What podcasts/YouTube audio shit do you listen to?

[DrGreggles]

Yes, the Paddy poddy is hilarious
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-mr835-138072d

Fans of Taylor Parkes' destruction of Tim Lovejoy will love it

[touchingcloth]

You're Wrong About, Maintenance Phase and If Books Could Kill share a common ancestor, the delightful journalist and writer Michael Hobbes.

I'm enjoying this so far, Hobbes is great. That said, I think the episode on the Population Bomb is the first topic I've heard him talk about where I had some level of in depth knowledge beforehand, and it felt to me like he had dropped the ball on the research a bit and was misrepresenting Paul Ehrlich's views quite badly.

First by treating his education in entomology as if that disqualified him from talking about human population and ecology, and second by representing his views as being in favour of rich white people and against the feckless poor.

He's one of the creators of the I = (PAT) equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_%3D_PAT), which explicitly recognises that the lifestyles and technology of people in the Global North mean they have a far greater impact per person than people in the South, and that the two groups cause different kinds of environmental damage (global climate change, versus local direct damage to ecosystems and people).

Maybe all of his stuff is like this but I've only realised it because I'm usually too ignorant to know otherwise!!!!!!

[Sherringford Hovis]

Was working on someone's car yesterday, they had a cd playing of Darth Vader* reading the bible. Was really great so I have told CaB right here.

I had no idea this 16 CD set existed. Also available on cassette!

Next time my wife has a Westons Vintage-induced snooze on the sofa, I'm going to gently rouse her with a select chapter that's heavy on the fire and brimstone.

[gib]

Wherever happened to the pizza at McDonald's? - trust me, just start at ep 1, it's the best

i took your advice and am now on ep46, this is impossible to describe without tainting it

[PlanktonSideburns]

One of the best

[markburgle]

I'm enjoying this so far, Hobbes is great. That said, I think the episode on the Population Bomb is the first topic I've heard him talk about where I had some level of in depth knowledge beforehand, and it felt to me like he had dropped the ball on the research a bit and was misrepresenting Paul Ehrlich's views quite badly.

Had this experience when YWA did something on the Beatles - suddenly I found their takes / conclusions quite dubious, which was a shame.

[non capisco]

Mandatory Redistribution Party is my new fave, it's excellent - I started with their recent amazing deep dive on the career of Paddy McGuinness and since been chomping steadily through the old episodes. TRY IT

Big thanks for the heads up on these, working my way through them from the start and really enjoying them. The early episode where they riff on what they'd do in the event of a societal breakdown had me laughing out loud multiple times, as did the one about the archaic stories of societies putting animals on trial.

[Brian Freeze]

The Fun Factory mentioned in the hospital recommendations thread is worth a listen. A novel based around early comedy performers and the emergence of an extremely well known character. Think it was @jobotic who mentioned it.

[Brian Freeze]

"Over the Road" around twenty or so epsiodes about the american haulage industry.

Just something a bit different with some interesting characters hosted by a trucker with an extremely listenable voice.

[robhug]

Acceptable in the 80's, its purile but I've enjoyed it. They are also happy to name names on unconvicted 80's nonces without getting sued, which is always fun.

[touchingcloth]

Had this experience when YWA did something on the Beatles - suddenly I found their takes / conclusions quite dubious, which was a shame.

I've just listened to a newer IBCK about Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus and I'm right back to enjoying their hot takes. Ignorance combined with a latent bias is bliss.

[gib]

Acceptable in the 80's, its purile but I've enjoyed it. They are also happy to name names on unconvicted 80's nonces without getting sued, which is always fun.

easily in my top 5

[Brian Freeze]

Doing overtime tonight so have dipped into Pizza at McDonald's. Dont know much about it other than a couple of mentions on here.

Edit: upto ep 7, have laughed a few times already.

[gib]

Doing overtime tonight so have dipped into Pizza at McDonald's. Dont know much about it other than a couple of mentions on here.

Edit: upto ep 7, have laughed a few times already.

i've binged my way up to around ep190 so far

[Brian Freeze]

So its worth sticking with then?

After twelve I need a bit of a break!

[gib]

definitely worth sticking with

i find his voice and personality very relaxing and you don't really have to concentrate, just enjoying the way it develops

[easytarget]

Mandatory Redistribution Party is my new fave, it's excellent - I started with their recent amazing deep dive on the career of Paddy McGuinness and since been chomping steadily through the old episodes. TRY IT

I started with the P McG ep and listened to about 20 in the last week, it is great. Thanks for bringing this up.

[Bennett Brauer]

The Complete Guide to Everything has been going since 2009 but it's still one of my favourites of the two pals just shooting the breeze type of podcast.

Last week's was an amusing one on Dilbert and Scott Adams  https://headgum.com/the-complete-guide-to-everything/dilbert

[dead-ced-dead]

I listen to a delightful podcast (it's mine) called The Untitled Film Podcast with Calum (me) and Jonny (DCD is Calum)... hint... hint....

https://www.youtube.com/@untitledfilmpodcastwithcal2024

[touchingcloth]

I started with the P McG ep and listened to about 20 in the last week, it is great. Thanks for bringing this up.

Thanks for the reminder about this. I also listened to the Paddy episode and loved it, but because of a discussion around the same point in the thread about Behind The Bastards, I misremembered it as being another episode of that. Hitler, Pol Pot, Andrew Tate, Paddy McGuinness: equivalent bastards.

[Feralkid]

Film critic and historian Karina Longworth's podcast You Must Remember This is wonderful, lots of deep dives on forgotten or overlooked stories from 20th Century Hollywood. It tends to be structured as seasons each on a theme or topic. The one of Charles Manson and Hollywood is terrific though, understandably, kinda traumatic in places. She also recently did a great one on the life and career of Polly Platt, the producer, writer, production designer responsible for some of the best films of the 70s and 80s.

Bergcast is a deeply specific podcast on the works of Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale - but it's wildly and deeply informative with a lot of great guests. Comedy nerds should, if nothing else, check out the one where Gemma Arrowsmith discusses KNeale's only foray into comedy, the spectacularly bad LWT sci-fi sit-com Kinvig.

Jamie Loftus, who might be familiar to some of you from her work in comedy, has a great limited podcast series The Lolita Podcast in which she discusses and unpacks Nabakov's Lolita, specifically what it can tell us about CSA, and the myriad ways in which it's been misunderstood, wilfully misinterpreted, and badly adapted.

On a lighter note - Mick Garris, who's a B-list horror director but a brilliant advocate for the genre and other filmmakers, hosts a podcast called Post-Mortem in which he interviews genre notables.
 

[samadriel]

Lately I've been listening to "60 Songs which Explain the '90s", by the critic Rob Harvilla, which is actually up to about 90-ish songs now. He talks about each band's history, hits and context, including a lot of talk about Rob's life as a teenager in the 90s. It's very US-centric, apart from a streak of Britpop, but apart from a few rap tunes I never heard here in Australia, there's tons of episodes about 90s hits I greatly enjoy him digging into. It's not just empty nostalgia,  but you probably have to be of the right age for it to really hit home.

I've also been really enjoying Jim Jeffries' podcast "I Don't Know About That", where his team find an expert in a given subject (drones, octopuses, drag queens, recycling,  anaesthesia...), subject Jim to a series of questions on the topic, then the expert rates his answers on accuracy (and confidence) and educates us all in the process. Jim is damn funny, a great bullshitter, and has a great rapport with his cohosts, and it's fun learning stuff that never occurred to you about each subject.

Behind the Bastards is really interesting, they post a few times a week on a bastard or group of bastards from history (Ceaucescu, Duterte, the tobacco industry, the CIA's MK ULTRA group,  the Iran Contra conspirators) each subject is a multi-episode epic of bastardry, the understandably cynical main host and his guests are very entertaining as well as educational.

"SRSLY WRONG" is a fun, funny podcast by a pair of guys who discuss subjects like piracy (golden age or internet), "comedy against work", degrowth, "library socialism", capitalism and childhood/ageism, unionism and other socialist perspectives on various issues. Their comedy skits are really funny, I love the patriarchy-focused "Papa and Boyyy" in particular. Again,  very educational too.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Brian Harvey's YouTube remains fascinating.

[Fambo Number Mive]

I enjoy Smershpod which is always very funny

[non capisco]

Mandatory Redistribution Party is my new fave, it's excellent - I started with their recent amazing deep dive on the career of Paddy McGuinness and since been chomping steadily through the old episodes. TRY IT

Once again, cheers for this recommendation, I'm hooked on this podcast now. Extremely intelligent, funny and illuminating. Jack's explosive laugh has become one of my favourite podcast noises. Been working through them from the start and only just coming up to the 2019 election, ohhhh dear. I imagine there'll be a cathartic episode coming down the pipe.

[TrenterPercenter]

Think this is the one (Mandatory Redistribution Party) that I'm going to go in on, looks great.

[IsavedLatin]

Had this experience when YWA did something on the Beatles - suddenly I found their takes / conclusions quite dubious, which was a shame.

I had exactly this reaction to the same episode, which disappointed me when I think that (for Americans) their Princess Diana mini-series is pretty decently researched -- it's not as though straying into non-American topics necessarily renders them incapable.

[Rizla]

Once again, cheers for this recommendation, I'm hooked on this podcast now. Extremely intelligent, funny and illuminating. Jack's explosive laugh has become one of my favourite podcast noises. Been working through them from the start and only just coming up to the 2019 election, ohhhh dear. I imagine there'll be a cathartic episode coming down the pipe.

So glad you're enjoying it - it is a cut above in every way, isn't it? I like the juxtaposition of the written monologues and the off the cuff stuff, it all works brilliantly with the thoughtful sound design.  (I do have to ff the pop/punk version of the theme tune though, sets my teeth off for some reason).

Not sure about the post election ones but I found the early pandemic era ones a tiny bit upsetting to listen to. It's odd going back to that place.

I enjoy Smershpod which is always very funny

Yes, amazing. Especially the ones with Paul Litchfield, he kills me.

[touchingcloth]

I had exactly this reaction to the same episode, which disappointed me when I think that (for Americans) their Princess Diana mini-series is pretty decently researched -- it's not as though straying into non-American topics necessarily renders them incapable.

I didn't really know much about Diana, but nothing in that episode (series of episodes?) struck me as being incompatible with what little I did know.

Now I think of it, was that episode researched by Marshall, with the ones we've had issues with (Beatles YWA, Ehrlich IBCK) being researched by Hobbes? Maybe that points to him being a journalist rather than a writer, and having to prioritise that work over podcast research? I was always impressed how they could release an episode a week with the research alternating between them, cos even if that was their only job you could always tell they'd put a lot of hours in.

[gabrielconroy]

Looking through my subscriptions, here's a selection of ones still putting out episodes I enjoy:

Behind the Bastards
Comedy Bang Bang (although haven't listened in a few months)
Do Go On - enjoyable rambling overviews of historical events by three amiable Australians
Empire - first series an in-depth look at the British Empire in India, its precursors and consequences by a very posh Scottish historian who has lived in India most of his life, and a former BBC journalist of Indian heritage. Has now moved onto the Ottomans and Constantinople
Football Cliches - bit hit and miss but a football podcast that's more about the banalities of how football is covered. Can often be funny and is pretty nerdy without being too tedious
God Awful Movies - started listening to this recently and every episode has been hilarious. Mostly reviewing terrible religious films in a very funny way, although the first one I listened to was about View to a Kill, which was also hilarious
Into the Impossible - breezy physics podcast with an American professor that also talks about stuff tending towards sci-fi, like aliens and UFOs
No Such Thing As A Fish - increasingly insufferable and contrived but still good to put on quietly to fall asleep to. Generally pretty bland
RHLSTP - only listen every now and again when there's a good guest on. Usually pretty half-arsed but when it all comes together it can be really great
Sean Carroll's Mindscape - bit like Into the Impossible only more serious and high-brow
Adam Buxton Podcast - speaks for itself, really.
The Always Sunny Podcast - love the show and if you do too, you might enjoy hearing them talk about it
The Fault Line - just started listening to this the other day. First series is Dimbleby looking at the Iraq War, if it could have been prevented and all the lies and hypocrisy around it

And various other ones, but that's probably enough for one day, or more!