Someone wrote to me and pointed me to a list of podcasts they listen to and asked if I knew any good ones not on the list. In my effort to do the same to you guys, I’m sharing my response to him on this topic. I don’t have time to hyperlink all this shit on top of writing it…
Out of your list, I subscribe to Skeptoid, SciAm Podcasts, Point Of Inquiry, Reasonable Doubts, LSAT Logic In Everyday Life, and the audio version of the Cato Events.
Too bad LSAT has slowed down, that’s a great short one. The Skeptoid documentary “Here Be Dragons” is good but I winced when it shows Brian Dunning hanging out by the ocean, sitting on a rock with sunglasses on. He was not cool enough to pull of wearing dark sunglasses on camera.
I was subscribed to “Intelligence Squared”, but must have forgotten to add it when I set the new computer up, so I’m glad you pointed me to the list!
I unsubscribed from “Skeptics Guide to the Universe” when that SkepChick girl got on my fuckin’ last nerve one episode. It was during the James Watson debacle and I ended ranting about it and the whole topic of race and science for about an hour and a half when I guest-hosted a podcast of Satanism Today.
I subscribe to a few design podcasts that probably aren’t of interest.
For music podcasts, “Intoxica” is great for dirty old rock n’ roll retardation, and Ian Whitcomb has a show of ragtime, tin pan alley music called, appropriately, “The Ian Whitcomb Show”.
“The Brain Science Podcast with Dr. Ginger Campbell” is excellent. She has annual “review shows” you can listen to to get an idea of what shows you might want to go back and listen to. She’s been a little slow on shows lately, but there’s PLENTY of good stuff to listen to in the archives.
“Are We Alone?” is nerdy but good dorky science talk. For a podcast run by people looking for alien life, they don’t talk about it too much. They’re super nerdy, in a corny way.
“peikoff.com Q&A on Ayn Rand” is good. Leonard Peikoff sounds exactly like Norm MacDonald, so that makes it even better. 15 minutes each episode is about perfect.
“PRI’s The World: The World in Words” is good, but still very Public Radio, even if awkwardly self-consciously.
“Shire Network News” is a conservative Jewish Anglophile podcast. Strange, but good. They do fall into the whole “calling all the people they hate anti-semites” thing a bit too much, and I could give a shit less about Israel really.
“TEDTalks” podcast is great if you skip over some of the gay performance pieces and socially uplifting talks. TED has some really jawdropping lectures, and the podcast takes 4-15 minute snippets from them. Oh, I see you’ve got TED listed in your “video archives” list…
“The Onion Radio News” is really great…
“American Conservative University Podcast” is okay, most of the episodes are interview segments from the Michael Medved show or Dennis Praeger. Once in a while you get some wacky Christian thing mixed in. I used to listen to a lot of conservative talk radio before I bought an iPod and could find more substantive stuff, but there aren’t many really good conservative podcasts that I’ve been able to find.
In fact, most of my favorite podcasts are hosted by really lefty people, but they’re solid skeptics/atheists/seculari
I recently unsubscribed from “Pat Condell’s Godless Comedy”. His rants are great, but he could have stopped at a dozen and been fine, because they’re all just slight variation upon one or two themes.
“Philosophy: The Classics” is decent for quick overviews of major thinkers, but the Brit who hosts the show should work as a hypnotist because it’s really easy to zone out when you’re listening to him talk.
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