Since I do much of my work from home these days, I have become addicted to podcasts. These are basically like radio programs that are pre-recorded, or recorded live, then uploaded to a server where they can be downloaded and often times even subscribed to via iTunes, or similar audio programs. When you subscribe to a podcast in iTunes, it will automatically download the latest episode whenever it’s available, then you can listen to it at your leisure. Since I’ve been working from home, I’ve discovered a lot of interesting and cool podcasts – I thought I would share some of my favorites. These can range from pure online gaming geekery, to science, to music, to tea.
The Instance was the first podcast I started listening to on a regular basis. Hosted by Scott Johnson and Randy Jordan, it’s a weekly podcast about the MMORPG World of Warcraft. Obviously, if you have no interest in MMOs, or WoW, this podcast would be mostly non-sensical, hehe, but the hosts are great, and it’s been the number one WoW podcast for a long while.
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As pointed out by a friend of mine, this is probably one of the most esoteric podcasts I subscribe to. Adagio is a tea company, and it’s where I’ve been getting most of my tea for a few years now (if you don’t know already, I’m a tea freak). They recently started doing this video podcast, hosted by Zack Luye. You may ask, “how can you possibly do a podcast about tea??”. Adagio started letting customers create their own tea blends about a year ago, and people have created some pretty interesting and sometimes crazy stuff (I even created my own called Earl Grey Citron – a blend of Earl Grey and Blood Orange). Every week, Zack samples a new user created blend, and basically tell us about it and what he thinks of it. It sounds ridiculous, but it’s strangely entertaining – lol.
The classical music label Naxos is one of the biggest classical music labels in the world, and I just discovered this really great podcast hosted by Raymond Bisha. He usually interviews musicians, conductors or composers that have new releases on Naxos, but he’ll even interveiw people with albums not on Naxos if he likes them. I’ve discovered many great recordings via this podcast, and it’s done extremely well and professionally. I highly recommend this one.
More podcasts to come…
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