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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!

Hurrah!

oh sh*

wait this is the podcasts thread

OH SHIT

SICK NED!!

Thanks!

*cue 5-hour Tom Bombadill celebratory song*

Oh dear.

shh it’s getting to the good part

Neat

Following up on our two-parter on deconstructing conspiracy theory, we did an ep on teacher strikes and labor organizing(both in the PacNW and nationally)

https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep47-hot-for-teacher-strikes-with-candy-jody-and-marj

can anyone recommend a deep (ideally interview w/ expert focused) podcast on natural world / nature / evolution topics?

not a podcast but Natural Histories can be really good
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w99gb/episodes

I just discovered Ducan Trussell's Family Hour so I'm good for like, a year

iirc a lot of Duncan Trussell hate in here. I have enjoyed this podcast.

Digging Tim Heidecker's Office Hours, it is not boring. Sort of chaotic and disorganized in a fun way.

can anyone recommend a deep (ideally interview w/ expert focused) podcast on natural world / nature / evolution topics?

This may not be an exact match, but I like Fieldwork Diaries - https://www.fieldworkdiaries.com

Not precisely the right thread but christ, the latest Android Pocket Casts update is an absolute shithouse: glitchy as hell, fugly and the UI has gone backwards. Ugh.

Google Podcasts is the only app I've tried that seems simple and intuitive

Guys a podcast I have been working on for literally almost a year comes out tomorrow. It feels like much of that time was spent convincing various people I work with not to can it. I'm very very proud of it but it is pretty... unusual ("weird" is the word I keep hearing) and I would love it if each and every person reading this goes and rates it/subscribes etc.

All six episodes drop tomorrow.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/texting-keith-olbermann/id1454216255?mt=2

or indeed in the official app/website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071wbr5/episodes/downloads

Good luck!

Thank you!

pocket casts is such a mess now, wtf are they doing

good to know. Will continue to not update it on Android. From reading about the update on Google Play, sounds like a lot more monetization afoot.

I wish I liked the open source Antennapod. anyone use it? I don't suppose it has become good?