Best Podcasts of 2010

This list is the best podcasts of the 120 weekly podcasts I subscribe to. Enjoy!

1 - Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse – Long Now Foundation

Jessee Schell imagines what the world might look like with pervasive games. Hands down most interesting talk for me of the year.

2 -Jonathan Goldstein: The Ride of Your Life – Wiretap

Hands down my favorite podcast overall in 2010. If you haven’t listened to Wiretap before, you should listen to about five episodes before you make any judgement. I have yet to meet anyone who does not love this show. In this Wiretap episode Howard and Jonathan are live on stage at Drawn and Quarterly. Plus, Gregor pitches a Jonathan Golstein amusement park ride.

3 - Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe on Lamb Castration, PETA, and American Labor – The Entertainment Gathering (via Fora.tv)

Completely changed my view of Mike Rowe.

4 - Boris Timanovsky: Pen Pal – The Moth

Boris tells an amusing story about secretly becoming a pen pal of a friend’s child after his daughter loses interest only to find out his friend was being a pen pal to his daughter as well.

5 - Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals – Sixth and I Historic Synagogue (via Fora.tv)

This talk is based on the book of the same name that asks people to act on their values.

6 - Dan Savage: Savage Lovecast: Sex at Dawn

Dan Savage invites the author of Sex at Dawn to the show. Both the book and he show are great. Here is what Dan Savage says about this book: “Sex at Dawn is the single most important book about human sexuality since Alfred Kinsey unleashed Sexual Behavior in the Human Male on the American public in 1948. Want to understand why men married to supermodels cheat? Why so many marriages are sexless? Why paternity tests often reveal that the “father” isn’t? Read Sex at Dawn.”

7 - Bill Moyers – Populism, Social Change and Our World

This was Bill Moyers’ final show on PBS. From PBS: “In this special one and half hour edition of Bill Moyers Journal, The Journal travels to Iowa where one group has been helping ordinary citizens fight for change for more than three decades. And, Bill Moyers and populist Jim Hightower to look at the history and legacy of people’s movements and discuss how ordinary people can reclaim political power. And, Acclaimed author Barry Lopez joins Bill Moyers to discuss nature, spirit and the human condition.”