Podcasts

20 episodes in and I am so blown away by I Am In Eskew that I am actually tempted to audition for their forthcoming follow-up series The Silt Verses.

Turner Classic Movies has a new podcast
Hosted by Ben Manciewicz

https://theplotthickens.tcm.com

Season 1 is about Peter Bogdanovich

Seems like it could be pretty good!! Ep1 is already up

^^ This is great! I’m thinking this is gonna be the year of peter bogdanovich as karina longworth has hinted that she will be talking about him in her new season of ymrt. Speaking of karina longworh, she has a corona movie club with the guy who does the memory palace: called “it’s the pictures that got small” that is also good.

Updating that post to note that Karina's will be about Polly Platt, so parallel but with its own focus.

Meantime, Episode 14 of By-The-Bywater is up!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/14

I just saw that podcast where a guy tries to convince people that 2016 was the greatest year for music

A new By-the-Bywater? Why yes.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/15

has anyone ever done a series specifically about cop shows / depictions of cops on teevee? it's an idea I've been kicking around

you could call it 'The Sipowicz Report'

There is this show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/headlong-running-from-cops/id1459118695

ah, a miniseries. so not too well trod ground.

Public link for that, if anyone wants it: https://www.topic.com/runningfromcops

Anybody got any favorite kids' podcasts? I haven't found many good ones.

Radiolab just released a collection of their episodes that are kid-friendly

has anyone ever done a series specifically about cop shows / depictions of cops on teevee? it's an idea I've been kicking around

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, June 19, 2020 10:06 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

you could call it 'The Sipowicz Report'

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, June 19, 2020 10:13 AM (one week ago)

"The Loose Canon"

haha. nice.

Unctious i will check that out. actually the first episode of Radiolab I ever heard was this one: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/91929-helicopter-boy

about a kid who listens to Radiolab.

Andrew Loog Oldham is back after more than a year with another "Sounds and Vision" episode, a talk with May Pang. This pod always has interesting discussions (not interviews but friendly discussions).

would I get sued for calling a podcast about Kaczynski "ted talk"?

even if you did it would be worth it

Ted Talk: Cabin Fever

Meantime, our latest! On the Lord of the Rings musical!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/16

Thought I would try listening to ALAB (All Lawyers Are Bastards), starting with the episode about the fan fiction Omegaverse. It starts off with three gravel voiced american men laughing about masturbating to wolf porn. This is why I hate podcasts.

History fangirl which seems to have abruptly ended a couple of years ago unless it morphed into Ancient History fangirl.
But has some very interesting episodes.
One particular on Black Pioneers which was an area I had no knowledge of before hearing. Had hoped there might be some but most history seems to be everyone of colour was a slave up to a certain point and only around in that capacity. This shows freemen taking off for themselves.
Often having to deal with consequences of having NO legal support, representation in court etc and even when successful and making money subject to having their property shot up set on fire etc etc Greenwood wasn't the only point of extreme injustice.

The presenter also did an episode on the Green Book the book Black travellers relied on while travelling in the early 20th century under segregation. Showing where people could eat, use the toilet, sleep and so on. All basic necessities that were denied under Jim Crow.

Oddly same presenter also did a sympathetic episode on the writer of Gone With The Wind which might seem a tad contraries since those 2 I mention were done pretty well thought some white privilege might show through. Would be good to get a more black perspective on them though. But really liked those 2.

Tried Hardcore History again, still hate it

I tapped out on HH some time ago. I was on the fence with Carlin's delivery but hung with it until I got wind of some really unreflective right-wing shit he came out with on his 'current events' podcast.

an amateur conflict historian turned out to have right-wing views??

his current events stuff was pretty reliably centrist

like he basically ended the show because he thought his ideas about grassroots centrist populism had been hijacked and perverted by Trump

I’ve listened to the first 4 eps of the new podcast about Traci Lords, “Once Upon a Time in the Valley”

Rialto Report’s Ashley West is a cocreator so they have tons of interviews w all of the players from the era, which is a selling point

Tonally it’s a bit too arch & knowing which I don’t like - just tell the fking story without all the playful gimmickry.

And... I will be interested to see where this goes bc so far it feels like it’s grinding the porn industry’s ax about Traci for them. Or maybe West has his own beef with her? Taking apart her autobiography line by line def reveals something about the creators but I am not sure what it is yet.

But the porn industry is such a closed circle it’s like ok so they’re all pissed at her and West or whoever wants to tell the truth about Lords and how she was in on it from the off
ok
fine

but the rest of the world is coming into this story knowing she was underage. She is viewed as a child. So it just comes off as bad faith to be doing this indepth takedown of how in control & into it she was when she’s 15/16!

I don’t quite see how it’s going to go over when all is said and done, if they really are trying make the porn industry’s argument on their behalf.

But maybe I am getting ahead of myself.
It’s still a good listen but I am holding my breath a little to see where it all goes.

oh - the other cocreator & host is Lili Anolik, contributing editor for Vanity Fair

haven't heard but saw an interview with Anolik saying "it's 12 episodes long, don't assume our intent yet!"

yeah I am def hoping this takes me on a journey

one highlight for sure is that the interviews are legit great, West always gets good conversation from his subjects

I read an interview with one of the hosts and she talked about how bitter the old timers still were.

If Traci Lords at (barely) 18 was smart enough to film one movie she owned then narc on the entire industry to make her property more valuable... fuckin' kudos.

Just a light chat about Tolkien and imperialism in our newest!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/17

Will listen!

i'm all-in on Once Upon A Time In The Valley

god it's so trashy

'Here's where the story GETS HARD. But will it be TOO MUCH for Traci to SWALLOW? Find out next week' etc

But I've always enjoyed hearing the story of a subculture told from the inside and it's doing a very good job of it.. And frankly, imagining an NPR-style telling of this story? I prefer the trashy version.

xp Ooh, my kind of topic. I've been forgetting to tune in. I listened to everything up to Tom Bombadil, which was apparently 9 episodes ago.

WELL. Think of it this way, there's a lot more to enjoy! (We especially loved doing last month's episode about the musical adaptation of LOTR.)

A new By-the-Bywater? It must be true! It's all ents all the time this time.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/18

https://lydianspin.libsyn.com/

Did not know that Lydia Lunch had a pod

Secret History of Hollywood’s Cary Grant series has started - am halfway through Part 1 and completely enthralled.

The host, Adam Roche, does SUCH an incredible job with the research & production, and the storytelling is fantastic. Rather similar to an audiobook in style & approach.

But overall the podcast itself def at the top of my alltime favorites. His James Cagney/Warner Bros series, and the Universal Monsters series were both excellent & full of rich detail. Havent listened to the Val Lewton series tho I probably should give it a go.

*downloads ep*

12 hrs, 40 mins, 44 sec runtime

man these better be weekly

lol

yeah they are HUGE

Been listening through Uncivil which is a black perspective on the Civil War and it's aftermath.
A couple of years old but very good.

Media - Eval
One on the medieval world in film and other media.
It reviews the film/tv show then points out historical inaccuracy. They then tell you what they would do with the premise. Who they would cast and change the plot to make more historical sense.
I quite enjoy it.
Just a little surprised by how late they go. They've covered Dumas historical stuff like 3 Musketeers and Man In The Iron Mask. Does medieval go up to 17th century?
Good though.

Lexicon Valley I've gone back to the beginning with while trying to keep up to date with new ones.
Interesting overview of history of dialects and vocabulary incorporating show tunes into the format.

History of the English language
Slowly working through this too.

I also discovered webinars over the summer which takes up some of the time I was listening to podcasts in.
Don't work as well on phone as sound source while I'm mobile though. Tend to have visual content etc.

Secret History Of Hollywood is great and Adam is one of the nicest people I've ever met, just a lovely guy.

finding podcasts is getting more and more difficult--I mostly pick up new shows from recommendations here and other places, but if I try to seek out interesting stuff on podcast platforms it's all clogged with I Heart Radio and Wondery shows, or interview casts with celebs, or tech podcasts

it's what the people want

yeah, the good news is there's a podcast for every conceivable interest at this point, so I'd let those guide you instead of exploring podcast platforms themselves

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-adventure-podcast/id1446862825

^^ have been digging this one recently (not to be confused with an American show of the same name). It can really take one's mind away from the nonsense of life these days. it supports Daniel's point that there's now a show for every possible interest.

Wow, this is some news here
Main subject of the “Caliphate” podcast allegedy made all that Isis executioner stuff up

This is stunning news. Will the @nytimes retract Caliphate given that one of its main subjects has been arrested for making up the story? https://t.co/dlbHVK2y3Q

— Laila Al-Arian (@LailaAlarian) September 25, 2020

They danced around whether he was full of shit towards the end of the podcast and were like “I guess we’ll never know”

Which is not a great device at the best of times but even more so now that you’ve devoted a whole series to a liar