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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 Oct 8 2019, 01:52 AM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Oct 7 2019, 06:37 PM) *

I still listen to Lore, though the narrator's voice is very wooden. You do get used to it after a while.

I like the stories too. Though eyewitness accounts are the most unreliable form of evidence in existence. Not because people lie. But because our perceptions are not truly accurate. Our brains fill in a lot of blanks without us consciously realizing it. Then as time goes on memory gets fuzzier and fuzzier, and once again our imaginations fill in the blanks. None of this is hindered by reality of course.

But since the show does not purport to be factual, or try to push an agenda, I do not mind. It is presented as entertaining stories, and as folklore they deliver. Whether or not there really was a Goatman, or if the Fox sisters really were psychic, does not matter. They are good stories.

Exactly! Also, I enjoy Aaron Mahnke’s voice. It’s calm, which I find to be very welcome with some of the horrific things that he is presenting. Different strokes, of course.


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post Oct 31 2019, 02:15 AM
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The HPLHS brings us Spooky October greetings with a new podcast called Voluminous where they read Lovecraft's letters, and then discuss them. HPL was a prolific letter writer, and the things he says in them reveal a lot of his thoughts and ideas. Plus it is Andrew Leman and Sean Branney, so they are worth listening to no matter what they are talking about.

They start with HPL's first letter to Robert Barlow, a young fan who became a very close friend of HPL's. In fact, Barlow was the executor of HPL's estate after his death.


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post Oct 31 2019, 03:56 AM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Oct 30 2019, 08:15 PM) *

The HPLHS brings us Spooky October greetings with a new podcast called Voluminous where they read Lovecraft's letters, and then discuss them. HPL was a prolific letter writer, and the things he says in them reveal a lot of his thoughts and ideas. Plus it is Andrew Leman and Sean Branney, so they are worth listening to no matter what they are talking about.

They start with HPL's first letter to Robert Barlow, a young fan who became a very close friend of HPL's. In fact, Barlow was the executor of HPL's estate after his death.

Interesting! I might have to check that out.


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post Nov 30 2019, 10:52 PM
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I downloaded a bunch of episodes from various podcasts while I was at work yesterday (what else are you going to do when you are literally the only person in the company who is working? I mean 'working').

So far I listed to two episodes from one called Science Vs, and I enjoyed them quite a bit. They shine some reality onto a wide variety of topics.

Today I started listening to Behind the Bastards. It picks a bastard from history for each episode and goes in depth on them. I am listening to the one on 8chan, a cesspit that has spawned several mass shooters. So far the show itself seems pretty solid. I have a two parter on Kaiser Whilhelm queued up next.


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post Dec 1 2019, 01:34 PM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Nov 30 2019, 03:52 PM) *

I downloaded a bunch of episodes from various podcasts while I was at work yesterday (what else are you going to do when you are literally the only person in the company who is working? I mean 'working').

So far I listed to two episodes from one called Science Vs, and I enjoyed them quite a bit. They shine some reality onto a wide variety of topics.

Today I started listening to Behind the Bastards. It picks a bastard from history for each episode and goes in depth on them. I am listening to the one on 8chan, a cesspit that has spawned several mass shooters. So far the show itself seems pretty solid. I have a two parter on Kaiser Whilhelm queued up next.

So they don’t mean literal bastards just people who are/were jerks?


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post Dec 1 2019, 04:31 PM
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QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Dec 1 2019, 07:34 AM) *

QUOTE(SubRosa @ Nov 30 2019, 03:52 PM) *

I downloaded a bunch of episodes from various podcasts while I was at work yesterday (what else are you going to do when you are literally the only person in the company who is working? I mean 'working').

So far I listed to two episodes from one called Science Vs, and I enjoyed them quite a bit. They shine some reality onto a wide variety of topics.

Today I started listening to Behind the Bastards. It picks a bastard from history for each episode and goes in depth on them. I am listening to the one on 8chan, a cesspit that has spawned several mass shooters. So far the show itself seems pretty solid. I have a two parter on Kaiser Whilhelm queued up next.

So they don’t mean literal bastards just people who are/were jerks?

The latter. People like Harvey Wienstein. I don't think the marital status of their parents really matters.


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post Dec 1 2019, 04:32 PM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 1 2019, 09:31 AM) *

The latter. People like Harvey Wienstein. I don't think the marital status of their parents really matters.

Lol oh ok, I gotcha


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post Dec 4 2019, 01:06 AM
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My latest podcast to pass muster is You Must Remember This. It goes in depth and behind the scenes in the film industry. It does not look like there is anything current. So far as I can tell it is all 20th Century tales of stardom, scandals, rivalries, and battles. Stuff like the Blacklist, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and so on. I have been listening to the big six part series on Song of the South, which is not just about that movie, but also about racism in Hollywood throughout the 20th Century. So far it is really good.


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post Dec 4 2019, 04:59 PM
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I listened to some more Behind the Bastards. It is not as negative as it sounds at first. In general it does not dwell on the horrific things that these people did. Rather it looks at the insane and ridiculous sides to their lives. Fiction loves to paint genocidal warlords as somber figures brooding on their thrones of skulls. But the truth is a lot of these guys were just plain bizarre. Hitler taking strychnine pills for his flatulence, or Stalin forcing his inner circle to all get blind drunk every night and playing pranks like throwing orange peels or tomatoes at them. It is actually kind of amusing, once you get past all the murdering.


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post Dec 5 2019, 03:10 AM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 4 2019, 09:59 AM) *

or Stalin forcing his inner circle to all get blind drunk every night and playing pranks like throwing orange peels or tomatoes at them. It is actually kind of amusing, once you get past all the murdering.

I can’t imagine how scary that would be. Say or do the wrong thing while you are under the influence and you’re dead.


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post Dec 5 2019, 03:28 AM
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QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Dec 4 2019, 09:10 PM) *

QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 4 2019, 09:59 AM) *

or Stalin forcing his inner circle to all get blind drunk every night and playing pranks like throwing orange peels or tomatoes at them. It is actually kind of amusing, once you get past all the murdering.

I can’t imagine how scary that would be. Say or do the wrong thing while you are under the influence and you’re dead.

Exactly. Stalin was so paranoid that he made them get S*-faced drunk so they couldn't lie, at least not well. Then he'd start asking them what they really thought. Like you said, one wrong answer, and that was it.

One night one of his inner circle brought a bunch of quail and shotguns, so they could have an impromptu quail hunt. Imagine a drunken Stalin saying "Hold my beer" followed by "Watch this!" He inadvertently shot two of his bodyguards.


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post Dec 5 2019, 03:47 AM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 4 2019, 08:28 PM) *

QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Dec 4 2019, 09:10 PM) *

QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 4 2019, 09:59 AM) *

or Stalin forcing his inner circle to all get blind drunk every night and playing pranks like throwing orange peels or tomatoes at them. It is actually kind of amusing, once you get past all the murdering.

I can’t imagine how scary that would be. Say or do the wrong thing while you are under the influence and you’re dead.

Exactly. Stalin was so paranoid that he made them get S*-faced drunk so they couldn't lie, at least not well. Then he'd start asking them what they really thought. Like you said, one wrong, answer, and that was it.

One night one of his inner circle brought a bunch of quail and shotguns, so they could have an impromptu quail hunt. Imagine a drunken Stalin saying "Hold my beer" followed by "Watch this!" He inadvertently shot two of his bodyguards.

Jayzus. Soviet parties sound like a blast! laugh.gif


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post Dec 5 2019, 07:01 PM
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This is only indirectly podcast related, but it does have two degrees of podcastery, so why not? I am listening to a Behind the Bastards on Harvey Weinstein. Ronan Farrow was one of the reporters who broke the story about his rapeyness. I was looking up Ronan Farrow and found that he is married to Jon Lovett, a podcaster and former joke writer for President Obama.

Anyway, Ronan proposed to Jon through the tracking changes page on the book he was writing at the time. Could you get any nerdier than that? laugh.gif


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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 4 2019, 09:28 PM) *

Exactly. Stalin was so paranoid that he made them get S*-faced drunk so they couldn't lie, at least not well. Then he'd start asking them what they really thought. Like you said, one wrong answer, and that was it.

One night one of his inner circle brought a bunch of quail and shotguns, so they could have an impromptu quail hunt. Imagine a drunken Stalin saying "Hold my beer" followed by "Watch this!" He inadvertently shot two of his bodyguards.

Was Dick Cheney channeling Stalin? And was there any confusion between quail and Quayle?


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post Dec 5 2019, 10:13 PM
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QUOTE(ghastley @ Dec 5 2019, 01:05 PM) *

QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 4 2019, 09:28 PM) *

Exactly. Stalin was so paranoid that he made them get S*-faced drunk so they couldn't lie, at least not well. Then he'd start asking them what they really thought. Like you said, one wrong answer, and that was it.

One night one of his inner circle brought a bunch of quail and shotguns, so they could have an impromptu quail hunt. Imagine a drunken Stalin saying "Hold my beer" followed by "Watch this!" He inadvertently shot two of his bodyguards.

Was Dick Cheney channeling Stalin? And was there any confusion between quail and Quayle?

It just goes to show that when you think something is original, it is probably just a rehash of something a genocidal warlord did 50 years earlier...


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post Dec 7 2019, 10:43 PM
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I just finished a six part series of episodes of You Must Remember This that focus on Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. It charts their beginnings, their heydey, their collaborations and feud, and their fall. It is kind of sad really. These two old men were literally working until they died. One because he had to (Lugosi), and the other apparently to prove that he could still be relevant (Karloff). By necessity it also takes some diversions into the Laemmles at Universal, Ed Wood, Val Lewton, and Roger Corman, whose films one or both worked on.

Over on Behind the Bastards I also learned more about Osama bin Laden's love of hentai, Saddam Hussein's career as an erotica writer, and now Hitler's fanboy YA Novel love for the Western novels of Karl May. Those wacky warlords.

Btw, you can still download the contents of bin Laden's hard drive from the CIA's website. What a world we live in!


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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 7 2019, 03:43 PM) *

Btw, you can still download the contents of bin Laden's hard drive from the CIA's website. What a world we live in!

Nah, that’s ok, I’m good. laugh.gif


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I am about six episodes into a series about the Hollywood Blacklist from You Must Remember This. So far really interesting, looking at all the people involved, their lives, and how the Blacklist and HUAC hearings affected them.

She had some really interesting episodes about Howard Hughes as well. Unfortunately they are not in any kind of real order, but instead spread throughout the listing.


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Earlier this week I discovered You're Wrong About. The two hosts take a topic that was pretty big news some time in the past, and really dig deep into it, beyond the flashy headlines. I started with the one on Enron, which really got into how the company's scam operation worked. But also about how our entire financial system is set up to not only allow, but encourage it.

Since then I've been listening to the episodes in order from the very start. So far so good. I am liking it.

In a different vein, I also discovered Revolutions. There is only one host, so it is pretty much him just reading to you, and he can be a little dry. But it is solid info, and he does have enough personality to keep it interesting (without so much to make it annoying). I started with the American revolution series. But once I realized I liked it, I went back to the beginning, and started on the English Civil War. I am almost done with it. Wow, it was an even bigger, more confusing mess than I had imagined! Also a great example of how often the greatest thing a State has to fear is its own professional, permanently standing army. It only took the New Model Army a handful of years to overthrow the government that created it.


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post Mar 14 2020, 02:00 AM
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The HP Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS), is now giving away their audiobook of At The Mountains Of Madness for free! Yes, that's right free. They are also giving away their Dark Adventure Radio Theater production of The Rats In The Walls for free as well!.

Both are only free until Monday. So go get them!


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