Show off your podcasts

[HalWhitewyrm]

In a different thread, Roudi asked me for my list of podcast (I referred to it as disgustingly long) and recommendations. Rather than hijack the thread, I figured I'd come here, post the list, and ask others to list all the podcasts they listen, gaming or otherwise, with short descriptions. Who knows, maybe we'll find a new podcast to make each list even more disgustingly long!

Let's start off with Gaming/Geek Podcasts:

• Dragons Landing Inn Podcast - Arguably the best general RPG podcast out there.
• Harping Monkey: Misfit Brew - Good mix of geeky-type subjects.
• Harping Monkey: The Round Table - Season 3 is centered on World Building, as always seen through the lens of Myth.
• Fistfull of Comics (and Games) - Great round-table discussion on comics and games (imagine that!).
• Fear The Boot - Probably my second favorite general RPG podcast, great discussions and advice.
• D&D Podcast - Straight from the horse's mouth (so to speak).
• White Wolf Podcast - Likewise.
• Have Games, Will Travel - Top notch reviews. Paul Tevis is the man.
• OgreCave Audio Report - Irreverent Industry news and commentary. Great podcast to keep informed.
• 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction - Just started listening to this one, but so far I really like their approach to reviews and content. From one of the guys of OgreCave podcast.
• Does My Geek Look Big in This? - From England with love and beer. I normally listen to the beer part and scan the rest, but a good show.
• All Games Considered - General RPG news, advice and stuff.
• Accidental Survivors Podcast - Modern gaming. New, but cool so far.
• Sons of Kryos - General RPG advice, but with a slant towards Forge/Indy RPGs, which is a welcomed viewpoint.
• The Bear's Grove - RPG advice for adults (not that type of "adult"). Great stuff in this one.
• Geek Fu Action Grip - From Mur Lafferty, the Cleopatra of podcasts. I used to not like this podcast, and then I got into it. Good stuff.

Writing Podcasts:

• I Should Be Writing - Also from Mur, general advice/shared commiseration about writing.
• The Secrets Podcast with Michael A. Stackpole - The Man, The Machine, The Secrets. Great nuggets for writers.

Travel Podcasts:

• Travel with Rick Steves - The Guru of European and Budget Travel, no one does it like Rick.
• Amateur Traveler Podcast - Good travel show with varied destination content. Quite professional, despite the "amateur" tag.
• Home Based Travel Agent Podcast - Practical info for home-based travel agents (which I do on my other business, Destination: Earth Travel)
• A Year in Europe - An on-the-road account from a couple spending a year in Europe. How I wish I was them!
• iPod Traveller - European travel from England. Good show.
• Travel Commons Podcast - A podcast not about travel destinations, but about the act of traveling.

And Misc Podcast

• Grey's Anatomy Official Podcast - Because I'm addicted to Grey's.

I don't necessarily listen to each episode all the way through (sometimes I fast forward parts, or scan the episode), but I do listen to each one. And the list does keep growing; I just started sampling two more travel podcasts and some Judaism podcasts, but I won't list them until I am sure I am commiting to them.

Now, show me yours!

 

[johnsemlak]

General Geek talk:

Geeks On- www.geekson.com
Extra Life Radio- www.myextralife.com

Tech talk:
NPR Future Tense
NPR Technology
(Science Friday is also good)

Sci Fi tv:
The Babylon Podcast www.babylonpodcast.com
Treks in SciFi www.treksf.com/joomla/
Ron Moore's BSG podcast

Movie Reviews:
Mark Kemode's movie reviews-here
NPR Movies

Gaming:
I recommend nearly all the ones mentioned above, but I'd also throw a plug out to The Vintage Gamer.
Oh, and I miss Mortality Radio-the grand-daddy of RPG podcasts.

 

[Roudi]

My immense thanks. I will definitely be checking into most of these podcasts - particularly Stackpole's. He's among my favourite authors!

 

[Mycanid]

Hey there Hal ... sorry for the off topic post - but did you ever find your journals?

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

Hey Mycanid. Nope, I never did.

 

[Prest0]

I recently did a rundown of podcasts on my blog. Rather than go through the trouble to re-linking each podcast again here, I'll just link to the post. It looks like Hal and I share a lot of the same listening tastes, but I have a shorter commute.

Flametoad-- What I'm Watching/Reading/Hearing

 

[IamTheTest]

Ive tried to do some research on podcasts in general, but Im not getting anywhere. Could somebody spell it out to me? I promise Im not an idiot, I just dont get this. Is it internet radio? How do I listen? argh....thanks.

 

[Prest0]

Podcasts are just mp3 files that are syndicated using RSS. That means you can "subcribe" to the lastest mp3 file in the series just the way you can subscribe to an RSS-enabled news page. Since the sound files are in mp3 format, they are not broadcast in the sense that it is live. You don't have to have an iPod or even iTunes to listen to a podcast. All you have to do is click on a link and download the episode to your hard drive and listen to it like you would any other sound/music file. However, programs like iTunes (and many others) do allow you to subscribe to a podcast so that when you open the program it automatically downloads the most recent episode. That's podcasts in a nutshell.