Podcasts

Our fifth episode is up...

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/5

Hey Simon, is Hacks still a thing?

That Record Got Me High
2 guys in Florida discussing a somewhat eclectic bunch of records.

― Stevolende, Monday, August 12, 2019 4:56 AM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

These guys are great.

I am the enthusiastically stammering/bumbling guest on the most recent episode

I’m enjoying Patient Zero

i really enjoy the east is a podcast https://www.eastpodcast.com

The East is a Podcast is a show that focuses a critical lens on the history of the present of the modern Middle East and North Africa. Interviews with experts and archival mashups.

good eps on kashmir and yemen recently.

sound quality usually not great, lots of skyping

Hey Simon, is Hacks still a thing?

Nah, fatal scheduling issues. Blame children.

xp i've mentioned it many times before but if u don't already listen to the afropop worldwide podcast it combines amazing music w/ lots of great historical and contemporary information about the countries it visits and many episodes use music as a launching pad to explore much larger conflicts. i haven't listened yet but very interested in recent ep "Bolsonaro Is and Isn't" which they describe in ep description as a "look at who Bolsonaro is, who his targets are, and how he rose to power. We also hear the first round of songs written to protest his hard, right-wing politics." there was an ep a year or so ago about Kagame and his imprisoning of musician Kizito Mihigo that was v good, a recent ep about the relationship btwn haiti and DR and musical exchanges, etc.

that does sound good

Subscribed, based on that description alone

Nah, fatal scheduling issues. Blame children

That’ll happen

Thanks for the Afropop Worldwide recommendation!

That Record Got Me High
2 guys in Florida discussing a somewhat eclectic bunch of records.

― Stevolende, Monday, August 12, 2019 4:56 AM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

These guys are great.

I am the enthusiastically stammering/bumbling guest on the most recent episode

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Haven’t listened to your episode yet, Hadrian. Will pass harsh judgment in the near future.

And our sixth episode is live!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/6

"they ramble so much & never stop to give the music a chance to say its piece."

I actually think they do a pretty good job keeping the rambling to a minimum, but agree about the music. I guess you can just pause and listen to the songs on spotify if you need to tho. Ive been loving this show recently - the level of geekery, and music theory, is just where I like it.

I was specifically beefing about the Wrong episode — I quite enjoyed the Reckoning one, everyone knew when to pause and bask in the jangle.

Except Interrupty McInterruptison still a sore spot.

And now I’m hooked on TRGMH. The Wrong episode was terrible, otherwise a great podcast. I’d like it if they tightened up the editing & spotlighted more of the music, esp when they point out a record’s great moments.

New Dear Joan & Jericha episodes are up!

it's just as good too imo

Our seventh episode is live!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/7

Just managed to make it 12mins into a This Album Got Me High episode and jesus it's awful. I hate the podcasts where it's just random people bullshitting for 10mins like we are interested in their friendly banter. This is my primary issue with podcasts. I don't like the nonsense at the start where they're just shooting the shit. Get to the fucking details immediately. I'm sure i'm alone in this because it seems nearly every podcast someone recommends requires me thinking the inside jokes of the hosts and their witty banter is fucking hilarious. I don't. I won't. I'm on some Dragnet shit. Just the facts ma'am.

podcasts need a netflix style "skip intro" button imo

This is my primary issue with podcasts. I don't like the nonsense at the start where they're just shooting the shit. Get to the fucking details immediately

This is my primary issue with television shows. I don’t like the nonsense at the start where they’re just sitting around a curved table discussing celebrity gossip of the day. Just get to the fucking dead bodies and clues immediately.

Speaking as a fan of banter oh wait. Our episodes have maybe a minute or two of that at the start and separately at the end, because why not, but otherwise we try to talk about what we're there for.

podcasts are just having friends simulators for some people so banter is popular. i mean there's lots of popular podcasts which are literally just banter

Ha I was just listening to a recent That Record Got Me High a couple days a go and thought to myself how, by podcast standards, on-topic those guys tend to stay during the intro section. Lowered expectations, I guess.

Clearly my position is the minority opinion. I'm listening to Heavyweight right now, and it does not suffer from the pointless banter, though it does have some back and forth before each episode gets to the subject.

xp, maybe I should push through minute 12. It was the REM Reckoning episode. On a related note, I can't get through a single R U Talking About REM episode. Those guys are the worst. Maybe someone will edit the jokes and banter out and just keep the information.

any suggestions for history podcasts? have been working my way through Mike Duncan's excellent Revolutions podcast, similar shows would be appreciated. also we are coming up on our 50th episode of the 78Man Presents show, never imagined we'd get anywhere near this many!

ha ha I was going to bring up RU Talking REM as a podcast that takes banter to its furthest limit

xpost - have you done Mike’s history of rome?

xxpost Two I've enjoyed since they both started have been Tides of History (and its predecessor The Fall of Rome) and The Age of Napoleon.

Wittenberg to Westphalia, Literature and History, Inward Empire, The Human Circus, The Constant, When Diplomacy Fails are good

Clearly my position is the minority opinion.

Nope. The 'shooting the shit inside jokes harhar amirite fellers' intros to lots of podcasts put me off, too. (and the laughter, sooo much laughter that it just so off-putting).

99% of the people are a drag to listen to. This was the case before podcasts arrived, and has not changed.

yes listened to History of Rome last summer, really excellent stuff! I also read his book The Storm Before The Storm which is good but is lacking the jokes/wit. It probably wouldn't have worked very well on the page so I can understand why he left that stuff out, but it makes the book more dry as a result.
thanks Ned, Tides of History/Fall of Rome looks like exactly the sort of thing I am looking for.

just random people bullshitting for 10mins like we are interested in their friendly banter

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, October 22, 2019 11:47 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

random guy says ouch

Fwiw I'd bullshit for 10mins with u Hadrian

(I just wouldn't want to record/cast it)

Age of Napoleon is swell, similar vibe to Revolutions imo

LBI I am free most evenings but wearing a wire

thanks Ned, Tides of History/Fall of Rome looks like exactly the sort of thing I am looking for.

The original Fall of Rome series was just him and it's a classic 'dude with a mic' approach, some flubbed bits in the edit, etc. But Wyman knows his stuff and it built a following -- he had a Deadspin series (of all things) going at the time, I think through the Concourse specifically -- and it got smoother as it went, then it transformed into Tides and he started working with a production team. He does pretty good interviews as well; a number of recent episodes are just that, talking with a variety of academics and writers.

Age of Napoleon is swell, similar vibe to Revolutions imo

I'll have to keep that in mind! But yeah, it's been an absolutely essential example of living up to the title -- while Bonaparte is the focus, he did an extensive job in scene-setting even before introducing him, and all the various side divergences and explorations have been amazing. Very glad I was all in from the first episode.

LBI I am free most evenings but wearing a wire

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, October 22, 2019 7:17 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hot! 555-999-LBI *winks*

I like Tides Of History but it has the Wondery problem of ad overload

A lot of podcasts do. I just mentally tune out.

I can't get through a single R U Talking About REM episode. Those guys are the worst. Maybe someone will edit the jokes and banter out and just keep the information.

The guitarist’s name is Peter Dollar Bill, and the band once appeared on Party Of Five. There, you now have 100% of the informational content.

the singer is michael stipend

dammit I guess I’d better relisten to them all to catch important details I’ve forgotten

They also answered how it feels when you're in REM

Feels good!

My friend reco’d the RU-REM2 podcast & I listened to about 10 minutes ... then I tried to skip the bullshit and banter & ffwd myself to the good bits ... and I never found the good bits.

Did you listen to one with a guest on? You'd get to find out when they first heard of R.E.M.