Podcasts to listen to instead of O&J?

1  2014-08-20 by [deleted]

After 4 years of listening to O&A near daily, today was the last time I attempted to listen to O&J and tried to enjoy it. It's not working. I can't make it through more than 30 minutes anymore.

I listen to it at work with headphones on and I can get about 2-3hrs in a day. I'm looking for some new podcasts to fill the void. So far I've got:

  • Anthony Cumia show (the 1-2 good ones a week)
  • Bill Burrs podcast
  • the occasional Rich & Bonnie show

I listen to a few other non-comedy shows to get smarter such as:

  • EconTalk
  • This American Life

Any other good shows I should checkout? Even non-comedy related.

39 comments

Dan Carlins hardcore history, joe Rogan experience, sift through all the other podcasts on riotcast

I listened to the entire episode of Hardcore History today as I single handedly checked in a giant, filthy camera package. By the end, I'd felt like I was in fucking World War 1. (The letter he reads that the soldier sent to his wife and kid actually made me tear up; fag. Spoiler alert: the guy died two days later. Making it sadder.)

Yea, hardcore history is great, but don't go into it thinking its just going to be a neat discussion on historical events. Its ridiculously involved and you kind of have to just be listening to it and not doing anything else or it just turns to blather you won't remember the next day. I binge listened to almost all of the episodes and I barely remember anything from the 20 hours or so of the mongol discussion because I was working while it was playing.

Awww man The Rise of The Mongols was incredible. Listen to it on a long drive or something. Its worth the 3 hours

Oh yea, on a drive it would be fantastic. I was working while listening, and not really paying full attention and was so lost during the snippets I did pay attention.

Norm Macdonald Live and Snap Judgement

I gotta check out norms. I always forget.

Start with the Nick Swardson episode. I must have watched that 15 times. The Gilbert Gottfried double episode is also amazing.

Also, Kevin pollak chat show is good when there's a good guest on to take away some attention from his pretension... All episodes are uploaded to YouTube. Paul F. Thompson has some good stuff too on YouTube with his speakeasy series. Both of those are really based around the behind the scenes stuff in show business.

Im not a Bill Hader fan at all, not that I hated him or anything I just had kind of no opinion on it. Holy SHIT was that interview funny. That's so cool he used to be a PA, then came back as like #3 on the call sheet for his old bosses that fired him. His Arnold is great too, that's fucking great he was Arnold's assistant for a while. "Dis iz where we shot Predatah..." He's a funny fucker, I like that guy. (Now)

Yeah he has a lot of great impressions.. you should check out that president of show biz bit they were talking about in the beginning.. So funny

I've moved onto: Joe Rogan, Adam Carolla Adam Carolla Carcast Adam Carolla Ace on House Under the hood show AGCO Garage pod cast

Yeah i have done the same.

Skeptic Tank. Probably my new favorite. That and Phil Hendrie. The man is legend.

Getting Doug With High

The "Tell em steve dave" podcast

This guy knows the score!

the MM Podcast! Go fuck yerself!

For some of you (LAYYYDYYS) out there!

I notice someone allready mentioned Tell em Steve Dave but a lot of the other pods on Smodco are also good.

I'd also suggest giving Ricky Gervais' old XFM uk radio shows a go. It was where Ricky and Steve Merchant first met and also how Karl Pilkington became a national treasure. It was more of a music show that pure talk where they would talk for 5 minutes then play a record but the recordings that exist have the music edited out and total around 1 - 1:30 hours a piece so they are pretty much podcasts. It's very similar to the old Ricky Gervais podcasts but without the swearing.

The old Iain Lee LBC radio podcasts are good also but it's not really like O+A most podcasts.

When Iain got the job the main audience for LBC were women over 60 and he was hired to attract a younger male audience, he did this by purposely picking stupid topics that he knew would annoy these older women into ringing in, and he would then troll them with soundboards made up of calls of other boring callers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSOZD8PE-gE

Hollywood Babble on kinda sucks though

If you are willing to deal with a bit of Philosophy 101 and more structure, check out DeRosa's podcast. He picks one topic, then usually sits down with someone funny and talks about it for an hour. Its surprisingly good.

WTF Marc Maron.

If I Were You is great.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim florentine: comedy metal midgets, Pete Holmes: you made it weird, Marc Maron: WTF, Chris Hardwick: nerdist (not a fan but tons of people like it)

You always have Ron and fez if you're into that. You should sub to Logan nothighestprimate on YouTube.. He uploads a bunch of great non O&J or O&A related content

There's an easy-to-find YouTube channel that uploads 4-hour blocks of clips from Loveline, the radio show that Adam Carolla's and DR. Drew did for twenty years. It's great.

TELL EM STEVE DAVE!

Jim Florentine: "Why? There's no reason. None."

My favorites are already listed but check out...

The Gist, The Moth, Planet Money, Savage Love, Skeptoid, Risk, Joe Rogan, radio lab

You can always listen to my shitty podcast I do with my drunken, miserable Polish roommate: Lookin GOOD Radio. It's my weekly adventures in LA, usually involving banging some new slob, stories of being out in the open mic circuit, and otherwise scrounging about the outer fringes of Hollywood trying to make a fagety name for myself, that kind of bullshit. Lookin GOOD Radio. www.lookingoodradio.com or itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lookin-good-radio/id560002377?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Podcasts: -Cumia -Nick DiPaolo -Florentine

I read the WSJ every day on my iPad. I follow my sports teams on Twitter via links.

The fact that most people wait for a video to load to explain the story, instead of reading themselves is horrific.

Legion of Skanks

High Society Radio

Alexxcast. Whatcast

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The Tom Leykis Show

The Gary and Dino Show

WTF

The Adam and Drew Show

Doug Stanhope Podcast

The Joe Rogan Experience

Planet Money

Penn's Sunday School

Old episodes of The Rick Emerson Show http://www.tegianzone.com/rick-emerson-archives/archive-5/

Old episodes of Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM

My wife banned me from listening to Race Wars because everyone just yells over everyone else on that show

Stanhope has a podcast?? sign me up

I listened to the entire episode of Hardcore History today as I single handedly checked in a giant, filthy camera package. By the end, I'd felt like I was in fucking World War 1. (The letter he reads that the soldier sent to his wife and kid actually made me tear up; fag. Spoiler alert: the guy died two days later. Making it sadder.)

Yea, hardcore history is great, but don't go into it thinking its just going to be a neat discussion on historical events. Its ridiculously involved and you kind of have to just be listening to it and not doing anything else or it just turns to blather you won't remember the next day. I binge listened to almost all of the episodes and I barely remember anything from the 20 hours or so of the mongol discussion because I was working while it was playing.