Podcasts

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