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I know I'm really goddamn upset someone did an Animorphs podcast before I could sucker some dweebs into doing one with me. ):

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Now what you are looking for sbm, but You Must Remember This is suddenly back \o/

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17 hours ago, SuperBiasedMan said:

In both cases the hosts just do a deep dive on each book/episode as they make their way through.

 

Does anyone have any other recommendations for podcasts that cover other media in a similar way? 

 

It's been recommended previously but: The X-Files Files with one of the actors from Silicon Valley.

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17 minutes ago, Ben X said:

 

It's been recommended previously but: The X-Files Files with one of the actors from Silicon Valley.

 

Thanks! I should've asked for this in my previous post, but do you think I'd miss much by not having seen all of X-Files and not watching along with them?

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Yes, definitely! You'd probably still enjoy it a bit, but watching along is the optimum mode. If it helps, he only got towards the end of season 4, so it's not like you'll have to slog through the ever-diminishing returns.

 

(edited previous post with link)

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The latest episode of 'Idle thumbs 2010' better known as Daft Souls was really good. They even talked about far cry 2 and Jurassic park

 

http://coolghosts.net/cool-stuff/2017/2/1/daftsouls88

 

this podcast should get folded into the idle thumbs family. I wonder if that would be beneficial to each other? especially considering idle thumbs doesn't want to talk about games anymore, daft Souls can be their gaming podcast. 

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I've been listening to Reply All lately and it's just plain great all around. It's equal parts bizarre, touching, funny, and interesting.

 

Per their about page:

 

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Reply All is a show about the internet and trained rats, time travel, celebrity dogs, lovelorn phone scammers, angry flower children, workplace iguanas, and more.

 

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I'm still working through backlog, but damn, this show is a pure joy. I'm on their call-in episode and it's just so good!

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I'm four episodes into The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium and enjoying it: https://art19.com/shows/the-mysterious-secrets-of-uncle-berties-botanarium 

 

It's a comedy serial with a strong Jules Verne influence, starring Jemaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords, and now Moana I believe) as a snooty aristocrat from 'the Gravy Islands' following the trail of his botanist father, on a quest to destroy a fabled plant called Heaven's Clover.

 

The script is nicely freewheeling and ridiculous without being too zany too often, so far. Also, the audio design is impressive - it feels more like a well-produced BBC radio drama than a podcast in that respect.

 

It seems they're uploading the first season at a rate of three episodes every week to the above feed - presumably to hook people in for the second season, which is available through a subscription service like this one was last year. 

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1 hour ago, SuperBiasedMan said:

You had me at Jermaine Clement.

 

SAME FAM

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Lately I've been enjoying a podcast called The Relentless Picnic (soundcloud, iTunes) which I discovered because it has lazenby on it. I only know him as one of the best writers to fall out of the tumblr scene - a blogger in the old sense of the word, I suppose. Read his stuff: it good.

 

The podcast is mostly about post-Trump trends in American politics. It shares some of the trappings of the 'dirtbag left' but it is quite often better than that, though they are not entirely above cackling at easy targets on social media.

 

The first couple of episodes are a bit rough - I'd be inclined to start with episode 3, which focuses on the extraordinary career of Vladislav Surkov, a sci-fi novelist who may or may not be one of the most influential spin doctors of the current Russian administration.

 

I just finished ep 5; I never knew that I needed to hear Sean Spicer dubbed over Modest Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' until now.

 

It feels strange to encounter a podcast in this way because I know almost nothing else about any of the presenters - it's quite well edited but there's no introductions, no explicit mission statement, no pleas to 'like and subscribe', no personal framing of any kind. Not that there's anything wrong with that stuff but there's something refreshing about this more austere style.

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7 hours ago, marginalgloss said:

Lately I've been enjoying a podcast called The Relentless Picnic (soundcloud, iTunes) which I discovered because it has lazenby on it. I only know him as one of the best writers to fall out of the tumblr scene - a blogger in the old sense of the word, I suppose. Read his stuff: it good.

 

The podcast is mostly about post-Trump trends in American politics. It shares some of the trappings of the 'dirtbag left' but it is quite often better than that, though they are not entirely above cackling at easy targets on social media.

 

The first couple of episodes are a bit rough - I'd be inclined to start with episode 3, which focuses on the extraordinary career of Vladislav Surkov, a sci-fi novelist who may or may not be one of the most influential spin doctors of the current Russian administration.

 

I just finished ep 5; I never knew that I needed to hear Sean Spicer dubbed over Modest Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' until now.

 

It feels strange to encounter a podcast in this way because I know almost nothing else about any of the presenters - it's quite well edited but there's no introductions, no explicit mission statement, no pleas to 'like and subscribe', no personal framing of any kind. Not that there's anything wrong with that stuff but there's something refreshing about this more austere style.

 

Yes! So glad you wrote this up for the uninitiated. Anyone who follows georgelazenby should give it a shot (he's Nick on the podcast). It's so good and so hard to pin down despite the focus on news and politics. The hosts are incredibly funny and have an obvious rapport, but they also bring an intellectual seriousness to the table in an affectless way that is very bracing. And on the production side the editing and use of music is inspired. 

 

I don't think they're in the same room for the first few episodes so the audio quality takes a hit, but I'd say don't skip them, the discussions are absolutely worthwhile and I suspect knowing where these guys are coming from in terms of their sensibility and worldview makes stuff like the virtual CES episode even funnier.

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I think I've asked this before (probably on Slack) and still don't understand it. What is "the dirtbag left"? My understanding of the word dirtbag is something like "the 20-something guy who cruises around the high school looking to pick up girls."

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14 minutes ago, Patrick R said:

I think I've asked this before (probably on Slack) and still don't understand it. What is "the dirtbag left"? My understanding of the word dirtbag is something like "the 20-something guy who cruises around the high school looking to pick up girls."

I think its essentially socialist shock jocks. There is very little about it outside that one article on Chapo.

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I guess I still am not sure what this means, because aren't shock jocks only shocking in the context of FCC regulated FM radio? Does that mean they are socialists who interview strippers on the air? Who talk explicitly about sex? Who make poop jokes? Who swear? 

 

EDIT: 

So I read The New Yorker article and I guess "dirtbag left" is just a new word for "asshole"? These guys seem like assholes. That's a good word, I think.

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tbh it's probably not a very good or useful term, but the New Yorker used it so it must be real, right? Just like how we're all using umlauts over the word 'cooperate', you know? ^_^

 

Here's another thing I read by Kurt Newman which takes a critical look at this tendency. To me it's a useful shorthand for a certain tone that is so preoccupied with 'punching up' in eye-catching ways that it strays into something which looks a lot like gratuitous personal abuse. But all these terms stop being useful when they start becoming generalisations, I guess. I somewhat regret mentioning it now because the podcast is really very good! :getmecoat

 

 

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On 2017-02-14 at 1:49 AM, marginalgloss said:

Lately I've been enjoying a podcast called The Relentless Picnic (soundcloud, iTunes) which I discovered because it has lazenby on it. I only know him as one of the best writers to fall out of the tumblr scene - a blogger in the old sense of the word, I suppose. Read his stuff: it good.

 

The podcast is mostly about post-Trump trends in American politics. It shares some of the trappings of the 'dirtbag left' but it is quite often better than that, though they are not entirely above cackling at easy targets on social media.

 

The first couple of episodes are a bit rough - I'd be inclined to start with episode 3, which focuses on the extraordinary career of Vladislav Surkov, a sci-fi novelist who may or may not be one of the most influential spin doctors of the current Russian administration.

 

I just finished ep 5; I never knew that I needed to hear Sean Spicer dubbed over Modest Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' until now.

 

It feels strange to encounter a podcast in this way because I know almost nothing else about any of the presenters - it's quite well edited but there's no introductions, no explicit mission statement, no pleas to 'like and subscribe', no personal framing of any kind. Not that there's anything wrong with that stuff but there's something refreshing about this more austere style.

 

On 2017-02-14 at 9:27 AM, mondryle said:

 

Yes! So glad you wrote this up for the uninitiated. Anyone who follows georgelazenby should give it a shot (he's Nick on the podcast). It's so good and so hard to pin down despite the focus on news and politics. The hosts are incredibly funny and have an obvious rapport, but they also bring an intellectual seriousness to the table in an affectless way that is very bracing. And on the production side the editing and use of music is inspired. 

 

I don't think they're in the same room for the first few episodes so the audio quality takes a hit, but I'd say don't skip them, the discussions are absolutely worthwhile and I suspect knowing where these guys are coming from in terms of their sensibility and worldview makes stuff like the virtual CES episode even funnier.

 

Thank you both for the recommendation. This is now permanently on my feed. 

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not sure if it has been mentioned here before. A friend of mine was on a Podcast called "maeve in america" and it was really good. It's a podcast where an irish comedian (i think she is also a writer?) who lives in the US talk to different immigrants about their stories. I have only listened to the one my friend was on but it sounds very solid. 

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On 2017-02-15 at 0:41 AM, marginalgloss said:

tbh it's probably not a very good or useful term, but the New Yorker used it so it must be real, right? Just like how we're all using umlauts over the word 'cooperate', you know? ^_^

I was going to be a pedant and point out that it's not an umlaut, but a diaeresis. Then I clicked the link and saw that the article does that in the second paragraph. I still write naïve from time to time though.

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Over the past few weeks I've been listening through Blank Check and it's now one of my favorite podcasts (although I don't listen to a ton). It started off as a series of 3 10 episode miniseries, each about one of the three Star Wars prequels, and eventually it turned into a series of miniseries, each about a movie maker who has a "blank check," so to speak - they were so successful that now they basically get to make whatever they want (like George Lucas, M. Night Shyamalan, the Wachowskis, etc.). They're doing Spielberg right now.

 

The two hosts, Griffin and David, are hilarious, and they also know a lot about movies and the industry and like to talk shop every once in a while. It has some great running gags, often has really good guests, and sometimes it can be pretty insightful. I started listening from the beginning and enjoyed it a lot but they also have three "best of" episodes fro each of the three Star Wars prequels. I haven't made it to the "best of" episodes yet, but that might be a place to start if you want to see what the podcast is like.

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Starting Monday is the MaxFunDrive. They just announced the drive rewards for this year. If you've ever thought about donating, the drive is the best time to do so because there are match donors that will contribute a set amount (between 1 cent and 1 dollar) for each new or upgrading donor, so you get to be responsible for even more money going to the network and the shows you like!

If you have specific questions about the drive, feel free to let me know, or you can always listen to drive episodes of shows as they explain most everything.

(I don't work for MaxFun, I just think this is a super cool way to support the network and the shows we listen to!)

Plus the $10/month pins are hot like fyre 

 

 

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