Podcasts Wot OTF People Are Listening To And Recommend

[Antepli Ejderha]

That sounds really interesting, please let us know when it's broadcast or available.

[ooh aah]

Timeghost history on youtube is very good. I am loving the between the wars series and filled a major gap in my knowledge of the events leading up to WWII

yeah I like this too. I'm also following their WW2 week by week.

[diggedy derek]

Cold War Conversations sounds really interesting!

I tried with the History Of Rome, but it's really old and I think sounds it – the tone is a bit officious and I find it harm to warm to. So, for staying-at-home listening, I'm planning to work my way through Gimlet's Uncivil, about America's co-called Civil War, which I've already listened to a few of and loved it.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Has anyone listened to My Dad Wrote a Porno? Seems to have a big following; I've just started episode one.

[Flynnie]

Cold War Conversations sounds really interesting!

I tried with the History Of Rome, but it's really old and I think sounds it – the tone is a bit officious and I find it harm to warm to. So, for staying-at-home listening, I'm planning to work my way through Gimlet's Uncivil, about America's co-called Civil War, which I've already listened to a few of and loved it.

Mike Duncan is great. It takes a few episodes to get used to his diction, but it's worth it. His series on Revolutions is excellent; he's doing the Russian now, which everybody's been waiting for.

[Incandenza]

Tom Scharpling and Julie Klausner have their own podcast now, Double Threat (https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/double-threat/). Julie is always a great guest on The Best Show and they are so funny together on those episodes, so a weekly show from them is a dream come true for me.

[tracteurgarcon]

Has anyone listened to My Dad Wrote a Porno? Seems to have a big following; I've just started episode one.

Yes, found it very funny to start with but, for me, it wore thin pretty quickly and then became intensely annoying.

[Flynnie]

My wife loves My Dad Wrote A Porno, and it seems like after the first two episodes you've heard them all.

The old Irish fella hopped up on red wine wrote some bad sex again! Hahahahahaha!

[Wouter D]

The Flop House: The best of the bad movie podcasts, at least if you're not going to watch the films. The hosts are extremely funny and have great chemistry, so you get some great extended riffs.

This started out great, but now that I'm 200 episodes in I find myself skipping forward for a chunk in the middle when the commercials come in. This used to be a 2.5 minute commercial for a single sponsor, which, you know, fair enough. Gotta make a living. But now it's regularly an 18-minute block of sponsor messages, other Max Fun network podcasts, Jumbotron messages (i.e.: more commercials for random stuff in or around Brooklyn), and Elliott* singing a freestyle song (which isn't to my taste) about the letters segment.

I know I am in no postion to complain about anything that comes for free, but this is taking the shine off.

*he can be forgiven for basically anything, ever since in an early episode he provided the following gem: "I don't have a child, but when I have a child someday: I could be a rock star astronaut who has a dinosaur that he rides to work, and I assume my son will still find me uncool. That's just what being a dad means."

[tracteurgarcon]

My wife loves My Dad Wrote A Porno, and it seems like after the first two episodes you've heard them all.

The old Irish fella hopped up on red wine wrote some bad sex again! Hahahahahaha!

I enjoyed the first series but after that it seemed like the dad had become self-aware and was deliberately writing terrible prose and porn, which made it a lot less funny. Also there seemed to be a massive increase in the amount of "witty" comments to the actual story and they became increasingly desperate to ridicule everything, even, at one point seeming to make out that someone having pierced nipples was the weirdest thing ever and the height of depravity, when, in actual fact, even to someone as "vanilla" as myself, it's a pretty common thing and not at all shocking nowadays.

[KGR]

Daniel Gray interviewing Brian McClair for the Nutmeg is as excellent as you would imagine.

My ideal podcast would include Gray and Michael Calvin just chatting about football with a different guest. Both make the art of hosting a show seem ridiculously easy.

[Furtho]

As previously mentioned, the episode of Cold War Conversations that I'm the interviewee on is now online. I'm talking about a holiday trip to Albania in 1989.

[Levin]

I have a feeling I'm just copying Ursus given he tweeted about one of these yesterday and he was already a listener to The Infinite Inning when I mentioned that before but I really enjoy the following podcasts.

Sarajevo Calling about the Balkans
The Lebanese Politics Podcast
The Arab Tyrant Manual mostly Middle east and africa
From Russia With News Moscow Times podcast
Arms Control Wonk Arms control and nonproliferation

I'd like more well informed, english language podcasts focusing on a single country or local region. I;m guessing english may be the sticking point.

[ursus arctos]

Only two of the five

Will have to check out the Russian one

[Stumpy Pepys]

I enjoyed the first series but after that it seemed like the dad had become self-aware and was deliberately writing terrible prose and porn, which made it a lot less funny. Also there seemed to be a massive increase in the amount of "witty" comments to the actual story and they became increasingly desperate to ridicule everything, even, at one point seeming to make out that someone having pierced nipples was the weirdest thing ever and the height of depravity, when, in actual fact, even to someone as "vanilla" as myself, it's a pretty common thing and not at all shocking nowadays.

Yeah, I think there's only so long you can stretch this, but I'm enjoying series one (although I'll probably stop at the end of that).

[Satchmo Distel]

New Lewisohn/Beatles:

https://soundcloud.com/user-86154098...terview-part-1

https://soundcloud.com/user-86154098...terview-part-2

[Satchmo Distel]

The New Abnormal - Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...l/id1508202790


Golazzo - Italian football: Richardson, Marcotti:

https://www.thetotallyfootballshow.c...-italian-show/

[WOM]

This is great. This random dude remembers a song. He remembers most of the lyrics and the tune, so he tries to track it down.

It was a killer track - a hit, if he recalls correctly - but he can't find a single trace of it anywhere - not the artist, the lyrics, any recording, nothing. Nor anyone who even remembers hearing it.

The Case of the Missing Hit.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx

[Duncan Gardner]

Thanks all for the recommendations

[diggedy derek]

That Reply All episode is absolutely fantastic and, from a music business point of view, incredibly fascinating.

[WOM]

That Reply All episode is absolutely fantastic and, from a music business point of view, incredibly fascinating.

Oh, absolutely.

[SPOILER] The entire podcast reminded me of an experience I had. When I was in high school, delivering pizza one rainy fall night, I heard a song on the radio that I fell in love with. They never announced the song or the band, and I never heard it again. Maybe 5 years later, I heard the original of the song (what I had heard was a cover), and I started casting about to find the version I heard. I hunted everywhere. I even tracked down one of the sharpest minds in alternative music, Alan Cross, the guy who came up with most of the arcane facts behind the MTV/VH1 show Pop Up Video. He said it sounded vaguely familiar, but he couldn't place it. Then he contacted me months later and said he had the shred of a band name, and from there I discovered the band name. Then I found out who was in the band, then I found a guy in the band. At long last, the guy in the band got back to me and burned me a copy of the song to a CD. It had only ever been released as a limited pressing promo, so it never got onto Napster or the web. Anyway, it was the old bluegrass tune Orange Blossom Special, performed by Age of Mirrors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i3YcFLXwwM [/SPOILER]

[Incandenza]

Tough luck on the trivia Sash

[ad hoc]

Just listened to that Reply All episode. Brilliant. Thanks for sharing WOM

[WOM]

My pleasure, a.h.

[Satchmo Distel]

The42s Behind The Lines - interviews with sports journalists

https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aH...AAAAAQAQ&hl=en

The Final Word - cricket:

https://finalwordcricket.com/episodes/