The Swamp

Read the article, didn't listen to the pod. Wonder what I'm missing.

I didn't read the article.

I'm on episode 4 of 6 and it moves at a good clip - even with a lot of background information.

The last similar podcast I listened to was "S Town" which started out great but which soon became a slog and by the end, I wondered why I bothered.

And "The Bugle" Podcast has recovered nicely from the loss of John Oliver. Zaltsman's rotating crew of commentators are by and large pretty damn funny.

Nice to hear the Bugle is still good. I thought they were on a permanent hiatus. Will have to go re download.

govmentchedda wrote:Nice to hear the Bugle is still good. I thought they were on a permanent hiatus. Will have to go re download.

He's got a couple of contributors (weekly co-hosts) who are great. This Alice Fraser from Australia is hysterical.

The Sybian wrote:Burr is the only podcast that I actually listen to the ads. He says it all the time, he makes them inappropriate as hell, but people listen. A couple months ago he got a new sponsor, who happens to be a client of mine. Actually, a lot of podcast ads are clients, since we have a lot of tech startups, but this one I actually did some work for. They are trying to be the Uber of the massage industry, and Burr was fucking murdering them. I was cringing and laughing, especially since I do their HR work and everything he was saying was insinuating they are a prostitution service. Next episode, he goes on a tirade that they dropped their ads with him. Fucking hilarious.

I know exactly what ad that was and in the moment knew it was going to be their last ad with them.

He's not shy about calling out purple on their bullshit. He kept saying "How is this not gambling? You're being money to win money!" a few years back with Draft Kings. And then he misread Nature Box as "Nature's Box" and was like "Oh, you fuck the earth with this company?" And when he realized it was a subscription service to deliver you snacks he went off on lazy people and the "healthy" quality of their product.

Scaramucci is on Pardon My Take today, btw.

Johnnie wrote:

The Sybian wrote:Burr is the only podcast that I actually listen to the ads. He says it all the time, he makes them inappropriate as hell, but people listen. A couple months ago he got a new sponsor, who happens to be a client of mine. Actually, a lot of podcast ads are clients, since we have a lot of tech startups, but this one I actually did some work for. They are trying to be the Uber of the massage industry, and Burr was fucking murdering them. I was cringing and laughing, especially since I do their HR work and everything he was saying was insinuating they are a prostitution service. Next episode, he goes on a tirade that they dropped their ads with him. Fucking hilarious.

I know exactly what ad that was and in the moment knew it was going to be their last ad with them.

He's not shy about calling out purple on their bullshit. He kept saying "How is this not gambling? You're being money to win money!" a few years back with Draft Kings. And then he misread Nature Box as "Nature's Box" and was like "Oh, you fuck the earth with this company?" And when he realized it was a subscription service to deliver you snacks he went off on lazy people and the "healthy" quality of their product.

The massage company now has a TV ad. Saw it with my wife, and she had a puzzled look thinking about the legitimacy of the company. Not sure why I don't feel like I should mention the company name, it's their ad, after all.

It's these people, Swamp. On demand massage. Fully expect an eventual scandal.

https://www.soothe.com

You guys do realize that there's literally hundreds of thousands of licensed massage therapists in this country, right? If Burr really was saying stupid-ass shit like that then good for them for dumping him.

brian wrote:You guys do realize that there's literally hundreds of thousands of licensed massage therapists in this country, right? If Burr really was saying stupid-ass shit like that then good for them for dumping him.

Says the man whose wife does it for a living.

duff wrote:

brian wrote:You guys do realize that there's literally hundreds of thousands of licensed massage therapists in this country, right? If Burr really was saying stupid-ass shit like that then good for them for dumping him.

Says the man whose wife does it for a living.

Sure, but it's still stupid shit to say. It's like saying all nurses give their patients handjobs because they saw it in a porno one time. The reality is that it's a pretty good business idea. I don't know if it'll work or not, but I'm surprised someone didn't come up with it sooner.

LOs angelenos been getting exotic massages in their garages for ages.

Johnnie wrote:It's these people, Swamp. On demand massage. Fully expect an eventual scandal.

https://www.soothe.com

There is like a 100% chance I get a sexual harassment claim from an employee in this company.

I hear ya, Brian, but Burr says stupid shit like that for every sponsor. He makes fun of the copy they give him to read, he makes fun of their products, he makes fun of everything. Handing him that business model to shill, there was no way he wasn't going there. Me Undies added a women's line, and Burr said it's specially made "to keep your clam dry, ladies." A couple of sponsors take your measurements for custom made clothes or mattresses, and he screams "don't do it, they will make a clone of you, and since you gave them your address, they will kill you." He calls the mattress delivery service gross, says he wouldn't wear the samples sponsors send him... If you are advertising on a show, and don't listen to the show or how they read ads, it's on you if you. Burr absolutely took it too far, but that was absolutely guaranteed to happen.

"Zip........REHCREWTAH! Are you hiring? WELL ARE YA?! Do you need a..[does a callback to a thing he talked about in his podcast up to this point but adds sexual/illegal activity overtones]..."

Then there was "Club W," a wine delivery service, that he read in "Dubya's" voice. No issues there despite the political hilarity. The company then changed their name to WINC (presumably "Wine INC" but they never stated that in the read) and he would say "Winc, spelled W-I-N-C...as in cunt." The next week he actually apologized to them because they sent a strongly stated message about it. They didn't mind going off script, but the gratuitous swearing was too much.

He also does Loot Crate every once in a while. He openly says "I have no idea what any of this fucking shit is, but evidently you nerds who buy it listen to my podcast."

Basically only Stamps.com is a straight read with little deviation. It really is on the sponsors to know better.

Johnnie wrote:"Zip........REHCREWTAH! Are you hiring? WELL ARE YA?! Do you need a..[does a callback to a thing he talked about in his podcast up to this point but adds sexual/illegal activity overtones]..."

Then there was "Club W," a wine delivery service, that he read in "Dubya's" voice. No issues there despite the political hilarity. The company then changed their name to WINC (presumably "Wine INC" but they never stated that in the read) and he would say "Winc, spelled W-I-N-C...as in cunt." The next week he actually apologized to them because they sent a strongly stated message about it. They didn't mind going off script, but the gratuitous swearing was too much.

He also does Loot Crate every once in a while. He openly says "I have no idea what any of this fucking shit is, but evidently you nerds who buy it listen to my podcast."

Basically only Stamps.com is a straight read with little deviation. It really is on the sponsors to know better.

I yell out Burr's Zip Recruiter lines in my head on every other podcast I hear them advertised on. Five Foh Club is always good, too.

I always hoped he'd read Five Four Club like the opening line to the Eazy E song Boyz-n-tha-Hood.

Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin have a podcast called Broken Record.

Their first guest is Eminem.

I gotta give this a listen.

Dan Carlin is on Rogan's newest podcast.

https://youtu.be/ceItMiYZe9Y

From today's podcast:

https://twitter.com/PardonMyTake/status ... 2291273734

These guys are too good for barstool.

Really digging How Did This Get Made?

Only thing that sucks is I haven't seen too many of the movies they do and at this point in my life don't want to watch shitty movies.

That said, I think I would give just about any amount of money to be able to watch a shitty movie with Jason Mantzoukas.

brian wrote:Really digging How Did This Get Made?

Only thing that sucks is I haven't seen too many of the movies they do and at this point in my life don't want to watch shitty movies.

That said, I think I would give just about any amount of money to be able to watch a shitty movie with Jason Mantzoukas.

Yes to all of this. Did you happen to hear Mantzoukas and Kroll on one of the Ringer pods back in October? Hilarious.

ETA - pretty sure it was the pod that Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald normally do, but Ryan wasn't there that day.

govmentchedda wrote:

brian wrote:Really digging How Did This Get Made?

Only thing that sucks is I haven't seen too many of the movies they do and at this point in my life don't want to watch shitty movies.

That said, I think I would give just about any amount of money to be able to watch a shitty movie with Jason Mantzoukas.

Yes to all of this. Did you happen to hear Mantzoukas and Kroll on one of the Ringer pods back in October? Hilarious.

ETA - pretty sure it was the pod that Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald normally do, but Ryan wasn't there that day.

No, but I went and listened to the WTF with Mantzoukas, but I realized he must have said "like" in it about 500 or 600 times. Not even exaggerating. It started to get distracting.

brian wrote:

govmentchedda wrote:

brian wrote:Really digging How Did This Get Made?

Only thing that sucks is I haven't seen too many of the movies they do and at this point in my life don't want to watch shitty movies.

That said, I think I would give just about any amount of money to be able to watch a shitty movie with Jason Mantzoukas.

Yes to all of this. Did you happen to hear Mantzoukas and Kroll on one of the Ringer pods back in October? Hilarious.

ETA - pretty sure it was the pod that Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald normally do, but Ryan wasn't there that day.

No, but I went and listened to the WTF with Mantzoukas, but I realized he must have said "like" in it about 500 or 600 times. Not even exaggerating. It started to get distracting.

That one is good too. Starts with his upbringing in Mass, and his severe food allergy, right?

brian wrote:Really digging How Did This Get Made?

Only thing that sucks is I haven't seen too many of the movies they do and at this point in my life don't want to watch shitty movies.

That said, I think I would give just about any amount of money to be able to watch a shitty movie with Jason Mantzoukas.

I wanted to buy the t-shirt they had made up for The Jazz Singer episode.

BTW, who doesn't love Neil Diamond in blackface??

For those of you who subscribe to Crimetown and got the bonus episode this week, here is the accompanying article.

Just listened to the 30 for 30 on "Madden's Game." Pretty cool.

For those of us old enough to remember and have followed Watergate, Slate has a podcast called Slow Burn which reviews some of the less prominent parts of the scandal. This week was about how Nixon killed Rep Wright Patman's investigation in August 72 which could have derailed the campaign. Very interesting to listen to.

Yeah that was a good one. I also liked the one on Wrigley.

DSafetyGuy wrote:For those of you who subscribe to Crimetown and got the bonus episode this week, here is the accompanying article.

Going to listen to it tomorrow.

Nonlinear FC wrote:Co-sign on the Richard Simmons podcast. That one seems to thrive on how well that guy is telling the story.

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I've been a big Gimlet fan from Day 1 when they pushed out Start-Up. I'm still very much enjoying Crimetown and Reply All, but there have been some stumbles. They kind of messed up with how canceling Mystery Show, which had a pretty big following. Science VS is very hard for me to listen - I don't like the host and the topics can get pretty boring (IMO). They canceled another show called Undone after what I assume was poor d/l numbers. And they canceled another show (can't remember the name) that was essentially a pretty cool "best of the podcast world" show.

Homecoming is still out there, waiting for the next season to drop. But they are in a weird place right now. There was a window not too long ago when I could hit them up for 2 or 3 quality shows a week. Right now, Crimetown and Reply All are the only shows producing fresh content, and they seem to be going on breaks frequently.

Coming back to this, because some good things have been going on:


Uncivil is FASCINATING and I think a lot of folks here would dig it. It's basically a show about the Civil War, totally debunking a bunch of commonly held myths. Not just all of the Lost Cause stuff, but whether women fought in the war, and the origins and aftermath of Sherman kicking off the 40 acres and a mule thing. HIGHLY recommend this one.

Heavyweight is a brilliant show that came out of the gate with a six show first season and then took of something like 10 months. I had totally forgotten about it. It's back and it's awesome. The host essentially finds a person with some type of problem or issue to resolve, and goes about tackling it. Very touching and often very funny.

Every Little Thing just kind of came in under my radar. The host used to work with Bill Nye and she has a knack for finding kind of obscure topics and getting into the weeds... in a very entertaining way. The episode on Flamingos is awesome.

Mogul is another that debuted this year... It's about hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty. I'm not super into this one, just because it's getting into a world I'm not all that interested in (anymore).

There is also a new season of Start-Up and a show they acquired a year or so ago called The Pitch, which is about entrepreneurs pitching their companies to a panel of VC's. It's decent, not great, as the VC's can be annoying at times.

And there at least 2 more that I haven't even listened to, one is from the host of Sampler, which might not be my deal.

Anyways... I was getting worried about Gimlet, but I think I was (correctly) pointing out what felt like a downturn was really more of a lull while these other shows either got off the ground, rebooted, or kicked off their next season.

I heard an episode of "Heavyweight" that was incredible - the one with Moby.

Don't know why I didn't pursue the podcast further. Thanks for bringing it up - I'm off to download.

Pruitt wrote:I heard an episode of "Heavyweight" that was incredible - the one with Moby.

Don't know why I didn't pursue the podcast further. Thanks for bringing it up - I'm off to download.

Well, if you were like me, I just lost track of it. A 10 month hiatus is asking a lot for people to remember to come back and tune in again.

Oh, and the Moby episode actually plays into this season, in a really strange way.

Lore is good. Same producer as the Amazon series. A nice mash-up of folklore, history, legends, and social commentary in short ~20 min episodes.

Can't remember how I found it, but I stumbled upon one from Minnesota Public Radio called "Do You Remember"....its just 5 episodes about the forming and career of Husker Du.

Really liking Origins. It is basically oral histories of stuff I have enjoyed. 30 for 30 is the current one, but they have done PTI, and Curb too.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2018 5:37 pm Lore is good. Same producer as the Amazon series. A nice mash-up of folklore, history, legends, and social commentary in short ~20 min episodes.

I've loved several and hated a few. More hits than misses but not always an engaging story.

Clay Travis on Arian Foster's Now What?

Gonna give this a listen when I get the chance today.

Anyone listening to The Omnibus? It's Ken Jennings and another guy discussing cultural obscura for 45 minutes or so. Ken is a pretty funny guy and they have great banter between the two of them.

BSF21 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:33 am Anyone listening to The Omnibus? It's Ken Jennings and another guy discussing cultural obscura for 45 minutes or so. Ken is a pretty funny guy and they have great banter between the two of them.

Jennings is a great guest whenever he shows up on Doug Loves Movies.