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 (three 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 (three 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
has anyone ever done a series specifically about cop shows / depictions of cops on teevee? it's an idea I've been kicking around
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
you could call it 'The Sipowicz Report'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
There is this show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/headlong-running-from-cops/id1459118695
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 19 June 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
ah, a miniseries. so not too well trod ground.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Public link for that, if anyone wants it: https://www.topic.com/runningfromcops
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
Anybody got any favorite kids' podcasts? I haven't found many good ones.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
Radiolab just released a collection of their episodes that are kid-friendly
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, June 19, 2020 10:06 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, June 19, 2020 10:13 AM (one week ago)
"The Loose Canon"
― rob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
haha. nice.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
Unctious i will check that out. actually the first episode of Radiolab I ever heard was this one: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/91929-helicopter-boy
about a kid who listens to Radiolab.
Andrew Loog Oldham is back after more than a year with another "Sounds and Vision" episode, a talk with May Pang. This pod always has interesting discussions (not interviews but friendly discussions).
― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
would I get sued for calling a podcast about Kaczynski "ted talk"?
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
even if you did it would be worth it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
Ted Talk: Cabin Fever
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 July 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
Meantime, our latest! On the Lord of the Rings musical!
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/16
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 July 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Thought I would try listening to ALAB (All Lawyers Are Bastards), starting with the episode about the fan fiction Omegaverse. It starts off with three gravel voiced american men laughing about masturbating to wolf porn. This is why I hate podcasts.
― neith moon (ledge), Monday, 13 July 2020 08:12 (three years ago) link
History fangirl which seems to have abruptly ended a couple of years ago unless it morphed into Ancient History fangirl.But has some very interesting episodes.One particular on Black Pioneers which was an area I had no knowledge of before hearing. Had hoped there might be some but most history seems to be everyone of colour was a slave up to a certain point and only around in that capacity. This shows freemen taking off for themselves.Often having to deal with consequences of having NO legal support, representation in court etc and even when successful and making money subject to having their property shot up set on fire etc etc Greenwood wasn't the only point of extreme injustice.
The presenter also did an episode on the Green Book the book Black travellers relied on while travelling in the early 20th century under segregation. Showing where people could eat, use the toilet, sleep and so on. All basic necessities that were denied under Jim Crow.
Oddly same presenter also did a sympathetic episode on the writer of Gone With The Wind which might seem a tad contraries since those 2 I mention were done pretty well thought some white privilege might show through. Would be good to get a more black perspective on them though. But really liked those 2.
― Stevolende, Monday, 13 July 2020 09:06 (three years ago) link
Tried Hardcore History again, still hate it
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 13 July 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
I tapped out on HH some time ago. I was on the fence with Carlin's delivery but hung with it until I got wind of some really unreflective right-wing shit he came out with on his 'current events' podcast.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 July 2020 09:36 (three years ago) link
an amateur conflict historian turned out to have right-wing views??
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 13 July 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
his current events stuff was pretty reliably centrist
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 13 July 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
like he basically ended the show because he thought his ideas about grassroots centrist populism had been hijacked and perverted by Trump
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 13 July 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
I’ve listened to the first 4 eps of the new podcast about Traci Lords, “Once Upon a Time in the Valley”Rialto Report’s Ashley West is a cocreator so they have tons of interviews w all of the players from the era, which is a selling pointTonally it’s a bit too arch & knowing which I don’t like - just tell the fking story without all the playful gimmickry. And... I will be interested to see where this goes bc so far it feels like it’s grinding the porn industry’s ax about Traci for them. Or maybe West has his own beef with her? Taking apart her autobiography line by line def reveals something about the creators but I am not sure what it is yet. But the porn industry is such a closed circle it’s like ok so they’re all pissed at her and West or whoever wants to tell the truth about Lords and how she was in on it from the offok fine but the rest of the world is coming into this story knowing she was underage. She is viewed as a child. So it just comes off as bad faith to be doing this indepth takedown of how in control & into it she was when she’s 15/16!I don’t quite see how it’s going to go over when all is said and done, if they really are trying make the porn industry’s argument on their behalf. But maybe I am getting ahead of myself.It’s still a good listen but I am holding my breath a little to see where it all goes.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 July 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
oh - the other cocreator & host is Lili Anolik, contributing editor for Vanity Fair
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 July 2020 05:06 (three years ago) link
haven't heard but saw an interview with Anolik saying "it's 12 episodes long, don't assume our intent yet!"
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 23 July 2020 05:31 (three years ago) link
yeah I am def hoping this takes me on a journeyone highlight for sure is that the interviews are legit great, West always gets good conversation from his subjects
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 July 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
I read an interview with one of the hosts and she talked about how bitter the old timers still were.
If Traci Lords at (barely) 18 was smart enough to film one movie she owned then narc on the entire industry to make her property more valuable... fuckin' kudos.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 23 July 2020 06:48 (three years ago) link
Just a light chat about Tolkien and imperialism in our newest!
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/17
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 August 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
Will listen!
i'm all-in on Once Upon A Time In The Valley
god it's so trashy
'Here's where the story GETS HARD. But will it be TOO MUCH for Traci to SWALLOW? Find out next week' etc
But I've always enjoyed hearing the story of a subculture told from the inside and it's doing a very good job of it.. And frankly, imagining an NPR-style telling of this story? I prefer the trashy version.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 August 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
xp Ooh, my kind of topic. I've been forgetting to tune in. I listened to everything up to Tom Bombadil, which was apparently 9 episodes ago.
― jmm, Monday, 10 August 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
WELL. Think of it this way, there's a lot more to enjoy! (We especially loved doing last month's episode about the musical adaptation of LOTR.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 August 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
A new By-the-Bywater? It must be true! It's all ents all the time this time.
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/18
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 September 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
https://lydianspin.libsyn.com/
Did not know that Lydia Lunch had a pod
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 13 September 2020 05:24 (three years ago) link
Secret History of Hollywood’s Cary Grant series has started - am halfway through Part 1 and completely enthralled. The host, Adam Roche, does SUCH an incredible job with the research & production, and the storytelling is fantastic. Rather similar to an audiobook in style & approach. But overall the podcast itself def at the top of my alltime favorites. His James Cagney/Warner Bros series, and the Universal Monsters series were both excellent & full of rich detail. Havent listened to the Val Lewton series tho I probably should give it a go.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 September 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
*downloads ep*
12 hrs, 40 mins, 44 sec runtime
man these better be weekly
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link
lolyeah they are HUGE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
Been listening through Uncivil which is a black perspective on the Civil War and it's aftermath. A couple of years old but very good.
Media - Eval One on the medieval world in film and other media.It reviews the film/tv show then points out historical inaccuracy. They then tell you what they would do with the premise. Who they would cast and change the plot to make more historical sense.I quite enjoy it.Just a little surprised by how late they go. They've covered Dumas historical stuff like 3 Musketeers and Man In The Iron Mask. Does medieval go up to 17th century?Good though.
Lexicon Valley I've gone back to the beginning with while trying to keep up to date with new ones.Interesting overview of history of dialects and vocabulary incorporating show tunes into the format.
History of the English language Slowly working through this too.
I also discovered webinars over the summer which takes up some of the time I was listening to podcasts in.Don't work as well on phone as sound source while I'm mobile though. Tend to have visual content etc.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 17 September 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link