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Started by popcorn, July 09, 2017, 02:15:56 PM

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Neomod

Quote from: mothman on August 30, 2017, 06:07:37 PM
You're welcome. Greatly enjoying them myself. It helps that he's got a good voice. Way too many podcasters out there don't. Curious to know how he managed to get Gatiss involved.

I'm only on part 2 of the Warner Brothers story so haven't knowingly heard Gatiss yet.

Quote from: Phil_A on August 30, 2017, 07:21:29 PM
I listen to a similar one called You Must Remember This which is another good "underbelly of Hollywood" series, although the host's intonation can take a bit of getting used to.
http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/

Oh yes, been listening to this for a while. The Manson story being the entry.

I don't mind Karina's (that's me) intonation. Her 'Sexy Sadie' performance was a highlight.

phantom_power

#121
Quote from: Ballad of Ballard Berkley on August 30, 2017, 07:46:14 PM
Another vote of thanks for recommending the Chart Music podcast, it's great fun. A podcast full of genial chat from funny, pop-obsessed nerds, what's not to like?!

I am enjoying this, though I feel they were a bit harsh on Nik Kershaw in the second episode, and they are very wrong about Madness

non capisco

New Chart Music episode popped up yesterday! A February 1970 episode which must be practically one of the oldest TOTPses in existence. Looking forward to giving that a listen this weekend.

dr beat

Another fan of Chart Music here.  As an avid 90s Melody Maker reader I used to a have a love-hate relationship with the likes of Price, Parkes, Kulkarni and Stubbs, but they're great on this.

Natnar

For any Star Trek fans i can recommend The Rules Of Acquisition a podcast where 3 guys are making their way through Deep Space Nine episode by episode (they're up to season 4 at the moment). It's pretty funny

https://rulesofacquisitionpodcast.com

ozziechef

#125
TV Cream's What We Just Watched is a decent listen. The two hosts choose a vintage TV show which is then discussed in detail. I just listened to an episode disecting Saturday Superstore Celebrity Record Breakers (or something)

finnquark

Quote from: hewantstolurkatad on August 24, 2017, 05:17:46 PM
What exactly is their plan? Like, are they just getting the podcast off the ground to expand into a website and various other sports related podcasts? I'd quite like some documentary style soccer podcast things.

What's funny is how revolutionary it was being billed by Macintosh et al, and how dull it seems in comparison. It's just football weekly with an added boring guest. I think they'd mentioned maybe branching into other sports/areas of football, but maybe that'll have to take time. 5 Live just started a European Leagues podcast with all the journos from the now dead BT European Football Show. Totally saturated market, surely?

I've actually stopped listening to both FW and TFS, partly because it just all becomes quite dull. I'm not sure what they add other than describing games from over the weekend, and chucking in prosaic observations about managers. But then I guess a lot of football journalism in general is like that. I do wonder when the bubble will burst on the consumption of football news though, as there's just too much of it - see the gradual expansion of MOTD from television onto other platforms. The new podcasts are just scrabbling to get some money out of the game before they can't any longer.

hewantstolurkatad

They're doing a Football League show too now, focusing on one team each week... I dunno. It's definitely got that thing tons of British podcasts do of feeling extremely airless and rigid. Richardson's good and all but I feel like he's struggling with the new team, it's like he's in a room full of people who neither know how to laugh nor would be willing to do so if they found something funny.


Not a saturated market yet though, podcasts may be in a bubble but it was arguably an underutilised field for absolutely ages. Things are getting closer to standardised distribution sources beyond iTunes (which is a mess in itself) so the field should keep growing as that improves

Utter Shit

Quote from: finnquark on September 02, 2017, 04:42:30 PM
What's funny is how revolutionary it was being billed by Macintosh et al, and how dull it seems in comparison. It's just football weekly with an added boring guest. I think they'd mentioned maybe branching into other sports/areas of football, but maybe that'll have to take time. 5 Live just started a European Leagues podcast with all the journos from the now dead BT European Football Show. Totally saturated market, surely?

I've actually stopped listening to both FW and TFS, partly because it just all becomes quite dull. I'm not sure what they add other than describing games from over the weekend, and chucking in prosaic observations about managers. But then I guess a lot of football journalism in general is like that. I do wonder when the bubble will burst on the consumption of football news though, as there's just too much of it - see the gradual expansion of MOTD from television onto other platforms. The new podcasts are just scrabbling to get some money out of the game before they can't any longer.

Agree on the split, it's just turned one good podcast into two mediocre ones that I only bother with if I've got nothing else to listen to. The Football Ramble is the only must-listen football podcast for me nowadays.

hayduke_lives

I reckon Second Captains is the best football podcast. Rather than devote 5 minutes to each game, they have some really interesting discussions about a couple of big topics from the weekend - during the international break it's been quite Ireland heavy, but it's usually focused on the Premier League. It's genuinely funny, and most of the best guests from FW and the Totally Show contribute (no Jimbo though). If you support them on Patreon they also do wider sport and politics episodes every day.

After Second Captains I think the Totally Show would be my next preference. It's still finding it's feet in spite of the combined experience behind it, but it's refreshing to hear some new (well, to me at least) voices. Football Weekly is alright, and I don't think Max Rushden is anywhere near as bad as people make out - for me it's Barry Glendenning that can ruin an episode.

TIAL

Thanks everyone for recommending Chart Music, I'd not have listened if it weren't for this thread.

I'm a big fan of Roderick on the Line - John Roderick from the Long Winters talking to Merlin Mann about whatever pops in to their head that week. Roderick is an interesting guy and has a constant supply of stories to draw from.

Crabwalk

Quote from: mothman on July 09, 2017, 05:07:14 PM
Another I've discovered recently is The Secret History of Hollywood. I've only listened to one so far, the latest (and the second part of a series on the life and work of Val Lewton) on the making of Cat People, a favourite of mine. There have only been 5 eps in total over a year and a half, and it's no surprise really as they're quite long! I'm hoping to listen to the others, maybe on holiday...

Thank you for introducing this podcast to CaB. I've just finished 'Bullets and Blood' and it's an astonishing piece of long-form storytelling. That Adam Roche has created this in his spare time is amazing - it's absolutely top notch in writing, performance and production.

What stories! What twists! Seriously, everyone should pile into this.


non capisco

Quote from: Crabwalk on October 13, 2017, 08:40:25 AM
Thank you for introducing this podcast to CaB. I've just finished 'Bullets and Blood' and it's an astonishing piece of long-form storytelling. That Adam Roche has created this in his spare time is amazing - it's absolutely top notch in writing, performance and production.

What stories! What twists! Seriously, everyone should pile into this.

His current podcasts about Val Lewton are great too. I agree that 'Bullets And Blood' is something really special. He very much brought people like Jack Warner and James Cagney to full fleshed-out life with his narration, writing and research. I haven't heard his epic Hitchcock series yet, might have to set about a month's worth of commuting aside for that!

phantom_power

I have started listening to Philosophize This! when I go to sleep and am really enjoying it. The presenters seem to be very knowledgeable (to my layman's ears) but have a really good presenting style as well that gets the information across in an interesting and easy way. They talk about various philosophers and philosophies from throughout the ages as well as things like logical fallacies and stuff like "how to be happy"

Crabwalk

Quote from: non capisco on October 13, 2017, 08:55:35 AM
His current podcasts about Val Lewton are great too. I agree that 'Bullets And Blood' is something really special. He very much brought people like Jack Warner and James Cagney to full fleshed-out life with his narration, writing and research.

I've listened to the first two Val Lewton podcasts as I was on a car trip with my wife last week and she was behind me listening to 'Bullets and Blood' so we decided to leap together into the subsequent saga.

Val Lewton was a name I knew from Cat People, Mark Gatiss' horror doc from a few years back and from hazy memories of watching I Walked With a Zombie as part of my film degree twenty years ago. But I've retained next to no knowledge about him so these have been a treat too, if understandably not quite as grand and emotional as the Warner series.

QuoteI haven't heard his epic Hitchcock series yet, might have to set about a month's worth of commuting aside for that!

Ooh, that's the first I've heard of this! It's not on my podcast feed - I'll have to track it down.

amputeeporn

Quote from: Large Noise on August 01, 2017, 05:14:53 PM
He's nihilistic and troubled and all that stuff, but I honestly think Nick Mullen is a comedic genius.

Yeah, the guy's ridiculously funny. Wish he was more motivated to develop his stand-up. Weirdly, I remember him posting on the Doug Stanhope forums purefuckingevil like 7, 8 (maybe more?) years ago when he was a kid - and he was wicked funny even then, and always going over the line.

While I agree with the other person posting that you have a lot of stupid retard jokes in there, for me it really is worth it. I'm always surprised what a good impersonator he is and the guy's stories and fuck-withs are great.

I also really like the odd insights into the lives of young comics, their feuds and differences and struggles etc.

Z

That Dirty John podcast was the most remarkably dull thing I've listened to in an age. I'm honestly baffled as to how it became one of those hyped podcast sensation things.

bgmnts

Hardcore History by Dan Carlin.

I'm cool like that.

Lost Oliver

Anyone got any recommendations for anything philosophical? Started on The Partially Examined Life but wasn't too keen for some reason. Would give it another go though if enough folks say so.


hedgehog90

You might like this, LostOliver, it's quite funny too:

https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm

phantom_power

Quote from: Lost Oliver on November 17, 2017, 07:44:00 AM
Anyone got any recommendations for anything philosophical? Started on The Partially Examined Life but wasn't too keen for some reason. Would give it another go though if enough folks say so.



I am enjoying Philosophise This! but I am a beginner when it comes to philosophy so it may not be to your taste

Blinder Data

Jon Ronson's Butterfly Effect was great I thought. Simultaneously made me want to delete the internet from my life and google all the performers mentioned for *ahem* research.

ozziechef

Is anyone else enjoying Haunted? It's a really good exploration of ghost stories that listeners send in. Really well made and the host is easy to listen to.

SteveDave

I've been listening to "Lore" but Aaron Manke's voice puts me to sleep so I normally only hear the introduction and the incredibly long and dull adverts.

Panbaams

Someone with a film out who's worked in comedy has written a book about music ... thank goodness there's a catch-all thread about podcasts, because whichever CaB forum I put it in, it'd be wrong. Which is a roundabout way of saying that Armando Iannucci has written a book about classical music and is on the latest Word magazine podcast (aka Word in Your Ear).

Repeater

What podcast app you cunts using then? Used Antenna Pod for my Samsung (Android obvi) but it's fucked itself up. Trying Beyond Pod now.

DrGreggles

It's probably already been mentioned in this thread, but I'm enjoying Trace.
It's an Aussie podcast, in the Serial* mode.

*good Serial s1, not shit Serial s2

Quote from: Repeater on November 20, 2017, 11:28:49 AM
What podcast app you cunts using then? Used Antenna Pod for my Samsung (Android obvi) but it's fucked itself up. Trying Beyond Pod now.

Pocket Casts is good

Keebleman

Has anyone paid for Stitcher Premium?  That's where all the old Gilbert Gottfried episodes are and I was wondering if there's enough other material to make it worthwhile.

olliebean

I use Overcast on my iPod touch. Has the handy Smart Speed option which shortens silences and is useful for getting through my backlog faster. (I don't use it for drama or comedy stuff where timing matters, mostly just for current affairs-y type stuff.)

Podcast Addict for Android is also good, and has a similar option.