The Argonaut wrote:I have two candidates for "Best New Podcast 2016". Beautiful/Anonymous and Giblets Heavyweight (which I like to think of as a spiritual successor to the dearly departed Mystery Show)
I was so sad to hear that Mystery Show was cancelled.
Did you enjoy Homecoming? I thought the story needed a little bit of work, but I'm definitely interested in more shows like that.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
The Argonaut wrote:I have two candidates for "Best New Podcast 2016". Beautiful/Anonymous and Giblets Heavyweight (which I like to think of as a spiritual successor to the dearly departed Mystery Show)
I was so sad to hear that Mystery Show was cancelled.
Did you enjoy Homecoming? I thought the story needed a little bit of work, but I'm definitely interested in more shows like that.
I don't have enough podcast-time in my life incorporate fiction podcasts into the rotation, unfortunately.
The Argonaut wrote:I have two candidates for "Best New Podcast 2016". Beautiful/Anonymous and Giblets Heavyweight (which I like to think of as a spiritual successor to the dearly departed Mystery Show)
I was so sad to hear that Mystery Show was cancelled.
Did you enjoy Homecoming? I thought the story needed a little bit of work, but I'm definitely interested in more shows like that.
I don't have enough podcast-time in my life incorporate fiction podcasts into the rotation, unfortunately.
It can be listened to in it's entirety if you ever find yourself on a round-trip commute that lasts a couple of hours. Though you're not missing much if you put it on the back burner, unless you're a David Schwimmer completist, which I'm guessing you are not.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
Simple Torture wrote:We might've talked about this already: is anyone here a Howl.fm subscriber? I'm thinking about it, because there are behind-paywall podcasts I'm interested in and it'd be nice to listen to some shows ad-free. What's the app experience like, especially on Android?
The exclusive podcasts are awesome, but the app is a battery killer. I use the unofficial rss feeds (https://howl-rss.128.io/) and just add the podcasts to my regular podcast app.
Thanks, this was super helpful! As I've mentioned before, I'm an old iTunes/iPod fogey, and after signing up for my free trial I just added everything to my iTunes feed. Woo!
Has there been much discussion about ads on podcasts? The approach that Gimlet shows take (let the hosts read them, give it personality, gloss it up with a unique-to-the-show ad theme) is awesome. Some of my favorite moments on Reply All have been the recurring joke in an ad about I forget what (guess the ad didn't exactly work, in the strictest sense) where PJ refuses to meet Alex's new baby. Some other great Gimlet ads out there too.
And of course, the famous Mail Chimp ad from Serial.
I'm currently enjoying the low-budget, poorly read awkwardness that is the Hewlett Mattresses ad on Star Wars Minute. Reminds me a lot of the PSAs read by stoned late-night grad students that used to come on KTRU between Múm songs.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
"Stranglers," the new Earwolf podcast about the Boston Strangler(s), is pretty great. Through listening, I discovered that my wife was living in a building where one of the murders happened when we started dating. Spooky!
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Simple Torture wrote:"Stranglers," the new Earwolf podcast about the Boston Strangler(s), is pretty great. Through listening, I discovered that my wife was living in a building where one of the murders happened when we started dating. Spooky!
This series just finished, and I can't recommend it enough. In the final episode, the host returned to the BU dorm where one of the victims was murdered and they, like, waited in the vestibule for a student to let them in and described the whole place--very creepy. I am still not the Boston Strangler, trag.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Will Arnett on WTF was fine. But I do want to comment on how close his actual personality seems to mirror that of his TV characters. Seems like sort of a self-interested dick.
I loved it. He seems really cool...and i adore that there is a new Flaked season.
