Tom has been about as unbearable as Bert lately. His new special wasn’t funny at all. I ended up shutting it off.
Stavros is awesome on everything.
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Tom has been about as unbearable as Bert lately. His new special wasn’t funny at all. I ended up shutting it off.
Stavros is awesome on everything.
I think some of their best stuff comes from the family episodes with no guests. Some of the patreon questions just kill me.
I’m a big Bill Simmons fan. He’s excellent with NBA coverage on his own podcast, and sometime he discusses some other interesting topics based on who he has as his guest.
And The Rewatchables is a great podcast where him and other Ringer staff will watch an older movie and go over the ins and outs of the film from the actors/actresses, to the plot, to fun facts, etc.
And The Rewatchables is a great podcast where him and other Ringer staff will watch an older movie and go over the ins and outs of the film from the actors/actresses, to the plot, to fun facts, etc.
I actually like Bert in general, because he doesn’t take himself seriously. He gets annoying in long form because he never shuts up.
Tom is so incredibly smug.
A couple of my faves
99% Invisible. - Great podcast about design, creation, and user experience/impact of things you would never think about. My current favorite.
Science Vs - Looking at the science of things in popular culture and it’s claims, myths, etc.
This American Life
Planet Money
Freakanomics
My Dad Wrote A Porno - It you are looking for something absurd to listen to it’s this. It’s literally a guy and his friends reading and commenting on the crappy porno book his dad wrote in retirement. Sounds stupid but hilarious.
99% Invisible. - Great podcast about design, creation, and user experience/impact of things you would never think about. My current favorite.
Science Vs - Looking at the science of things in popular culture and it’s claims, myths, etc.
This American Life
Planet Money
Freakanomics
My Dad Wrote A Porno - It you are looking for something absurd to listen to it’s this. It’s literally a guy and his friends reading and commenting on the crappy porno book his dad wrote in retirement. Sounds stupid but hilarious.
Still hard to beat the Joe Rogan Experience. Wide variety of interesting guests and topics. I especially like listening to his conversations with comedians, because some of them are just naturally hilarious in a longer form conversation.
Used to be a cornerstone of my podcast listening, but he's like the number one offender of whining about cancellation (despite his incredible financial success) and having guys go off into the weeds about the completely uninteresting minutiae of the comedy business.
I stopped listening to him. I enjoy some of his interviews but man alive… some of them drag on so long and become very interesting.
Similarly, 'Stuff You Should Know'. Often times they'll pull facts from 'How Stuff Works'
Could have something to do with people trying to get him kicked off the air, but that's just a guess.
There have been some amazing guests over the years, that have enriched my life. SC Gwynne and Dan Flores are probably at the top of the list. But there's so much insane ******** and monotonous topics that it can be hard to sift out the good stuff.
Rogan started to really annoy me when he had to start steering every guest, regardless of whether they were comedians, into his "you can't say that anymore" pity party when it wasn't even germane to the conversation.
Which clearly worked, and resulted in him losing his platform and financial livelihood.
Oh wait...
And even if that weren't a thing, I've had my fill of comedians talking about trying to get into The Store and what not.
Play the Game Podcast is one of my regulars. It's a couple of pro paintball players but they do interviews with guys in MMA, and other sports too. They just had David Montgomery on there this week. Lots of discussion on how he mentally and physically prepares to be at the top of his game during the season and the off season.
Are you with your family or by yourself?
By yourself:
Your Moms House
Matt and Shanes Secret Podcast
Family:
Fly on the wall (outside of some cuss words)
American History Tellers
This was a fantastic recommendation. I will be frequenting this one. Hilarious well put together. Appreciated.
I tried Stavvy. I think I can see the appeal but the one I tried he talked about his **** and balls for like a half hour and I gave up. I’m no prude and definitely appreciate a good penis joke but it was too much even for me. I don’t need a 5 minute explanation of what his balls look like
The Confused Breakfast is fantastic. Thank you for that one. Those guys do a good and entertaining job.