Duncan Trussell is horrible and his voice is worse than nails on a chalkboard.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
"Had a great guest" is pretty much the only way any podcast is listenable - comics interviewing comics is pretty much guaranteed to be boring (unless, like WTF, it's not a 'comedy' podcast) and there's no one who can make a boring guest seem interesting.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
ive never heard of any of those people. besides julie klausner.
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
maron is compelling. thats basically it.
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
That's ludicrous, tell it to Studs Terkel or Bob Fass. The opposite argument can be easily made—that a good interviewer can elicit fascinating stuff from the most seemingly mundane subjects.
As for Trussell's voice, two of my favorite "singers" are Dylan and Mark E. Smith & I could listen to Gilbert Gottfried or Howard Cosell or Carol Channing go on for hours, so one man's nails are another man's etc.
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
marc maron is a really unique interviewer. at his best he can really bring out some intense, deep stuff. at worst, he's whatever. but when he's on, he's on fire.
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
xpost I guess if your definition of compelling is solipsistic one-note self deprecation....
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
You should try those shows slocki
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
Klausner bugs me so much
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
But then she once again has a great guest and I repeat my old mistakes
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I think she's best in small, periodic doses...I do think there's an element of unpredictability I like abt her though
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
i like jesse thorn's interviewing style, he gets good stuff out of people
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
To clarify, though, by boring I'm talking about comedian interviewing comedian wacky hijinks boring.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
I'm enjoying the Adam Scott Aukerman "You Talkin' U2 to Me?" just from the sheer refusal of the hosts refusal to address the topic at all, with the exception of mentioning the premise of the show in passing during another of their extended tangents.
― Honey-Roasted Cashews (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
i hate to say this, but has anybody been listening to the new weekly 99% invisible? feels like it's been a real drop in quality.
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
Plz edit out one 'refusal' from my post, thank you. You get to choose which one.
― Honey-Roasted Cashews (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
By the way, you're listening to You Edit One Refusal From Me.
― brock out with your cock out (sic), Thursday, 10 April 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
I'm a big fan of Tell'em Steve Dave which is Walt and Bryan from Comic Book Men (who are so much funnier in an unedited environment) plus Q from Impractical Jokers.
I also dig Mike and Tom eat Snacks featuring Michael Ian Black although they haven't uploaded a new episode in months.
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 10 April 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
The Champs is my new fave interview podcast.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
what is a good episode of all of these shitty podcasts everybody
― schlump, Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Another one that I find hilarious, though he hasn't done one in awhile, is Harris Wittels' Anaylyze Phish podcast in which he tries to convince disbelievers that Phish actually isn't terrible. The Tom Scharpling one was great!
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1wCjKSs.jpg
― markers, Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
I will never eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever listen to this podcast again!
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
co-sign the Champs. super-great
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
i listened to the hannibal buress champs episodeit has that awful guythat awful guy
― schlump, Monday, 21 April 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
the dj?
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 21 April 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
i don't knowsome guyi heard him yuk-yuk-yuking in the background of an opie & anthony episode oncelike ... those guys
he has a long thing in the hannibal episode about how he has probably only met six interesting women in his lifetime, what with women being less urgently compelled to form personalities than men are
― schlump, Monday, 21 April 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
that would be neal brennan
they got rid of dj douggpound a while back
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 April 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
oh don't mind him, that's just neal brennan.
xp
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 21 April 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
even moshe tries to ignore him on that crap
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 April 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
i've been getting into Kinda Neat, it's the best music-oriented interview podcast i've heard. mostly features L.A.-based rappers and producers.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/07/what-upcoming-changes-mpr-will-actually-mean-listeners
public radio freakin out about missing the boat, apparently
― j., Friday, 10 July 2015 00:37 (eight years ago) link
Scott Woods has gathered up a few years of intermittent podcasts and put them in one place:
https://andyoucandancetoit.wordpress.com/
My wit and erudition is in there a few times, also three or four other ILX people.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 01:52 (eight years ago) link
Been enjoying Katie Halper's podcast/show. I guess it's technically a radio show, just also packaged as a podcast. A little ADD but witty and fun.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
Fave new podcast I've run across is Outside Online: http://www.outsideonline.com/2060321/introducing-outside-podcast - I've been a fan of Outside's journalism (despite the "30 marathon continental divides you must conquer" lifestyle schtick mixed in) and the podcast is thankfully reflects more of that. The "Frozen Alive" episode is some of the most intense listening I've heard. Also check out "The Devil's Highway" and the Robert Young Pelton interview.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 August 2016 08:59 (seven years ago) link
Just subscribed to Katie Halper's show, incidentally.
What brings you to _discontinue_ listening to a show?
For me, it's too many eps of the hosts being too dumb, or too snide/demoralizing/smug/NPR-nihilist-like if it's a political show. Or I'm behind too many eps and have no drive whatsoever to catch up.
What is everyone's threshold to how uninteresting the conversation has to get to just hit unsubscribe?
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
dumb is pretty much the only thing - my requirements for these are incredibly low in that I put on ones I straight up don't like sometimes just to have something on while I work
― banfred bann (wins), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
I have one of these btw, it was a recovery exercise but stuff got in the way and I haven't managed to record one for months. Gonna do one tomorrow tho.
looking at the listener stats tho there are definitely people like me who will kinda listen to anything
― banfred bann (wins), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
My show has horrible stats, from little I can tell, but once in a while a friend will tell me how they enjoyed it, so that helped.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
I guess this is the thread to ask does anyone listen to the sleep w/me podcast? That shit works! At least for me, and I have a lot of trouble with sleep - makes me wonder how suggestible I am since it seems to be a species of hypnosis
― banfred bann (wins), Friday, 16 December 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link
I like true crime so I listened to a few episodes of 'My Favorite Murder" hoping to hear an episode that was more about the crime than the hosts' banter, then quit when I realized that MFM really is more about the back'n'forth than it is about murder cases.
― rip van wanko, Friday, 16 December 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's more of a murdery palate cleanser than a deep dive. Try Casefile for straightup facts - Yorkshire Ripper 3-parter was a+, it's gotten really good
have you listened to the new Crimetown podcast? more organized crime than murder specifically, but v good, firsthand interviews & good detail . Strangler is good too.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 December 2016 02:23 (seven years ago) link
Excellent, thanks. I've been meaning to address something you said about "In The Dark" "... you called it "flip"? I'm curious how you mean that because I never caught a whiff of flippancy over the whole run. I thought that series was excellent, even if it ended with something of a whimper.
― rip van wanko, Friday, 16 December 2016 09:24 (seven years ago) link
In a couple of early episodes there was something in her tone for me I think? I don't remember exactly ... I definitely enjoyed the series overall though
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 December 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
Nerd Poker I abandoned when it became as much about jokes about people fucking children and horses as it did about the game.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 05:43 (seven years ago) link
I don't discontinue listening to a show so much as set it aside (especially if an interview show has a series of guests I don't care about) and listen to other things - I have 40 feeds in my PocketCasts and way less time to listen to podcasts, so I'll go on a run of something then go for a different mood for a while.
Last four Tuesdays have been the Last Podcast on the Left series on the Children of God, probably going to need a few weeks of Radiolab or something.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link
i really tried with this show but i just find georgia and karen kinda irritating so i've given up :(
the children of god episodes of last podcast were tough going, yeah. the last episode on ricky rodriguez was so crushingly sad, especially the excerpts from his videotape monologue. hopefully they'll get back to talking about ridiculous alien conspiracies for a little while now
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 10:20 (seven years ago) link
i get so lost when georgia reads her stories because she uses zero pronouns & is so scattered & nervous.
but i have loved and been a fan of karen kilgariff for many years & i could listen to a whole series where karen reads stories & georgia reacts
i enjoy their chemistry together though. but to be fair, a lot of the things they do i normally hate in other podcasts, lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
I enjoy My Favorite Murder but sometimes get annoyed at the chattiness, self-consciousness, and lack of depth and attention to detail. But I find Karen and Georgia pretty likeable, and the show light and fun.Also, I started late in the run. I think if I had started with the first episode I might've been more inclined to give up.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
What's are some good episodes of Last Podcast on the Left? I scrolled through them all and picked a random one from way back that I couldn't really get into.
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link