favorite podcasts

by **pacino** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 00:05:47

Simmons tried to say that the Fast Five movies are the best franchise ever. Ok.

by **kruker** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:43:12

Listen to the nerdist podcasts whenever Chris Jericho is on. Dude is great.

by **RichmondPhilsFan** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:56:02

Do any of you guys listen to dramatic fiction podcasts? There's a great one that I found about a year ago shortly after it joined the Nerdist network. It's called "We're Alive". It's a zombie genre story set in the LA area. Lots of characters, good storylines.

They're in the fourth and final season of it. It's been running for something like six years now b/c of long breaks between seasons. This week's episode was part 3 (of 3) in Chapter 40. Each part is at least 20 minutes long, so we're talking about more than 40 hours of story. When I found out about it, I plowed through the first three seasons in less than two months.

http://www.zombiepodcast.com

by **RichmondPhilsFan** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:56:32

pacino wrote:Simmons tried to say that the Fast Five movies are the best franchise ever. Ok.

Simmons is actually an enormous clown when it comes to pop culture. I generally can't stand his podcast. He said a couple of weeks ago that they needed to fix the Walking Dead by adding a couple of supermodel types and having a love triangle.

kruker wrote:Listen to the nerdist podcasts whenever Chris Jericho is on. Dude is great.

I was excited when I saw that pop up on my list this morning.

by **WheelsFellOff** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:39:53

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Do any of you guys listen to dramatic fiction podcasts? There's a great one that I found about a year ago shortly after it joined the Nerdist network. It's called "We're Alive". It's a zombie genre story set in the LA area. Lots of characters, good storylines.

They're in the fourth and final season of it. It's been running for something like six years now b/c of long breaks between seasons. This week's episode was part 3 (of 3) in Chapter 40. Each part is at least 20 minutes long, so we're talking about more than 40 hours of story. When I found out about it, I plowed through the first three seasons in less than two months.

http://www.zombiepodcast.com

Well, not precisely dramatic fiction, but something nerdier... I listen to a few real-play D&D podcasts. I enjoy the improv-comedy elements of some and the fantasy world building. Crit Juice is probably my favorite, it adds drinking game elements which leads to some horrible/wonderful decision making and very unlikely scenarios. Nerd Poker is Brian Posehn's group. They've been playing for years (used to play with Chris Hardwick and Patton Oswalt, too) and it shows in the insults. Critical Hit is definitely the nerdiest but, imo it has the best story/fictional universe.

by **RichmondPhilsFan** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:42:10

Interesting. I've never been a D&D guy, but I've gotten more into fantasy books as an adult, so I can understand the appeal of D&D.

by **WheelsFellOff** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 09:55:38

I don't know why I avoided listening to Thrilling Adventure Hour for so long, but I was wrong.

by **jerseyhoya** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 03:41:35

I always root for Cousin Sal in guess the lines

by **kruker** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 09:49:31

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/07/ ... urphy-rule

Not sure how I didn't see this before.

On today's show, we talk to commodities traders to answer one of the most important questions in finance: What actually happens at the end of Trading Places?

We know something crazy happens on the trading floor. We know that Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd get rich and the Duke brothers lose everything. But how does it all happen? And could it happen in the real world?

by **choco** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:09:45

For the history buffs out there, I like the Backstory podcast. http://backstoryradio.org/

by **Grotewold** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:19:38

jerseyhoya wrote:I always root for Cousin Sal in guess the lines

by **z ipper** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:40:22

love sal. he and house should have their own football pod.

by **EndlessSummer** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 16:50:02

Their Mike & the Mad Dog bits make me legit laugh out loud.

by **jerseyhoya** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 20:53:53

Pretty pissed not to get Simmons and Cousin Sal today all because Grantland made some transgendered person kill herself or something

by **z ipper** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 21:09:17

sucks. their last pod was the best one since saving private ryan.

by **WheelsFellOff** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 13:30:12

Can anyone recommend a good free podcast aggregating app/service for Android other than Podbay? Their app has been cutting out and crashing on the reg and I'm getting fed up with it.

by **RichmondPhilsFan** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 14:18:21

It's not free, but BeyondPod is awesome. The free/lite version of it is okay too, but you have to manually refresh your individual feeds rather then d/l them all at once on a schedule. You get a 7-day trial of the full version, so after that you lose some of the features, including the scheduling, as well as some other things like playback speed adjustment.

I almost never buy apps, but I spent the $6.99 for the unlock key on that one. Haven't regretted it in the least. They even rewarded me a couple months ago by adding Chromecast support.

by **WheelsFellOff** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 14:38:08

Hmm...I'm not really looking to download them, just stream. Downloading would only work when I'm at home and I wouldn't get the ones that come out during the work day for my drive home. That app looks interesting though if it wouldn't chew through my data when not on Wi-Fi.

by **jamiethekiller** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 15:02:05

might be a setting to only download via wifi

by **Grotewold** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 15:09:43

WheelsFellOff wrote:Can anyone recommend a good free podcast aggregating app/service for Android other than Podbay? Their app has been cutting out and crashing on the reg and I'm getting fed up with it.

Downcast is good on iOS, FWIW, WGAF

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