Podcasts

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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.

OooooooooooooooOOOOoooh! Hold me back!

I listened to a comedy podcast and was mad that it wasnt an informative podcast about music

I’ve been listening to Hollywood Handbook for years and have not heard one piece of actionable advice!

I’d love to hear Scott and Scott do a Radiohead podcast where they never get around to discussing the band and then read the angry iTunes reviews from fans and ilxors

where Colin is "Jonny Greenwood's brother" and Jonny is "Colin Greenwood's brother"? I would be into this.

Singer is Tom Radiohead

R U talking Radiohead in the vicinity of my head?

I'm pretty sure at one point they briefly discuss what other bands they could discuss after they are done and the one other band they found that they were both really into at one point was radiohead, so they will probably do that, just probably with an even worse title.

"Radio 'Head, I've got two smokies on my back door and I'm comin in hot"

If On A Winter’s Night A Radiohead Podcast

Narrator of a big budget investigative podcast pic.twitter.com/I25zlGzYSI

— cancela lansbury (@gossipbabies) September 26, 2019

Prof Tad Delay’s new book “Against” on American Evangelical culture brings a lot of Marx, Freud, and Lacan to it and how it lines up with a lot of the real fashy parts of capitalism.

He made a series of short episodes summarizing his book that I think you’ll dig:

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/tad-delay/

Our latest episode is up! More Tom Bombadil than you can shake a stick at.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/8

Ned also on the new Hit Parade episode
https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2019/11/the-cure-depeche-mode-the-smiths-new-order-genre

I get around. Anyway, our own latest -- magic? You got it.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/9

I feel like this is the real-life Hollywood Handbook:
https://www.earwolf.com/show/homophilia/

Our tenth episode is live!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/10

might give this a go as i'm currently up to date with by-the-bywater and ALABseries:

Listening to "Chapter 1: "Loomings"" at https://t.co/bxSSp4EfvK

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) January 23, 2020

Honestly, at this point I'm less bothered by "everyone has a podcast now!" than I am by how every marginally successful podcast has to turn into a "podcast empire" or "podcast network" that churns out 20 hours of content a week and spends 10 minutes per episode shaming fans about the content they are missing by NOT HEARING IT ALL RIGHT NOW.

I mean, kudos to folks like Maron that just keep doing their thing without seeing success as a license to keep expanding.

We just keep it simple and note that we're part of a network (which is very small anyway, and we're glad to be part of it -- helped immensely on the basic publicity/art front alone).

I like all the knockoff podcasts now: "Ladies Drinking Wine and Talking about Stalkers!"

xpost - It's not the idea of networks that turn me off, I think folks like Osiris and other networks are doing really good work in helping to distribute great podcasts. It's more stuff like Earwolf and Maximum Fun that feel increasingly insular and cross-referential that drive me kinda crazy. We can blame Kevin Smith for this one and his whole Smodcast empire, which I think was the first one that was really egregious about this kind of thing.

Episode 11 up!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/11

it's old now but this ep of THIS WEEK IN ATROCITY accurately foretold the fall of michael avenetti in hilarious (depressingly hilarious) detail: https://soundcloud.com/user-695156563/053-jerry-lundegaards-basta

(feat.charles star then also of the late lamented mic dicta, but less chaotic than mic dicta often was)

Google Podcasts currently driving me crazy, podcasts that I know exist are no longer searchable no matter what I try (unless they are suddenly not on Google Podcasts anymore, but still on other services, which I guess is possible). Also recent UI updates have made the most commonly used functions (hitting play on a new episode, mark as played, remove download) either smaller targets or moved to a less accessible drop-down.

unless they are suddenly not on Google Podcasts anymore, but still on other services, which I guess is possible

the BBC and Radio France pulled their podcasts from Google about a year ago and no doubt others have too. it has to do with Google linking directly to the audio files from search results and bypassing those providers’ own apps.

google should just by stitcher, wondery etc and corner the podcast market. i don't think the DOJ would care, those guys haven't even heard of podcasts

Part of me hopes all these podcast networks get bought by warring content providers and go behind paywalls so don’t feel like I need to keep listening to so many fucking shows

I kinda wonder if anyone actually paid for Luminary

And just like that, those podcasts I couldn't find for days are now back (or accessible again). Idk.

I've been enjoying E1 lately, although I find it hard to make it through an entire ep -- the concepts are great but anything conceptual is hard to sustain for that long.

The Cash Kia and classic sports eps were both v good.

i like that the US seems to have lawyers who are knowledgeable AND funny even abt p dark stuff, the uk equivalents are mostly pompous and dreary (also often weirdly wrong): 5-4 and ALAB are both the errant children of the lamented mic dicta, sharing some (very funny) hosts and even some (fake) beef

ALAB tears into bloomberg (much of it abt exorbitant violence at rikers): "this is not a funny episode"
https://soundcloud.com/alabpodcast/episode-9-mikes-charnel-house-for-children

5-4 on bush vs gore (e2 on citizens united just dropped but i haven't listened yet):
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bush-v-gore/id1497785843?i=1000466622246

ALAB is a good podcast, it indeed scratches the itch Mic Dicta did for its brief period of existence

new Reply All episode where they try to track down an unknown single is very good. Reminds me of our Grim Reapah thread.

That was terrific. No spoilers;

Cosign. I've never listened to Reply All before, and none of the other episode summaries particularly make me want to, but that was near perfect. Like a Serial style true crime detective show except a) short and ii) no-one gets killed.

I respect the chutzpah of Rob Sheffield hypothesizing that this song he doesn't recognize is therefore likely a fake.

xpost you should listen to the episode about the ilxor thread "So Not Gonna Happen"

Reply All is generally great and as a testament to how great and I bulk listened to it and I *wish* someone would tell PJ Vogt to s l o w down when he talks, he misses every third consonant and his maniacal uptalking drove me a bit mad.

Reply All is something very rare: a great podcast with unbearable hosts.

The bit at the start of the missing hit episode where he names his forgotten sci-fi book - I clicked back and listened to it about ten times and had absolutely no idea what he was saying. then i saw the link to the transcript.

xpost you should listen to the episode about the ilxor thread "So Not Gonna Happen"

oh yeah i did hear that one - slightly squirmy :)

just did a search for reply all super tech support episodes - https://gimletmedia.com/search?q=super%20tech%20support - and yeah these might be worthwhile.

I'd actually unsubbed from Reply All (well, not re-subbed) until this bump. I think the Indian call centre episode is mentioned up thread. That's really good as well.

I'm digging Marlon & Jake Read Dead People. It's just Marlon James and his editor shooting the shit about old novels.

there are now three law podcasts sprung from mic dicta's murky demise:

ALAB = https://soundcloud.com/alabpodcast
hostile witness = https://soundcloud.com/hwpod
5-4 = https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/54-podcast

oooh Hostile Witness actually has Charles hosting, nice.