Favorite Podcasts

Hi All,

New to these...

Wow the list of those available is long. (Can't believe there are short discussions on every episode of The West Wing!)

I like and am subscribed to:

Radio Lab, Here's the Thing, The Moth Hour, This American Life, The New Yorker Radio Hour

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I SUBSCRIBE TO?????

Long Road Trip coming and want to stock up!

Best Regards,

Ron Carter


WNYC’s New Sounds with John Schaefer plays some esoteric new music. I’ve found some thing just to avant-garde for my tastes, but others that were fantastic. I’m always on the search for new music. Check out WFUV and Rita Houston’s “The Whole Wide World” .


Anything TED talks as well.


The Moth

Hidden Brain

The Daily

The New Yorker Radio Hour

On Being

Pod Save America

Radio Lab

Revisionist History

Snap Judgment

Stay Tuned

The Grift

Ungeniused


Also there is a column on NYTimes about podcasts. It has a Facebook group, so you can get good recommendations there.


A few I like some or most of the time are Death, Sex and Money, WTF With Marc Aaron, Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me, Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara. For music, I like KEXP's Song of the Day and Music That Matters, All Songs Considered, Popcast and Sound Opinions.

The New Yorker has a wonderful fiction podcast in which a writer chooses a story from any issue of the magazine and reads it aloud.  

Related question: What's the best app for on-demand listening? I'm using Stitcher.


A Way With Words. -- a fun show about words and their origins


Diane Rehm Show -- she no longer has new daily shows, but her archive is full of terrific shows about history, books, politics, etc



Loved Diane Rehm and miss her show. She was a fan of great books and I've read many of the books from authors she interviewed.

Hollywood & Crime

Strangers

Wondery

WTF Marc Maron

Someone Knows Something

Lore

Creepy



Great Suggestions!

Happy Holidays!

Ron Carter


I listen mostly to humor and news-and politics-oriented podcasts:

Bill Burr does a great if somewhat profane podcast called the "MONDAY MORNING PODCAST." If you don't like incessant swearing, stay away.

Gregg Proops does "The Smartest Man in the World" where he talks for sometimes 90 minutes about the news of the day. Funny, insightful and very smart indeed, savvy, literary. Sometimes recorded live in a club and sometimes recorded and broadcast from the Fortress of Proopitude.

But my favorite is probably "The Bugle," the "Audio Newspaper For A Visual World  - Since 2007."

This is the podcast that John Oliver did for years with Andy Zaltzman about politics and news. Oliver now has his HBO show and Andy Zaltzman has carrried on The Bugle with various guests each week from around the world.  Very idiosyncratic, often cynical  and sometimes hysterically funny. A very global perspective. If you can, go back and listen to some of the older podcasts with John and Andy. They had a terrific rapport.

And listen up for Andy's groan-inducing pun runs. Andy tours often and I saw him in NYC last year. If you like English humor and a sophisticated and very opinionated take on world affairs, check this out.


On the Media is a must in this political climate. Excellent, smart and insightful with tight editing by co-host Brooke Gladstone (Bob Garfield is the other co-host). 


Welcome to podcasts.  There's a lot of really good content out there.   I started a similar thread when I started getting into podcasts - hope it's helpful.


https://maplewood.worldwebs.com/forums/discussion/podcast-recommendations?page=next&limit=0#discussion-replies-3373365



I listen to music all day every day. I listen Spotify (an amazing! resource for anyone that loves music- the best $9.99 I spend every month) as well as my own CDs and iTunes. Every waking hour.

But when I get into bed, I want to relax and a podcast will do that. That's when I do most of my podcast listening. With headphones.

I didn't mention above that I listen to Car Talk religiously. In bed with the lights out. A new "Best of CarTalk" episode comes out every Saturday, I think. There's hundreds of hours of the stuff you can go back and listen to. Tom and Ray are consistently funny and witty and charming. It's beautifully entertaining. Perfect for falling asleep. Although sometimes I'm just about to fall asleep and I laugh out loud.


I love Car Talk for that! I also rely on Tara Brach to put me to sleep. 



The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

I listen to music all day every day. I listen Spotify (an amazing! resource for anyone that loves music- the best $9.99 I spend every month) as well as my own CDs and iTunes. Every waking hour.

But when I get into bed, I want to relax and a podcast will do that. That's when I do most of my podcast listening. With headphones.


I didn't mention above that I listen to Car Talk religiously. In bed with the lights out. A new "Best of CarTalk" episode comes out every Saturday, I think. There's hundreds of hours of the stuff you can go back and listen to. Tom and Ray are consistently funny and witty and charming. It's beautifully entertaining. Perfect for falling asleep. Although sometimes I'm just about to fall asleep and I laugh out loud.

Car Talk it is, just not with the spouse!

-Ron


It's not a podcast but can be listened to as such: on Sundays, Noon-3, WFMU offers "The Glen Jones Radio Programme featuring X-Ray Burns." Past broadcasts are available on the website and elsewhere. The first hour is always a wonderfully curated selection of very varied music. Then, at 1PM, these guys start to talk. Glen and X-Ray are both long-time Jersey and Jersey Shore guys, both with lots of radio experience, and both, I think, from Kearney. Glen DJs in Asbury Park all the time. They talk about everything except, it seems, politics. Olden days in Hudson County. Music. Food. Railroads. The past. With music mixed in throughout. Maybe they're an acquired taste, maybe not. After a while, they're like old friends.


I probably posted this in the thread mentioned above by angelak, but my favorite podcast (and the only one I listen to regularly) is the Slate Political Gabfest. It's a weekly discussion of current political news, hosted by David Plotz (Atlas Obscura), Emily Bazelon (NY Times), and John Dickerson (Face the Nation), none of whom --i believe-- still work for Slate, ironically enough.



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