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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    The Black Tapes is really good. I'm only two episodes in, but the crowd that did serial (npr or something like that?) were doing a small series on people with interesting jobs, and had picked a paranormal investigator to do an episode on. But it was so good they decided to do an entire series on it.

    Highly recommended!

    OK... So I might have been too eager to recommend this. I rescind my recommendation. The narrator, whatever you call her, just annoyed my too much. She sounds exactly like the lady who did serial, you can always hear the smug smile in her voice. Also all the interviews / clips sound like bad voice actors reading off a script. No thanks.

    Shame as it pulled me in with a good premise, but the execution just annoyed me too much.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭pavb2


    OK... So I might have been too eager to recommend this. I rescind my recommendation. The narrator, whatever you call her, just annoyed my too much. She sounds exactly like the lady who did serial, you can always hear the smug smile in her voice. Also all the interviews / clips sound like bad voice actors reading off a script. No thanks.

    Shame as it pulled me in with a good premise, but the execution just annoyed me too much.

    Same as the Thinking Sideways podcasts the presenters just try to hard to be zany and funny and end up being irritating and annoying spoiling what would otherwise be very interesting subjects. It was mentioned previously but I felt the same about Those Conspiracy Guys podcasts.

    It would be better if the commentators just present the facts rather than trying to project their "wacky" personalities on the content.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,232 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Sword and Scale Episode 70 - My first listen to the much talked about Sword and Scale pod. True crime podcasts seem to be everywhere at the moment and while I've listened to a few of them, I wouldn't call myself too much a fan. A lot of my pod listening is done late at night or on the way to sleep, so it can be disturbing to start awake in the middle of the night with a creepy tale of grisly death and murder still filtering form your headphones into my brain - as I lie there in the pitch dark wondering what the hell is going on. Plus, I find a lot of the tone of these types of shows distasteful: focusing - as they do - on the most horrible aspects of criminality and human nature, but not being upfront about their own barely disguised salaciousness, to the extent that a lot of them come across - to me - as santimonious and heartless. They are milking tragedy for entertainment purposes, after all.

    But - I am a sucker for stories involving bank robberies, double crosses, mad cap heists, and the like! Even though these tales usually feature their own share of painfuly and hastily spilled blood, I can manage to get caught up in the narrative drive and complexity of these type of yarns - to the extent that I don't feel quite as dirty listening to them. Even better if some of the characters in these stories have middle names like "fingers" or "slippery". You're in for a good time there.

    Well, the story told in Sword and Scale 70 was one of the best of this kind I've yet heard. If there's any justice, someday they'll make a big screen version of events; it would be a cracker. I don't want to say too much, apart from it involving a massive homemade bomb primed to go-off in a casino. It's got a bit of everything: unusual twists, a little bit of moider, ingenuity, careful planning gone awry. Dynamite - if you'll pardon the pun! Well worth a listen.

    Unfortunately, it also appears to be an outlier in the history of Sword and Scale itself. The second half of the same edition of the pod was taken up with recounting, in excrutiating and overwrought detail, the horrible death of a young Japanese woman. Uggghhh. I listened to a few more just to be sure about the particular angle of the world of crime the show was aiming for, and it does seem to be one of those types of productions that'll make sure you are left in no doubt exactly how many stab wounds this weeks poor beleaguered victim had to endure; before they died at the moment of maximum pathos. Double uggghhh.

    Still though, that opening half of episode 70 is great!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    The opening part sounds excellent, will give it a listen. I heard one or two episodes of Sword and Scale in the past, and yes, it did tend to revel in the gory details too much.

    As a fan of bank robbery stories, you might be interested in this episode:

    http://loveandradio.org/2014/08/choir-boy/

    "Tom Justice is passionate about cycling, and was on the shortlist for the US Olympic Team. Also, he’s a bank robber."


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Trent Houseboat


    Has anyone listened to Pin Kings? It's the true story of two high school wrestling stars one of whom becomes the biggest coke trafficker in Miami and the other is the DEA agent investigating him.

    The NPR production style (it's an ESPN podcast, but straight out of the Serial mould) is annoying and the first episode is little more than a 25 minute teaser. In spite of this I will listen on as it seems like an interesting story.
    Another thing they have going for themselves is that they've published 10 podcasts in the past week, which means not sitting around for months waiting for your weekly ration.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭pavb2


    Arghus wrote: »
    Sword and Scale Episode 70 - My first listen to the much talked about Sword and Scale pod. True crime podcasts seem to be everywhere at the moment and while I've listened to a few of them, I wouldn't call myself too much a fan. A lot of my pod listening is done late at night or on the way to sleep, so it can be disturbing to start awake in the middle of the night with a creepy tale of grisly death and murder still filtering form your headphones into my brain - as I lie there in the pitch dark wondering what the hell is going on. Plus, I find a lot of the tone of these types of shows distasteful: focusing - as they do - on the most horrible aspects of criminality and human nature, but not being upfront about their own barely disguised salaciousness, to the extent that a lot of them come across - to me - as santimonious and heartless. They are milking tragedy for entertainment purposes, after all.

    But - I am a sucker for stories involving bank robberies, double crosses, mad cap heists, and the like! Even though these tales usually feature their own share of painfuly and hastily spilled blood, I can manage to get caught up in the narrative drive and complexity of these type of yarns - to the extent that I don't feel quite as dirty listening to them. Even better if some of the characters in these stories have middle names like "fingers" or "slippery". You're in for a good time there.

    Well, the story told in Sword and Scale 70 was one of the best of this kind I've yet heard. If there's any justice, someday they'll make a big screen version of events; it would be a cracker. I don't want to say too much, apart from it involving a massive homemade bomb primed to go-off in a casino. It's got a bit of everything: unusual twists, a little bit of moider, ingenuity, careful planning gone awry. Dynamite - if you'll pardon the pun!

    Still though, that opening half of episode 70 is great!

    Yes I enjoyed this it was so off the wall but needed a bit more detail of the perp's motivation and personal life.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Not so much podcasts but Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has been great listening.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    Not so much podcasts but Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has been great listening.

    Can't recommend that enough!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    I've listened to all of the Damn Interesting podcasts over the past while. So really interesting and quirky historical topics covered.


  • Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭buster180


    The Elis James and John Robins podcast on Radio X is brilliant. Well worth a listen.
    Here is a little clip somebody made of the show :-)

    https://vimeo.com/159079322
    and another
    https://vimeo.com/163074498


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    Starting to enjoy Colm Parkinson's podcast. Very relaxed set up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 633 ✭✭✭MillField


    I think I may have mentioned it here before, but the Dubland podcast by Suzanne Kane and PJ Gallagher is very good.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    Good article by the Guardian mentioning a few podcasts I listen to on a regular basis

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/07/27-podcasts-to-make-you-smarter

    (Not sure they made me any smarter though. A little learning is a dangerous thing)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


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    ahlookit wrote: »
    Good article by the Guardian mentioning a few podcasts I listen to on a regular basis

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/07/27-podcasts-to-make-you-smarter

    (Not sure they made me any smarter though. A little learning is a dangerous thing)

    They have a history section but don't mention hardcore history

    _


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Trent Houseboat


    It's hardly an exhaustive list. Just one person's opinion.

    Though I'm not sure I trust the opinion of someone who starts an article with such twee nonsense as
    As the cold rustle of conkers start to hit the pavements and a new generation of pencil cases bulge under the weight of novelty felt-tips, it must be the start of a new term.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    It's hardly an exhaustive list. Just one person's opinion.

    Though I'm not sure I trust the opinion of someone who starts an article with such twee nonsense as

    Yeah some of those choices are a bit odd. Like Stuff You Missed In History Class, its so bland, it sounds like two women just reading a script and I hate that type of delivery.

    I like History Personified which is a really good history podcast, very diverse topics.

    Two new ones I have started listening to are

    Untold: The Daniel Morgan Story....Serial style account of a murder in the UK in the 1980's. Compelling and well produced.

    Liar City...each week they pick a famous liar covering everything from Traci Lords to the Cleveland Kidnappings. Its not just two people talking, its got audio from tv, radio etc of the time which brings it a bit more to life. Worth checking out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,232 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    It's hardly an exhaustive list. Just one person's opinion...

    Just one person's quick persuasal of google before franticly scribbling down a few random names I reckon.One entire reccomendation for sports? Arseblog - I'll eat my hat if she ever listened to the Arsecast. If you listen to a lot of different pods there isn't much there that will surprise you but it's probably a reasonable primer for people new to the world. Though to leave out Dan Carlin in favour of of the chronicly dull Stuff you missed in History Class is a particularly bad choice.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    from the comedy genius mind of bob mortimer of 'vic and bob ' comes
    Athletico mince a football podcast that never really gets around to talk about football , its really funny , 2 guys talking horse sh!t
    https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/athletico-mince/id1091337608?mt=2


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    Another vote for Dan Carlin's Hardcore History from me. I HATED history in school, never saw the point or relevance or anything real in it - but Carlin has really caught my imagination. They're really amazing podcasts, he's a gem. Halfway through WWI at the moment and looking forward to tomorrow's commute already! You know when sometimes you take the long route home because the radio station/iPod/whatever is playing a blinder? Same :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,313 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    So eventually finished serial... Season one is magic, season two is meh. Looking for something similar now... Any recommendations?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    So eventually finished serial... Season one is magic, season two is meh. Looking for something similar now... Any recommendations?

    Undisclosed or Truth and Justice. Both covered the Adnan case in their first seasons but have gone with totally different cases for their second but both centre on a wrongful conviction.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,313 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Undisclosed or Truth and Justice. Both covered the Adnan case in their first seasons but have gone with totally different cases for their second but both centre on a wrongful conviction.

    Oh I would really like more from the adnan case...I just feel the way it was left in serial was open...and unfinished. I hope you haven't spoilererd the other podcasts you just recommended!


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Oh I would really like more from the adnan case...I just feel the way it was left in serial was open...and unfinished. I hope you haven't spoilererd the other podcasts you just recommended!

    No, no spoilers. The other two are more like companion pieces to Serials first season. It's really just a rehashing of everything covered in the original show so may be a bit repetitive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Probably mentioned before but Joe Rogans Podcasts are awesome ..

    http://podcasts.joerogan.net/


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭gucci


    I occasionally listen to the adam buxton podcast, it is similar to the Richard Herring podcasts, in where Adam chats to someone about various topics that have no beginning middle or end. It is pretty amusing, but you will largely wonder why you bothered listening to it at the end....which is kind of the point I think!! I really enjoyed the latest one with Louis Theroux


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,207 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    I've subscribed to Reasonable Doubt, with Adam Carolla and lawyer Mark Geragos. It's about legal cases, usually high profile ones but really interesting to hear Mark Geragos talk about legal complications, why people make strange legal decisions, how to get people off etc.

    Very interesting podcast, I've given up on the other Carolla podcasts but this one is staying


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    gucci wrote: »
    I occasionally listen to the adam buxton podcast, it is similar to the Richard Herring podcasts, in where Adam chats to someone about various topics that have no beginning middle or end. It is pretty amusing, but you will largely wonder why you bothered listening to it at the end....which is kind of the point I think!! I really enjoyed the latest one with Louis Theroux

    He's really suited to podcasting , love his voice


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭finglashoop


    In the dark is a look at the police investigation into a missing child.

    Perpetrator recently came forward and admitted to crime


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Howard the Duck


    gucci wrote: »
    I occasionally listen to the adam buxton podcast, it is similar to the Richard Herring podcasts, in where Adam chats to someone about various topics that have no beginning middle or end. It is pretty amusing, but you will largely wonder why you bothered listening to it at the end....which is kind of the point I think!! I really enjoyed the latest one with Louis Theroux

    Probably my favourite podcast, he is a great interviewer and comes across as such a nice guy. Some very emotional moments in some of the podcasts that were recorded after his Dad passed away.

    The Bill Hader one is good, Hader actually wrote to him to ask to be on it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Gave a few goes at Those Conspiracy Guys, half decent listening but not something I'm going to stick with. Good to be light hearted on the topics but just find some of their joking about mass murder or child abductions a bit cringey although it's not something you wouldn't hear yourself down the pub.


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