Four more podcasts I like
Alan Watts podcast. I enjoy the late Alan Watts' playful descriptions of eastern religions, which were utterly incomprehensible to me until I began reading his books. "Alan Watts is one of the most widely read philosophers of the 20th century. In addition to his 28 books, Alan Watts delivered hundreds of public lectures and seminars the recordings of which have been preserved in the archives of the Electronic University, a non-profit organization dedicated to higher education. For the past two years Alan's eldest son, Mark Watts has reviewed and cataloged these talks to prepare them for public broadcast."
The Casbah. "An eclectic rock & roll and rhythm radio show featuring surf-instrumentals, garage, blues and more! The show airs Saturdays 7-9pm Central Standard Time on KSYM 90.1 FM in San Antonio."
NY Times Front Page. "James Barron, a reporter at The New York Times, summarizes the top headlines every weekday morning."
New Yorker: Fiction. This is my favorite new podcast. Each month, the New Yorker's fiction editor asks an author to read one of his or her favorite stories by another author from the archives of the magazine. After the reading, the editor interviews the author. "This month, T. Coraghessan Boyle reads Tobias Wolff’s short story 'Bullet in the Brain.'"
Feel free to share your favorite podcasts in the comments.
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Alan Watts is great stuff. I think --The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are-- is Watts at his best.
I am a big fan of "this American Life".
Tobias Wolff’s 'Bullet in the Brain' is a great little short story that was also read on This American Life several years ago. I can see it making it's way into lots of college and high school literary anthologies (if it hasn't already) because it's quick, vivid, and has a little zinger at the end (not exactly an O'Henry ending, but a memorable ending). I'm not a dedicated fiction reader by a longshot, and this is the third time the story has come across my path in the years since it's publication. I'll have to listen to T. Coraghessan Boyle read it, though I think it's better appreciated on the page.
BBC's In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg is wonderful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/
The Skeptic's Guide to The Universe:
http://thesepkticsguide.org
Meaty information, cool characters, well paced – I hardly believe it's unscripted.
If you're a smart person, then you'll subscribe. It's as simple as that.
I also must second This American Life
WhatTheCast @ http://whatthecast.com (also on iTunes)
RadioLab from WNYC. The most amazing radio show I have ever heard.
A few episodes are available on iTunes.
There are more Alan Watts recordings up at http://diydharma.org/Watts. I loves his writing but hearing him really underlines what a great performer he was.
Science Fiction fans should definitely subscribe to Escape Pod.
Bonus points for an excellent reading of Cory Doctorow's "Crap Hound."
Le Casse croute (excellent french cooking show) video
This is Hell (funny and very interesting political weekly)
Antiwar Radio (very good interviews)
The Bugle (John Oliver from Daily Show & buddy...great)
Entitled Opinions by Stanford romanist Robert Harrison is by far my favorite Podcast. Each week he conducts a hourlong interview with guests ranging from Stanford faculty to world renowned intellectuals like Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk. The catalogue has grown to more than fifty Podcasts and are a treasure trove for any thinking being!
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/
A few I regularly check in on:
Escape Pod (previously mentioned; always quality)
Triple Feature (three web cartoonists who specialize in movie commentary give their reviews and take calls)
Downloadable Content (Gabe & Tycho from Penny Arcade bullshit and come up with their comics in realtime)
The G-Spot (Alterati.com's house podcast, the occult movement)
HalfCast (ontological goofery from down under)
The Church of the Subgenius' Hour of Slack
The R.U. Sirius Show and its sister podcast, NeoFiles (link seems to be malfunctioning presently; neither appear to have been updated lately)
Indie Spinner Rack (so much more interesting to listen about comics pushing the medium than who's "dying" this week in underwear pervert books)
The Bugle ('Audio Newspaper for a Visual World' feat. Daily Show's John Oliver. Funnier than the Daily Show)
Entitled Opinions (Stanford Lit Prof with a smooth voice and poetic sensibility interviews other academics. Check out episodes "The Historical Jesus", "Dante" and Orhan Pamuk interview.)
- Scientific American podcasts: 60-Second Science & Science Talk: (http://www.sciam.com/podcast/)
- half of KCRW's output (www.kcrw.com/podcasts) including: Martini Shot; Left, Right & Center; Design & Architecture; Second Opinion and The Urban Man;
- The Economist's podcasts (http://feeds.feedburner.com/economist/audio_all)
- and last but not least: Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase (http://betty.libsyn.com/) 8-)
- bnt
There's one podcast that for me has become a daily exercise in education, amusement and adoration.
The Rachel Maddow Show
http://www.airamerica.com/maddow/
(also available on iTunes)
She's been described as being like "Amy Goodman, with animal noises", which brings me to
Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org/
(also available on iTunes)
DN is the best media anywhere. It's independent, so you don't have to wonder (or be blissfully ignorant of) the corporate money and government influence that is shaping the news you are fed on the mainstream media.
Cyberpunk Radio SF is another great podcast- music, cyberpunk stories and robots out the waazoo! Always something funky and original in this podcast.
Ooo, I'll have to start tuning into The Casbah. I live in San Antonio and think KSYM is awesome. :-)
The economist weekly podcast is my favorite.
Very interesting economic discussions (from a libertarian perspective) of a wide range of topics.
http://www.econtalk.org
I can personally rate as extremely high the interviews on: Worst Case Scenarios, Aid & Development, Supercrunchers, History of Great Depression
a little bit on the awesomecast
best video podcasts that the bear little resemblance to television --
http://pouringdown.tv/
http://robertcroma.com/
http://www.scratchvideo.tv/
http://wreckandsalvage.com/
http://www.nexttoheaven.net/
Thanks for all of these suggestion! I'm going to have to listen to one podcast in each year to keep up.
any research on how the brain can be trained to sort multiple audio inputs?`
My favorite podcast WAS the BOINGBOING PODCAST until they betrayed me. I will not forget nor forgive. Boingboing TV blows.
The Slate Gabfest.
The New York Times Book Review podcast.
Wait Wait Don't Tell me.
Point of Inquiry - skepticism, science, religion, the paranormal. Real good host.
Now I feel bad. Boingboing TV is good; the podcast was better.
Now I feel bad. Let me rephrase: Boingboing TV is good; the podcast was better.
Yes! The Casbah is one of my favorite podcasts - a great radio show the likes of you probably won't find on your dial. It's been on for at least like ten years now, great choice for fave podcast.
Alan Watts is broadcast every Tuesday morning at 9 am Rocky Mountain Time on KGNU radio 88.5 FM from Boulder Colorado.
You can listen anywhere at KGNU.org
The program is 1/2 hour long.
My new favorite
http://theagonists.blogspot.com/
Never Not Funny - Just what it says
http://podcast.jimmypardo.com/NeverNotFunny/Podcast/Podcast.html
Leo Laporte and gang about tech
http://www.twit.tv/
http://www.creotradio.net/
it's done by us...the creotians...
CBC radio 3 has a few weekly podcasts featuring indie Canadian music. http://radio3.cbc.ca/
Weekly hour long mix of indie music, mostly indie/alt rock and pop but some other stuff as well
RSS: http://www.cbcradio3.com/podcast/radio3/
Hour long version of CBC radio 3's weekly top 30 countdown show. RSS: http://www.cbcradio3.com/podcast/r330/
Sessions. They bring a band into a CBC studio and chat with the band between songs.
RSS: http://www.cbcradio3.com/podcast/sessions/
hey you might like this site, daily selections of good podcasts from a collection of the best stuff:
http://earideas.com
I'm going to have to second (or third) RadioLab. I heard about it some time ago while listening to This American Life and have never looked back.
I like the Radioclash podcast the best - it's mashups and remixes and general Brit banter from a guy named Tim. Great knowledge of all kinds of young people music!
www.mutantpop.net/radioclash
Don't have my itunes handy for feed info.
Audio Favs only, no particular order.
-Quick Hitts
-Keith and the Girl
-Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.
-Cush, Things I say
-Buzz Out Loud
-The Writer's Almanac
-The NonProphets
-NYT Book review and front page.
-The Onion Radio News.
-Slate Podcasts - explainer, gabfest, etc.
-Cato Daily Podcast
One good video cast is alive in baghdad.
And thanks for all the other recs!
Anyone know where I can get 4 extra hours a day for everything I want to listen to?
Is it just me or is the Alan Watts one broken?
I love Science & the City's podcasts, which are recordings of lectures from the New York Academy of Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, and other science-y organizations in NY. Stephen Pinker on the science of swearing was hysterical!
http://www.nyas.org/snc/podcasts.asp?pager_podcast=1&
Smodcast.
#34 Excellent! I can't believe I forgot smodcast.
I think you will all get a kick out of our podcast!
Integral Naked Podcast - A Feed About Everything
"Integral Naked is your gateway to some of the most exciting, cutting edge conversations taking place in today's world--featuring hundreds of hours of discussions with today’s greatest thinkers, artists, and visionaries; spanning a wide range of topics, including spirituality, sexuality, psychology, ecology, art, and politics. Through the rich diversity of subject matter runs a fierce determination to connect the dots of our fragmented lives and begin to make sense of a world gone slightly mad..."
Recent Guests include:
Stone Gossard (guitarist for Pearl Jam)
Neale Donald Walsch (of the Conversations With God series)
Saul Williams (Slam poet and hip hop emcee extraordinairre)
Steve Whitmire (Muppet performer of Kermit the Frog)
Rupert Sheldrake (biochemist and originator of theory of Morphogenetic Resonance)
Father Thomas Keating (Christian mystic and developer of the Centering Prayer practice)
Alanis Morissette (singer/songwriter)
Alex Grey (transpersonal artist)
Deepak Chopra (writer of many spiritual books)
Genpo Roshi (Zen Master and originator of the Big Mind/Big Heart process)
Sharon Stone (Actress and philanthropist)
Ed Kowalczyk (Lead singer from the band Live)
Also, if you would like to hear a couple of these full-length talks for free, check these out:
Rupert Sheldrake and Ken Wilber - How Do We Account for Memory in Nature?
Stone Gossard and Ken Wilber - Pearl Jam: Restoring Idealism in Rock and Roll
The Alan Watts one is fantastic, but there isn't much material up. The Kriya Yoga podcast is also very good.
My fave is probably Dan Carlin's hardcore history. Really fantastic, well produced history 'lessons'.
I really like Elite Arcadian Review Force, even though they aren't as polished as a lot of video game review podcasts. You can tell they really do try, and they have been getting better with each episode.
You can find them at http://earf.360Arcadians.net
I like Studio 360, KCRW'S Good Food, and CBC radio Quirks and Quarks.
I also download Real Time with Bill Maher.
I loved 'The Casbah'
OOO, downloadable too. Nice!
The Casbah is totally bueno - 10+ years strong and growing. Excellent choice!
H. Michael Karshis
Alan Watts is great! I like his voice very much..
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