sum itunes is for podcasting?

[Jim Tressel]

I have recently jumped on the podcast bandwagon after years of refusing to deal with anything that had the word "pod" in the name.  The only reason I let down my guard is that my new gen 1 Zune will soon have a Podcast function allowing me to automagically update them to my device...wirelessly...which iPoops cannot do.  Suck it Jobs.

Anyway, I thought I would toss up a thread so we could share our favorite slash least favorite podcasts with each other.  As the Spanish say, variety is the brother of invention.


Favorite #1:  Car Talk
This is a fantastically funny show that I used to listen to as a kid on long road trips with the fam.  It's 2 brothers from Boston who just happen to be mechanics.  They babble and joke for an hour each week and take calls from people having car problems.  Trust me, this is funny even if you're not that big into cars.

Favorite #2:  Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!
I just found out about this show after picking up the book written by the host, Peter Sagal (The Book of Vice: Naughty Things and How to Do Them).  This is a weekly news quiz show and is WAY more funny than that description sounds.  Check this one out for sure.

Favorite #3: Gizmodo Coolness Roundup
Weekly, well...roundup of all the cool new techie things in the world.  If you stalk their site daily like I do, some of the stuff they talk about you will have already read about, but it's still a good listen while farming primals and dailies.    Hosts got too annoying for me.

Not-So-Favorite: Car and Driver Radio
I tried this one for a couple weeks, but it's just too much.  The host is kind of a misogynist, but not in the cute innocent way, but in the "oh my god how is he getting away with saying this shit" way.  Plus they try (and fail) too hard to be funny.  It's alright if you just want to hear a couple fat Americans babble on about how great every new Ford, GM product coming out is going to be.  Not to mention, it's 4 hours long.


So those are my regular haunts.  How about you?  Let's see what people are listening to.  Besides, I still have 13gigs to fill up on my Zune and I need some new material!

[Troyer]

From a media professional's standpoint - F podcasts.

That being said, I'm sure these are fabulous and not created by professors that still think their computer has a cup holder...



but I'm not bitter.

[Reddawn]

I used to listen to a WOW podcast and then Ricky Gervais with Carl Pilkington.....but not so much anymore.

[Jim Tressel]

Update:  I now have a weekly regimen of 15 podcasts that I listen to slash watch religiously.  I recommend that you at least try them out to see if they're your flavor.  I'm listing them alphabetically with a brief synopsis.

1.) AOTS: In Your Pants (video podcast) - sexy ladies talking about sex.  very sexy.
2.) Coolness Roundup - See O.P.  Basically 2 nerds talking about nerdy shit which usually ends up in a rant of some sort.
3.) Coolness Lounge - More casual followup show to Coolness Roundup.  Even more ranting.
4.) Diggnation (video podcast) - Fucking.  Awesome.  Show.  Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose talking about the week's biggest stories from Digg while drinking and babbling about silly shit.  This one you must try.
5.) Gadget PrOn (video podcast) - just the gadget pron section from Attack of the Show.  Good for tech reviews on random shit.
6.) NPR: Car Talk - See O.P.  This is a must listen, even if you're not a "car person" so to speak.
7.) NPR: Fresh Air - NPR interviews by Terry Gross with various people.  Good for learning about very random stuff.  Can be dry.
8.) NPR: Talk of the Nation - NPR news talk show with Neal Conan.  Good for news.  Can also be a bit dry if you don't like news.
9) NPR: Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me - See O.P.  This is also a must try.  Fucking HILARIOUS!
10.) Stephen Fry's Podgrams - Endlessly amusing, but not updated frequently enough.  Stephen Fry is amazing.
11.) Systm - Great show covering lots of different diy shit like building robots, distilling liquor, building a FreeNAS box, etc.
12.) Tekzilla - Another techie show covering gadgets, computers, all sorts of shits.
13.) The Totally Rad Show (video podcast) - Another AWESOME show.  Alex Albrecht, Dan Trachtenberg, and Jeff Cannata talk about movies, video games, comics, tv shows, etc.  Definitely a must-try show as well.
14.) You Look Nice Today - LISTEN.  TO.  THIS.  SHOW.  Just do it.  Self-described as a "journal of emotional hygiene", this show is just 3 guys randomly talking about whatever pops in their minds.  It is unbelievably funny.
15.) The 1UP Show (video podcast) - This show is all-things video gaming.  If you like to know what's going on in the gaming world, this is a show you should be watching already.

Alright, so these are the ones I watch/listen to and I know I've said that several are "must-try" podcasts.  Honestly, if I have to pick a top 5 out of these that I could make everyone check out, they would be Diggnation, Car Talk, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, The Totally Rad Show, and You Look Nice Today.  Trust me.  Download them now.  They're free.  You have no excuses...or chance to survive. 




































Make your time.

[Jim Tressel]

Oh, and if you're still bored, go to http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/.  Good stuff.

[Reddawn]

tekzilla....I would do unspeakable things to Veronica Belmont

[Varg]

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/   

MOS DEF        LMFAO     

[BCBrent]

 You have no excuses...or chance to survive. 




































Make your time.

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The stuff white people like is hilarious

[Jim Tressel]

These are some of my new finds.  Don't be a dick, give them a listen.

Jordan, Jesse, GO!
The Sound of Young America
Coyle and Sharpe
Never Not Funny
Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average)
The 40 Year Old Boy
The Merlin Show

...and because I can't say enough about it, despite the fact that their updates are less frequent than I'd like: You Look Nice Today.

[Jim Tressel]

And also because John Hodgman is fucking hilarious and appears alot as a guest on several of the aforementioned podcasts, here's his Radio and Television Correspondents dinner speech:

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[Piquon]

They recently killed "Systm" in favor of a "tech section on Tekzilla".  It wasn't very good past the first 5 episodes and once they brought in the robot guy it went down hill and became just him breaking Patrick Norton's balls all the time.

[Jim Tressel]

To be honest, I haven't kept up with the video podcasts much lately.  I'm about, how long have I had this new job?...oh yeah, about 9 months behind on all non-audio podcasts.  If I can't listen to it in my car or while I'm at my desk, it piles up until itunes asks me if I want to keep downloading hundreds of gigs of unwatched files.  At least it's nice enough to ask.  Thank God for iTunes, right Red/Troyer?

[Reddawn]

Album art view is for gay guys and women. I use Foobar and listen to my mp3s in it. I don't need a music organizer program like itunes...I have one it's called Windows Explorer.

[Jim Tressel]

Fuck all that noise, it's called shared libraries.  Get a work network that allows Hamachi and enjoy the streaming audio!  Also, iPhone updates/backups all done through itunes.  I lorve steve jorbs.

[Reddawn]

sorry...all that private patient data fucks everything up