Podcasts

Need to find one with lots of Radiophonic Workshop bleeps and bloops.

Give this one a try - https://archive.org/details/TheSlide

ooh, thanks

Btw, the new episode of the pod I make is talking with the Cannabis Workers Coalition, a new group organizing THC/CBD workers

https://m.soundcloud.com/givingthemic/80-weed-workers-of-the-world-unite-ft-the-cannabis-workers-coalition

sick!!!

I guess there's no harm in saying the akerman pod with kate is finally in the planning stages....we are daunted but stoked

super late to the game but I just started listening to Open Mike Eagle’s “What Had Happened Was”

goddamn it is a great listen if you are into hip hop stories, loving the first season w Prince paul — it scratches the itch i’ve had since The Champs closed up shop

Really enjoyed "The White Saviors" which just finished its run yesterday. I don't know how much media coverage the whole "WE" charity thing got outside of Canada, but it's basically about a corrupt charity organization that is run in an almost cult-like way and making huge amounts of money for the charity's founders. Along the way it goes into why rich people try to make themselves feel good with voluntourism, how companies associate themselves with charities in order to get their marketing into schools and various other shady aspects of charity organizations.

This is fun; https://miniondeathcult.libsyn.com/i-would-suppose-the-dna-of-white-folks-is-uppermost-of-interest-to-the-chinese

Got to catch a l;ive edition of Backlisting last week. Somehow forgot I had listened to several editions of the show a while back until it was underway.
It was on as part of the Galway Arts Festival First THoughts Talks series. INteresting, has me wanting to read some JM Coetzee which I don't remember having done til now.

We have a new ep interviewing a panel of leftist vets coming out this week, y’all might dig it

Veterinarians or veterans?

Veterans

So I kind of fell out of love with podcasts for awhile, partly to do with the fact they became my job. I heard so many bad ones. And some good ones. But even the good ones sounded like other podcasts. I ended up breaking podcasts down into 4 categories. Many belong to more than one, but this pretty much covers the range of possibilities:

- The Interview
- The Friendship Simulator
- The Mystery
- Knowledge Straight Into My Veins

There are a few tricks people use over and over again. And for some reason Americans, Irish, Canadians and Australians seem particularly good at telling a story on a microphone in a natural, conversational way that makes you want to keep listening. And for the most part British people are terrible at it. Great presenters, great radio voices, terrible podcast voices. I'm still not entirely sure why.

All of this is to say that I finally found a podcast that sounded like something new to me. Now - it's not something new. It's been done a million times before in various ways. But the execution.... is just fuckin tremendous. It is so good that it lifts it out of its niche - improvised drama - a cross between Mystery and Friendship Simulator - and makes it feel like a totally new kind of storytelling. Would a movie version be good? Or a TV version? Or a book? Not really. I mean, maybe. But they would have to be good on entirely different terms. The element that makes Midst so enjoyable is the sense that the world is unfolding, coming to life, in real time, as it's being spoken. There's something like witchcraft about it.

Yes other genres like this exist - i.e. roleplaying podcasts, some of which have been edited so tightly that it almost sounds like a story being told collaboratively. Or Hello From The Magic Tavern, with Chicago improv comedians pretending to be wizards. But this... the world feels entirely realised. The language is so vivid and the sentences unfurl so artfully that it's got the descriptive heft of written fiction. And the performers all clearly enjoy each other so much that you can hear them just bristling with pleasure and anticipation at what each other say.

I really think this is a landmark in audio. It couldn't be done any other way. It's not a calling card to a TV deal. This is its ideal form.

ANYWAY. MIDST. https://www.midstpodcast.com/

ok I gotta ask: what's the difference between a radio voice vs a podcast voice?

most of the stuff I listen to is Knowledge Straight Into My Veins

Started on Malevolent today - Lovecraftian audio drama. It's pretty good, the way the narration works makes it feel like a text adventure game in a way.

And for some reason Americans, Irish, Canadians and Australians seem particularly good at telling a story on a microphone in a natural, conversational way that makes you want to keep listening

is this a subjective thing, i can't bear the tone of most 'two americans having a chat' podcasts (usually guys but i tried one with two women about parenting and i couldn't last five minutes).

I'm super into Bloomberg Odd Lots lately, they do hour-long deep dives on various economic stuff and on specific industries, lately often about various aspects of supply chain issues (shipping, trucking, etc.). Today I listened to an episode on a massive company I knew nothing about called ASML that manufactures the most advanced chip-making equipment in the world, and specifically insanely advanced lithography machines. The technology sounded so impressive that it seemed terrifying and beyond the limits of human comprehension.

I'm completely fascinated by Odd Lots' deep dives into the lumber markets.

Yeah the lumber eps are great. The recent one was good but I especially liked the prior one about the shortage and the various reasons why it wasn't so easy to alleviate. I admittedly zone out a bit on their more macroeconomic eps like the ones about inflation, and no matter how much I try I cannot pay attention to anything about "DeFi." I like when they get into nuts and bolts, like a common theme of the ones I like seems to be physical and real world reasons shit doesn't work like it's supposed to in the econ textbook.

I like their interviews with Michael Pettis on the Chinese finance market, but I wish that they would ask him about D-22 - the underground rock club he opened in Beijing in 2002 that kicked off the whole underground music scene there.

What's interesting out there in the more escapist/arty/unconventional vein? I feel sort of burnt out on "make me smart" type podcasts about supply chains and econ and war.

Desert Oracle might do it for you. I like it often.

Desert Oracle is great. I often put it on as I'm falling asleep.

I just finished I Am in Eskew. If you like weirdness/horror, it's a good one. Very similar vibe to the Magnus Archives. The same production team has a newer one, the Silt Verses, that I am only a couple of episodes into but it is also good and creepy af.

I've just started to re-listen from the start all of the Hello From the Magic Tavern podcasts, pretty hilarious stuff.

Are you after fiction or non-fiction, man alive? If fiction, I concur with I Am in Eskew, one of my favourite horror podcasts. Also, Within the Wires (haven't caught up with later seasons, but will unconditionally recommend the first three). That one is not explicitly horror so much, but does have unconventionally-presented creepiness. They're both reasonably well-known, though, so you might have come across them before.

I'd not heard of Desert Oracle before, but it sounds like my kind of thing, so I for one will be giving it a try.

for me Magic Tavern and Uhh Yeah Dude are basically the pinnacles of the form and yes i do feel not good that it’s 100% white dude

there are plenty of other podcasts i like, many of which are “better” by various yardsticks but those two would not work in any other medium and they are both just so consistently inventive and hilarious

"fiction or non-fiction" -- I often enjoy things that are somewhere in between. I used to love listening to Joe Frank before podcasts were a thing, which I guess was mostly fiction but had this feeling of reality/surreality to it.

Some of my friends worked on this podcast... it's narrative fiction with a magic realist bent. I thought it was pretty good. They do a lot of stuff with sound editing.

https://twitter.com/milkywaytransit

I’ve listened to a couple of Desert Oracle eps earlier on in the pandemic and enjoyed them v much. I *think* that guy used to be the Wonkette editor which is kinda funny.
I should listen again/ more

co-sign UYD 4 lyfe

I am terrified* to have never even heard of UYD and that there are over NINE HUNDRED episodes. Is there a podcast version of 'it gets *really* good in season 9!' or do I just start at the beginning?

*Terrified because my FOMO is positively crackling with the thought of how many other great podcasts am I missing out on?

A lot of the older UYD episodes are not on podcast platforms. You could probably just start with recent episodes and see if you want to want to check out the backlog.

A few years ago they switched from 1 episode a week to 2, and it's been hard for me to keep up

yeah I dip in and out.

this is my only UYD exposure and they're incredible but there haven't been many new ones in the intervening decade, I don't know if this is a regular part of the pod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbgVFy41reM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xluqh7SdMLc

lmao HOW long have they been doing this show? i just checked their youtube channel and somehow these are the same guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOvnwG7aliM

Vince Vaughn in Swingers vs. Vince Vaughn today

uhhh yeah dude is the one podcast I never really tire of. Kind of crazy that I have spent over 500 hours listening to these two dudes talking.

I think you can just start anywhere with it and you don't have to listen to every episode. It does get better as you get to know the hosts but it's not one of those comedy podcasts where there are a bunch of inscrutable inside jokes or a bunch of mini-narratives you have to keep up with.

their chemistry & genuine affection for each other as friends is the soul of the show & the reason for the longevity.
Seth’s curation of material, knowing exactly what will get Jonathan spun up or what will set them both off

there’s nothing else like it because it’s not a comedy podcast - it’s a ~friendship~ podcast

2006 4 Life
Seatbelts
skype it to my inbox

I have an allergy to podcasts that consist of two or more dudes sitting around laughing at their own jokes.

I was going for a hike and parked my car in a dirt lot near the mountain. The only other car in the lot had a UYD bumper sticker. For the whole hike I was hoping to bump into someone else so I could yell Seatbelts

<3

omg i haven't listened to uyd but two times since i stopped commuting and i am dying at "cock unsure" and "your ideal sexual metadaddy"

I have an allergy to podcasts that consist of two or more dudes sitting around laughing at their own jokes.

me too and i totally wrote them off for a good long time. even then not everyone will like it and that’s fine. i eventually couldn’t handle that heavy a dose of jonathan so i laid off for awhile but i like to dip back in. they do have something special between them.

omgod they look like kids in those first two clips

never forget

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

I have an allergy to podcasts that consist of two or more dudes sitting around laughing at their own jokes.

in my own quest for podcast-like material (lectures, monologues, or other spoken word stuff to listen to while working or cleaning), and just yesterday in the course of tracking down some joe frank programs from the '80s, it occurred to me that there might be an interest for a catch-all thread for word / quasi-spoken word stuff that maybe doesn't qualify as a podcast? wherein people could post interesting youtube videos and soundcloud links? maybe we have it already, or maybe it's sprinkled in with this and other podcast threads. just a thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIG636ri4r8

I think a couple things were mentioned in the Joe Frank thread? S/D: Joe Frank