heptagons wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 1:10 pm I just got into ATTN Magazine's Crucial Listening and it's highly enjoyable. In it experimental musicians and sound artists reveal three of their favorite albums and discuss stuff around that. I've listened to two of the episodes amd bought two albums because of that, with couple to buy later.

Also Sound Matters podcast is great. Tim Hinman makes documentary style podcast about the many aspects of sound.

Thanks for these btw.

The Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia

Crazy fucking story.

enframed wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:01 pm The Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia

Crazy fucking story.

On it.

Been listening to Breaking Down: Collapse. It’s a good doomsday podcast without being alarmist or prepper. Just a good rundown of the myriad of possibilities that will more than likely take down civilization, or at least knock it down a few notches.

Dude gets Bing to declare its love for him. Pretty great podcast episode. Series is called "Hard Fork." The one below also has some fascinating info about just what a big baby Elon Musk is. Not that we didn't already know, but it's worse than we thought.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/podc ... pe=Article

I binge listened to both the MLK Tapes and the RFK Tapes recently, can highly recommend both, though the audio quality of the MLK Tapes will drive you nuts. Still very worth it.

I have a big soft spot for Drifter's Sympathy. I will occasionally revisit certain of the autobiographical episodes when I am dealing with my own Emil-esque issues or just need help putting the personal past in perspective.

Podcasts with Michael Hobbes as a cohost are uniformly excellent:

Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon - dissecting and debunking health trends, diets, and fatphobia

If Books Could Kill with Peter Shamshiri - examining the nuclear levels of bullshit behind “big concept” books that could be bought in an American airport (think David Brooks, Malcolm Gladwell, etc), and their negative influence

jimmy spako wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:52 am I have a big soft spot for Drifter's Sympathy.

Any other podcast is just a side-issue.

Andrew wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 4:57 pm
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
Carefully researched deep dives with songs in chronological order, currently at "Respect" by Aretha Franklin (at 149 of 500). Often spends more time on background context than the song itself, in a good way. Kinda dry, humorless delivery but a well done show.

I’ve been listening to this one to scratch the Cocaine and Rhinestones itch, and it’s very good. Agree about the host—he’s not exactly brimming with personality—but he works from a well-written script, and the dives get deep. I’ve learned an incredible amount from it.

I've been cherry picking History of Literature episodes. Kind of a warm mug of tea as podcasts go, the host is an affable nerd with fairly narrow sounding sinuses. Reminds me of my lit classes in college. He hits all the canonical heavies and some newer more diverse offerings. Lots of novels but a decent amount of poetry and philosophy. Smart guests. Listening to a German professor unpacking Nietzsche was my kind of escapism while doing the dishes.

I also continue to circle back regularly to The Mental Illness Happy Hour and will always happily rep for it: if you are struggling, whether low-key or acute, and need to know you're not alone and maybe learn a thing or two more about yourself and humanity, and strengthen those bonds, definitely check it out.