Podcasts

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?

tuomas in chicago

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

I was thinking about The Butterfly Effect, a podcast he did on the repercussions of free porn online.

so you knew the answer to your question?

yeah, I was writing more rhetorically. as in, didn't he just do this?

One seems to be about porn in general and this one about one porn star in particular.

I can listen to some Last Podcast on the Left episodes or the You Must Remember This Hollywood but these more voyeuristic series about people who weren’t really famous gross me out.

I think he said that people from that world kept reaching out to him after the first podcast, so he ended up following this story

I can see why since it’s an intersection of his last two big topics—social media shaming and the porn business

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

1) that was two years ago tbf
2) the free/public version of this is on the same RSS as the free/public version of The Butterfly Effect, so is effectively a second season

Tue Oct 23 2018 06:30:00 -

In December 2017 the famous porn star August Ames committed suicide in a park in the San Fernando Valley. It happened a day after she’d been the victim of a pile-on, via Twitter, by fellow porn professionals - punishment for her tweeting something deemed homophobic.

A month later, August’s husband, Kevin, asked writer Jon Ronson to tell the story of how Twitter bullying killed his wife. What neither Kevin nor Ronson realized was that Ronson would soon hear rumors and secrets hinting at a very different story - something mysterious and unexpected and terrible.

In The Last Days of August, Ronson unravels the never-before-told story of what caused this beloved 23-year-old actress’ untimely death. Coming to Audible January 4, 2019.

Wow this Ronson podcast is absolute garbage

do you like poetry podcasts? i like the New Yorker one, don’t love the Paris review one (the readings are set to music) any other recs?

not a podcast but R4 does "poetry please":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qp7q

also poetry extra: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qdjcn

and for something pretty weird there's this Tim Key show:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pn5pl

there's a great moment in the 4th ep of that Ronson podcast where this woman chews him out for being an exploitive vulture willing to use gossip + ill feelings + rumors + nastiness + prurience to make a titillating story and how it's ultimately irresponsible etc and it's just like "wow right on" and then he's like "well obviously I can't stop the story now."

It's good that he keeps it in, especially in that form, because he's clearly questioning the whole project at that point, and the listener should too. When it turns out that the woman has an agenda and is not really playing fair, it's kind of a relief, and I wonder if he would have junked it if that weren't the case.

The whole thing is so toxic it's hard to know who benefits from the story being told. One worry is that it's Ronson who benefits. His tone sometimes makes me think of the last shot of Bowling for Columbine: Moore leaves the image of the girl at Charlton Heston's house and walks away all hunched shouldered with a 'more in sorrow than in anger' slouch. It's not quite sanctimony but it's in that zone.

Finally got around to putting out another episode of mine:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2-e1-djao-7777777/id1451018142?i=1000440701897

Had to do some ridiculous editing as a result of recording a remote interview (our separate recordings were somehow at different speeds, for one). Someone really needs to make the app that records both sides of a call in high quality.

here's a pretty amazing show about poet Momtaza Mehri

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098n8z9

xxp it's so gross and i'm someone who has enjoyed some of ronson's work in the past but this feels just so gratuitous and just stirring up the worst impulses of human beings to get a not particularly insightful story

i finished the whole thing bc i wanted to give ronson a chance to make all this petty human tragedy mean something but he gets nowhere

if you didn't know that the porn industry has a number of unhappy damaged ppl in it you might find it educational. even the prurient aspects are so low key and low stakes ultimately for a story about a sex industry it's just normatively bleak.

I havent listened to Ronson’s podcast & prob won’t

the Rialto Report is a good interview podcast with stars & directors of porn of yore by 2 consultants from HBO’s The Deuce. It’s pretty good.

Re poetry podcasts R3's The Verb can be good. Does contain extended Ian McMillan: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnsf/episodes/player

Can't imagine which would be more depressing, tales of '70s porn or tales of '10s porn.

American poetry podcasts that are good include VS (aka Versus) and Poetry Off The Shelf.

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.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 11:04 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol 8 months later and they’re still putting out wpisodes

They’re up to 90 Y or N mini eps and they may hit 100 before their 100th episode proper