So I listen to podcasts every day to work, they keep me sane. Here's a list of the Top 5 podcasts worth listening to, along with a eenie weenie announcement at the end..
NUMBER FIVE
The Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews
I've been listening to these guys review movies for the past 8 years now. The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' rant from Kermode is still one of the best rants of all time. Not to mention the 'Sex And The City' rant.. and the 'Robin Hood' rant... ok I just tune in for Mark's entertaining rants, that's not a crime. Listen here for the best rants -
NUMBER FOUR
My Dumb Friends
First of all - look at that podcast thumbnail - what a lovely illustration! I tried to find the artist but no look.
Anyway, this is a brilliant podcast hosted by two comedians Dan St Germain & Sean Donnelley, who are visited by other comedic friends. They tried to do the whole "so.. what's the dumbest thing you've done" kind of theme early on but now they mostly discuss Dan's tragic life and his addiction to strip clubs. My most favourite topic is Barbara Todish, a female comedian(?) currently banned from China. The best episode to listen to is Episode #78 Whitmer Thomas - that guy has so many good stories to tell. Also there's a guy called Tom that gets bullied a lot, its great.
NUMBER THREE
Pilots Podcast
OK so this isn't the thumbnail of the podcast but I couldn't find it on google so I thought I would include this painting of Dwight wearing a dead bear because why not.
Anyway, this podcast is hosted by Elizabeth Sankey & Anne T Donahue who talk about a different Pilot on each episode, my favourite one is when they discuss The OC. Elizabeth's Marissa/cream cracker comparison is brilliant!
Listen here-
NUMBER TWO
The Champs
The Champs is hosted by two comedians - Neal Brennan and Moshe Kasher. Yhe description says - "...welcome a different (black) guest every week to the podcast to discuss stupid things in a stupid way".
To be honest there's quite a few podcasts that I stopped half way through. BUT they do have a lot of great guests with some amazing life stories. For example, the Ms Pat episode is crazy. She got pregnant when she was 12, had two kids and adopted another 4 children by the time she was 16! Another great episode is Tiffany Haddish, who had an abusive Mum and a crazy 'Precious style' upbringing. Its all very interesting, if not slightly depressing.
Listen to Ms Pat's episode here -
NUMBER ONE
This American Life
Hosted by Ira Glass, I'm so addicted to this. Basically each podcast is themed, and come usually in three or four sections. Each section is either a fictional or factual life story. I loved #443 Amusement Park (a fun boss working in the game section of his childhood amusement park) and #529 Human Spectacle (a man who finds himself a slave to a Japanese reality TV show). Its a great series to get lost in.
So the announcement is..
*DRUM ROLL*
Me and my friend Amelia have recently made a podcast!
Yeh we aren't really that sexy IRL
We do what we usually do - watch a film while discussing said film or other things completely off topic, except we record it and review the film at the end. Its definitely NOT the greatest thing to sit on the world of Sound Cloud but we had fun and got slightly drunk while watching dumb films so there you go. If you want to listen to the episodes you can find them here -
