Podcasts

i'd highly super recommend Emil Amos' Drifter's Sympathy - https://starburns.audio/podcasts/emil-amos-drifters-sympathy/

alternating between storytelling episodes mainly based around growing up in the 90s underground/indie scene in smallish town america with music focussed episodes looking at the history of various strands of underground weirdness. it's a little hard to explain simply, but everyone i've got to check it out has loved it.

Anyone listening to Dead Rock Stars? It's yet more middle-aged white men rambling on about stuff, but it's diverting enough and Mick Wall knows his onions, mostly. The Lemmy one is good.

https://www.acast.com/deadrockstars

I’ve found that Emil Amos show to be good Background music for writing. I zone in and out of the show, then listen to him for a few minutes and generally wonder wtf he’s going on about. Occasional mid-90s indie rock content confirmed. His stories about drugging in India are pretty wild. Most episodes seem to feature one or more acid trips afaict.

so like... i'm reading flaubert's salammbo:

https://www.acast.com/elireads

fans of cannibalism, human sacrifice and detailed descriptions of clothing and foodstuffs please drop in

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 16:38 (five months ago)

Tracer I am loving this. I am spending a lot of hours in a room typesetting at the moment and this is a perfect accompaniment. It's also just really good.

You should see my copy of Salammbo: it's decorated by Edward Bawden with beauties like this:

https://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/items/015661.jpg

holy crap. I consider myself pretty up on the various illustrations of Salammbo and i haven't run across that set. look at those colours!

really pleased you're enjoying it Tim.

IKR? It's amazing.

https://pictures.abebooks.com/AGVENT/4220065103.jpg

wow. love all the forbidding blacks in that too. so chunky.

does anyone else listen to Scene on Radio? i'm a new listener but i'm enjoying their current season, which is about male supremacy

the season on Whiteness was very good

Beyond Yacht Rock continues to be really funny. latest episode was very very different though and really beautiful/SAD as hell - https://omny.fm/shows/beyond-yacht-rock/beyondyachtrock-90-leahsongs

yes, really liked that one.

Wolverine is good

also Steal The Stars is really good

BYR is ending soon :(

At least I got to have my Marcos Valle choice be officially deemed nyacht before it happened.

oh bummer...where'd you hear that about BYR?

They mentioned it on a recent episode, I think it was a yacht or nyacht? Said they're doing ten more episodes so they hit 100 and then stop. Though they also hinted they'd do other things in the podcast format.

Ryan Cooper’s new show is good. 1st ep on Stephen Pinker, The Enlightenment, and what happens when “democratic processes are a figleaf for oligarchy?”

https://leftanchor.podbean.com/e/episode-1-steven-pinker-rousseau/

Thank you to whomever it was who recommended the two Revisionist History episodes on memory (s3,e3&4). I overcame my Malcolm Gladwell lolversion to listen to them and now I don't really believe any story anyone tells about anything that happened to them ("and that's OK")

Beyond Yacht Rock continues to be really funny. latest episode was very very different though and really beautiful/SAD as hell - https://omny.fm/shows/beyond-yacht-rock/beyondyachtrock-90-leahsongs

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, September 26, 2018 4:41 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god, this was sad

i'd highly super recommend Emil Amos' Drifter's Sympathy - https://starburns.audio/podcasts/emil-amos-drifters-sympathy/

alternating between storytelling episodes mainly based around growing up in the 90s underground/indie scene in smallish town america with music focussed episodes looking at the history of various strands of underground weirdness. it's a little hard to explain simply, but everyone i've got to check it out has loved it.

― jamiesummerz, Thursday, May 3, 2018 10:08 AM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I’ve only listened to like 4 of these so far, but it’s fucking brilliant. Like legitimately the first podcast that I’ve ever been excited about and want to share with my friends.

Also the first podcast where I straight up want to listen to an episode again right after I listened to it.

After a long break, we just posted a new episode on the (first) film adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary

https://www.soundcloud.com/givingthemic/reverse-psychology-works-on-stephen-kings-pet-sematary

Tried Your Kickstarter Sucks on a range of recommendations but I'm really just not into the two bros shooting the shit format.

Not technically a podcast but BBC Radio4 Extra is repeating an 80s adaptation on Fame is The Spur by Howard Spring.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0121293

Ian McKellan as Hamer Shawcross, a flawed early Labour Party leader. Probably this encapsulates everything I love (and everything Tracer Hand hates) about BBC radio drama.

http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/thunder-bay/

Canadaland's Thunder Bay podcast has recently launched. Haven't listened to it yet but it looks good. The description:

The highest homicide rate in the country. A mayor and his wife charged with extortion. A police chief put on trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous teenagers.

Why does it all happen here?

Haha Ed. I have added it to my list!

Um, Pounded In The Butt By My Own Podcast offers an effortless entry into Chuck Tingles's recursive/surreal ouvre. Wish he didn't adopt a Demento persona for the intros, but the guest readers are generally good. Discovered while searching for what the hell was up with James Urbaniak.

A kind of weird phenomenon is all of these "branded podcasts" I hear ads for all the time. Like, who willingly listens to one of these? It would be like going into a library and checking out an in-flight magazine.

Uh, my show got mentioned in a New Yorker article about podcasts. This feels weird, especially as we mock the rag and the class that reads it a lot online.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling

awesome!

Thanks!

“The Joe Rogan Experience,” in which the bluff comedian interviews public figures

surely they meant "buff comedian"

surely they meant "unintentional comedian"

w2g kingfish!

pocket casts (ios) has had a major update which is 20% improvements and 80% fuckups

yeah it's like all these added clicks to do anything

I'm really REALLY late to this but I'm finally making my way through Mike Duncan's "Revolutions" and it's fantastic. It's so hard to make a solo podcast interesting, especially with such dense historical material, but he has an incredible knack for making it digestible and entertaining without dumbing anything down, while never getting on your nerves even if you listen for hours at a time. Not so easy!

New Pocketcasts doesn't separate unwatched/downloaded episodes from the rest of them, that's a dealbreaker.

the only interesting new feature is the ability to look at your listening history, which is kind of staggering

I'm too lazy to transfer everything to another podcast app, so it just made me clean up my subs - I haven't listened to an episode of WTF in over a year, the 25 I had downloaded probably weren't going to suddenly become more interesting.

Goddamn pocketcast. First downcast break, now this one

why everyone doesn't use castro is just beyond me

otm

Jesus I have no idea how to unsubscribe to a podcast on pocketcast now

i like Downcast.

had a good laugh at this
https://www.clickhole.com/the-20-best-podcasts-about-crabs-and-crabbing-that-have-1830191373

Why should I switch from Overcast to Castro? PITCH ME TRACER.

Simon have you listened to age of napoleon? Way better than revolutions imo (and chapo approved although do not start with this episode https://overcast.fm/+Iw3kE63mU)

I imagine Revolutions is also Chapo approved since they interviewed Mike Duncan

I've heard both - - I find Mike easier to listen to at length but I might give AoN another crack later.