Yeah I suppose you could call it an ASMR effect, even though I refrained using that term. ASMR stuff seems to lull intentionally. Shipping Forecast (esp read by Susan, I do admit) just... is. It doesn't tickle my earbuds or gets me butterflies. It just carries me off into sleep. Which is all I ask for when insomniac.
Also: no product placement in the Shipping Forecast :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Alistair Cooke's Letter From America used to have the similar effect on me.
Yeah I get that. His politics were rubbish but there was something undeniably soothing about his voice and just zoning out, listening to it.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
I've got a 3gb folder of old Letter From America episodes divided into: Regan Years, Clinton Years, Bush Years. Obv not much of it ages well!
― calzino, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
Dire, but I've had 3gb hogged up by even more questionable content :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
Would download a torrent of Cooke's 'Complete Works' actually.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
Some of it is amusing, like his jubilation over the first dot.com bubble bursting and prediction of shopping bags and ppl ordering goods with a quill pen looking solid!
― calzino, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
xp
I've got it shared on Soulseek if you are online rn - folder is titled "letter from america".
― calzino, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Am getting no results! That's ok, maybe tomorrow!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
apart from that Scottish duo beloved of N Sturgeon obv! It will be on most days after GMT noon if you can be arsed trying again.
― calzino, Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
LBI you can subscribe to the shipping forecast in BBC Sounds app
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 December 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
podcast ad rates are measured in “CPM” which is dollars per 1000 listeners. $25 is considered a pretty good CPM. so if an episode of hollywood handbook gets 100K unique listeners, a $25 CPM will get them $2500.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 December 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
I use PocketCasts which is great at remembering where I left off. It has taken a turn for the worse in the last six months, but I've tried a bunch of other apps too and nothing comes close to it in terms of functionality.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 6 December 2019 08:09 (four years ago) link
I like This Podcast Will Kill You on various diseases. Comes with a relevant cocktail each week and it's Non alcoholic equivalent.2 women giving the history of human contact with the disease.
Your Queen History where 2 guys snark at each other in various subjects relevant to queer history.
Irish History Podcast where somebody I used to know has spent the last 9 years outlining the history of Ireland. He's spent a lot of time on the famine.
Stuff You Missed In History Class. 2 women explore various subjects of somewhat esoteric history.
Dressed 2 women explore fashion history.
And a few others which will come to me later.
― Stevolende, Friday, 6 December 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link
Stuff You Missed In History Class is good for the range of stuff it covers, and the presenters are pretty good, but the episodes are something like 40% ads and 10% listener mail.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 6 December 2019 09:00 (four years ago) link
Thank you Tracer, that's it!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 6 December 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
awesome! once subscribed new eps will appear in ‘My Sounds’
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 December 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
My man! "Fair, good."
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 6 December 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
speaking of Sounds, there’s a history podcast from Horrible Histories fella now called “You’re Dead To Me” which people seem to like
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 December 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
Hadn't realised that was who that was. Listened to a few of them a couple of weeks back.Nerdy chatty stuff about aspects of history.I then wound up with several episodes of Horrible Histories on during the week
― Stevolende, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
Just listened to the Battle of Jutland segment of Hardcore History and I swear he said "HMS Indiefaggotable" at least three times -- first time I though it was just a slip, but he really can't pronounce that word.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 6 December 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
Amazingly I'm up to Blueprint for Armageddon VI now (final part). Still enjoying overall -- he's bad on some points (his take on Marx was painfully simplistic) but he's great at conveying what war is like from the ground and at covering a lot of different ground and making the whole war seem like a moving worldwide puzzle, also at conveying a sense of the horrors of battle, and the changes in technology and military organization and strategy.
I would def do another Carlin series when finished, which one should I pick next?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 04:58 (four years ago) link
his best imo is the series about the Mongols
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link
i wish people would start recommending some good Political/History podcasts on this thread ! (jokes obv!)
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
I've really taken to the revolutions podcast, the episode about Bakunin is excellent.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
yeah same, I'm totally addicted.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
I need to exercise more listening discipline, because I've been quite random in the order of listening to the eps.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:13 (four years ago) link
I'm gonna second Wrath of the Khans for Hardcore History. It's definitely the best series he's done, though part of that might be me just not knowing a whole lot about that history beforehand.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
just started "Know Your Enemy" -- two chill very smart lefties (one a former conservative intellectual-in-training) discuss the history and provide a sort of field guide to movement conservatism. digging it so far.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
Listened to the first few Revolutions eps on the Russian Revolution. Good counterpart to the WWI series in a way, and nice to listen to something a little headier than Hardcore History. I didn't find any of it hard to understand except for the fact that he covers so much ground so quickly that I frequently had to hit the 15 secs back button. He'd make a good intro course lecturer but it can be hard to follow while doing something else like driving, which is when I'm usually listening.
Carlin also has a real talent for imagery and story that I don't think Duncan quite has to the same extent. But Duncan's style is much better for something like trying to explain the foundations of Marxist thought, which I don't think Carlin could even do, let alone succinctly.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
And I bet you've never had a closer shave since you started using Harry's razors, eh man alive?
― calzino, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, December 19, 2019 12:19 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i listened to a few episodes of hardcore history before calling it a day but in one of them he touches upon the frankfurt school and it was like the scene in the 40 year old virgin with steve carrell talking about boobs
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
lool, didn't catch that one but sounds very otm of his style!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
Started this last week and just got to the Bakunin one
I'm a little wary of this type of material as its rarely done well but I may give this one a shot too
― anvil, Sunday, 25 October 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
That one started out well but has gotten a bit scattered now that they mostly focus on whatever guest they have on—Ross Douthat for instance.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 25 October 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
^agreed. but I still really enjoy it.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 25 October 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
it’s the only ep i’ve listened to but Marshall Steinbaum ep of know yr enemy goes extremely deep into intellectual history of chicago econ
― flopson, Sunday, 25 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
ketchup re-posting from the brainworms thread:
i'm up to the massacre of champ de mars in the mike duncan revolutions pod (since it's mentioned just upthread for some reason)i think it's p good but i have to make some kind of comment and/or protest re duncan's french pronunciation, which is in my opinion PECULIAR lol― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:08 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkthe radical parisian district of cor-dell-YEE!― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:15 (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think it's p good but i have to make some kind of comment and/or protest re duncan's french pronunciation, which is in my opinion PECULIAR lol
― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:08 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the radical parisian district of cor-dell-YEE!
― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:15 (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
in parallel i'm reading a place of greater safety: a book which loves robespierre much more than duncan seems to
― mark s, Monday, 27 September 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
he's best when he just sticks to a detailed narrative history which is what he's good at and doesn't bring in any "as an American" type content, he did that in one of English revolution eps + it was cringe.
― calzino, Monday, 27 September 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
actually it was an American Revolution ep he did that in
― calzino, Monday, 27 September 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
do people like Blowback? The Iraq material was a little too familiar for me but I'm really enjoying the 2nd season about the Cuban revolution
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 06:20 (two years ago) link
I thought Blowback was great. The episodes on the missile crisis were riveting.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 06:42 (two years ago) link
Looking for politics more than history (although I welcome recommendations for both). I love Know Your Enemy and am almost all caught up on it, what else should I listen to for thoughtful/well-read lefty political takes? Can be historical, for that matter, but especially interested in people doing good things in talking about contemporary Western politics. Not opposed to current events type shows, but something more substantive than drive-by punditry.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
“Will Be Wild” about the Jan 6th insurrection was really good?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
OK! My first reaction is "do I need to hear more about Jan. 6," but then I just finished listening to two hours on Whittaker Chambers so I shouldn't rule anything out.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:58 (one year ago) link
i had zero interest going in before it was recommended to me & was impressed by how engaging it was
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 March 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link