What podcasts are you listening to?

[epilogue]

The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.

[LetMeSleep]

The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.

It's good. The Great Albums podcast on PJ isn't as good. It's a slog.

[epilogue]

The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.

It's good. The Great Albums podcast on PJ isn't as good. It's a slog.

I'll avoid that then.

[LetMeSleep]

The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.

It's good. The Great Albums podcast on PJ isn't as good. It's a slog.

I'll avoid that then.

It's just derivative, basic facts are missed and it's 2 hours long for each episode.

[epilogue]

The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.

It's good. The Great Albums podcast on PJ isn't as good. It's a slog.

I'll avoid that then.

It's just derivative, basic facts are missed and it's 2 hours long for each episode.

Oh man.

[Simple Torture]

Listened to the first episode of S-Town today. Recommended, but I do wish they had visual supplementals on their website like Serial, TANIS, Crimetown, and other podcasts have--there are lots of rich descriptions, and they come across well aurally, but I'd love to see some of these things, too.

[The Argonaut]

Listened to the first episode of S-Town today. Recommended, but I do wish they had visual supplementals on their website like Serial, TANIS, Crimetown, and other podcasts have--there are lots of rich descriptions, and they come across well aurally, but I'd love to see some of these things, too.

I unsubscribed from Crimetown about ten eps in. It was fine, I just realized I didn't really care. I didn't feel like there was a solid through-line between all the characters and stories for me to hold onto, which may have contributed to my apathy.

[Simple Torture]

Listened to the first episode of S-Town today. Recommended, but I do wish they had visual supplementals on their website like Serial, TANIS, Crimetown, and other podcasts have--there are lots of rich descriptions, and they come across well aurally, but I'd love to see some of these things, too.

I unsubscribed from Crimetown about ten eps in. It was fine, I just realized I didn't really care. I didn't feel like there was a solid through-line between all the characters and stories for me to hold onto, which may have contributed to my apathy.

I can see that--I thought the Buddy Cianci stuff was absolutely riveting, but the mob-only stuff hasn't really held my attention as well. I think the fact that I've lived in RI for 11 years now has helped keep it interesting for me.

[The Argonaut]

Listened to the first episode of S-Town today. Recommended, but I do wish they had visual supplementals on their website like Serial, TANIS, Crimetown, and other podcasts have--there are lots of rich descriptions, and they come across well aurally, but I'd love to see some of these things, too.

I unsubscribed from Crimetown about ten eps in. It was fine, I just realized I didn't really care. I didn't feel like there was a solid through-line between all the characters and stories for me to hold onto, which may have contributed to my apathy.

I can see that--I thought the Buddy Cianci stuff was absolutely riveting, but the mob-only stuff hasn't really held my attention as well. I think the fact that I've lived in RI for 11 years now has helped keep it interesting for me.

Yes, I wouldn't fault anyone for being into it. I feel like there are good stories in there, they're just not melded together into one narrative. They're sort of just throwing spaghetti against the wall. wop. wop. wop.

[Simple Torture]

Unrelated to any specific podcast: the latest update to iTunes has changed the order of the options when you right-click on a podcast feed, and it's fucking maddening. So where it would usually say "Mark All As Played," it now says, "Download." So today I accidentally downloaded every episode of every podcast on my feed...twice.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Simple Torture]

Three episodes into S-Town; the world of this podcast is gonzo bananas. It's almost as if it's fictional, there are so many layers. I saw someone describe it as a real-world Faulkner story, and that's basically right.

I mean, the fifth wildest thing was:

Spoiler: show

That guy with the bullet in his brain who was just yelling stuff in the background.

The fact that it gets even more gripping than that speaks to how compelling it is.

[epilogue]

Three episodes into S-Town; the world of this podcast is gonzo bananas. It's almost as if it's fictional, there are so many layers. I saw someone describe it as a real-world Faulkner story, and that's basically right.

I mean, the fifth wildest thing was:

Spoiler: show

That guy with the bullet in his brain who was just yelling stuff in the background.

The fact that it gets even more gripping than that speaks to how compelling it is.

Totally agree. I'm four episodes in. And holy shit. This thing just keeps getting more and more gonzo. I really love it.

[Simple Torture]

I had the big reveal from the end of episode 2 spoiled for me, but it hasn't hurt my enjoyment one iota.

I Googled "hedge maze Alabama" because I wanted to see if there were pictures of it somewhere and

Spoiler: show

the first picture was a pic of John B's headstone! Come on!

[epilogue]

I had the big reveal from the end of episode 2 spoiled for me, but it hasn't hurt my enjoyment one iota.

I Googled "hedge maze Alabama" because I wanted to see if there were pictures of it somewhere and

Spoiler: show

the first picture was a pic of John B's headstone! Come on!

Yeah, that's dumb.

I'm glad I didn't have it spoiled at all for me. But I don't think it would be a deal breaker even if it had. The show has so much more going for it than that one twist. I mean, it's in the second episode. Of course, there's much much more.

[numbers]

Loving S-Town so far.

[epilogue]

Loving S-Town so far.

[Simple Torture]

Four episodes in and S-Town is basically:

Spoiler: show

[Simple Torture]

P.S.:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/S-Tow ... 87.1311767

[The Argonaut]

S-Town is a mystery show in Alabama, huh? Is S-Town about where lenny has been for the last week and a half?