Thursday, April 9, 2009

I don't want to miss a thing: Part 1

To those with a bad Aerosmith song in their head now, I apologize.
But you see, I can't seem to catch up on my podcasts, I'm still listening to February's shows. I could really stand to cut a couple out, but I'm having a hard time deciding who should go.
Take a look to the lower right so see the list of podcasts currently taking up space on my iPod:

Here are some thoughts on each of them:
The last couple episodes of The Geekbox started going too far off-topic, covering Lost spoilers and such, so I stopped a few minutes in, and I only listen to Retronauts if I'm familiar with the game series they're covering.

The What They Play podcast doesn't necessarily apply to me, being more parent oriented, but I enjoy John Davison's commentary, and the show is relatively short. The guys at Giant Bomb usually put on a good two hours of entertainment, (complete with drink taste-testing), that I enjoy, so that's safe from deletion. Gamers With Jobs was a recent addition, and I'm thoroughly enjoying the conversations they have over, again, about two hours.

The list of long podcasts (and long list of podcasts) goes on with the Gamespot podcast, which I considered dumping a while back, being that most of the personalities associated with it had moved on to form the aforementioned Giant Bomb.com. But lately I've been enjoying some of the interviews they've run, from Judges pushing through gaming legislation, to game developers.

Rebel FM is staffed by more former 1up employees, and so far they've been worth listening to, although I've been skipping their Game Club 'casts, since they have been playing through games I haven't played, and aren't interested in playing.

A Life Well Wasted is Robert Ashley's new vehicle, called by some the gaming version of NPR's "This American Life", and so far that's been interesting. The newest addition to the time-sink is Out of the Game, which I am ashamed to say I haven't even listened to yet, even though it reunites two of my favorite ex-journalists, Shawn Elliot and Jeff Green.

I think that will wrap up Part 1 of this 2 part post.
In part 2 I'll try to explain why I have such a hard time not listening to some or all of these entertaining shows.

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