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

Nah, fatal scheduling issues. Blame children

That’ll happen

Thanks for the Afropop Worldwide recommendation!

That Record Got Me High
2 guys in Florida discussing a somewhat eclectic bunch of records.

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These guys are great.

I am the enthusiastically stammering/bumbling guest on the most recent episode

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Haven’t listened to your episode yet, Hadrian. Will pass harsh judgment in the near future.

And our sixth episode is live!

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

"they ramble so much & never stop to give the music a chance to say its piece."

I actually think they do a pretty good job keeping the rambling to a minimum, but agree about the music. I guess you can just pause and listen to the songs on spotify if you need to tho. Ive been loving this show recently - the level of geekery, and music theory, is just where I like it.

I was specifically beefing about the Wrong episode — I quite enjoyed the Reckoning one, everyone knew when to pause and bask in the jangle.

Except Interrupty McInterruptison still a sore spot.

And now I’m hooked on TRGMH. The Wrong episode was terrible, otherwise a great podcast. I’d like it if they tightened up the editing & spotlighted more of the music, esp when they point out a record’s great moments.

New Dear Joan & Jericha episodes are up!

it's just as good too imo

Our seventh episode is live!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/7

Just managed to make it 12mins into a This Album Got Me High episode and jesus it's awful. I hate the podcasts where it's just random people bullshitting for 10mins like we are interested in their friendly banter. This is my primary issue with podcasts. I don't like the nonsense at the start where they're just shooting the shit. Get to the fucking details immediately. I'm sure i'm alone in this because it seems nearly every podcast someone recommends requires me thinking the inside jokes of the hosts and their witty banter is fucking hilarious. I don't. I won't. I'm on some Dragnet shit. Just the facts ma'am.

podcasts need a netflix style "skip intro" button imo

This is my primary issue with podcasts. I don't like the nonsense at the start where they're just shooting the shit. Get to the fucking details immediately

This is my primary issue with television shows. I don’t like the nonsense at the start where they’re just sitting around a curved table discussing celebrity gossip of the day. Just get to the fucking dead bodies and clues immediately.

Speaking as a fan of banter oh wait. Our episodes have maybe a minute or two of that at the start and separately at the end, because why not, but otherwise we try to talk about what we're there for.

podcasts are just having friends simulators for some people so banter is popular. i mean there's lots of popular podcasts which are literally just banter

Ha I was just listening to a recent That Record Got Me High a couple days a go and thought to myself how, by podcast standards, on-topic those guys tend to stay during the intro section. Lowered expectations, I guess.

Clearly my position is the minority opinion. I'm listening to Heavyweight right now, and it does not suffer from the pointless banter, though it does have some back and forth before each episode gets to the subject.

xp, maybe I should push through minute 12. It was the REM Reckoning episode. On a related note, I can't get through a single R U Talking About REM episode. Those guys are the worst. Maybe someone will edit the jokes and banter out and just keep the information.

any suggestions for history podcasts? have been working my way through Mike Duncan's excellent Revolutions podcast, similar shows would be appreciated. also we are coming up on our 50th episode of the 78Man Presents show, never imagined we'd get anywhere near this many!

ha ha I was going to bring up RU Talking REM as a podcast that takes banter to its furthest limit

xpost - have you done Mike’s history of rome?

xxpost Two I've enjoyed since they both started have been Tides of History (and its predecessor The Fall of Rome) and The Age of Napoleon.

Wittenberg to Westphalia, Literature and History, Inward Empire, The Human Circus, The Constant, When Diplomacy Fails are good

Clearly my position is the minority opinion.

Nope. The 'shooting the shit inside jokes harhar amirite fellers' intros to lots of podcasts put me off, too. (and the laughter, sooo much laughter that it just so off-putting).

99% of the people are a drag to listen to. This was the case before podcasts arrived, and has not changed.

yes listened to History of Rome last summer, really excellent stuff! I also read his book The Storm Before The Storm which is good but is lacking the jokes/wit. It probably wouldn't have worked very well on the page so I can understand why he left that stuff out, but it makes the book more dry as a result.
thanks Ned, Tides of History/Fall of Rome looks like exactly the sort of thing I am looking for.

just random people bullshitting for 10mins like we are interested in their friendly banter

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random guy says ouch

Fwiw I'd bullshit for 10mins with u Hadrian

(I just wouldn't want to record/cast it)

Age of Napoleon is swell, similar vibe to Revolutions imo

LBI I am free most evenings but wearing a wire

thanks Ned, Tides of History/Fall of Rome looks like exactly the sort of thing I am looking for.

The original Fall of Rome series was just him and it's a classic 'dude with a mic' approach, some flubbed bits in the edit, etc. But Wyman knows his stuff and it built a following -- he had a Deadspin series (of all things) going at the time, I think through the Concourse specifically -- and it got smoother as it went, then it transformed into Tides and he started working with a production team. He does pretty good interviews as well; a number of recent episodes are just that, talking with a variety of academics and writers.

Age of Napoleon is swell, similar vibe to Revolutions imo

I'll have to keep that in mind! But yeah, it's been an absolutely essential example of living up to the title -- while Bonaparte is the focus, he did an extensive job in scene-setting even before introducing him, and all the various side divergences and explorations have been amazing. Very glad I was all in from the first episode.

LBI I am free most evenings but wearing a wire

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Hot! 555-999-LBI *winks*

I like Tides Of History but it has the Wondery problem of ad overload

A lot of podcasts do. I just mentally tune out.

I can't get through a single R U Talking About REM episode. Those guys are the worst. Maybe someone will edit the jokes and banter out and just keep the information.

The guitarist’s name is Peter Dollar Bill, and the band once appeared on Party Of Five. There, you now have 100% of the informational content.

the singer is michael stipend

dammit I guess I’d better relisten to them all to catch important details I’ve forgotten

They also answered how it feels when you're in REM

Feels good!

My friend reco’d the RU-REM2 podcast & I listened to about 10 minutes ... then I tried to skip the bullshit and banter & ffwd myself to the good bits ... and I never found the good bits.

Did you listen to one with a guest on? You'd get to find out when they first heard of R.E.M.

OooooooooooooooOOOOoooh! Hold me back!

I listened to a comedy podcast and was mad that it wasnt an informative podcast about music

I’ve been listening to Hollywood Handbook for years and have not heard one piece of actionable advice!

I’d love to hear Scott and Scott do a Radiohead podcast where they never get around to discussing the band and then read the angry iTunes reviews from fans and ilxors

where Colin is "Jonny Greenwood's brother" and Jonny is "Colin Greenwood's brother"? I would be into this.

Singer is Tom Radiohead

R U talking Radiohead in the vicinity of my head?

I'm pretty sure at one point they briefly discuss what other bands they could discuss after they are done and the one other band they found that they were both really into at one point was radiohead, so they will probably do that, just probably with an even worse title.

"Radio 'Head, I've got two smokies on my back door and I'm comin in hot"