Podcasts

[nukeabuse]

A few of my most regularly listened to podcasts. Am always looking for new ones so if anyones any suggetsions in a similar vein fire away! A few of these wont be to everyones taste as they are quite left leaning. but if thats your shtick you're in for a good time.

The toiletovhell radio - metal news and general discussion. It used to be more music orientated but has now split into two shows, one for discussion and the 'riff raff' show a playing of new underground metal each week from across the spectrum. Recently did a 2 part segment on their top 10 DM releases of the last decade. well worth a check out.

Our fake history - A history podcast about myths and legends from ancient times to present day, looking to debunk or confirm them. Generally unbiased and good use of evidence, which sometimes leads to surprising results when it backs up the myth! looks at everything from joan of arc, troy, rasputin, to the hashish assassins, was there a female pope, the mother of the occult.

Philosophize This! - about philosophy, 20 min long eps so never gets too much to take in, starts from the beginning of philosophy right up to modern day and everything in between. The presenter makes everything very digestible and good use of examples to explain the heady concepts.

Behind the bastards - Looks at the stories behind as its says 'bastards', the likes of L. Ron Hubbard, Payday loan companies,Jeffery Epstein, Roger Stone,Gaffadai etc. The guy can be a bit of a melter so i usually only check out the ones about my topics of interest.

Death Sentenced - Their bio 'a podcast about books for people who dont like books, podcasts or capitalism but love extreme metal'. They do book reviews, often of terrible books, have good guests (imperial triumphant last week), one of the presenters is Langdon who writes alot of articles on Invisible Oranges, play good tunes, and complain about the state of everything!

The Horror Vanguard - horror movie analysis from a left perspective.

Revolutionary left radio - a very good entry podcast, features a range of guests from across the left spectrum, covers everything from history (cuban revolution, sandanistas, Lybia, spanish civil war), to current social groups and movements, to book and film analaysis.

Proles of the round table - A history podcast, some of the eps are woth a check out even if you dont agree with the politics as they deep dive into, fall of the USSR, Paris commune, Soviet space program, soviet spies, the nuke race, the history of art, eugenics.

[Ollkiller]

Excellent recommendations here lads. I've been listening to David McWilliams podcasts. For anyone with a passing interest in economics it's very informative.

[Pentagrimes]

might as well get the plug in for the one Myself and Bushie from Yurt do, Grump Up The Volume - pretty much just general tongue in cheek banter about music we like. On a break for the summer and starting up again in September with a slightly more focussed approach, but if you want to listen to two middle aged men talk about Halloween songs or slag Funk Metal this is your chance.

http://grumpupthevolume.com  and it's on Spotify/Itunes/Stitcher and all those

[leatherface]

A little off topic but if anyone can point me to some decent, easy to understand info as to what you need to make a podcast. Have always thought it was something I would like to try my hand at, someday. Bear in mind that I am not very tech savvy.

[Pentagrimes]

Ideally a decent mic and a decent recording interface,and some form of audio recording program depending on what you want to do with it. We operate on no budget so we use a hand held Zoom recorder and then edit it using Audacity which is free audio software that's so fool proof even I can use it (though it crashed my laptop after a while soooo....)

[nukeabuse]

A little off topic but if anyone can point me to some decent, easy to understand info as to what you need to make a podcast. Have always thought it was something I would like to try my hand at, someday. Bear in mind that I am not very tech savvy.

Pretty sure the only stipulations to making a podcast are be 1+ white males in a room

[Pentagrimes]

Yeah, there's definitely no female or non white podcasters out there. At all.

[SirHughMaharggs]

Can't beat LFC Daytrippers for Liverpool podcasts. Done by a load of Dublin ones and a scouser and a Welsh bloke make the odd appearance. Much prefer this to Anfield Wrap because you get the same insight only with far less self-importance and far more laughs.

Pure Cinema Podcast is amazing too if you're into cult/genre cinema. They do themed episodes like "90s cult movies," "Westerns (With Joe Dante)," a Larry Cohen tribute, and retrospectives of entire careers for Carpenter, Scorcese and Tarantino. The great thing about the podcast is they always pair the films they're talking about with other films, so King of Comedy for example, one of them paired it with Tony Manero, another film about psychotic fans, while the other guy paired it with another Jerry Lewis film.

[StoutAndAle]

I've mentioned it before but Dean Delray's "Let There Be Talk" is worth a listen especially to the January 2020 epsiodes where he's focused on the early-80s Bay Area thrash scene.

[StrangersWithGuns]

Quite like the metal podcasts, Cork's "The Metal Cell Podcast" and the American "Metalsucks" Podcast are both quite good

[kiehozero]

Always love it when Athletico Mince gets mentioned, what a banger that is. Pretty sure my girlfriend is going to break up with me the next time I listen to it while we're both in the car though. Anybody who listens to it should be legally mandated to listen to Gossipmongers, which is Joe Wilkinson from 8 Out of Ten Cats reading out bizarre bits of gossip that listeners send in. If you can get through the story about the Space Worm or the lads playing with raisins on a school trip without crying, you aren't human. Last Podcast on the Left is brilliant as well, although I think the serial killer stuff is becoming a bit passe thanks to Netflix and Amazon Prime, and I prefer their alien and cult episodes now.

Don't really listen to any metal podcasts, but I'm on a history trip with Finn O'Dwyer's Irish History Podcast, Newstalk's Talking History, Three Castles Burning and Shite Talk at the moment. All are decent but the sound quality on Irish History can be very ropey, but at least he's getting out there and doing it. TCB is from the writers of Come Here to Me and focuses mainly on Dublin history of Dublin's part in wider Irish history, while Shite Talk focuses on weird parts of Irish history and adds in some humour. Away from Ireland you've got Working Class History which is run by the Twitter account of the same name, and the unrivalled Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, which usually runs to five hours long per episode. Obviously they're not exactly weekly, his research is amazing and he doesn't includes clips or interviews, it's just him speaking uninterrupted, but his delivery is awesome.

For current affairs, David Runciman's Talking Politics and the Irish Times' politics podcasts are decent, especially since they've been doing short daily podcasts during election season. RTE's Documentary on One is worth dipping in and out of, and they play plenty of reruns going back to the 70s which can give a newcomer like me a great bit of perspective on how Irish society has changed. Jeremy Scahill's Intercepted does some great digging into global politics but he can get really irritating if he's on a rant, while Abe Lincoln's Top Hat features on of the lads from Last Podcast on the Left and offers some pretty decent analysis while not assuming you know all the inner workings US politics.

The BBC do quite a few decent podcasts but there's only so many times you can hear those posh accents before I have to take a break. Inside Science, Costing the Earth, File on 4 and More or Less are decent, and they also do short daily Witness podcasts using old recordings. In Our Time is still the best BBC show going, the ultimate in the BBC pushing every element of their government charter to put on something borderline incomprehensible on a national radio show in the middle of the day. The host Melvyn Bragg rarely seems out of his depth and obviously does a ton of research before every show, which is useful when he accidentally invites in an academic who clearly can't simplify their topic.

[Caomhaoin]

Dan Carlin's 'hardcore history' is a great podcast, although the episodes are sporadic and quite lengthy.

The Irish history one is done by a fellow Kilkennyman but he starts to wreck heads rapid enough y non stop plugging his patreon.

[Trev]

Devin Townsend is doing a series going through each of his albums, they're fascinating hearing the stories behind them and his creative process for each one

[Giggles]

The Irish History podcast is good, but I just can't get into it because it sounds like your man is just reading from a history book. It bores the hell out of me, pretty much why I couldn't get into history in school either.

"Fireside" is a great  podcast about Irish storytelling. It alternates between a story from Irish folklore and Irish mythology every week. Yer man tells it like an actual story, with dynamics and character voices, so it doesn't sound like you're listening to a lecture. Here's a favourite of mine about a man who swims to the bottom of the ocean, to indulge in a piss up with a merrow who keeps souls trapped in cages https://open.spotify.com/episode/6EKwUyMS62BrKJoRcmMSxq?si=oVj5Ce8gTLS58cFI_WiZbA

[Pentagrimes]

Jesus, Gossipmongers is amazing