Best of the Best? Current Podcasts please?

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Biannoshufu

Did the forum search thing, and a lot of those podcasts are on my list anyway (TAL, Smodcast) but I wanted to know if you had a new gem since that thread was created that you'd put forth as the best of the best?

Thanks in advance
 
Frank

Frank

WTF with Marc Maron. You may not listen to all of them, I don't. I usually only listen when his guest interests me but he has an uncanny ability to get anyone to open up. I think for some of his amazing classic episodes you have to pay for them now like the stupendous shows with Carlos Mencia and Robin Williams.

The Nerdist, again when they have a guest that interests me. They've had some fantastic shows like the recent one with Tom Wilson (Biff from BTTF).

Really, that's about it for the ones I listen to that I would call great. I don't really enjoy many of the Smodcast network shows anymore, they reeeeeeeeeeally spread themselves thin but I guess that'll happen when Kevin Smith is doing 5000 hours of new content a week. Most of my favorites are sadly no more.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I've been looking for more new podcasts myself. Most of my favourites are finished: The Animation Podcast, Stephen Fry's Podgrams, all of the Penny-Arcade D&D sessions but not the Wizards of the Coast podcast as a whole...
 
Covar

Covar

TWiT.

Also the TWiT Network's daily show TNT (Tech News Today). If you're a Mac user MacBreak Weekly is also worth watching/listening to.

twit.tv makes up the majority of my podcast listening if you couldn't tell.

Also if you have an iOS device I recommend Downcast for listening. It's pretty good for managing your shows, has multiple speeds for listening, and AirPlay support for video (I assume audio as well). Plus you can play only the audio on your video podcasts.
 
Norris

Norris

Hollywood Babble-On with Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman is always funny. It is sometimes pretty offensive, but if you listen to SModcast, then you ought to be good.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

I am resurrecting this thread to tell people that if they are not listening to Superego and The Dana Gould Hour, they are missing out.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

This American Life is always pretty interesting, although it's not really little known.

Reccing Comedy Bang Bang! solely based on the TV show and my friends loving it
also sports: The BS Report is good, I like Bill Simmons
also I really like BBC Global News. It's a pretty dispassionate straight up world news 20 minutes that usually always has some kind of story I hadn't heard about yet from other sources
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

I loved Nerdist for a long time, but as the time I have to listen to these things deminished, I found them to be too unbalanced to commit to. Some were hilarious, others meh. Same thing happened with the Smodcast shows.

I'll second This American Life, and throw in Radiolab. I'll have to look into the BBC thing, since I almost can't watch or listen to news any more because of the constant sense of bias.
 
Kovac

Kovac

Penn's Sunday School is one of my top podcasts and I always make time to listen to it.
And I wasn't much of a Penn Jillette fan before I started listening. The only reason I started listening to it was because it was mentioned on the Nerdist.

Smodcast - Fat man on Batman has some really interesting people on to interview

And Sword & Laser is very good as well
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Bowielee said:
I LOVE Radiolab. I could do without the sound effects sometimes, though.
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Chad Sexington said:
I felt this way for a long time, but I've come to enjoy the sound effects
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The sound effects are there for the short-attention-span people who might have stopped listening. To hear Jad tell it, the sound effects "embroider" the story and make it pop. I believe if you're all wrapped up in the story, the sound effects are not as necessary, but for the most part they do just what Jad wants them to do.

--Patrick
 
Frank

Frank

I've been enjoying the Laser Time podcast network a lot lately. They have a bunch of shows. The flagship, Laser Time, is a pop culture list based show where they pick a topic and go through and discuss a bunch of examples from it. Vidjagame Apocalypse does the same thing but with video game topics. Cheap Popcast is their occasional wrestling podcast and the only one I don't listen to. They also have a comic book podcast called Cape Crisis, which shockingly, discusses current comics.

Oh, and I also very much enjoy The Comedy Button. If you've never listened, give their best of 2012 episode a shot to see if you do or do not mesh with their style.
 
Zappit

Zappit

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My Tumblr feed has blown up with Welcome to Night Vale, so I'm listening to the pilot right now. It's like a town in the X-Files that's kind of dull to the shitload of strange happenings. The comedy is pretty good too. There was a bit on an NRA rep handing out bumper stickers that read, "Guns don't kill people. Guns can't kill people. We are all invincible against bullets and it is a miracle." Listeners were instructed to stand on their porches yelling NRA to order one. I'm digging it.
 
Covar

Covar

The Alton Browncast, it's Alton Brown. Doing a podcast, talking food, interviewing people. What's not to love?

Art of Wrestling. Colt Cabana interviews a wrestler every week. Does a great job with the interviews and can make even the smallest of Indy wrestlers seem like a big deal.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Zappit said:
My Tumblr feed has blown up with Welcome to Night Vale, so I'm listening to the pilot right now. It's like a town in the X-Files that's kind of dull to the shitload of strange happenings. The comedy is pretty good too. There was a bit on an NRA rep handing out bumper stickers that read, "Guns don't kill people. Guns can't kill people. We are all invincible against bullets and it is a miracle." Listeners were instructed to stand on their porches yelling NRA to order one. I'm digging it.
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I've been wondering what the hell Night Vale was.

Downloading now, thanks for the tip.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

Welcome to Night Vale, which I am mainlining right now, had made me laugh out loud repeatedly. Winning suggestion.
 
Frank

Frank

GFW Pax Reunion 2 was just released (fucking finally....God damn Ryan Scott and his procrastination) and it's just as good as it ever was. All intelligent guys who can crank from zany hilarious anecdotes into insightful games in record breaking time. The best video game podcast of all time. They hadn't all been in the same room for years and it was like they hadn't missed a beat.

Warning, they spoil the shit out of Gone Home.

Direct Download Link
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I had to go looking for this thread because I jsut recently discovered a new podcast that I am catching up on and still stuck in 2010. I still have 4 years of this podcast to catch up on. It is called "My Brother, My Brother, and Me", and it is an advice show for the modern era.
 
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