Podcasts

Neyfakh's observation about that one little detail in Paula Jones's story impressed me -- the fact that it was very unlikely she would make up a story in which he said "I don't wanna make you do anything you don't want to do"

Have started listening to The Rialto Report, history of the golden age of porn - interviews w key players etc. There’s an episode on Linda Lovelace that is p interesting.

I was just moments away from checking out The Rialto Report. Someone on Twitter recommended the episode on Avon Films, which I guess is the Linda Lovelace one you mention

i really need some podcast recommendations. i'm going to be doing a lot of mindless computer work over the next few months, and i've already exhausted the "dear prudence" catalogue. <3 daniel ortberg

science, philosophy, art history, music history, literary history, history in general all good. can't do mainstream politics. npr tone tends to grate on me. something with a deep catalogue, preferably free.

the dollop? radiolab? in our time?

also i wanna stan for relentless picnic even though it's even whiter than that list. it's a little intense but lots of history and lots of friendly intellectual egging-on

thumbs up, thanks

i'm very podcast-illiterate

cosign the dollop, v good fun

revolutions is a good history one, deep catalog

cocaine & rhinestones - country music deep dive, long eps, not a huge catalog but def worthwhile

secret history of hollywood: good catalog, LONG episodes which i love, beautifully researched

This Is Actually Happening
Strangers
Arrvls
Hear Be Monsters
Everything Is Stories
Why Won’t You Date Me
99% Invisible
How To Be A Girl
Nocturne
are some of my non-true crime favs

*HERE Be Monsters, sorry

I try to keep an updated list on my blog (quartzcity.net). Whittling it down some:

99% Invisible
All In The Mind
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Cocaine & Rhinestones
Desert Oracle Radio
Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio
Outside Podcast
Revolutions
Skylight Books
Spycast
The Agony Column
The Antarctic Sun Podcast
The Memory Palace
The Social Engineer Podcast
The Trap Set
This Is Actually Happening
This Week in Parasitism
TravelCommons
Uncontrolled Airspace
You Can't Eat The Sunshine
You Must Remember This

I was just moments away from checking out The Rialto Report. Someone on Twitter recommended the episode on Avon Films, which I guess is the Linda Lovelace one you mention

My mistake, these are two different episodes, but I like the style of this pod and will come back for more

I've been enjoying We're Just Here to Help, which is political roundup with humor. One host grew up in Russia and the other in Iran, so they have lots of insights into totaliatarianism, how it grows and functions and so on

If you're at all interested in the music business Andrew Loog Oldham's Sounds and Vision has been quite juicy through four episodes so far

literary history

I'd like to find more podcasts on this. I listen to Literature and History (so far he's covered from Sumerian cuneiform texts up to Roman literature) and Literary Hangover (fairly new podcast, American lit from a leftist perspective.)

There are several others I've heard of but haven't dived into:
The Canon Ball (reading through Harold Bloom's Western Canon list)
The History of Literature
American Writers One Hundred Pages at a Time

The Canon Ball is very good (nb I know the guys who make it).

Backlisted is a good literature podcast, albeit it's less about critical acumen and more about thralldom. It's good for discovering things that have slipped out of print, been ignored etc. All relative to your knowledge of literature, of course.

Slightly Foxed has a podcast along the same lines I think--only one episode so far

enjoying relentless picnic, thanks for the recommendation tracer

i know it's like just people listing podcasts they enjoy, but i'm really grateful for all these recommendations. i was feeling like the endless solitary hours of document grabbing i need to do for $ was becoming this heavy weight around my neck, and now it feels much more manageable.

I have a boring ass job too and a few enthralling eps of a podcast can really speed the day along

Phoebe Judge has one of the best speaking voices not just in podcasting but, like, in all media ever.

Hearing her rep for Mancrates.com, though, is such a cringe/lol.

Also, Vegemitegrrl, please to single out any particularly exceptional true crime episodes or series you've heard lately (or this year)?

map: I recommend "Heavyweight" (for real)

Also "Stop Podcasting Yourself", which has to be my longest-running sub that I still consistently listen to, and I didn't see here.

Heads up: all white Canadian dudes with loose formats

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Notable shows:
Bear Brook
Teacher’s Pet
Dr Death
All 3 were excellent, cannot recommend Bear Brook highly enough.

Notable Single Episodes (imo):

Casefile:
Ep 90 Hoddle Street
Ep 100 The Beaumont Children

My Favorite Murder:
Ep 150 Reyna Marroquin made me cry
Ep 113 Live in Utah - SLC library hostage
Ep 111 Van Nuys Courthouse shooting

Last Podcast on the Left:
Eps 335-337 West Memphis Three: surprisingly good, there were details I didn’t know or remember
Eps 306-307 Casey Anthony, same reason as above

Cocaine & Rhinestones
Ep3 Murder Ballad of Spade Cooley - not a true crime podcast normally but this is 100% a true crime ep, details are horrific (and he makes it easy to skip that part if you need to) but the story is absolutely one that should be heard

sweet! thank you

:D

I am a big fan of MFM & Last Podcast but I tend not to recommend them to ppl much just bc their humor & chatter is v subjective & not everyone is into that style. But Karen on MFM has a real knack for telling some incredibly compelling stories, and Marcus on Last Podcast does a herculean amount of research, and I think they both help occasionally raise the bar from “jokey murder chatz”

I loved Dr. Death, all the more compelling because it happened in my city.

Listening to Bear Brook now!

After scanning this thread about a week ago, I checked out an episode of This Actually Happened on a whim, and it turned out to be the one about a girl who was systematically sexually abused by her parents and other locals, and it was legitimately traumatizing. The episode had a trigger warning and everything, but I had no idea what I was in for. It kinda ticked me off, like maybe the warning should have been a little more pronounced. I don't remember the name of the episode and can't seem to find it, maybe someone knows which one I'm referencing

I know which one you’re talking about - but I’ve been listening for a long time so it wasn’t as shocking. There aren’t any others as disturbing as that one, but a few are pretty heavy. There’s a domestic abuse/attempted murder story that’s pretty hard to listen to. .

I’d also strongly recommend the Mary Vincent ep of MFM - it’s an “I survived” story and is incredible.

oh shit yes, that was a great one

I still think about Mary all the time tbh

holy shit walking down the road naked, covered in blood, and no arms

i still think it was shitty of those dudes to drive off, but you would have to ask yourself if what you were seeing was... real? i mean, i didn't think a person could survive double amputation!

crazy

Take it to the true crime thread seriously

Like wtf?

who are yer guys?

sorry PK, forgot there was a dedicated true crime thread

i really like matt and shane's secret podcast and recommend it.

in a particular category, china-focused podcasts:
the little red podcast, maybe starting from the three part series on xi jinping's war on the uighurs, but go back and listen to the episode on chinese police statistics and the one on china's resettlement industry
sinica, even though kaiser kuo's apologies for the regime + claiming to be a "neoliberal" get old but they have access to some important american china wonks (less interesting now that they've all been mostly marginalized) and occasionally cover more interesting things, esp when they get academics instead of bureaucrats on and let jeremy goldkorn go, go back into the archives to when they were both still in beijing.
n(u with an umlaut) voices, and please listen to the recent episode with new yorker writer jiayang fan.
probably should recommend laszlo montgomery's china history podcast, too. not my thing but if you want to hear a guy talk about, like, the history of china-vietnam relations, tea, legalism, zhou enlai...

Thought I'd share this: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/12/best-podcasts-2018/578899/

Most of these are new to me but that's not saying much. I know I've seen a few of these listed here.

Agree with their #1- Caliphate is really, really good

50 podcasts. no thanks

podcacalypse

On the next season of StartUp... we sell-out to Spotify!
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/spotify-reportedly-in-advanced-stages-of-acquiring-podcast-company-for-230m/

Hope all the creators have IP rights!

i think some do have a certain split

Damn. Well, I guess it's every start-up's goal to sell out to a bigger start-up, right? Unfortunately I like Reply All and Heavyweight enough to figure out how to listen to them on Spotify if necessary, which I suppose is worth $230 mil to them.

Also I finally took a stab at making my own podcast (interviews with electronic music people): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-warmth/id1451018142

nice!

my spanish is getting a little rusty so i've started listening to spanish language podcasts.

NPR have one called Radio Ambulante which I've enjoyed

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510315/radio-ambulante

Oh man Citations Needed is good:
http://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-66-whataboutism-the-medias-favorite-rhetorical-shield-against-criticism-of-us-policy

citations needed is grate

Hi there.

I make podcast. (With friends.)

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater

Monthly episodes starting in late April.

:D i am excite!