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.

    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.

    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.

    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

    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.

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

        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.

          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.

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

            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

                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

                  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.

                      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!

                      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!

                      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.

                        Speaking of Brace Belden, I'm hooked on Trueanon

                        I selectively enjoy Turned Out A Punk episodes...I used to listen to tons of comedy podcasts back when they first started blowing up (late naughts) but am basically down to Improv4Humans and Never Not Funny...I pay for YT Premium mostly to be able to stream with a locked screen because I listen while walking about not while working. Mostly Man United content and geo-politics

                          Sukebe_GG on geopolitics, have you listened to the Multipolarity podcast? really good analysis of world events that doesn't get reported through the standard channels, under the themes of 'the multipolar world order'. The hosts are economists and are on the button with all the different movements in the global economy. sometimes they skew slightly socially rightwards at times which can be annoying, but not much else out there like that one that I've heard

                              BARELY HUMAN Yes- I am subbed but don't listen to it that much because it overlaps with other stuff I follow and yeah, I hear you about their rightward tendencies...