Good podcast recommendations, please!

Bumping for podcast entertainment.

Gaslit America. Sarah KendZior is amazing!

Joe Rogan

My Oriental Bussy

For light fare: Everything Iconic, Cover to Cover, I Said No Gifts, Ask Ronna (the older ones). If you want to learn: Common Sense or Hardcore History by Dan Carlin, Sway with Kara Swisher. True crime: Casefile or Dateline

Wendy Williams'.

“The Mystery Show” particularly the belt buckle episode.

“The Dropout”

I like Dateline and 48 Hours.

The Plot Thickens - the series on Lucille Ball. She was a teenage slut.

Frasier Crane’s “Nightmare Inn”

Chapo Trap House, Everything Iconic, Dear Chelsea, Very That with Delta and Raja, Bad Gays, True Anon, and That's a Gay Ass Podcast.

Mike Tyson

^theriouthly????

Currently listening to the most recent season of You Must Remember This. It is about 80s erotic mainstream films (mainly erotic thrillers) and it has been fun listening to deep dives on some of the lesser remembered movies in the genre.

Wendy Williams has a new one coming out

I have a feeling it isn't going to come out soon. How does someone get dementia at 57? Is cocaine that bad? I love Wendy so much, I wish she would get better :(

Kara Swisher just recorded her final Sway but I recommend Pivot, the podcast she does with Scott Galloway. Two really smart people.

The comedy podcasts under Comedy Bang Bang are pretty good, but they are paywalled.

Brohio, Where Did the Road Go, Hollywood Crime Scene, Pretty Scary, Straight Talk, Penny Royal, Let’s Read, Angel at the Starlite Motel, Necronomipod, Astonishing Legends,Anne Ortelee’s weekly Weather, Rotten Mango, The Rialto Report and The Read.

#SistersInLaw

[quote]"Joyce Vance, Jill Wine-Banks, Barb McQuade, and Kimberly Atkins will pull back the curtain on how our government actually works, take on the corrupt, share their wisdom and give us their rulings on the latest in politics, law, and culture."

Last Podcast on the Left

Joe Rogan is trash aimed at those that are lost in life and easily manipulated.

I drove from Kansas to Texas yesterday and I listened to the "Home Cooking" podcast nearly all seven hours. It's hosted by Sameen Nousrat (I might be spelling that wrong), the author of 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat', and her co-host an Indian American guy whose name escapes me at the moment. Each episode was an hour or so, and it made my drive much easier as the time passed more quickly. If anyone has more cooking podcasts to recommend, I would like it very much as I have to make that drive again soon.

My complaints about podcasts in general: the hosts meandering too much or laughing too much. Home Cooking is no exception, in fact, it may be one of the worst about the laughing. I don't mind a sense of humor but get a fucking editor, no one wants to hear you laughing for 30 solid seconds at a time, ten times per episode. Or even half that!

I have noticed a lot of the better podcasts going the subscription route.

Who the fuck liked the Joe Rogan post twice? The poster himself?

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast. Great interviews, and co-host Frank Santopadre is an encyclopedia of showbiz trivia.

R14 I need to listen to that one. I used to watch a lot of movies on cable as a teenager.

Spy Talk. They interview ex-CIA and get great stories about past missions. Very well done!

True Spies is excellent, too.

Gilbert Gottfried died.

^ but there is a large archive of episodes at the link above. Anyway, Frank Santopadre is the one who conducts the interviews, Gilbert would just chime in with a question now and then, or provide an impersonation of James Mason or whoever. I hope Santopadre continues the show.

Pod Save America

Hidden Brain is pretty good. If you're a Datalounger who likes podcasts, you'd probably like it.

Really good

Our Hen House.

When will ElderLez have a podcast? What will it be called?

R30, On the last podcast recorded with Gilbert and made available after his death, Frank pretty much made it clear that the podcast would not continue without Gilbert.

I thought it might, since Frank was the primary interviewer and Gilbert's wife produced the podcasts and booked the guests.

At least there are eight(8) years of podcasts available both on YouTube and on the podcast's web site.

I enjoy the D-Listed podcast. Michael K is always funny, though tame compared to back in the day.

Why suggest? Some DL resident asshole will just shit on my recommendation. Not worth the try.

Don't let it stop you R38, there's an asshole in every thread; we're used to it.

Post links, dipshits.

R25 I was about to recommend Gottfried's podcast. I never followed his career and was unaware of it until after he died but I listen to it quite often. I was mostly surprised that the ones with Mario Cantone are good episodes.

The Office's Pam and Angela have one but they tend to be shrill and hard to listen to for an extended period of time.

Behind the Bastards is a great podcast about historical monsters. Episodes about Roy Cohn are terrific. Host Robert Evans is allegedly bisexual.

I wish people wrote more about concept of podcast they are recommending.

ElderLez Chat

Spy Talk

This one is the better of the two

I haven't listened to this one, but it's one of the 'top' new podcasts according to Apple. It's about weird stuff (killers) in national and state parks.

Definitely do R26. I know some people have issues with Karina Longworth’s affected narration voice, but You Must Remember This episodes are so well-researched, it doesn’t matter (at least to me).

You Must Remember This is a podcast that came highly recommended. It has interesting topics but the host has an odd way of prounouncing words, such as 'buh-in' for button. The background music is distracting too.

There really should be a Datalounge Digest type podcast with multiple sections per episode Cooking with Bronze Age Gay (suck a fat one, Greg) Eldergays Reminisce, My Childhood Was Worse than Yours, How to Lose 79 Pounds in Three Weeks (different guest dieter every week), etc.

My gripe with most podcast is that they are recorded like a chat where I'm invited for an afternoon tea. The first ten minutes are usually fluffy small talk with the co-host or guest. It's fast-forward time until the actual topic starts. So my nerdy recommendations are more radio shows than podcast.

One is Fresh Air with Terry Gross from NPR. Even if the topic is not your favorite, she can still create a very interesting interview with her guest.

Oh Dearing Myself: once a week a guest Datalounger reflects on a completely avoidable disaster they caused...

My second recommendation is even nerdier: The History of the English Language. It's more a history course about England/Britain than a linguistic class. But those who are into either should like this. The only downside: It's a bit drawn out. It could have been limited to fifty episodes.

I agree with the Fresh Air suggestion. A lot of people don't like her but she can make people or events you've never heard of, or ever thought much about seem fascinating in ways that few others, if any, can.

And then there is Hollywood & Levine. Ken Levine is primarily a sitcom writer, ranging from MASH to Frasier. He has lots of insight on Hollywood's TV production business, specifically sitcoms from the 60s to the 90s, and some interesting guests every now and then.

I was just going to post that I wish John McWhorter would make a language podcast, and guess what I found...

I'm not sure the Karina Longworth podcast is all that well-researched. For instance, in the Manson Family series she related how a distraught Roman Polanski holed up in a bungalow at Paramount that had just been vacated by Julie Andrews after filming The Sound of Music. The Manson murders were in August 1969, and TSOM was filmed at Fox in 1964.

Thanks for that recommendation, r57. Will definitely check it out.

Interesting, R58. I listened to those episodes but I never would have caught that. I was 8 years old the first time we went to Los Angeles for vacation, we watched the moon landings in July when we were there. We were home about a week or so when the Manson murders happened and my mom flipped the fuck out and said we were never going there again. We went several times over the years. The Twilight Zone helicopter accident occurred the last time I was in LA, oddly enough.

Does anyone know what happened to RuPaul’s podcast?

Didn’t know Rupaul’s podcast ended. I had listened for a while but it just wasn’t for me, especially since I don’t watch Drag Race.

This is the more current John McWhorter (linguistics) podcast.

Dan Carlins hardcore history. If you like history this is the place.

So many people act like podcasts are the second coming in media.

Radio stations use to upload their programs and shows after broadcasting on websites, and no one went ga ga over the content then, even though they covered a lot of spaces mainstream podcasts cover.

Maybe it's people wanting to feel 'zeitgeisty'?

I like “Fly on the Wall” (David Spade and Dana Carvey, and “Literally” (Rob Lowe)

R35 Anything I Don't Know Doesn't Really Matter.

In the self-help/psychology realm, try Psych & Spirit.

Swindled is probably my favorite - it's about different scams of varying degrees of impact (some small time and funny, some big time and tragic) but the narrator has a delivery that will make me laugh out loud. Let's call it dark comedy. I am also getting into The Gilded Gentleman (about the gilded age) and Vulgar History. You Must Remember This is one of my favorites (I just read her Howard Hughes book and loved it) and TrueAnon has some running bits I can't get out of my head (no way I'll ever listen to Evil Woman the same way again).

Tim Dillon

Conan O'Brien

Smartless.

It can be overwhelming when they’re all talking at the same time, but they get some really good guests.

More suggestions? I loved “You Must Remember This.”

You must remember this and Bowery Boys are my favorites. I also love my trashy Bravo podcasts Watch what Crappens and Giselle & Robin from Real Housewives of Potomac’s podcast Reasonably Shady.

Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. Really smart takes on business, tech and politics.

If you're REALLY into Agatha Christie, there's this one, that analyzes a different work every week. Unfortunately one of the co-hosts recently died before they finished covering Aggie's entire oeuvre.

Julian & Sandy.

^ ‘Round the Horn

I wonder why RDJ hasn’t appeared on Raw Blow’s pod.

They are apparently quite fond of each other and RDJ has been on everyone else’s podcast.

"Eyes on Gilead" is a great Australian podcast about The Handmaid's Tale.

You Must Remember This is a very effective litmus test for people who are worth knowing.

I have been putting off You Must Remember This because of my aversion to people who say buh-uhn instead of button, etc., but I'm going to try it this week.

You Are Good

You're Wrong About

You Must Remember This

Blank Check

Revolutions (a very well researched podcast on revolution around the globe); Well There's Your Problem (about engineering disasters); and another vote for You Must Remember This

To me, The Ringer has the best lineup of podcasts. Every week I listen to the following:

The Big Picture (discusses new movies)

The Watch (discusses all things related to TV)

The Town (film/tv industry — hosted by former Editor in Chief of The Hollywood Reporter)

Tea Time - Celebrity gossip o

Prestige Podcast - Deep dive discussions about prestige TV episodes

I started Talking Sopranos - episode by episode recaps w/ insider chatter and guests hosted by Christopher / Michael Imperioli. Good insider stuff if you are a Sopranos fan.

Based on recommendations here, I’m going to give podcasts another go.

So far, I’ve never been able to finish one. There’s an NPR-style tone most of them have. It’s very self-conscious and try-hard.

Also, someone here at DL recommended a skin care one and I’m still mad about it. Two self-indulgent young women blathering endlessly about how “Like… freckles are like… really beautiful!”

Fresh Hell: Murder, Mystery, and the Macabre is great. It's done by two women, Annie in Boston and Johanna in Austria, but the editing makes it seem as though they're having a conversation in the same room. They dig up lots of details and cover more obscure crimes, mysteries, and just plain weird events. I enjoy their show so much more than the stupid and irritating My Favorite Murder, because they don't go off on frau-y tangents. And they both have very pleasant, smooth voices, which is important to me (I'm shallow).

Hollywood Handbook. Start at the beginning. Two Hollywood insiders give you a peek behind the red carpeted hallways called shoebiz.

The Con Queen of Hollywood was also good. About a very smart insidery scam that’s so well-done for such paltry pay out.

Seek Treatment with Cat & Pat. A podcast about boys, sex, fucking, dating, and love. Comedians with a sticky vernacular style.

Sexy Unique Podcast. Bitch Sesh. Both Bravo oriented shows.

[quote]So many people act like podcasts are the second coming in media. Radio stations use to upload their programs and shows after broadcasting on websites. So many people act like podcasts are the second coming in media.

Well radio stations don't do that anymore. Radio stations and everything else are now basically corporate owned garbage.

There was a good podcast with Noel Casler of The Apprentice that was about how insane it was working with Donald Trump. The drugs he took, like Adderall, how he wore Depend, and how would casually walk around the set after shitting his diaper.

I recently stumbled across a podcast called "80s TV Ladies" about female-driven '80s tv shows which I've found very enjoyable (and I think, a few DLers would, too).

It's still relatively new, so they've only done episodes about Scarecrow & Mrs. King and Remington Steele, thus far. (Cagney & Lacey, Designing Women & GG are on their list). They've had some really interesting guests, including a two-part interview with Stephanie Zimbalist that is possibly one of the most DL things I've ever heard. She loves to name-drop (knows a fuckton of people) & talk about herself. Speaks very warmly of Pierce & the relationship he had with her father; casually outs her sister; and does a spooky impression of Jessica Tandy!

R5, Cane Faces of Death. ElderLezbos take on murders.

Came Face The Nation. ElderLezbos take on the issues facing the country, from an ElderLez perspective.

The Wittering Whitehalls. The parents of the British comedian Jack Whitehall. They just... witter and it's pretty charming if you find slightly posh British people with marvellous vocabularies amusing (the old man was a talent agent (Judi Dench, Colin Firth) so he's got some good stories to tell and he is very grumpy, takes no prisoners and swears a lot.) I laughed so hard at one point I nearly drove off the road last week. Just amiable chatter. Honestly, podcasts have in the main turned out to be such a disappointment to me it's a marvel when I find one can hold my attention. This is light comedy, but I really savour it.

Dolly Parton's America is amazing. It's about more than Dolly. I highly, highly recommend!

Listening to The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, which is well done.

Basic: when Cable was Cool is fun, not really a history but more of a reminiscence of a time before streaming.

Into It with Sam Sanders (culture)

Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway (business/tech, politics)

On with Kara Swisher (business/tech, some politics)

The Town with Matt Belloni (Hollywood)

The Tennis Podcast

The Bulwark With Charlie Sykes (politics with smart GOP and former GOP Never Trumpers willing to say what a danger the Repubs pose to the country)

"Stavy's World" with comedian Stavy Halkias

I look forward to it every week.

"Cover to Cover" with Chris Franjola

and Alex Conn

"A Date with Dateline"

Kimberly and Katie recap episodes of "Dateline" and other True Crime shows.

It's like watching with your best friends.

Black Hoodie Alchemy

I wish the Darfur orphan would start a podcast where he interviews celebrities

^ especially if they came on with their private chefs and talked about their gormet diets