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Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank, Murder Squad and Starship Sofa
Welcome! Pull up a chair and listen to your favourite Castologists recommending their favourite podcasts. This week Patrick brings Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank, Zane goes fictiony with Starship Sofa and Liz jumps on what's sure to be the next true crime podcast hit Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad.
Liz Recommends - Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad
GUYS! Billy Jensen and Paul Holes have a podcast! If you don't know who the hell Liz is talking about then you're obviously not a Murderino. Paul Holes is a retired detective who helped solve the Golden State Killer case and Billy Jensen is the kickass investigative journalist who helped finish Michelle McNamara's book on the case (I'll Be Gone In The Dark) and now works as a police consultant. The first new podcast on Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark's Exactly Right network, this is the podcast that invites YOU to help solve their cold cases. It's ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE TIME.
"Each week ride shotgun with retired cold case investigator Paul Holes and investigative journalist Billy Jensen as they attempt to solve an unsolved murder case using a variety of methods, from routine shoe-leather work to advanced technologies like familial DNA searches and social media geotargeting. But their secret weapon in the search for justice is staring right at these notes.
You have been watching and listening to stories about violent crimes and investigations for years. Now is the time to put all of that knowledge and wits to good use to actually help solve a crime. Welcome to the Murder Squad."
For both: Listen from the start, there are only a handful of eps out.
Link https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/jensen-and-holes-the-murder-squad/id1455668750
Pat Recommends - Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
Ari Shaffir. Comedian. Writer. Actor. Producer. Podcaster. Jew. Ari is one of my favourite comedians right now. His iconoclastic and unrelenting style of comedy is one I certainly appreciate. His podcast often opens with an introduction from Ari followed by a laid back chat with his guest. Every now and then you'll come across a solo podcast or a panel discussion.
For Zane & Liz: #277 Henry Rollins, if you want more I really liked #350 Shooter.
http://arithegreat.com/category/podcast/
Zane Recommends - Starship Sofa
Zane has brought in one of his old favourites this week, an audio fiction podcast! Hosted by the INIMITABLE accent of Tony C Smith, Starship Sofa is an audio magazine style show, similar in style to some of the great SF print magazines out there like Asimovs and Analog. A typical show includes poetry, flash fiction, fact article, reviews and main fiction. It’s produced by many and put together by one. Writers who have had there work narrated on the podcast include Michael Moorcock, Joe Haldeman, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, Harry Harrison, Ted Chiang, George R. R. Martin, William Gibson, and many many more.
For Pat: Any
For Liz: Any
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=166360307
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181. Adventures in New America, Ladies, We Need to Talk, Crypto Island
33:57||Season 2, Ep. 181Zane Recommends - Adventures in New Americahttps://newamericapodcast.com/#scripted #fiction #comedyAdventures in New America is the first sci-fi, political satire, Afrofuturistic buddy comedy, serialized for New Americans in a new and desperate time.Set a few years in the future, Adventures in New America follows the escapades of two mismatched African-New-American best friends — fat, lonely, curmudgeon IA and lesbian sneak-thief Simon Carr — who take on a series of increasingly wild heists to get quick cash to pay for IA’s medical treatment while attempting to survive the wilds of New New York City — and a secret cabal of Tetchy Terrorist Vampire Zombies from outer space. Intrigued? Good! Frequently, there will be musical numbers... and radical reflections on our dangerous, beautiful, heart-pounding world.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1434863731Britt Recommends - Ladies, We Need to Talkhttps://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/episodes#Conversational #HealthAndFitness #SexAndRelationships #HardConversationsWant to know how to close the orgasm gap? Riding your hormonal rollercoaster blindfolded? Feel like kicking your mental load to the kerb? You're not the only one. Ladies, We Need To Talk dives headfirst into the tricky topics we often avoid talking about, like our alcohol consumption, the struggles of monogamy, and the wonders of our vaginas. With sensitivity, personal stories, and serious smarts, this show is for women who feel the squeeze between work, their private life, and their pelvic floor. Join host Yumi Stynes as she tears open the sealed section on life.https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ladies-we-need-to-talk/id1277424411Harry Recommends - Crypto IslandA new series from a founding host of Reply All, Crypto Island explores the frontiers of a strange new world. Host PJ Vogt investigates ‘Web 3’, the opaque and mysterious world of blockchains, ephemera, and imaginary utopias. For those interested in podcasting news and contemporary history, check out this salient article on Vogt in the wake of Reply All: https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/crypto-island-podcast-pj-vogt.html https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crypto-island/id1614253637
180. Harrycast - Harry's Other Podcast
10:55||Season 2, Ep. 180Harry waxes lyrical about his own work while Zane and Britt chime in periodically to keep his ego in check. This episode is a shameless plug for Bookworms and Barflies, Harry’s other podcast. If you like books, banter, and booze, this one's for you!
179. Ballsy History, Articles of Interest, Normal Gossip
28:20||Season 2, Ep. 179Zane Recommends - Ballsy Historyhttps://ballsyhistory.fireside.fm/#history #scripted #lightheartedBallsy History is a weekly-ish podcast about big personalities and little-known stories. Join us for a tour of the outrageous acts, incredible stories, and outsized characters that shape history.Your hosts are a four female family with a penchant for uncovering the quirky side of the past (and, sometimes, not so distant past). Ballsy History was born during stay-at-home orders during the COVID pandemic.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1543648297Britt Recommends - Articles of Interesthttps://99percentinvisible.org/aoi/#ArtHistory #Fashion #Informative #TheArtsArticles of Interest is a show about what we wear. It's a twelve-part series from 99% Invisible, looking at clothing.Produced and Hosted by Avery Trufelmanhttps://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/articles-of-interest/id1455169228Harry Recommends - Normal GossipNormal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Kelsey McKinney discusses reader-submitted comedic gossip with guests, diving into the lives and decisions of complete strangers. The second-hand truth really is stranger than fiction. Produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin. Show art by Tara Jacoby.https://open.spotify.com/show/0KVZ16mLZ1bbNlnKemYTzm
178. Zanecast - Best New 2022 Podcasts
11:59||Season 2, Ep. 178Sweet Bobby#limited series #documentary #truecrime #serioushttps://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/sweet-bobby/Kirat is a successful radio presenter. On Facebook she meets Bobby, a handsome cardiologist. He’s a catch. Soon, they get tangled up in a love affair full of lies and manipulation. Then... Kirat discovers a deception of almost unimaginable proportions.From the makers of Finding Q, this is Sweet Bobby. A live investigation, in six parts, in search of one of the world's most sophisticated catfishers.https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sweet-bobby/id1590561275American Radical by MSNBC#limited series #documentary #serioushttps://american-radical.simplecast.comRosanne Boyland hated politics. She was shy, and she rarely left her home in Georgia. But then her family got a shocking call: Rosanne had died at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in the middle of a crowd trying to force its way past a police line.From the depths of their grief, the Boylands vow to figure out what happened to Rosanne. Her brother-in-law, Justin Cave, reaches out to an old high school friend he hopes can help: MSNBC journalist Ayman Mohyeldin.The quest for the truth takes Ayman back to his hometown of Kennesaw, Georgia, where he retraces the last six months of Rosanne's life and picks up a trail that leads to childhood haunts, missing boyfriends, and down shadowy internet rabbit holes. American Radical is a five part serieshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/Things Fell Apart by BBC Radio 4#8 part series #interviewA series of strange, unexpected human stories from the history of the culture wars. Hosted by Jon Ronson.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cprFood Crime#2 hosts #truecrime #comedyA comedian and a die-hard true crime fan come together to dig up fact-packed and funny stories about food getting caught up in the world of crime. Murder, poison, heists… all with a side of piss-taking and taste testing. Brought to you by Nat and Jules from Nat’s What I Reckon. Only available on Spotify right now.https://open.spotify.com/show/7mxeLBgewG9c9lJMfJ388l?si=a9e756f964d6416d
177. DRILLED, The Worst Idea of All Time, Reply All
36:24||Season 2, Ep. 177Zane Recommends - DRILLEDhttps://www.drilledpodcast.com/#interview #science #dry #angrymakingA true-crime podcast about climate change, hosted and reported by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt. Climate accountability — investigating the various drivers of delay on climate action — is critical to understanding and addressing climate change. Drilled is an independent news outlet focused on climate accountability. The Drilled podcast, launched in 2017, now has an audience of more than one million listeners worldwide and is consistently among the top 100 science podcasts. Drilled has earned rave reviews from The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and received a 2019 “Excellence in Digital Storytelling” award from the Online News Association, as well as the 2021 Covering Climate Now award for audio. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1439735906Britt Recommends - The Worst Idea of All Timehttps://www.worstideaofalltime.com/#Chillingwiththeboys #Movies #Comedy #NZHumour #OZHumour #TrashFunTWIOAT is an award-winning smash hit comedy podcast hosted by kiwi comedians Guy 'Flash' Montgomery and Tim 'Timbly' Batt (known jointly as the Frost Fellas, The Boiz, etc). The pair have been punishing themselves with movies for your enjoyment since Feb 2014, starting by watching and reviewing Grown-Ups 2 once a week, every week, for a full year. They applied the same treatment to Sex and The City 2, Sex and The City, We Are You Friends, and are now watching and reviewing every softcore adult film in the Emmanuelle franchise. Sub-projects include My Week With Cats, where the pair went to see CATS (2019) at the cinema every day for a week, and Podcast In A Tree which saw them record while in different trees around Aotearoa New Zealand. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-worst-idea-of-all-time/id824108207 Harry Recommends- Reply AllAt its most basic, Reply all is a podcast about the internet. It explores stories about how people shape the internet, and how the internet shapes people. Hugely successful and arguably seminal, Reply All gained a massive listenership based on the originality of its stories, and intelligence of its writing, and the chemistry of its hosts. In 2021 it released a controversial episode series that led to its decline and eventual cancellation in recent history. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all
176. HARRYCAST Getting to Know Harry
08:59||Season 2, Ep. 176Introducing the second of our new Castologists! Introducing, Harry!
175. Strange Air
30:26||Season 2, Ep. 175
174. BRITTCAST Getting to know Brit
07:36||Season 2, Ep. 174Let's get to know one of our new Castologists! Introducing, Britt!
173. Left Right Out, No Silly Questions, Working Class History
41:00||Season 2, Ep. 173Britt Recommends - Left Right Out#AussiePolitics #Conversational #SimplifiedPolitics #ExplainItToMeLikeIm5https://www.instagram.com/left.right.out/The show for anyone who wants to understand Australian politics but doesn’t know where to start. Each week, Elfy and Justine answer *your* questions. Because politics is for everybody and no one should feel left out of this convo.https://open.spotify.com/show/0g6ZFdMk1GoQsEwooJnTl3?si=e01beb3e54274cddHarry Recommends - No Silly QuestionsFrom The Daily Aus - creators of the viral news page, podcast and newsletter followed by over 350,000 Australians on social media - comes No Silly Questions. It's the podcast that will arm young people with everything they need to get involved in dinner table conversations ahead of the next federal election.The series will feature in-depth interviews with key politicians, experts, and advocates.https://open.spotify.com/show/6eHW3ZeUIO8kytACR9fQ3hZane Recommends - Working Class History#solo host #scripted #documentary stylehttps://workingclasshistory.com/History is not made by the actions of a few rich and powerful individuals, like so much of the history we learn in school. History is made by the combined everyday actions of hundreds of millions of us: women, men, youth, people of colour, migrants, indigenous people, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, workers, the unemployed, housewives - the working class. Our project is dedicated to all those who have struggled in the past for a better world, and who continue to do so now.As well as our podcast and social media outlets we are working on building an interactive website and global map of people's history. We are committed to being completely independent, and making our history available to everyone, so we have no adverts and apart from a bit of bonus content we don't put anything behind a paywall. We are not academics or experts, we are just ordinary workers doing this on our own time to try to help educate and inspire a new generation of activists with lessons from the past. This podcast is about how we, together, have fought for a better world.https://podfollow.com/1355066333