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Do you think Mark ever gets pissed off when David answers his opinions with ‘yeah maybe’ or ‘possibly’?

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  2. I don’t think Mark gets pissed off at anything. David might get pissed off when Mark interrupts him (which he does constantly) when he is trying to tell a story or get through one of his theories. But many things are “incredible” or “remarkable”. And I still listen every week.

  5. I think I’d get really irritated with David but I think they’ve been friends for so long they just forgive each other all that stuff.

    I sent David a Stackwaddy to try out on Mark

    NZ pop groups from the 60s. Which is the made up one?

    the Chapta
    the Kal-Q-Lated Risk
    the La-de-dahs
    the Downunder Sect
    the Fourmyula

    Mark got it straight away and David said that just goes to show the hardest thing is making up the made-up one. Infuriatingly, he was right

  7. DH,s linguistic tic of throwing in “and so forth” at the end of a sentence to provide spurious weight to a point (without of course having to supply any further substance). A trait he shares with the evil Mark Levin on F*x News.

    I enjoy the to and fro but sometimes you sense the weary acknowledgement by DH to ME when he makes a point.

  8. I’ve had my ups and downs with them (the Stackwaddy game every episode for a while was a little trying) but there’s no other podcast that I know of that’s lasted this long and is still worth listening to. Never miss an episode. I was one of those who took out a subscription to the mag to (amongst other reasons) keep access to the full podcast. That dates me.

  9. For all Afterworders who enjoy the music of the Kinks, I can recommend the “Thoroughly Kinky” podcast, hosted by Liam Porter and Adam Smith (not the famous economist). They go through the albums in chronological order, discussing one album per programme, with separate programmes devoted to the bonus tracks on CD reissues. One presenter (Adam) is a genuine Kins expert, while Liam is a curious newbie. The whole thing works pretty well, and has left me even more in awe of Ray (and Dave) Davies’s songwriting.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thoroughly-kinky-a-kinks-podcast/id1729244527

  10. I subscribe to the Word In Your Ear podcasts but I’m not a Patreon listener. Having got severely backlogged, I tend to listen to them about a year behind their publication and thus I often find amusement in how wrong they can be about what’s being discussed.

    The only subscribed music-related free podcast that I really value is “Afropop Worldwide” from PRX in the USA. Between 45 minutes and an hour in length, usually.
    Roughly once a week and sometimes more often than that it arrives in my podcast folder, bringing features on various scenes in Africa, the Carribbean and the Americas plus occasional dips into Europe, Asia etc.
    I suppose the non-African features are rooted in the African diaspora’s influence on those regions but they also explore Western pop’s influence and how all the different influences mix.
    They don’t get too hung up on the anthropology of it, unlike BBC Radio 3’s “World Routes” can sometimes do, although the folklore aspects do get discussed. The “pop” aspect is just as important to them as the “afro” aspect and it’s refreshing. Lots of interesting music as well as erudite chat.

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