KOFY_Fitz
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The podcast has somewhat lost its wayI'll give Talking Til Dawn a listen since I'm a Glaswegian!
I put on Astonishing Legends yesterday for the first time in ages and was amazed that it took them 13 minutes of waffling to even start talking about the subject (DB Cooper). And then there was and ad. And then another ad a few minutes later. Then another.
I completely support podcasts advertising - they should make money since they're entertaining us. But the amount of ads on Astonishing Legends is a bit of a joke.
Their ability to waffle is quite something.I'll give Talking Til Dawn a listen since I'm a Glaswegian!
I put on Astonishing Legends yesterday for the first time in ages and was amazed that it took them 13 minutes of waffling to even start talking about the subject (DB Cooper). And then there was and ad. And then another ad a few minutes later. Then another.
I completely support podcasts advertising - they should make money since they're entertaining us. But the amount of ads on Astonishing Legends is a bit of a joke.
Only unenthusiast podcasts for you!Most enthusiast podcasts are mainly waffle and in-jokes. I've mainly given up on them now.
Yep, those ones go straight off, never to be listened to again. And it's even worse if they make bevvying a part of the "experience". I had one on the other day which was okay but they started banging on about what beer they had, where they'd got it and so on. I don't give a shit where you got your beer, just talk about the subject FFS.Too many podcasts sound like a bunch of mates heading for a night out, shouting over each other in a bus queue.
Too many people is definitely an issue, I do wonder if part of the problem with Astonishing Legends is that, only having two people, they feel they have to pad things out. That said, if there was one more waffley person on it, I'd go insane.In my experience any more than two presenters and the potential for too much ohblahrara becomes positively Malthusian.
That's not to say that two can't go wrong, but when you have decent presenters two gives enough scope for people to bounce ideas around and engage in the odd bit of banter, but generally not enough to get out of hand. Too many podcasts sound like a bunch of mates heading for a night out, shouting over each other in a bus queue.
I agree, and another issue I have with 'astonishing legends' is the runtime. Who has seven hours to listen to a multipart episode on a subject? Editing is super important.I'll give Talking Til Dawn a listen since I'm a Glaswegian!
I put on Astonishing Legends yesterday for the first time in ages and was amazed that it took them 13 minutes of waffling to even start talking about the subject (DB Cooper). And then there was and ad. And then another ad a few minutes later. Then another.
I completely support podcasts advertising - they should make money since they're entertaining us. But the amount of ads on Astonishing Legends is a bit of a joke.
That song brings back a mix of emotions and memories from the 90’s when construction wasn’t doing very well here in the U.K. and I left the family to work in Russia for three years. My first two years were in Moscow and our office was at Park Kultury Metro station, just around the corner from Gorky Park.Anyone hear 'Wind Of Change?'
It's a 'deep dive' into a conspiracy theory/rumour heard by the creators from a FOAF CIA source, that the CIA wrote a famous rock song by the German band Scorpions as part of a soft propaganda campaign. The evidence they turn up over the course of eight episodes is disappointingly slim (actually, absolutely absent) but it's an intriguing idea. The furthest they get to proving it is various CIA officers and other people involved with the story saying 'that sounds like the kind of thing that could be true, but I hadn't heard of it before'.
Here's an article about it.
If it was 7 hours of interesting content, fair enough. But the latest Ouija "series" consisted of a first section that was just some guy droning on about all the automatic writing sets he'd bought. I listened for about an hour then got sick of it and put on part 2 which was "stories". That just sounded to me like fictional accounts of things that had happened to listeners so I turned that off as well.I agree, and another issue I have with 'astonishing legends' is the runtime. Who has seven hours to listen to a multipart episode on a subject? Editing is super important.
That'd be great to fall asleep to though.If it was 7 hours of interesting content, fair enough. But the latest Ouija "series" consisted of a first section that was just some guy droning on about all the automatic writing sets he'd bought. I listened for about an hour then got sick of it and put on part 2 which was "stories". That just sounded to me like fictional accounts of things that had happened to listeners so I turned that off as well.
I have some hours to listen to podcasts, but not when they're as poorly put together as that.
You could fall asleep to ghost stories?! Not me, I'm too much of a scaredy-cat.That'd be great to fall asleep to though.
Oh man, I do this all the time! I find Mike Brown of Pleasing Terrors voice so relaxing I use it to help me sleep.You could fall asleep to ghost stories?! Not me, I'm too much of a scaredy-cat.
Oooh, is that a good'un?Oh man, I do this all the time! I find Mike Brown of Pleasing Terrors voice so relaxing I use it to help me sleep.
He is very good and very well produced (he actually records in a recording studio). He is a ghost tour guide in Charleston so his storytelling is well practiced.Oooh, is that a good'un?
As I'veYou could fall asleep to ghost stories?! Not me, I'm too much of a scaredy-cat.
Thank you!He is very good and very well produced (he actually records in a recording studio). He is a ghost tour guide in Charleston so his storytelling is well practiced.
Looks good. I've followed. Many thanks!Beyond Explanation podcast.
Great U.K. based podcast, only recently discovered. Well worth a listen so give it a go.
I listened to their one about BEKs - it was pretty good. Also good to hear some Scottish people who sound like me, rather than Groundskeeper Willie or Scotty from Star Trek.The guys at the awesome Talking Till Dawn have a new episode available which, for some reason, is not up on the website I linked to back at post #178.
Numbers Stations, Mystery Broadcasts & Broadcast Signal Intrusions is however available via other routes (e.g. Google Podcasts.)
Very much looking forward to giving this a good listening to tonight.