Best Podcasts
I've recent discovered this amazing thing called podcasts. As a 26 year old, this makes me the Worst Millenial Ever. This post aims to rectify that (not the "worst ever", just the ignorance. I relish the title.)
What suggestions do you have for good podcasts, besides the obvious mgopodcast? Good sports ones? Good entertainment ones? Ideally, I'd love to find a good finance/mathematics one, or one on healthcare/insurance, but I feel the topic isn't really one that would be fun. The SOA podcast, for example, is terrible.
Last year we had a pretty good discussion on this as well. Hopefully we get some new ideas of podcasts that've sprung up in the interrm.
Outkick the Coverage
Barstool Sports
Doesn't MGoBlog have one of those pod things?
The Wolverine Podcast
My favorites (mostly politics):
- Meet the Press (they post their full Sunday show in podcast form)
- The Daily (20 minutes on NYT's headlines)
- NPR hourly news summary (the best 5-minute quick news update I've found)
- The Axe Files with David Axelrod (hour-long interview between David Axelrod and a political figure from Sean Spicier to Barack Obama)
- Intelligence Squared (hour-long debate on a newsy/controversial topic)
- This American Life (duh)
- MgoPodcast (duh)
- Michigan Insider (podcast version of Sam's daily show)
For the Michigan podcasts add "The Michigan Man Podcast"
Others:
Freakonomics
Dan Carlin's Harcore History
EconTalk (great interviews)
Scam School (funny short party tricks)
You are not so smart
Plus one for the Hardcore History mention.
Also check out the Tim Ferriss show.
I'll break it down by podcast type.
College football podcasts:
The Audible (Feldman and Mandel)
Shutdown Fullcast (EDSBS guys)
Podcast Ain't Played Nobody
The Solid Verbal
Sports Podcasts:
I don't listen to a ton, but The Bill Simmons Podcast is usually pretty good.
Humor Podcasts:
Last Podcast on the Left (about scary shit, like serial killers and conspiracy theories and stuff)
The Flophouse (about bad movies)
How did this get made? (also bad movies)
The Dollop (American History)
The Wolverine Beat
BBC's In Our Time
Recode Decode
Science at AMNH
a16z
Best unknown comedy gold. Been at it for over 10 years...think they're in the 560s for episodes.
Sports:
Hang Up and Listen
Effectively Wild (Baseball)
Not Sports:
Judge John Hodgman
The Dollop
The Poscast (Sort of sports, but not enough to get put in that category)
Pop Culture Happy Hour
Radiolab
I love the Joe Rogan podcast, especially when Bert Kreischer is on.
The Drew and Mike Podcast. These guys dominated Detroit morning radio for two decades and are now back on a podcast, albeit without Mike Clark for now due to an illness. Drew Lane is joined most shows by Marc Fellhauer. Not in any way to be construed as "deep" topically, the show is best when they are discussing local news and sports and can be very funny if not sophomoric. What's different now is they are on a podcast so they can take off the gloves in terms of the content and the language they use. I find it entertaining in the car as I cannot listen to local radio anymore--it is all completely awful.
Can not stand Marc. Guy ruins what could be a pretty decent podcast.
SYSK is great. Pick out a handful of episodes and boom, informative entertainment for an entire roadtrip. You'll arrive at your destination at least moderately informed on the Large Hadron Collider, or shopping malls, or fireplaces, or Easter Island, or Evel Knievel, etc... you get the idea.
YouTube powerful JRE for the catalog. The spectrum of his guest list is what makes it so good.
And it has gotten so much better now that redban isn't on there anymore to ruin otherwise interesting or funny shows.
Bruce Prichard Show is fantastic.
LA CHEESARIE! +1 for Tony Kornheiser Show. That show is extremely entertaining. The majority of the show is "old man yelling at cloud" type stuff. So funny. He wants it to be a local show so they talk a lot about DC centric sports but it's very well done. He has deep connections throughout the city and it shows. Such a great show. Purple line!
If you like the NBA Bill Simmons podcasts are gold. He also talks about football and entertainment, but overall really enjoyable.
Also if you are looking for a something educational that is non sports related, you should check out Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History. They are extremely well produced and he spends months making them.
Sport(ish): Tony Kornheiser Show
The Monday Morning Podcast: Bill Burr
How Did This Get Made (about movies)
Bill Simmons
The Player & The Fan (Chris Howard hosts)
Free Beer and Hotwings (radio program)
Zach Lowe: The Lowe Post (for NBA hoops specifically)
Jalen & Jacoby
How about 'I AM Rapaport'. Listen to teh Best Of episode and make up your mind...
Healthcare:
-Vox's The Weeds covers the issue very frequently (Sarah Kliff is great)
Economics:
-Planet Money
-Slate Money
Politics/current events:
-Common Sense with Dan Carlin
General fun:
-Reply All
-Hidden Brain
-Snap Judgment
I very highly recommend History of Rome and Revolutions. Fantastic stuff.