Podcasts

i would like some good podcasts, too, though.

Of course, I'm looking for suggestions for other podcasts as well.

The Rock n Roll Geek show.
Plays mostly the kind of rock that's not fashionabl;e at the moment plus some punk stuff but mostly talks. He's a really genuine guy and the honesty of it, the lack of shiny gloss bullshit makes it great.

This is a friend of my roommate, i haven't listened to a lot of it but what I heard was terrifically hilarious, fun and vulgar.

Anybody find anything interesting_

I can't go a single day without someone saying "podcasting" but I can't find a single podcast worth listening to.

Hopefully he'll keep it up.

Listening to podcasts at work is better than listening to the same twenty prerecorded CDs our college radio station broadcasts over summer break.

Firesign Theater is GREAT - they're a classic surreal stoner baby boomer comedy troupe

Simulacrum - v funny fake interviews with celebrities

Slate Magazine is hit or miss

my friend and i have been trying to get a radio show for ages but it's not working out

A copy of Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

With the lame mp3 encoder: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ (probably comes with the Audacity download, I don't remember)

$5 a month mp3 hosting from LibSyn: http://www.libsyn.com

That's about it.

haha

This week's podcast is DJ Jonny Sender of Konk from March 2005. Track list below.

Podcast: http://www.alldisco.net/podcast.xml

war - galaxy
fantastic aleems - hooked on your lovin'
instant funk - got my mind made up
positive force - we got the funk
happy song (bootleg edit)
eurythmics - sweet dreams
chic - good times
incredible bongo band - apache
first choice - love thang
Moody Boys
falco - machine brennt
electric mind - zwei (dub)
jago - i'm gonna go
billy frazier & friends - billy who?
Brenda and the Tabulations - Let's Go All the Way Down

Listen to them... in the car? On the subway? It's basically surrogate radio for an iPod. Not so exciting, but still useful.

Also Probe ministries ( http://www.probe.org/ ) does a pretty good and informative talk show about various topics in Christianity or society.

There some okay science ones like "Science and Society"

I've also found a few language ones. Depending on which language you want to learn you can search through itunes store directory. I got one called "HESS Chinese survial guide."

how about good podcasts in french???

I've decided to utilise the full functional capacity of mypod. At the momment only listening to those available via itunes. Currently sampling:

Radio4's Best of Today
Amnesty International
NPR's It's All Politics
Newsweek
New York Times Op-Ed
Slate
Rob Da Bank's Sunday Best
The Onion
Ricky Gervais

These all fairly obvious. Can anyone offer me anything a bit more off-beat and esoteric? Not that I am either of those things but i might like to be.

Is Tom Ravenscroft's Channel 4 one still going?

fuck! that was good, that. and i've forgotten all about it. arse.

The Sound of Young America
Jordan, Jesse Go!
Never Not Funny

R U Sirius has a show with interesting guests sometimes

i like radio lab a lot. very sound rich, but doesn't come out very often (probably b/c the quality is so good).

I listen to:

Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! (NPR panel show about the week's news)
The Paul Goebel Show (beat the geeks tv nerd talks about tv and says funny things)
Fighting Talk (BBC 5 sports panel show... I like panel shows, what can I say?)
Escapepod (Sci-fi short stories read to me! Yum!)
Hooting Yard (Cool prose, I think? I dunno, I love it but I don't get it)

That's it for now. I am sure I will listen to more as time passes though, I keep adding to it.

Ps. RIP Stycast

xpost HA! I had just come here to say Radio Lab! We are of one mind.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

I listen to all the standard NPR ones (Wait Wait, Fresh Air, TAL), the Elvis Mitchell show on KCRW, the Harry Shearer show on KCRW, the Design and Architecture show on KCRW, Sound Opinions (laugh it up, rock snobs), and a couple DJ shows of friends.

Just added to the iPod:

NYer Comment
Sound of Young America
Intelligence Squared
Resident Advisor
Beats in Space
Tha Hunga Mixtape Show (unsigned hip-hop)

Avoid RadioLab nowadays, btw. My post from 11 months ago couldn't be more wrong now. It's just stinking up the joint lately.

Jeez, I'm crabby today. I sound like Harry Shearer! Who, not incidentally, is also off my love list. "Curmudgeon" is a great-sounding word until you find yourself listening to the opinions of one. :(

Trying to figure out how to get vlogs on this piece.

I used to use whatever this is called now on XP, but it's been a while.

Anybody know anything else I ought to add?

This American Life & RadioLab are no gos for me I'm afraid.

for all-talk, I started this thread a while ago, and there's some good recommends there.

Your favorite podcasts, non-music edition

I'm still happy with The Bugle, even though the jokes stop being novel after a few eps, but John Oliver is always good with the nearly outraged "omg this is ridiculous!" tone of delivery, and Andy Zaltzman on a good week still comes up with solid-gold chunk of absurdity. Something about the Archbishop of Canterbury conducting a funeral and launching into some weird tirade making fun of the corpse... "You're dead and you know you are!" I laughed for like a week. Your mileage may vary.

Actually, On The Media is probably the show I look most forward to every week. Make of that what you will. And though it depends on the featured DJ (Don Letts clearly needs a swift and mighty kick in the groin and to be hauled off the radio with a giant vaudevillian hook), I do like the fabric podcast. It's mostly Brits deeply appreciating the American soul and funk records that us yanks take for granted and have mostly forgotten about.

If you like John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman you should try and find their BBC radio show, The Department.

kenan I'm listening to On The Media's most recent show now, they're interviewing this guy and I am actually seeing red.

actually? LITERALLY?!

(A friend and I have now taken to inserting the word "figuratively" anywhere that someone might be tempted to misuse the word "literally." As in, "Jeez traffic is so slow. It's figuratively going to take us all day to get there!")

Valid!

OH I totally forgot the resident advisor podcast

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast.aspx

Haha subscribed to that one a couple days ago.

u know i don't really follow sports at all but i kind of love sports lore and stories (and esp movies) and i have been LOVING the bill simmons 30 for 30 podcast. where can i see these movies??

Listened to this for the first time this morning. He's a great storyteller. And oh what stories.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

they're shown on espn. i found a public torrent with the first 15 (?) episodes on it. i wonder if any have come out on dvd. i've not heard.

xp to slcki

also there is a 30 for 30 thread, they might know of youtubes etc

i found some!

doing some excruciating & labour/time intensive art work in my room this week & have been listening to a lot of this american life can u guys recommend me some other cool stuff to listen to. don't care abt what rly, current events, history, quirky anecdotal shit, nerdy stuff

thx in advance ilx

*blows kiss*

doing some excruciating & labour/time intensive art work in my room this week & have been listening to a lot of this american life can u guys recommend me some other cool stuff to listen to. don't care abt what rly, current events, history, quirky anecdotal shit, nerdy stuff

Some starters:
http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/
feed://www.hometowntales.com/htpodcast.xml (RSS link, website kinda broken at the moment)
http://twfps.com/

thanks, i was looking for a good bbc one

I am listening to the Quarter to Three podcast (which focuses on movies). it's absolutely ace.

You might like Radio Lab. This American Life sometimes uses stories from the show.

Oooh Radio Lab is GREAT!!! I love it too. Did you listen to the one which featured Linda Thompson (talking about going mute (?)).

yes, that was a good one

Here's what I listen to:

Caustic Soda
Skeptically Speaking
Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Geeks in Running Shoes
How to Do Everything
Running With the Pack
Run Run Live
The 3 Non Joggers

Rather obvious where my interests lie.

anyone got any good shit i should hear?

my interests:

history, general story american life type stuff, books and especially 20th century modernist type stuff, music i won't have heard, jazz or experimental or really anything at all, maybe comedy if it's good, plus ANYTHING ELSE.

have basically never really got into podcasts properly. been subscribing to some of the recommended ones upthread tho.

anyone??

We have zero overlap in interests. I got nothing.

i have to say, i've been pretty hooked on 99% invisible

i like how compact they are—a few ideas in about 15 minutes, and then we're out

Ice-T's podcast is great.

Has he had any guests on who've asked if he's new to this?

The guests are barely a part of it honestly. They just hang out while Ice and Benzo riff about stuff.

listening now, hmm

up to episode 3, yeah it is great

I'm sort of confused by the how busy the Marc Maron thread is considering how the praise usually has to be qualified, "oh he had this great guest, too bad MM is so unprepared/obnoxious/not funny..."

There's a bunch of WAY better talk in podcast form out there which does not involve holding yr nose. Is anyone listening to Johnny Pemberton's show? It's fucking great. So is Duncan Trussell's...both funny & share a certain spontaneity & don't conspicuously steer the conversation. I don't really ever look to see who the guests are, it doesn't matter. Julie Klausner's I like too. Anybody else?

Duncan Trussell is horrible and his voice is worse than nails on a chalkboard.

"Had a great guest" is pretty much the only way any podcast is listenable - comics interviewing comics is pretty much guaranteed to be boring (unless, like WTF, it's not a 'comedy' podcast) and there's no one who can make a boring guest seem interesting.

ive never heard of any of those people. besides julie klausner.

maron is compelling. thats basically it.

That's ludicrous, tell it to Studs Terkel or Bob Fass. The opposite argument can be easily made—that a good interviewer can elicit fascinating stuff from the most seemingly mundane subjects.

As for Trussell's voice, two of my favorite "singers" are Dylan and Mark E. Smith & I could listen to Gilbert Gottfried or Howard Cosell or Carol Channing go on for hours, so one man's nails are another man's etc.

marc maron is a really unique interviewer. at his best he can really bring out some intense, deep stuff. at worst, he's whatever. but when he's on, he's on fire.

xpost I guess if your definition of compelling is solipsistic one-note self deprecation....

You should try those shows slocki

Klausner bugs me so much

But then she once again has a great guest and I repeat my old mistakes

Yeah I think she's best in small, periodic doses...I do think there's an element of unpredictability I like abt her though

i like jesse thorn's interviewing style, he gets good stuff out of people

That's ludicrous, tell it to Studs Terkel or Bob Fass. The opposite argument can be easily made—that a good interviewer can elicit fascinating stuff from the most seemingly mundane subjects.

To clarify, though, by boring I'm talking about comedian interviewing comedian wacky hijinks boring.

I'm enjoying the Adam Scott Aukerman "You Talkin' U2 to Me?" just from the sheer refusal of the hosts refusal to address the topic at all, with the exception of mentioning the premise of the show in passing during another of their extended tangents.

i hate to say this, but has anybody been listening to the new weekly 99% invisible? feels like it's been a real drop in quality.

Plz edit out one 'refusal' from my post, thank you. You get to choose which one.

By the way, you're listening to You Edit One Refusal From Me.

I'm a big fan of Tell'em Steve Dave which is Walt and Bryan from Comic Book Men (who are so much funnier in an unedited environment) plus Q from Impractical Jokers.

I also dig Mike and Tom eat Snacks featuring Michael Ian Black although they haven't uploaded a new episode in months.

The Champs is my new fave interview podcast.

what is a good episode of all of these shitty podcasts everybody

Another one that I find hilarious, though he hasn't done one in awhile, is Harris Wittels' Anaylyze Phish podcast in which he tries to convince disbelievers that Phish actually isn't terrible. The Tom Scharpling one was great!

http://i.imgur.com/1wCjKSs.jpg

I will never eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever listen to this podcast again!

co-sign the Champs. super-great

i listened to the hannibal buress champs episode
it has that awful guy
that awful guy

the dj?

i don't know
some guy
i heard him yuk-yuk-yuking in the background of an opie & anthony episode once
like ... those guys

he has a long thing in the hannibal episode about how he has probably only met six interesting women in his lifetime, what with women being less urgently compelled to form personalities than men are

that would be neal brennan

they got rid of dj douggpound a while back

oh don't mind him, that's just neal brennan.

xp

even moshe tries to ignore him on that crap

i've been getting into Kinda Neat, it's the best music-oriented interview podcast i've heard. mostly features L.A.-based rappers and producers.

http://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/07/what-upcoming-changes-mpr-will-actually-mean-listeners

public radio freakin out about missing the boat, apparently

Scott Woods has gathered up a few years of intermittent podcasts and put them in one place:

https://andyoucandancetoit.wordpress.com/

My wit and erudition is in there a few times, also three or four other ILX people.

Been enjoying Katie Halper's podcast/show. I guess it's technically a radio show, just also packaged as a podcast. A little ADD but witty and fun.

Fave new podcast I've run across is Outside Online: http://www.outsideonline.com/2060321/introducing-outside-podcast - I've been a fan of Outside's journalism (despite the "30 marathon continental divides you must conquer" lifestyle schtick mixed in) and the podcast is thankfully reflects more of that. The "Frozen Alive" episode is some of the most intense listening I've heard. Also check out "The Devil's Highway" and the Robert Young Pelton interview.

Just subscribed to Katie Halper's show, incidentally.

What brings you to _discontinue_ listening to a show?

For me, it's too many eps of the hosts being too dumb, or too snide/demoralizing/smug/NPR-nihilist-like if it's a political show. Or I'm behind too many eps and have no drive whatsoever to catch up.

What is everyone's threshold to how uninteresting the conversation has to get to just hit unsubscribe?

dumb is pretty much the only thing - my requirements for these are incredibly low in that I put on ones I straight up don't like sometimes just to have something on while I work

I have one of these btw, it was a recovery exercise but stuff got in the way and I haven't managed to record one for months. Gonna do one tomorrow tho.

looking at the listener stats tho there are definitely people like me who will kinda listen to anything

My show has horrible stats, from little I can tell, but once in a while a friend will tell me how they enjoyed it, so that helped.

I guess this is the thread to ask does anyone listen to the sleep w/me podcast? That shit works! At least for me, and I have a lot of trouble with sleep - makes me wonder how suggestible I am since it seems to be a species of hypnosis

I like true crime so I listened to a few episodes of 'My Favorite Murder" hoping to hear an episode that was more about the crime than the hosts' banter, then quit when I realized that MFM really is more about the back'n'forth than it is about murder cases.

yeah it's more of a murdery palate cleanser than a deep dive. Try Casefile for straightup facts - Yorkshire Ripper 3-parter was a+, it's gotten really good

have you listened to the new Crimetown podcast? more organized crime than murder specifically, but v good, firsthand interviews & good detail . Strangler is good too.

Excellent, thanks. I've been meaning to address something you said about "In The Dark" "... you called it "flip"? I'm curious how you mean that because I never caught a whiff of flippancy over the whole run. I thought that series was excellent, even if it ended with something of a whimper.

In a couple of early episodes there was something in her tone for me I think? I don't remember exactly ... I definitely enjoyed the series overall though

What brings you to _discontinue_ listening to a show?

Nerd Poker I abandoned when it became as much about jokes about people fucking children and horses as it did about the game.

I don't discontinue listening to a show so much as set it aside (especially if an interview show has a series of guests I don't care about) and listen to other things - I have 40 feeds in my PocketCasts and way less time to listen to podcasts, so I'll go on a run of something then go for a different mood for a while.

Last four Tuesdays have been the Last Podcast on the Left series on the Children of God, probably going to need a few weeks of Radiolab or something.

I like true crime so I listened to a few episodes of 'My Favorite Murder" hoping to hear an episode that was more about the crime than the hosts' banter, then quit when I realized that MFM really is more about the back'n'forth than it is about murder cases.

i really tried with this show but i just find georgia and karen kinda irritating so i've given up :(

the children of god episodes of last podcast were tough going, yeah. the last episode on ricky rodriguez was so crushingly sad, especially the excerpts from his videotape monologue. hopefully they'll get back to talking about ridiculous alien conspiracies for a little while now

i get so lost when georgia reads her stories because she uses zero pronouns & is so scattered & nervous.

but i have loved and been a fan of karen kilgariff for many years & i could listen to a whole series where karen reads stories & georgia reacts

i enjoy their chemistry together though. but to be fair, a lot of the things they do i normally hate in other podcasts, lol

I enjoy My Favorite Murder but sometimes get annoyed at the chattiness, self-consciousness, and lack of depth and attention to detail. But I find Karen and Georgia pretty likeable, and the show light and fun.
Also, I started late in the run. I think if I had started with the first episode I might've been more inclined to give up.

What's are some good episodes of Last Podcast on the Left? I scrolled through them all and picked a random one from way back that I couldn't really get into.

so the most recent episode of the dollop on 'the jet pack madness' is one of the most batshit insane true stories i've ever heard, i highly recommend it

otm

it's the craziest fucking story

jetpacks make u crazy, basically

anyone who straps on a jetpack becomes gollum

^^^

Partway through this one--just got to the hammer incident--and it's quite astonishing.

amazingly, there is so much more batshittery to come

so many levels of wtf yet to come

This is excellent news!

my new favorite: Real World recaps with Dave Holmes & Mike Doughty called 'Truu Stowray'

It's only partly recap - the rest is reminscences about what they were both doing at the time of the first season (1992), recollections about sexuality, music, New York City, etc

it's great. I'm only a casual RW fan but the conversation itself is really good

episodes are short, 30-40 minutes, and they just have a great conversation flow that is tbh kinda rare among the podcasts that I listen to. I said on FB, so many shows spend so much time explaining their pop culture references to each other or to the audience in a way that just grinds things to a halt so often. Dave & Mike just go, they are on each other's wavelength and it just has such a snappy good pace

and I suuuper love Dave Holmes so that helps

I quite like the Supercontext podcast. Two guys pick a particular pop culture item and dissect it, with an emphasis on its context within wider culture. My only problem is that some episodes feel too short - they end rather abruptly, when it seems like the conversation has more ways to go.

homecoming is back!!

also this is the thread where i tell you all to listen to RECEIPTS

https://soundcloud.com/thereceiptspodcast

don't know why it took me so long to listen to this but First Day Back is like the platonic ideal of the form. it has a million little tropes that i usually roll my eyes at but is just so perfectly put together that it doesn't matter at all. lol i feel like steve coogan saying "liquid football" but seriously it is that good. this season takes the true crime format as a jumping-off point into something more inchoate and submerged and personal.

http://firstdaybackpodcast.com/

i guess what it reminds me most of is rectified

Show I link my show in here?

xpost okay that sounds like something i need in my life ty!!

you had me at liquid football

I'm enjoying RuPaul's podcast, "What's the Tee?" co-hosted by Michelle Visage. Just look down the list of their guests, there's bound to be someone you like. I just heard The B-52's episode and the Maria Bamford one

I spam this all the time but true crime lovers, check out Bloody Murder, a comedy crime podcast done by my bf and his mate Tara, they have a particularly fun line in "Aussie as" stuff. Lots of swearing.

kingfish yes!

If we're doing self-promotion: Mutts is a podcast where I talk to ppl who, like myself, have a complex relationship to their national/cultural/ethnic identity. It's been dormant for a while but there's a new ep coming up!

I also have a Portuguese cinema podcast but it's, err, in Portuguese, so probably not worth plugging here.

I should also mention i finally am catching up with More Perfect and damn what can you say, the man Abumrad knows how to make a podcast

Well if it’s self promotion time ... I’ve been recording and editing a podcast for a friend of mine for the last two years.
It’s a monthly half hour show where he plays 78s from the 1900s-50s loosely based around a theme.
It’s called “78Man Presents” and new episodes go up on the first Wednesday of the month.
Tomorrow’s episode is about birds, and features a ludicrous record from the 30s by a choir of canaries!

That sounds awesome! Suscribing.

thanks, downloading your podcast now, subject is something i’m pretty ignorant about so hope to learn a thing or two!

My show is called Giving theb Mic to the Wrong Person, which started last year as a way to talk to people about their cultural obsessions, but this year has morphed with the addition of two co-hosts as ripping on the dumber aspects of online fan culture from an increasingly leftist perspective. We’ve done episodes on everything from the history of Go to how kayfabe works to extended conversations with local comic shop owners.

Our latest ep started with talk about getting overwhelmed with information into more of how Watchmen worked as a comic versus failing as a film. Also we mention Comet the Superhorse.

The only semi-recent podcast I stopped listening to altogether was Maron's WTF. I just got kind of tired of him, but it's been a few years so maybe I should check it out again.

LA Times has a new 6-ep investigative series called Dirty John
True crime, 2 eps already up, it’s pretty good so far if you are into that kind of thing.

The only semi-recent podcast I stopped listening to altogether was Maron's WTF. I just got kind of tired of him, but it's been a few years so maybe I should check it out again.

I stopped listening to Maron years ago but when I did my take was basically: people's complaints about this dude are that he's an asshole/antagonistic towards his guests, but that at least lead to interesting discussions in the past. But when he became super-popular he lost that impulse and became a sycophant instead, letting ppl use his show to do the same vapid PR shite for their latest project that you'd see on, like, a late night talk show. That and the spectacularly ill-informed musician interviews is what got me to jump off WTF.

In the ILX missing milk carton department:

http://www.nightvalepresents.com/ionlylistentothemountaingoats/

Wait who is missing in this scenario

Does MG guy still post? Perhaps there's a screen name change I didn't catch.

yep and yep :)

I'm digging the podcast Showcase. It's Radiotopia's limited series showcase. They started out with a 6 part series on sound by Damon from Galaxie 500. Now they're running a series about 1980s arcade game conspiracy theories.

it's really good

ok i’m gonna check it out - the game conspiracy one sounds like it’s in my wheelhouse

Uncivil is a new good one, telling undertold (or completely untold) stories of Civil War heroism by enslaved and free black people alike.

I'm really into Chris Molanphy's Hit Parade podcast. Each episode is dense with facts and figures, but also context and humanity.

As for Maron, I think I like WTF more now than ever. He's not nearly as neurotic as he's been for the past 20+ years, and it's a good look for him.

i only listen to him now when he has a guest i like

I’ve just started one focused on interviews with musicians, primarily of the avant-garde jazz persuasion. The first episode is with Roscoe Mitchell; the second will be up in two weeks and will feature Matthew Shipp. Listen here: http://burningambulance.blubrry.net (also findable on iTunes)

RuPaul interviewed Marc Maron on Ru's podcast of May 24, 2017 and they seemed to vibe really well together

This could also go into the Chapo thread, but I’ve recently been digging “Michael & Me,” where Luke Savage & Will Sloan watch a Michael Moore-type agit-prop flick, mostly from the Dubya era. Lotta weird/bad memories, but I like how the Canadian hosts critique Michael Moore’s approach from the left, not to mention taking great joy at the lazy-ass responses from batshit right wingers.

http://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us

If you want an entry point, the latest ep covers V for Vendetta

https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us/40-v-for-vendetta-w-alex-ross

between the ears on R3 is really very good
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0739ndm

best listened to on very good headphones afaict

I posted part 1 of our talk with Paul Guinan of Boilerplate and Frank Reade fame talking about his time at First Comics, Dark Horse, his Patreon comic, the meaning of life, gentrification in Chicago & Portland, the 24-Hour Comic movie, and more.

https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/paul-guinans-meaning-of-life-comics-patreon-part-1

loved the 3 second rule episode of between the ears, more experimental/musical/soundarty than "radio show", but still awesome.

Need to institute new laws saying:

1. no podcast shall commence with 5-10 minutes of the hosts talking about the Skype problems or whatever they just had before getting recording going
2. no stretches of dead airinterspersed with faint tacky-tacking as one host desperately Googles something to get up to date with the other host, and which nobody bothers to edit out
3. no more ads for Blue Apron, which seem to have overtaken squarespace is the no. 1 irritant

I don’t have a lot of time for the “two dudes talking and riffing for 1-2 hours” format

Me either, but usually if they edited it properly it would be a hell of a lot more tolerable

I could go the rest of my life without hearing another ad for Square Space, Stamps.com, 1-800-flowers, Blue Apron, yada yada.

MAC WELDON
WARBY PARKER
AUDIBLE DOT COM

gaaaahhhhhh

Bombas Socks seem to have chilled a bit recently though Casper will never stop.

My sister gave MeUndies to everyone for Xmas last year

I have been listening to lots of history podcasts covering the early years of the 20th century, and the amount of ads for Square Space, Stamps.com, 1-800-flowers, Blue Apron, Me Undies is fucking insane, sometimes 30% of the episode. Stuff You Missed In History Class is the worst offender. I want to link to them but not going to now.

Yeah, some podcasts are overboard with the ad reads. Do they get paid even if no one uses them? I always wondered that. I also wonder if there are different tiered ad reads. Some of the podcasts I listen to reads each ad for like 30 seconds, others will take a minute and half, two minutes to read the same ad.

Definitely most of these high profile post-Serial podcasts are jacked to the brim with ads. It can be nuts.

skip ahead 45 seconds button a godsend.

For podcast recs, I really dug this interview about how people form beliefs, why facts can’t change the tightly held ones, and why Twitter sucks:

https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/119-the-unpersuadables

I used to like how Greg Proops would do sarcastic commentary on the copyediting in the ads as he was reading them, but guessing the advertisers didn't like that as he eventually stopped doing that.

skip ahead 45 seconds button a godsend.

― Jeff, Tuesday, January 16, 2018 6:14 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc there are ways to tell when ppl do this--basically if you actually like a podcast and want to support it, suffer through the ad reads.

^ Bill Burr made fun of his advertisers' ad copy all of the time. I haven't listened to him in a while to know if he still does that.

exhaustive list of podcast genres:
- my friends are funny so i never edit them
- you didn't know how X worked, now you do
- how much personal trauma will people reveal into a mic? lots
- murder exists

— Eleanor Gordon-Smith (@TheRealEGS) January 15, 2018

trooth

iirc there are ways to tell when ppl do this--basically if you actually like a podcast and want to support it, suffer through the ad reads.

i don't think this is true. it was only a month ago that apple started providing analytics on skips and it hasn't affected (wanker word alert) cpms afaik. skipping is probably less common than you think - maybe 10-15% of listeners will skip some portion of an ad. also keep in mind that advertisers already knew people skipped, even on platforms that don't provide that info, so it's "costed in". that could change of course. but there's no reason i know of at the moment to feel guilty about it.

there is no possible way of knowing when I fast-forward through an ad on an mp3 that I have downloaded and transferred to a portable device

I never tire of hearing about Squatty Potty and how it works

anyway 94% of podcast ads are for products or services unavailable to most of the world

Seeso would still be running if the people they spent money advertising to had been able to subscribe to it

sic if you're using the apple podcasts app, then it reports that info back to apple, along with other behaviour, and publishers can see it aggregated in a stats dashboard.

ditto acast, stitcher, etc

yeah but I don't

fair!

I tried the Harrys razor trial thing which seems to be on every UK podcast and it was a mediocre shave so fuck that.

i hate the guilty feminist with the white hot heat of a thousand suns, it is awful, smug, privileged bullshit

also it is neither guilty, nor feminist

any good recent podcasts? I'm pretty much out on comedy. As for history and whatnot I'm enjoying Literature and History. Tides of History can be good, but so scattered. Why try to simultaneously cover the aftermath of the Roman empire and the beginning of the Modern World? And then drop in an interview about other stuff every other week? And the ads!

Heaven's Gate was pretty good. I'm worried Atlanta Monster will be too exploitative.

Atlanta Monster is good so far - almost like an oral history of what it was like growing up in that time, he talks to the brother of one of the victims, it doesnt seem exploitative so far

i am going to tell everyone to listen to Rumble Strip until it's world-famous. what's it about? don't worry about it. just subscribe to it. it's my favorite podcast.

also, um, i'm kind of lowkey hosting a BBC podcast (about... BBC podcasts)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ltqxn/episodes/downloads

ftr i like my casper mattress but it took about a month (offer code handbook)

podcastception

i am going to tell everyone to listen to Rumble Strip until it's world-famous. what's it about? don't worry about it. just subscribe to it. it's my favorite podcast.

subscribed

if i don't like it i'll send you an invoice for my time

also, um, i'm kind of lowkey hosting a BBC podcast (about... BBC podcasts)

Nice one, Tracer!

I'm enjoying "Slow Burn," Slate's Watergate series. I know Watergate sort of moderately well, but there's a lot of stuff in here I've never heard. And they do a pretty good job of noting obvious contemporary parallels without beating you over the head. Mostly it's about how just totally crazy the whole thing was, and how long it took for most people to really pay attention to it as it was playing out.

that sounds kinda good to me

One thing I like is getting away from the Woodward-Bernstein framing — those guys were important, but there were a lot of other important people too, in the media and outside it.

it is v good

also one of the podcastiest podcasts you ever will podcast

I'm starting to get obsessed with RPG podcasts fyi

like what?

On the subject of roleplaying podcasts, I feel like Friends at the Table is a hard sell because of the time investment involved and the deep nerdery of the enterprise, but the Marielda/Winter in Hieron (post-post-apocalyptic fantasy) and COUNTER/Weight (cyberpunk anime SF) seasons are really rewarding. FatT's storytelling isn't as tight or funny as The Adventure Zone (partly because it's more heavily improvised), but it's equally creative and often more thoughtful and ambitious.

http://friendsatthetable.net/category/Marielda

yeah i have been listening to the adventure zone, counterweight and FILM REROLL which is just a ridiculous hoot. wizard of oz a highlight

i know FatT is v well-regarded but yeah i haven't quite got into it

i will check out the marielda thing, thank you!

campaign and one shot also have their moments

I plugged my own Burning Ambulance podcast (link goes to iTunes) when it first launched back in October; there are now eight episodes up, and I've already got the next two recorded. Hour-long interviews with jazz musicians, no ads (wouldn't even know how to get advertisers), and a minimum of pre-interview jabber.

that sounds like the right recipe, thank you grawlix

here's a link that works by the way :) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/burning-ambulance-podcast/id1296224800?mt=2

some more rpg recs:
https://fuckyeahdnd.tumblr.com/post/169958969417/podcasts

I will second Slow Burn. Listened to almost all of if this weekend. As a Canadian who mostly only knew the broad outlines of Watergate (and mostly from a viewing of 'all the president's men' ~20 years ago) I'm finding this very informative. Also enjoy that they've cut it up into short 20-something minute episodes.

Really liking This Week In Parasitism - http://www.microbe.tv/twip/
Three doctors taking about, what else, parasites! Lots of science talk, but the best part of the show is their case study of the week where listeners are invited to ID the parasite based on stuff like:

"Case Study for TWiP 145
Male 40s, visiting NYC on business. Lives in Thailand, seeks medical attention for diarrhea and abdominal pain. Diarrhea is continuous, even at night. Feels swollen. Stool cultures come back negative. CBC reveals eosinophilia. Clinician orders stool O&P. See something in stool: large elliptical objects, over 100 microns.

Perhaps not for everyone, but a must listen if you're at all fascinated.

If musician interviews are your thing The Trap Set might appeal, it's a drummer's podcast but 99% of the talk is non-technical. Joe, the host, is more interested in finding out what makes his interviewee tick and he can be kinda fearless but still non-aggressive in his questioning.

Even the silly premise of interviewing Roland, Steve Albini's Big Black era drum machine comes across as really interesting.

http://www.thetrapset.net/

Trap Set is great - La Lechera turned me onto it a while back

yeah, i don't have a ton of interest in technical drum stuff, but the trap set is consistently interesting. there's a new spin-off with Laura Veirs hosting, featuring interview with musicians about parenting. great so far ... http://www.midnightlightning.net/

Glad to see people who are not me talking about the Trap Set. :)

I'm low-key trying to start my own podcast where I talk to producers/electronic music people, still have some things to figure out but I'm recording the first one this weekend.

Some of my resolutions are to avoid things I'm tired of in other interview podcasts, such as 1) spending too long in the intro talking about what they talk about with the guest, and 2) spending too long in the beginning of the interview asking about the guest's childhood. Sometimes this yields interesting material but is more often boring, and feels like an inevitable topic that has to be discussed before you can get to the real conversation. I blame Maron for this.

i'm trying to get into podcasts

i just want interviews with scientists

no quirky npr types

trap set sounds fun

ty for trap set rec. just subscribed.

i've been listening to Classics for Kids with my kids on the commute to school. Each episode is only 6 minutes and breaks down different composers or a song or w/e. my kids love it and i love it too cos i dont know jack about classical.

Re: science podcasts, try Spacepod presented by Dr Carrie Nugent, an asteroid hunter/scientist at Caltech. Weekly short interviews with people from NASA etc. about their work in current space research.

oops not weekly, fortnightly

Ologies is good, different scientist/specialist each week

aww thanks folks!!

I enjoyed "Slow Burn" but I sometimes feel that lack of authority when a millennial (he attended college 03-07 so I'm assuming he makes the 1983 cut-off) decides to talk about history from slightly before their time. Like for instance he starts off the new episode saying that when he started this project he had no idea that Spiro Agnew had resigned over a bribery scandal. Really? And you thought you were the guy to do a Watergate podcast?

It was like when I heard Ezra Klein recently express amazement that it was Robert Bork who fired Archibald Cox. Really? And you want to explain politics to me?

yeah i’m with you on that.

I'm glad someone else is listening to Ologies. I loved Alie on Slumber Party with Georgia Hardstark, but they might not be friends anymore? Dunno, but Ologies so great I don't even miss the old days.

Kinda want Joe Wong to interview Whiney for The Trap Set, seeing as they both played in Parts & Labour :)

Whoops, 'labor', my monocle and bowler hat are showing...

xxpost yeah idk what happened btw Alie & Georgia but they dont seem to interact anymore

I've been listening to Decode The News a bit recently - it's the project of Zee, who's the wife & producer of Jamie from The British History Podcast. Decode The News is her project, but he's there as much as she is, and it seems like they haven't really worked out the way they should interact with each-other on air yet - he is used to reading from a script, and this is more like a conversation about issues in the news. However, I reckon it has promise, Zee really seems to have done extensive research on everything she talks about, and isn't coming at things from the usual twitter hot take bubble.

https://www.decodethenewspodcast.com/

Kinda want Joe Wong to interview Whiney for The Trap Set, seeing as they both played in Parts & Labour :)

Ha I would enjoy that, I'll ask him about it.

I just interviewed the host of the Zero Squared/Zero Books Podcast last night, and we got a good two plus hours of Portland leftie pod tape that I now need to figure out how to edit down.

has anyone linked this?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/meet-the-people-who-listen-to-podcasts-at-super-fast-speeds

my question is why???

To absorb information as quickly as possible in the limited time available in a human lifespan, I guess? Yeah, doesn't sound good.

it's just quixotic and the ppl they're profiling it's v questionable listening imo.

Take 34-year-old Jason Strickland, who works for a land surveyor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He listens to around eight hours of podcasts at work every day, and listened at normal speed until he came upon the Movies by Minutes series of podcasts, which analyzes iconic movies minute by minute. (In other words, every episode is devoted to one minute of a movie.) When he found it, the hosts had already completed the original Star Wars trilogy, which was 378 episodes, plus a few special episodes, so he started downloading 50 episodes at a time and listening at 2x speed. "It took about a month per movie to get caught up," he said, explaining that he would listen to whatever podcasts were on his current listening list in the morning, and then power through the Movies by Minutes episodes in the afternoons. "Once I was current, I would then go find another show to download and get caught up, repeating this for all the shows."

isn't it just more pleasant to listen reasonably to stuff at normal speed (so everyone doesn't sound like chipmunks) and a reasonable amount of it? if you have too many podcasts to listen to maybe you're listening to too many podcasts????

I do it all the time. You'll be amazed how easily you can follow a conversation at double speed. And the players only change the speed, not the pitch.

Any podcasters here have strong opinions on hosting?

I use libsyn, it's OK I guess. Rubbish interface, reasonably cheap, recently pretty reliable in terms of outages.

decode the news is a great idea, i just wish it was a bit... better?

Go for Libsyn over SoundCloud, tho soundcloud does offer the benefit of its own network of users.

Libsyn also auto-ports your show over to YouTube, which you want to do

Yeah, I know what you mean. But I feel like they are just finding their way with it, his other podcast took a long time to get good.

Xp

i keep hearing this but what benefits do you get from having it on YouTube?

xposts

I hate how soundcloud puts up barriers to getting the mp3

YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine on the planet, which algorithmically suggests related vids to people.

Can’t hurt.

Once you become accustomed to hearing sped up podcasts normal speed feels like being stuck in a dream where you’re trying to run and your legs don’t work

A friend turned me on to Cocaine & Rhinestones last weekend and I've done three episodes now. They're looooong, and the host/narrator is kind of awkward, but if you want deeeeeeep dives into facets of the history of 20th century country music, this seems like the one to hit up.

Tyler Mahan Coe, the host/narrator, is apparently David Allan Coe's kid it turns out.

i might be into that

of course i want him to do a two-hour episode on the making of red-headed stranger

something else from me - i present a bit of behind the scenes of a new(-ish) BBC podcast thriller: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05vytrj

xp Thanks for linking this, I enjoyed the episode (based around "The Pill") about the gender bias of country music radio bans.

Listening to that one now.

JFC the one on the Judds is insane.

I gather the one about Spade Cooley is even more fucked up than that one, so I'm kind of saving it for last.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-podcast-analytics-first-month/

I don't know if it's because I am so used to the style of NPR/American podcasts, but I sure do love a lot of the arts & culture shows on BBC Radio 3 & 4. Jarvis Cocker's show about the night (Wireless Nights) is pretty great.

I recently discovered The Organist, produced by NPR/KCRW in collaboration with Mcsweeney's. Great weirdo artsy podcast, sort of like the newsmagazine version of Love & Radio. Recently did shows on Firesign Theatre and vintage experimental radio advertisements. Through them I also found out about The World According To Sound, a 180 second podcast where every episode focus on one unusual/evocative sound.

I'll also mention the podcast I produce/musically score: Solutions To Problems (https://www.stppodcast.com/). It's a fictional Dear Abby, set in space.

Interesting premise.

wow thanks for these Michael

which r4/r3 podcasts do you like especially? and what is it about them that's refreshing when set next to american ones? (he says with not entirely non-professional interest?)

I confess: I'm a bit of a podcast addict. I've just looked at the R3/R4 ones I listen to and realised I sound a bit mental: In Our Time, The Essay, the Arts & Ideas Podcast (formerly Night Waves), the Infinite Monkey Cage, the Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry, David Baddiel Tries to Understand, the History Hour, Soul Music, Seriously and the Documentary.

Current other favourites for me include the (recently returned) Adam Buxton podcast (with an interview with PTA), Revolutions (currently on a mammoth recounting of the Paris Commune) and Russell Brand's Under the Skin interviews.

Tracer, I think it's mainly a matter of taste in the end, but sometimes I just want something that leans a bit more artsy/cerebral yet still is engaging. Most hosts/shows at NPR sound very warm/engaging/accessible, which can lead to a lot of great storytelling and conversations, but doesn't take a lot of risks with their audience or format. I think if you compare NPR's popular quiz show "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" to BBC's "Brain Of Britain" or Round Britain Quiz, you can hear a bit what I'm talking about. I can't imagine something like that fascinatingly trippy "Three Second Rule" episode of BBC's Between The Ears ever being greenlit on U.S. radio. I like poetry, math/statistics, contemporary art, and some philosophy, all of which seems to be covered better and in more depth by BBC shows such as In Our Time, Start The Week, The Philosopher's Arms, The Radio 3 Documentary, The Essay, Arts & Ideas, More Or Less, etc.

This is not to say that BBC doesn't have it's own ring of overly dry, overly niche shows, and that freeform/independent US radio stations like WFMU or KPFA aren't awesome and inspiring. Any station that lets their DJ do live sound collages is more than alright in my book (See long-running shows like Over The Edge, Puzzling Evidence, Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, others.)

lot of talk abt radio shows, not native podcasts, in the last few posts

worthy distinction

This is true. But w/o podcasts I wouldn’t be able to listen to these shows in the first place, unless I was really good at using a world band radio.

you could use the iPlayer radio app :)

it is not as handy tho

I used to listen to BBC radio online before RSS was even invented

I used to listen to BBC radio before online was invented

Can anyone recommend some podcast drama? I have a long standing love of BBC radio drama, But never explored much beyond the BBC.

i hate pretty much all audio drama. homecoming was good though. season 1. try it. i would also love some suggestions.

there's a ton of dr who dramas from big finish that some people rep for. you could try that if you're a whovian. i listened to the trailer for the new Wolverine thing but i don't think it's for me.

Podcast drama: I like Within The Wires a lot, they just finished their second season. First series is told through a series of subversive relaxation cassettes, second series is through a series of audio guides to museums. I also like The Far Meridian and Greater Boston, both of which have a bit of a surreal/dream logic element to their narratives.

i like far meridian thanks!

i tried within the wires a couple of months ago and got impatient with it - i will give it another chance

i find myself getting impatient with a lot of podcasts tbh

Any good podcasts that interview smaller-time musicians beyond the NPR-related shows, getting into talking about making music? Marc Maron's interview with Ty Segall a couple of years ago was really good and in the ballpark.

No Effects (specializes in '00s indie/Brooklyn musicians, hosted by one of the members of Tanlines)
The Trap Set (drummers)
Secret Skin (specializes in indie rappers, hosted by Open Mike Eagle)
The Wandering Wolf (mostly musicians, hosted by the dude from Why?)
Kinda Neat (L.A. rappers mostly)

Turned Out A Punk (hosted by the singer of Fucked Up)
Kreative Kontrol (lots of Canadians)

Song Exploder

lol there was that rick rubin / malcolm gladwell podcast that came out in november and still hasn't had another episode

578 ratings

I love Song Exploder, I wish each episode was 3x as long. what about Album Exploder. i'm all in. patreon, whatever. let's go

Any suggestions for particularly good Song Exploder eps? I usually only tune in when it is a musician I like, and the few times I've tried listening to some band I've never heard of before I've also found the episodes to be lacking. There have been eps with bands that I like that I didn't enjoy also, but I'm less likely to take a risk on a band I don't know after a few bad tries I guess. Ones I've really enjoyed include Grimes, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Lorde.

this is the one that got me hooked: http://songexploder.net/the-microphones

The Onion have just launched the "A Very Fatal Murder" podcast

https://www.theonion.com/episode-1-a-perfect-murder-1822346450

Holy shit this is good, even the live-reads for subscription food boxes.

A Very Fatal Murder sends Onion Public Radio (OPR) correspondent David Pascall from New York City to the sleepy town of Bluff Springs, Nebraska to investigate the mysterious death of a 17-year-old girl, Hayley Price. Hayley was a popular, smart animal lover, with a bright future ahead of her. Everyone in town knew her name, and now everyone in town is a suspect. Join David as he works to understand why the initial investigation of Hayley’s death failed, and how a very inquisitive and Pulitzer-hungry podcast host might shed new light on the case.

there are lots of good song exploders--the recent one with ?uestlove was excellent.

The Trent Reznor episode was pretty fascinating

yeah that one was great.

also Song Exploder is SO good at changing the way you listen to that same song afterwards. You can hear so many more of the elements that they talk about once they're pointed out, it's so cool

Celebration Rock can be okay--his thing seems to be having an artist on to talk about another artist's work, like recently Craig Finn was on to talk about Joe Strummer and now he has a series going about Springsteen with Brian Fallon talking about Greetings and TWTIATESS and Jeff Rosenstock on Born to Run. In the past he had Dan Bejar on to talk about 80s Dylan.

Song Exploder sometimes has the weird effect of making me like a track less, or being disappointed about how the whole came together after hearing about the process and the cool little elements.

god song exploder is the most overrated thing in the world. so superficial - no dig-deep or fascination, just banal gloss (unless the interviewee is naturally forthcoming). it's the crummy version of an excellent thing

Listened to all of "A Very Fatal Murder" last night, starts out as just a satire of "serial" and similar podcasts, but as it got more and more absurd it just kept getting funnier.

lmao

Haley Price was a typical 17-year-old with clear skin when she was killed. She was a high achiever, a debate champion, a prom queen, a doting girlfriend. But she also excelled at being murdered.

Didn't want to harsh on the 'sploder but Sean Grammo is so OTM. It's such a great concept but done so poorly.

god song exploder is the most overrated thing in the world. so superficial - no dig-deep or fascination, just banal gloss (unless the interviewee is naturally forthcoming). it's the crummy version of an excellent thing

― sean gramophone, Tuesday, February 13, 2018 10:42 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is true for some of them, but it's dependent on the guest imo. Like the Courtney Barnett one- it's mostly about how the song was written, what inspired it, which is interesting enough, but the shit I want is Phil Elverum explaining how he had a song in G and he broke up the notes of all the chords and voiced them individually and how he got that ocean-scraping percussion sound. like, total nerd shit. the Grimes one is equally good for this reason. but I still wish they were like an hour long.

Yeah, the ones that I've taken a chance on that flubbed were all like "and I wanted to write this song about a relationship that blah blah blah" whereas Grimes talks about pitching a dentist drill sample down to match her 808 and then hard-panning it. And it wouldn't even have to be weirdo innovative stuff like Grimes or the Microphones necessarily(which btw I listened to and enjoyed yesterday - thanks). Just more nitty gritty like that.

Yeah, “A Very Fatal Murder” is great, and you can hear the whole thing in like 35 mins

xpost

but why not talk more about HOW or WHY that decision - about the other alternatives s/he considered or what they like about what they chose?

even the Grimes one or whatever feel like a surface-level eHow article about making a song

i mean ehow is useful when you want to fix a dishwasher but

I thought about that but it would void my protection plan, so now I'm stuck washing by hand for two weeks until they can get a guy out here with the part.

Sometimes they do have stuff in there like demos, outtakes, other directions the song could have taken. I agree with flappy that the brevity is probably a limiting factor.

Yeah the CRJ one was nice for getting to hear the stages of development, but it still felt a little on the flimsy side

i mean yeah i would like song exploder to be an hourlong deep dive too but i'm a huge dork. i think it's designed to be digestible to more casual fans and the format works really well for that.

That's it. I've freakin' had it. I'm gonna start some indie synth band, write and record a hit song, and when that flimsy wimp asks me to do a Song Exploder episode for him, it's gonna be five hours long and then people will know the magic that podcast is capable of.

^ gets it

Lol fuck yeah

Tried to listen to the Celebration Rock ep w/ Dan Bejar on 80's Dylan and couldn't make out a word he was saying wtf

Appropriate for 80s Dylan

Any good podcasts that interview smaller-time musicians beyond the NPR-related shows, getting into talking about making music?

While I can't really recommend The Hustle (the host loves everything and isn't particularly good at drawing out reticent guests) - I've rarely/never seen or heard any of the guests interviewed anywhere else. Danielle Dax, Alannah Myles, Dave Gregory of XTC, Fee Waybill, Voice Of The Beehive, Stu Cook of CCR, etc.

https://thehustle.podbean.com

Any good podcasts that interview smaller-time musicians beyond the NPR-related shows, getting into talking about making music?

This is what I do, but fair warning, I only interview jazz musicians.

https://burningambulance.com/tag/podcast/

I think The Books' edition of Song Exploder is the most Song Exploder-y, Song Exploder edition.

If you really want to get upset about a music podcast that really tries to break things down, I recommend Switched on Pop. It's been my hate-listen for the past week or so. I'm not ususally one to hate-listen or hate-read things, but there's something weirdly compelling about having Katy Perry Big-Birded to me by two guys who sound just like the Wild Kratts.

i would listen to a wild kratts podcast

Deep self interest but my friend Michael has a podcast called This Is Your Mixtape, where a guest goes over five songs in their life. Anyway, I was the subject of the most recent episode:

https://www.megaphonic.fm/mixtape/6

But check out the others, it's a fun idea!

I love Wild Kratts. I don't like these guys whose radio voices/attitudes seem totally copped from them.

xp

yes same

basically i am lobbying for a wild kratts podcast, let's make this happen

that sounds good ned and i will check it out. keep in mind these exist!

desert island discs (podcast archives go back to the 1940s!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5qhJd1byxhTBYbSCFmw580y/desert-island-discs-podcasts

inheritance tracks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9my/episodes/downloads (suzi quatro did one!)

so like... i'm reading flaubert's salammbo:

https://www.acast.com/elireads

fans of cannibalism, human sacrifice and detailed descriptions of clothing and foodstuffs please drop in

Kevin Conroy of Gilmore Guys has a newish show called Good Christian Fun that i really love
It’s basically for reformed Christians & they talk Christian tv and movies & music with ppl who grew up in churches etc

I spent a lot of Sundays in church and like, 10 summers at youth missions so it’s kind of a secret treat to hear ppl talk about this stuff in a fun way

(and randomly burst into song)

Kevin Conroy? ugh. I meant Kevin PORTER
i hate my brain

A friend turned me on to Cocaine & Rhinestones last weekend and I've done three episodes now. They're looooong, and the host/narrator is kind of awkward, but if you want deeeeeeep dives into facets of the history of 20th century country music, this seems like the one to hit up.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:04 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tyler Mahan Coe, the host/narrator, is apparently David Allan Coe's kid it turns out.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:13 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just binged 3 of these in a row and had been wondering about the "I've been hearing these stories my whole life" disclaimer. Holy shit.

• lament insurmountable size of podcast queue
• browse for some reason
• somehow end up with 30 more episodes
• lament insurmountable size of podcast queue
• repeat forever

yep

* skip everything in favour of another episode of hello from the magic tavern

• ever more insurmountable size of podcast queue

Tracer, I've been enjoying that Desert Island Discs archive for a couple years now. Such a great resource.

yes it's incredible. there are actually more in the archive and there is a project underway to get them up :)

Anyone else listening to the Crooked Media podcasts (Pod Save America, Keep It, etc)? Surprised to not see them mentioned here.

I gave up on them very quickly

Why?

too many other political podcasts that I like more
they feel a bit too close to cable tv commentary

Fair enough. Curious as to what other political podcasts you prefer.

Majority Report/ Michael Brooks Show/ Intercepted/ Professional Left/ Champagne Sharks

I listen to too many obv. including stuff like Deep State Radio/ Rational Security/ Trump Inc./ Chapo even some of the Vox podcasts

Champagne Sharks is great, I need to catch up.

Thanks!

A friend turned me on to Cocaine & Rhinestones last weekend and I've done three episodes now. They're looooong, and the host/narrator is kind of awkward, but if you want deeeeeeep dives into facets of the history of 20th century country music, this seems like the one to hit up.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:04 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah wanna keep going w/ this but can't get with this bizarre speak-and-spell inflection. Guy sounds like if Ira Glass produced To Catch A Predator.

It took me a good 20 minutes to get used to it. I stopped noticing and/or he gets a little less awkward (can't tell which) as it goes

My podcast queue is like a stack of New Yorkers anything older than a year gets deleted and if it tops 30 unlistened episodes I unsubscribe.

I tried Scroobius Pip's podcast the other day on a week-long commute -mild speech impediment to one side - he just talks and talks over his guests and frames the same frigging question six times before he shuts up, it's unendurable.

it's a testament to the power of consistency that he can produce such an offputting show and pull in the big numbers

i feel like anybody who can put up one show a week on something they really care about, even if they're terrible at speaking/podcasting/etc, will start to do well after 150 episodes or so... is how i break it down to an extent

It took me a good 20 minutes to get used to it. I stopped noticing and/or he gets a little less awkward (can't tell which) as it goes

― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:19 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this happened to me with jon ronson on butterfly effect

Little bit of self-promotion: just posted an episode talking about UFOs, ufologists who become media figures, Posadism and how space comrades can help us bring about communist utopia. It’s fin.

https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/close-encounters-of-the-posadist-kind-with-douglas-lain-and-comrade-communicator

re: the awkwardness of TMC on Cocaine & Rhinestones. I think he does get less awkward by the end of S1, and also you get more used to it. He still sounds like the dude who will dominate any conversation at a table of several people, but not in a particularly offputting way. He's put in the work, and there's a lot to say.

This being a total one-man operations scares me, though. He's either going to have to get some assistance/assistants or he's going to burn himself out.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/cocaine-and-rhinestones-an-addictive-sparkling-podcast-about-country-music

"Coe, who is currently working on the second season of the show, was recently invited to use the archives in the Country Music Hall of Fame, where, he wrote in an e-mail, there “are at least 500 unwritten books in that data and probably closer to 1,000. . . . Half or more of those books will not be written.”"

guys

https://www.modcloth.com/shop/hidden/podcast-co-host-sleeveless-top/151049.html

what the shit

i'm sure it'd look lovely on matt from chapo

modcloth have nice stuff but they have some of the all-time dumbest names for their clothes.

There’s a new podcast that caught my eye yesterday

It’s called “Dear Franklin Jones” about cult leader Adi Da aka Franklin Jones (aka Bubba Free John and like 15 other acronyms). The host grew up in the cult & he investigates what went on

I <3 cults so obv i am going to check this out

Found one because of the Coathangers Instagram account - The Trap Set w/ James Wong, interviews with drummers.

Only listened to the Stephanie Luke episode but it’s good. Wong has a great radio voice.

yeah La Lechera put me onto Trap Set, it’s great!

I fell off The Trap Set a long time ago, but if you dig way back in the archives, the Stewart Copeland episode is great. Ernie Isley's too.

I had forgotten about that one. I listened to the first handful of episodes and now they've got ... 158! Looks like that will give me something good to sift through.

I listened through all the Cocaine & Rhinestones episodes. It's definitely a favorite now. There are weird bits every now and then, like in the Kershaws ep he suggests that the label's shelving of "Tonight's the Night" is a sign of its poor quality

Yeah, that was a head-scratcher. Overall though, I think he makes a really good effort to be well-researched.

He also has a podcast called Your Favorite Band Sucks. That one is not as good. It's a lot more freewheeling. Just him and a buddy riffing on not-particularly-challenging opinions about some of rock's sacred cows just some rock bands, really.

I listened to all three Harper Valley PTA episodes over the weekend and now that song is stuck in my head (along with its sequels).

Are there any good contemporary classical music podcasts out there?

Not in response to that, and not directly on point to contemporary classical (although perhaps some slight overlap), my friend has been running a really good podcast about avant/out/improvised contemporary music, much of it jazz-related or jazz-adjacent but not exclusively, and mostly from Chicago (where he was based for most of the time the podcast has been in existence so far).

http://cast.now-is.org/

He selects music to play for the interviewee -- some of it being the musician's own work, some of it influences, some of it just grab bag, and they discuss. Hamid Drake, Matt Lux, Vandermark, Olivia Block, and many others.

That sounds fantastic, thanks so much!

He also has a podcast called Your Favorite Band Sucks. That one is not as good. It's a lot more freewheeling. Just him and a buddy riffing on not-particularly-challenging opinions about some of rock's sacred cows just some rock bands, really.

Yeah, the concept would be good and result would be funny if maybe I was drunk and knew them personally, but as a podcast it's garbage.

I finished Heaven’s Gate the other day - highly recommend. Impressive array of interviews & audio, changed my impression of the group in some ways.

I prefer the radio

thanks

You're very welcome. May I refer you to my live journal?

if anyone wants to get a primer on TROP ROCK check out the new illogical contraption

the latest desert island podcast with david byrne is pretty great:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vz6r1

Joe Frank fans (I've devoured the ouvre in the months since his passing) will find much to like in James Urbaniak's Getting On

http://cast.now-is.org/

He selects music to play for the interviewee -- some of it being the musician's own work, some of it influences, some of it just grab bag, and they discuss. Hamid Drake, Matt Lux, Vandermark, Olivia Block, and many others.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:50 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks again for this rec man alive.

Out of the list of participants, I only knew Mark Shippy and Tim Stine but I've buzzed through about 4 of them and they are very enjoyable, the format is really strong too.

I feel that Ben doesn't need to add in those curious, stuttering edits, at first I thought he was maybe using them as chapter markings or ways of getting from one part of a conversation to another but they seem kinda arbitrary.

ahhhh to not have to worry about music rights in a podcast. living the dream.

Ooh that is a good concept, I love the ol' "blindfold test" and it's a natural for the format.

I tried this but man, it's hard to listen to. It sounds like they're recording on a phone and talking over the music in the room...I usually don't care about sound quality that much, but that's rough. A cheap mixer and a couple cheap mics would probably do wonders.

Which one? I think the sound quality got better over time.

It was the Mike Reed one

Just taped an hour+ interview with legendary drummer Billy Cobham for the episode of my podcast that'll be live on 4/13.

David Goldblatt's new football podcast Game of our lives covers football round the world and is excellent even if you don't care about football. 1st ep is an interview w/ Werner Herzog on crowds, voodoo, piss, Peruvian football & ritual, highly recommended

https://gameofourlives.fm/

Excellent, I’ll bookmark that one.

Idk how the podcast economy manages to support professionally-produced double-episode deep dives into Chris Korda but it does apparently.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/parcast/cults/e/53861518

It’s not particularly interesting but reminded me to dig out the old IDG compilations.

i'm going to be doing some driving in late april. i'm going to check out cocaine and rhinestones but have there been any good narrative podcasts lately? i like crime, rural stories, string music in background, creepy stuff. idk. my favorite place to drive is rural delaware and it would be nice to have a weird story along with it.

Heaven’s Gate is pretty good, a+ balance of research & storytelling

ooh i was looking for something about this after i watched wild, wild country because i'm not too young to remember heaven's gate at least. i might finish it before the drive!

i thought i knew a fair bit but they poke into interesting corners, it’s one of the best things I’ve heard in the past year imo

psyched for this. a history of china as told through 20 personalities. first episode: "the female emperor"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zgd6y/episodes/downloads

Interesting. Will have to check that out.

Anyone listening to "Empire on Blood"?

I fell off The Trap Set a long time ago, but if you dig way back in the archives, the Stewart Copeland episode is great. Ernie Isley's too.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, March 9, 2018 5:29 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I had forgotten about that one. I listened to the first handful of episodes and now they've got ... 158! Looks like that will give me something good to sift through.

― how's life, Friday, March 9, 2018 5:48 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I tried this again, cherrypicking episodes from some of my favorite drummers. Each one that I listened to felt like it could have been any podcaster interviewing these drummers, Chris Hardwick or whoever, rather than a drummer sitting down with another drummer and really going in. Joe Wong's approach to interviewing is very general, asking questions like "so what was it like when your band got big?" I guess I would be more interested in hearing more specifically about playing and technique and gear.

xpost - i started Empire on Blood the other day, only 1 ep in but i really like what i’ve heard

I guess I would be more interested in hearing more specifically about playing and technique and gear.
as a non-drummer, the non-gear / technique stuff is what I like about the trap set — I think he's pretty good at drawing out interesting ideas/stories from people. like the drummer from earth wind and fire talking about conspiracy theories last week, haha.

He specifically wants to avoid drum nerd conversations, it really is about "the lives of drummers" and not actually about drumming. The bonus episodes usually have those gear and recording questions that everyone wants to know though (or thinks they do, often there's not actually that much to say about technique and gear, although I do love studio stories).

xp that one sure took a turn!

I can't read 300+ posts so forgive me if I repeat myself:

GOs:
Code Switch
Serious Eats
RadioLab (sorry hoos)
Third Rail (my Brooklyn loves)
Radio Dispatch (good tho can be slow-ish going through their banter but Molly's stories about her students at school are magical)
Tea with Queen and J

NOs:
My reasons for the casts I don't like were too mean so I deleted them.

Empire on Blood was one of the best in class. It pulls the Serial trick of having putting its most tragic/compelling twist in the first episode (heartbreaking!) but it stays strong throughout and doesn't meander, and sticks the landing, too.

kind of nervous to post this as it's something i've been working on for 6+ months but now it's finally seeing the light of day and i'm incredibly proud. please give a listen! first episode is april 17.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p063zy3c/episodes/downloads

I guess I would be more interested in hearing more specifically about playing and technique and gear.
as a non-drummer, the non-gear / technique stuff is what I like about the trap set — I think he's pretty good at drawing out interesting ideas/stories from people. like the drummer from earth wind and fire talking about conspiracy theories last week, haha.

― tylerw, Monday, April 9, 2018 1:01 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think I'd want to hear gear and technique per se (terrible things to explore in an audio format anyway), but I'd like to hear more about musical approach.

Not me. I thought I'd be getting Pearl vs. Tama fights. I want to hear about ratamacues and flamadiddles. All that shit. I'm no drummer. But that's what I hoped a drummer specific podcast could bring to the table that more general music podcasts don't.

pearl and tama can both go in the garbage imo, next q

rimshots fired

it would be cool if the podcast really went all the way and featured a lot of long stretches of the host and guest just vocalizing drumming patterns "You know that part that goes Dum dum dum PSH PSH! Dum dum dum PSH PSH!" "Yeah! Yeah! Dum diggida dum dum diggida dum PSHHHHHHHH!!!"

lol

There are other drummer podcasts that talk about drum nerd shit

kind of nervous to post this as it's something i've been working on for 6+ months but now it's finally seeing the light of day and i'm incredibly proud. please give a listen! first episode is april 17.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p063zy3c/episodes/downloads

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 April 2018 03:07 (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is good! incredible first guest too. yassmin's probably the most polarising person in australia atm (either you're absolutely fine with her or you're a phenomenally hypocritical fucking racist). if anything i'd love to have heard more from her, but it sounds like you're limited to the half hour.

...for anyone who doesn't know the back story, she said a couple of things in public channels (tv, twitter) that bigots didn't like, and those bigots genuinely hounded her out of the country.

awesome, i'm really glad you like it! not limited to half an hour, no, we're still just finding our way with it. if we get more feedback like that maybe we'll let it ramble on. this was recorded BEFORE yassmin got turned away from the US border, sadly, i would have liked to hear her talk about that.

:D

https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/1X2w0o3k040d2M0j2Y3W/ncfyw_screenshot.png

a sure sign that you're doing something right

excellent

Now the first series of Game of our lives has finished I'm desperately craving something similarly conversational, unsmug, varied, casually smart and devoid of nasal americans if anyone has any recommendations (all topics considered)

i'd highly super recommend Emil Amos' Drifter's Sympathy - https://starburns.audio/podcasts/emil-amos-drifters-sympathy/

alternating between storytelling episodes mainly based around growing up in the 90s underground/indie scene in smallish town america with music focussed episodes looking at the history of various strands of underground weirdness. it's a little hard to explain simply, but everyone i've got to check it out has loved it.

Anyone listening to Dead Rock Stars? It's yet more middle-aged white men rambling on about stuff, but it's diverting enough and Mick Wall knows his onions, mostly. The Lemmy one is good.

https://www.acast.com/deadrockstars

I’ve found that Emil Amos show to be good Background music for writing. I zone in and out of the show, then listen to him for a few minutes and generally wonder wtf he’s going on about. Occasional mid-90s indie rock content confirmed. His stories about drugging in India are pretty wild. Most episodes seem to feature one or more acid trips afaict.

so like... i'm reading flaubert's salammbo:

https://www.acast.com/elireads

fans of cannibalism, human sacrifice and detailed descriptions of clothing and foodstuffs please drop in

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 16:38 (five months ago)

Tracer I am loving this. I am spending a lot of hours in a room typesetting at the moment and this is a perfect accompaniment. It's also just really good.

You should see my copy of Salammbo: it's decorated by Edward Bawden with beauties like this:

https://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/items/015661.jpg

holy crap. I consider myself pretty up on the various illustrations of Salammbo and i haven't run across that set. look at those colours!

really pleased you're enjoying it Tim.

IKR? It's amazing.

https://pictures.abebooks.com/AGVENT/4220065103.jpg

wow. love all the forbidding blacks in that too. so chunky.

does anyone else listen to Scene on Radio? i'm a new listener but i'm enjoying their current season, which is about male supremacy

the season on Whiteness was very good

Beyond Yacht Rock continues to be really funny. latest episode was very very different though and really beautiful/SAD as hell - https://omny.fm/shows/beyond-yacht-rock/beyondyachtrock-90-leahsongs

yes, really liked that one.

Wolverine is good

also Steal The Stars is really good

BYR is ending soon :(

At least I got to have my Marcos Valle choice be officially deemed nyacht before it happened.

oh bummer...where'd you hear that about BYR?

They mentioned it on a recent episode, I think it was a yacht or nyacht? Said they're doing ten more episodes so they hit 100 and then stop. Though they also hinted they'd do other things in the podcast format.

Ryan Cooper’s new show is good. 1st ep on Stephen Pinker, The Enlightenment, and what happens when “democratic processes are a figleaf for oligarchy?”

https://leftanchor.podbean.com/e/episode-1-steven-pinker-rousseau/

Thank you to whomever it was who recommended the two Revisionist History episodes on memory (s3,e3&4). I overcame my Malcolm Gladwell lolversion to listen to them and now I don't really believe any story anyone tells about anything that happened to them ("and that's OK")

Beyond Yacht Rock continues to be really funny. latest episode was very very different though and really beautiful/SAD as hell - https://omny.fm/shows/beyond-yacht-rock/beyondyachtrock-90-leahsongs

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, September 26, 2018 4:41 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god, this was sad

i'd highly super recommend Emil Amos' Drifter's Sympathy - https://starburns.audio/podcasts/emil-amos-drifters-sympathy/

alternating between storytelling episodes mainly based around growing up in the 90s underground/indie scene in smallish town america with music focussed episodes looking at the history of various strands of underground weirdness. it's a little hard to explain simply, but everyone i've got to check it out has loved it.

― jamiesummerz, Thursday, May 3, 2018 10:08 AM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I’ve only listened to like 4 of these so far, but it’s fucking brilliant. Like legitimately the first podcast that I’ve ever been excited about and want to share with my friends.

Also the first podcast where I straight up want to listen to an episode again right after I listened to it.

After a long break, we just posted a new episode on the (first) film adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary

https://www.soundcloud.com/givingthemic/reverse-psychology-works-on-stephen-kings-pet-sematary

Tried Your Kickstarter Sucks on a range of recommendations but I'm really just not into the two bros shooting the shit format.

Not technically a podcast but BBC Radio4 Extra is repeating an 80s adaptation on Fame is The Spur by Howard Spring.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0121293

Ian McKellan as Hamer Shawcross, a flawed early Labour Party leader. Probably this encapsulates everything I love (and everything Tracer Hand hates) about BBC radio drama.

http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/thunder-bay/

Canadaland's Thunder Bay podcast has recently launched. Haven't listened to it yet but it looks good. The description:

The highest homicide rate in the country. A mayor and his wife charged with extortion. A police chief put on trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous teenagers.

Why does it all happen here?

Haha Ed. I have added it to my list!

Um, Pounded In The Butt By My Own Podcast offers an effortless entry into Chuck Tingles's recursive/surreal ouvre. Wish he didn't adopt a Demento persona for the intros, but the guest readers are generally good. Discovered while searching for what the hell was up with James Urbaniak.

A kind of weird phenomenon is all of these "branded podcasts" I hear ads for all the time. Like, who willingly listens to one of these? It would be like going into a library and checking out an in-flight magazine.

Uh, my show got mentioned in a New Yorker article about podcasts. This feels weird, especially as we mock the rag and the class that reads it a lot online.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling

awesome!

Thanks!

“The Joe Rogan Experience,” in which the bluff comedian interviews public figures

surely they meant "buff comedian"

surely they meant "unintentional comedian"

w2g kingfish!

pocket casts (ios) has had a major update which is 20% improvements and 80% fuckups

yeah it's like all these added clicks to do anything

I'm really REALLY late to this but I'm finally making my way through Mike Duncan's "Revolutions" and it's fantastic. It's so hard to make a solo podcast interesting, especially with such dense historical material, but he has an incredible knack for making it digestible and entertaining without dumbing anything down, while never getting on your nerves even if you listen for hours at a time. Not so easy!

New Pocketcasts doesn't separate unwatched/downloaded episodes from the rest of them, that's a dealbreaker.

the only interesting new feature is the ability to look at your listening history, which is kind of staggering

I'm too lazy to transfer everything to another podcast app, so it just made me clean up my subs - I haven't listened to an episode of WTF in over a year, the 25 I had downloaded probably weren't going to suddenly become more interesting.

Goddamn pocketcast. First downcast break, now this one

why everyone doesn't use castro is just beyond me

otm

Jesus I have no idea how to unsubscribe to a podcast on pocketcast now

i like Downcast.

had a good laugh at this
https://www.clickhole.com/the-20-best-podcasts-about-crabs-and-crabbing-that-have-1830191373

Why should I switch from Overcast to Castro? PITCH ME TRACER.

Simon have you listened to age of napoleon? Way better than revolutions imo (and chapo approved although do not start with this episode https://overcast.fm/+Iw3kE63mU)

I imagine Revolutions is also Chapo approved since they interviewed Mike Duncan

I've heard both - - I find Mike easier to listen to at length but I might give AoN another crack later.

there's a related podcast I've been meaning to check out called Second Decade that covers the years 1810-1820

Yeah that’s on my list too. Revolutions didn’t click for me but I only listened to the first episode which was very meta. I should give it another go.

ok, revolutions is good. i couldn't get into his rome podcast. he's very much "and then what happened was... and then what happened was..." narrative style, and for something as uninteresting to me as rome that's a real slog. but the content is more interesting to me here.

Yeah if you're not interested in Rome I wouldn't recommend listening to hundreds of hours of episodes about it.

I'm excited for his take on Russia. obviously.

Been doing Slow Burn S2 which is about the Clinton scandals. Fascinating listening but can’t say it improves my opinion of him much.

agree. makes me re-appreciate Monica, in that I recognized a lot of myself in her “silly girly behaviour” that is basically kinda “early twenties” but in a much bigger spotlight on a way bigger stage

also that linda tripp interview was something

Slate is doing a Ruby Ridge series and I still could give a fuck what happened to Weaver

I am listening to that one too. that sociologist who interviewed The Order was about as creepy as the people he was studying imo

Finished it and p convinced now that both Broaderick's and Jones's stories are true. Would be nice if he also finally faced an investigation into all those trips he made to Jeffrey Epstein's island, now that that slime is back in the news again.

Neyfakh's observation about that one little detail in Paula Jones's story impressed me -- the fact that it was very unlikely she would make up a story in which he said "I don't wanna make you do anything you don't want to do"

Have started listening to The Rialto Report, history of the golden age of porn - interviews w key players etc. There’s an episode on Linda Lovelace that is p interesting.

I was just moments away from checking out The Rialto Report. Someone on Twitter recommended the episode on Avon Films, which I guess is the Linda Lovelace one you mention

i really need some podcast recommendations. i'm going to be doing a lot of mindless computer work over the next few months, and i've already exhausted the "dear prudence" catalogue. <3 daniel ortberg

science, philosophy, art history, music history, literary history, history in general all good. can't do mainstream politics. npr tone tends to grate on me. something with a deep catalogue, preferably free.

the dollop? radiolab? in our time?

also i wanna stan for relentless picnic even though it's even whiter than that list. it's a little intense but lots of history and lots of friendly intellectual egging-on

thumbs up, thanks

i'm very podcast-illiterate

cosign the dollop, v good fun

revolutions is a good history one, deep catalog

cocaine & rhinestones - country music deep dive, long eps, not a huge catalog but def worthwhile

secret history of hollywood: good catalog, LONG episodes which i love, beautifully researched

This Is Actually Happening
Strangers
Arrvls
Hear Be Monsters
Everything Is Stories
Why Won’t You Date Me
99% Invisible
How To Be A Girl
Nocturne
are some of my non-true crime favs

*HERE Be Monsters, sorry

I try to keep an updated list on my blog (quartzcity.net). Whittling it down some:

99% Invisible
All In The Mind
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Cocaine & Rhinestones
Desert Oracle Radio
Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio
Outside Podcast
Revolutions
Skylight Books
Spycast
The Agony Column
The Antarctic Sun Podcast
The Memory Palace
The Social Engineer Podcast
The Trap Set
This Is Actually Happening
This Week in Parasitism
TravelCommons
Uncontrolled Airspace
You Can't Eat The Sunshine
You Must Remember This

I was just moments away from checking out The Rialto Report. Someone on Twitter recommended the episode on Avon Films, which I guess is the Linda Lovelace one you mention

My mistake, these are two different episodes, but I like the style of this pod and will come back for more

I've been enjoying We're Just Here to Help, which is political roundup with humor. One host grew up in Russia and the other in Iran, so they have lots of insights into totaliatarianism, how it grows and functions and so on

If you're at all interested in the music business Andrew Loog Oldham's Sounds and Vision has been quite juicy through four episodes so far

literary history

I'd like to find more podcasts on this. I listen to Literature and History (so far he's covered from Sumerian cuneiform texts up to Roman literature) and Literary Hangover (fairly new podcast, American lit from a leftist perspective.)

There are several others I've heard of but haven't dived into:
The Canon Ball (reading through Harold Bloom's Western Canon list)
The History of Literature
American Writers One Hundred Pages at a Time

The Canon Ball is very good (nb I know the guys who make it).

Backlisted is a good literature podcast, albeit it's less about critical acumen and more about thralldom. It's good for discovering things that have slipped out of print, been ignored etc. All relative to your knowledge of literature, of course.

Slightly Foxed has a podcast along the same lines I think--only one episode so far

enjoying relentless picnic, thanks for the recommendation tracer

i know it's like just people listing podcasts they enjoy, but i'm really grateful for all these recommendations. i was feeling like the endless solitary hours of document grabbing i need to do for $ was becoming this heavy weight around my neck, and now it feels much more manageable.

I have a boring ass job too and a few enthralling eps of a podcast can really speed the day along

Phoebe Judge has one of the best speaking voices not just in podcasting but, like, in all media ever.

Hearing her rep for Mancrates.com, though, is such a cringe/lol.

Also, Vegemitegrrl, please to single out any particularly exceptional true crime episodes or series you've heard lately (or this year)?

map: I recommend "Heavyweight" (for real)

Also "Stop Podcasting Yourself", which has to be my longest-running sub that I still consistently listen to, and I didn't see here.

Heads up: all white Canadian dudes with loose formats

xpost

Notable shows:
Bear Brook
Teacher’s Pet
Dr Death
All 3 were excellent, cannot recommend Bear Brook highly enough.

Notable Single Episodes (imo):

Casefile:
Ep 90 Hoddle Street
Ep 100 The Beaumont Children

My Favorite Murder:
Ep 150 Reyna Marroquin made me cry
Ep 113 Live in Utah - SLC library hostage
Ep 111 Van Nuys Courthouse shooting

Last Podcast on the Left:
Eps 335-337 West Memphis Three: surprisingly good, there were details I didn’t know or remember
Eps 306-307 Casey Anthony, same reason as above

Cocaine & Rhinestones
Ep3 Murder Ballad of Spade Cooley - not a true crime podcast normally but this is 100% a true crime ep, details are horrific (and he makes it easy to skip that part if you need to) but the story is absolutely one that should be heard

sweet! thank you

:D

I am a big fan of MFM & Last Podcast but I tend not to recommend them to ppl much just bc their humor & chatter is v subjective & not everyone is into that style. But Karen on MFM has a real knack for telling some incredibly compelling stories, and Marcus on Last Podcast does a herculean amount of research, and I think they both help occasionally raise the bar from “jokey murder chatz”

I loved Dr. Death, all the more compelling because it happened in my city.

Listening to Bear Brook now!

After scanning this thread about a week ago, I checked out an episode of This Actually Happened on a whim, and it turned out to be the one about a girl who was systematically sexually abused by her parents and other locals, and it was legitimately traumatizing. The episode had a trigger warning and everything, but I had no idea what I was in for. It kinda ticked me off, like maybe the warning should have been a little more pronounced. I don't remember the name of the episode and can't seem to find it, maybe someone knows which one I'm referencing

I know which one you’re talking about - but I’ve been listening for a long time so it wasn’t as shocking. There aren’t any others as disturbing as that one, but a few are pretty heavy. There’s a domestic abuse/attempted murder story that’s pretty hard to listen to. .

I’d also strongly recommend the Mary Vincent ep of MFM - it’s an “I survived” story and is incredible.

oh shit yes, that was a great one

I still think about Mary all the time tbh

holy shit walking down the road naked, covered in blood, and no arms

i still think it was shitty of those dudes to drive off, but you would have to ask yourself if what you were seeing was... real? i mean, i didn't think a person could survive double amputation!

crazy

Take it to the true crime thread seriously

Like wtf?

who are yer guys?

sorry PK, forgot there was a dedicated true crime thread

i really like matt and shane's secret podcast and recommend it.

in a particular category, china-focused podcasts:
the little red podcast, maybe starting from the three part series on xi jinping's war on the uighurs, but go back and listen to the episode on chinese police statistics and the one on china's resettlement industry
sinica, even though kaiser kuo's apologies for the regime + claiming to be a "neoliberal" get old but they have access to some important american china wonks (less interesting now that they've all been mostly marginalized) and occasionally cover more interesting things, esp when they get academics instead of bureaucrats on and let jeremy goldkorn go, go back into the archives to when they were both still in beijing.
n(u with an umlaut) voices, and please listen to the recent episode with new yorker writer jiayang fan.
probably should recommend laszlo montgomery's china history podcast, too. not my thing but if you want to hear a guy talk about, like, the history of china-vietnam relations, tea, legalism, zhou enlai...

Thought I'd share this: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/12/best-podcasts-2018/578899/

Most of these are new to me but that's not saying much. I know I've seen a few of these listed here.

Agree with their #1- Caliphate is really, really good

50 podcasts. no thanks

podcacalypse

On the next season of StartUp... we sell-out to Spotify!
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/spotify-reportedly-in-advanced-stages-of-acquiring-podcast-company-for-230m/

Hope all the creators have IP rights!

i think some do have a certain split

Damn. Well, I guess it's every start-up's goal to sell out to a bigger start-up, right? Unfortunately I like Reply All and Heavyweight enough to figure out how to listen to them on Spotify if necessary, which I suppose is worth $230 mil to them.

Also I finally took a stab at making my own podcast (interviews with electronic music people): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-warmth/id1451018142

nice!

my spanish is getting a little rusty so i've started listening to spanish language podcasts.

NPR have one called Radio Ambulante which I've enjoyed

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510315/radio-ambulante

Oh man Citations Needed is good:
http://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-66-whataboutism-the-medias-favorite-rhetorical-shield-against-criticism-of-us-policy

citations needed is grate

Hi there.

I make podcast. (With friends.)

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater

Monthly episodes starting in late April.

:D i am excite!

Hurrah!

oh sh*

wait this is the podcasts thread

OH SHIT

SICK NED!!

Thanks!

*cue 5-hour Tom Bombadill celebratory song*

Oh dear.

shh it’s getting to the good part

Neat

Following up on our two-parter on deconstructing conspiracy theory, we did an ep on teacher strikes and labor organizing(both in the PacNW and nationally)

https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep47-hot-for-teacher-strikes-with-candy-jody-and-marj

can anyone recommend a deep (ideally interview w/ expert focused) podcast on natural world / nature / evolution topics?

not a podcast but Natural Histories can be really good
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w99gb/episodes

I just discovered Ducan Trussell's Family Hour so I'm good for like, a year

iirc a lot of Duncan Trussell hate in here. I have enjoyed this podcast.

Digging Tim Heidecker's Office Hours, it is not boring. Sort of chaotic and disorganized in a fun way.

can anyone recommend a deep (ideally interview w/ expert focused) podcast on natural world / nature / evolution topics?

This may not be an exact match, but I like Fieldwork Diaries - https://www.fieldworkdiaries.com

Not precisely the right thread but christ, the latest Android Pocket Casts update is an absolute shithouse: glitchy as hell, fugly and the UI has gone backwards. Ugh.

Google Podcasts is the only app I've tried that seems simple and intuitive

Guys a podcast I have been working on for literally almost a year comes out tomorrow. It feels like much of that time was spent convincing various people I work with not to can it. I'm very very proud of it but it is pretty... unusual ("weird" is the word I keep hearing) and I would love it if each and every person reading this goes and rates it/subscribes etc.

All six episodes drop tomorrow.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/texting-keith-olbermann/id1454216255?mt=2

or indeed in the official app/website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071wbr5/episodes/downloads

Good luck!

Thank you!

pocket casts is such a mess now, wtf are they doing

good to know. Will continue to not update it on Android. From reading about the update on Google Play, sounds like a lot more monetization afoot.

I wish I liked the open source Antennapod. anyone use it? I don't suppose it has become good?

Listening to your podcast now, Tracer Hand. It’s great! Very compelling and weirdly tense so far (I’m two episodes in).

Awesome. Rate! review! :)

will it be fun if I've never heard of Keith Olberman?

I hadn't heard of him but the first two episodes were entertaining and compelling indeed and made me want to find out what'll happen so I'm on for the ride!
Out of curiosity, what was your role in the series, Tracer?

tracer is keith olberman

Notoriously hard to work with.

(I enjoyed it despite having no idea who the two main dudes in the thing were / are. But I found it a piquant little taste of the way dudes behave and interact, and the bemusement that generates in those around them.)

holy crap it's Keith Olberman!

I just finished listening and will certainly rate and review. I didn’t really know of Keith Olbermann before but I found him extremely likeable. I would love if there was another series! I think there were a lot of great underlying questions about why people even form friendships and what makes a connection genuine or possible.

i commissioned it and acted basically as as the "exec". i am also the voice at the end of each episode!

Really glad to hear the positive reactions. It is an unusual beast and after working on something for so long it can be hard to know how it will sound to someone coming to it fresh.

Impressed that nobody in the UK knows who Keith Olbermann is

I'm Canadian, and after googling his name I am very confused about what it is he does. Will listen!

he is or was on television

He is back on ESPN here and there but doesn't have his own show thus far.

Odd I saw discussion of Olberman a couple of years ago on UK left-wing twitter (as a kind of not very good version of liberal Alex Jones type) and its odd to see this now - will listen and see how this shapes up.

The last I saw of Keith was a piece of political commentary in which he presented 8 reasons why Trump would soon be removed from office. That was late '17 :(

Lol Olberman is nothing like Alex Jones
More like liberal Tucker

I googled him after above discussion and it said he stopped doing political commentary (after 187 episodes of an anti-Trump commentary show) bcz of his certainty that Trump would not finish his term, and returned to sports punditry

i enjoyed him as a sports pundit (i love old clips of him & dan patrick doing sportscenter)
was not v into his political commentary but i am not v into politics anyway

I didn’t really know of Keith Olbermann before but I found him extremely likeable

I just listened to the first episode and he sounds less sufferable than a fool

I love how wildly different people feel about him in this.

My take is basically the same as vegemitegirl

Like Olbermann, as few can craft a diatribe like him. His problem is that he's preaching to a choir, and his kind of rhetoric is for a time more people are willing to die or kill for their beliefs. Its tiresome in all but the smallest doses.

Deleting podcasts that have stacked up is refreshing, like throwing away New Yorkers you accept that you'll never read. Am I ever going to listen to 25 old episodes of In Our Time? Highly unlikely.

like throwing away New Yorkers you accept that you'll never read.

yes! that’s precisely what it’s like

so freeing

Yeah I aim to keep my listening to a certain slew of things that pace out just enough that I can enjoy listening to them without feeling like I'm either always catching up or feeling obligated. (One big reason why I wanted to aim for our podcast to be monthly -- makes much more sense in terms of the subject matter but also won't cause anyone to feel like too much of a backlog if they miss an episode or two.)

Irish History Podcast which is 9 years old this week and took me way too long to actually get to hear. I know the presenter from the Shell2Sea camp and he references the area in one of the shows I listened to.
I guess I just haven't listened to podcasts much until recently. & part of the reason I started listening is losing the USB connection on the side of my TV meaning I can't set up watching dl/ded tv and film stuff as easily as before Xmas.

So mainly been listening to Msnbc shows as podcasts as well as Mueller She Wrote, Pod Save America,Trumpcast then last night started listening to a few other areas one on medieval travel, another on Greek Myths and one on risk assessment using the Roanoke colony as an example.

Per history, Mike Duncan's History of Rome is a massive endeavor and one that has served what I felt podcasting has always flirted with but never quite succeeds in allowing: That I, the listener, walked away having felt a better person. Often I find myself a more enriched person, but most the knowledge is so secular or so strangely low-spectrum aspergers that I often wonder to myself whether my head is maybe filled to too much of a capacity of oddball facts that don't rate me above a child who points out a license plate being from Elsewhere.

Anyways, his length on the French Revolution is truly hitting a stride. Revolutions podcast. That's the name.

Fashion fans, I also enjoy "The Memory of... with John Galliano" , which is basically him delivering his justifications for his latest design choices with Maison Margiela. He's smart, his mannerisms and speaking style kind of amuses me kind of makes me unenthusiastic to listen to the next podcast, but it's actually a real treat to listen to an episode prior to viewing a season's collection. You gain a better understanding of the massive amounts of context designers put into clothing. Often an oversight, for better or worse against ideas of the medium.

Anyone listen to Rapaport? I like the music and the “sick fsck of the week” segment. This award is earned not given.

Been listening to
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Profiles in Eccentricity
That Record Got Me High
Irish History Podcast
Let's Talk About myths, Baby
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Human Circus, Journeys in the Medieval World

"This is Actually Happening" is so close to my idea of the perfect podcast that I'm amazed it exists.

i have put off listening. no more!

i just started in on Gay Future and it's pretty fuckin good

TIAH is so good. Just first person accounts of usually kinda disturbing, but always compelling, life events, with NO COMMENTARY. That's right folks, NO COMMENTARY!

yeah I'm extremely down with narrator-less shows

I've been listening to Jon Ronson's latest - The Last Days of Autumn. I generally really like him but there's something that niggles me, a sort of disconnect between his anxious, forgiving persona and the topics he explores. Which is fine when it's Alex Jones, but when it's about the more vulnerable I don't know: the presentation can seem a bit disingenuous. This might well turn out to be more about me than about him and the disconnect is ultimately his greatest strength as a journalist. Does including the 'this is making me really anxious' stuff and acknowledging that his intrusions are dangerous make the thing more authentic and justifiable?

Anyway, I'm babbling. Short version: I'm finding it very affecting, which is why I'm interrogating myself and my assumptions.

And the Tolkien podcast I am part of is now formally up and running:

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/1

Give an ear!

I went to the British Podcast Awards last night, here is a very self-indulgent blog post about it.

The big winner was George The Poet for Have You Heard George's Podcast? - having listened to a little it really does seem to deserve all the praise it got.

Only real bullshit was the podcast champion award going to My Dad Wrote A Porno, but at least that's all they got.

List of winners etc is here - https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/winners-2019

congratulations! i was there too, it would have been great to meet you and say hello! the one i was there for didn't win ANYTHING ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I didn't think I'd won anything as they didn't announce the bronze and silver for my category, found out on the train home!

Probably should be more sociable if I'm actually going to promote the show, only spoke to one person apart from my wife, which show were you there with?

lol no way. I was going to say that I didn't remember you getting a prize but thought better of it because surely... surely that would indicate a total lapse of attention on my part. but no!? i think there were literally only like two awards they DIDN'T read bronze and silver for? bizarre.

I was there for No Country For Young Women. I commissioned it. didn't help that we were in one of George's 'groups of death' I guess!

re: the aftershow i have rarely seen such nakedly desperate networking in all my life

Yeah, even with free booze i simply cannot do networking, am only used to talking to strangers if I am organising their study abroad courses.
Was out of there about 15 minutes after it ended.

And our second episode is up!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/2

I enjoyed all of the Kalevala talk in the first episode. I want to reread that soon.

Thanks! Yeah it's always worth a revisit.

I've been listening to Jon Ronson's latest - The Last Days of Autumn. I generally really like him but there's something that niggles me, a sort of disconnect between his anxious, forgiving persona and the topics he explores. Which is fine when it's Alex Jones, but when it's about the more vulnerable I don't know: the presentation can seem a bit disingenuous. This might well turn out to be more about me than about him and the disconnect is ultimately his greatest strength as a journalist. Does including the 'this is making me really anxious' stuff and acknowledging that his intrusions are dangerous make the thing more authentic and justifiable?

Anyway, I'm babbling. Short version: I'm finding it very affecting, which is why I'm interrogating myself and my assumptions.

― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, April 15, 2019 3:26 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Last Days of August.

I'm going through it right now. Wow, the tirade that Lisa Ann delivers in episode 4 really reminded me of Kellyanne Conway or someone.

didn't he just do a podcast on the porn biz?

tuomas in chicago

I don't get it (I don't think?).

I was thinking about The Butterfly Effect, a podcast he did on the repercussions of free porn online.

so you knew the answer to your question?

yeah, I was writing more rhetorically. as in, didn't he just do this?

One seems to be about porn in general and this one about one porn star in particular.

I can listen to some Last Podcast on the Left episodes or the You Must Remember This Hollywood but these more voyeuristic series about people who weren’t really famous gross me out.

I think he said that people from that world kept reaching out to him after the first podcast, so he ended up following this story

I can see why since it’s an intersection of his last two big topics—social media shaming and the porn business

didn't he just do a podcast on the porn biz?

1) that was two years ago tbf
2) the free/public version of this is on the same RSS as the free/public version of The Butterfly Effect, so is effectively a second season

Tue Oct 23 2018 06:30:00 -

In December 2017 the famous porn star August Ames committed suicide in a park in the San Fernando Valley. It happened a day after she’d been the victim of a pile-on, via Twitter, by fellow porn professionals - punishment for her tweeting something deemed homophobic.

A month later, August’s husband, Kevin, asked writer Jon Ronson to tell the story of how Twitter bullying killed his wife. What neither Kevin nor Ronson realized was that Ronson would soon hear rumors and secrets hinting at a very different story - something mysterious and unexpected and terrible.

In The Last Days of August, Ronson unravels the never-before-told story of what caused this beloved 23-year-old actress’ untimely death. Coming to Audible January 4, 2019.