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I've downloaded that, I'll listen on the way to work tomorrow.

Ed (dali), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Is a podcast like an mp3 mix or something? I haven't been following this.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Basically it's a radio show or mix distributed on mp3. I thought it was a bit of a daft name really, but it's become very popular and not just for music, there seems to be some speech out there too.

Ed (dali), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Podcasts can be pretty much anything, from straightforward music to talk to art to, well, wherever you want to go with it. Try http://www.ipodder.org or http://www.podcastalley.com for more. Not strictly for ipods or the like, but they're darn convenient that way.

Guymauve (Guymauve), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Another couple good places to find podcasts are at PocastHost.com, or PodcastAlley.com. PodcastAlley uses a "rating system", and PodcastHost has a searchable database and aggregated text, right on the site.

Tom Simpson, Monday, 4 April 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Those last three posts are like a dialectic at work, or something.

Guymauve (Guymauve), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i couldn't figure out how to work yours, guy!

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

do i need a different kind of newsreader?

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/ween.jpg

Amon (eman), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Grab iPodderX Lite. It'll just grab the feed when you subscribe. I'm still in the trial (and error) stage with it, but it seems to work for people. Word Press is sometimes a bit fiddly with these things (and I'm using a non-WP template which makes XML a problem to read sometimes). A new one up Sunday.

Guymauve (Guymauve), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

This actually looks like it would be kind of fun to do, as my friends are permanently in need of Taste Correction and this would allow me to save somewhat on CDRs. But isn't bandwidth kind of prohibitively expensive? I mean, you're basically serving a gigantic MP3, right?

James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

our club is doing podcasts soon, probably me. I'll post here when we do our first one.

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

nice!!

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
update, ronan?

c/n (Cozen), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.americanheartbreak.com/movabletype/

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.

mei (mei), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i can't follow the rapid-fire german enough to understand like, any single entire sentence, but annik rubens' podcast show sounds really entertaining.

Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I've now made 14 podcasts, ranging from 30 minutes to an hour, in locations from Macau and Japan to Lisbon, Edinburgh and New York. Basically, everywhere I go (and I'm lucky enough to travel a lot) I mumble into an old Fujifilm F601 and make a new radio programme documenting the sounds and atmospheres of where I am.

Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i know a german or two who do not look like otto dix paintings, momus

fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link

anyway, podcasts with a lower case p is good but rarely updated

fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Is this seriously taking off? Do people listen to these or just make them?

TOMBOT, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

http://foxinthecity.libsyn.com/

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.

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...
Revive!

Anybody find anything interesting_

Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

No. Podcasting is one of the most disappointing memes of the decade, along with "war chalking"

I can't go a single day without someone saying "podcasting" but I can't find a single podcast worth listening to.

mikef (mfleming), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

there are plenty of excellent podcasts, but im having a hard time finding good non-music programs. the two im subscribed to havent been updated in months

fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Exactly. Of the six I posted above, I think only three are still being updated. A lot of them seem to give up once they realise it's not going to make them the next John Peel.

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link

are there any old john peel broadcasts available as podcasts? i would love to hear some of those

gem (trisk), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I just got my husband set up with this stuff--got him a little flash-based mp3 player he can take to the gym after he syncs up his shows. I put ipodder on his computer and subscribed him to Al Franken's show on Air America and NPR's On The Media--he's a big talk radio fan. So I can't really speak to any music stuff, haven't played around with it enough.

teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

This one by Digiki has been getting some press recently, despite only having one installment so far: http://www.maudevintage.com/castellane/digiki/polypunk/polyfeed.xml ( actual file is http://www.maudevintage.com/castellane/digiki/polypunk/POLYPUNK001.mp3 )

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.

channing, Friday, 5 August 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

no links cuz i got all my stuff off iTunes

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

Lukas (lukas), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
so what do i need to do a podcast?

my friend and i have been trying to get a radio show for ages but it's not working out

Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

do it do it do it

100% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

(sorry if that was too technical for you)

100% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

it's going to be called THE JUBILEE JOHNNY AND MORNINGSTAR MANDEE show - its going to be like, FOR KIDS

Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

so what do i need to do a podcast?

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.

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

dont' i need like a microphone or anyything??

haha

Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Alldisco
at Capone's, Brooklyn, New York

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

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I wouldn't have a clue about decent microphones. Anybody?

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

So what makes for a good podcast? And when would you listen to it? I've been tempted to do one, just to see how it would work, but I have no idea what it is that makes people download these things. And I believe that Tombot might have a point up there, that more people are probably producing these things than listening to them.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm, I guess anything that makes audio compelling for an extended period of time: a charismatic personality, a narrative, a bunch of good songs, etc.

Listen to them... in the car? On the subway? It's basically surrogate radio for an iPod. Not so exciting, but still useful.

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

If you like sermons, there are many churches that put out their weekly sunday sermons. At the itunes store just scroll through the list of religious ones. I occasionally listen to Ref. Pres. Theological Seminary or Tenth Presbyterian Church.

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."

A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 1 October 2005 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

ten months pass...
any arty film- or music-related podcasts?

how about good podcasts in french???

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 12 August 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

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.

Uptoeleven, Monday, 20 August 2007 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Is Tom Ravenscroft's Channel 4 one still going?

Mark G, Monday, 20 August 2007 10:48 (sixteen years ago) link

fuck! that was good, that. and i've forgotten all about it. arse.

grimly fiendish, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link

The Sound of Young America
Jordan, Jesse Go!
Never Not Funny

jeff, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link

R U Sirius has a show with interesting guests sometimes

zappi, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link

i like radio lab a lot. very sound rich, but doesn't come out very often (probably b/c the quality is so good).

sweet tater, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Will M., Monday, 20 August 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost HA! I had just come here to say Radio Lab! We are of one mind.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

kenan, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Recently enjoyed “Scamanda”

My only quibble is that I found the timeline somewhat confusing. But otherwise pretty compelling/crazy

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:53 (nine months ago) link

xp I know but I want to listen to a podcast

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 1 July 2023 21:09 (nine months ago) link

spending this weekend listening to “Floodlines” a 2020 series from the Atlantic about Hurricane Katrina.

not sure how i missed it originally but wow. (Won the 2021 Peabody so obv I am v late to the party lol) it’s really incisive, mostly interviews w survivors and folks who were there in the thick of it, locals, reporters, officials. but with a really sensitive core that really honors New Orleans itself as a place. Vann Newkirk is a great host too.

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 July 2023 22:00 (nine months ago) link

I have been mainlining 2500 DelMonte Street - The Oral History of Tower Records. Capital-R Rockist and heavy on inside baseball talk and can often stray into a a therapeutic debriefs - especially when the guests talk about the end of the company. You could skip much of that, unless you want to know more about how 21st Century predatory capitalism works.

OTOH, the stories are totally insane. For starters, look for any episodes about the Sunset Blvd. store if you want to know more about situations like: Prince showing up and wanting to play a midnight show, Brian Wilson opening his bathrobe and peeing all over someone's Mustang convertible, Keith Moon really really wanting to drive the double-decker bus that's parked at the back of the lot. Don Rickles shows up to buy albums. So does Sinatra. So does the Shah of Iran. Iggy Pop is trying to make a collect call but the operator doesn't believe the name so Iggy is shouting "P-O-P POP"

Tower was the only record store I ever wanted to work at - all through the 1980s the El Toro store was my main hangout. An unimaginable number of times when is seemed that the best decision in life was to grab a carne asada burrito at Carmels at the other side of the parking lot and then walk it off inside Tower. I can detail, at length, my bike there from Laguna to get a copy of Scary Monsters when it went on sale. The hilarious pileup of fans when Pink Floyd's A Delicate Sound Of Thunder and Rush's Hold Your Fire were released on the same day. I saw the Dream Syndicate there in 1982. I wish I had video of the T.S.O.L. gig that was shut down by the cops. The 10pm to midnight crew played the best albums: The Dreaming, Avalon, Head Over Heels, A Kiss In The Dreamhouse, Big Science onandonandonandon. All of them I first heard on that monster 300W stereo system on demo from Pacific Stereo who conveniently just happened to be next door.

That line that folks use: we didn't know just how great it was? Good fucking grief...

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 02:52 (nine months ago) link

meant to say A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, but 80s stadium Floyd can be bleary and interchangeable.

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 02:58 (nine months ago) link

three weeks pass...

Serial/NYT’s new limited series The Rerievals is v harrowing, also really good

(trigger warning)

It’s about what happened to roughly 200 women patients at the Yale Fertility Clinic during what would normally be routine egg retrievals - a nurse (a fentanyl addict) **swapped out their fentanyl for saline** (and skimmed the fentanyl for herself) so these women experienced excruciating pain during and after their procedure

nightmare

it’s about the legal case/s that ensued, but also how doctors & healthcare system is so bad at listening to women in pain, and how women self edit their own painful experiences to ~minimize~ that pain

anyway it’s a tough listen but well worth it if you are inclined

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 August 2023 19:57 (eight months ago) link

Damn that sounds horrifying

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 00:41 (eight months ago) link

it really is!

my sister in law is going through ivf and i know how stressful the retrieval was for her, so just thinking about these women dealing with all of ~that~ plus this insane, unimaginable pain and having to maybe address followup appointments etc like it’s just unreal

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 00:47 (eight months ago) link

I heard the first episode when it was on This American Life and wanted to hear the rest, but not right away. So thanks for the reminder.

jaymc, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:51 (eight months ago) link

Is there a good podcast that is just people being interviewed about their life stories?

I listen to a meditation podcast and I realized that's 60% of what I enjoy about it, the interviewer will ask them questions about their life - often one question will get the interviewee talking for twenty minutes or more, no interruptions, no editing (that I'm aware of.)

Rick Rubin’s Tetragramatron podcast is kinda this - long form subject interview & he’s a very “get out of the way” interviewer so it’s not “chatty”. I’ve only cherry picked a couple of episodes based on the guests though.

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 August 2023 19:44 (seven months ago) link

I listen to loads of podcasts but nothing readily springs to mind, lukas. But that meditation podcast sounds interesting - what's it called?

(picnic, lightning) very very frightening (Chinaski), Monday, 28 August 2023 12:47 (seven months ago) link

The people interviewed are not normal by any means, but Love and Radio is all life story interviews with 95% of the interviewee’s questions removed + sound design added.

Michael F Gill, Monday, 28 August 2023 21:39 (seven months ago) link

Chinaski, it's called Guru Viking, here's an episode I like (although I listen to the podcast rather than watching the YT versions): https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=QeInQkKyGYc

The quality of interviewees varies wildly, as you'd expect. I only know one of them who got caught up in a sex scandal but I'm sure that number will grow over time, given the population he's drawing from (dharma teachers usually.)

Other good ones, not all in the life story vein:

https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=gX0UtTH_rzY
https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=3UFVYAhLMps

Deconstructing Yourself is a similar podcast, fewer and shorter episodes but more consistently high-quality guests.

what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Monday, 28 August 2023 22:00 (seven months ago) link

Blowback is back

papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 01:44 (seven months ago) link

Cheers lukas, both look really interesting.
On a similar note, Sharon Salzberg's Metta Hour is good. I really liked the interview with Mark Epstein: https://art19.com/shows/metta-hour-with-sharon-salzberg/episodes/8f354ef2-af54-4a09-8dcc-9b1ba6ed040a

(picnic, lightning) very very frightening (Chinaski), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:24 (seven months ago) link

It looks like Tom Smith has rebranded a load of episodes of his podcast Serious Enquiries Only into the early episodes of a new series called
Where There's Woke which is going to be an ongoing series looking at absurd Righy Wing and Middle Left scares based on the idea of wokeness.
Serious Enquiries Only will continue as a series of interviews with scientists and other experts. He's just been looking at some sci fi tropes with an Astrophysicist which has been pretty interesting.
I think I've just wound up relistening to a show I heard as a Serious Enquiries oNly shortly after he separated from his old podcast co-host after a scandal. He had to reclaim this show when teh female co-host distanced herself from him in the wake of his Opening Arguments co-host being separated from I think he is still using the podcast name. Thankfully spotify have stopped upping that podcast to me. That podcast had been on Cleanup on Aisle 45 which is now cohosted with Peter Strzok and AG from Daily Beans/Mueller She Wrote.

Stevo, Saturday, 9 September 2023 12:40 (seven months ago) link

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!

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 10 September 2023 12:18 (seven months ago) link

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

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 10 September 2023 12:57 (seven months ago) link

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.

Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:05 (seven months ago) link

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.

Josefa, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:47 (seven months ago) link

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

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 September 2023 15:02 (seven months ago) link

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.

Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:21 (seven months ago) link

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.

Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:53 (seven months ago) link

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.

Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:54 (seven months ago) link

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

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:26 (seven months ago) link

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.

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:41 (seven months ago) link

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

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:36 (seven months ago) link

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.

Stevo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:49 (seven months ago) link

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.

Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:36 (seven months ago) link

one month passes...

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

flopson, Sunday, 12 November 2023 19:25 (five months ago) link

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

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 November 2023 20:01 (five months ago) link

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?

flopson, Monday, 13 November 2023 08:02 (five months ago) link

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

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:58 (five months ago) link

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

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 13 November 2023 16:02 (five months ago) link

one month passes...

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

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 December 2023 12:31 (four months ago) link

Intuit, though.

peace, man, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:18 (four months ago) link

ha whoops

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 December 2023 15:53 (four months ago) link

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

budo jeru, Friday, 15 December 2023 16:59 (four months ago) link

yep they are evil

rob, Friday, 15 December 2023 17:01 (four months ago) link

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.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 December 2023 21:43 (four months ago) link

three weeks pass...

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?

beard papa, Saturday, 6 January 2024 21:33 (three months ago) link

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.

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 January 2024 22:39 (three months ago) link

I use Podcast Addict and it's fine.

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 6 January 2024 23:08 (three months ago) link

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.

Jeff, Saturday, 6 January 2024 23:29 (three months ago) link

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.

peace, man, Monday, 8 January 2024 12:37 (three months ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 02:28 (two months ago) link


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