There's a fine thread in this forum already, not to mention a sweet What I'm Thankful For by Dre, about Marc Maron's WTF podcast, but the (always trustworthy) search is telling me there's no overall podcast thread at CHUD.com.
Until now.
I discovered podcasts in 2005, about eight months after they began to appear on the web scene, and listen to an average of four to eight hours of them a day depending on if I'm working alone or not, so I've heard a shitload of them. In fact, in 2006 it was homing in on a glorious beacon of joy known as the CHUD Show which lead me here to CHUD.com grace y'all with my grace.
For the first three or four years podcasts fell more or less into three camps. First, the completely amateur productions which amounted to a few buddies or a couple shooting the shit in their living room. 99.9997% of these were horrendous. Second camp was a very, very small number of shows which started out amateur and gained enough of a following that they made something of a living off the show. Some of these were also horrendous. The third camp were professional radio shows from the likes of the BBC, which were made available in mp3 form. But over about the last eighteen months professional funny people have caught up with the potential of the medium and a whole rash of new shows by people we might've heard of have burst into life. People like Paul F Tompkins, Adam Carolla, Stephen Tobolowsky and the aforementioned and magnificent Marc Maron have stepped into the podcast arena and enriched lives across the globe just by yapping into microphones and posting the recordings into the internet.
Enough of my overlong introductionary bullshit though, the point of this thread is to yap about podcasts you like and recommend and about the podcasts don't like and recommend avoiding. I listen to and recommend all the shows I've mentioned here but I'm not going to go crapping on about them yet because if nobody else joins in the fun in this thread I've already spent more than enough time on it. But if you enjoy listening to these things too, then by the mighty tentacles of the Kraken, let's have at it.
Until now.
I discovered podcasts in 2005, about eight months after they began to appear on the web scene, and listen to an average of four to eight hours of them a day depending on if I'm working alone or not, so I've heard a shitload of them. In fact, in 2006 it was homing in on a glorious beacon of joy known as the CHUD Show which lead me here to CHUD.com grace y'all with my grace.
For the first three or four years podcasts fell more or less into three camps. First, the completely amateur productions which amounted to a few buddies or a couple shooting the shit in their living room. 99.9997% of these were horrendous. Second camp was a very, very small number of shows which started out amateur and gained enough of a following that they made something of a living off the show. Some of these were also horrendous. The third camp were professional radio shows from the likes of the BBC, which were made available in mp3 form. But over about the last eighteen months professional funny people have caught up with the potential of the medium and a whole rash of new shows by people we might've heard of have burst into life. People like Paul F Tompkins, Adam Carolla, Stephen Tobolowsky and the aforementioned and magnificent Marc Maron have stepped into the podcast arena and enriched lives across the globe just by yapping into microphones and posting the recordings into the internet.
Enough of my overlong introductionary bullshit though, the point of this thread is to yap about podcasts you like and recommend and about the podcasts don't like and recommend avoiding. I listen to and recommend all the shows I've mentioned here but I'm not going to go crapping on about them yet because if nobody else joins in the fun in this thread I've already spent more than enough time on it. But if you enjoy listening to these things too, then by the mighty tentacles of the Kraken, let's have at it.
