Podcasts

i’ve fallen into a Podcast: The Ride rabbithole since their “Pinocchio” crossover w Blank Check last weekend

i’ve been listening to the Downtown Disney Ordeal & i have never been so simultaneously bored & entertained … with the Sector Keeper it’s strangely feeling like a corporate version of the Adventure Zone

anyway i am enjoying immensely & have binged enough episodes that i can now almost tell the difference btw Mike and Scott’s voices

This week's podcast industry shitshow has arrived

NEW: podcast companies are buying millions of listens through auto-playing episodes populated in free mobile games. iHeart, the top podcast publisher on Podtrac, has bought around 6 million unique downloads per month since 2018 https://t.co/5P4xldUvdI

— Ashley Carman (@ashleyrcarman) September 27, 2022

man iHeart can’t stop gaming the system huh?

they are the fucking worst in every way possible

bleh

am becoming a big fan of Jamie Loftus. she has a podcast about spiritualism and one about Mensa.. i think she's brilliant.

she read every Cathy strip ever published and then did a podcast about it with actors re-enacting selecting strips, interviews w Cathy Guisewite etc

i love her spiritualism podcast, it’s great

Anyway we're still chugging along...

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/43

I've been listening to "Lonesome Jack" for years. He puts together solid mixes, although he has a bizarre and unfortunate affection for truly shitty modern country music. Example: this week's episode features "John Deere Green" by Joe Diffie.

When your podcast is just a little TOO timely...

https://art19.com/shows/truss-issues

TIL that the producer of the 5-4 pod (thumbs-uppd a couple of times upthread) is a former ilxor :o

Ha, small world

New year, new episode from us...

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/46

Idea for a podcast talking about monetization strategies for your podcast for entrepreneurs thinking of starting productivity podcasts to suggest the best marketing strategies for your entrepreneurship podcast

Or instead here's my new thing, it's a field recording soundscape of my commute.

https://centuriesofsound.com/podcast/1-2-a-life-in-a-day/

Meantime, our latest:

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/47

Opening Arguments/Cleanup on Aisle 45 imploded over the last few weeks. Looks like the latter is picking itself up with new co-presenter.
OA has appeared in the feed with new co-presenter too but old one complaining on short message on his other show's feed. Looks like he lost the co-presenter of that to main scandal. So he's changing direction with that in near future.

Are these resistance podcasts?

one was MSW I think OA had just gone iundependent.

Cleanup on Aisle 45 is related to Daily Beans, which I listen to almost daily. Isn't Pete Strzok Allison's new co-presenter?

yeah, if he's started. They moved off Spotify so I have to make a conscious effort to play them on their own website. Normally just play through a queue on Spotify.

I've never liked Spotify, I just use the Apple podcasts app.

just got into the habit of using it a few years ago. So still using it.

Pete Strzok did start this week, yeah

There’s one advantage which Spotify has over Apple, and that’s adding clickable links to the episode notes: we need them on ours in order to direct people to playlists of the tracks we discuss in each episode, and they’re also handy for social media links.

Opening Arguments/Cleanup on Aisle 45 imploded over the last few weeks. Looks like the latter is picking itself up with new co-presenter.
OA has appeared in the feed with new co-presenter too but old one complaining on short message on his other show's feed. Looks like he lost the co-presenter of that to main scandal. So he's changing direction with that in near future.

― Stevo, Sunday, February 26, 2023 9:56 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Holy shit. I hadn't listened to OA in a few weeks. That suuuuuuucks.

Apple Podcasts allows clickable links in show notes.

My biggest beef with it is that it does not offer many options for constructing playlists, unlike, say, Pocket Casts, which lets you set up all kinds of filters and has many useful default ones, e.g., unfinished episodes.

Oh, I just checked, so it does - good to know! I’d only been looking on iTunes for Windows, duh.

Our latest is up...

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/48

And we're doing our first live episode soon, in late April!

Me too!

https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/03/13/1-3-port-out

Must get around to checking out your LOTR podcast, Ned, truth is that I have failed to read the book on three occasions, so feel unprepared. My cousin is an author and LOTR obsessive and I've pointed her in your direction.

This is cool. The Maximum Fun podcast network is switching to a worker-owned cooperative
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-03-20/maximum-fun-jesse-thorn-podcasts-cooperative

xpost No worries, you still have time -- like, a month's time, so you can come out and join us for our first live episode!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/live-2023

(Yes, yes, you may not be in Portland but imagine if.)

I am imagining portland right now

Great wisdom.

I’ve been enjoying “What Is Politics?” and “Fight Like An Animal” lately, both leftist shows that deal with a lot of materialist anthropology and psychology.

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, April 27, 2022 7:26 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

just wanna thank kingfish for this, "fight like an animal" became an immediate favorite. i've listened to most episodes at this point, some of them more than once. it has clarified my thoughts on a lot of things related to politics, activism, social organization, humanity in general...

Oh good, glad you dig it!

recommended episodes? seems heady.

i was hooked from the get go, he sets out his thesis in the first few episodes and then builds it out and explores various facets of it from there, but "genocidal mystics" or "what elephants can teach us about civil war" are early episode that might be a bit more approachable than the almost five hour three-part series he starts with. iirc he also gets a better mic at some point.

it's the kind of thing where you have to be interested in the content b/c the guy isn't an exceptional orator, he makes it clear he started podcasting as an expedient way to get his ideas out there and then was surprised at how much he enjoyed it. but he is a fascinating person with pretty incredible biographical details that trickle out in the course of him sharing what appears to be his life's work (e.g. raised in a cult, spent much of his life as a radical eco-activist, etc.)

I would personally recommend the eps Arnold recorded with Derick Varn of the Varn Vlog and Daniel from “What Is Politics?”, but I’m checking now if those chats are even available outside of paywall.

JUst discovered a podcast called Deep Focus which does look like it should be pretty i depth. Multiple 2 hour shows on artists a lot from the free jazz scene so place I'm starting is a 1hr 50 1st out of 3 episodes on William Hooker talking about Sunny Murray. Iwas looking up Loft Jazz on Spotify and couldn't see specific episodes on the scene so started going through artist names from the blurb for the book o the subject. Looks like it could be a treasure trove. Also covers people like Jeff beck, Jack Bruce and Steely Dan but loads 9n 60s/70s jazz by people who look like they should know a lot about things including William Hooker here.

The Books on Fire series on Caliban and the Witch which I am hoping to get to read soonish.
Which in turn directed me to a series called Seeing White from a couple of years ago.

actually whole Hooker on Murray thing is about 3 hours, not sure where i got the longer duration thing from. Looks good anyway.

thanks for the tip.

Seeing White was really good.

Sunset Sound Studios has a podcast - multi-part, hours-long deep dives on albums recorded there. Recommended if you're into tiny details on Prince and Van Halen albums!

Daily Beans is back on Spotify. Only just found out about it. AG had left in protest about Joe Rogan and set up MSW media as the main platform. I tend to listen to everything on Spotify still so hopefully good to see this, cos I kept forgetting to listen to episodes on a different platform and I can now set up playlist queues including it and transfer to my phone too..

Our fiftieth episode is live!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/50

And hey, want to see what a live recording of a podcast episode is like? Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DK27zoiJE

(We're now fully up on YouTube as well -- audio only aside from that appearance! But a great way to showcase Jared's art.)

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

Sorry about the second link:

http://www.youtube.com/@By-The-Bywater

I've decided to finally get back into Cocaine & Rhinestones.
It's good, really good, but I have a couple of problems:
* I'm finding I still just don't care for a lot of country music, especially post-60s
* Everything about Tyler is in some way annoying.

His genius move remains putting up those complete transcripts if you just want to read 'em.