Truman S2 of The City was good as well. But I can’t believe USA Today canned the whole cast. Wonder if they got sued or something?
I was bummed too. I assume it’s fairly expensive to make as far as podcasts go. Lots of travel expenses for the reporters. Idk.
Really enjoying Suspicious Activity: Inside the FinCEN Files, a 5-ep seies about suspicious financial transactions
First time since Covid hit and our company started working from home that I’m caught up on podcasts. Lack of a commute made it tough to get them all in.
I made a rule for myself that if I dont listen to them all by sunday night, I just delete them and start w a blank slate on monday
I had 5-10 series I just needed to power through. They were great while I was painting one side of our house.
I make a few exceptions. Like sports and current events/news politics pods are deleted. But I’ll keep series or history pods. But I’m also more likely to listen to those first anyway.
I sub to one called Qanon Anonymous and the hosts went to something called Qcon. Pretty bizarre but entertaining
Their story on that LA musician getting Q pilled and becoming a leader of save the children was a pretty good encapsulation of how this stuff works.
I think he might have performed at Qcon. Some dude did at least. That Jim Watkins guy is a total psycho as well
Not yet, but I was excited to see it pop up. Idk what day of the week it is and what comes when anymore.
trillbillies (tom and tarrence) were guests on citations needed this week. they clowned jd vance/hillbilly elegy
They were awesome on the podcast. You could tell they hit it off well with Adam and Nima which made for a fun interview.
Listened to Rogans podcast for the first time because someone on here promoted a certain interview with a sleep expert It was interesting, but Rogan, for the most part, just responds to every statement with "whaaaat?" and never questioned anything related to studies mentioned. He also seems to be incapable of nuance.
His mind is blown at literally everything and 100% believe anything until the next guest tells him something different and he’ll believe that.
That interview with Dave Smith was a clusterfuck and Smith's "I'm a Libertarian" schtick is horseshit.
The last LPOTL series the second most fucked up story, second only to Albert Fish which I have not been able to listen to
Finished it tonight Feel like there was only 45 minutes of actually interesting content and the rest was ad reads or grateful dead background by smokey voice douche Weston is squirrely and has clearly been lying all his life. Seems pretty obvious what happened in this case. Klaus calling Weston a bastard was pretty funny
Have been listening to a lot of time suck recently. good episode on the Middle Ages, easily the worst period of history to be alive
Finished the History Unplugged WW1 series. I prefer it to the Dan Carlin one because it's broken up into 24 hourish episodes and it seemed like there was more analysis than storytelling
I have two left and have thoroughly enjoyed it, but Blueprint for Armageddon is still, to me, the high point of series historical podcasting. Still, this has led me to want to go back and run through those two doing the Civil War. I'm not sure why I didn't follow that one in the first place.
I like both. Carlin is awesome for the visceral experiences of individuals and the History Unplugged is the nerdy history professor giving a 10,000 ft view of things. They compliment each other well
I just heard a Magic The Gathering ad for a SEC Football podcast. I cant imagine SEC football fan is a good target market for Magic. It also made me think of won won lol
Lots of MAGA folk that are currently in the market for entertainment that serves as separate reality escapism. One would reckon that’s their target.
i enjoyed the first two episodes of Alan Sepinwall's new podcast. i'd recommend it for some light listening. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/too-long-didnt-watch-podcast-sepinwall-launch-1109294/
It certainly is more thorough than Blueprint For Armageddon, and I liked it for that reason. They quote or reference Carlin several times. Carlin’s delivery is much, much better. His storytelling is compelling.