Thanks!

(For a moment, I thought you'd said, "I would like to turn you fine bunnies into a podcast.")

I want to recommend "Pop Culture Happy Hour," which is a podcast that comes out on Fridays and is done by four people who work for NPR mostly in an online capacity, and that's a shame because their podcast is my most anticipated NPR "show" every week. I wish they were on-air.

Host Linda Holmes does get on air once in a while when they need to interview someone about pop culture, but the podcast doesn't sound like an NPR show at all. It sounds like 4 very funny friends getting together to shoot the shit and talk about things they're interested in.

Like most podcasts, it gets better the longer you listen to it, because A) you learn the personalities of those involved, and B) there are running jokes/threads/ideas that you recognize from previous podcasts. Also, these people are so geeky/funny that I always end up laughing like an idiot on the train (where I listen to podcasts) and I have to look away from people so they don't think I'm laughing at THEM.

It's not perfect, of course... they talk about trashy TV too much for my taste, and they seem way too "cool" to like most of the movies I like, but whatever: this is still my favorite podcast and the only one I follow religiously.

So if Metafilter can have a podcast, why not #bunnies?

ever since The Kevin Pollack Chat Show went to pay to view, I've started listening to Marc Maron's WTF Podcast . the funny and emotionally scarred comedian is an excellent interviewer and a lot of the hour long conversations have been highly entertaining

So if Metafilter can have a podcast, why not #bunnies?

We can. Go for it. Like the various MeCha radio projects, or the IRC channel, we can't be responsible for it nor its contents, but if people wanted to do it that'd be cool.

I also thought she said "into a podcast" when I first read it.

I misread it too. I thought she wrote "fire bunnies."

BURN, BABY, BURN!

I've been on that since 2004!! A couple interesting podcasts like that are Radio Lab from WNYC, Think from KERA and Tech Nation with Moira Gunn. I encourage you to check out KERA's Think you might like it

Yeah, if anyone wants to make a podcast, definitely go for it. I love the idea but I barely have time to do the stuff I'm actually accountable for, let alone all the other great ideas.

This is the second time someone's recommended "In Our Time" to me this week. I think I'll listen. Another favorite "ideas" podcast I always recommend is To the Best of Our Knowledge. Smart, topical, interesting and for some reason not widely known yet.

Seconding In Our Time. It's like taking a college course in an hour. It's usually an hour-long discussion with three or four experts in what ever the topic they cover. It's the BBC so it's seriously extra nerdy, the experts are either college professors or doctors in the field and the discussion is usually deep and dense. Melvyn Bragg is a great moderator and he has a wonderfully dry, intelligent delivery. It can be a slog if you're not interested in the subject but if you like detailed history or science that's not dumbed down, it's the best thing out there.

Seconding Pop Culture Happy Hour. Very entertaining, and the best podcast theme song ever.