Workaday podcasts/ audio books

Randall

Been working a few days a week chopping wood. Mostly fill the time with tunes and podcasts. What podcasts do you listen to at work? Also never listened to an audiobook before. Any streaming book recs also welcome

Nathan Loud

Check out the app Libby. It lets you check o

Randall

Check out the app Libby. It lets you check out audiobooks through the library, it rules. I would never recommend fiction as an audiobook but there’s tons of great nonfiction and philosophy and etc. that’s free. The app is good.

Breakfast Dan

Audiobooks, I sometimes zone out and get lost in them, but I'd give a big recommendation for Chaos by Tom O'Neill. One of my favorites in the last couple years.

I treat podcasts like talk radio and let them run basically all day since it's usually okay to miss a little bit. ActionBoyz & Blank Check are my main movie pods. I'll selectively listen to Turned Out a Punk for music history. Cocaine & Rhinestones was good music history but there's not a ton of episodes. You Must Remember This is great Hollywood history.

Lincoln

Breakfast Dan I second Chaos! I read it, rather than listening to the audio book, but it was excellent.

Uptown ruler 666 420

108.9 the Hawk is a great and funny podcast. A fake classic rock “morning zoo” type show with Jason from the Best Show and Geoff from orchid/panthers/other bands

Mystery_Ship

I wish I could listen to podcasts, or even music on headphones at work, but I need to be tuned into the sounds of my environment.

I’ll second Blank Check, the recent Lynch series was great. Otherworld, Guys, and the Sloppy Boys are my other weekly listens.

nonsenseorgan

The only audiobook I've ever finished was Kid Congo Powers' memoir. I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much if someone else was the narrator.

Randall

I tried Blank Check today but the hosts annoy me. Plus I have never heard so much Brendan Frazier praise which also turned me off

paperhose

Just 'read' my first audiobook in the last two weeks. Werner Herzog's autobiography. I fell asleep a lot but recommend it.

Also heard good things about Norm Macdonald's memoir audiobook version.

Nathan Loud

paperhose

I listened to this too and loved it. He can look someone in the face and know whether or not they've ever milked a cow.

I will revise my earlier statement about not listening to fiction as an audiobook. One strong exception is Werner Herzog's novel (which he narrates) called Twilight World. It's good.

Eric O

John Doe's LA punk oral histories - Under The Big Black Sun and More Fun In the New World - are amazing audiobooks. All the characters read their own bits, so Jane Weidlin's telling you about her S&M parties, Kid Congo is talking about being in the Gun Club, etc. Really got into it, and didn't expect to. And I had already read the books.

I like the Dopey podcast, listening to the wide variety of addicts and addiction stories amuses me for some reason. Brace Beldon pops up occasionally.

Randall

Eric O I walked in on Neisha listening to these a few times. Not sure which of the books has the chapter on the Zeros but she put that one on for me and I loved it. This goes on tomorrow’s list as well

Mystery_Ship

With the mention of Brace Beldon, I have to recommend this episode of "Guys". Each episode is about a different kind of guy and they have Brace on to talk Rockabilly Guys. Highly entertaining.

Randall

Mystery_Ship With the mention of Brace Beldon, I have to recommend this episode of "Guys". Each episode is about a different kind of guy and they have Brace on to talk Rockabilly Guys. Highly entertaining.

Definite listening for tomorrow

Nospectatorsnash

Alex "Worldwide" Kellar (Basement Boys, Ratfucker, etc.) breaks down what he considers "the greatest year in American cinema" on "'95 to Life." [

The Touch The Feel

Randall

yeah this sounds sick. Like Nathan Loud said you have a library card? If yes, you have Libby for audiobooks and the greatest movie streaming service currently out there, Kanopy, for free. I just listened to 40 hours of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928. Not the best one to listen to casually in the background. Only real thing I can recall is dude liked to fuck.

Randall

The Touch The Feel I love Kanopy. Did not know about Libby.

Ben Lyon

The library system I work for does Libby and Hoopla. My girlfriend's library does kanopy...but for me, inter library loan is where it's at!

sixbigboys

I love audiobooks to the point where I trained for multiple marathons at least somewhat as an excuse to listen to as many as I could. I don’t have any specific recommendations—what’ll click with folks is too subjective—but I’ll second the recommendation for Libby and Hoopla—incredible resources! The other thing I’d recommend is to fuck around with the speed in whatever app you use. It took me a while to figure out that the narrator is super important to the overall experience, and the speed at which they read is one of the more important variables. That being said, if anyone is looking specifically for books about the Cold War or espionage in general, I’ve got recommendations all day!