{"id":2539,"date":"2018-02-11T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2018-02-11T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:49:41","slug":"i-only-listen-to-the-tides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"I Only Listen To the Tides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is an update to my 2017 post talking about the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2503\"> podcasts I like<\/a>.\u00a0 I have a couple more to recommend.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightvalepresents.com\/ionlylistentothemountaingoats\/\">I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats<\/a>: This has been a delight in so many ways.\u00a0 Joe and John talk informally about how they create cool stuff.\u00a0 One could say that these are recordings of Joseph Fink and John Darnielle in conversation about their creative process as artists. One of the reasons I&#8217;m digging this so much is that both viewpoints are true.\u00a0 These are two guys and two erudite artists.\u00a0 They bop between those two modes of discourse with remarkable ease and have lots of deep things to say in mundane ways and mundane things to say in deep ways.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s all two guys talking in the basement.<br \/>\nAs a bonus,it turns out that I really like the album they&#8217;re using to frame their talks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/all-hail-west-texas\">All Hail West Texas<\/a>. I expect I&#8217;ll like more Mountain Goats music as well.\u00a0 I know I&#8217;ll be buying some.\u00a0 They also get people to cover the songs and I&#8217;ve bought a couple of those, too.\u00a0 So be warned that this podcast may make you spend money.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wondery.com\/wondery\/shows\/tidesofhistory\/\">Tides Of History<\/a>: As <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Edlund\">Ben Edlund<\/a> said: from the other side of the Corpus Callosum, I&#8217;ve been enjoying this incredible deep dive into late antiquity and early modern history. I&#8217;ve tried to listen to Patrick Wyman&#8217;s earlier podcasts and found his presentation well intentioned, but too dull for me.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a history professor, after all.\u00a0 What kept me keeping tabs on him is that he had (IMHO) the right idea: make this stuff accessible to people by describing it better.\u00a0 He&#8217;s made his presentation into something that&#8217;s beyond accessible and into enticing.\u00a0 He hooks me by grounding his &#8211; extensive &#8211; scholarship in compelling framings of the time and important concepts of the present.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also become much more savvy about using the medium, too &#8211; his sound design has markedly improved, for example and he lets his enthusiasm warm his episodes without overheating them.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no need for you to care about that process.\u00a0 If you like history at all, try couple episodes and join me as a fan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is an update to my 2017 post talking about the podcasts I like.\u00a0 I have a couple more to recommend. I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats: This has been a delight in so many ways.\u00a0 Joe and John talk informally about how they create cool stuff.\u00a0 One could say that these are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-rants","category-stuff-i-saw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}