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Tick said:
Have you listened to The Flop House?  The description is the same, and I really like it.  I'm wondering about how they compare.
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I have listened to that one.  I also have dabbled in How Did This Get Made (has a couple people from the show The League on it).  Honestly, I don't remember a reason why, but I have stopped listening to them and have been listening to WHM more.  Not sure if it is the humor, more familiar with the movies they are doing, or what.  Doesn't hurt to give a listen to an episode or two.  I will give a listen to those other two again.  If I remember correctly, I thought the people on HDTGM talked over each other a bit, and they are bigger so they do a lot of live shows, which I am not a huge fan of.  Not sure on Flop House though. 

 
I'll give WHM a shot.  HDTGM didn't hold my attention for some reason - I think it just wasn't structured enough.

There's a D&D podcast called The Adventure Zone that I don't listen to... but the Flop House guys did a guest episode, and it was one of my favorite podcast episodes of all time.

Test link:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/adventurezone/TheAdventureZoneGreatSwitcheroo2015.mp3

Darn, tried to embed a podcast.

 
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Tick said:
I'll give WHM a shot.  HDTGM didn't hold my attention for some reason - I think it just wasn't structured enough.

There's a D&D podcast called The Adventure Zone that I don't listen to... but the Flop House guys did a guest episode, and it was one of my favorite podcast episodes of all time.

Test link:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/adventurezone/TheAdventureZoneGreatSwitcheroo2015.mp3

Darn, tried to embed a podcast.
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I am curious to get your take. 

After scanning the episodes of Flop House, I think I just stopped because they were doing movies that were too bad or new, and I hadn't seen them.  I got hooked on WHM, because it was stuff like The Core, Karate Kid 3, Friday the 13th 5, etc..  stuff that I have seen.  To me it's more fun that way, and I am not going to watch #### like Pompeii and God's Not Dead just to listen to a podcast.  Looking at the list, I think I have only seen 3 movies that The Flop House covered in the last 2 years.  WHM seems to mix newer stuff like Winter's Tale with Red Heat the next week. 

I remember really liking these:  Face/Off, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Butterfly Effect, and Devil's Advocate.  I would try one of those. 

 
pollardsvision said:
I don't listen to many podcasts, but I've lately been listening to the " Guys We F@#ked" podcast. Those chicks are pretty funny



Have you ever..you know..during it?
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It was touch and go during their latest podcast with Amber Rose, but I made it through.


I would rather stab an ice pick through my ears than listen to another half hour of that. 

Awful 

 
wilked said:
I would rather stab an ice pick through my ears than listen to another half hour of that. 

Awful 
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Not sure if you are referring to GWF in general or just the Amber Rose podcast, but the Rose one was really hard to get past how annoying she seems. Others are much better. The recent Wendi Kent podcast was really good. Kent photographs idiot Planned Parenthood protesters. That part is kind of interesting, but really her life is pretty fascinating. Got pregnant at 13, was homeless and addicted to heroin by 15. 

The Arite Lange and Nikki Glasser episodes are pretty good too.

Or maybe you just don't like Krystyna and Corrine, in which case I'd have fight you.

 
I picked one at random.  I tried to stick with it, gave it 20-30 minutes.  They are supposedly comedians, but there were no jokes I could find.  It felt like sitting on an airplane in front of two annoying 20-somethings that spent the two hours before the flight drinking.  

Here's the one I listened to.  Someone that hasn't heard these broads, give this 20 mins and tell me if I am wrong


 
wilked said:
I picked one at random.  I tried to stick with it, gave it 20-30 minutes.  They are supposedly comedians, but there were no jokes I could find.  It felt like sitting on an airplane in front of two annoying 20-somethings that spent the two hours before the flight drinking.  

Here's the one I listened to.  Someone that hasn't heard these broads, give this 20 mins and tell me if I am wrong
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I'm with you. 

I wanted to like it, because you know, sex. But they aren't funny. I guess it's different being so open about whoring it up, which is encouraged in my book. But at least be funny. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
I am curious to get your take. 

After scanning the episodes of Flop House, I think I just stopped because they were doing movies that were too bad or new, and I hadn't seen them.  I got hooked on WHM, because it was stuff like The Core, Karate Kid 3, Friday the 13th 5, etc..  stuff that I have seen.  To me it's more fun that way, and I am not going to watch #### like Pompeii and God's Not Dead just to listen to a podcast.  Looking at the list, I think I have only seen 3 movies that The Flop House covered in the last 2 years.  WHM seems to mix newer stuff like Winter's Tale with Red Heat the next week. 

I remember really liking these:  Face/Off, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Butterfly Effect, and Devil's Advocate.  I would try one of those. 
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I listened to 3 episodes today: Face/Off, Attack of the Clones, and some Beelejuice cartoon episode.

It was good enough that I'll go through their episodes and cherry pick some movies I've seen.  I still prefer Flop House (one super-manic guy and two beer drinkers instead of three slightly manic guys), but WHM is good.

 
I haven't heard these other podcasts , but the How Did This Get made episodes for Face/Off and Con Air are amazing and must be listened to together.

 
My Brother, My Brother And Me - the McElroy brothers' weekly "advice" show. Hilarious imo

The Adventure Zone - the three from MBMBAM join their dad in a D&D campaign. My favorite podcast content of all time.

 
Tick said:
I'll give WHM a shot.  HDTGM didn't hold my attention for some reason - I think it just wasn't structured enough.

There's a D&D podcast called The Adventure Zone that I don't listen to... but the Flop House guys did a guest episode, and it was one of my favorite podcast episodes of all time.

Test link:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/adventurezone/TheAdventureZoneGreatSwitcheroo2015.mp3

Darn, tried to embed a podcast.
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Great episode. Did you listen to the McElroy Flop House switcheroo?

 
Currently subscribed:

How Did This Get Made, Now Playing (movie reviews), Bill Burrs Monday Morning Podcast, The Black Tapes, Chewin' It (Lemme and Heffernan of Broken Lizard fame), Astonishing Legends.

I have subscribed to Girl on Guy, Nerdist, WTF, Keeping it Weird- but eventually they all started to annoy me.

 
Cold Dead Hands said:
Currently subscribed:

How Did This Get Made, Now Playing (movie reviews), Bill Burrs Monday Morning Podcast, The Black Tapes, Chewin' It (Lemme and Heffernan of Broken Lizard fame), Astonishing Legends.

I have subscribed to Girl on Guy, Nerdist, WTF, Keeping it Weird- but eventually they all started to annoy me.
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Fitzdog is pretty good.

 
The Don Carlin Podcast "Hardcore History" is good.  I'm just introduced to it from this thread and listening to the first episode on Kahn and the Mongols. 

Really good story telling / lecture. 

Looking forward to listening to more.

 
The Champs podcast delivered their last podcast. :sad:

I also miss Joe Derosa's podcast. Not sure why he stopped doing them.

 
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Look, I love Tone Kornheiser.  I listen to EVERY podcast.  But there can't be anything more painful ever on the airwaves than Bob Ryan stuttering, stammering, and talking over/ignoring the host as he goes through his March Madness bracket.  Just suicide inducing.

 
FiveThirtyEight Elections- weekly coverage of the election 

Presidential-interesting examinations on the influence, career and legacy on every President. It isn't the standard history book/Wikipedia stuff. 

You Must Remember This- if you like old Hollywood, this is full of stories on legends like Brando, Bogie, Bacall and so on. 

Out of the Past- insanely smart discussion of legendary films noir and films influenced by the genre 

Slate's Audio Book Club- They read and discuss current popular books

Classical Classroom- the woman that runs the classical music library at a classical music radio station actually knows very little about classical music so she seeks out professionals in the world of classical music and learns all about it 

 
facook said:
Look, I love Tone Kornheiser.  I listen to EVERY podcast.  But there can't be anything more painful ever on the airwaves than Bob Ryan stuttering, stammering, and talking over/ignoring the host as he goes through his March Madness bracket.  Just suicide inducing.
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:TKSalute:

 
Have to second the Bill Burr recommendations. Just started listening. The guy is cranky as hell but very funny. Almost always good for a few laugh out loud moments. 

Dan Patrick is just his show every day. He's usually pretty solid though. Good interviews.

 
Daywalker said:
William Friedkin on WTF is a gem of a listen.
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I just finished this this morning. His description of seeing The Shroud of Turin was amazing. Loved hearing about the Exorcist and The French Connection. Have to re-watch them again. Pretty wild the car chase in French Connection was filmed live during real traffic.

 
cstu said:
Looks interesting. Is there a ranking of the best episodes?
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Dunno, actually. I was poking around Google trying to find Infected a podcast story I listened to more than a year (2+?) ago by Scott Sigler (who happens to be on the list as a reader). It was pretty out there, but entertaining, and well produced (and free). I've been listening to the Game of Thrones (among others) audiobooks since before and after football season so haven't been into any of these.

 
Sigler's got a lot of serialized books, most are worth it.  The Rookie starts a series of about 6 books that I have enjoyed a lot.

 
Brownsfan said:
I just finished this this morning. His description of seeing The Shroud of Turin was amazing. Loved hearing about the Exorcist and The French Connection. Have to re-watch them again. Pretty wild the car chase in French Connection was filmed live during real traffic.
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have not finished yet but when he was talking about the Lady and the Tiger and the endings of the French Connection and Sorceror and letting things be up to the audience's mind, it got me thinking about the Sopranos ending.  I've never heard Chase reference any of those things anywhere (not that he talks about the ending much) and I think his thing is more just about how life doesn't really work in neat beginnings and endings, but interesting to think about it in this light.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Another movie podcast that I have been digging is We Hate Movies.  Ripping on crappy movies, but it does seem to come from a place of love, and they still will recommend some of the movies at the end.  An old one where they covered The Butterfly Effect had me laughing a lot. 
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Now that I'm listening to How Did This Get Made?, I have likely crossed the threshold of subscribing to an illegally ridiculous amount of podcasts.

 
Quick look at my phone, I am now subscribed to: Astonishing Legends, Books and Nachos, Chewin' It (Heffernan and Lemme of Super Troopers fame), Infected, Contagious, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, History on Fire, How Did This Get Made?, I Was There Too, Lore, Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, Now Playing, The Black Tapes Podcast, and We Hate Movies. I tried the Flop House they joke around a lot, but unlike We Hate Movies I found it unfunny. They also never seemed to talk about the actual movie.

To be fair, I have yet to listen to one episode of Infected or Contagious as they are for when I catch up on We Hate Movies. If you like movie review podcasts, I highly recommend Now Playing, well done show with a huge back catalogue of movies to choose from. I also enjoyed Is It That Bad but those guys bailed in a hurry when their actual names were released by some jacknugget. I found those guys to be funny.  

 
Cold Dead Hands said:
Quick look at my phone, I am now subscribed to: Astonishing Legends, Books and Nachos, Chewin' It (Heffernan and Lemme of Super Troopers fame), Infected, Contagious, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, History on Fire, How Did This Get Made?, I Was There Too, Lore, Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, Now Playing, The Black Tapes Podcast, and We Hate Movies. I tried the Flop House they joke around a lot, but unlike We Hate Movies I found it unfunny. They also never seemed to talk about the actual movie.

To be fair, I have yet to listen to one episode of Infected or Contagious as they are for when I catch up on We Hate Movies. If you like movie review podcasts, I highly recommend Now Playing, well done show with a huge back catalogue of movies to choose from. I also enjoyed Is It That Bad but those guys bailed in a hurry when their actual names were released by some jacknugget. I found those guys to be funny.  
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I really like Now Playing as well.  A little geeky, but they do a good job.  I also like that they do the entire series of something, so it is a nice mix of good and bad movies - ie the whole Nightmare on Elm Street movies.  

Seems like we have similar lists for our subscriptions - I have too many and will list them when I get home.  The other two movie podcasts I listen to a lot are /Filmcast and Filmspotting.  Those are on the new movies/serious side though.  I, like you, can't do The Flop House.  

What is Astonishing Legends?

 
KarmaPolice said:
I really like Now Playing as well.  A little geeky, but they do a good job.  I also like that they do the entire series of something, so it is a nice mix of good and bad movies - ie the whole Nightmare on Elm Street movies.  

Seems like we have similar lists for our subscriptions - I have too many and will list them when I get home.  The other two movie podcasts I listen to a lot are /Filmcast and Filmspotting.  Those are on the new movies/serious side though.  I, like you, can't do The Flop House.  

What is Astonishing Legends?
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I will look at Filmcast and Filmspotting.

Astonishing Legends are two guys who go in depth (multiple episodes) on unsolved mysteries like Emelia Earhart, Oak Island, Dylatov Pass, Knights of the Golden Circle, etc. with occasional one-off episodes about paranormal miscellanea or guest interviews about random unexplained things. The Emelia Earhart episodes were very good.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
He has had a lot of good ones lately, the two mentioned and Micheal Moore come to mind.  I am an 80s thrash guy, so also liked Scott Ian interview as well.  
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Yeah, I'm an 80s thrash guy, as well. So that was fun.

And as long as we're on the subject, I assume you heard the Brian Posehn/Scott Ian commentary track on the S.O.D. DVD? Very good.

 
Cold Dead Hands said:
I will look at Filmcast and Filmspotting.

Astonishing Legends are two guys who go in depth (multiple episodes) on unsolved mysteries like Emelia Earhart, Oak Island, Dylatov Pass, Knights of the Golden Circle, etc. with occasional one-off episodes about paranormal miscellanea or guest interviews about random unexplained things. The Emelia Earhart episodes were very good.  
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Sounds good will check it out.  

/Film does everything - talk about movie and TV news, what they have been watching, then do a review of a new movie - no spoilers then with spoilers.  More on the laid back side.  

Flimspotting is more on the snooty side.  Still do new movies and have a top 5 list that ties into it every week. 

 
jdoggydogg said:
I'd say the same about Maron's Sacha Baron Cohen interview.
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I liked it a lot, but I was hoping for a little more introspection from SBC and insight into who he is, though it seems like it is partly just the English way (like his reference to not getting psychotherapy).  he almost seemed a little surprised when Marc pointed out that he has some kind of adrenaline-seeking addiction.  I mean he obviously he had some sense of it, but it seemed like he had a more existential moment about it.  (could just be my interpretation).  The stuff about the logistics and behind the scenes of the bits was cool, but I knew some of that and wished for a little more.

The clown/bouffon study stuff was pretty interesting and I've been thinking about this in relation to Michael Scott as I've been re-watching The Office on netflix.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
I liked it a lot, but I was hoping for a little more introspection from SBC and insight into who he is, though it seems like it is partly just the English way (like his reference to not getting psychotherapy).  he almost seemed a little surprised when Marc pointed out that he has some kind of adrenaline-seeking addiction.  I mean he obviously he had some sense of it, but it seemed like he had a more existential moment about it.  (could just be my interpretation).  The stuff about the logistics and behind the scenes of the bits was cool, but I knew some of that and wished for a little more.

The clown/bouffon study stuff was pretty interesting and I've been thinking about this in relation to Michael Scott as I've been re-watching The Office on netflix.
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I can't disagree, although I still loved it.

My one beef with Maron, and understand I'm a huge fan, is sometimes he'll have on an actor and barely talk about that actor's greatest TV/film role.

 
Damn, I subscribe to too many. Looks like I was around 50, but there are a few I don't bother with much.  Here are some more that I really dig:

Movies:

KCRW's The Treatment - Usually a 1/2 hour show where the host talks to directors, actors, screenwriters, etc..

The Projection Booth - WAAAAAAY in depth discussion of a movie.  Will talk in general of the movie, then have interviews with people behind the movie.  For example, they had a 3 hour episode on Alien 3.

The Criterion Quest and Lost in Criterion - 2 different podcasts that review a movie from the Criterion collection each episode. 

Other misc. ones I like:

Unspoiled - I mentioned this one in the book thread.  They have several podcasts going right now.  The concept is to have at least 2 people go through a TV or book series - one has been through them before, and the other is brand new and "unspoiled".  I stumbled on them when I was reading the Song of Ice and Fire books and listened to all of them.  Currently I am using them for Hannibal, The Dark Tower Books, Harry Potter books, and The Wire. 

Question of the Day - short daily podcast from the guys behind Freakanomics

Criminal - short podcast that talks about a crime/case each episode

Lore - Seems similar to the Legends podcast mentioned above - each episode he covers some things from folklore - vampires, werewolves and a bunch of other things.

Those plus the staples that have been mentioned: Joe Rogan, Radiolab, Freakanomics, and the Dan Carlin podcasts.

 
prosopis said:
Joe Rogan experience has been my go to recently. I like the variety of subjects he covers.
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The podcast is great.  Love the weird variety of guests that he has - the recent Lance Armstrong one was pretty good. 

I will admit that I am drawn to the odd stuff, but I would say that some of my favorite podcast episodes of any type are when he has Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock on his show.  The way those two guys' theories mesh together is bizarre. 

 
I subscribe to way too many. I feel the best are

Hardcore History

Radiolab

99% Invisible

About Race

Us and Them

Lately I've been listening to and enjoying

fivethirtyeight

the ezra klein show

note to self

Limetown

The Message

KRXW New Sounds

In the past I've really enjoyed, but haven't listened to much lately

The skeptics guide to the universe

You are not so smart

 
I can't remember if anyone has mentioned The Bugle, but it's great.  It just came back after a year off.  Some British comedian plus John Oliver making fun of the news.

 
Just finishing up Wrath of the Khans on Hardcore History and found it pretty fascinating. What are some other good ones?

 
joker said:
Just finishing up Wrath of the Khans on Hardcore History and found it pretty fascinating. What are some other good ones?
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I asked the same question a while back in this thread. My favorites by far are Wrath of the Khans and Ghosts of the Ostfront. This one on the Persian Empire he's doing now is pretty decent. PM Fat Nick if you are looking for recommendations on some of his older stuff. 

 
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joker said:
Just finishing up Wrath of the Khans on Hardcore History and found it pretty fascinating. What are some other good ones?
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I really like just about every one I've heard so far but I haven't heard nearly all of them.

The Blueprint for Armageddon (WWI) series is probably my favorite...if you have the time for it. I think it's 5 or 6 episodes long, about 3 hours each. The most recent King of Kings has been pretty interesting but he really could have cut out a lot of fluff in the 2nd episode.

The Punic Nightmares and Ghosts of the Osfront (German invasion of Russia) series were pretty good as well.

 
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