Episode 20
The ‘Podcast’ Podcast is a podcast about podcasts. A fun run of our favourite podcasts for your enjoyment:
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First things, first. Let us introduce a new heavy metal podcast featureing out own Alan Williamson!
Cast Iron
Join Lewis (the English one) and Alan (the Irish one) on a musical journey through rock and metal albums old and new, as they disagree with each other on whether the albums are actually any good.
Invisibilia
Invisibilia (Latin for all the invisible things) is about the invisible forces that control human behavior – ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions. Co-hosted by Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel, Invisibilia interweaves narrative storytelling with scientific research that will ultimately make you see your own life differently.
99% Invisible
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we’ve just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible (99 Percent Invisible) is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars, KALW in San Francisco, and Radiotopia from PRX.
Overcast
A powerful yet simple audio podcast player, with features such as Smart Speed, Voice Boost, and Smarter Playlists to help you listen to more podcasts in more places, try new shows, and completely control your experience.
Control Point
Thanks for dropping by the Control Point staging area. Your progress is being monitored at this moment. We promise not to lie to you while within the confines of this block. We produce weekly service announcements for the Team Fortress 2 simulation. Please be advised to listen to the end each week, as we serve cake to all that make it to the end.
Gamers with Jobs: Conference Call
The official podcast of GamersWithJobs.com, every week the guys discuss the latest games, issues affecting the industry and more! This is THE gaming podcast for mature gamers.
Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin
In WNYC’s new podcast series, award-winning actor Alec Baldwin gives the listener unique entrée into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Alec sidesteps the predictable by taking listeners inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people such as comedian Chris Rock, political strategist Ed Rollins and Oscar winner Michael Douglas. Here’s the Thing: Listen to what happens when an inveterate guest becomes a host. Subscribe now and get new interviews every two weeks.
Retronauts
The world’s favorite podcast about old video games reaches its next stage! Join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Ray Barnholt and a variety of guests as they discuss the favorite games and topics of yesteryear.
GFW Radio
This Year.
We recap the finest podcasts, bringing you the best highlights from great humor to insightful commentary.
A Life Well Wasted
A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them.
My Favourite Game
Personalities in the games industry talk about their favourite game ever, how they grew up with games and more within the games industry.
Unlimited Hyperbole
Unlimited Hyperbole is a short, weekly podcast about videogames and the stories we tell about them. Each episode profiles a different person from within the games industry using as a lens a topic decided for a season of episodes.
Polygon’s Quality Control
Polygon’s Quality Control is a short podcast hosted by Justin McElroy in which critics talk about a new video game they reviewed. If you like a little additional context and insight with your game reviews, this is the show for you.
Bit Socket Podcast
We love games but that’s OK! A podcast from Scott and Joe, the Bit Socket boys, all about the video games that we love.
Serial
Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial unfolds one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and characters wherever they lead, through many surprising twists and turns. Sarah won’t know what happens at the end of the story until she gets there, not long before you get there with her.
This American Life
This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 1.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced by Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.
Radiolab from WNYC
On Radiolab, science meets culture and information sounds like music. Each episode of Radiolab® is an investigation — a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around One Big Idea. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is produced by WNYC public radio.
Reply All
A show about the internet, hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman. From Gimlet.
Song Exploder
A podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
Back to Work
Back to Work is an award winning talk show with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discussing productivity, communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and more. Hosted by Merlin Mann & Dan Benjamin.
The Talk Show With John Gruber
The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.
Accidental Tech Podcast
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s Film Reviews
Mark Kermode discusses the latest film releases with Simon Mayo. Lively, controversial and unmissable movie discussion. Broadcast live on Fridays at 2pm on BBC Radio 5 live.
The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith
Jeff Goldsmith interviews screenwriters and filmmakers alike about their creative process!
The Flop House
The Flop House is a bi-monthly audio podcast, devoted to the worst in recent film. Your hosts (Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, and Stuart Wellington) watch a questionable film just before each episode, and then engage in an unscripted, slightly inebriated discussion, focusing on the movie’s shortcomings and occasional delights.
The Bugle
John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman, the transatlantic region’s leading bi-continental satirical double-act, leave no hot potato unbuttered in their worldwide-hit weekly topical comedy show.
SModcast
Podcast by Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier
Very Bad Wizards
Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.
Welcome to Night Vale
Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide. Welcome to Night Vale.
Planet Money
Money makes the world go around, faster and faster every day. On NPR’s Planet Money, you’ll meet high rollers, brainy economists and regular folks — all trying to make sense of our rapidly changing global economy.
