Podcasts

Listening to your podcast now, Tracer Hand. It’s great! Very compelling and weirdly tense so far (I’m two episodes in).

Awesome. Rate! review! :)

will it be fun if I've never heard of Keith Olberman?

I hadn't heard of him but the first two episodes were entertaining and compelling indeed and made me want to find out what'll happen so I'm on for the ride!
Out of curiosity, what was your role in the series, Tracer?

tracer is keith olberman

Notoriously hard to work with.

(I enjoyed it despite having no idea who the two main dudes in the thing were / are. But I found it a piquant little taste of the way dudes behave and interact, and the bemusement that generates in those around them.)

holy crap it's Keith Olberman!

I just finished listening and will certainly rate and review. I didn’t really know of Keith Olbermann before but I found him extremely likeable. I would love if there was another series! I think there were a lot of great underlying questions about why people even form friendships and what makes a connection genuine or possible.

i commissioned it and acted basically as as the "exec". i am also the voice at the end of each episode!

Really glad to hear the positive reactions. It is an unusual beast and after working on something for so long it can be hard to know how it will sound to someone coming to it fresh.

Impressed that nobody in the UK knows who Keith Olbermann is

I'm Canadian, and after googling his name I am very confused about what it is he does. Will listen!

he is or was on television

He is back on ESPN here and there but doesn't have his own show thus far.

Odd I saw discussion of Olberman a couple of years ago on UK left-wing twitter (as a kind of not very good version of liberal Alex Jones type) and its odd to see this now - will listen and see how this shapes up.

The last I saw of Keith was a piece of political commentary in which he presented 8 reasons why Trump would soon be removed from office. That was late '17 :(

Lol Olberman is nothing like Alex Jones
More like liberal Tucker

I googled him after above discussion and it said he stopped doing political commentary (after 187 episodes of an anti-Trump commentary show) bcz of his certainty that Trump would not finish his term, and returned to sports punditry

i enjoyed him as a sports pundit (i love old clips of him & dan patrick doing sportscenter)
was not v into his political commentary but i am not v into politics anyway

I didn’t really know of Keith Olbermann before but I found him extremely likeable

I just listened to the first episode and he sounds less sufferable than a fool

I love how wildly different people feel about him in this.

My take is basically the same as vegemitegirl

Like Olbermann, as few can craft a diatribe like him. His problem is that he's preaching to a choir, and his kind of rhetoric is for a time more people are willing to die or kill for their beliefs. Its tiresome in all but the smallest doses.

Deleting podcasts that have stacked up is refreshing, like throwing away New Yorkers you accept that you'll never read. Am I ever going to listen to 25 old episodes of In Our Time? Highly unlikely.

like throwing away New Yorkers you accept that you'll never read.

yes! that’s precisely what it’s like

so freeing

Yeah I aim to keep my listening to a certain slew of things that pace out just enough that I can enjoy listening to them without feeling like I'm either always catching up or feeling obligated. (One big reason why I wanted to aim for our podcast to be monthly -- makes much more sense in terms of the subject matter but also won't cause anyone to feel like too much of a backlog if they miss an episode or two.)

Irish History Podcast which is 9 years old this week and took me way too long to actually get to hear. I know the presenter from the Shell2Sea camp and he references the area in one of the shows I listened to.
I guess I just haven't listened to podcasts much until recently. & part of the reason I started listening is losing the USB connection on the side of my TV meaning I can't set up watching dl/ded tv and film stuff as easily as before Xmas.

So mainly been listening to Msnbc shows as podcasts as well as Mueller She Wrote, Pod Save America,Trumpcast then last night started listening to a few other areas one on medieval travel, another on Greek Myths and one on risk assessment using the Roanoke colony as an example.

Per history, Mike Duncan's History of Rome is a massive endeavor and one that has served what I felt podcasting has always flirted with but never quite succeeds in allowing: That I, the listener, walked away having felt a better person. Often I find myself a more enriched person, but most the knowledge is so secular or so strangely low-spectrum aspergers that I often wonder to myself whether my head is maybe filled to too much of a capacity of oddball facts that don't rate me above a child who points out a license plate being from Elsewhere.

Anyways, his length on the French Revolution is truly hitting a stride. Revolutions podcast. That's the name.

Fashion fans, I also enjoy "The Memory of... with John Galliano" , which is basically him delivering his justifications for his latest design choices with Maison Margiela. He's smart, his mannerisms and speaking style kind of amuses me kind of makes me unenthusiastic to listen to the next podcast, but it's actually a real treat to listen to an episode prior to viewing a season's collection. You gain a better understanding of the massive amounts of context designers put into clothing. Often an oversight, for better or worse against ideas of the medium.

Anyone listen to Rapaport? I like the music and the “sick fsck of the week” segment. This award is earned not given.

Been listening to
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Profiles in Eccentricity
That Record Got Me High
Irish History Podcast
Let's Talk About myths, Baby
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Human Circus, Journeys in the Medieval World

"This is Actually Happening" is so close to my idea of the perfect podcast that I'm amazed it exists.

i have put off listening. no more!

i just started in on Gay Future and it's pretty fuckin good

TIAH is so good. Just first person accounts of usually kinda disturbing, but always compelling, life events, with NO COMMENTARY. That's right folks, NO COMMENTARY!

yeah I'm extremely down with narrator-less shows

I've been listening to Jon Ronson's latest - The Last Days of Autumn. I generally really like him but there's something that niggles me, a sort of disconnect between his anxious, forgiving persona and the topics he explores. Which is fine when it's Alex Jones, but when it's about the more vulnerable I don't know: the presentation can seem a bit disingenuous. This might well turn out to be more about me than about him and the disconnect is ultimately his greatest strength as a journalist. Does including the 'this is making me really anxious' stuff and acknowledging that his intrusions are dangerous make the thing more authentic and justifiable?

Anyway, I'm babbling. Short version: I'm finding it very affecting, which is why I'm interrogating myself and my assumptions.

And the Tolkien podcast I am part of is now formally up and running:

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/1

Give an ear!

I went to the British Podcast Awards last night, here is a very self-indulgent blog post about it.

The big winner was George The Poet for Have You Heard George's Podcast? - having listened to a little it really does seem to deserve all the praise it got.

Only real bullshit was the podcast champion award going to My Dad Wrote A Porno, but at least that's all they got.

List of winners etc is here - https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/winners-2019

congratulations! i was there too, it would have been great to meet you and say hello! the one i was there for didn't win ANYTHING ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I didn't think I'd won anything as they didn't announce the bronze and silver for my category, found out on the train home!

Probably should be more sociable if I'm actually going to promote the show, only spoke to one person apart from my wife, which show were you there with?

lol no way. I was going to say that I didn't remember you getting a prize but thought better of it because surely... surely that would indicate a total lapse of attention on my part. but no!? i think there were literally only like two awards they DIDN'T read bronze and silver for? bizarre.

I was there for No Country For Young Women. I commissioned it. didn't help that we were in one of George's 'groups of death' I guess!

re: the aftershow i have rarely seen such nakedly desperate networking in all my life

Yeah, even with free booze i simply cannot do networking, am only used to talking to strangers if I am organising their study abroad courses.
Was out of there about 15 minutes after it ended.

And our second episode is up!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/2

I enjoyed all of the Kalevala talk in the first episode. I want to reread that soon.

Thanks! Yeah it's always worth a revisit.

I've been listening to Jon Ronson's latest - The Last Days of Autumn. I generally really like him but there's something that niggles me, a sort of disconnect between his anxious, forgiving persona and the topics he explores. Which is fine when it's Alex Jones, but when it's about the more vulnerable I don't know: the presentation can seem a bit disingenuous. This might well turn out to be more about me than about him and the disconnect is ultimately his greatest strength as a journalist. Does including the 'this is making me really anxious' stuff and acknowledging that his intrusions are dangerous make the thing more authentic and justifiable?

Anyway, I'm babbling. Short version: I'm finding it very affecting, which is why I'm interrogating myself and my assumptions.

― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, April 15, 2019 3:26 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Last Days of August.

I'm going through it right now. Wow, the tirade that Lisa Ann delivers in episode 4 really reminded me of Kellyanne Conway or someone.

didn't he just do a podcast on the porn biz?

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I don't get it (I don't think?).