Podcasts

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.

I can’t remember who recommended it, but We’re Not So Different (medieval history) is SO GREAT. Just friendly, incredibly knowledgable nerds discussing humeral theory, peasants, sex etc and crucially, not being annoying about it!

That said it is a little unbalanced.. I would like the guy to engage a little more.. but at any rate a great example of the “information straight into my veins” genre

Its one ive listened to for a while so i may have recommended it. Female presenter is doing stuff with History Hit too. & that has a numberof good shows on. Do love Kate Lister's Betwixt The Sheets too. I think shes appeared on that too.

The Ancients and Not Just The Tudors both have great episodes too

& I just listened to Angela Saini guesting on Patented talking about the Patrarchy.

Two great podcasts about made-for-TV movies are back after hiatuses with new episodes: Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie - which kicked off its new cycle with a two-part episode looking at the 1976 film The Boy in the Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta - and Made for TV Mayhem Show with Amanda Reyes. Both highly entertaining.

ooh that medieval one sounds interesting, i will give that one a go

It was female presenter on Were not So Different that referred to The Guardian as TERF central which I don't think I'd heard before. May give her politics which is a large part of the perspective.

I can't remember either presenter's name offhand but I have listened to pretty much all of the show. Picked up on it a couple of years ago and have gone backwards as well as forwards . Leftist perspective on medieval and slightlyu later history . & it's all been pretty great.

I really like Media Eval too the one looking at medieval set films etc from a historical perspective . It's normally been pretty great though I don't really agree with the Little Mermaid with them. The main presenter has been busy with work so the show's been on leave for the alst few months hope it's coming back soon.

Also Let's Talk About Myths , Baby where a Canadian feminist looks back at mainly Greek legends which ahs been fascinating but I've fallen way out of sync with it over lasty couple of years after having largely caught up with it before that.

Got to give a big shout out for Deep Foucs on various jazz and improvised music. Playing back largely unheard tracks by a featured artist with commentary by a guest with some connection to the artist. I'm just listening to the 1st of a set of 3 on Wes Montgomery. I need to hear the one on Larry Young too.

Think I may have mentioned the show when i first found it a few months back but do keep hearing new performances on it.

Ok I take it back about We’re Not So Different. The woman is really grating on me. She’s a know-it-all, which is fine, because that’s the point of the podcast. But I wish she would just relay the information without all the “it be like that” Twitter-speak gumph, and I wish she weren’t so utterly pleased with herself

I mean, whatever. She’s great. She’s fine. She knows a ton. And that’s what I’m after. I can even get over the “, right?” thing.

i find she whips through details a bit fast for me at times

Eleanor's great. I even learnt her name now.
Also found out that I had a load of early episodes I still hadn't heard. Don't think I have listened to the Medieval Asia series or things before that. Did come in during the Historical materialism series and i think went back over the earlier stuff on Food. I thought i had gone back further but now still have a load I haven't heard. Listened to the Introduction episode a couple of days ago.

She introduces herself as an expert on the 14th century, the best century. I think I have enjoyed her when I've heard her.
Wouldn't mind catching some of her lectures.

Drapetomaniax a retelling of black US history as though it was dealing with current media. I just heard teh first episode and thought it quite fun. That was talking about Forest Joe a maroon outlaw.
I think each episode has guests in historic roles etc. Think I will listen to a few more of these.

just listened to the fifth season of leon neyfakh’s fiasco, a history of the aids crisis. i can’t recommend it highly enough. not usually a podcast guy but it really hooked me in, finished it in a day

yeah it was a+
moving & infuriating
the blood bank stuff was eyeopening, i only knew a little bit about that before

i gasped when the former member of act up's treatment action group were trying to block the accelerated release of the protease inhibitor triple cocktail. really interesting on the sociology of activism/science/medical ethics. i was largely ignorant of this history so a lot of it was major twists. fav episode probably the bath houses one tho

veg is thereany season you would recommend listening to next? should i start with slow burn?

The Iran Contra season of Fiasco is really good. Slow Burn is great too though, you really cant go wrong with either

I will second Slow Burn -- although I stick to the seasons rather than the "decoder" eps. the season about Clarence Thomas told me everything I didn't know about that guy and explained everything

Mailchimp is apparently refusing to collaborate with, or even advertise on, podcasts that employ unionized staff (even though they are denying it)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled

Sign a letter to Inuit (who owns Mailchimp) here:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-intuit-mailchimp-no-monkey-business-quit-union-busting

Intuit, though.

ha whoops

Intuit are the people who own TurboTax right? fuck that company forever. they absolutely don't give a shit about that letter though

yep they are evil

A good friend of mine worked for Mailchimp for a while, they like to cosplay as a "progressive" company but they will cut you without hesitation.

I'm pretty certain that I heard of the Castro podcast app here on ilx, but can't find the thread where it was mentioned. Anyway, it's done; they are out of business and their domain seems to be unregistered. Does anybody have a good podcast app to recommend that has similar features?

i dont know of any others that sideload so answer may be no?

i have used Overcast for years. it gives me no problems & is v good to use.

I use Podcast Addict and it's fine.

There is no good replacement if you’re used to Castro’s inbox/queue system. I was able to sort of mimic it in Pocketcasts using filters, but it’s not the same.

I discovered Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks over winter break and have been ear-hoovering up as many episodes as I can. Led by a Yellowstone wildlife biologist who specializes in bears, it goes into detail about dangerous wild animal encounters, while providing a respectful context for why these things occur, as well as a slew of biological and behavioral facts about the animals. Warning that it can get sad at times, because by the very nature of the stories they're engaging with, the humans and animals don't always survive. It's co-hosted by the biologist's brother, who provides a dorky kind of comic relief, and a mutual friend of theirs. The brother's voice reminds me a lot of Matt Stone's character from Cannibal: The Musical, but he's more of an affable dork than an annoying one. Highly recommend.

new season of Blindspot is covering lesser-known stories & people from the early days of the AIDS Crisis & it is so good
This season hosted by Kai Wright of WNYC

3 episodes out so far, second episode on the Harlem Hospital Pediatric Ward is quietly incredible

Similarites might be drawn to the Slow Burn season on AIDS but this is a much much deeper dive, much more focused on marginalized groups whose stories were less likely to be told