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SubRosa
post Jul 1 2019, 08:40 PM
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I decided to make a separate topic for podcasts, since don't really fit into the music thread, or the now watching thread. I'll copy over some of the more recent podcast posts I have made to get things rolling.

It's not exactly reading, but it is not music either so I did not put this in the Listening To topic. I have discovered a number of interesting podcasts lately. My starting point was HPPodcraft, which I am almost caught up with.

For those not familiar with HP Podcraft, they are Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey, two OG Lovecraftian gamers, who grew up reading HP Lovecraft and playing the Call of Cthulhu role playing game. Both were part of the making of the Call of Cthulhu movie done by the HP Lovecraft Literary Society. Chris Lackey was part of The Whisperer In Darkness film as well. Both have done other films, and worked on a ton of stuff in Hollywood. They started HP Podcraft a decade ago, reviewing all of HPLs prose fiction in the order it was written. They walk through the events of each story, have dramatic readings of relevant passages by guests (such as Andrew Leman from HLPHS, and lately even Patton Oswalt), give a critical analysis of the story, and how it fits into the Mythos over all, and tell some bad jokes. I like it very much, as the pair's charisma can make for a fun episode even when the story itself is a big dud.

They went through HPL's work a long time ago, and since then have been doing the work of other Weird Fiction writers. Mostly it is others that have either been influenced by HPL, such as Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, Michael Shea, Robert E Howard, TED Klein, and so on. Or people who influenced HPL, such as Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Robert Chambers, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, and Lord Dunsany. They also take some detours into pure science fiction, like HG Wells, and Ray Bardbury, and Isaac Asimov.

I have come across a lot of stories by these authors that are duds, but the shows are still fun, because Chad and Chris make it fun. I have also come across some real brilliant stories that I otherwise would not have read, like The Screwfly Solution, or The Wendigo. If you like weird/horror/supernatural fiction, and you like laughing, I highly recommend this podcast.


HP Podcraft mentioned Monster Talk, which I checked out. It seems pretty good. I have listened to a handful of their episodes now. They focus on monsters in pop-culture and folklore (which I suppose is really just yesteryear's pop-culture). They have a skeptic's point of view, so it is mostly them explaining the reality behind these myths and ideas. They also go into how they got created and why. It's basically a science-based discussion about things like dragons, megalodons, faeries, etc... They had an episode about Lovecraft and King Tut that got my interest.

That led me to The Archaeological Fantasies Podcast. They have some crossover episodes with Monstertalk, as they sometimes are covering the same things. They only have a handful of episodes. I have only listened to the Viking Warrior Women one, which was good. It was mostly in response to a new tv show that Megan Fox hosts (I saw a little bit of it a while back, and was not impressed). The podcast was well done though, and I enjoyed the guest - Chelsi Slotten.

This led me to the Women In Archaeology Podcast, which I also found had some interesting podcasts. Chelsi Slotten hosts most of these as well. A deeper dive is turning up some pretty dry stuff however. It is a bit drier than the more pseudo-science focused podcasts like Archy Fantasies or Monster Talk. They only talk about reality. But it is still fascinating and informative.

That led me to PodCapers, which is a podcast about comics and super movies and superhero geekdom. Chelsi also guest stars in an episode here about the representation of women in comics. Which is what brought me to the podcast. The only downside I have found with PodCapers is that there are no options for a direct mp3 download. I had to find Tube Ninja which will take a url and convert it to an mp3.


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post Sep 13 2019, 11:15 PM
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I recently listened to the Monstertalk episode Speak Of The Devil. It features the guest Robert Price, whom you may remember from such podcasts such as The HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast. Among other things he is a Bible scholar, which makes him very qualified for this episode. As the name suggests it is about Lucifer/Satan. It is very eye-opening, even to a non-Christian like myself, as a lot of what people take for granted about the Lucifer/Satan myths are actually not in the Bible, but came later. The same with Hell.

He also appears in another Monstertalk episode that I just started listening to: MonsterTalk Meets The Lovecraft Geek


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