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Spooky Season Id love to run more creepy podcast picks over the next few issues.
So tell me about the various scary/horror-themed podcasts youve enjoyed over the years!
If I get enough of these, Ill run them as a mass reader pick.
And also, as always, tell me what youre listening to more generally.
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The 33 1/3rd Podcast
A music podcast of bookish proportions.Available as an exclusive on Spotify.Listen here.
Lets start with some background.
Ive inexplicably acquired about a dozen of those little books over the years.
You have music critics, of course, along with music scholars and scholars in training.
They may have been contemporaries in the era of the album or simply inspired by it.
Ill admit: I was disappointed by the conceit.
Arent there enough platforms for famous music-industry types to recall stories about their time in the business?
Sparks flew, as Weisbards arguments came into direct conflict with the perspectives of Bach and Rachtman.
But the story I have experienced or consumed is a lot dicier.
But its a captivating listen nevertheless.
Unclear that the very concept of the show feels burnt to a crisp.
Suspect
A clinical investigative true-crime podcast.Available on all platforms.Listen here.
I still dont quite know what to make ofSuspect.
Ill deal with that tension later in a more comprehensive review.
Im sticking with this one to the end.
),andImpostors: The Commander.
Listen, were temporally omnivorous over here.
Anyway, Im excited to pick this up.
Listening notes…
Its been a big week forHow Long Gonefans.
(Goners, as the hosts kinda-sorta half-jokingly call them?)
For what its worth, Im a very regular listener of the show.
And yet I cant take my ears off this thing.
Ill leave the self-analysis to a later date.
Congrats to Hanif Abdurraqib andRadio AmbulantesDaniel Alarcon on beingnamed MacArthur fellowsin this years batch!
And thats a wrap for1.5x Speed!
Hope you enjoyed it.
