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[Gumble Frankieton]

What podcasts are you lot listening to?

I just finished slow burn, Tupac Shakur Notorious B.I.G. Very intriguing.

Edit LOL, I think I have an addiction to History podcasts. I just looked at my feed and I have a crazy amount of history podcasts I’m into....honestly I think I’m an addict. 1619/Hardcore History/History on Fire/ The History of Rome/Emperors of Rome/Revisionist History/Revolutions/The British History Podcast/The Dollop/Throughline/Irish History podcast/History of Pirates/Norman Centuries/The History of Byzantium

Admitting it is the first step apparently. I'm putting my hand up as well. It pretty much keeps me stimulated throughout my work day plus music in the arvo.
I listen to most of the history ones you've listed plus History of the Crusades and the Bulgarian History pod.
Recently started listening to a Scottish sports writing pod Between The Lines, worth a listen if you like quality sports journalism.
Golazzo and The Totally Football Show are good value if you like soccer, as are The Second Captains (soccer, GAA, rugby etc).

 

[Val Keating]

Admitting it is the first step apparently. I'm putting my hand up as well. It pretty much keeps me stimulated throughout my work day plus music in the arvo.
I listen to most of the history ones you've listed plus History of the Crusades and the Bulgarian History pod.
Recently started listening to a Scottish sports writing pod Between The Lines, worth a listen if you like quality sports journalism.
Golazzo and The Totally Football Show are good value if you like soccer, as are The Second Captains (soccer, GAA, rugby etc).

If you get a chance listen to the Martyrmade podcast series called fear and loathing in Journalism. I recommend it to everyone. Probably the most underrated history podcast out there. Stacks up with anything I’ve listened to.

I listen to a couple of sports podcasts but they don’t really grab me.

 

[gokangas]

If you get a chance listen to the Martyrmade podcast series called fear and loathing in Journalism. I recommend it to everyone. Probably the most underrated history podcast out there. Stacks up with anything I’ve listened to.

I listen to a couple of sports podcasts but they don’t really grab me.

Podcast? What wireless station is that on?

 

[Val Keating]

Podcast? What wireless station is that on?

The irony is that podcasts have kind of taken it back to the olden days when people would listen to stories on the wireless for entertainment

 

[Gasometer]

The irony is that podcasts have kind of taken it back to the olden days when people would listen to stories on the wireless for entertainment

Well they listen on wireless headphones

 

[ferball]

Wormwood.
Dont fu** with cats

Is that about Frank Olson? The CIA LSD guy?

 

[Orange Peanut]

Wormwood.
Dont fu** with cats

Don't f with cats is great. Sick/sad but very well done.

 

[Gasometer]

Finally sat through The Irishman

Great story and movie

 

[giantroo]

This is a fantastic movie on Disney+

Based on a true, untold story.

 

[Gasometer]

This is a fantastic movie on Disney+

Based on a true, untold story.

Is there much new content in there GR?

 

[giantroo]

Is there much new content in there GR?

Watched it off a torrent so not to sure what's on there.

 

[Gasometer]

Lol

 

[Hojuman]

Is that about Frank Olson? The CIA LSD guy?

What's that one Furry ?

 

[ferball]

What's that one Furry ?

Wormwood.

For years people speculated that he was the origin of the "take acid, think you can fly and jump off a building story". He was possibly murdered to cover up a botched experiment with acid in a French town in the 50s.

There is a book called A Terrible Mistake about it that I've always wanted to read.

Olson was a biochemist and bio warfare specialist who worked at Fort Detrick. The same place that anthrax from the post 9/11 anthrax mail outs is sposed to have come from iirc.

 

[ferball]

Hoj there is an article about Olson here:

Great Long-form Articles

Which brings me to this. Its an ad and I haven't read the book yet but it comes highly recommended by someone who would know. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172842

www.bigfooty.com

Its down the page from the one in this link.

 

[Val Keating]

Finally sat through The Irishman

Great story and movie

It’s very good.

I’m already looking forward to Scorsese and De Niro’s next film. It’s based on the non fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon. Should be

 

[muttley45]

With not much to do yesterday, binge watched "The Boys", an interesting take on the Super Hero genre, took me until episode 5 to realise the dude playing
Homelander is the same guy that played Lucas Hood in the excellent Banshee.

 

[Grogg]

It’s very good.

I’m already looking forward to Scorsese and De Niro’s next film. It’s based on the non fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon. Should be

Maybe I'll have to give it another go.

A 100 year old De Niro "stomping" a bloke half his age was about as believable as a 3 dollar note and after I wiped away the tears of laughter I switched it off.

 

[Val Keating]

Maybe I'll have to give it another go.

A 100 year old De Niro "stomping" a bloke half his age was about as believable as a 3 dollar note and after I wiped away the tears of laughter I switched it off.

Maybe it’s not for you. I know a few old blokes that would kick the sh*t out of blokes half their age, some people just have it in them and some don’t.

 

[Gasometer]

Maybe it’s not for you. I know a few old blokes that would kick the sh*t out of blokes half their age, some people just have it in them and some don’t.

“Charge if it’s a gun
Run if it’s a knife”

The makeup for young DeNiro etc deserves an Oscar

 

[Val Keating]

“Charge if it’s a gun
Run if it’s a knife”

The makeup for young DeNiro etc deserves an Oscar

The old Pesci...man they did that well.

It would have to be a mix of makeup and CGI?

 

[Snake_Baker]

It should read, "charge if it's a pistol, beg if it's a shotgun"

 

[ferball]

“Charge if it’s a gun
Run if it’s a knife”

That's very good advice.

 

[ferball]

It should read, "charge if it's a pistol, beg if it's a shotgun"

Good point.

 

[ferball]

Maybe it’s not for you. I know a few old blokes that would kick the sh*t out of blokes half their age, some people just have it in them and some don’t.

100 yr old beating a 50 year old is less believeable to me than a 70 year old putting a 30 year old on his arse. I've seen that happen.