Podcasts

Just subscribed to Katie Halper's show, incidentally.

What brings you to _discontinue_ listening to a show?

For me, it's too many eps of the hosts being too dumb, or too snide/demoralizing/smug/NPR-nihilist-like if it's a political show. Or I'm behind too many eps and have no drive whatsoever to catch up.

What is everyone's threshold to how uninteresting the conversation has to get to just hit unsubscribe?

dumb is pretty much the only thing - my requirements for these are incredibly low in that I put on ones I straight up don't like sometimes just to have something on while I work

I have one of these btw, it was a recovery exercise but stuff got in the way and I haven't managed to record one for months. Gonna do one tomorrow tho.

looking at the listener stats tho there are definitely people like me who will kinda listen to anything

My show has horrible stats, from little I can tell, but once in a while a friend will tell me how they enjoyed it, so that helped.

I guess this is the thread to ask does anyone listen to the sleep w/me podcast? That shit works! At least for me, and I have a lot of trouble with sleep - makes me wonder how suggestible I am since it seems to be a species of hypnosis

I like true crime so I listened to a few episodes of 'My Favorite Murder" hoping to hear an episode that was more about the crime than the hosts' banter, then quit when I realized that MFM really is more about the back'n'forth than it is about murder cases.

yeah it's more of a murdery palate cleanser than a deep dive. Try Casefile for straightup facts - Yorkshire Ripper 3-parter was a+, it's gotten really good

have you listened to the new Crimetown podcast? more organized crime than murder specifically, but v good, firsthand interviews & good detail . Strangler is good too.

Excellent, thanks. I've been meaning to address something you said about "In The Dark" "... you called it "flip"? I'm curious how you mean that because I never caught a whiff of flippancy over the whole run. I thought that series was excellent, even if it ended with something of a whimper.

In a couple of early episodes there was something in her tone for me I think? I don't remember exactly ... I definitely enjoyed the series overall though

What brings you to _discontinue_ listening to a show?

Nerd Poker I abandoned when it became as much about jokes about people fucking children and horses as it did about the game.

I don't discontinue listening to a show so much as set it aside (especially if an interview show has a series of guests I don't care about) and listen to other things - I have 40 feeds in my PocketCasts and way less time to listen to podcasts, so I'll go on a run of something then go for a different mood for a while.

Last four Tuesdays have been the Last Podcast on the Left series on the Children of God, probably going to need a few weeks of Radiolab or something.

I like true crime so I listened to a few episodes of 'My Favorite Murder" hoping to hear an episode that was more about the crime than the hosts' banter, then quit when I realized that MFM really is more about the back'n'forth than it is about murder cases.

i really tried with this show but i just find georgia and karen kinda irritating so i've given up :(

the children of god episodes of last podcast were tough going, yeah. the last episode on ricky rodriguez was so crushingly sad, especially the excerpts from his videotape monologue. hopefully they'll get back to talking about ridiculous alien conspiracies for a little while now

i get so lost when georgia reads her stories because she uses zero pronouns & is so scattered & nervous.

but i have loved and been a fan of karen kilgariff for many years & i could listen to a whole series where karen reads stories & georgia reacts

i enjoy their chemistry together though. but to be fair, a lot of the things they do i normally hate in other podcasts, lol

I enjoy My Favorite Murder but sometimes get annoyed at the chattiness, self-consciousness, and lack of depth and attention to detail. But I find Karen and Georgia pretty likeable, and the show light and fun.
Also, I started late in the run. I think if I had started with the first episode I might've been more inclined to give up.

What's are some good episodes of Last Podcast on the Left? I scrolled through them all and picked a random one from way back that I couldn't really get into.

so the most recent episode of the dollop on 'the jet pack madness' is one of the most batshit insane true stories i've ever heard, i highly recommend it

otm

it's the craziest fucking story

jetpacks make u crazy, basically

anyone who straps on a jetpack becomes gollum

^^^

Partway through this one--just got to the hammer incident--and it's quite astonishing.

amazingly, there is so much more batshittery to come

so many levels of wtf yet to come

This is excellent news!

my new favorite: Real World recaps with Dave Holmes & Mike Doughty called 'Truu Stowray'

It's only partly recap - the rest is reminscences about what they were both doing at the time of the first season (1992), recollections about sexuality, music, New York City, etc

it's great. I'm only a casual RW fan but the conversation itself is really good

episodes are short, 30-40 minutes, and they just have a great conversation flow that is tbh kinda rare among the podcasts that I listen to. I said on FB, so many shows spend so much time explaining their pop culture references to each other or to the audience in a way that just grinds things to a halt so often. Dave & Mike just go, they are on each other's wavelength and it just has such a snappy good pace

and I suuuper love Dave Holmes so that helps

I quite like the Supercontext podcast. Two guys pick a particular pop culture item and dissect it, with an emphasis on its context within wider culture. My only problem is that some episodes feel too short - they end rather abruptly, when it seems like the conversation has more ways to go.

homecoming is back!!

also this is the thread where i tell you all to listen to RECEIPTS

https://soundcloud.com/thereceiptspodcast

don't know why it took me so long to listen to this but First Day Back is like the platonic ideal of the form. it has a million little tropes that i usually roll my eyes at but is just so perfectly put together that it doesn't matter at all. lol i feel like steve coogan saying "liquid football" but seriously it is that good. this season takes the true crime format as a jumping-off point into something more inchoate and submerged and personal.

http://firstdaybackpodcast.com/

i guess what it reminds me most of is rectified

Show I link my show in here?

xpost okay that sounds like something i need in my life ty!!

you had me at liquid football

I'm enjoying RuPaul's podcast, "What's the Tee?" co-hosted by Michelle Visage. Just look down the list of their guests, there's bound to be someone you like. I just heard The B-52's episode and the Maria Bamford one

I spam this all the time but true crime lovers, check out Bloody Murder, a comedy crime podcast done by my bf and his mate Tara, they have a particularly fun line in "Aussie as" stuff. Lots of swearing.

kingfish yes!

If we're doing self-promotion: Mutts is a podcast where I talk to ppl who, like myself, have a complex relationship to their national/cultural/ethnic identity. It's been dormant for a while but there's a new ep coming up!

I also have a Portuguese cinema podcast but it's, err, in Portuguese, so probably not worth plugging here.

I should also mention i finally am catching up with More Perfect and damn what can you say, the man Abumrad knows how to make a podcast

Well if it’s self promotion time ... I’ve been recording and editing a podcast for a friend of mine for the last two years.
It’s a monthly half hour show where he plays 78s from the 1900s-50s loosely based around a theme.
It’s called “78Man Presents” and new episodes go up on the first Wednesday of the month.
Tomorrow’s episode is about birds, and features a ludicrous record from the 30s by a choir of canaries!

That sounds awesome! Suscribing.

thanks, downloading your podcast now, subject is something i’m pretty ignorant about so hope to learn a thing or two!

My show is called Giving theb Mic to the Wrong Person, which started last year as a way to talk to people about their cultural obsessions, but this year has morphed with the addition of two co-hosts as ripping on the dumber aspects of online fan culture from an increasingly leftist perspective. We’ve done episodes on everything from the history of Go to how kayfabe works to extended conversations with local comic shop owners.

Our latest ep started with talk about getting overwhelmed with information into more of how Watchmen worked as a comic versus failing as a film. Also we mention Comet the Superhorse.

The only semi-recent podcast I stopped listening to altogether was Maron's WTF. I just got kind of tired of him, but it's been a few years so maybe I should check it out again.

LA Times has a new 6-ep investigative series called Dirty John
True crime, 2 eps already up, it’s pretty good so far if you are into that kind of thing.

The only semi-recent podcast I stopped listening to altogether was Maron's WTF. I just got kind of tired of him, but it's been a few years so maybe I should check it out again.

I stopped listening to Maron years ago but when I did my take was basically: people's complaints about this dude are that he's an asshole/antagonistic towards his guests, but that at least lead to interesting discussions in the past. But when he became super-popular he lost that impulse and became a sycophant instead, letting ppl use his show to do the same vapid PR shite for their latest project that you'd see on, like, a late night talk show. That and the spectacularly ill-informed musician interviews is what got me to jump off WTF.

In the ILX missing milk carton department:

http://www.nightvalepresents.com/ionlylistentothemountaingoats/

Wait who is missing in this scenario

Does MG guy still post? Perhaps there's a screen name change I didn't catch.

yep and yep :)

I'm digging the podcast Showcase. It's Radiotopia's limited series showcase. They started out with a 6 part series on sound by Damon from Galaxie 500. Now they're running a series about 1980s arcade game conspiracy theories.