Thursday, November 15, 2007

Shout Out to Podcasts

Working at home all by myself is not for me. I put up with my current money making job because I know it is temporary, and I am making enough money to be in school full-time come 2009. Now, I am a social person, and I at least need to listen to smart people talking, even if only from my laptop's speakers. So here are the audio podcasts I recommend for anyone who must distract part of their brain in order to deal with their daily drudgery.

1) Real Time With Bill Maher: Audio only of the HBO show. This is posted a few days after the actual show, but each week a "podcast only" 2 minute extra is also available.
URL: http://www.hbo.com/apps/podcasts/podcast.xml?a=2

2) The Body Odd: Described as "MSNBC.com's biweekly podcast about the weird, and sometimes embarrassing, human body." A doctor and a writer answer listener's questions.
URL: http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/pdm_bodyodd.xml

3) KCRW's Le Show: Harry Shearer, need I say more. This is a podcast of his 1 hour radio program. My favorite segment is "Apologies of the Week".
URL: http://media.kcrw.com/podcast/show_itms/ls

4) KCRW's Left, Right & Center: Love this. Smart political discussion with intelligent people with different political takes. Will hopefully keep me sane during the 2008 election season.
URL: http://media.kcrw.com/podcast/show/lr

5) MedicCast: EMS News & Training: This is a new one for me. I have listened to two of these and recommend if you are interested in EMS. Uses medical terminology so beware.
URL: http://www.mediccast.com/podcasts/MedicCast_AAC.xml

6) NPR's It's All Politics: Another fabulous political podcast. This is podcast only, and NPR's Ken Rudin and Ron Elving are in rare form. They joke about their single "listener". Sometimes they sing or do impressions.
URL: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510068

7) NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: NPR's weekly news quiz. My Monday morning regular listen.
URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/rss/podcast.php?id=35

8) The Savage Lovecast: Dan Savage's sex advice podcast. Hey, call in and record your own question at 206-201-2720.
URL: http://feeds.thestranger.com/stranger/savage

9) This American Life: The entire weekly radio show as a podcast. Remember to donate to WBEZ to help pay for the show.
URL: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast.xml

10) NPR's Bryant Park Project: Another NPR show, this is NPR's attempt to get at the younger, 20's and 30's, audience. And because I am in that age bracket, yep, I like it.
URL: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=47

Anyone have any others I should be listening to?

5 comments:

Tankboy said...
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Tankboy said...

Jonathon Katzman has a hilarious podcast.


And I've become a big fan of Radio Lab.

Other than that, it's damn scary how similar our podcast playlist is ...

McTodds said...

Thanks! Adding both now - always need some more stuff to distract half my brain so the other half can figure out stupid web programming problems.

APS said...

hell yeah...our song of the day and music that matters podcasts are pretty awesome.

http://kexp.org/podcasting/podcasting.asp

rock.

Ringo

McTodds said...

Adding the kexp ones too. This is excellent, thank you for the recommendations!