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Cartman78 · 29-04-2022 9:49am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118973444#Comment_118973444

Thanks for the heads up on this...it hadn't come up on my radar at all.

Really good series (after a slightly clunky opener)....would make an interesting movie/TV series

Patsy167 · 01-05-2022 12:56pm

This is excellent - Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

From NPR

From the creator of How I Built This, host Guy Raz invites you to listen in as he talks to leadership experts and the visionary leaders of some of the world's biggest brands. Along the way, you'll hear accounts of crisis, failure, turnaround, and triumph, as the leaders reveal their secrets on their way to the top. These are stories that didn't make it into their company bios, and valuable lessons for anyone trying to make it in business.

cloudatlas · 02-05-2022 3:47pm

Hunting Warhead https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/hunting-warhead/id1480270157

(I missed this when it came out last year) 'How do you take down a criminal network that’s hidden in the shadows? How do you rescue child abuse victims who could be anywhere in the world? Hunting Warhead follows the journalists and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet. What they discover shocks them. Host Daemon Fairless tracks down the investigators, survivors and criminals themselves. A co-production of CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG.'

It's a bit heavy but fascinating and also good that there are people out there tackling this.

jcon1913 · 03-05-2022 1:56pm

+1 for this. Just need to be selective as to which episodes to listen to because I never heard of most of the guests.

one of the founders of Mailchimp is interviewed plus the guy behind Lulu Lemon

black & white · 06-05-2022 11:51am

Just started on "Behind The B*stards" they did a 3 part on The Famine and I'm half way through another 3 parter on John Wayne. It's American hosts and their accents can be a bit hard to listen to at times but the content is OK. They have nearly 500 episodes up covering people in public life who were, b*stards to other people. Featured are Kissenger, the Moonies, Dr Oz, Jacob Wohl etc, some interesting characters.

dball · 07-05-2022 7:39am

@Patsy167

https://cjpeconomics.substack.com/archive?sort=new

Another business pod here

humberklog · 12-05-2022 1:00pm

Dan Carlin fans might like the most recent opisodes of The Rest is History. Dan joins the the pod for a light hearted 2 parter on history's biggest questions.

Patsy167 · 12-05-2022 4:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119026616#Comment_119026616

This is quite good. I've listened to the last two and will be subscribing. Thanks for the tip.

nullObjects · 12-05-2022 8:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119050824#Comment_119050824

The rest is history is top tier

Cartman78 · 13-05-2022 12:20pm

Anyone listening to Batman Unburied?

Not sure what to make of it yet tbh but it's something different.

Also different is the Wagatha Christie podcast from the BBC.... normally allergic to this kind of thing but something about the story is strangely compelling.

Hard to comprehend really how utterly vacuous and stupid people can be and how the legal fees could be put to endless better uses....it should be a wake up call but probably won't be

humberklog · 21-05-2022 11:30am

I came across a Podcast called Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast. Recently they had Louis CK on for 4 episodes talking about US Presidents. I like Louis so found it very enjoyable. It's about 6 hours in total.

S.M.B. · 21-05-2022 1:39pm

BBC4 this week released a 10 part podcast series called Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV. My fondness for and fascination with reality TV makes this ideal listening.

dball · 02-06-2022 7:57am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118906045#Comment_118906045

https://www.mrgaryfox.com/

https://www.mrgaryfox.com/podcast

Slideways · 02-06-2022 11:23pm

I’ve been quite enjoying The Rest is Politics.

Political podcast between Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell.

Is there anything remotely comparable for Irish politics. Non-partisan look at politics of the week kinda stuff?

PopePalpatine · 03-06-2022 3:31pm

I've been binging on The 27 Club over the past week. If you liked "Badlands" - which has the same host, Jake Brennan - you'll love this deep dive into the seedy underbellies of entertainment. My only gripe is with the totally irrelevant ads - yes "Committed", I'm looking at you and your "Live, Love, Laugh" signs and "wine o'clock" Facebook statuses.

yourdeadwright · 21-06-2022 4:05pm

Unusual suspects is a good listen,

Although i feel there is way ore to the story that Sam is unwilling to reveal,

RevBlueJeans · 23-06-2022 6:23pm

Any one listened to GUBU? I havent but have heard that it is overproduced and overlong with lots of needless repetition.

RevBJ

Mehaffey1 · 23-06-2022 10:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119240343#Comment_119240343

That would be my criticism of it too. It is very good and I would recommend it. The narrator has some particularly strange pronunciations at times especially of place names. Fascinating story and one I never knew much about but it could've easily been covered in half the time.

secondrowgal · 24-06-2022 12:05pm

Not sure if I've given these before but sure better twice than not at all:

Maintenance Phase - debunks the many, many diet myths and fads.

Who shat on the floor at my wedding - investigation into the crime of the century :)

Patsy167 · 25-06-2022 2:15pm

Good Ship BrewDog

"Punk" CEO James Watt built a £2bn business, then controversy struck. The Captain is accused of leading a culture of fear and more, so can he steer the Good Ship through the storm?

A good listen for anyone interested in Business startup stories or the brewing/Beer industry

Suckler · 11-07-2022 1:13pm

Just finished this one. Some great interviews throughout.

https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/gubu/

12-07-2022 12:36pm

Persona: The French Deception

What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? This is the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time. Host and award-winning journalist Evan Ratliff investigates how Chikli duped some of the world’s most powerful people into handing over their fortunes.

He explores how Chikli evaded the law for years and became a Robin Hood-like hero. More than just a tale of criminal genius, this is a show about the moment we’re living in right now — the golden age of scammers — and the power of seduction. But what happens when the fantasy we’ve been lured into finally crumbles away?

human 19 · 25-07-2022 11:11pm

Podcasts I listen to which haven't been mentioned in past 15 pages or so:

Politics:

Oh God, what now ? / The Bunker / The New European Podcast: Leftie/ anti-tory Brits talking politics. OGWN can be very funny at times. I don't know why Alex Andreou isn't all over TV panel shows. An approximate quote from him about the UK leaving the EU to get better trade deals : "it's like a middle-aged man leaving his family, moving into a bedsit and then setting up a Tinder profile stating he is looking for women 25-years or younger."

Politics on the couch: How our psychological biases affect our political decisions

Red Lines: Excellent BBC radio Ulster podcast about goings-on up there

Brexit Republic: Excellent RTE deep-dive into the latest machinations, and the only solely Brexit-related podcast still going that I know of

Science/Philosophy: BBC In our time (Melvyn Bragg).

Theories of Everything : Maths/Physics/Consciousness. Philosophical discussion but grounded in science/maths

Comedy: Club random: Bill Maher having informal chats with his guests in his home while drinking & toking. His Real Time HBO show also has it's own podcast.

Beyond the Scenes. The hilarious Roy Wood Jr. from The Daily show (Trevor Noah) drills down into some of the spots from The daily show, with the producers of the spots.

Sport; Shift F1: the best Formula 1 podcast

Tech: Security Now: If you are interested in security & privacy of your computer/phone/ internet of things (random stuff like doorbells & thermostats you connect to your private network) . Very long-running pod. Informative & entertaining .

Docu: Slow Burn : Very deep dive into historical American topics like the murders of Tupac & Biggie, Rodney King, the Iraq invasion, Watergate

Misc: That UFO Podcast. Started following this after the 60 minutes TV episode showing the videos captured by US navy pilots and interviews with the pilots & others. It also follows the congressional hearings and task forces that have been set up. I like it because they mostly limit their interviews to people who aren't way out on the fringes, including ex-military etc.

spuddy90 · 18-08-2022 8:12am

Started listening to "last man standing" about a journalist who went into Syria in 2012 and and was captured. While alot of other journalists who were caught they were either released or beheaded. He was last seen in a video released by ISIS

spuddy90 · 24-08-2022 9:47pm

Just started "Who killed Daphne" about a Maltese journalist who was killed after she had been exposing government officials. Very interesting so far

secondrowgal · 28-08-2022 12:01pm

This is very sad and infuriating in equal measure. It's about an American NFL player who had chronic concussions and also murdered some people. It's the Boston Globe Spotlight team so not too padded.

https://open.spotify.com/show/5DN5xiAToNt3VrCykD4Fcn?si=b5dcdb2b37884730

30-08-2022 7:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119532471#Comment_119532471

that guy was a bad egg from the start tbh

there were a couple of other podcasts on his story already

is the angle here that his behaviour is being put down to just concussion?

secondrowgal · 31-08-2022 9:26am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119544278#Comment_119544278

No, not at all. More that it is likely to contribute especially as his concussions started very young, so the being bad from the start as you say may also have been influenced by the CTE. It’s just the story of football concussion really, with Aaron as one of the biggest failures of Football Inc I think.

31-08-2022 11:49am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119546294#Comment_119546294

He blew away two guys to death with a handgun and then months later shot his "friend" between the eyes and threw his body out of his car and left him for dead but somehow that guy survived (with the loss of an eye). He also murdered another man. And linked to other shootings.

He was a heavy drug user which made him paranoid.. He also had an inherited genetic trait that made susceptible to head damage.

Nobody was "saving" this guy.

Suckler · 31-08-2022 4:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119547067#Comment_119547067

It wasn't concussion related and I'd agree with your synopsis with his drug use. It was also the ethos around 'protecting' up and coming football stars that's endemic in the sport. It starts when they are young; mistakes/indiscretions were brushed under the carpet, school grades 'massaged', crimes covered up. This carries forward to college football. Some one brought up through the system of never being held accountable for their negative actions but lauded and rewarded is going to come out of it all with a sense of entitlement/invulnerability/ remorselessness.

31-08-2022 4:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119548861#Comment_119548861

I can accept that angle as playing a part but likewise and more significantly he was obviously a paranoid egomaniac with violent tendencies with access to guns and they are more significant factors imo.

There are plenty of thugs who ended up being serial murderers involved in the drugs business or similar but he is quite unique in that he had money and fame and was at the very height of his sports career (and not some post-career person who morphed into a nutter later) and threw it all away and eventually not just that but his freedom and life.

The framing of this particular podcast gives it its angle of course.

Patsy167 · 10-09-2022 12:32pm

The off field rugby pod is an enjoyable listen for anyone interested in interviews with rugby players

lc180 · 23-09-2022 7:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119517508#Comment_119517508

Thanks for the recommendation, I really enjoyed this one! I binged it in a couple days.

delly · 27-09-2022 11:05pm

If anybody is looking for a non PC chit chat on everything random, you should check out the Wet Jeans podcast. Complete satire and just two guys talking about whatever they want. I'd say most of their US following take everything they say for reality, which just makes it even funnier.

Ben Done · 01-10-2022 9:13am

Fairly mainstream but enjoying The News Agents - Emily Matlis and Jon Sopel, jumping ship from the BBC - both are great journalists, (also Lewis Goodall, another good reporter leaving the editorially compromised BBC.

Also The Rest is Politics with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart - neither of them everybody's cup of tea but insightful into UK and global affairs..

Cartman78 · 03-10-2022 4:22pm

I'm probably about 5 years behind the curve but just in case anyone else missed it as well :-)

"In the Dark" is an excellent investigative podcast - normally not my kind of thing at all but stumbled across it recently and have been bingeing it for the last couple of weeks.

"Vigilante" was similar-ish but nowhere near as good.

"Missed Fortune" is initially quite interesting and engaging but tails off a bit towards the end.

And another strong recommendation for 'The News Agents'

dball · 07-10-2022 9:38pm

I heard Adrian Dunbar interviewed today about a new pod he is narrating, called Obscene: The Dublin Scandal

Its about the Malcolm MacArthur case and its a one part per week on all podcast suppliers, however its all available to anyone living in the UK with BBC Sounds.

Started listening to the first 2 episodes today and its very good so far.

I also searched the pod player for GUBU and found another version of the same story, I listened to part 1 and i like it,

Its called GUBU

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Malcolm MacArthur"

The phrase Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented was paraphrased from a comment by then Taoiseach Charles Haughey, while describing a strange series of incidents in the summer of 1982 that led to a double-murderer, Malcolm MacArthur, being apprehended in the home of the Irish Attorney General Patrick Connolly.

holy guacamole · 09-10-2022 1:19pm

This six-part pod from The Guardian tells the story of serial cyber-stalker Matthew Hardy and his countless victims. As well as interviews with those affected it also discusses the issue of responsibility and whether social media giants need to do more to stop people like Hardy. Very good pod which tells both sides of the story in a balanced fashion.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/sep/24/can-i-tell-you-a-secret-episode-one-of-a-new-podcast#:~:text=In%20this%20new%20six%2Depisode,beyond%20for%20over%20a%20decade.

secondrowgal · 10-10-2022 4:40pm

Huberman Lab:

https://open.spotify.com/show/79CkJF3UJTHFV8Dse3Oy0P

He devotes 3/4 or more episodes to a topic (e.g. sleep) and goes all science plus all sociology on the topic. He's very interesting, doesn't condescend yet explains scientific jargon to non-scientists, and gives loads of resources outside the podcast. Really interesting stuff.

griffin100 · 02-11-2022 10:32pm

Just finished listening to Hoaxed by Alexi Mostrous. Riveting stuff about how a fake child satanic abuse case in England became a world wide story and got taken up by conspiracy groups and then their opponents.

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/hoaxed/

spuddy90 · 15-11-2022 2:21pm

Started listening to Obscene: the Dublin scandal" really good so far. Don't like giving too much of the story away but it's about a guy who killed two random people in the early 80s.

Loveinapril · 15-11-2022 9:56pm

I just finished listening to The Clearing, it is about a woman in America who, as an adult, discovered her dad was a murderer and the journey that followed. It is really layered and interesting.

Cartman78 · 15-11-2022 10:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119877158#Comment_119877158

+1 on this one.

I knew next to nothing about this case and it's absolutely mind-boggling what happened....1980's Ireland was a strange place.

There's a new podcast out by the TodayFM courts reporter called Inside the Crime which is about a possible related murder... haven't started it yet

spuddy90 · 16-11-2022 7:47am

A really unbelievable story. Fiction like. A bit before my time so it's great to listen back on how it was in the early 80s.

Brillaint thanks for that I'll add that to my next listen.

Arghus · 20-11-2022 10:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119877158#Comment_119877158

I read this reccomendation this morning and thought "this sounds good", some obscure case by the sounds of it"... then I looked up the podcast: Malcom McArthur.... Probably the most famous murder case in Irish history!

Maybe I'm getting old, but it was before my time too and I thought this case was still widely known. The Irish Times also did a podcast series about it recently too.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that show is good because it is a crazy, crazy story.

Cartman78 · 24-11-2022 1:45pm

Following on the recent theme of Ireland in the early 1980's, currently listening to the Shergar series in the excellent "Sports Strangest Crimes" podcast feed.

For reasons that aren't clear, it's presented by Vanilla Ice 😂 but he does a decent job imho

AdamB · 25-11-2022 6:19pm

I've just finished Con Juan, it's about an international con artist, really enjoyed this one!

While I'm at it, here's a few that have got me though the night shift over the pandemic, a mixed bag but you might find something!

Con Juan

Sweet Bobby

The Witch Farm

Scotland Yard Confidential

Who Killed Emma

Mens Rea

Believed

The Making of a Detective

Serial

I’m not a monster

Inside the black box

Your own back yard

The witness

Teacher’s pet

The troubles

The bloodied field

Gun plot

Shendee's Story

The Explorers podcast

To live and die in LA

Bad bad thing

The Suspect

Missing crypto queen

Exit scam

The northern bank job

Girl taken

Gubu

Gangster

Lore

Up and vanished

Irish history podcast

Maddie

Inside the black box

Real narcos

Extremities

Blind spot 9/11

Scotland Yard Confidential

Caliphate

Unravel Snowball

Stardust

Last voyage of the pung su

Death in Ice valley

Nobody zone

Where is George Gibney

Dating game killer

Unfinished

Real Dictators

13 minutes to the moon

Monster The zodiac killer

Man in the window gsk

Amplify archaeology

The lady vanishes

West Cork

A hurlers life

We become hero's

Ear hustle

Mafia

Freshwater

S Town

Uncanny

I Spy

The Battersea Poltergeist

Relative Unknown

This podcast has fleas

In your nature

The Black tapes

In the dark

Extacy the battle of rave

Accused

Larsso30 · 25-11-2022 7:57pm

Loving real dictators

secondrowgal · 28-11-2022 4:35pm

If books could kill - Michael Hobbs and Peter Shamshiri

Tearing "airport" bestsellers apart. Liking it so far. It's only started.

Stevolende · 04-12-2022 6:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119248154#Comment_119248154

I chanced on a book by this guy in a charity shop a few weeks back. Business For Punks, not read it yet.

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