Podcast Suggestions (other than BV)

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Love podcasts and wrote this list up for g+ a while ago. Many are already mentioned in this thread.

Daily Tech New Show (DTNS) what it sounds like. fun and informative. Hosted by Tom Merritt with guests. It’s very well done and keeps getting better.

Bad Voltage - linux stuffs fer the most part, also tech, round table, funny, and definitely the best Linux podcast I’ve found. Interviews and reviews. Smart without being overly technical

Canadaland - discussion of the media landscape; interviews, opinions.

Hardcore History - Dan Carlin’s entertaining, in-depth look at different historical events -I didn’t know I liked history before listening to this podcast. Dan Carlin’s background is in broadcasting (great voice) and is not a professional historian. Really well produced.

Hacker Public Radio - community driven podcasts on various topics, from hacking the kernel to making a fire.

The SciPhiShow - philosophical discussion using scifi as a touchstone. good discussion. Worth checking if’n ya like scifi and/or philosophy.

Ideas (CBC) -ideas about ideas. arts, science, religion, philosophy, books, ethics, etc. It’s hit and miss which episodes I enjoy (just not into all the topics) but when it’s good it’s great.

The Joe Rogan Experience - Discussion, mostly interview, long form, some GREAT guests from many walks of life, from artists to scientists. I despised ‘Fear Factor’ and I have little interest in MMA so I thought I wouldn’t like this show, but it’s great. Rogan is open and real and asks interesting questions. He’s a bit open to conspiracy-type ideas but this is more endearing than annoying. Seriously, check this podcast out despite any preconceived ideas you have about it. Joe’s a smart cat and he has some incredible guests.

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Start Trek Podcast - best ST podcast out there. ep. by ep. overview, trivia, behind the scenes, discussion of ‘messages, morals, meanings’ -this is a ST podcast for ST fans -the kind who aren’t afraid to hear that some episodes of ST weren’t always great.

No Such Thing As A Fish - from the writers of QI (if you don’t know the show, it’s a long running British TV show that points out interesting facts). Round table, the hosts offer interesting, oft little known facts about…everything.

bathPod Public Lecture Podcast - Long form, lectures from various presenters, ‘leaders’ in sceince, art, politics. Good stuff; I treat it as a grab-bag.

The Titanium Physicists - a podcast about physics by phycisists; it generally tries to to explain some of the ideas in physics to non-physicists. It’s a great show; the only thing I’m not a fan of is the intro which is a take off on Iron Chef -it’s fun and al, just not my bag.l

Quirks and Quarks (CBC) -Weekly science news hosted by Bob Macdonald -typically 4 or five science stories and interviews with scientists involved in the stories. Plus everybody’s favourite, Q and A shows.

Radiolab (WNYC) most people know of this podcast: stories that often start as science and end with a human story -or vice versa. Great presentation, point of view… wonderful music.

Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - Adam Savage and co discussing interesting things: from ‘making’ to tv, books, cooking, etc. Regular episodes marked as ‘spoilercasts’ where they discuss movies, and most recently, books. Fun and interesting.

This Week in Tech (TWiT) - round table, indepth discussion of the weeks tech news, hosted by Leo Laporte and various guests from the tech industry or tech media. One of my fave. weekly podcasts. fun. insightful.

Triangulation (TWiT) - long form interview with influential and interesting people in tech and related. Hosted by Laporte it’s very well done and he gets some great guests.

Under the Influence (CBC/Pirate Radio & Television) -Terry O’reilly hosts an interesting, informative and fun look at the advertising industry. Something I never thought I’d be interested in.

Welcome to Nightvale - spooky funny irreverent fiction set in the fictional town of Nightvale. presented as ‘Community updates’. Think Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, The Twilight Zone.

Wiretap (CBC) a mix of fiction and non, presented/written by Jonathan Goldstein, a few recurring characters, and interesting guests. erm ‘quirky’ is an easy way to describe it.

WTF with Marc Maron - long form interview with comedians, artists, actors, etc. Hosted and produced by Maron, a guy who likes cats and whose comedy I like.

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@VXXii this is an excellent list. Makes me want to listen to a whole bunch of them! You may like Futility Closet.

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If you haven’t listened to Welcome to Nightvale. You might be trapped in the dog park

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Thanks for this - will check it out based just on your description.

I would also like to ++ Linux Luddites.

And I don’t think anyone mentioned The Sunday Morning Linux Review. I have only discovered it recently - have probably listened to half a dozen episodes. This show has its ups and downs for me, but I really like the mostly unstructured “3 friends talking about Linux” feel of the show - which has sometimes come off a little boring on other podcasts, but in this case not so, IMO. Overall it’s a nice relaxing show to listen to during the commute or etc.

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The Podnutz network has some good shows but I mainly listen to Linux For The Rest Of Us. I look forward to Cody and Door’s enthusiasm and banter every week.

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I recently listened to a couple of episodes of Freakshow. It’s a funny but rather lengthy show on IT stuff with a heavy Mac focus.

As it is done by some CCC people and other German hackers it is in German, but since the BV community is so awesomely global, that shouldn’t stand in everybody´s way. (Also, on the fly translation of spoken word would be cool, no?)

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One more to the list: The Changelog

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Another +1 for The Joe Rogan Experience.

Like @VXXii mentioned, Mr. Rogan’s past/current engagements may not seem particularly convincing (he does have a great sense of humor and sense of irony, with “I’m a meathead, what the actual f**k do I know about this subject” -attitude) but I find his podcast to be one of the best. Great guests, interesting topics; he is a very patient interviewer, allowing the guest talk as much as they want.

Along Rogan’s podcast is Bryan Callen and Hunter Maats’ podcast, “The Bryan Callen Show.” Shorter than Rogan’s but equally interesting guests with quite deep and well-balanced analysis of a given subject.

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In the world of medicine, “BV” is a common abbreviation for a medical condition called bacterial vaginosis, which is about as gross as it sounds. Humbly submit that the show’s name be shortened in a less potentially disturbing way. :smile:
EB

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I have to express my thanks for this one. The shows on this podcast can be downright funny. Sparks Nevada: Marshal on Mars is about my favorite. A funny, yet kind of disturbing, thing they did a couple of times on that show is that, the setting being in the 31st century, there was evidence that Windows is still being used!

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I love the quick, development-related podcasts. They make for nice interludes between the longer-format shows, too :wink: For example…

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Subscribed. Also, very easy to subscribe on the iPhone; just tap one button. We should improve that. But I’d like to hear how easy it is to subscribe for android and desktop and other non ios users.

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it reminds me of the BV Social in college. BV being Black Velvet whiskey.

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Most of my not-too-niche faves have already been mentioned. So, in the vein of newky’s OP “in fact I often find the best new podcasts are ones that introduce me to an area I’m less familar with”:

  • Cunning Minx’s Polyamory Weekly podcast about polyamory and the people who practice it, news, and issues that come up and general relationship stuff - because they’re doing what the monogamous of us are doing but more of it, so actually more than you’d think applies to 1-on-1 relationships too - the things that make those work also makes other relationships work too. Its USA focussed but does have some international audience. I’m not poly (tried it briefly years ago, decided not for me) but I still find lots of interesting stuff there. Huge archive of episodes on all sorts of topics.

My Tech/Science-related additions:

  • SE Radio - fantastic one for s/w developers (or if technically minded in this industry) if you want to keep up with different languages/techs/methodologies/architectures - totally serious mood, covers everything it means to be a rounded s/w developer or architect or in the software business, mostly in deep-dive interviews with someone from an industry, either a developer or architect/other technical role. I pick and choose my downloads based on interest.
  • Awesome Astronomy - I have strong interest in astronomy and know the guys who produce this one (UK based); the bloopers (included after each show usually) are sometimes the funniest bits, sometimes contains obscenities.
  • BBC’s Science in Action, the “Science” Magazine one, NPR’s Science Friday
    With all those you end up with a lot of the same stories analysed so I often skip episodes/segments of at least one of them where I’ve had enough.
  • BBC Click (the radio show converted plus an intro/outro - not very deep, pop tech/little bit of science, but often-enough leftfield interesting stuff)
  • Ubuntu Podcast, already mentioned of course; “Radio 4”-ish as alleged, but enough banter to keep it entertaining for me; also looking forward to Oggcamp again this year hurrah!

Other things

  • BBC’s Friday Night Comedy (though better when its the News Quiz not the Now Show which alternates with it between series)

You can also get TED Talks as an audio podcast - for the talks where audio-only works, and maybe there’s a video version too.

I use PodcastAddict on Android, with the adverts, but nicer to use than the open source players I tried. gPodder on PC (but almost never listen via that). gPodder on my Nokia N900 did a pretty good job but gpodder-on-Android exploration attempts/incarnation doesn’t seem likely to ever exist/any day soon - I think I read of some basic efforts towards it years ago). PA lets you use its own player with speed control so 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3x real speed gets you through the slower ones without the Helium-voice affect and especially for less technical content or slower speakers, to fit more in to my listening time.

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I just realized, @ssweeny, that I am under onus to you. :smile:

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A bit late to the party, but +1 for Hello Internet.

Other podcasts I love:

The History of English Podcast It’s long and covers +10,000 years of the development of English from Proto Indo-European to early modern English. It’s still ongoing and is up to episode 43. I like it because it’s not something I know anything about - other than being an English speaker, and it’s made be change my assumptions about correctness of English.

Kermode & Mayo’s Film Review aka Wittertainment. It’s a movie review show, but it’s not about movie reviews.

In Our Time Melvin Bragg + 3 academics shoot shit about a topic for 45 minutes. Again, I tend to listen to topics I know little or nothing about.

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Other than Badvoltage, I listen to the radio, mostly.

2XM, Breakfast republic (2FM), BBCradio 2 and 6.

occasionally tune into ubuntupodcast, but MW buggers it up, with his OCD aeroplane industry yarns.

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you might want to check out podlove. it has a somewhat nice subscribe interface.

also, chapter marks in BV would be great.

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How do I add chapter marks?

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i am afraid it depends on what you use to edit the show, I think auphonic has a relatively easily discoverable way to do it. See this, unfortunately slightly older, blog post from them: https://auphonic.com/blog/2013/07/03/chapter-marks-and-enhanced-podcasts/

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