Does anyone here on the board listen to podcasts rather than the radio or music? If so, which ones (if you care to share)... do you recommend any?
I listen to some because I don't care for the radio. Radio channels around here have way too much music blaring and not enough talking segments. Besides, I don't like most stuff they talk about. I can't really tolerate the stupid randomness for most part on radioshows, but mostly it's because the music annoys me way too much. I always felt radio didn't equal music, just like television doesn't equal movie. The only radioshow I actually listened to, on pretty much a daily basis was the Howard Stern Show, though I was day behind and listened to about the first 2 hours when I was doing my newspaperroute in the morning.
So I guess podcasts are the next step in finding something to listen to if you're somewhere if you don't want to listen to music.
Looking around at the subscriptions I have on itunes;
-The nerdist (a podcast which features a bunch of nerdish comedians having equally "nerdy" guests. Recently they had Neil degrasse Tyson as a guest, I thought it was hilarious)
-WTF (hosted by Marc Maron, a stand-up comedian himself having other comedians over for an interview)
-1up.com (Actual reviews and discussion on new videogames and developments in that field of interest)
-IGN.com (like 1up.com)
From this list I think The nerdist might appeal to more people on this board. They're having a tv-show soon as well. They had their pilot episode last month or so, that was pretty funny as well.
I listen to some because I don't care for the radio. Radio channels around here have way too much music blaring and not enough talking segments. Besides, I don't like most stuff they talk about. I can't really tolerate the stupid randomness for most part on radioshows, but mostly it's because the music annoys me way too much. I always felt radio didn't equal music, just like television doesn't equal movie. The only radioshow I actually listened to, on pretty much a daily basis was the Howard Stern Show, though I was day behind and listened to about the first 2 hours when I was doing my newspaperroute in the morning.
So I guess podcasts are the next step in finding something to listen to if you're somewhere if you don't want to listen to music.
Looking around at the subscriptions I have on itunes;
-The nerdist (a podcast which features a bunch of nerdish comedians having equally "nerdy" guests. Recently they had Neil degrasse Tyson as a guest, I thought it was hilarious)
-WTF (hosted by Marc Maron, a stand-up comedian himself having other comedians over for an interview)
-1up.com (Actual reviews and discussion on new videogames and developments in that field of interest)
-IGN.com (like 1up.com)
From this list I think The nerdist might appeal to more people on this board. They're having a tv-show soon as well. They had their pilot episode last month or so, that was pretty funny as well.
