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Chrisc

Chrisc

Chrisc

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So Podcasts have become a bit of an obsession for me within the last couple of years, from true crime/conspiracies to podcasts about old shows ive watched.

The market seems absolutely saturated recently with pretty much everybody getting in on it, this is making it really difficult to find new and exciting ones to find.

I thought id start a thread where people could discuss podcasts they find/like or even make themselves.

A couple of mine i listen to are below

  • Joe rogan (obviously)
  • Stuff you should know
  • Stuff they dont want you to know
  • The collecting cars podcast
  • Car throttle
  • Radio Rental
  • An oral history of the office
 
Kermode & Mayo (movies)
Gamescoop (Gaming)
Armchair Expert (Interviews with experts and famous actors, musicians and sports personalities from Bill Gates to Tom Brady to Will Farrel to Alanis Morrissette to Malcolm Gladwell). It's really good.
Abroad in Japan (About Japan)
 
I've listened to fewer pods since working from home under Covid has cut out about 5 hours of commuting each week, and those I have listened to have been mostly covering my new obsession -Pro Wrestling (first time I've been watching wrestling since the early 90s when I was about 10!)

But these are my favourite non-wrestling pods:
- The Parapod - funny supernatural pod with comedians Ian Boldsworth (formerly Ray Peacock) and Barry Dodds. Dodds is a believer in ghosts, Boldsworth is not. The main run finished a couple of years ago, though they've made a movie and did some new podcasts around that earlier this year. I still go back and re-listen to the old ones as they're hilarious :D

- Distraction Pieces - Spoken word artists/ rapper/ actor Scroobius Pip hosts a "chatting with celebrities" type pod. I think Pip's great, so enjoy these a lot

- Adam Buxton - Dr Buckles is just great at this stuff

- WTF - Marc Maron's podcast. He gets some pretty top line guests, even had Obama when he was still president.

- Congratulations - Chris D'Elia's solo podcast. I suspect he's someone you either think is hilarious (like me), or find seriously grating. Sadly, he got cancelled a few months ago (not entirely undeservingly, tbh, it's just a shame as I liked his pod), so this one's dead.

- Armchair Expert - Dax Shepard's pod. LOVED this for the first year or so. Started to tire of it a little after that - it's one to dip into for the guests you are interested in IMO.

Films to be Buried With - Brett Goldstein's Desert Island Discs style podcast, but for movies. It's much funnier than Desert Island Discs, though.

Others:
Hardcore Listing
Holly Randall Unfiltered (Porn photographer/videographer)
Off Menu (Ed Gamble & James Acaster)
RHLSTP - Richard Herring
The Bugle
 
cheesyboy said:
I've listened to fewer pods since working from home under Covid has cut out about 5 hours of commuting each week, and those I have listened to have been mostly covering my new obsession -Pro Wrestling (first time I've been watching wrestling since the early 90s when I was about 10!)
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ill have a look for that one, i started listening to Chris Jerichos podcast and Steve austin did one as well, i enjoyed them but i didnt quite find a reason to continuously listen. I tend to look at the guest and decide based on that. Jake the snake has done a few and his stories are just amazing!
 
Chrisc said:
ill have a look for that one, i started listening to Chris Jerichos podcast and Steve austin did one as well, i enjoyed them but i didnt quite find a reason to continuously listen. I tend to look at the guest and decide based on that. Jake the snake has done a few and his stories are just amazing!
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That wasn't a podcast specifically, rather a topic :)

The wrestling pods I listen to are often just covering what's currently going on in wrestling. But Jericho's one I do listen to the ones with interesting guests. Colt Cabana also has some interesting chats.
 
cheesyboy said:
- Adam Buxton - Dr Buckles is just great at this stuff

Off Menu (Ed Gamble & James Acaster)
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+1 for Adam Buxton, always liked him but just started getting into podcasts and his is great. Need to get to Off Menu next.

Not sure it's necessarily a podcast, but Brian & Roger is good, from Harry Peacock and Dan Skinner. The premise is 2 blokes leaving each other voicemails. Quite funny.
 
I enjoy the true Geordie podcast. The guests are interesting(most of the time) and he has a good personality + good banter and interview/q&a skills. Another good one is on spotify called serial killers. As you can probably guess it is about serial killers but it is very interesting and in depth.
 
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I listen to:

Ear Hustle (insight into a prison in the US with one of the three presenters being an ex long term inmate and another of the three being a current inmate)
Stuff You Should Know
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Missing Cryptoqueen
Very Presidential (Some good information on former Presidents of the USA)
Waveform (MKBHD from YouTube tech related podcast)
You're Dead to Me (Funny and interesting history topics)
 
A couple I like:

More or Less from the BBC - if you like numbers and statistics its very accessible.

New Statesman podcast - 3 very reasonable and non-ideological journalists from the magazine do a twice weekly podcast on UK political events. Always interesting.

Freakonomics - the guy who wrote the book, continuing on the same themes. Bit USA focused at times, but good nonetheless

+1 for You're Dead to Me as mentioned above
 
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For me, the 'core' ones I listen to are:

The Joe Rogan podcast - As you say, the obvious choice but it really is brilliant

Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast - Big Bill Burr fan.

The Bill Bert podcast - As above. Although Bert Kreischer gets on my nerves

No such thing as a fish - Sort of QI like but not in a panel show format. Written and presented by the QI elves.

Out to lunch with Jay Rayner - Jay Rayner interviewing various celebrities over lunch

Lockdown parenting hell with Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett - Pretty niche one and couldn't really recommend unless you have kids!

Friday night comedy from the BBC - Mainly for the news quiz, just a minute etc.

Fake doctors, real friends - Zach Braff and Donald Faison plus various scrubs related guests discussing old episodes of Scrubs and generally just having a laugh.

The curious cases of Rutherford and Fry - Science podcast where Adam Rutherford and Hannah fry try to go in depth into various science based questions whilst keeping it light hearted and funny.
 
Mine resolve around comedy mainly:

- Joe Rogan Experience
- Your Moms House (Tome Segura & Christina P.)
- 2 Bears, 1 Cave (Tom Segura & Burnt Chrysler)
- Darknet Diaries (Dark web, hacking and online fraud stories. Really well put together)
- F1: Beyond the Grid
- Chequered Flag Podcast (BBC F1 Podcast)
- Infinite Monkey Cage (Science comedy panel show presented by Brian Cox and Robin Ince)
- Dan Carlins Hardcore History (Head to his website and buy The Wrath of the Kahns if your into you're history, he's an amazing story teller)
 
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster - talk to guests about the food choices they would pick in their "dream restaurant".

Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombes Lockdown Parenting Hell - I think this would most resonate with people who have kids

West Wing Weekly - for fans of the West Wing

Fake Doctors, Real Friends - for fans of Scrubs

Talking Sopranos - for fans of the Sopranos

You, Me and the Big C - coping with cancer related podcast

Ruthie, Me and My Dad - father - daughter podcast with Martin Kelner and his daughter Ruth.

Quickly Kevin Will He Score - Josh Widdicombes podcast about 90's football - the Steve Bruce novel episodes are brilliant!

Quite a few niche podcasts mentioned above, but for some other honourable mentions:

WTF, Athletico Mince, 5Live Boxing with Costello and Bunce, Americast, Brexitcast, Beautiful Anonymous, Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Cycling Podcast, Kermode and Mayo, Empire Podcast, Joe Rogan, The Kempcast (Ross Kemp)
 
Radio 4 Friday night comedy
Joe Rogan every so often depending who he has on
Stuff you should know
Behind the B*stards
Casefile True Crime
Hardcore History
Wheel of Misfortune
Katherine Ryan Telling everybody everything
Quickly Kevin
The Big Interview with Graham Hunter
No such thing as a fish
Adam Buxton
Infinite Monkey Cage

Honourable mention for the Ricky Gervais Podcast which first got me into podcasts 15(!) years ago. Not re listened to it in years so not sure how it would stand the test of time but I loved it back then.
 
JRE but falling out of love at the moment with his

Bill Bert podcast

Kill Tony is fantastic

WTF with Marc Maron

2 Bears 1 Cave

Radiolab

Dr Drew after dark

Jocko

Monday morning Bill Burr

Inside of you

Unexplained is very good

Your mums house

you’re welcome charl whatever his name

Peter Schiff

The bonfire

plus all the other stuff you should know should know stuff they don’t want you to know
 
Raymond Lin said:
Joe Rogan keep getting mentioned, is it like Armchair Expert?
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It's just Joe plus a guest or two chatting for a couple of hours. It's the variety of guests and the fact that it doesn't try to be anything other than a chat between friends which I really like.

You could be listening to him getting high and talking to Post Malone about aliens one day and then hear him talking to Edward Snowden about the encroachment of the state and Big corporations on our privacy the next day.

There's a Joe Rogan podcast for everyone. I'd just scroll through them and find a guest you like the sound of and give it a try. Although some of my favourite episodes are with people I'd never heard of, discussing subjects I never thought I'd be so interested in.
 
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