That said it is a little unbalanced.. I would like the guy to engage a little more.. but at any rate a great example of the “information straight into my veins” genre
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 10 September 2023 12:57 (nine months ago) link
Its one ive listened to for a while so i may have recommended it. Female presenter is doing stuff with History Hit too. & that has a numberof good shows on. Do love Kate Lister's Betwixt The Sheets too. I think shes appeared on that too.
The Ancients and Not Just The Tudors both have great episodes too
& I just listened to Angela Saini guesting on Patented talking about the Patrarchy.
― Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:05 (nine months ago) link
Two great podcasts about made-for-TV movies are back after hiatuses with new episodes: Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie - which kicked off its new cycle with a two-part episode looking at the 1976 film The Boy in the Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta - and Made for TV Mayhem Show with Amanda Reyes. Both highly entertaining.
― Josefa, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:47 (nine months ago) link
ooh that medieval one sounds interesting, i will give that one a go
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 September 2023 15:02 (nine months ago) link
It was female presenter on Were not So Different that referred to The Guardian as TERF central which I don't think I'd heard before. May give her politics which is a large part of the perspective.
― Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:21 (nine months ago) link
I can't remember either presenter's name offhand but I have listened to pretty much all of the show. Picked up on it a couple of years ago and have gone backwards as well as forwards . Leftist perspective on medieval and slightlyu later history . & it's all been pretty great.
I really like Media Eval too the one looking at medieval set films etc from a historical perspective . It's normally been pretty great though I don't really agree with the Little Mermaid with them. The main presenter has been busy with work so the show's been on leave for the alst few months hope it's coming back soon.
Also Let's Talk About Myths , Baby where a Canadian feminist looks back at mainly Greek legends which ahs been fascinating but I've fallen way out of sync with it over lasty couple of years after having largely caught up with it before that.
― Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:53 (nine months ago) link
Got to give a big shout out for Deep Foucs on various jazz and improvised music. Playing back largely unheard tracks by a featured artist with commentary by a guest with some connection to the artist. I'm just listening to the 1st of a set of 3 on Wes Montgomery. I need to hear the one on Larry Young too.
Think I may have mentioned the show when i first found it a few months back but do keep hearing new performances on it.
― Stevo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:54 (nine months ago) link
Ok I take it back about We’re Not So Different. The woman is really grating on me. She’s a know-it-all, which is fine, because that’s the point of the podcast. But I wish she would just relay the information without all the “it be like that” Twitter-speak gumph, and I wish she weren’t so utterly pleased with herself
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:26 (nine months ago) link
I mean, whatever. She’s great. She’s fine. She knows a ton. And that’s what I’m after. I can even get over the “, right?” thing.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:41 (nine months ago) link
i find she whips through details a bit fast for me at times
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
Eleanor's great. I even learnt her name now.Also found out that I had a load of early episodes I still hadn't heard. Don't think I have listened to the Medieval Asia series or things before that. Did come in during the Historical materialism series and i think went back over the earlier stuff on Food. I thought i had gone back further but now still have a load I haven't heard. Listened to the Introduction episode a couple of days ago.
She introduces herself as an expert on the 14th century, the best century. I think I have enjoyed her when I've heard her. Wouldn't mind catching some of her lectures.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:49 (nine months ago) link
Drapetomaniax a retelling of black US history as though it was dealing with current media. I just heard teh first episode and thought it quite fun. That was talking about Forest Joe a maroon outlaw.I think each episode has guests in historic roles etc. Think I will listen to a few more of these.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:36 (eight months ago) link
just listened to the fifth season of leon neyfakh’s fiasco, a history of the aids crisis. i can’t recommend it highly enough. not usually a podcast guy but it really hooked me in, finished it in a day
― flopson, Sunday, 12 November 2023 19:25 (seven months ago) link
yeah it was a+ moving & infuriating the blood bank stuff was eyeopening, i only knew a little bit about that before
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 November 2023 20:01 (seven months ago) link
i gasped when the former member of act up's treatment action group were trying to block the accelerated release of the protease inhibitor triple cocktail. really interesting on the sociology of activism/science/medical ethics. i was largely ignorant of this history so a lot of it was major twists. fav episode probably the bath houses one tho
veg is thereany season you would recommend listening to next? should i start with slow burn?
― flopson, Monday, 13 November 2023 08:02 (seven months ago) link
The Iran Contra season of Fiasco is really good. Slow Burn is great too though, you really cant go wrong with either
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:58 (seven months ago) link
I will second Slow Burn -- although I stick to the seasons rather than the "decoder" eps. the season about Clarence Thomas told me everything I didn't know about that guy and explained everything
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 13 November 2023 16:02 (seven months ago) link
Mailchimp is apparently refusing to collaborate with, or even advertise on, podcasts that employ unionized staff (even though they are denying it)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled
Sign a letter to Inuit (who owns Mailchimp) here:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-intuit-mailchimp-no-monkey-business-quit-union-busting
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 December 2023 12:31 (six months ago) link
Intuit, though.
― peace, man, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:18 (six months ago) link
ha whoops
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 December 2023 15:53 (six months ago) link
Intuit are the people who own TurboTax right? fuck that company forever. they absolutely don't give a shit about that letter though
― budo jeru, Friday, 15 December 2023 16:59 (six months ago) link
yep they are evil
― rob, Friday, 15 December 2023 17:01 (six months ago) link
A good friend of mine worked for Mailchimp for a while, they like to cosplay as a "progressive" company but they will cut you without hesitation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 December 2023 21:43 (five months ago) link
I'm pretty certain that I heard of the Castro podcast app here on ilx, but can't find the thread where it was mentioned. Anyway, it's done; they are out of business and their domain seems to be unregistered. Does anybody have a good podcast app to recommend that has similar features?
― beard papa, Saturday, 6 January 2024 21:33 (five months ago) link
i dont know of any others that sideload so answer may be no? i have used Overcast for years. it gives me no problems & is v good to use.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 January 2024 22:39 (five months ago) link
I use Podcast Addict and it's fine.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 6 January 2024 23:08 (five months ago) link
There is no good replacement if you’re used to Castro’s inbox/queue system. I was able to sort of mimic it in Pocketcasts using filters, but it’s not the same.
― Jeff, Saturday, 6 January 2024 23:29 (five months ago) link
I discovered Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks over winter break and have been ear-hoovering up as many episodes as I can. Led by a Yellowstone wildlife biologist who specializes in bears, it goes into detail about dangerous wild animal encounters, while providing a respectful context for why these things occur, as well as a slew of biological and behavioral facts about the animals. Warning that it can get sad at times, because by the very nature of the stories they're engaging with, the humans and animals don't always survive. It's co-hosted by the biologist's brother, who provides a dorky kind of comic relief, and a mutual friend of theirs. The brother's voice reminds me a lot of Matt Stone's character from Cannibal: The Musical, but he's more of an affable dork than an annoying one. Highly recommend.
― peace, man, Monday, 8 January 2024 12:37 (five months ago) link
new season of Blindspot is covering lesser-known stories & people from the early days of the AIDS Crisis & it is so goodThis season hosted by Kai Wright of WNYC3 episodes out so far, second episode on the Harlem Hospital Pediatric Ward is quietly incredible Similarites might be drawn to the Slow Burn season on AIDS but this is a much much deeper dive, much more focused on marginalized groups whose stories were less likely to be told
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 02:28 (four months ago) link
5-4 pod's rhiannon hamam arrested at the UT Austin protests, two days after the new republic called her a "political influencer to watch" and a "notewprthy political voice"
(she's tweeting so i assume she's out again)
― mark s, Thursday, 25 April 2024 19:03 (one month ago) link
57 arrests, all charges dropped
I’m interviewed in the audio here:https://t.co/4OtrJONi8z— Rhiannon (@AywaRhiannon) April 27, 2024
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2024 09:20 (one month ago) link