Today I listened to...

The Black Oil · 31-08-2020 11:37am

I'm a few episodes into The Bomb which has been mentioned on here and promoted heavily by the BBC.

NPR's Planet Money had an episode about a truck driver and what sounded like pretty bad conditions, huge difficulties getting paid.

Has anyone listened to the Billionaire Boys Club? I heard the trailer for it.

Thundercats Ho · 11-09-2020 11:58am

Katherine Ryan has a podcast called telling everybody everything.
Never mad about her on tv, but this is pretty entertaining at the minute for me.

donspeekinglesh · 11-09-2020 12:05pm

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

Katherine Ryan has a podcast called telling everybody everything.
Never mad about her on tv, but this is pretty entertaining at the minute for me.

Had been weekly, but no new episodes the past 3 weeks.

fixXxer wrote: »

Listened to Death in Ice Valley recently, about the body of a woman found in Norway during the cold war.

It was grand, 35ish minutes episodes but it felt like too many episodes for the amount of material they actually had. The Norwegian lady has a lovely accent, very easy to listen to, but they didn't seem to say a huge amount. Might be worth it if you're between your regular podcasts

Just started listening to this. Enjoying it so far.

bamayang · 22-09-2020 11:05am

Listened to American Scandal. Its nice easy listening with interesting topics. Nothing too ground breaking, but well produced.
Listened to "Big Tobaco" last week, might give "Oil" a go next week.

optogirl · 22-09-2020 6:49pm

Where is George Gibney? Excellent investigative podcast from the BBC & Irish journalist Mark Horgan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08njhrm

Thundercats Ho · 30-09-2020 3:06pm

The Almanac of Ireland

Manchán Magan has a show on RTE 1 that's now available as a podcast.

Interesting and quirky. I like it so far.

https://open.spotify.com/show/2EAYH8iqfQhnVGMQHWDR3x?si=ZE2MP8skRN2BMrWAspfofg

Turtyturd · 03-10-2020 11:36am

A few from over the last few days;

Winds of Change: A look into the theory that the titular song was composed by the CIA as under the radar propaganda.

Darknet Diaries Xbox underground: Really interesting stories of hackers around the time of the 360 and also another example of how messed up the American legal system is.

Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-men: I’ve a real love hate relationship with this podcast. Love the content but hate one of the hosts insistence on retrofitting their Current sexual/gender/identity politics onto characters and into storylines. I tend to only listen when they cover major storylines I like but it’s currently covering my 90’s peak fandom...managed a good chunk of an episode, might try again in a few months.

03-10-2020 12:48pm

+1 on Winds of Change

California Dreamer · 15-10-2020 7:10am

I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised by 'Smartless' with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes.

Each week one of them picks and guest and doesn't tell the others who it is.

I thought I would hate Sean Hayes and he plays an idiot in a lot of his roles but is actually an entertaining guy.

Well worth checking out.

The Black Oil · 22-10-2020 9:51am

Listened to a 2 minute trailer for Wild Thing from 2018. It's about the search for bigfoot/Sasquatches. Looks like there's more episodes since, on UFOs - going by the feed. I'll try the bigfoot stuff anyway.

California Dreamer · 22-10-2020 10:08am

The Irish Defense Forces podcast is worth a listen if only to find out about the new aircraft that were delivered this year.

22-10-2020 7:44pm

The Black Oil wrote: »

Listened to a 2 minute trailer for Wild Thing from 2018. It's about the search for bigfoot/Sasquatches. Looks like there's more episodes since, on UFOs - going by the feed. I'll try the bigfoot stuff anyway.

imo most of these types of podcasts are so light on facts of any sort that they end up being complete rubbish to listen to

like when these guys covered that sort of stuff

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/how-stuff-works/stuff-they-dont-want-you-to-know-22691

(recent listing seems to be possibly more quantifiable but I gave up because it was nothing but a load of hot air)

PopePalpatine · 31-10-2020 3:01pm

Over the past couple of days I listened to The Dollop's 2-parter on Ronald Reagan.

Now I understand where "voodoo" economics came from.

spuddy90 · 05-11-2020 8:59am

"Jamie carragher the greatest game "

Wouldn't be gone on carragher on punditry but enjoyed his interview with Ricky Hatton. I see he has Ryan giggs interview up from last week so that should be good too for sports fans

The Black Oil · 06-11-2020 4:51pm

Radiolab: The Flag and the Fury from July.

From the town hall: "I work with Blacks...and I've several friends who are Black"

Pretty fiery, as you can imagine.

El_Duderino 09 · 24-11-2020 5:21pm

The Nobody Zone is back with a few follow up episodes. It got good publicity on RTÉ and I really liked it.

It’s about an Irish guy who moved to London on the 50s and became homeless and destitute and may (or may not) have become a serial killer, killing other homeless people.

Really good story and well told.

The new episodes pick up with additional info which has come to light as a result of the podcast series. It’s only 6 episodes and there are an additional 3. Well worth a listen.

Episode 1 here:
https://overcast.fm/+XrLhVhpy8

donspeekinglesh · 24-11-2020 7:45pm

Have started listening to Something Rhymes With Purple. A podcast about words with Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth.

Wegian · 17-12-2020 11:57pm

Last 2 episodes of the Nobody Zone are worth a listen

Tommy Tiernan’s podcast is pretty random but also worth a listen

The Black Oil · 05-01-2021 9:07pm

Yep...

https://twitter.com/jogdenUK/status/1346442437376552962

Aisling(",) · 13-01-2021 1:05pm

I've been binging "Murder Most Irish" over the last month or two. I've listened to all the episodes.Its two women discussing Irish murders.It's great to hear local crimes being talked about because most of them I hadn't been aware of. It has the same feature that puts a lot of people of podcasts rambling and talking about nothing for the start of the episode but I like the two of them and it feels nice to hear casual chat when I'm stuck at home in lock down. The episodes are generally 60-90 minutes.

I've also gotten stuck into "The Creep Dive" its three Irish women and they each pick a story to tell on the episode.They pick the unusual or weird stories that would usually suck you in on Wikipedia and they do the deep diving so you don't have to. I find I have to google a lot of the stuff they talk about because it really intrigues me. I'm only listening to their 2018 stuff at the moment because I'm starting from the beginning. It is a true crime podcast but its not exclusively so.It can be any weird story . The episodes are generally 60-90 minutes.

The Black Oil · 11-02-2021 10:23pm

Radiolab had one called Sight Unseen, originally from 2015 or so, but came up again in January. It's the story of Time photographer Lynsey Addario was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. She was there when a US soldier died and became about whether the photos would be published and all that. She ending up talking to the family. Quite poignant, I thought.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/sight-unseen

funnydoggy · 17-02-2021 10:25am

I'm absolutely loving "No Such Thing As A Fish". Started listening to the Tommy Tiernan podcast (the one with just him) and I find him absolutely fascinating. He's definitely gone up in my ranks hundredfold between his talk show and his podcast.

fixXxer · 17-02-2021 10:28am

funnydoggy wrote: »

I'm absolutely loving "No Such Thing As A Fish". Started listening to the Tommy Tiernan podcast (the one with just him) and I find him absolutely fascinating. He's definitely gone up in my ranks hundredfold between his talk show and his podcast.

Is it related to the book of the same name?

bocaman · 17-02-2021 10:32am

Am currently listening to the Irish History podcast. Cant recommend it enough.

funnydoggy · 17-02-2021 10:36am

fixXxer wrote: »

Is it related to the book of the same name?

Yep! 4 of the QI elves basically telling what fact they learned that week. 15 or so minutes talking about each fact, generally. If you like QI / British comedy panel shows, you'll love it.

It's really interesting and often, absolutely hilarious. If I were you I'd listen to episode 342 "No Such Thing As A Presidential Fight Club" as soon as possible. :pac:

PTH2009 · 10-03-2021 6:02pm

Tried listening to Fake doctors real friends with Zach Braff & Donald Faison where they talk about scrubs but have up as Donald is just way to loud and annoying

steve_r · 10-03-2021 8:33pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

Tried listening to Fake doctors real friends with Zach Braff & Donald Faison where they talk about scrubs but have up as Donald is just way to loud and annoying

God I loved scrubs back in the day but Zach Braff really grated on me as I got older, the whole using Kickstarter to fund a movie didn’t sit well with me

steve_r · 10-03-2021 8:34pm

Started listening to Power:the maxwells about Robert Maxwell and his family.

It’s an incredible story, only a few episodes in but already gripped.

PTH2009 · 10-03-2021 8:37pm

steve_r wrote: »

God I loved scrubs back in the day but Zach Braff really grated on me as I got older, the whole using Kickstarter to fund a movie didn’t sit well with me

I do love scrubs but can't unsee JD if i see Zach Braff in anything else

cml387 · 16-03-2021 2:15pm

Just finished "The Battersea Poltergeist" on BBC sounds.

Don't know what to make of it, but a very strange story. Worth a listen.

Irish angle too.

El_Duderino 09 · 16-03-2021 2:31pm

cml387 wrote: »

Just finished "The Battersea Poltergeist" on BBC sounds.

Don't know what to make of it, but a very strange story. Worth a listen.

Irish angle too.

I just started listening to it! There was an ad on another bbc4 podcast (might have been the infinite monkey cage). First episode was good. Nice storytelling

Kingp35 · 22-03-2021 10:31am

cml387 wrote: »

Just finished "The Battersea Poltergeist" on BBC sounds.

Don't know what to make of it, but a very strange story. Worth a listen.

Irish angle too.

Just finished this. It's well made but utterly ridiculous.

Arbie · 22-03-2021 3:43pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

Just finished this. It's well made but utterly ridiculous.

It was entertaining as a human interest story. Enjoyed the dramatic Irish granny!

cml387 · 22-03-2021 6:34pm

Arbie wrote: »

It was entertaining as a human interest story. Enjoyed the dramatic Irish granny!

Sorcha Cusack was the Irish Granny.

gmisk · 15-04-2021 8:37pm

Really enjoying the Louis theroux grounded podcast.
The ones with Chris O Dowd (they are friends) and Justin Theroux (friends and cousins) were especially fun

15-04-2021 8:42pm

Back listening to Real Dictators. Excellently researched and presented as always, and they've taken the main criticism on board by going into more depth about each tyrant. 4 episodes so far about Hitler, and I'd expect at least 4 more.

Cienciano · 17-04-2021 9:26pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Back listening to Real Dictators. Excellently researched and presented as always, and they've taken the main criticism on board by going into more depth about each tyrant. 4 episodes so far about Hitler, and I'd expect at least 4 more.

It's a brilliant podcast, and yeah, the hitler one has been great so far

The Black Oil · 02-08-2021 7:23pm

Alan Alda's podcast with Sue Black, forensic anthropologist. She worked on some of the horrors of Kosovo.

Quite a character. Hard not to compare her to Dr Marie Cassidy, a fellow Scot.

Tork · 07-08-2021 12:19am

Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware Martyn was in the original Human League and then Heaven 17. After listening to him for a while, you can understand why Martyn was ousted from the Human League in favour of a couple of schoolgirls 🤣 Still, his chats with (mostly) 80s pop stars are worth a listen.

el Fenomeno · 04-09-2021 12:25am

I listened to the "Boy in Photo" episode of Reply All today. Really one of the best individual episodes of any podcast I've listened to. What a rollercoaster.

GottaGetGatt · 04-09-2021 1:22am

Have been doing a lot of Driving the last few weeks and these have been fascinating listen. Available on Spotify as well.

https://youtu.be/cG_i1I1V8q0

https://youtu.be/y0TOKqF2K3s

https://youtu.be/nPAdgr7pTas

The Black Oil · 05-09-2021 3:02pm

Sacred Ground about United flight 93, on NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/31/1033059826/9-11-flight-93-crashed-on-my-land-i-went-back-to-the-sacred-ground-20-years-l

Grim in places, from the coroner's work to only finding a tooth and the battle to get the audio of the cockpit voice recorder, but well captured and worth a listen.

biketard · 06-09-2021 4:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117844864#Comment_117844864

That was great. Thanks for suggesting it.

My favourite podcast episode ever is Reply All #158 The Case of the Missing Hit.

elvis83 · 06-09-2021 9:36pm

The Witness is harrowing. An excellent podcast,terribly sad.

The Black Oil · 12-09-2021 3:43pm

Tackling Online Abuse in Football - BBC File on 4. For a sport awash with money they could really spend some more on this issue, different initiatives doing different things don't seem to have much cohesion either.

9/12 - only tried the first one, so far.

Anyone listened to the Dropout about Elizabeth Holmes?

siblers · 14-09-2021 12:32am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117880794#Comment_117880794

Listened to the first season of The Dropout and its really enjoyable. Very well produced and written/narrated. Great story too

PopePalpatine · 14-09-2021 7:33am

I've started listening to Well There's Your Problem after their episode on Gulf State vanity projects. I've been wondering for years how sh*tty those places were for the workers who toil away in these places...but let's just say I had no idea how sh*tty they really were.

donspeekinglesh · 14-09-2021 3:29pm

The Drop Out is very good. As is Bad Blood, on the same subject, hosted by John Carreyrou who wrote the book of the same name and is largely responsible for the downfall of Theranos.

Parks and Recollection has started today, an episode by episode look back at Parks and Recreation, hosted by Rob Lowe and Alan Yang (writer/director/member of Mouse Rat)

buster180 · 16-09-2021 6:16pm

American Vigilante, is a new podcast from the crowd who make Death Of A Rock Star etc.

KC Is a man for hire, If your kid goes missing he can get them back at all costs. I have listened to the first episode and its very good

el_gaucho · 17-09-2021 9:21am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117880794#Comment_117880794

One of my favourite podcasts. Her trial started last week.

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