# Favorite podcast episodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcast-episodes/695062 "2014-08-07T22:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcast-episodes/695062/1 "2014-08-07T22:49:26Z")
Looks like I’m going to be doing a lot of traveling over the next few months. Podcasts are always a great way to pass the time. I was wondering if the Teeming Millions had some suggestions for their favorite individual episodes of a podcast. Humorous would be preferred (traveling due to family issues) but any great individual episode would be appreciated. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Hallucinex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcast-episodes/695062/2 "2014-08-08T08:23:56Z")
Pick up just about any Comedy Bang Bang with Paul F. Tompkins in it. There are several with him & Gillian Jacobs that are good. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcast-episodes/695062/3 "2014-08-08T21:57:10Z")
some previous threads Good history podcasts > **[Good history podcasts](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=728828)** > > Someone here, I forget who, recently recommended the Dan Carlin ‘Blueprint for Armageddon’ podcast in another thread. I listed to it, and thoroughly enjoyed it—so I’m wondering, for anyone familiar with that, are there other podcasts in a similar... Another “Recommend me a Podcast” Thread > **[Another "Recommend me a Podcast" Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=726118)** > > I am bored at work and, honestly, music annoys me and I get bored with it berry quickly. I have two podcasts that I listen to regularly, the “steel cage” podcast (WWE wrestling), Cheap Heat podcast (wrestling again), and then some random sports and... tips for finding a good podcast > **[tips for finding a good podcast](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=721464)** > > What’s the best resource for finding a podcast that meets a persons interests and requirements (e.g. doesn’t rely on itunes for distribution, x to y minutes long)? Need podcast recs! > **[Need podcast recs!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=708892)** > > I work in an office all alone, for about 85% of the day. I Netflix, and play music, but I really dig podcasting lately. I’m up-to-date on everything I listen to, though, so I need some more! Your suggestions are welcome. My tastes are pretty varied,... ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcast-episodes/695062/4 "2014-08-08T23:39:09Z")
Hmm. When it comes to individual episodes, the only podcast I’ve actually went back and listened to episodes more than once is Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. It’s not humor–it’s history, duh. A couple of specific standouts would be History Under the Influence and Logical Insanity; if we stretch the definition of “individual episodes” to include “audiobook length multi-episode series”, Ghosts of the Ostfront is superb. Death Throes of the Republic is another that comes immediately to mind. His current series, on the First World War, Blueprint for Armageddon, has also been excellent, though it’s not finished yet. ETA: Most of these are probably off his podcast feed by now, so you’d need to pony up a few bucks for each individual episode on iTunes. Also not exactly humor, but often laugh-out-loud funny, would be the QI Elves’ podcast, No Such Thing as a Fish. They basically go 'round the table, sharing interesting facts that they’ve happened onto in their research and bantering around with them. No specific episode comes to mind; they’re of pretty consistent quality.