{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/ad70df9f-209e-5d1e-81d9-19f6cfed651b/394e6791-5485-43dc-a19a-c9f760de2402?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Bloodsport, Bad Faith, Phoebe Reads a Mystery","description":"<p>Bit of a mixed bag from our Castologists this week! Nick looks at the doping and the Olympics with Bloodsport, Zane takes a look at a panel show that’s part politics part pop culture and part world changing with Bad Faith. Then Liz settles down by the metaphorical fireplace for a mystery novel or two read by Phoebe Judge with Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Then it’s on to the reviews!</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Liz Recommends - Phoebe Reads a Mystery </strong></p><p><a href=\"https://thisiscriminal.com/mystery/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https://thisiscriminal.com/mystery/</strong></a></p><p>In what is probably the shortest episode description Liz has chosen yet, Phoebe Judge (Criminal) reads a chapter a day from a classic mystery novel.</p><p><strong>For </strong>both: whatever book takes your fancy.</p><p><a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/phoebe-reads-a-mystery/id1503921457\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/phoebe-reads-a-mystery/id1503921457</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Nick Recommends - Bloodsport</strong></p><p>The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state set against the ongoing attempts to catch the cheats.</p><p><strong>For both: From the start</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bloodsport/id1522052223\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bloodsport/id1522052223</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Zane Recommends - Bad Faith</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/badfaithpodcast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.patreon.com/badfaithpodcast</a></p><p>Bad Faith is two shows in one: it's a panel show about politics and pop culture with a rotating cast of performers and politicians, artists and activists, writers and radicals; and it's&nbsp;a two-way podcast where two people from two very different parts of the left make the case for one less terrible world.</p><p>With civilization for the most part collapsing, the task of building a united left is more than urgent than ever. A panel show might not do that, but it will be good for some cheap kicks, and maybe it will explain something along the way.</p><p><strong>Briahna Joy Gray</strong>&nbsp;(@briebriejoy)&nbsp;is a former attorney, National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign, co-host of campaign podcast&nbsp;<em>Hear The Bern</em>, and a journalist who is early enough in her political career that she remains (tragically) sanguine.</p><p><strong>Virgil Texas</strong>&nbsp;(@virgiltexas) is an internet user and co-host of&nbsp;<em>Chapo Trap House</em>.</p><p>Together, they'll help you through... all of this.</p><p><strong>For Both: The Red Green</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-faith/id1531192509\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-faith/id1531192509</a></p><p><br></p> ","author_name":"That's Not Canon Productions"}