Podcasts

I blame the tan.

Chicago: Clearly racist.

I have never really watched/heard a Podcast before, I saw a clip of one last week where Rebecca Goodwin was explaining how her Dad is also her Uncle, and how she went from nothing to earning £100k a month and setting up an affordable housing scheme for low income families. But that is the only podcast I have seen. 
I assume they are usually something you listen to rather than watch though? What is the difference between a Podcast and a Radio show/interview?

A podcast can be anything - it's just a way of delivering audio content that you can play anytime.

So, it can literally be a programme that's already been broadcast on the radio. It can be a professionally created show that sounds just like something that's already be broadcast on the radio. Or it can be two ordinary guys in their spare bedrooms talking for two hours about old episodes of Doctor Who through the inbuilt mic on their laptops.

And the boundary between audio and video keeps blurring. There are YouTube creators who repackage their video streams as podcasts and audio podcasters who stick a camera on their recordings and repackage them as YouTube channels.

The Forest show "Garibaldi Red" calls itself a podcast, for instance, but it originates as a 3/4 way Teams call streamed on YouTube.

Talking of which, +1 for The Trawl.

twitter.com/TheTrawlPodcast

Am I right in assuming the term 'podcast' originated in the early 00s with the advent of the iPod being the first real mainstream means to download and play such 'casts' as and when the consumer wanted?

We tend to forget it was quite a thing at the time.

Yeah, that seems right to my memory.

Podcasts are part of my daily life now. Back then it was a bit weird - best way to describe them was a sort of pre-recorded radio chat show that you download and listen to. Seeing as mobile data speeds weren’t quite up to streaming back then. It was a bit more cumbersome but ad tech and speeds evolved they became more accessible.

Nowadays tho as Florist says they’re video, audio, live, streamed, downloaded, free, paywalled - all sorts.

I still prefer the audio only stuff tho. Listen at work, or walking the hound. Love it. I get through hours of them and have gone through the back catalogue (over 500 eps all 1hr +) of my favourite pod a few times now.

I’m no fan of Dr Who but I might even give his fave show a listen.

Since I was on the radio 19 ish years I am a snob over podcasts. I have broadcasting gear at home (although it's all boxed up for our move) and a podcasting board which I bought during the lockdown.

I still listen to the radio. Satellite generally; And some of the podcasts I have tried haven't really impressed me but I do understand their place in today's culture. There are also millions of them and I haven't really given them the time and attention I should because I am busy and maybe a tad stuck in my ways by listening to music on my commutes in and out of work.

Ironically before I moved into personal training my thing was actually talk radio of which I had branched out from Rock stations as they were more creative. Terrestrial radio had become playlists and programme managers were under pressure to deliver ratings so creativity in those mediums were stifled. Talk radio was much better where the presenters and producers could stretch out and be themselves and try new things.

I suspect Podcasts are a massive expansion of this and for that I salute them. Of course most are probably pish but there are I'm sure some gems amongst the swill.

Chicago: Broadcaster no more.

This American Life?

Tell ‘Em Steve Dave.

I am an avid listener of podcasts. At least one per day, sometimes two. Mainly football and politics. Yet even I can't bring myself to listen to the two 'On and off the pitch' episodes that Forest did in May. The preceding ones were so dull. I presume the feedback they received, or perhaps listener numbers, concurred with my viewpoint as there have been none over the summer.

I concur. Drab nonsense is the highest accolade I can give it.

What podcast apps do people use on android phones? I've always used the default google one but it doesn't like BBC podcasts for some reason.

My requirements are pretty basic, I think - I just want it to download new episodes from the list of podcasts I subscribe to and put them into a playlist (ideally putting new ones at the bottom of the list) that I can then change the order of and then remove them from that playlist (and let me delete) once I've listened to them.

I don't care how good it is at recommending new ones, I don't need multiple playlists

Pocket Casts.

My only slight niggle is that it doesn't have a Desktop version without paying. So it's on your phone/tablet only unless you're happy to spend a few quid.

PS: www.thedrum.com/news/2019/03/27/bbc-removes-podcasts-google-podcasts-and-assistant

Spotify does the job for me (but then I subscribe to that anyway).