Podcasts

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.

it's really good

ok i’m gonna check it out - the game conspiracy one sounds like it’s in my wheelhouse

Uncivil is a new good one, telling undertold (or completely untold) stories of Civil War heroism by enslaved and free black people alike.

I'm really into Chris Molanphy's Hit Parade podcast. Each episode is dense with facts and figures, but also context and humanity.

As for Maron, I think I like WTF more now than ever. He's not nearly as neurotic as he's been for the past 20+ years, and it's a good look for him.

i only listen to him now when he has a guest i like

I’ve just started one focused on interviews with musicians, primarily of the avant-garde jazz persuasion. The first episode is with Roscoe Mitchell; the second will be up in two weeks and will feature Matthew Shipp. Listen here: http://burningambulance.blubrry.net (also findable on iTunes)

RuPaul interviewed Marc Maron on Ru's podcast of May 24, 2017 and they seemed to vibe really well together

This could also go into the Chapo thread, but I’ve recently been digging “Michael & Me,” where Luke Savage & Will Sloan watch a Michael Moore-type agit-prop flick, mostly from the Dubya era. Lotta weird/bad memories, but I like how the Canadian hosts critique Michael Moore’s approach from the left, not to mention taking great joy at the lazy-ass responses from batshit right wingers.

http://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us

If you want an entry point, the latest ep covers V for Vendetta

https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us/40-v-for-vendetta-w-alex-ross

between the ears on R3 is really very good
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0739ndm

best listened to on very good headphones afaict

I posted part 1 of our talk with Paul Guinan of Boilerplate and Frank Reade fame talking about his time at First Comics, Dark Horse, his Patreon comic, the meaning of life, gentrification in Chicago & Portland, the 24-Hour Comic movie, and more.

https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/paul-guinans-meaning-of-life-comics-patreon-part-1

loved the 3 second rule episode of between the ears, more experimental/musical/soundarty than "radio show", but still awesome.

Need to institute new laws saying:

1. no podcast shall commence with 5-10 minutes of the hosts talking about the Skype problems or whatever they just had before getting recording going
2. no stretches of dead airinterspersed with faint tacky-tacking as one host desperately Googles something to get up to date with the other host, and which nobody bothers to edit out
3. no more ads for Blue Apron, which seem to have overtaken squarespace is the no. 1 irritant

I don’t have a lot of time for the “two dudes talking and riffing for 1-2 hours” format

Me either, but usually if they edited it properly it would be a hell of a lot more tolerable

I could go the rest of my life without hearing another ad for Square Space, Stamps.com, 1-800-flowers, Blue Apron, yada yada.

MAC WELDON
WARBY PARKER
AUDIBLE DOT COM

gaaaahhhhhh

Bombas Socks seem to have chilled a bit recently though Casper will never stop.

My sister gave MeUndies to everyone for Xmas last year

I have been listening to lots of history podcasts covering the early years of the 20th century, and the amount of ads for Square Space, Stamps.com, 1-800-flowers, Blue Apron, Me Undies is fucking insane, sometimes 30% of the episode. Stuff You Missed In History Class is the worst offender. I want to link to them but not going to now.

Yeah, some podcasts are overboard with the ad reads. Do they get paid even if no one uses them? I always wondered that. I also wonder if there are different tiered ad reads. Some of the podcasts I listen to reads each ad for like 30 seconds, others will take a minute and half, two minutes to read the same ad.

Definitely most of these high profile post-Serial podcasts are jacked to the brim with ads. It can be nuts.

skip ahead 45 seconds button a godsend.

For podcast recs, I really dug this interview about how people form beliefs, why facts can’t change the tightly held ones, and why Twitter sucks:

https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/119-the-unpersuadables

I used to like how Greg Proops would do sarcastic commentary on the copyediting in the ads as he was reading them, but guessing the advertisers didn't like that as he eventually stopped doing that.

skip ahead 45 seconds button a godsend.

― Jeff, Tuesday, January 16, 2018 6:14 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc there are ways to tell when ppl do this--basically if you actually like a podcast and want to support it, suffer through the ad reads.

^ Bill Burr made fun of his advertisers' ad copy all of the time. I haven't listened to him in a while to know if he still does that.

exhaustive list of podcast genres:
- my friends are funny so i never edit them
- you didn't know how X worked, now you do
- how much personal trauma will people reveal into a mic? lots
- murder exists

— Eleanor Gordon-Smith (@TheRealEGS) January 15, 2018

trooth

iirc there are ways to tell when ppl do this--basically if you actually like a podcast and want to support it, suffer through the ad reads.

i don't think this is true. it was only a month ago that apple started providing analytics on skips and it hasn't affected (wanker word alert) cpms afaik. skipping is probably less common than you think - maybe 10-15% of listeners will skip some portion of an ad. also keep in mind that advertisers already knew people skipped, even on platforms that don't provide that info, so it's "costed in". that could change of course. but there's no reason i know of at the moment to feel guilty about it.

there is no possible way of knowing when I fast-forward through an ad on an mp3 that I have downloaded and transferred to a portable device

I never tire of hearing about Squatty Potty and how it works

anyway 94% of podcast ads are for products or services unavailable to most of the world

Seeso would still be running if the people they spent money advertising to had been able to subscribe to it

sic if you're using the apple podcasts app, then it reports that info back to apple, along with other behaviour, and publishers can see it aggregated in a stats dashboard.

ditto acast, stitcher, etc

yeah but I don't

fair!

I tried the Harrys razor trial thing which seems to be on every UK podcast and it was a mediocre shave so fuck that.

i hate the guilty feminist with the white hot heat of a thousand suns, it is awful, smug, privileged bullshit

also it is neither guilty, nor feminist

any good recent podcasts? I'm pretty much out on comedy. As for history and whatnot I'm enjoying Literature and History. Tides of History can be good, but so scattered. Why try to simultaneously cover the aftermath of the Roman empire and the beginning of the Modern World? And then drop in an interview about other stuff every other week? And the ads!

Heaven's Gate was pretty good. I'm worried Atlanta Monster will be too exploitative.

Atlanta Monster is good so far - almost like an oral history of what it was like growing up in that time, he talks to the brother of one of the victims, it doesnt seem exploitative so far

i am going to tell everyone to listen to Rumble Strip until it's world-famous. what's it about? don't worry about it. just subscribe to it. it's my favorite podcast.

also, um, i'm kind of lowkey hosting a BBC podcast (about... BBC podcasts)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ltqxn/episodes/downloads

ftr i like my casper mattress but it took about a month (offer code handbook)

podcastception

i am going to tell everyone to listen to Rumble Strip until it's world-famous. what's it about? don't worry about it. just subscribe to it. it's my favorite podcast.

subscribed

if i don't like it i'll send you an invoice for my time

also, um, i'm kind of lowkey hosting a BBC podcast (about... BBC podcasts)

Nice one, Tracer!

I'm enjoying "Slow Burn," Slate's Watergate series. I know Watergate sort of moderately well, but there's a lot of stuff in here I've never heard. And they do a pretty good job of noting obvious contemporary parallels without beating you over the head. Mostly it's about how just totally crazy the whole thing was, and how long it took for most people to really pay attention to it as it was playing out.

that sounds kinda good to me

One thing I like is getting away from the Woodward-Bernstein framing — those guys were important, but there were a lot of other important people too, in the media and outside it.

it is v good

also one of the podcastiest podcasts you ever will podcast