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@podcastrec
Pick a platonic m&f podcast pair I enjoy & that mainstream media would've made romantic
Maya & Reed (The Antique Shop)
Clara & Dan (Archive 81)
Fern & Guy (Erraticus)
Benny & Peri (The Far Meridian)
David & Riyo (I am in Eskew)
Heather & Taylor (Middle:Below)
Bet & David (Seen and not Heard)
Fel & Leona (Starfall)
Blake & Lazari (Unknown 9: Out of Sight)
Miss Whitney & Troubles (What's The Frequency?)
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Anyone got recs for true crime podcasts that aren't like, gross?
Episode Reccomendation:
Uncover: Ethical True Crime Podcast
I recommend this to anyone who likes listening to true crime, it's a panel with 4 podcasters talking about the difference between good and ethical true crime podcasting and poor quality true crime podcasting. It's like 40 minutes, worth the listen especially given how many true crime pods are out there.
Roger: [bureaucratic details of the moonbase]
Me: Yes, fascinating, such science
Roger: Also I am allotted 15 seconds of broadcast time for a personal message which I will direct to my husband
Me: Oh?
Roger: [15 seconds of romance and poetry]
Me: [crying] Oh
In the Dark: Season 2
Network: American Public Media
Genre: true crime, criminal justice
Length: 40-60min
Status: complete-ish (intermittent update episodes)
Recommend? Yes!!!
Madeline Baran and her excellent team are at it again, with a very different story to season one. This is the story of Curtis Flowers who has been tried and appealed and retried 6 times by the same prosecutor for a murder he didn't commit in a small town in Mississippi. The thing I appreciate the most is the high quality of the reporting done here - they interview everyone they can, dig in basements for old records, compile statistics that are so good they're eventually used in the case before the supreme court, debunked bad science. It reminds me a bit of Serial (season 1). It is clear that this is a huge miscarriage of justice and it reveals how messed up the legal system is because even after successful appeals, the same set-in-his-ways racist prosecutor can decide to try Curtis again. and again. and again. It's a really compelling listen, I highly recommend it.
Unfinished: Season 2
Network: Witness Docs
Genre: history, Investigative journalism
Length: 45 min
Status: ongoing, weekly
Recommend? Yes
This season focuses on the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter-day Saints (FLDS) community, or a polygamist sect of Mormanism community, in Short Creek on the Arizona-Utah border. The two reporters take a deep dive into how this community started and the fracture and upheaval that occurred in the 90s when many followers turned away from their leader who started making changes, and was ultimately put in prison for child sexual assault. I appreciate the humanity with which the reporters approach the community to try to understand them (to be clear, no sympathy for the abusers). It's very easy to "other" these people because their beliefs and lifestyles are so different to what is common/mainstream, but the reporters tell the very human stories and perspectives of the people who live there, which is necessary to understanding it all. The story gets at the tension between freedom /of/ religion and freedom /from/ religion. Where is the line between allowing a religious community to exist in peace and enforcing the law and protecting the vulnerable people in that community. So far I find it intriguing and compassionate while not letting them off the hook for the terrible things that were allowed to happen. I'm currently listening to this and reccommend it. I'll do a separate post on season 1, which focuses on an entirely different story, when I finish listening to it.
Edit: just listened to the latest episode - which talks about child marriages and child sexual assault perpetrated by the FLDS leader. I changed the text of the rec because I don't want anyone to think that it sympathizes with the abuser. Also if these topics are ones you need to avoid, you should know it's there.
Song Exploder
Network: Radiotopia
Genre: music
Length: 20 min
Status: ongoing, weekly
Recommend? Yes
Usually podcasts are tailored to a niche audience and you'd recommend it accordingly, but this is a pretty universal crowd pleaser. I know I've said before that I'd recommend a particular podcast to anyone but this is truly one you could reccommend to /anyone/. Each episode breaks down a song to it's elements, interviews the song writer and sometimes the producers too and gives insight into the song writing/crafting process. As the songwriter talks about each element of the song, the pod will sample just that element (for example if they talk about the drums, they'll play an excerpt of just the drums, isolated). At the end, the song is played in full, uninterrupted. I find that the spectrum of songs they cover is fairly wide (but leans towards alt/indie), so some episodes are more appealing than others based on your preferred genre/artists. Also some artists are better than others about articulating their process. I like listening to this pod as a palate cleanser, to have on while I'm cooking, to have on in the car with other people.
I know it's been adapted for Netflix, but I haven't seen it and am not particularly in a hurry to watch it. I'm sure it's good, but the podcast satisfies my interest.
The White Vault
Network: Fool and Scholar
Genre: fiction, horror
Length: 20-30 min
Status: 3 seasons complete, S4 coming soon
Recommend? Yes! For horror junkies
This is a full cast fiction podcast, evocative of the Blair Witch Project in it's "found audio" format. Season 1 and 2 detail a repair expedition that is sent to a snowy outpost on an isolated island in Norway, called Svalbard. The team intends to be there for a few days, but due to the dangerous conditions encounter increasingly dire and strange circumstances. You know right from the start that something bad has happened, as the excerpts from diaries, audio and video journals are interspersed by narration indicating when and from what source each excerpt has been recovered from. I love this because it creates a sense of dread/anticipation without having to give away too much. Another unique aspect is that the team is an international/ multi-lingual/ multi-cultural group. The pod is primarily in english, but includes bits in different languages (german, spanish, russian, etc.).
Season 3 ties in to seasons 1 and 2 in that the unusual circumstances of this expedition are of interest to the curator of the tapes and is believed to be in some way related. The plot is somewhat similar as it follows a multi lingual research group traveling to a remote area in the Andes, who also encounter bad weather, isolation and unexplainable situations. As the story progresses you also are starting to get hints at the story behind the narrators who have recovered the audio from both doomed groups. Who are they? Why do they have these files? Maybe it's because I was able to binge seasons 1 and 2 but had to wait between episodes of season 3, but I do prefer the first two seasons. In season 3 the mystery of who is recovering the audio and other records is more intriguing that the story of the doomed crew itself, in my opinion (though I love the season 3 characters). I recommend this to anyone who enjoys fiction podcasts and like horror, but I'll probably wait until seasons are completed because it's more enjoyable to listen to the entire story arc in one go.
hello! i don’t know if you’re taking recommendations, but if you like homecoming, you might like the bright sessions on spotify.
Hi thanks for the rec! I did listen to The Bright Sessions about a year ago and really liked it! The cast and story were amazing.
In The Dark: Season 1
Network: American Public Media
Genre: Investigative journalism, true crime
Length: 40-60 min
Status: complete, 10 eps
Recommend: Yes, possibly my favorite of all time
Investigative reporter Madeline Baran and her team tell the story about the kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling and I really appreciate the way this story is told. This particular crime was chosen because it has had nationwide impact - it changed laws and the way people raised their children. The podcast not only tells the story of the crime, but examines the impact and takes a critical and unflinching look at the investigation and it's failings. This is not a typical true crime pod in my opinion for those reasons. The pod is fair, asks hard questions and is revealing. The investigation is thorough, the production is well done and includes interviews, archival audio and narration. This pod is a story that includes the kidnapping, murder and sexual assault of a child. It doesn't linger too long on these aspects (I don't feel that it's tragedy porn), but its certainly there so if that's a concern for you be advised that it's there and is talked about (first 10 min of ep 2, and some of ep 3).
Throughline
Network: NPR
Genre: history, current events
Length: 30-60 min
Status: ongoing, new ep weekly
Recommend? Yes
The tagline to this podcast is something like "going to the past to understand the present" which I think is the most apt way to describe it. Each episode focuses on a historical moment or the origin of an idea or a movement, describes/reached that moment and then brings in some current event or current effect that is tied to the historical event. I would say that most of the episodes are America centric but not all of them. The events they pick are ones that are lesser known or known but not deeply understood. As a person who learned history in school in a very detached way (i.e. I am learning this for a test, yes history is relevant to me but I don't have the time or capacity to reflect on it) this podcast is a "wow, history sucks" kind of realization for me, but it does make clear the world we live in today. It's important and thoughtful, and sometimes hopeful. The sound and production is very NPR brand, which I like but I know some people don't. I recommend this to anyone.
Duggan Hill
Network: Time Signal Productions
Genre: fiction, thriller, drama
Length: 15-20 min
Status: complete, 29 eps, 2 seasons
Recommend? YESSSSSS
This pod is a lesser known drama which is crazy because after listening to it I thought it'd have the same following as TMA or The Black Tapes or WtNV. Anyways, the story follows Zoe, who is looking for her ex, Sasha, who has gone missing in Duggan Hill, Seskatchewan. It starts out feeling very true crime-y but takes a turn for... well I won't spoil it. Very well done, very bingeable. When I first listened, I was completely immersed. Can't say enough good things about it. I prefer season one, but season two is a damn good listen as well.
Homecoming
Network: Gimlet
Genre: audio drama, psychological thriller
Length: 25-45 min
Status: complete, 12 episodes, 2 seasons
Recommend? Yessssss
This was my introduction to audio dramas and I really loved it. The podcast follows a therapist and recently returned soldier who are paired at a facility meant to help soldiers reintegrate into society after having experienced trauma. But there's something else going on here... The audio flashes between two time frames and in the present, the therapist is acting like she knows nothing of the past.
Much of the audio is in a "found footage" format as I recall, i.e. taped sessions, phone calls etc. The audio landscape is gorgeous, with really well done sound effects/ background noises. The cast is amazing, the writing is great - I gasped when I realized what was going on, and I found it suspenseful and engaging.
This show was later adapted to a tv show on Amazon Prime and I have A Lot of Opinions (mostly good) and I liked how their season two, which goes beyond the plot of the podcast, gets at some interesting questions. What will you do to succeed within the existing structures of success? Will you remain loyal to your values or will you do what it takes to survive? Is a system more changed by you joining it or are you more changed by joining the system?
I recommend this podcast to anyone who is open to the idea of audio dramas. I recommend the show only if you've listened to the pod as the pacing is slow (I've recommend ed the tv show to ppl who haven't listened to the pod and they didn't like it).
Strictly Stalking
Network: Kast Media
Genre: true crime
Length: 30-70min
Status: ongoing, weekly
Recommend? Nah
Each episode tells a different persons story/experience with stalking through interviews with the stalking victim. The hosts, Jake Deptula and Jaime Beebe, start by introducing/summarizing the case then move to the interview portion. The stories are told primarily from the victim themselves, with minimal interruption from the interviewer. The goal of the podcast is to shed light on the under-reported crime of stalking - many people, including law enforcement don't understand the severity of the impacts of this crime. It does a good job of depicting how a stalking victim's life changes for the worse, their limited options for recourse and how the stalking stopped (if it has). One thing I like about the show is that they ask "what would you like to see happen with your stalker" and I am pleasantly surprised that most folks say some variation of "I want them to get help so they no longer feel the need to stalk". I did not expect that kind of grace and humanity, from people who really have had their lives put through the ringer. The cases vary in quality, I'm sure the hosts must do some sort of vetting, but a one or two of the of the stories sound ... unvetted. I think you could listen to a handful of these stories and get out of it what the hosts intend; an understanding that stalking is serious, life changing, difficult to combat. Any more than that, I find exhausting to listen to. It's a good quality podcast, but not extraordinary. At most I'd recommend you listen to maybe 5 episodes, any more than that gets repetitive and depressing.
The Habitat
Network: Gimlet
Genre: science, space, nonfiction
Length: 30 min
Status: complete, 7 episodes
Recommend? YES!
This series follows a group of people who were selected by NASA to spend a year in a simulated Mars habitat. The purpose of the experiment is not only to test living procedures etc. but to test the social dynamics that come out living in close quarters, in isolation with a small group. It includes audio diaries from the inhabitants as well as explanations from the podcast host. I listened to this over a year ago so the details are a little fuzzy but I absolutely love this series. It's possibly one of my favorites of all time. You learn a lot about space and living in space but the more interesting part is the inevitable social friction and how it shows itself. I'd recommend this to anyone, especially to those who love space. In total, it runs about 3.5hrs so it would also be an ideal candidate for a medium long car ride.
