# Favorite Podcasts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726 "2007-08-24T03:51:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/1 "2007-08-24T03:51:20Z")
I haven’t had iTunes that long but in that short amount of time, I’ve found a few podcasts that I love. A friend recommended iFanboy for all things comic book related. From there, I discovered The Totally Rad Show which covers the video games, movies, and other nerd-centric topics. And finally, A Prairie Home Companion just to hear Garrison Keiller’s voice. So how about you guys? Any favorites you’d like to share? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/2 "2007-08-24T04:06:07Z")
Car Talk. ---
**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/3 "2007-08-24T04:24:49Z")
[Logically Critical](http://www.logicallycritical.net/Welcome.html) is good. Is there a Straight Dope one? Because there should be. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/4 "2007-08-24T04:25:48Z")
Don’t know much about podcasts except the ones Tivo has preprogrammed. I usually listen to coverville. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/5 "2007-08-24T04:35:49Z")
#1 This American Life #2 Radio Lab #3 Real Time with Bill Maher #4 Sound Opinions ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/6 "2007-08-24T04:38:14Z")
[QUOTE=I’m No Saint] …A friend recommended iFanboy for all things comic book related… [/QUOTE] If you like comics, you should check out John Siuntres’ **Wordballoon** ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/7 "2007-08-24T05:06:23Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/8 "2007-08-24T05:51:20Z")
A podcast that I fear may be done…JudyCast. The premise: Judy Garland, 30+ years after her “death,” returns to do a podcast. A podcast with her special friends, Carol Channing, Bernadette Peters and Golem. Funny as hell, especially if you’re a Garland fan, and the musical numbers are incredible. Sadly there hasn’t been a new episode since June so I have a terrible feelng that the party’s over. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/9 "2007-08-24T06:19:16Z")
The various Slate Magazine podcasts are fun, and I like Today, In Our Time and File on Four from the BBC. If you like videocasts, the Onion News Network has had a few truly brilliant episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/10 "2007-08-24T07:29:50Z")
Mark Kermode’s Film Reviews ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/11 "2007-08-24T07:36:11Z")
Kevin Smith and (producer) Scott Mosier’s SModcast (SM for Smith/Mossier.) Vulgar, random, and not really intellectual, but fun to listen to. If you dig Smith’s commentary tracks on his movies, and/or the Evening With DVD’s, then you’ll probably dig SModcast. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/12 "2007-08-24T11:21:52Z")
[Mac Break Weekly](http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=179237749) if you are a Mac user (or would like to be). ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/13 "2007-08-24T12:29:07Z")
[QUOTE=Manduck] Mark Kermode’s Film Reviews [/QUOTE] Enthusiastically seconded (although I generally hear the segment live). ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/14 "2007-08-24T12:58:59Z")
I like ‘The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe’ and ‘Skeptoid.’ These are weekly – Skeptic’s Guide is longish (usually around an hour and a half) and Skeptoid is shorter – usually 20 minutes or less. I also listen to ‘Point of Inquiry’ and ‘Skepticality’ – both weekly and ~hour long. Rounding out my skeptical Podcasts, I really like ‘Quackcast’ which is all about alt meds. Around a half hour long and supposed to be weekly, although he frequently gets busy and skips a week or two. I’m going to try ‘Logically Critical,’ too – thanks, **bundykala**. I also listen to ‘Diet Detective’ which is real short (usually less than 10 minutes) reviews of diet claims. They do a lot of comparisions of diet products and things like that. And I just started listening to a new one, ‘Munchcast’ which is a Podcast about junk food. A nice balancer to the Diet Detective. Also, you can get some radio shows on Podcast, if you’re willing to pay. I’m listening to Dennis Miller’s new show, but had to pay ~$50 for a subscription to the whole show for a year. I won’t do more than one subscription a year due to the cost, but I’m sure there are other shows out there you can subscribe to. Penn Jillette had a _great_ hourly radio show which I loved – and it was available for free on iTunes, too. It ended in February, though. There’s talk that he might be returning to radio – I sure hope that’s true. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/15 "2007-08-24T13:19:31Z")
If you like sports, ESPN has a whole slew of podcasts available (I routinely get Mike and Mike, Football Today, Around the Horn, PTI, and The B.S. Report) and there’s a network called [My Sports Radio](http://www.mysportsradio.com) (or just MSR) that has decent sports talk (try the NFL Roundtable if you like pro football and go from there if you like what you hear.) Other than that, most of what I get is political or news (Nightline, Fox News Sunday, The McLaughlin Group, Countdown, Hardball, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, NBC Nightly News, and highlights from the Wall Street Journal as part of my Audible subscription.) A couple other things that might be interesting are [Behind the Bricks](http://www.behindthebricks.com) if you’re interested in stand up comedy; [This Ain’t Iowa](http://www.notiowa.com) if you’re interested in sports and especially sports betting, random news, and Las Vegas; and [What’cha Talkin’ 'Bout](http://www.whatchatalkinbout.com) if you are interested in general sports, boxing, the Pittsburgh Steelers, general baseball, or NASCAR. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/16 "2007-08-27T17:52:39Z")
[QUOTE=Jess] I like ‘The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe’ and ‘Skeptoid.’ These are weekly – Skeptic’s Guide is longish (usually around an hour and a half) and Skeptoid is shorter – usually 20 minutes or less. I also listen to ‘Point of Inquiry’ and ‘Skepticality’ – both weekly and ~hour long. Rounding out my skeptical Podcasts, I really like ‘Quackcast’ which is all about alt meds. [/QUOTE] I listen to most of those too, although I wasn’t familiar with Quackcast, so I’ll have to check it out. I was saddened to hear about Perry DeAngelis’ death today on Skeptic’s Guide. I liked Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/17 "2007-08-27T18:22:55Z")
The Ricky Gervais Podcast had me in stitches. Chimpanzee that! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/18 "2007-08-27T18:54:58Z")
[The Roadhouse](http://www.roadhousepodcast.com/): The Finest Blues You Never Heard. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/19 "2007-08-27T19:20:14Z")
Just poked around iTunes a bit this weekend and found more podcasts that I subscribed to despite probably not having time to listen to them all: Adventures of Flash Gordon, which appears to be episodes of the old Flash Gordon radio show; Best of YouTube (video); Serial Clifhanger Theater (video) which has the complete Radar Men from Mars (of MST3K fame) up at the moment; Irregularly Scheduled Programming (video) which is a “wacky news” kind of thing but not, so far, lame. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-podcasts/416726/20 "2007-08-27T19:39:15Z")
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