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Old August 9th, 2018, 12:59 PM
—Keith Hale—
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Ryan wrote:

I tried to sign up for Audible back in 2005, but they didn't support my MP3
player. That was an unpleasant disaster. Now I don't have enough ear time
for books. There are too many good podcasts.

*I'd love to hear some recommendations. * I am the ONLY one of my close
friends or family that know what a podcast IS! I 'discovered them on a
YouTube video of a Firefly panel at a comicon, someone asked Nathan Fillion
which of his characters were more formidable: Captain Malcolm Reynolds [of
Firefly+Serenity] -- or Cactoid Jim, King of the Martian Frontier [of The
Thrilling Adventure Hour: Sparks Nevada - Marshal on Mars]. I'd never
heard of any of that second part, so i looked it up and devoured Thrilling
Adventure Hour.

I was hooked. Since then, i've devoured and adored:


- The Pod F. Tompkast with Paul F. Tompkins (6 years inactive)
- The Dead Authors Podcast
- Comedy Bang Bang (although only the episodes that feature PFT)
- Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins --- my absolute obsession, still
in weekly production through Episode 200!
- Superego
- Mission to Zyxx
- No Such Thing as a Fish [Funny facts from the Q.I. Researchers\Elves]
- Pistol Shrimps Radio
- The Writer's Panel [television writers talk craft]
- The Dead Pilots Society [readings of bought tv pilots that were never
made]
- I Was There Too
- Hidden Brain
- Obscure [comedian Michael Ian Black reads Jude the Obscure out loud
and comments as he goes]
- Art of the Score
- and dozens more, less comprehensively...

It has been kind of lonely -- not having anyone with whom to geek out about
this bounty of information and entertainment.

So, if anyone wants to geek out \ share suggestions - i'd love to!
-Keith-

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Old August 13th, 2018, 10:58 AM
Ryan McGill
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I'm having some trouble getting this to post. I've copy-and-pasted it from
another window, and I've been drafting it in my spare time since you made
your post. I have less time for thought now than I used to. Maybe I should
make more.


> *I'd love to hear some recommendations. * I am the ONLY one of my close
>> friends or family that know what a podcast IS!
>>

> Oh, this is going to be a thread. I first heard of podcasts via a
> LiveJournal entry from a friend back in November 2004. I didn't have an MP3
> player, so I downloaded a couple and burned them to a CD.
>
>
>> I was hooked.
>>

> Same here.
>
>
>>
>> - The Pod F. Tompkast with Paul F. Tompkins (6 years inactive)
>>
>> I enjoyed that a bit, but something about the tone and the

> unpredictability of the release schedule made me take a break before it
> ended.
>
>>
>> - Comedy Bang Bang (although only the episodes that feature PFT)
>>
>> I quit this one back when it was still Comedy Death Ray. I came upon it,

> listened to two episodes and didn't get it, then they released three 3+
> hour Christmas episodes in a week, which utterly confused me. I like the
> show, and I love PFT's characters, but the audio format was too bewildering
> for me.
>
>>
>> - Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins --- my absolute obsession,
>> still in weekly production through Episode 200!
>>
>> Still burned by the Tompkast. I'm super anxious about this one, and I

> don't really know why.
>
>>
>> - Superego
>>
>> I love it to death. NOTHING makes me laugh like Superego. Except for

> Kasper Hauser.
>
>>
>> - Mission to Zyxx
>> - No Such Thing as a Fish [Funny facts from the Q.I.
>> Researchers\Elves]
>> - Pistol Shrimps Radio
>> - The Writer's Panel [television writers talk craft]
>> - Hidden Brain
>> - The Dead Authors Podcast
>> - Art of the Score
>>
>> Haven't listened to any of these. Heard of Pistol Shrimps. And the

> premise is kind of amusing. My brain just has trouble keeping up with
> sportscasting.
>
>>
>> - The Dead Pilots Society [readings of bought tv pilots that were
>> never made]
>>
>> I love the pilots, but the host is (to me) rather uncharismatic and not

> so good with interviews. He must be a really nice guy, because he's able to
> get a lot of people to do things he's interested in. I think I might have
> unsubscribed after the last one, because I don't remember hearing one in a
> couple weeks.
>
>
>>
>> - I Was There Too
>>
>> I love Gourley to death. He's probably my favorite of the Superego guys,

> but I kind of stopped listening after the squib test. A lot of his guests
> were too obscure for me, as well as from movies I wasn't really aching for
> a backstory on, although the interview with the Bond villain guy was great.
>
>
>>
>> - Obscure [comedian Michael Ian Black reads Jude the Obscure out loud
>> and comments as he goes]
>>
>> I'm still enjoying the hell out of this one. I like MIB's style. I

> started listening expecting more of a book-on-tape experience, but he's
> really stretched the definition a lot lately. I tried googling the library
> he's supposedly at, but I didn't get any results that looked promising.
> Also, I'm becoming less and less convinced he's reading the novel, as his
> commentary and weird bits talking to friends start to outweigh the book
> content pretty heavily?
>
>>
>> - and dozens more, less comprehensively...
>>
>> I'll guarantee our lists will have more overlap, as I share some more of

> mine.
>
> It has been kind of lonely -- not having anyone with whom to geek out
>> about this bounty of information and entertainment.
>>

> I'm involved in a few communities/groups on Facebook that revolve around
> podcasts. Several of my closest friends are heavily into podcasts. Every
> now and again, someone will ask for recommendations, and it just gets . . .
> I'm beginning to think someone's podcast tastes are like a fingerprint, but
> more malleable. Maybe closer to the bacterial culture of their belly
> button? Even some of my co-workers, when we talk about what we're listening
> to, I'm kind of confused, because a lot of kind people I know listen to
> shows that I quit listen to because they were too . . . abrasive?
>



> And some things have weird sound level balances that drive me nuts. One of
> my best friends used to give me a lot of crap because he'd ask about a
> podcast, and I'd tell him I listened to a couple episodes, but the sound
> quality was a problem. There are a few podcasts I can still listen to
> despite that, but generally speaking, if it was recorded on Skype, or if it
> sounds like it was, or if there are more than four people recording at any
> given time, I probably won't be able to listen to more than three episodes.
>
> So as long as we're sharing lists, mine has been re-vamped several times.
> I mentioned that I got a Creative Labs MP3 player for my birthday? It was a
> little flash drive, and it only held 128 MB, so I'd have to re-fill it
> every night. I loved it. It also had an FM radio built in. And I was
> working janitorial, so I'd listen pretty much non-stop. But back then, I
> had to download things individually and drag them to the flash drive. And
> then it died pretty quick. I listened to a lot of different podcasts then,
> many of which I don't remember anymore, but the first one I downloaded back
> in November of 2004, before I ever had an MP3 player at all. My friend
> shared a link on LiveJournal to an interview done by a radio show called
> The Sound of Young America.
>



> TSOYA was a radio show on UCSC college radio done by a guy who sounded
> like he was in his late 40's-50's. I thought it was hilarious that an old
> guy was doing a show called The Sound of Young America. And he was an
> EXCELLENT interviewer. Most of the people he was talking to were
> alternative comedians (like PFT, Patton Oswald, Sarah Silverman, and so on)
> and rappers (Gift of Gab from Blackalicious, Big Boi from Outkast) with
> some bizarro artists thrown in and the occasional deep-cut soul singer. Of
> course, if you're a decade or two older than me, you probably already know
> that "The Sound of Young America" was a marketing slogan for Motown
> records. And as it turns out, the host was actually a week younger than me.
> He just had an amazing voice and a knack for asking really good questions.
>



> There's more to this story if you're interested in hearing. And I know
> there was a promise of a list of podcasts. It's forthcoming. But I rambled.
> And now I have to start work. But The Sound of Young America really shaped
> my listening habits.
>


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Old August 14th, 2018, 02:57 PM
Ryan McGill
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Apparently I'm still subscribed to Dead Pilots.



On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 8:58:15 AM UTC-7, Ryan McGill wrote:
>
> I'm having some trouble getting this to post. I've copy-and-pasted it from
> another window, and I've been drafting it in my spare time since you made
> your post. I have less time for thought now than I used to. Maybe I should
> make more.
>
>
>> *I'd love to hear some recommendations. * I am the ONLY one of my close
>>> friends or family that know what a podcast IS!
>>>

>> Oh, this is going to be a thread. I first heard of podcasts via a
>> LiveJournal entry from a friend back in November 2004. I didn't have an MP3
>> player, so I downloaded a couple and burned them to a CD.
>>
>>
>>> I was hooked.
>>>

>> Same here.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - The Pod F. Tompkast with Paul F. Tompkins (6 years inactive)
>>>
>>> I enjoyed that a bit, but something about the tone and the

>> unpredictability of the release schedule made me take a break before it
>> ended.
>>
>>>
>>> - Comedy Bang Bang (although only the episodes that feature PFT)
>>>
>>> I quit this one back when it was still Comedy Death Ray. I came upon it,

>> listened to two episodes and didn't get it, then they released three 3+
>> hour Christmas episodes in a week, which utterly confused me. I like the
>> show, and I love PFT's characters, but the audio format was too bewildering
>> for me.
>>
>>>
>>> - Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins --- my absolute obsession,
>>> still in weekly production through Episode 200!
>>>
>>> Still burned by the Tompkast. I'm super anxious about this one, and I

>> don't really know why.
>>
>>>
>>> - Superego
>>>
>>> I love it to death. NOTHING makes me laugh like Superego. Except for

>> Kasper Hauser.
>>
>>>
>>> - Mission to Zyxx
>>> - No Such Thing as a Fish [Funny facts from the Q.I.
>>> Researchers\Elves]
>>> - Pistol Shrimps Radio
>>> - The Writer's Panel [television writers talk craft]
>>> - Hidden Brain
>>> - The Dead Authors Podcast
>>> - Art of the Score
>>>
>>> Haven't listened to any of these. Heard of Pistol Shrimps. And the

>> premise is kind of amusing. My brain just has trouble keeping up with
>> sportscasting.
>>
>>>
>>> - The Dead Pilots Society [readings of bought tv pilots that were
>>> never made]
>>>
>>> I love the pilots, but the host is (to me) rather uncharismatic and not

>> so good with interviews. He must be a really nice guy, because he's able to
>> get a lot of people to do things he's interested in. I think I might have
>> unsubscribed after the last one, because I don't remember hearing one in a
>> couple weeks.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - I Was There Too
>>>
>>> I love Gourley to death. He's probably my favorite of the Superego guys,

>> but I kind of stopped listening after the squib test. A lot of his guests
>> were too obscure for me, as well as from movies I wasn't really aching for
>> a backstory on, although the interview with the Bond villain guy was great.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - Obscure [comedian Michael Ian Black reads Jude the Obscure out
>>> loud and comments as he goes]
>>>
>>> I'm still enjoying the hell out of this one. I like MIB's style. I

>> started listening expecting more of a book-on-tape experience, but he's
>> really stretched the definition a lot lately. I tried googling the library
>> he's supposedly at, but I didn't get any results that looked promising.
>> Also, I'm becoming less and less convinced he's reading the novel, as his
>> commentary and weird bits talking to friends start to outweigh the book
>> content pretty heavily?
>>
>>>
>>> - and dozens more, less comprehensively...
>>>
>>> I'll guarantee our lists will have more overlap, as I share some more of

>> mine.
>>
>> It has been kind of lonely -- not having anyone with whom to geek out
>>> about this bounty of information and entertainment.
>>>

>> I'm involved in a few communities/groups on Facebook that revolve around
>> podcasts. Several of my closest friends are heavily into podcasts. Every
>> now and again, someone will ask for recommendations, and it just gets . . .
>> I'm beginning to think someone's podcast tastes are like a fingerprint, but
>> more malleable. Maybe closer to the bacterial culture of their belly
>> button? Even some of my co-workers, when we talk about what we're listening
>> to, I'm kind of confused, because a lot of kind people I know listen to
>> shows that I quit listen to because they were too . . . abrasive?
>>

>
>
>> And some things have weird sound level balances that drive me nuts. One
>> of my best friends used to give me a lot of crap because he'd ask about a
>> podcast, and I'd tell him I listened to a couple episodes, but the sound
>> quality was a problem. There are a few podcasts I can still listen to
>> despite that, but generally speaking, if it was recorded on Skype, or if it
>> sounds like it was, or if there are more than four people recording at any
>> given time, I probably won't be able to listen to more than three episodes.
>>
>> So as long as we're sharing lists, mine has been re-vamped several times.
>> I mentioned that I got a Creative Labs MP3 player for my birthday? It was a
>> little flash drive, and it only held 128 MB, so I'd have to re-fill it
>> every night. I loved it. It also had an FM radio built in. And I was
>> working janitorial, so I'd listen pretty much non-stop. But back then, I
>> had to download things individually and drag them to the flash drive. And
>> then it died pretty quick. I listened to a lot of different podcasts then,
>> many of which I don't remember anymore, but the first one I downloaded back
>> in November of 2004, before I ever had an MP3 player at all. My friend
>> shared a link on LiveJournal to an interview done by a radio show called
>> The Sound of Young America.
>>

>
>
>> TSOYA was a radio show on UCSC college radio done by a guy who sounded
>> like he was in his late 40's-50's. I thought it was hilarious that an old
>> guy was doing a show called The Sound of Young America. And he was an
>> EXCELLENT interviewer. Most of the people he was talking to were
>> alternative comedians (like PFT, Patton Oswald, Sarah Silverman, and so on)
>> and rappers (Gift of Gab from Blackalicious, Big Boi from Outkast) with
>> some bizarro artists thrown in and the occasional deep-cut soul singer. Of
>> course, if you're a decade or two older than me, you probably already know
>> that "The Sound of Young America" was a marketing slogan for Motown
>> records. And as it turns out, the host was actually a week younger than me.
>> He just had an amazing voice and a knack for asking really good questions.
>>

>
>
>> There's more to this story if you're interested in hearing. And I know
>> there was a promise of a list of podcasts. It's forthcoming. But I rambled.
>> And now I have to start work. But The Sound of Young America really shaped
>> my listening habits.
>>

>


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Old October 4th, 2018, 01:26 PM
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Hey Keith,

You hear that new episode of Obscure where he's interviewing his kid and
she's so completely bored with what he's saying? That really cracked me up.




On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 12:57:08 PM UTC-7, Ryan McGill wrote:
>
> Apparently I'm still subscribed to Dead Pilots.
>
>
>
> On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 8:58:15 AM UTC-7, Ryan McGill wrote:
>>
>> I'm having some trouble getting this to post. I've copy-and-pasted it
>> from another window, and I've been drafting it in my spare time since you
>> made your post. I have less time for thought now than I used to. Maybe I
>> should make more.
>>
>>
>>> *I'd love to hear some recommendations. * I am the ONLY one of my close
>>>> friends or family that know what a podcast IS!
>>>>
>>> Oh, this is going to be a thread. I first heard of podcasts via a
>>> LiveJournal entry from a friend back in November 2004. I didn't have an MP3
>>> player, so I downloaded a couple and burned them to a CD.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I was hooked.
>>>>
>>> Same here.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - The Pod F. Tompkast with Paul F. Tompkins (6 years inactive)
>>>>
>>>> I enjoyed that a bit, but something about the tone and the
>>> unpredictability of the release schedule made me take a break before it
>>> ended.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Comedy Bang Bang (although only the episodes that feature PFT)
>>>>
>>>> I quit this one back when it was still Comedy Death Ray. I came upon
>>> it, listened to two episodes and didn't get it, then they released three 3+
>>> hour Christmas episodes in a week, which utterly confused me. I like the
>>> show, and I love PFT's characters, but the audio format was too bewildering
>>> for me.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins --- my absolute obsession,
>>>> still in weekly production through Episode 200!
>>>>
>>>> Still burned by the Tompkast. I'm super anxious about this one, and I
>>> don't really know why.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Superego
>>>>
>>>> I love it to death. NOTHING makes me laugh like Superego. Except for
>>> Kasper Hauser.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Mission to Zyxx
>>>> - No Such Thing as a Fish [Funny facts from the Q.I.
>>>> Researchers\Elves]
>>>> - Pistol Shrimps Radio
>>>> - The Writer's Panel [television writers talk craft]
>>>> - Hidden Brain
>>>> - The Dead Authors Podcast
>>>> - Art of the Score
>>>>
>>>> Haven't listened to any of these. Heard of Pistol Shrimps. And the
>>> premise is kind of amusing. My brain just has trouble keeping up with
>>> sportscasting.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - The Dead Pilots Society [readings of bought tv pilots that were
>>>> never made]
>>>>
>>>> I love the pilots, but the host is (to me) rather uncharismatic and not
>>> so good with interviews. He must be a really nice guy, because he's able to
>>> get a lot of people to do things he's interested in. I think I might have
>>> unsubscribed after the last one, because I don't remember hearing one in a
>>> couple weeks.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - I Was There Too
>>>>
>>>> I love Gourley to death. He's probably my favorite of the Superego
>>> guys, but I kind of stopped listening after the squib test. A lot of his
>>> guests were too obscure for me, as well as from movies I wasn't really
>>> aching for a backstory on, although the interview with the Bond villain guy
>>> was great.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Obscure [comedian Michael Ian Black reads Jude the Obscure out
>>>> loud and comments as he goes]
>>>>
>>>> I'm still enjoying the hell out of this one. I like MIB's style. I
>>> started listening expecting more of a book-on-tape experience, but he's
>>> really stretched the definition a lot lately. I tried googling the library
>>> he's supposedly at, but I didn't get any results that looked promising.
>>> Also, I'm becoming less and less convinced he's reading the novel, as his
>>> commentary and weird bits talking to friends start to outweigh the book
>>> content pretty heavily?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - and dozens more, less comprehensively...
>>>>
>>>> I'll guarantee our lists will have more overlap, as I share some more
>>> of mine.
>>>
>>> It has been kind of lonely -- not having anyone with whom to geek out
>>>> about this bounty of information and entertainment.
>>>>
>>> I'm involved in a few communities/groups on Facebook that revolve around
>>> podcasts. Several of my closest friends are heavily into podcasts. Every
>>> now and again, someone will ask for recommendations, and it just gets . . .
>>> I'm beginning to think someone's podcast tastes are like a fingerprint, but
>>> more malleable. Maybe closer to the bacterial culture of their belly
>>> button? Even some of my co-workers, when we talk about what we're listening
>>> to, I'm kind of confused, because a lot of kind people I know listen to
>>> shows that I quit listen to because they were too . . . abrasive?
>>>

>>
>>
>>> And some things have weird sound level balances that drive me nuts. One
>>> of my best friends used to give me a lot of crap because he'd ask about a
>>> podcast, and I'd tell him I listened to a couple episodes, but the sound
>>> quality was a problem. There are a few podcasts I can still listen to
>>> despite that, but generally speaking, if it was recorded on Skype, or if it
>>> sounds like it was, or if there are more than four people recording at any
>>> given time, I probably won't be able to listen to more than three episodes.
>>>
>>> So as long as we're sharing lists, mine has been re-vamped several
>>> times. I mentioned that I got a Creative Labs MP3 player for my birthday?
>>> It was a little flash drive, and it only held 128 MB, so I'd have to
>>> re-fill it every night. I loved it. It also had an FM radio built in. And I
>>> was working janitorial, so I'd listen pretty much non-stop. But back then,
>>> I had to download things individually and drag them to the flash drive. And
>>> then it died pretty quick. I listened to a lot of different podcasts then,
>>> many of which I don't remember anymore, but the first one I downloaded back
>>> in November of 2004, before I ever had an MP3 player at all. My friend
>>> shared a link on LiveJournal to an interview done by a radio show called
>>> The Sound of Young America.
>>>

>>
>>
>>> TSOYA was a radio show on UCSC college radio done by a guy who sounded
>>> like he was in his late 40's-50's. I thought it was hilarious that an old
>>> guy was doing a show called The Sound of Young America. And he was an
>>> EXCELLENT interviewer. Most of the people he was talking to were
>>> alternative comedians (like PFT, Patton Oswald, Sarah Silverman, and so on)
>>> and rappers (Gift of Gab from Blackalicious, Big Boi from Outkast) with
>>> some bizarro artists thrown in and the occasional deep-cut soul singer. Of
>>> course, if you're a decade or two older than me, you probably already know
>>> that "The Sound of Young America" was a marketing slogan for Motown
>>> records. And as it turns out, the host was actually a week younger than me.
>>> He just had an amazing voice and a knack for asking really good questions.
>>>

>>
>>
>>> There's more to this story if you're interested in hearing. And I know
>>> there was a promise of a list of podcasts. It's forthcoming. But I rambled.
>>> And now I have to start work. But The Sound of Young America really shaped
>>> my listening habits.
>>>

>>


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Old October 6th, 2018, 01:54 AM
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That sounds like a blast, but i am way behind on Obscure. May not catch
up. I enjoy it, but finite hours in the day, and SO much content.

I recently filled out a survey about Podcasts specifically "Threedom" -
which i've only consumed the first 2 which are free, not behind the PayWall.

I copied my list from the form of "Other" podcasts. Attached is a screen
capture of the 'casts i selected from the ones provided. MANY of these
named Podcasts i am *consuming whole*, a few i *pick and choose* by guest
list or subject title ... a very few i just skim.

(A casual glance at my nigh complete list shows that Paul F. Tompkins and
Matt Gourley are my comedy soulmates.)

*(Thrilling Adventure Hour just announced they are coming back in a
slightly different form. I'm stupid with anticipation!)*

~~~

- *Harmontown, *
- *Whiting Wongs, *
- *SuperEgo, *
- *Thrilling Adventure Hour, *
- *PodFTompcast, *
- Ask Me Another,
- *No Such Thing as a Fish, *
- Welcome to Nightvale,
- Dead Pilots Society,
- *Dead Authors Podcast, *
- The Big Ones,
- *Complete Woman, *
- *Complete Man, *
- Ted Talks,
- Hidden Brain,
- We're No Doctors,
- Selected Shorts,
- Hero Obscura,
- Hey Riddle Riddle,
- Extra Time for Questions,
- Real Time with Bill Maher,
- Teacher's Lounge,
- Complete Joy,
- Complete Wedding,
- Hollywood Handbook,
- *SuperEgo Cinema, *
- *SuperEgo Forgotten Classics*,
- Talk Salad and Scrambled Eggs,
- Tell Me Something I Don't Know,
- WTF,

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 13:26, Ryan McGill <ryanmmcgill (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> Hey Keith,
>
> You hear that new episode of Obscure where he's interviewing his kid and
> she's so completely bored with what he's saying? That really cracked me up.
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 12:57:08 PM UTC-7, Ryan McGill wrote:
>>
>> Apparently I'm still subscribed to Dead Pilots.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 8:58:15 AM UTC-7, Ryan McGill wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm having some trouble getting this to post. I've copy-and-pasted it
>>> from another window, and I've been drafting it in my spare time since you
>>> made your post. I have less time for thought now than I used to. Maybe I
>>> should make more.
>>>
>>>
>>>> *I'd love to hear some recommendations. * I am the ONLY one of my
>>>>> close friends or family that know what a podcast IS!
>>>>>
>>>> Oh, this is going to be a thread. I first heard of podcasts via a
>>>> LiveJournal entry from a friend back in November 2004. I didn't have an MP3
>>>> player, so I downloaded a couple and burned them to a CD.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I was hooked.
>>>>>
>>>> Same here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - The Pod F. Tompkast with Paul F. Tompkins (6 years inactive)
>>>>>
>>>>> I enjoyed that a bit, but something about the tone and the
>>>> unpredictability of the release schedule made me take a break before it
>>>> ended.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Comedy Bang Bang (although only the episodes that feature PFT)
>>>>>
>>>>> I quit this one back when it was still Comedy Death Ray. I came upon
>>>> it, listened to two episodes and didn't get it, then they released three 3+
>>>> hour Christmas episodes in a week, which utterly confused me. I like the
>>>> show, and I love PFT's characters, but the audio format was too bewildering
>>>> for me.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins --- my absolute obsession,
>>>>> still in weekly production through Episode 200!
>>>>>
>>>>> Still burned by the Tompkast. I'm super anxious about this one, and I
>>>> don't really know why.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Superego
>>>>>
>>>>> I love it to death. NOTHING makes me laugh like Superego. Except for
>>>> Kasper Hauser.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Mission to Zyxx
>>>>> - No Such Thing as a Fish [Funny facts from the Q.I.
>>>>> Researchers\Elves]
>>>>> - Pistol Shrimps Radio
>>>>> - The Writer's Panel [television writers talk craft]
>>>>> - Hidden Brain
>>>>> - The Dead Authors Podcast
>>>>> - Art of the Score
>>>>>
>>>>> Haven't listened to any of these. Heard of Pistol Shrimps. And the
>>>> premise is kind of amusing. My brain just has trouble keeping up with
>>>> sportscasting.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - The Dead Pilots Society [readings of bought tv pilots that were
>>>>> never made]
>>>>>
>>>>> I love the pilots, but the host is (to me) rather uncharismatic and
>>>> not so good with interviews. He must be a really nice guy, because he's
>>>> able to get a lot of people to do things he's interested in. I think I
>>>> might have unsubscribed after the last one, because I don't remember
>>>> hearing one in a couple weeks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - I Was There Too
>>>>>
>>>>> I love Gourley to death. He's probably my favorite of the Superego
>>>> guys, but I kind of stopped listening after the squib test. A lot of his
>>>> guests were too obscure for me, as well as from movies I wasn't really
>>>> aching for a backstory on, although the interview with the Bond villain guy
>>>> was great.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Obscure [comedian Michael Ian Black reads Jude the Obscure out
>>>>> loud and comments as he goes]
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm still enjoying the hell out of this one. I like MIB's style. I
>>>> started listening expecting more of a book-on-tape experience, but he's
>>>> really stretched the definition a lot lately. I tried googling the library
>>>> he's supposedly at, but I didn't get any results that looked promising.
>>>> Also, I'm becoming less and less convinced he's reading the novel, as his
>>>> commentary and weird bits talking to friends start to outweigh the book
>>>> content pretty heavily?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - and dozens more, less comprehensively...
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll guarantee our lists will have more overlap, as I share some more
>>>> of mine.
>>>>
>>>> It has been kind of lonely -- not having anyone with whom to geek out
>>>>> about this bounty of information and entertainment.
>>>>>
>>>> I'm involved in a few communities/groups on Facebook that revolve
>>>> around podcasts. Several of my closest friends are heavily into podcasts.
>>>> Every now and again, someone will ask for recommendations, and it just gets
>>>> . . . I'm beginning to think someone's podcast tastes are like a
>>>> fingerprint, but more malleable. Maybe closer to the bacterial culture of
>>>> their belly button? Even some of my co-workers, when we talk about what
>>>> we're listening to, I'm kind of confused, because a lot of kind people I
>>>> know listen to shows that I quit listen to because they were too . . .
>>>> abrasive?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> And some things have weird sound level balances that drive me nuts. One
>>>> of my best friends used to give me a lot of crap because he'd ask about a
>>>> podcast, and I'd tell him I listened to a couple episodes, but the sound
>>>> quality was a problem. There are a few podcasts I can still listen to
>>>> despite that, but generally speaking, if it was recorded on Skype, or if it
>>>> sounds like it was, or if there are more than four people recording at any
>>>> given time, I probably won't be able to listen to more than three episodes.
>>>>
>>>> So as long as we're sharing lists, mine has been re-vamped several
>>>> times. I mentioned that I got a Creative Labs MP3 player for my birthday?
>>>> It was a little flash drive, and it only held 128 MB, so I'd have to
>>>> re-fill it every night. I loved it. It also had an FM radio built in. And I
>>>> was working janitorial, so I'd listen pretty much non-stop. But back then,
>>>> I had to download things individually and drag them to the flash drive. And
>>>> then it died pretty quick. I listened to a lot of different podcasts then,
>>>> many of which I don't remember anymore, but the first one I downloaded back
>>>> in November of 2004, before I ever had an MP3 player at all. My friend
>>>> shared a link on LiveJournal to an interview done by a radio show called
>>>> The Sound of Young America.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> TSOYA was a radio show on UCSC college radio done by a guy who sounded
>>>> like he was in his late 40's-50's. I thought it was hilarious that an old
>>>> guy was doing a show called The Sound of Young America. And he was an
>>>> EXCELLENT interviewer. Most of the people he was talking to were
>>>> alternative comedians (like PFT, Patton Oswald, Sarah Silverman, and so on)
>>>> and rappers (Gift of Gab from Blackalicious, Big Boi from Outkast) with
>>>> some bizarro artists thrown in and the occasional deep-cut soul singer. Of
>>>> course, if you're a decade or two older than me, you probably already know
>>>> that "The Sound of Young America" was a marketing slogan for Motown
>>>> records. And as it turns out, the host was actually a week younger than me.
>>>> He just had an amazing voice and a knack for asking really good questions.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> There's more to this story if you're interested in hearing. And I know
>>>> there was a promise of a list of podcasts. It's forthcoming. But I rambled.
>>>> And now I have to start work. But The Sound of Young America really shaped
>>>> my listening habits.
>>>>
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