So, have any favorite podcasts?

[quiet.american]

In the spirit of "what's on your bookshelf?," what's on your iPod?

My top 5:

The Ricky Gervais Show
Ring of Fire (AAR)
NOW
The President's Weekly Radio Address (No, not that one! It's satire.)
Mother Jones Radio

[nickgutierrez]

1. I've got a few

Pacific Coast Hellway
Daily Source Code
Extra Super Action Show
I second your Mother Jones suggestion - good stuff
Accident Hash
5 Minutes with Wichita

[quiet.american]

3. I'll check some of those out -- thanks for responding. :) n/t

[Pithlet]

2. I just started getting podcasts

So I don't have a large list yet. I get Slacker Astronomy, Michael Feldman's Whadya Know (I wish they carried his whole show), and Tim Gunn's podcasts about Project Runway.

[quiet.american]

4. Hmn -- what's Project Runway about? n/t

[Pithlet]

7. It's a reality show on Bravo

Up and coming women's wear designers compete to show a line at Olympus Fashion week. This season isn't as good as the first, but I still love it.

[quiet.american]

10. Oh yeah -- I'll have to check that out. Is it one of the free podcasts?n/t

[Pithlet]

13. It is.

Tim Gunn is my favorite part of the whole show, really. He's kind of the den mother of the group, and he mentors to the contestants. The show comes on Wednesday nights 10 pm eastern, and the podcast for that episode comes out shortly afterwords.

[quiet.american]

14. Thanks a lot. :) n/t

[Pithlet]

6. Replied to the wrong post

[NJCher]

5. Leonard Lopate Show

from WNYC. org.

This man is such a stellar communicator and interviewer. He can interview anybody! He mostly interviews authors of books on relevant social issues. But he did one show on baseball recently and I really enjoyed it and I hate sports!




Cher

[quiet.american]

16. Love your "Gardeners Against Bush." Lopate sounds great, too. n/t

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

8. I only listen to two with any regularity - Mark Kermode's BBC film reviews

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/kermode.shtml

The other is Coverville which is quite cool:

http://www.coverville.com/

[quiet.american]

17. Film reviews -- cool. Thanks for the links. n/t

[LeftyMom]

9. Vegan Freak Radio

I should give them a plug 'cause they're funny and they say fuck even more than I do. :) Thier politics and taste in music rock, too.

[quiet.american]

15. Alrighty. :) n/t

[Inspired]

11. John Edwards One America podcasts

feature him and Elizabeth. They are very interesting to listen to.

[quiet.american]

18. Yes, I'd forgotten to check for them! n/t

[CatholicEdHead]

12. Democracy Now

Ed Schultz Show
Battlestar Galacatica Director Podcast
From Our Correspondent (BBC Radio 4)
CBC Radio 3 best of radio show

[quiet.american]

20. Nice list! n/t

[InternalDialogue]

19. Ricky Gervais is a hoot.

I also get:
The Young Turks
Democracy Now
FAIR's Counterspin
On the Media
KCRW's Left, Right, and Center

I love the Young Turks and Democracy Now, but it's not easy to keep up -- more than three hours a day for those two. The weeklies are nice.

[quiet.american]

21. I have to be careful about where I listen to Gervais

There's always something in there that's more than a chuckle, :rofl: so I try not to listen while in a subway car or standing in line at the bank.

FAIR's Counterspin sounds interesting....

[InternalDialogue]

22. I've laughed out loud at Karl Pilkington more than once in public.

I'd never heard their BBC radio show before (I guess they were on for a couple years before The Office and Extras), but I love the whole setup.

[quiet.american]

23. You know, I thought they were exaggerating about the shape of his head

-- and then I saw him in their podcast photo -- omg. :)

[alarimer]

24. I have a dumb question

Are podcasts only available for Ipods? I know that the ipod uses a different format than other players. Mine is an Iriver and the files are either mp3 or WMA.

[quiet.american]

25. Truthfully, I don't know. I would tend to say there's a way to get them

-- even if you have a different player. Maybe someone will be able to fill us in.

[Omphaloskepsis]

26. podcast are just mp3 files..

Anything can play they.. The RSSish nature of them sets them apart. The syndication part is what makes the special.

And the iPod plays mp3s.

[alarimer]

33. I figured that out

Listened to some today actually.

[ikojo]

30. No, podcasts are not available only for iPods as

best as I can tell. You need a podcatcher or simply download the file and save it as an mp3. Google podcatcher and you will get a lot of free software options. I don't think it's as easy as subscribing via iTunes but you can do it.

[alarimer]

32. Thanks

I will look

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

27. I've only listened to one so far...

I haven't really gotten into it.

I listened to one of the Porno Jim Show podcasts, though, but then again, Porno Jim is my cousin. Gotta support the family.

He's an awesome guy. Totally chill and domestic despite his career and so is his girlfriend (she works for an architect firm).

[NJCher]

28. great thread, quiet. american

Today's Saturday, I'll be out gardening, and I plan to try some of the podcasts on this thread.




Cher

[ikojo]

29. My faves

dl.tv with former tech tv host Patrick Norton
TWIT This week in tech with Leo Laporte
Rachel Maddow
Mike Malloy
Democracy Now!
Now
Relgion and Ethics Newsweekly
ABC's Lost The Transmission a weekly Lost podcast from Hawaii with Ryan and Jen...AWESOME!!!

I have more podcasts that I listen to but these are my faves.

[bikebloke]

31. A disadvantage of dial-up

I experimented with downloading a Ricky Gervais podcast. Takes forever. And I still haven't heard any of it. If I could figure out a way to download the file at work (we have a T1 line), then I could burn it on a disque from home.