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mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Wow 99% invisible is good.
I never gave it a try because the description of the podcast felt a bit vague. But the subjects they talk about are all interesting and it feels very well researched.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 20:42

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 13:36

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Enjoying "I was there too",
a guy who interviews people who had a small role in a famous movie.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 19:13

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

credburn posted:

I'm sure this is a simple loving question, but Google only gives me leads on how to use torrents, usenet and iTunes with mobile devices when I ask this question.

Is there a way to just download the podcast automatically from the RSS, like, while I'm away? I know how to subscribe so that the little RSS thing tells me when there's a new thing up, but often times that's cluttered with just regular posts or whatever. I just want to download the podcast mp3 whenever it's released. Can this be done?

Edit: Specifically without having to use iTunes.

I probably don't really understand what you mean.
Are you talking about downloading podcasts on a phone or PC/mac?
On PC, I subscribe to RSS podcasts and download them automatically with mediamonkey, which is a itunes alternative with a bit more freedom and options.
But to be honest I don't use it that much anymore. I download everything with overcast on my phone.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 12:51

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Harminoff posted:

Hey, if you're not listening to My Dad Wrote A Porno you should be.

https://soundcloud.com/my-dad-wrote-a-porno

Thanks for this. I laughed (and cringed) so hard with the first book.
I don't know if I'm ready for book 2.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2016 13:26

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Guy Mann posted:

I'm towards the end of the first book, it's fun but there's no way that it's actually real right?

You think he wrote a crappy novel himself and pretends his dad write it?

# ¿ Oct 7, 2016 22:57

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Anyone else listening to tales form the mind boat?

Just a stand-up Aussie telling stories from his life. Kinda like it, never spectacular or anything, but fun with a dark, nostalgic undertone.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2016 20:48

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Snowmankilla posted:

I am looking for a iOS podcast manager that will do what beyond pod did for me on android. Main 2 things I am looking for are being able to hand make playlists, and do download specific episodes I want. There are pods like 99% Invisible that I am like 120 behind and throw one in every other podcast. Playlists make this way easier.

I use overcast but I'm not a fan of their playlist system. I would rather have playlists like normal music playlists where you just add podcast episodes instead of music tracks. Maybe I just don't get how it works.

Same with Spotify btw. I don't get why you're not allowed to add podcasts to a normal playlist.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 22:32

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Snowy posted:

Are there any especially good podcast episodes out that discuss the Election results? Anything from dark fatalistic humor to serious discussion. I've got a long car ride tomorrow.

Latest cracked is interesting.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2016 01:18

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Evil Vin posted:

I also started listening to Sword and Scale because of this thread. I gave up on it after one of his evil kid episodes. It just wasn't doing anything for me, also the host's constant mentions of it being "your favorite podcast" had driven me crazy. I now listen to The Unresolved Podcast in its place.

I'm listening to Worst Episode Ever, but that's also a huge piece of poo poo with its constant circlejerks of super lame in-jokes.

Just listen to four finger discount if you want a good simpsons podcast.
Also listen to the simpsons easter egg special on the cracked podcast.
The cracked podcast is actually pretty good, I do fast forward through most of the music he plays in between interviews.

Still like tales from the mind boat, even if it's mostly a somewhat depressed guy telling stories from his adventures as a stand up in australia.

Adam buxton has some very in depth interviews with comedians, if you need a break from marc maron.
Same for Richard herring.

I'm now giving "my favorite murder" a go. It sounds like it will be a bit like criminal, but maybe a bit too upbeat, considering the subject.

"No such thing as a fish" is nice if you like the bbc show QI

# ¿ Dec 5, 2016 21:55

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

So yeah "my favorite murder" was a but too jolly for the subject. Hearing two rather nasally valley girls or whatever they're called chatter about their day more than the actual subject got a bit annoying to me.

Stranglers is a good one if you're looking for more of the same. They're clearly surfing on the popularity wave of "criminal" and the likes. But at least it's well done.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2016 21:34

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Wake_N_Bake posted:

The latest The Truth (Dark End of the Mall) is pretty good.

Thanks, that was good. Very "twilight zone".

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 20:03

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

I'm liking some of the 'reply all' episodes. Like 'boy in photo', which is basically internet wannabe detectives poo poo driven to new heights. The 3parter about a convicted murderer who has his own blog that is handwritten and then typed out by his mom gets really intense.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2017 00:42

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Franchescanado posted:

How about poetry podcasts?

Good question. I've been listening to the one from the New Yorker. But it's just two poems, the rest is analyzing

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 21:43

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Franchescanado posted:

Which one? New Yorker seems to have three or four poetry podcasts.

I'm open to any poetry podcasts, but I might be more interested in I guess the fundamentals, like "This is why Whitman is neat", or "Robert Frost is over-rated, and here's why". Or maybe, like the New Yorker Fiction podcast, but instead of short stories, a poet reads a poem by their favorite poet, and then discusses it.

I know I'm being vague here, but I don't know really what I want. I just want to hear poets read poems and talk about poetry so I can feel like I've learned something or maybe find a new poet I like. It doesn't have to be limited to that. It can be more academic.

ah, sorry, haven't really looked into it too much.
The New Yorker: Poetry is what you are looking for I think. It's a poet who first reads his/her favorite poem, discusses it with the host and then reads one of their own poems they like and discuss it with the host.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2017 10:25

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

The Adam Buxton podcast has a very nice Steve Coogan interview this week, for the fans of Allan Partridge, 24 hour party people, the trip, etc...

# ¿ Mar 24, 2017 16:00

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

I really liked S-town. Maybe because I wasn't really hyped up to get a crime podcast.
They were obviously hoping for a crime story, but this is reality, it's not scripted and it didn't develop that way.
But I feel they found something equally interesting, the story of that tragic man and his love/hate relationship with that town, and the bizarre things he did.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 21:35

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Speaking of overcast.
Does anybody know how to use the 'play next' function? The problem is if I add an episode with 'play next' it will not play next after the episode it is playing.
Instead, it seems to play either every other file that is been downloaded, or maybe files that I added with the 'play next' function a long time ago, and it remembers them all?

# ¿ May 13, 2017 22:39

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Lowtax launched a podcast. Haven't had a chance to listen yet, but his Gaming Garbage is funny.

https://twitter.com/lowtax/status/883820530377338881

Link to SoundCloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/murder-the-internet/ep-001-how-to-make-a-podcast

Doesn't work in overcast. I'll listen to it on SoundCloud if I don't forget (probably will)

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 22:22

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

I tried to listen to roderick on the line today.
but it sounds like a 'let me tell you this about that' type of podcast that got boring fast. But maybe it gets better?

I only really listen to the dollop at the moment, can't seem to get into something else.
Outside sporadically listening to the very famous ones (crimetown, WTF, 99%, reply all, criminal, up and vanished...) I don't seem to find anything new that interests me.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2017 22:19

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Drunk Tomato posted:

Lowtax's Murder the Internet is addable on PocketCasts now. Looks like he's putting out an ep every other day.

Don't burn yourself out now!

Thanks.

Napoleon Bonaparty posted:

Is this the right subforum to be discussing sound hardware? I was just given a set of Yamaha NS-A222's from the '70s, they look great and I remember them sounding really good, but the tuner has been broken for about a decade. I was hoping for a recommendation. I don't have the shelf space for a record player (or my records) right now, but I could definitely use it to play music with my PC if I had a DAC/AMP. I also assume modern record players have some way to input to a modern amp. Most info on those are bullshit, or made up by some audiophile, though. I've never had a set of speakers this big. They're each 140 watts at 8 ohms, and about 4 and a half feet tall. I thought briefly about plugging them into my little headphone amp, but it seemed like a very bad idea once I stopped being excited and thought about it for a second.

Def not the right subforum.
Maybe you can find a nice old amp (with a build in tuner?) at some thrift store? I'm amazed sometimes at the great amps I see there for very little money.
Make sure its output isn't higher than that of your speakers though

# ¿ Aug 1, 2017 08:04

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

sticklefifer posted:

I really wish I was on good terms with any of my ex's, because I have a great concept for a podcast: "Broken Up", where an ex-couple reviews music from bands that have split up.

Or have them listen to songs that were popular at the time they were still together.

'Hey, remember this song was playing in the background when we had our first fight in that Italian place and you threw a plate of spaghetti at me?..."

# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 07:28

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Harminoff posted:

I've just gotten into the dollop and have been listening to it now for a few days at work. Really good podcast!

And recommendations for episodes that I should listen to next?

The cereal men is a classic I guess.
Funny weird ones: The bone wars, pedestrianism, Count Dante, jet pack madness, the willie dee...
The Iraq war is soul shattering as are the toxic woman of riverside and the torture psychologists.
There's a lot of good ones, but it's also depressing sometimes to here how loving awful people are.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2017 02:12

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

frankie boyle released his own 'podcast', the promethiad.
However, the first episode is his latest stand-up routine,
the second episode seems to be him reading every column he wrote for the guardian since 2015, but uncensored.
It's fascinating but I havn't been able to get through that second one and I think it would have been better cut up into smaller episodes.

Don't know if he's planning to do a lot and/or regular updates.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2017 17:22

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/oct/29/best-podcasts-of-2017-part-1-from-the-buzziest-to-politics-and-brain-food

Guardian article about the best podcasts of 2017.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2017 22:50

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Heh, one of lowtax� tweets was used in yesyesno on reply all.
Still a good podcast.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2017 16:23

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

life is a joke posted:

Has any good podcast gone over those weird youtube "kids" videos in depth since those stories started getting popular? It's such a weird thing and I'd like to know more about where they originate from and what youtube has responded with so far.

I�m more like that Alex blumberg guy I guess, I have no idea what you�re talking about.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2017 22:51

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Tried to listen to an episode of 'film snuff'. It's a nice idea, breaking down supposedly great movies that aren't.
But they just lay it on too thick, or maybe it's just the episode I listened to.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2017 22:47

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

sexpig by night posted:

so are there any good simspons podcasts not run by The Comic Book Guy? Tried Worst Episode Ever and fell off it a while ago (though I've heard it sucks less now?) and Talking Simspons just bored me.

the australian one. Forgot the name. I stopped following it at the same time that I stopped following WEE.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2018 08:54

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

A very fatal murder is pretty funny.
Of course, making parodies of the same stupid commercials everybody heard a million times in every podcast for the last years is low hanging fruit.
But I had some good laughs.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2018 09:38

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Guy Mann posted:

Why do so many listener-supported podcasters seem to go out of their way to live in places like the Bay area, NYC, Portland, etc. that have huge cost of living expenses and then constantly grovel about struggling to make ends meet?

A lot of them have/had aspirations of making it in traditional media. They probably tried there first before trying an alternative route.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 07:39

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

For those of you who have an Audible account: i liked �west cork�. You could argue it�s just another true crime podcast, but it�s a very well made one, with some unexpected turns.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2018 16:15

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Nude posted:

Basically finding odd stuff on the internet and someone reacting to it. I like Reply All the best of all of em, when they read a tweet to their boss and see if he can figure it out.

Yeah yes/yes/no is great. I�m usually like the boss in that I don�t have a clue of what they�re talking about.
But can�t help you with something similar.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2018 19:13

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

fadam posted:

Has there been s Serial/S-Town/Dirty John tier podcast released in the past few months? I need a new tru-crime(ish) miniseries to distract me while I get through these next two working days.

Like I posted on this page, I liked �west cork� a lot. But I think it�s only on audible.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2018 23:06

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Azathoth posted:

There's other good true crime podcasts but I have yet to find one that is episodic like Casefile other than Swindled. I would recommend these:

Death in Ice Valley - 10 part series about the Isdal Woman. They don't come to any conclusion about who she was, but they do a good job going over all the evidence and did some DNA and tooth isotope testing that hadn't been done before.

Heaven's Gate - 10 part series about, shockingly, Heaven's Gate. Goes deep into the history of the group, and is given an interesting perspective by host Glynn Washington, who grew up in the Worldwide Church of God, a millenarian cult himself.

In The Dark - Season 1 is a 9 part series about the Jacob Wetterling case. I grew up in a small Minnesota town, and was only a little younger than Jacob, and so I vividly remember much of this as it happened. Was infuriating to hear about just how mismanaged the investigation was. Haven't listened to season 2, but I hear it is good.

Swindled - Episodic series, 15 episodes so far, about "embezzlements, corruption, fraud, con men, and ponzi schemes".

The Wonderland Murders - Ongoing series, 6 episodes so far, about the Wonderland Murders, a technically unsolved multiple homicide involving a drug gang, a drug kingpin, and legendary porn star John Holmes.

west cork. mentioned this before, really good but only on audible.

Someone knows something. I loved season 2, about a blue collar canadian couple. It starts out looking fairly straightforward, but over the episodes you get to know the people around the victim and the victim herself and it gives you a very different view into their lives.

Small town murder is an ok podcast where a stand up comedian tells a murer story to his colleague. These guys take a LONG time to get to the actual murder or even the story, but that's part of their thing. I wish it was easier to find the good episodes.

oh yeah: a very fatal murder :p

I guess up and vanished was ok. Don't like the host for some reason.

pangstrom posted:

If you like podcasts-about-comedy and missed this one like I did, check out The Old Ones with Mike Birbiglia. Lots of great guests.

Thanks, was a lot of fun.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 23:22

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Monkey tennis.
Strictly for fans of Alan partridge who want to reminisce about �I�m Alan partridge� and other shows.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2018 22:50

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Ccs posted:

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theater Podcast is back for a new season.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Herring1967/videos

interesting, I noticed he's interviewing alex horne. Will check that out.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2018 10:02

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

SamuraiFoochs posted:

True Crime Garage.

Gave this one a go today and it's not for me. Maybe there's just too many similar podcasts like it.
I liked small town murders a bit more. But they mostly seem to go for very open-and-shut cases, usually with innocent, oblivious victim living idyllic life when they fall prey to some horrible monster.
And after describing the murder in horrible detail and just how hosed up the perpetrator was, they relish in the fact that he got the dead penalty.

I can see the attraction, though. And I'm not saying I'm above it.

Season 5 of 'someone knows something' just started. Another murder podcast, more in the vein of 'in the dark'/'death in ice valley' etc...
Also a bit overdone these days. But it's very well made, and the Canadian backdrop is a nice change of scenery. Season 2 is still my favorite.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2018 22:05

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Thanks to whoever recommended behind the bastards.

The seagal one and the Saddam one are pretty great.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2018 19:26

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Red_Fred posted:

Will it always be Audible only?

I had cancelled my account more than a year ago and they gave me a new free 30 days with some credits. So I�ll check out the podcasts they have now. I noticed west cork is still not available outside of audible and that was a year ago, so I wouldn�t keep my hopes up.

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 13:36

mrfart: May 26, 2004; Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Red_Fred posted:

I used my free Audible book to get it. However given it�s in the Audible app I forgot to listen. I�ll try remember to start it today.

I also got it free reactivating my account after a year or so. Didn't have to give up my free credit for it, though.
You get 2 of these amazon exclusives for free I think. Used my credit to get James Acasters book (short stories that were part of a radio show or podcast at some point I think), which was hilarious.

About the podcast itself: It's very well made, can't say I was surprised by any of it.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2019 11:17

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