligent discussion and the hosts are delightful. Also helps that I love the hell out of X-Men.

Last Podcast on the Left - Podcast focused on detailing the darker parts of human culture, such as serial killers, horror stories, urban legends, cults, mass killings, terror attacks, aliens, and reading Creepypasta. The three hosts not only are smart and do absolutely the maximum amount of research possible on every topic. Also helps that they are comedians and entertainers, which may put off some, but for me it makes the material far more easy to digest. 9/11, Toy Box Killer, Henry Lee Lucas, Ed Gein, and Dean Corrl are just a few that I think I would'nt be able to make through if they were played 100% straight.

Page Seven - Another comedy podcast, but this one is about the celebrity tabloids. Basically a bunch of people who don't give a shit about celebrities talking about celebrities. It's also from Cave Comedy Radio, which is the same network that LPotL is from.

The F+ Podcast - I dropped it originally, but I picked it back up because the Creepypasta episodes of LPotL rekindled my love of hearing funny people reading stupid shit on the internet. Since F+ is literally just that, I picked it back up again.

So yeah, that's my current listening list. It helps that most of those have huge backlogs that are primarily timeless, so it's actually worth going through some of the backlog. I tried to find CineGeek again, but I couldn't. I use iTunes and I guess it isn't on there anymore.
 
I gave up on Mysterious Universe after they spent an episode bitching about the media and how they didn't take some nut seriously. I listened for the cool stories but I'm not gonna bother with your bitching cus CNN won't give a guy who thinks the government has UFO their time of day.

The other day I had ran out of podcasts and figured I should give them another chance, it seems like they're super hyper now where they used to be really chill and the first segment was about this generation being the first to live forever.

I closed the tab about 2 minutes into it.
 
It bothers me a bit that they're now a thing after existing for the last decade or so. It's like having Obama on Marc maron ushered in acceptance.

Glad it's thriving and people can start profiting from their work though.
 
More_Badass said:
But that has more to do with the actual app than the show itself. And each app is different, so would that even work?
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The technology is built-in. RSS feed is an xml (Extensible Markup Language) file, which can be easily extended. All Google or Apple need to do is to take the charge and publish a standard, yet, somehow, they're all very reluctant to do so, or do anything with podcast. Apple's podcast app is rarely updated, Google just added podcast function in the Google music app. Probably (most likely) they know more than I do, the listenership is small compare to conventional radio. Anyone has some concrete numbers?
 
Podcasts are now my favourite form of entertainment. I listen to them while commuting, cooking, cleaning, working, before bed and pretty much any spare moment.

No Such Thing as a Fish is my favourite. Recently discovered Answer Me This, which is brilliant. Serial is obviously right up there despite a disappointing second season. RadioLab and StoryCorps are great for real life insights. 99% Invisible can be fascinating depending on the topic. Reply All is a great exploration of technology and the internet. Criminal tells fantastic stories about the most interesting, quirky or thought-provoking incidents.

I use Player FM. Pretty reliable, does the job.
 
Trulyworth said:
Will do! Is it like Knifepoint kinda?

Skip Small Town Horror btw. It's...pretty bad.
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It's kind of like Archive 81, but blows that one away IMO.

Wrote these impressions last week
I've listened to a lot of fictional podcasts. Liked a lot of them too. The Black Tapes, Tanis, We're Alive, The Bright Sessions, Within The Wires, Night Vale, Knifepoint Horror, NoSleep. But while I enjoyed them, there are areas where I felt they could often suffer, especially when they're going for dialogue and conversations rather than reading prose like Knifepoint. I often find that the back-and-forths can feel so stilted and forced.

But The Magnus Archives nails that, even though ironically the presentation isn't that of back-and-forth dialogue but of reading the transcripts of recorded statements. The writing captures the flow and conversational tone that a statement should have very well.

But it's the writing that has made Magnus Archives my favorite horror fictional podcast. The show masterfully delivers mystery. These stories are often from a limited perspective, so there isn't really an explanation for why things happen or what the happenings are. We're not trying to solve what's going like in Black Tapes. The people telling the stories aren't figuring what happened through ancient texts or folklore. These eerie things just happen and we're left in the dark just like those people. Because of that, the story in Magnus Archives have such a great sense of creepy unknown.

The series' premise is reminiscent of Archive 81, here the archivist of an organization that investigates otherworldly occurrences is reading the transcripts of those archives. The stories descend into lovecraftian/SCP-esque territory, weird horrifying happenings that eschew explanations for the terror of the uncertain and unknown.

No other series has hooked me like this before; I'm listening to three episodes at a time. Where other series have extensive audio effects and multiple actors, this one nails creepy and unsettling through the writing alone.

I can't recommend this series enough.
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Yeah it's pretty much all I listen to, it's actually been months since I listened to music through my headphones.

I like This American Life, Radiolab, Invisibilia, More Perfect (well it's basically just Radiolab), Hardcore History (this has taken up all my listening time lately), etc. Basically the usual suspects / top podcasts according to the app. What can I say - they're good!

I actually can't imagine listening to a gaming podcast, GAF is more than enough to cover me on that end. Actually it's often too much - this shit dominates much more of my time than I'd like to admit...
 
More_Badass said:
But that has more to do with the actual app than the show itself. And each app is different, so would that even work?
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M4A Audio files already support hardcoded chapter stops, I believe. The problem is that nobody wants to abandon MP3....but even with MP3 you could probably still have chapter stops if you wrote them in the Comments/Info section of the file's metadata, and the playback app scanned for them.

Audiobooks can have chapter stops, I imagine it can certainly work for podcasts.
 
Yup, I want to pick up more but the only podcasts I follow regularly right now are anncast (I like Zac and the crew) and Hardcore History (great popcorn listening).

Kinda surprised no one's mentioned Mike Duncan's The History of Rome podcast. It's a fantastic educational podcast. I think his tone becomes a bit too light far into it and it's a little rough in the first few episodes (if mostly because I personally don't care for mythology), but the majority of it is just fantastic listening for anyone wanting to learn about the history of the western Roman empire.
 
Guess I should list what I listen too. Bolded my favorites

Non-fiction/Science:
Hardcore History
Sawbones
Lore
99% Invisible
The Memory Palace
Reply All
Criminal
Gastropod
Embedded
Flash Forward
Life of the Law
Invisibilia
RadioLab
The Feast
My Favorite Murder
The Allusionist
Everything Is Stories
The Specialist

Comedy:
The Dollop
My Brother My Brother and Me
Cool Games Inc
We Hate Movies
My Dad Wrote A Porno

Games:
The Short Game
Check It Out Comrade
Final Games
Daft Souls
Watch Out For Fireballs
Inklecast
Game Is A Four Letter Word
$20 Gaming

Fiction:
The Magnus Archives
The Black Tapes
Tanis
The Bright Sessions
Alice Isn't Dead
Sayer
Marscorp

Misc:
Bunker Buddies
The Adventure Zone
Bracket
Superhero Assembly Line
 
CHC said:
I actually can't imagine listening to a gaming podcast, GAF is more than enough to cover me on that end. Actually it's often too much - this shit dominates much more of my time than I'd like to admit...
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I thought the same, but a good host and talking a game/games for a hour offers nice focused discussion

Final Games is a good podcast that discusses stuff you can't get on GAF or sites. Inspired by Desert Island Discs, the host talks to developers and writers across the industry about the games they'd bring with them to a desert island. He's interviewed everyone from the developers of The Swindle and The Stanley Parable to the founder of IGN

My personal favorite is The Short Game.
 
How did this get made?
Spontanianation
Comedy bang bang
Giant bomb and bearcat

Worked in the summer on road commission road morning crew. Was driven out to tractor at 6 am and picked up at 5pm. Large country county with empty roads of which I'd use my big enclosed tractor with missing decks and cut grass on the sides of the roads.

Started with bang bang and bombcast. Kept listening after working the last summer there.
 
Yeah, a handful of them.

This American Life
Welcome to Nightvale (not so much anymore, can't keep up)
My Brother My Brother and Me
Radiolab occasionally when the topic is interesting
Easy Allies occasionally

The only one I'm religious about is TAL.

I also listen to a lot of the "one-off" ones that just have like 8 or so episodes and take forever to get a new season, like Serial or The Mystery Show.
 
butalala said:
2005 here. Podcasting since then. It's kinda weird how it's gotten so big recently while I've been doing it most of my adult life. What is the catalyst for the growth? Is it all the dollars Audible is pouring into the market?
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I used to listen to a lot of AM radio during work, but now I listen to podcasts because AM radio is getting worse by the day.
 
I first started listening to podcasts with 1up Yours right around E3 in 2006. After Luke Smith left for Bungie, it just never felt the same as they tried to mix in other hosts while the crew fell apart. I think I stopped listening to that one in 2008 or thereabouts. It was really the only game-related podcast I listened to, although I dabbled briefly with a GameSpot podcast, also in 2006.

My podcast menu right now is

-Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

-The Splendid Table - I'm way behind on this one, but it's not exactly time-sensitive

-NPR Politics - a bit too millennial heavy, it's better when they have 1 of [if not both of] Mara Liasson and Ron Elving on

-Keeping it 1600

-StarTalk - I like this one better when it's not the StarTalk Live format. The panel of comedians in front of a live audience kills it for me during those episodes. They really don't know when to shut up. Look to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me to learn how to balance it out (and edit it). Then again, I'm late to this one and therefore years behind, perhaps they've gotten better on more recent episodes.

-Bill Simmons - I'm more likely to listen if they're talking NBA or politics. Won't listen if they're talking NFL or pop culture, because I just don't care. If it's baseball, it's a maybe.
 
My favorites are:
Uhh Yeah Dude (best comedy podcast ever; 10+ years of consistently great episodes so you'll never run out of shows to listen to)
Bill Burr (duh)
Steve Austin (wrestling, but sometimes has non wrestling guests)
 
My current subs on Podcast Lounge, damn I've got to prune this list or something since I don't listen to quite a few any more.

  • The Arab Spring: A History
  • Binge Thinking History
  • Damn Interesting
    [*]Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
  • Fatman on Batman
    [*]Film Sack
    [*]History of Philosophy
  • History of Philosophy in India
  • History of the Crusades
  • History on Fire
    [*]How Did This Get Made
    [*]I Was There Too
    [*]James Bonding
  • Radiolab
  • Revolutions
  • The Bugle
  • The Dead Authors
  • The Eastern Border
  • The History of Byzantium
  • The History of WWII
    [*]The Lesser Bonapartes
  • The Memory Palace
    [*]Three Moves Ahead
  • When Diplomacy Fails
  • WTF

The Bolded are recommended. The Lesser Bonapartes had a strong start as a "bros talking about history without too much formality" podcast although since one of the founders got replaced by the host of The Eastern Border it's definitely taken a dive in quality as he's a non-native speaker (Estonian) with a penchant for rambling in a way that is difficult to understand.
 
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