Twang welcomes Leedsboy, MilkeyBarnet, and FeedbackFile to the pod for an involuted podcast about podcasts. For anyone who hasn’t got into the wild west that is podcasts all is here for a successful pod life. For regular listeners, many recommendations are within from minor league football, politics, music, true crime and even podcasts for pets. Please add further recommendations in the comments!
The Afterword #104: The Podpod
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On listening back just realised that the support team were only allowed 3 recommendations each whilst the podmeister had quite a few more – hmmm! However a thoroughly enjoyable ramble and way too many new pods to investigate.
I thought the support team were sharp, incisive and decisive though.
Just like the govt front bench! Which one of us is Gove??
The one who swears the most (apparently).
A great team.
I spontaneously went by category rather than pod. So I didn’t answer my own question.
Anyone….?
Downloaded, but yet to listen.
In irony news, all this being at home is allowing me less listening time, as the hifi is in the same room as the telly. And Mrs F and Offspring the Elder are catching up on Celebrity Bake Off or some other crap.
As regular viewers might remember, our (main) telly blew up on Christmas Day. So we’re down to the one telly (the even older one, from the spare room, which is now jigsaw table room, as the dining table is now my office…)
The moral of the take is I should have coughed up for a new telly in the January sales.
Same for me. I normally drive about 400 miles a week getting my daughter, taking her back to her mother’s etc. That is my podcasting listening time. She has been here for 2 weeks and I have hardly used the car for anything. I also listen at work when doing boring stuff, but it doesn’t work the same at home somehow, too many other distractions I guess.
And I forgot about it, but finally listened. Very good, I learnt a lot, about what is out there, can’t believe the Chart Music podcast wasn’t mentioned though. Was first recommended by someone here and is my favourite of about 30 or so I routinely listen to.
I agree that this locked in period is seriously affecting my pod listening. Music not so much but podding is a very solitary pursuit. However off the back of my own recommendation I have just started series 3 of Tracks and it’s excellent (series 2 , a prequel, was most odd).
I’m having a go on Dirty John. I’m enjoying it immensely.
It gets better and better.
I forgot to mention “The Butterfly effect” by Jon Ronson which is a look at the changes to the porn industry due to tube sites, but it’s much more than that. It has that title because it looks at the far wider implications of technology change on an industry which stays in the shadows but probably has more customers than any other. It’s funny, thought provoking and often very touching.
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Have an up @Twang
All my podcast listening is done in the car as I normally do around 4-500 miles a week visiting clients (I run an accountancy firm).
Now being confined to barracks but still working, I’m lucky to get one a day done. I’m almost wishing that the work dries up so I can usefully fill my days with podcasts, films and TV catch up as I bloat up to…even bigger than I already am.
Will get there in the end.
Just got around to this. To be honest, I thought was going to be a bit….well….boring…a podcast about podcasts? I was going to make some smartass remark about maybe doing a podcast about doing a podcast about podcasts, but I actually really enjoyed it….so I won’t!
Having got to the end, I realised I could really do with a list of those recommendations and those discussed. Is that possible guys?
I wrote some down as we went along and have my list of Pods that I prepared. So to start it off (but in now way is it complete)
99% Invisible
Reply All
This American Life
Athletico Mince
Dirty John
Serial
The Great Albums
For The Many
Looks Unfamiliar
History of England
The Briefing Room
20,000 Leagues Under Tier 3
Teachers Pet
Soul Music
Blood on the Tracks
Heavyweight
Shit Town
There are more but I didn’t write them down….
Just listened to the cast. It’s always good to hear you guys ramble on. I’m grateful for this list, Leeds. I think I may dip a toe.
I’ll add two excellent music related ones hosted by Afterworders:
albumtoalbum on David Bowie’s catalogue
Nothing Is Real forensically examines minutiae about The Beatles
Thanks Tig, nice to know someone actually listened to it.
I forgot to add Over The Road. Long Haul Paul’s trucking podcast.
Everything Is Alive is tremendous. It consists of interviews with inanimate objects, is incredibly well scripted and very philosophical.
That was a great listen guys. I think the world was so crazy when you made it originally (C word) so it has taken me 3 months to manage to hear it but was v good to get your recommendations. Was interesting to know For The Many was so highly regarded. I often listen to Iain Dale’s LBC show, though am doing so less and less these days as it can get too shouty (usually the callers, not him, though he can get enraged occasionally). So will have to give the podcast a go. The Ratline is one of my recommendations. V good web of intrigue about World War 2, escaping Nazis and Vatican involvement. I agree Tracks was excellent in the beginning but have given up on recent ones as it was a case of getting v far-fetched (though actually this didn’t seem to matter in the beginning!) and diminishing returns. I always listen to Soul Music, which originates on Radio 4 and echo the comments made on the Podpod.
The one podcast I do subscribe to as well as the AW is You Me and the Big C, which will only be of interest to people affected in any way by cancer but it is an honest no-hold barred discussion on every aspect, with 3 regular presenters, who all have their own experience with the illness, and different guests. It is revealing, informatory, emotional, sometimes hilarious and the genuine bonds between the three presenters is affecting. They had a great episode About The Best Friend where each of them had a conversation with their best friend in real life about how their relationship with them had helped or been affected.