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And the ‘Rugby Pod’ with Andy Goode and Jim Hamilton is comic genius
In the theme of the TV shows/movies threads.
I'm after some podcast recommendations.
I like true crime, true story, sport, funny. You name it.
Some of my recent faves:
Intrigue: Tunnel 29
Cryptoqueen
Dad Wrote A Porno
Dear Joan and Jericha
The Ratline
Talking Fussball
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Then there are classics like
Serial
S-Town
So, what are you listening to?
If you’re into wine try A glass with Olly Smith’
And the ‘Rugby Pod’ with Andy Goode and Jim Hamilton is comic genius
Currently following Monster: DC Sniper, which is a true crime podcast on its third season (they've covered the Atlanta Monster and the Zodiac Killer before). It's good, albeit a bit slow and RIDDLED with ad breaks.
I'm also following SMERSH Pod, although it's on hiatus now. A guy with various comedians as guests who celebrate and/or take the piss out of various old movies. The first season it's just the Bond films, but it branches out after that.
Another favorite is Hello From The Magic Tavern, which is an improvised comedy podcast about three people playing a wizard, a shapeshifting badger and a "normal" human who's trapped in a magical fantasy realm. It's incredibly funny when it gets going, although it demands a high tolerance for silliness.
Rugby in order of preference.:
EggChasers
BBC Rugby podcast
Rugby Pod (Andy Goode and Jim Hamilton)
Flats and Shanks
TMS is excellent.
Peter Crouch good for football.
History Hit is very interesting and particularly like No Such Thing as a Fish.
Off Menu Podcast with James Acaster and Ed Gamble
No such thing as a fish
BBC Radio4 Friday Night Comedy
Desert Island Discs
BMJ
Possibly some other interview type one if the guest is someone I like, Tim Ferris Show, Under the Skin, The Drive with Peter Attia
I listen to all sorts:
Tech
Accidental Tech Podcast
Upgrade
Connnected
The Vergecast
Waveform
Other
The Pen Addict
Cortex
Reconcilable Differences
Remaster
Top Four
Analog(ue)
Thoroughly Considered
Robot or Not?
Two Minute Time-Lord
Doctor Who Flashcast
iRacing Downshift
Sport
Blueshirts Breakaway
Under Review with Greg and Steven
R2C2
31 Thoughts
Death in ice valley.
I couldn’t help pressing the play button after every episode.
Another one I love is.
Dan snows - History Hit.
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Distraction pieces - Scroobius Pip
The John Batchelor show
RHLSTP- Richard Herring
True crime
Athletico mince
F1 Beyond the grid
Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder
Fun stuff ...
The bugle
My dad wrote a porno
Serios stuf ...
Freakonomics
Times red box
Guardian today in focus
love a bit of
Desert Island Discs
Peter Crouch
Off Menu (occasionally)
Table Manners (Jessie Ware & her Mum have a celeb to dinner)
Hip Hop Saved My Life (Romesh)
particularly enjoy the last as i enjoy the genre of music and the guests are pretty diverse too
Some good ones not mentioned yet:
- 50 Things that made the modern economy - 2 series
- 30 Animals that made us smarter e.g. Bullet train nose is actually a Kingfisher beak
- Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
- You're Dead to Me - Comedy history podcast a sort of Horrible Histories for Adults
- The Infinite Monkey Cage
- Stephen Frys Great Leap Years
- No Such Thing as a Fish (mentioned above but very good)
- More or Less
- Cautionary Tales (anther Tim Harford podcast)
- F1 Beyond the Grid
- The Bottom Line
- David Baddiel Tries to Understand
Gossipmongers.
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Spaceworm or Wellybaby?Originally Posted by andymonkey
Wellybaby.
I thought there were plenty of stories much better than both really but the whole thing is hilarious with it topped off by the laughter of David and Joe.
Also funny is The Brian Gittins and Friends Show. Brian, David and Charles the robot just chatting rubbish for an hour or so....
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Peter Crouch Podcast
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Dramas:
Blackout ft Rami Malek
Interesting Things Explained Well.
He covers all sorts of topics. It’s very informative, and often very funny. Off the top of my head, some subjects include horses, background radiation, Bernie Madoff, rabies, The black hole of Calcutta, Lord Byron, and an especially good one recently added was all about Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. Can’t recommend this podcast enough!
Enjoy that one too, David Edwards is hilarious - still can't work out if he genuinely doesn't know the guests' names
If you like true crime, listen to They Walk Among Us. British based crime cases. Really good.
Case file is similar, but read by an Australian guy and covering true crimes around the world.
Damn Interesting is a great listen, and is usually as the title of the pod suggests, damn interesting stories.
Dan Snows History Hit is one of the best podcasts there is. I’ve lost count of the number of books I’ve bought on the strength of his interviews.
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“Stop shouting”....
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The main 3 I would listen to are:
Peter crouch
The greatest game (Jamie carragher)
Collecting cars (Chris Harris and others)
I’m caught up with them all now though so getting them on drip is a bit annoying. I tend to save them for a longer car journey.
Frank Skinner Absolute Radio (totally different from his stand up stuff).
Adam Buxton
Richard Herring RHLSTP
Infinite monkey cage
No such thing as a fish
I listen to a lot of podcasts and I’m always on the look out for recommendations. Some of my recent subscriptions:
Forest 404
Murmurs
End of days
13 minutes to the moon
Tumanbay
The whisper in darkness
Fatwa
And for any Scottish football fans...
Open Goal
Off menu
Collecting classic cars
The smoking tire ( motoring podcast)
Joe Rogan
How did this get made (slagging off terrible films)
Sloss and Humphreys on the road,
The Documentary Podcast from BBC World Service - a really varied selection of topics
Plenty of recommendations here for me to try!
I've just finished Caliphate, which is an extraordinary look at ISIS from as inside as you can get if you're not signed up. I can't recommend it enough.
I should also recommend the excellent Everything Is Alive. A really charming, slightly thought-provoking, often funny pod where the host interviews an inanimate object. You've never heard anything like it. Give it a go.
I’d add:
The Best thing since sliced bread?
Interesting and funny look at various health foods etc and whether there is any truth to the claims.
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Out To Lunch with Jay Rainer (celeb chef interviews other chefs in a posh restaurant)
How I Built This (interviews with tech entrepreneurs and how they made it big)
The Infinite Monkey Cage (BBC comedy science show with Brian Cox)
Sodajerker On Songwriting (interviews with musicians on the art of songwriting)
Bark & Jack podcast has been pretty good in the first few episodes.
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At the moment
Athletico Mince
Women like Us
The Skewer
Heavy Pencil
Adam Buxton
Luthier on Luthier
Dear Joan and Jericha
F.T.F.A.
New Scientist - the weekly Friday podcast
Infinite Monkey Cage
13 minutes to the Moon
Selected episodes from Desert Island Discs
News Quiz
defiantly NSFW
Ripper Magoo (Bob Menery)
Lots of shouting and swearing but has weird mix of guests including the Seal Team 6 guy that killed Bin Laden
Also as i play a fair bit of poker
DAT poker Podcast and Pokwr Central podcast
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A few I enjoy regularily:
Flat & Shanks (Rugby by 2 expros)
Adam Buxton (some great interviews)
Films to Be Buried With (a bit like Desert Islan Disks for films)
We have ways of making you talk (WW2 History with James Holland & Al Murray)
The Treehouse (Danny baker reprising his radio show, very funny)
Crime Series:
Dirty john
The Shrink next Door
The Wonderland murders
The Drop Out
Lastly, I cover a lot of miles for work and listen to Audiobooks sometimes. I have just listened to 'First Light' by Geoffrey Wellam. He is a decorated Battle of Britain pilot. It is superbly written and the
guy narrating it is very good too. Gives you a real feeling for how it must have been to fly in a Spitfire at a very young age and into combat
Hope you enjoy these
John
I don’t normally quote long posts but I had no idea that Danny Baker’s Show was back - albeit as a podcast. Thanks for posting this
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Serial is a great crime documentary podcast, albeit pretty old now!
Another I'm into at the moment is Sawbones, again being going for ages but is a documentary on medical history... Nowhere near as dry as it sounds!
If you want something quite dark but fascinating try Caliphate. Amazing detail about Islamic State by an American journalist who follows them round Syria.
Impossible to describe. Just listen.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Just finished Bellingcat podcast,very good journalistic investigation to prove Russia‘a involvement in the shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet
Thread resurrection. I've never listened to podcasts before and would like to get into them, I'm more interested in comedy so stuff like "off menu" appeals. My question is, is there a way to download these podcasts to a computer so I can transfer them to my portable player for later? I'll not be using my phone for this. The reason for this is when I'll be listening to them I'll be offshore and will have no phone signal and very poor wifi that'll not allow downloads
Yes. Get the BBC Sounds app and it’s simple to download podcasts.
Not sure if you’ve already heard them but if you’re a comedy fan then I highly recommend -
The Now Show
The Unbelievable Truth
The News Quiz
That Peter Crouch Podcast (better than you’ll think it’ll be)
Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life
I’m sure there are dozens more but you can’t go wrong with the above.
Enjoy.
Sorry. Didn’t read your post properly. Just seen you won’t be using a phone.
Therefore I’m not certain how easy it is to download via BBC sounds on a laptop. But if you can get the app on your laptop you should be golden.
You can use pocketcast (android) or spotify to download and listen to offline?
For comedy I really enjoy "The Jeselnik and Rosenthal Vanity Project", it's one of my absolute favourite podcasts. You may also like "Everyday decisions with Jo Firestone" (quite new, so still finding it's groove). Both are produced by Comedy Central who have a lot of content.
"That Peter Crouch Podcast" has already been mentioned, but also worth a listen even if you don't like football, it's very much comedy gold.
And "No such thing as a fish" can also be quite funny as well.
Your installation must have some pretty crappy wifi!!!
If it’s an apple iPod touch then you can download to the podcast app.
Thanks for the replies everyone. Unfortunately spotify isn't allowing me to download to my laptop, pocketcast doesn't seem to support a windows based laptop and bbc sounds app isn't available for computers and the website doesn't allow download. Forgot to mention I don't use any apple products. Seems I'm drawing a blank unless I'm missing something
Extremely crappy. We're lucky we don't have to pay for it though like some outfits
There must be a solution I’m sure. Someone more technically able will be along shortly I hope!
Yea I’ve heard services can vary substantially. I operated mostly on drilling rigs, so tended to be better.
Crikey reminds me, been almost 4 years to the day since my last ever offshore trip!
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Lucky bloke. I'm sat at home at the moment waiting on word when I'll be flying down to Brazil. The way its going I'll be here for 3 months and then have to do the same offshore for payback. The Floatel is down manning though at present due to the current situation and there are all sorts of issues getting folk in and out of country obviously. Needless to say I've spent the last 4-5 yrs looking for an out but there ain't alot of work about in the midlands for a dpo, lol.
Anyway back on track, I think I've sorted a work round for the issue. So Basically I want to download podcasts to my windows laptop so I can transfer them to my Fiio player. Done this by downloading "Bluestacks" which acts as a andriod emulator. From this I can access google play store and load pocket cast onto my laptop. I can now save the podcasts to a desired folder on my laptop, sort them and transfer later to my player.
Thanks everyone for their assistance in this first world problem
It's easily done.
Assuming you don't use any Apple products as you don't happen to own any, rather than because you have some sort of moral reason for it, download iTunes to your laptop.
Within iTunes pick the episodes you want and download them as if you were going to listen to them on your laptop whilst offline at a later date.
Once they're downloaded, they're stored as a file on your computer like any other MP3. You just need to work out where they're being saved to. Unfortunately for you my computer is a Mac so that bit I can't help you with but once you've found the folder you can just copy them across to your MP3 player. Easy as that.
I've actually just had a look on my Mac and it seems that iTunes creates its own folder called iTunes Media which then splits your content into multiple sub folders. One of those is called Podcasts. Your downloaded episodes will be saved in there. I'd be very surprised if the PC version of iTunes doesn't do exactly the same.
Good luck!
Thanks Tony. Many tears ago I did use iTunes on a Windows laptop but got fed up with it quite quickly. I'll take another look at this though as it sounds easier than the current flog I'm using
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