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
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
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
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
I kinda wonder if anyone actually paid for Luminary
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
And just like that, those podcasts I couldn't find for days are now back (or accessible again). Idk.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 February 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 24 February 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
ALAB is a good podcast, it indeed scratches the itch Mic Dicta did for its brief period of existence
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
new Reply All episode where they try to track down an unknown single is very good. Reminds me of our Grim Reapah thread.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
That was terrific. No spoilers;
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 5 March 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
I respect the chutzpah of Rob Sheffield hypothesizing that this song he doesn't recognize is therefore likely a fake.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
xpost you should listen to the episode about the ilxor thread "So Not Gonna Happen"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
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.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
Reply All is something very rare: a great podcast with unbearable hosts.
― JRN, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
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.
oh yeah i did hear that one - slightly squirmy :)
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
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.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
I'm digging Marlon & Jake Read Dead People. It's just Marlon James and his editor shooting the shit about old novels.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link
oooh Hostile Witness actually has Charles hosting, nice.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
yes
― mark s, Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Latest ep of Reply All is the best in a long time: PJ hunts down a song from the 90s that the internet doesn’t think exists.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 13 March 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
Trying a fake investigative/true crime BBC series based on Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 13 March 2020 03:45 (four years ago) link
Ha that RA episode is talked about upthread
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 13 March 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
goes to show how hardcore a dilettante he is
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z)
I really liked this but I listen to a looooooooot of horror audio dramas, so I'm clearly good with some of the faux-investigative tropes that might put others off that stuff.
― emil.y, Friday, 13 March 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
What other stuff do you like emil.y?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
My favourites are Within the Wires (perhaps not so much 'horror' but deep uneasiness and very interesting formal framework) and I Am In Eskew (Lovecraftian dystopia). A little busy at the moment but I can come back with a longer list of recommendations later.
― emil.y, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
I would love that! :)
I know WTW but not the second one
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 March 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
I am the dilettante-iest! Xxxp
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 14 March 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link
Looking back up thread I totally recognize that conversation, which actually got me to go back to RA & download the recent eps. But for some reason I thought the convo had been on reddit. *shrugs sheepishly*
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 14 March 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
I think my pal Mary does the music for Within The Wires.
Listened to the latest Reply-All and I was ready for that Sci-Fi novel that PJ Vogt couldn't remember, but yeah, it was just a mush.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 14 March 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
Our 12th episode is live!
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/12
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
I'm partially responsible for This Game Changed My Life, which launched yesterday. I'm very proud of it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0874xc6
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 March 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
Ooh, nice one Tracer. I completely forgot I promised more horror type recommendations, I swear I will come back with a list soon!
― emil.y, Friday, 27 March 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
James Adomian's Underculture is hit or miss depedning on his chemistry with the guest impersonator but when it hits goddamn
I wld recommend the Joe Rogan-Kim Jong Un interview
I haven't listened yet but this week it's Giuliani in conversation with Dr. Fauci
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
emil.y if you like lovecraft you might also like the charles dexter ward podcast and/or its sequel whisperer in darkness
you might also like The Magnus Archives, an anthology (or is it??) series from Rusty Quill - http://rustyquill.com/the-magnus-archives/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
lol Tracer the conversation about horror pods started with Charles Dexter Ward! I do like the two of those. Most BBC ones are good - would also rep for Murmurs and the sci-fi Forest 404. There was another one I liked that seems to have disappeared from the listings and I can't remember the name, bugger.
Magnus Archives is good but I think a bit overrated, I preferred Archive 81 (and always group those two together in my mind even though they're not related). I also think the Black Tapes is a bit overrated, and Tanis goes all over the place in the end, but Rabbits from the same producers is worthwhile.
Bit of a list: * The White Vault (very highly rated and I think deserves it, spooky shit at a polar research station) * The Deca Tapes (relatively recent sci-fi horror mystery, I absolutely adored this one) * The Polybius Conspiracy (very much 'investigative horror' but this is probably my favourite version of that trope, based on urban legends about an arcade machine) * The Six Disappearances of Ella McCray (spooky mystery) * Among the Stars and Bones (another sci-fi horror, atmospheric) * Passenger List (a missing plane, a potential conspiracy?) * Dreamboy (not exactly horror and definitely NSFW, the writing and feel of this was so well done)
I've probably forgotten loads that I've enjoyed, the big problem with listening to so many is that names blur into one big mass and even looking at my bookmarked ones I find it tough to remember which was which.
― emil.y, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
still have not heard White Vault which is crazy.
loved Deca Tapes and of course Passenger List.
Did you ever hear Earth Break?? absolutely outstanding performance from Jenny Slate. she should win every acting award under the sun for that.
I also really loved Steal The Stars. it maybe.. went on a bit too long but right up my street
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 March 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
My wife is addicted to this one called 'Off Menu', I heard it again today and wonder if I must be missing some fine detail, it is unfathomable to me that she would want to listen to that adenoidal twat James Acaster and his comedy mate talking to another comedy mate about food, but basically just naming foods, like people name old sweets from the past.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
Many podcasts are abhorrent on the first listen or two and then the rhythms of them insinuate themselves into your brain so that you start to crave them like candy
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
Episode 13 is live! We've hit our first anniversary! So logically we celebrated by talking about a TERRIBLE Lord of the Rings crypto-sequel.
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/13
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 April 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
BBC World Service's '13 Mins To The Moon' is the tits.
The first episode of series two kicks off with the story of Apollo 13 and reveals something important I never knew, that the errant oxygen tank that blew out was actually dropped by an engineer pre-install (albeit only by two inches) and the elements were left to run for too long and too hot during testing. I wonder if Darragh thinks they were paid off by Ken Mattingly. :)
― Maresn3st, Friday, 17 April 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link
20 episodes in and I am so blown away by I Am In Eskew that I am actually tempted to audition for their forthcoming follow-up series The Silt Verses.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
Turner Classic Movies has a new podcastHosted by Ben Manciewiczhttps://theplotthickens.tcm.comSeason 1 is about Peter Bogdanovich Seems like it could be pretty good!! Ep1 is already up
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
^^ This is great! I’m thinking this is gonna be the year of peter bogdanovich as karina longworth has hinted that she will be talking about him in her new season of ymrt. Speaking of karina longworh, she has a corona movie club with the guy who does the memory palace: called “it’s the pictures that got small” that is also good.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 1 May 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
Updating that post to note that Karina's will be about Polly Platt, so parallel but with its own focus.
Meantime, Episode 14 of By-The-Bywater is up!
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/14
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
I just saw that podcast where a guy tries to convince people that 2016 was the greatest year for music
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
A new By-the-Bywater? Why yes.
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/15
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 June 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link