The Podcast Thread.

oooooooh salty!!

name change purely due to lack of ability to access old username! haha

Oh shit, another podcast that is great is the Jon Ronson one The Last Days Of August.
It’s Alabout a porn star who killed herself, and the circumstances around it. Really well crafted.

Hi other one about the effects of internet porn on the porn industry was fantastic too – The Butterfly Effect.

googling who these people are while is was listening to it was a bit sketchy at work though.

@rolly
Whos salty?
Tbh, not big on the whole Sh0rtsie name.
Feels a bit iSnack 2.0

haha not you, @P_N20 . was stirring coz he was upset his username changed when we switched to this format.

Tony Martin and Matt Dower’s Sizzletown podcast makes me laugh out loud every time. For fan’s of Tony Martin’s comedy only, however.

Listened to the first five episodes the other day driving to Warrnambool and back. Great story, but damn that Hans Zimmer score is well overdone.

yeah, I was getting sick of it.

I think the creators were just fanboiing so hard we got hans zimmer! play it again

I like Tony’s slightly off-kilter humour, always been a fan. He does sometimes overdo the stereotypes and characters, but Dion is winning at life and that makes the world a better place.

I’ve been weirdly enjoying the Chat10Looks3 podcast (Leigh Sales, Annabel Crabb). It’s totally off what their ABC job personas are, which is kinda fun. I’m pretty sure I’m not their target demographic, but hey…judge me.

I still listen to old “Get This” podcast episodes. Tony Martin is a nation treasure.

Haven’t listened to the new one yet. It’s got call ins yeah?

Being trying to find the show he did ages ago on rrr with the dude from TISM but can’t find them anywhere

@familyguy
LOL i listen to that too. I am def not the demo, but they are charming AF. You’d never catch me at a live recording though.

Made that mistake when my partner wanted to go to “My Favourite Murder” live recording. I was heavily out numbered by women wearing “Toxic Masculinity Ruins the Party Again” Tshirts.
I’m not masculine in a toxic way, but i def did not feel welcome at that party.

FTFM. give them a spin if you haven’t before.

@AL9000
Subscribed.
Listening now!

Gotta second this overdone score vibe on “13 minutes to the moon”. Does tie nicely into the Sizzletown “BWAH” action-film horns trope though.

Been binging hard on the archives of Tim Hiedecker’s podcast Office Hours.
It’s pretty great.

I recommend the Fred Armisan episode if you haven’t listened.

Have you listened @heavymetal ?

Nope. I haven’t really ventured into the world of podcasts.

A friend of mine is a big fan of Joe Rogan’s podcast. He’s out of a job, smokes a lot of weed, and spends a hell of a lot of his time listening to Joe Rogan and reading (in a superficial internet way) about things recommended through that podcast. He also now religiously watches MMA fights (I understand Rogan is a UFC commentator). He massively celebrity worships this guy and follows everything he says.

This has been going on a couple of years, and now my friend is tending towards the right on a lot of issues, and in particular things like men’s rights. He introduced me to a new acronym “SJWs”. And he’s generally oozing a sense of disentitled white man – him being a white dude out of a job in his early 40s with no wife or girlfriend and wondering why he doesn’t have what was promised him.

I’ve never listened to Rogan’s podcast. My friend recommended some to me, but I lasted about 5 minutes. But watching the influence of him on my friend, I’m worried this Rogan guy is sewing some bad ideas. Or maybe it’s the internet generally and my friend’s disposition, I don’t know. But I can’t really hang out with my friend any more. I blame Rogan.

Anyway - a bit of a rant, generally podcast related. Maybe those of you who listen to Rogan can set me straight.

this is quite an interesting take on it:

my bro in law is really into him too. He’s a good bloke but maybe doesnt always apply his critical faculties in the right way.

Thanks, just skimmed that and I’ll read the long version later. But it rings true to me in a lot of ways.

This in particular seems to fit my conversations with my friend who references random internet intellectuals and spouts their ideas as truth :

By routinely disparaging the credibility and intentions of traditional centers of learning while giving idiots hours on end to profess their theories, Rogan allows his guests to establish themselves as the real fonts of mind-expanding knowledge. Many of his listeners are buying in. … The views of Rogan’s guests are often built on a foundation of shaky premises at which Rogan either cannot or will not prod.

Also this - basically the exact set of topics my friend talks about now:

His interviewees are an esoteric lot spanning Rogan’s wide range of interests: stand-up comedy, mixed martial arts, evolutionary psychology, alternative medicine, music, acting, business, and the excesses of leftist identity politics.

Contrapoints to the rescue!

I was talking to a friend about him just the other day. We both lasted about 5 minutes listening to his podcast.