Comedy: The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling - This is a weekly, 3 hour call in radio show. It actually might take a little while to get used to it/ into it...but I'm a huge fan now.
Comedy Death Ray Radio - This is an hour or so every week or sometimes twice a week. Hosted by Scott Aukerman (former contributor to Mr. Show). He has on consistently great comedian guests (Patton Oswalt, Paul F Tompkins, Michael Ian Black etc) and they talk.
NPR:
Fresh Air - For me the guests are kind of hit-or-miss, but usually quite interesting.
This American Life - "each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme" doesn't quite capture all that this show is..but whatever.
Radio Lab - I would call it the Sciencey version of This American Life.
Sunday Puzzle - Puzzles!
Then some "Lost" podcasts which no one here would care about I'm guessing
* NPR Sunday Puzzle - weekly word/number/logic/general knowledge puzzles. * NPR All Songs Considered - interesting updates from the indie rock world that feature songs from upcoming albums. Once a month or so they have a panel discussion with a few NPR music personalities, including Carrie Brownstein (whose Monitor Mix blog I've certainly mentioned here before). * NPR Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! - a humorous nerdy take on the news with some quizzes and interesting guests. * Philosophy Bites - 15-20 minute audio clips of interviews with current philosophers studying a wide variety of applicable and theoretical topics. Nigel Warburton has a superbly thorough and incisive interviewing style. * Scientific American Science Talk - they cover stories from the magazine and go in depth with some of them, including interviews with the authors or other interesting scientists. There's a fun quiz at the end of every podcast, too, called "Totally Bogus" where they name 4 bizarre stories and only 1 of them is false. * Stephen Fry's Podgrams - this guy is hilarious, witty and intelligent. These aren't updated that frequently.
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Comedy:
ReplyDeleteThe Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling - This is a weekly, 3 hour call in radio show. It actually might take a little while to get used to it/ into it...but I'm a huge fan now.
Comedy Death Ray Radio - This is an hour or so every week or sometimes twice a week. Hosted by Scott Aukerman (former contributor to Mr. Show). He has on consistently great comedian guests (Patton Oswalt, Paul F Tompkins, Michael Ian Black etc) and they talk.
NPR:
Fresh Air - For me the guests are kind of hit-or-miss, but usually quite interesting.
This American Life - "each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme" doesn't quite capture all that this show is..but whatever.
Radio Lab - I would call it the Sciencey version of This American Life.
Sunday Puzzle - Puzzles!
Then some "Lost" podcasts which no one here would care about I'm guessing
Sweet, glad we've got around to doing this:
ReplyDelete* NPR Sunday Puzzle - weekly word/number/logic/general knowledge puzzles.
* NPR All Songs Considered - interesting updates from the indie rock world that feature songs from upcoming albums. Once a month or so they have a panel discussion with a few NPR music personalities, including Carrie Brownstein (whose Monitor Mix blog I've certainly mentioned here before).
* NPR Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! - a humorous nerdy take on the news with some quizzes and interesting guests.
* Philosophy Bites - 15-20 minute audio clips of interviews with current philosophers studying a wide variety of applicable and theoretical topics. Nigel Warburton has a superbly thorough and incisive interviewing style.
* Scientific American Science Talk - they cover stories from the magazine and go in depth with some of them, including interviews with the authors or other interesting scientists. There's a fun quiz at the end of every podcast, too, called "Totally Bogus" where they name 4 bizarre stories and only 1 of them is false.
* Stephen Fry's Podgrams - this guy is hilarious, witty and intelligent. These aren't updated that frequently.
The Moth podcast is great.
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ReplyDelete# howstuffworks.com's Stuff You Should Know. entertaining and informative!
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