Podcasts

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

Third episode is up!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/3

will listen!

the Michael Lewis podcast Against the Rules is pretty irresistible to me rn

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npwVEkinqxI

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

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!

I'm really not enjoying It Could Happen Here, but it's kept me riveted.

That podcast was good enough that I checked out the host's other show Behind the Bastards, but it's that format I kind of hate where someone presents information and two other people crack dumb jokes.

Yeah, my friend really likes The Dollop, but the one time I gave it a shot it sounded like a Morning Zoo thing. Like, "Welcome back to the Dollop, my name is David ... AND I'M THE SQUEEGE!"

Digging Abby Travis podcast right now: https://soundsoffpodcast.com - all LA punk luminaries, but the premise (Abby + friends walking around and doing stuff) has led to some incredible conversations. If anything just list to her and Exene walking around the City Of Orange farmers market, talking about her life prior to moving to LA and starting X. Also, don't miss the one with Kira Rossler where they walk around Hollywood and visit the Masque and the Canterbury.

Episode 4 of our Tolkien podcast is live...

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/4

I’m enjoying your podcast, Ned! It’s entertainingly nerdy, but in a way that doesn’t take it all too seriously. The right tone.

Thanks! Much appreciated. Spread the word and/or review if you can!

I found “the Roth show” last night, may dip a toe in

Also on the latest Robert plant one it was unexpected and nice to hear him heap praise on Townes van zandt. Didn’t get too specific but that’s ok

Cause there was a pretty huge gap in ‘72 between “the late great TVZ” and LZ IV

Bummed to learn that 80s All Over is never going to move beyond April 1985:

https://www.80sallover.com/podcast/2019/7/1/psn7ptm90dfxaieh9a8qz9dnsnioky