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Kelvin Mace

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18. Well, I go with podcasts

Tue Sep 8, 2015, 10:00 PM

Sep 2015

I get the BBC, Rachel Maddow, This Week in Tech, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me, etc. The guys at the Daily Kos have a regular podcast that is pretty good. Also very good are Amy Goodman, Dan Carlin, Bill Maher (though he can be annoyingly smug) Marc Maron, and many others.

You can find a LOT of great podcasts to liven up your daily commute or daily walk:

Welcome to Nightvale (The Twilight Zone meets A Prairie Home Companion)
The Bugle with John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman
Risk
This American Life
The Nerdist
Girl on Guy with Aisha Tyler

You name the topic, someone is covering it.

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Ok, ok finally thinking of cutting the cord (cable...it's gotten ridiculous) [View all] nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 OP

Depends Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #1

How about news? nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #3

Well, I go with podcasts Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #18

Don't laugh, but we have news on since it is my cheap way of getting around the AP wire nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #20

Not a big fan of AP, Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #27

Not that I am a fan, but when news breaks they have the most people around nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #42

I think the paid version only had commercials Goblinmonger Sep 2015 #7

I have read in The Consumerist Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #25

Correct Goblinmonger Sep 2015 #34

Cool, AoS Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #39

Are you getting a Roku player? Apple TV? Google? villager Sep 2015 #2

We know we are getting a new TV, ours is ... well... 20 years old nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #5

I just got a Vizio Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #22

My specs are LED, they tend to last longer nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #28

Samsung is very good Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #32

We saw that on sale for about 599 nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #36

Samsung is very good, I purchased one at Christmas last year and use it with an Apple TV. haikugal Sep 2015 #61

4k requires you to sit close or no real difference. Look at some HDTV.... Logical Sep 2015 #33

Cool, thanks nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #37

Check out Roku. I've had it since the beginning. It's incredible. You can get RKP5637 Sep 2015 #31

Thanks, will have a lot of things to mull over nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #35

I am very happy with my Sharp HDTV TexasBushwhacker Sep 2015 #54

Looking at all right now nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #43

We have Netflix XemaSab Sep 2015 #4

Netflix was great, no commercials but recently dropped a major movie deal peacebird Sep 2015 #6

Both are much lower than my cable bill nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #8

We get our news via internet. We had both netflix & hulu when we cut cable peacebird Sep 2015 #9

exactly nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #10

Yet. The cable companies are starting to see what is being done yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #19

Well increaging the price every year nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #38

I am pretty pissed off myself having to pay 203.00 yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #45

Should be humorous, since people are angry nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #46

It will be interesting how it shakes out yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #50

I know nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #55

Actually... Desert805 Sep 2015 #14

News is a tough one. Desert805 Sep 2015 #16

My problem is that I usually am streaing the greatest hits of monte vista and Heartland nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #17

The movie deal is bad for consumers, but good for the corporations involved Nevernose Sep 2015 #26

If you already have Amazon Prime, TransitJohn Sep 2015 #11

I have not signed for that nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #12

Check out Roku animalvet Sep 2015 #13

+a million! tammywammy Sep 2015 #23

I cut my cable way down to basic and bought a ROKU box. Frustratedlady Sep 2015 #15

I prefer Netflix. blogslut Sep 2015 #21

We use Hulu abelenkpe Sep 2015 #24

The Doctor is kind of essential nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #30

We have both - combined about 17.00 bucks a month... hexola Sep 2015 #29

Netflix + iTunes + HBO Now = bye bye cable! Initech Sep 2015 #40

Roku, Netflix and Sling. Thats my setup. 28 Bucks Lochloosa Sep 2015 #41

DU rec...nt SidDithers Sep 2015 #44

for more than ten years I have gone without a tv yuiyoshida Sep 2015 #47

We have news on almost all the time nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #49

guess I am a news junkie too as yuiyoshida Sep 2015 #51

I know, I ran a story on recidivism this morning nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #52

Netflix. Canceled Hulu because we rarely used it. AtomicKitten Sep 2015 #48

Netflix. SheilaT Sep 2015 #53

I left cable behind about two years ago... wcmagumba Sep 2015 #56

Why choose. Total cost for both is about 25 a month CBGLuthier Sep 2015 #57

I have both Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2015 #58

Ah anime, have not done that in a while nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #59

Ditched cable when I realized that 99% of viewing time was one of four channels Jake Stern Sep 2015 #60