If you don't mind solo podcasts, Champagne Sharks is good. Struggle Session has its moments. I keep meaning to check out Season of the B.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
The Joe Rogan Experience
*spit-take*
― a space stewardess (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
lmao
https://i.imgur.com/x3thKLY.png
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
loool
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
hahahahahaha amazing
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
The Hope Never Dies author is in town for a book reading at Powells this week, too
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
MH, if you’d like pod recs, try these:
Trashfuture (UK)Boonta Vista (Aus)Michael & Us (Can)Swampside Chats (from the Communist league of Tampa)Zero Squared (from Zero Books)Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person (slight bias for this one)Little BeruitAufhebunga Bunga (UK)Dead Pundits SocietyHellaBlack PodcastThis is Hell!Against Everyone with Conner HabibAgainst the Grain (from KPFA)Pod Damn AmericaCurrent AffairsThe Michael Brooks ShowToo Long 4 TwitterBeast CoastLeft Coast49th Parahell (Can)The Discourse, with BJ Sutton
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Oops, that was directed at man alive, not mh
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
I’m gonna stick to american public media’s “marketplace”, thanks
― mh, Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
Eww
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
Cool list, kingfish. I really like the Michael Brooks Show. Lots of discussion of African and South American politics. the Chapo guys show up on there often.
― President Keyes, Friday, 10 August 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
god the QAnon segment with Will Sommer was dizzying in its descriptions of cascading stupidity
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
Yeah reading about conspiracy theories self-destructing/spiraling out of control like that makes me alternate between despair and relief.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 10 August 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
More Qanon/Patriot Prayer coverage with Jared Holt here,who was mentioned in the ep:
http://49thparahell.libsyn.com/episode-seven-holt-the-phone-with-jared-holt
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
Nice: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-interview-with-parquet-courts-a-savage
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 August 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
I find it funny how unobjectionable the Vice interview was. Like, almost anyone on Rolling Politics would have given similar answers (except maybe on the Mueller stuff). They've gone soft already!
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 20 August 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
I couldn't really get into the Parquet Courts interview, felt like reading a Spin or Voice article from the late 90s. Did it get more interesting as it went on?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 20 August 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
not really. their efforts to branch out into sports/music/etc episodes generally bore me though
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 20 August 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
Sort of reminded me of the value of actually good and well-listened music writers because I really felt like they were fumbling around trying to sound intelligent while talking about the whole death of rock/rock revival thing, which had SO much written about it at the time.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 20 August 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
I dug it because I _was_ a budding rockcrit/writer back then.
Also, the bits about how we’ve replaced a language of aesthetics with one of moralism
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 20 August 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
Actual laughter (not just the usual smirk of recognition) on my commute this morning as Felix extolled, at length, the virtues of the Krassensteins.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
I see them doing a bit of book promo: Will on Blogging Heads with a somewhat skeptical Robert Wright
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
Gonna try the audiobook (free via audible trial, obviously) and see how far I get
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, August 20, 2018 12:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm still kinda surprised more ppl on this thread weren't mad they had PFT Commentor on but i guess just chalk it up to not knowing enough about Barstool & their past toxic misogyny stuff...
https://people.com/sports/espn-host-sam-ponder-slams-barstool-sports-sexist-essay-calling-her-slut/
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
I've seen it brought up, including on the subreddit. I assume not much was made of it cause no one had an issue with PFT himself (that I know of)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
PFT is a universally beloved internet figure who Barstool keeps around as a shield against the site's overall odiousness and worthlessness.
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
yeah, big cat seems like a horrible human
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
fuckit, i just came into a lil money, maybe ill just buy the damn book on lunch break
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
this is easily their best interview
https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/chapo-trap-house-wellness-theories-interview.html
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
i didn't know what cordyceps were so i clicked/googled and now all of my ads are for cordyceps
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Today’s intro was the best since Brendan imitating all of them.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
v good ep
Street Fight started playing automatically after, from 6 days ago, Will M as guest. Really enjoying it - never checked out Street Fight but I like this guy a lot.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
well that confused me for a sec
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Street Fight is good, couple of anarchist stoner dads. They put out a lot of episodes so I don’t try to keep up and just listen to the latest episode whenever I have time.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
yeah they're propbably the most straightforwardly likeable, affable figures in all of nu-left-media-dom
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, August 21, 2018 2:54 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
shortly after Simon started this thread last year, your comment upthread ("hi guys") confused me and I actually thought you were Will Menaker for a sec.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
I thought so too
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
hahaha i will state for the record that i'm not will menaker, although i am also a soft mid-30s bearded white leftist who is underratedly funny (srsly yall not excelsiing me enough) and knows what cordyceps are, so i can see why yall are confused even w/ the name
ftr my actual podcast doppelganger is travis mcelroy
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
pls say hi to felix for me :) love the pod
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Audio quality on the audiobook is worse than the podcast (at least for Will and Matt, who sound like their mics were tin cans attached to string, haven't gotten to Felix or Virgil yet).
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
I liked the first and last sections (on the broader world and work/labor) most. The middle was too heavy on well-trod material from the 'pod, with the culture section as easily the weakest. I don't really know who that stuff is intended for. I'm looking forward to reading some very confused/bewildered/bored reviews though
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
I just read the intro and yeah I have no idea who this book is for. It’s like Ulysses for internet ephemera. Like imagine getting probably a pretty healthy book deal for something that’s guaranteed national press and using it to do gags about inscrutable two year old Weird Twitter in-joke “the Beer Nerd.” When I did my joke dog book they made me take out a reference to Calvin Johnston because it was too obscure!
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
Fun thread:
Popular Democrat: "White genocide is real and it's extremely good" #VerifiedHate pic.twitter.com/ncLwOvsLea— Blue Check Watch (@meme_america) August 22, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:40 (five years ago) link
the clientele on their subreddit all seem pretty young, like lots of 18 year olds talking about how they used to be ‘chuds like two years ago’. i imagine there’s a market for this we don’t fully understand
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 23 August 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
I've seen a few ex-chuds on there but ex-libs are much more common.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
the Harper's review is good and funny but I'd prefer to read reviews from haters
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
tons of teenagers & undergrads on the subreddit
― flappy bird, Friday, 24 August 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
On the Slate podcast: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2018/08/chapo_trap_house_s_virgil_texas_matt_christman_and_will_menaker_join_guest.html
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 24 August 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
The Verge has a profile of the wonderful Natalie Wynn (aka ContraPoints)
“I die laughing every time TheGoldenOne is included in your videos,” writes one commenter. That, indeed, is the point. And it’s bigger than just making a funny for its own sake.The strategy captures a dynamic noted by fellow LeftTuber, film critic Lindsay Ellis, in her analysis of the satire in Mel Brooks’ The Producers. She argues that aesthetics of the earnestly anti-Nazi film American History X are eagerly aped by actual neo-Nazis, but the uproariously campy rendition of Hitler’s Germany in The Producers is not. Real life Nazis are not, Ellis notes dryly, singing “Springtime for Hitler.” In the end, despite all the controversy about the film, it hit them where it hurt.Wynn’s strikes as ContraPoints are similarly surgical, and what parses as lighthearted jocularity or inexplicable sexual attraction at first quickly resolves into a virtual pantsing. It’s a prologue to an elegant crash course in the history of postmodernism and why Peterson’s obscurantism makes him difficult to argue with. Calling Jordan Peterson “daddy” and portraying him as a robot lovingly watching Wynn bathe doesn’t ennoble him; it erodes him. That was made clear when Peterson’s sole response to Wynn’s carefully argued video was a mere “no comment,” when he had thundered at and even threatened more earnest (less flirty) critics.
The strategy captures a dynamic noted by fellow LeftTuber, film critic Lindsay Ellis, in her analysis of the satire in Mel Brooks’ The Producers. She argues that aesthetics of the earnestly anti-Nazi film American History X are eagerly aped by actual neo-Nazis, but the uproariously campy rendition of Hitler’s Germany in The Producers is not. Real life Nazis are not, Ellis notes dryly, singing “Springtime for Hitler.” In the end, despite all the controversy about the film, it hit them where it hurt.
Wynn’s strikes as ContraPoints are similarly surgical, and what parses as lighthearted jocularity or inexplicable sexual attraction at first quickly resolves into a virtual pantsing. It’s a prologue to an elegant crash course in the history of postmodernism and why Peterson’s obscurantism makes him difficult to argue with. Calling Jordan Peterson “daddy” and portraying him as a robot lovingly watching Wynn bathe doesn’t ennoble him; it erodes him. That was made clear when Peterson’s sole response to Wynn’s carefully argued video was a mere “no comment,” when he had thundered at and even threatened more earnest (less flirty) critics.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 24 August 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link