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Is it easy enough to download podcasts to an SD card as mp3?

After the Peter Crouch ones in particular.

Any other decent podcast suggestions? Find they help me take my mind off other matters.

Any of the TED talks are pretty good. I'm sure CH4s Unreported World have a few. Depends what you're escaping from and trying to focus on.

Hope all ok.

Not sure about the MP3 bit but Price of Football is quite good, if a bit nerdy. Daily Football on BBC Sounds is usually OK. Away from football, Infinite Monkey Cage is excellent if you like scientific stuff explained simply and humorously.

Forgot Monkey Cage. Great suggestion!

Athletico Mince, and Elis James & John Robins routinely have me in stitches. For football, Quickly Kevin Will He Score is pure 90s nostalgia.

Yeah, Elis and John's stuff is great. A whole XFM back catalogue too.

Not gone through it yet, slightly intimidated by the sheer volume tbh.

The "Sat Nav" Shamewell I know though and that is prime #content

I've got into my podcasts recently - pretty much all football ones mind you.

Guardian Football Weekly, Totally Football Show and the Football Ramble are my go to Pods for football analysis. (Although the Football Ramble has a really irritating Geordie on it who I suspect maybe marmite for people)

NTT20 and Going up Going Down podcast for the non-premier league chat.

Athletico Mince, Quickly Kevin will he score and the Peter Crouch podcast for the more humerous side of the game.

And finally the creme de la menthe of Podcasts; The Loathed Strangers, for all your STFC requirements.

OMG how did I miss that off? Blimey!

Its a finely guarded secret. Should probably be discussing this in the private area really! ;)

The loathed what now?

The loathed stranger, because we don't know him but we do hate him  ;D

I listen to Joe Rogan when he has someone interesting on. They tend to be a bit long and tail off towards the end. I rarely listen to one all the way through.

I tried to download some Adam Buxton ones to listen to at work. Can't seem to work out how to download from his website or app though. Don't want to rinse my data too much while I'm on site. Any ideas?

Suggesting that someone from Hartlepool is a Geordie would get you murdered in those parts, Pete Donaldson is an acquired taste, actually the spin off Luke and Pete show is pretty good for randomness.

My pod listening has reduced now my commute has changed from 1.5 hours each way to c.30 dsecs each way. However still do...

'The New European' doesn't take it self too seriously if you are a remainer;
'Friday Night Comedy' form the BBC
'Great Lives' from the BBC

Beyond that for me its cycling and horse racing ones which are perhaps a little niche!
 

Well he comes across as a Newcastle fan so is a geordie in my eyes! I did try the Luke and Pete show, but it just allowed him a platform to be even more irritating. A shame as I think Luke Moore is a good broadcaster.

Interestingly I find Luke far more irritating as he takes himself more seriously than the format (and has a habit of saying 'if I could just finish my point' when he dominates most of the discussion). Do like the Ramble though, not least because they had a whole bit on how shit Gillingham was and challenging people to disagree (almost nobody did).

I too find Pete annoying and a bit of an idiot, comes across as a class clown.  Other than that its a very decent listen.

Off menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster is brilliant.

I was going to say likewise, Luke just talks over the top of everyone and whilst he often has a decent point to make its just irritating, he is also pretty sketchy on lower league stuff despite being a Portsmouth supporter, but horses for courses I suppose...

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I need to drop one of Extra/Totally/Ramble. Luke irks me more than Pete, Luke has gone full blown TalkSport in recent years.

Saw Ramble Live about 4/5 years ago and they put way more effort into the show than the Richardson Guardian era live event did.

Quickly Kevin is great but there was a definite dip in the last series.

Set-Piece Menu is really good and I've enjoyed Adam Hurrey's Football Cliches pod for The Athletic.

Interview

I pick and choose based on the guest with Marc Maron and Conan O'Brien but Adam Buxton and Richard Herring are the best UK equivalents.

History

Pick and choose with Dan Snow's History Hit. I really like James Holland and Al Murray's WW2  pod 'We Have Ways'.

I like Greg Jenner's 'You're Dead to Me' and Russell Kane's 'Evil Genius' but my word doesnt Kane ever like to remind us that he's from the estate!?

If you like heavier music, The Downbeat is an excellent listen. Fella called Craig Reynolds, Reading-born drummer for many fine bands.

Distraction Pieces is a good listen too, many really good guests on there.

The Horne Section podcast has had me in stitches, thoroughly recommend that one.

Blood on the tracks, music podcast with Colin Murray.

Smershpod, Bond-focused podcast is really good as well.

'The Loathed Strangers' ... goes without syaing
'No Such Thing as a Fish' for fact / trivia based humour
'My Dad Wrote a Porno' was very funny when I first listened but has probably run it's course now

Probably says more about me than you, but I read that initially as 'If you like beaver music'!!  :hmmm:

https://youtu.be/aYDfwUJzYQg

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+1 for The Downbeat. Craig rubs people up the wrong way sometimes but it's a good listen.

Also for heavy / alternative music, the Sappenin podcast with Sean Smith formerly of the Blackout. A really good (and EXTREMELY Welsh) listen. Their podcast with ex Lostprophets guitarist was a really good listen - particularly when they went quite in depth on Ian Watkins.

If u like serial killers and unsolved murders Crime Junkie and Strange Matters are the podcasts for you

An old one but still great for anyone who hasn't listened to it. Serial: The Case of Adnan Sayeed. Think they have made a film/documentary about it since. The Podcast is great though, delivered by an investigative journalist who looked into the case.

Last year the BBC World Service did a podcast series called 13 Minutes to the Moon, a minute-by-minute disection of the decent to the lunar surface by the Apollo 11 crew to mark the 50th anniversary, it was a fascinating listen, really enjoyed it, definitely check it out if you haven't.

This year, they're going through Apollo 13 mission, episode one dropped yesterday. Get on it!

90s Football Podcast Quickly Kevin (with Josh Widdicombe et al) this week has Ivo Graham on talking about Swindon in the 90s and specifically the That's Football documentary from 1992. Right up my niche, and I suspect a lot of people on here's too.

I love the QK podcast the Ivo Graham ones analysing the Steve Bruce books are superb as well.

Ivo is on our (Ex) London Reds watsapp group and is a great guy very passionate about STFC.

The WhatsApp group gets a mention! Think I was on the email version once years ago but must have missed jump to WhatsApp.

This was written about before the podcast's first episode gotso I'm really surprised it's taken so long to be published. I'll be giving it a listen when I get some spare time, with no lengthy commute now it's rare to get a quiet enough hour to listen to them.

Cool, cheers I’ve added that to my list of podcasts. I’m running every day in November so am saving up some of the podcasts 👍🏻

Very good this was

Slide into my DMs on here if you desire and we can get you added.

Ivo also appeared on the Totally Football League Podcast on 22nd October previewing the Derby game (fully aware this is in the past but its quite an entertaining listen)

Simon Ferry on the latest Under the Cosh podcast

https://youtu.be/UvRSOrvjoek

Not STFC related but Neville Southall on the 'Quickly Kevin Will He Score' podcast was very very entertaining!

Really enjoyed Big Nev's story about Big Dunc.

The whole episode had an "after dinner speech" feel to it, which was not unwelcome.

Neville Southall was hilarious not so much for Andy Townsend.

Lockdown Parenting Hell is a good listen.