Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:Recent Maron episodes I've listened to:

Kristen Bell - This was better than I expected. Dax Shepherd is a doofus, but she seems quite lovely and playful.

Anna Faris - This was embarrassing. I could practically hear Maron's boner hitting the underside of his desk. He's so bad at flirting. I hope Sarah the Painter gave him hell.

Slash - This was better than I expected too.

LetMeSleep wrote:Heavyweight is one of my favourites. So glad to see it pop up today. I’ve been on holiday for ten days and the pods are backing up. I’m almost keen to get back to work so I can listen to these while commuting.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:It’s too hard to find good podcasts. There are so many shitty ones.

That feeling when you read the description of a podcast and get super excited, only to listen to it and realize it's shit is a very particular kind of disappointment.

Sooooo much rides on voices, pacing, and format. It’s tricky to get right.

run2death wrote:Android users, what podcast app are you using?

I didn't really like CastBox or Podcast Addict and listening to podcasts on Spotify is awkward.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:It’s too hard to find good podcasts. There are so many shitty ones.

That feeling when you read the description of a podcast and get super excited, only to listen to it and realize it's shit is a very particular kind of disappointment.

Sooooo much rides on voices, pacing, and format. It’s tricky to get right.

Also when it's just a skype recording and the levels don't match I want to find whoever made it and strangle them.

verb_to_trust wrote:I turn off Pod Save America when they get to the candidate of the day segment. Every. Time.

Are there any podcasts that trash Trump without sounding like partisan shills for the other side of the same dirty ass coin?

run2death wrote:The new Aaron Hernandez podcast is pretty great so far.

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.

Decoder Ring is a podcast about cracking cultural mysteries. Every month host Willa Paskin, Slate’s TV critic, takes on a cultural question, object, idea, or habit and speaks with experts, historians, and obsessives to try to figure out where it comes from, what it means, and why it matters.

Today: Who gets to decide if Sherlock Holmes is gay? For more than a century, fans of Sherlock Holmes have been analyzing, debating, and creating new texts using Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters. Decoder Ring explores the Johnlock conspiracy, a fan theory about the BBC TV show Sherlock, which posits the inevitability of a gay romance between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. With interviews from historians, journalists, and fans at the heart of this controversial idea, this episode explores the theory, how it played out in the real world, and whether this kind of fandom is a meaningful way of interacting with fiction.