"This is Actually Happening" is so close to my idea of the perfect podcast that I'm amazed it exists.
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
i have put off listening. no more!i just started in on Gay Future and it's pretty fuckin good
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
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!
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
yeah I'm extremely down with narrator-less shows
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 April 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
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, 15 April 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
And the Tolkien podcast I am part of is now formally up and running:
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/1
Give an ear!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
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
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 19 May 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
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)_/¯
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 May 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
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?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 19 May 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
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!
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 May 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
re: the aftershow i have rarely seen such nakedly desperate networking in all my life
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 May 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 19 May 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
And our second episode is up!
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/2
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 May 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed all of the Kalevala talk in the first episode. I want to reread that soon.
― jmm, Friday, 24 May 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
Thanks! Yeah it's always worth a revisit.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 May 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
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
― 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.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 3 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
didn't he just do a podcast on the porn biz?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
tuomas in chicago
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 3 June 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
I don't get it (I don't think?).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
I was thinking about The Butterfly Effect, a podcast he did on the repercussions of free porn online.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
so you knew the answer to your question?
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 3 June 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
yeah, I was writing more rhetorically. as in, didn't he just do this?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 3 June 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
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
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
I can see why since it’s an intersection of his last two big topics—social media shaming and the porn business
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
1) that was two years ago tbf2) 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.
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.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
Wow this Ronson podcast is absolute garbage
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
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?
― flopson, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
not a podcast but R4 does "poetry please":https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qp7q
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
also poetry extra: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qdjcnand for something pretty weird there's this Tim Key show:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pn5pl
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
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."
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
here's a pretty amazing show about poet Momtaza Mehri
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098n8z9
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Thursday, 6 June 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Thursday, 6 June 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Thursday, 6 June 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
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.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 June 2019 03:54 (four years ago) link
Re poetry podcasts R3's The Verb can be good. Does contain extended Ian McMillan: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnsf/episodes/player
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 6 June 2019 06:58 (four years ago) link
Can't imagine which would be more depressing, tales of '70s porn or tales of '10s porn.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 6 June 2019 07:09 (four years ago) link
American poetry podcasts that are good include VS (aka Versus) and Poetry Off The Shelf.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 9 June 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
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
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 16 June 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
They’re up to 90 Y or N mini eps and they may hit 100 before their 100th episode proper
― calstars, Sunday, 16 June 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
Third episode is up!
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/3
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
will listen!the Michael Lewis podcast Against the Rules is pretty irresistible to me rn
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 June 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
My friend's son is recording a podcast about cheese. It's called Charlie's Cheese Chat, and it's the best. Here's the second episode. It's uncanny how well this 10 year old kid gets the rhythms of grown-up podcasts down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0oSTSM3m0&feature=youtu.be
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 June 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npwVEkinqxI
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 June 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Probably in a minority here and Not a podcast but Have to recommend the 4 Extra rebroadcast of a great adaptation of a Mrs Henry Wood Melodromatic pot boiler; East Lynne. From back when radio 4 could expend seven hours of drama on moralising Victorian pulp fiction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006fdd
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 July 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
I have to say I like how actually doing a podcast has already made me more attuned to the finer points of recording and editing, as well as pacing in general — each episode is building on the last as I am able to drill down on certain points. I’m not saying we still can’t improve but it is happening!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link