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Literally The Worst posted:Serial is great, Sword and Scale is dope, does anyone have any recs for another good true crime podcast? I need something to listen to for twelve hours while I'm driving from NY to Charlotte in a week.
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ChetReckless posted:I've only listened to a couple of episodes so far (starting from the beginning) but so far the host has a very... true crime writer-y view on mental health. A lot of "anyone around you could be a psychopath, even someone you know!" kinda stuff. I'm not sure that the 'be scared of the mentally ill because they could go off at any time' thing holds up any more. It reminds me of reading books on serial killers when I was in high school 15 years ago. It's sort of the podcast version of when a movie plays a really loud and lugubrious score behind a sad scene. Yeah we know how to feel about this stop loving up the movie please! Anyway, I'll continue listening for now since the subject matter is compelling, but my two cents as someone walking into this and Criminal fresh is that Criminal seems a lot smarter.
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Dec 17, 2014 22:09
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Bulkiest Toaster posted:Film Junk is pretty much my favorite and only regularly listened to film podcast. They are Canadians who do reviews of current films, and have a great mix of humor along with actual good film discussion. Not sure how known or popular they are among RGD poster, but thought I would throw them out there if you looking for some good film discussion.
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Jan 26, 2015 19:20
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Jesus Christ I literally cannot make it through the latest episode of Sword and Scale, though maybe I could have before I had kids. Maybe.
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May 5, 2015 14:49
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Apropos of nothing, I recommend "Radio War Nerd" https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd It's like 50% "on the media", except for international reporting mostly re: conflict areas, 25% milhistory, 25% Gary Brecher being Gary Brecher. edit: had RSS feed there until I realized that it was subscriber only! Sorry! I have subscribed to atone. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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May 11, 2016 00:04
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I like Overcast a lot.
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Aug 5, 2016 21:15
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It was much shorter and ended in a place of (more or less) certainty, at least. But yeah it was similar.
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Sep 1, 2016 13:57
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Yeah, Criminal is better at letting the story be what the story is. Less Serial-style credulous sympathy for the accused and less Sword-and-Scale-style Nancy Grace terror and righteous fury.
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Dec 5, 2016 15:59
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Evil Vin posted:Just remember guys, every month the Sword and Scale guy makes almost $22,500 on Patreon.
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Dec 6, 2016 03:21
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Probably has come up already but the other true crime podcast I'd be recommend is Crimetown (though it's less incident-based and more kind of character and organization-based)
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Dec 20, 2016 22:54
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I really like Reply All. One guy's staccato laugh kind of makes my neck hairs stand up but it's not a big deal.
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Jan 30, 2017 02:40
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Franchescanado posted:Why would you ever suggest that to anybody? VVV edit yeah I agree, just didn't know if you got it or not (and I have listened to a ton of Carolla over the years, so I'm not above this or anything) pangstrom fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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Feb 1, 2017 16:31
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Tired Moritz posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for podcasts in German? I tried the German language thread but I think it's dead. http://omegataupodcast.net/
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Feb 23, 2017 18:23
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(Although even [especially?] if you're into comedy you'd probably rather listen to a German talk system design than crack jokes.)
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Feb 23, 2017 18:35
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Totally from the cheap seats--know almost nothing about the case, totally nothing about the podcast, have no thoughts about whether it's moral or creepy or whatever--but just on its face it seems really likely from the start that Richard Simmons has some progressive illness or mental illness or dementia or something and wants to be left alone.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:59
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I haven't listened to Casefile or True Crime Garage/Guys, will check them out. This isn't one-case-one-episode format but I like "Detective". The first season at least (haven't got past that) is a Colorado Springs detective going through the types of murders that happen, their relative frequency, strategies for investigation, what he thinks makes a good detective, how things can go pear-shaped, etc. It's focused on the nuts and bolts of solving murders with related stories. I mean it is what it is, for better or worse -- it's not contemplative or accused-sympathetic in that NPR way, it's not accidentally-on-purpose getting the vapors like Sword and Scale. It's also not self-aggrandizing THIN BLUE LINE stuff, either.
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Aug 7, 2017 16:33
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For leftists, wanted to recommend Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. It's basically a more cynical and anti-corporate and bigger-picture On The Media (which is also a great podcast of course).
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Dec 14, 2017 16:30
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Snowmankilla posted:I was listening to 99% invisible about the colosseum, and remembered that how intrigued I am of the types of battles in the colosseum ( water, animals, ect). Any podcasts that go in depth on that specifically? https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-61-blitz-painfotainment/
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Feb 27, 2018 19:17
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I really like Chapo Trap House, though I'm an old normie and don't agree with everything they say and definitely don't get more that 2/3rds the references. (I get most of the SA references; clearly at least one of them was a goon at some point, if that hasn't already been established)
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Mar 5, 2018 05:46
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theironjef posted:Speaking as a podcaster living in expensive-rear end San Diego, I can affirm that most of the folks I know don't make the initial call to be a "professional podcaster" before their show exists anyway. I was working at a Trader Joes when I started reviewing RPG books as a hobby, and it took five years to get to the point where the show pays my rent, and we were exceedingly lucky, most shows die on the vine instead. Trying to explain to my girlfriend and the other guy on my show that we were moving to Mudwump, MN so our regulation Patreon-begging wouldn't ring false back when we were getting started would not have worked very well. Even now the cash we make, while enough to pay rent and bills, wouldn't pay to move us somewhere and buy a house from scratch. And we have a life here. Kids and family and everything. I'm supposed to move all them somewhere unrealistic for us so that people feel good about throwing us a buck for bonus content? That argument is the "welfare queens" of excuses to not support the shows you like.
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Apr 16, 2018 14:54
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If you like podcasts-about-comedy and missed this one like I did, check out The Old Ones with Mike Birbiglia. Lots of great guests.
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Jun 13, 2018 21:03
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Snowmankilla posted:Kind of random request, but I spent the summer listening to all of the 2 Dope Queen podcast and love when it is just the two hosts being friends/being raunchy /trying to talk each other into anal.
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Aug 6, 2018 15:08
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Piquai Souban posted:Just listening to the Goon Hawaii episode as an entry point - the decision to have different voices for each forum poster is a lot of fun. Subscribed!
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Aug 15, 2018 19:01
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99% invisible listeners already know about it but Anthropecene Reviewed is good. It's light history in personal essay form, basically, so it lives or dies based on whether you enjoy the guy's takes and style.
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Jun 27, 2019 13:29
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I would love that, too. I think that's going to be (an admittedly less interesting) part of the Epstein story, if he was e.g. kind of a shell entity for Les Wexner to avoid taxes.
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Jul 15, 2019 17:39
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Slightly different version is that people who can serve up good analysis must be good at analysis, and those folks aren't going to believe in the paranormal, at least not for very long. If you want somebody to throw a party for you in the middle of the road, the believers will be off-putting for a reason, and the nonbelievers will be off-putting for a reason. If there was INCREDIBLE demand/profitability for such a party, the Malcolm Gladwells of the world would show up and give you what you wanted but drat son do you really want that?
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Oct 19, 2019 03:15
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People get nervous in front of a crowd and charge harder for easier laughs, tend not to let anything breath etc... also a lot of podcasts edit the hell out of things (which helps the final product a lot of course) but they tend to just release the live ones as is, with maybe some real dead parts trimmed out. The biggest difference for me is the "improv 4 humans" podcast... I almost always enjoy the ones in a sound room and the live shows were just like listening to people practice comedy before I gave up on them. (So I'm sure I missed some good ones but whatever, there are a lot of podcasts). I think the dollop and the how did this get made are the only live podcasts I listen to now, in part because they're almost all live shows now. Your tastes/mileage may vary.
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Dec 5, 2019 20:13
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Yeah I'm sure the checks are way better than the audible etc. ads get them. Also probably more fun to actually go to one if you're a fan (I went to a Dollop with Felix and Will from Chapo Trap House and it was great other than being overcrowded) than to listen to.
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Dec 6, 2019 16:46
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mrfart posted:So did somebody find out what the mystery hair growth thing is from the possibly crazy person in the latest episode of reply all? edit: Okay it's some software guy who thinks he found a food that regrows your hair (or he says makes you healthier in general, including regrowing your hair), but yeah I think either it's a blip due to who knows what or maybe he has some cycling disorder or thought/delusional disorder or something. Or he's just doing the setup for a scam. My only guess was some bizarre fish's eggs or something. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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Jan 30, 2020 19:06
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Yeah when he was like "I can't afford a supply myself so I'm still losing hair" and "can I get you to send out my email" that's when I thought "oh it's probably a scam". But maybe they kicked the tires a little before publishing, one of those guys is pretty street-smart (and the other very much isn't, I forget who is who).
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Ariza posted:What are some good east coast based comedy podcasts? I realized that 99% of what I listen to are LA based comedians so I'm a lot more familiar with them which colors what new podcasts I listen to. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Jul 10, 2020 |
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Jul 10, 2020 13:12
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There are worse voices making more amateurish mistakes out there but the most-inexplicably-and-egregiously-and-intentionally?-annoying answer for my money is Michael Barbaro in The Daily.
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Jul 15, 2020 03:24
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Yeah I like Omega Tau (though not that interested in aerospace so skip a few episodes) and I love ALAB (despite having minimal interest in the law)... Ologies is very "radlib cutesy" for my taste but I wouldn't take issue with someone who loved it, it just makes my skin crawl. If you are interested in biotech and biotech startups, or if you aren't but are curious about them, "first rounders" is a very good podcast.
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May 28, 2021 21:56
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Radio War Nerd but it's not just politics and you're going to have to pay for (most of) it most of the other ones I know of are essentially foreign policy shops, but interested if others have suggestions.
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Jun 4, 2021 17:31
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The other supposedly-good ones I know of that have a lot of RWN listener overlap are Moderate Rebels (mostly US-relevant counterbalance to the built consensus), Parallax Views (haven't listened but he's had some good guests), Silk and Steel (Carl Zha on mostly Asia/China). Trueanon also has a lot of overlap but I listened to one and it was too "expansive" thinking for my taste, or at least that ep was, and yeah not sure how much of it is international. I haven't listened to the FP shop ones at all so couldn't tell you which are decent or mediocre or awful, it's just the way that kind of thing works, there isn't a ton of authentic bottom-up demand for clear-eyed international stuff and like that's where the money and the top-down supply is. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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Jun 4, 2021 18:04
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I think what you're talking about is mostly symptomatic of a higher level issue: his "point" is glib and ted-talky-at-BEST, so even the best storytelling is going to just be tarps thrown over the "well, ackshually" scaffold. I don't think the dude has a soul or is genuinely curious about anything. The enthusiasm is fake.
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Jul 3, 2021 03:03
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Haven't heard it but the line between good storytelling and obfuscation is very blurry, if there's a line at all. I am a weirdo in this sense but I have trouble with a lot of true-crime narratives for this reason, like I always want the story to work big to small, like I'm along the ride for an investigation. But the real "produced" ones usually hide aspects from you, take you down garden paths etc., which is good storytelling for an Ian McEwan novel or whatever but can be frustrating if you are invested in (say) solving stuff yourself.
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Oct 17, 2022 15:37
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Mr Interweb posted:Can i get some recommendations for single person podcasts, like Dan Carlin? You're going to want to watch Aphmau. Yes, it's a youtube channel, and yes it's about minecraft, but it most purely channels the various primordial voices of society.
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closest I've got is "if books could kill", which is mostly a takedown of "smart" or "spiritual" airport books. The sensibility is a little NYT for me and some of the targets are a little soft but I still recommend it.
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