I enjoy podcasts and spend a considerable amount of time listening to them. However, I probably spend a lot more time trying to find podcasts that I will actually enjoy. I suppose it’s similar to the ratio of time we spend watching shows on Netflix vs. the time spent scrolling through the choices in the menus.
I want to recommend some of my favourite Podcasts to you. But first, I need to plug something:
I‘ve been dreaming about creating my own podcast for quite some time now and finally have! I recently posted the first episode of a new podcast called Weird Movie Club. So far it is available on Anchor and Spotify. It’s a show where I introduce my partner to strange movies that she’s never seen before. Then we have a lighthearted discussion about them. In the first episode, we talk about The Holy Mountain. I hope you will check it out. Here is the link:
Okay here are my recommendations:
This is a show where inanimate objects are interviewed. We learn what it is like to be these objects, how they think and how they feel. What do pillows dream about? Do pregnancy tests think about what will happen to them after they’ve been used?
The show is whimsical and strangely gentle. I admit that I have gotten very emotional and teared up listening to several of the episodes.
Yes, Ron Burgundy, the character from the movie Anchorman, as played by Will Ferrell has a podcast and it’s exactly what you would expect.
Jeff Goldsmith used to be the editor of Creative Screenwriting Magazine and the host of the accompanying podcast. I had a subscription to the magazine and listened to the podcast religiously. Jeff is a good interviewer and asks great questions.
Unfortunately both the magazine and podcast went belly-up several years ago.
I was delighted to recently discover that Jeff now hosts this new podcast, Which is almost identical to his old one. Not only that but he has created a new digital screenwriting magazine called Backstory which strongly resembles the late great Creative Screenwriting magazine.
This podcast is dark, funny, disturbing and definitely not for everyone. Maybe, not even me. I can’t listen to it all the time because I‘m afraid it will begin to affect my mental health. This a show where three funny dudes take in an in-depth look at a real story which is usually based on a true crime or something dealing with the occult. They take the darkest subject matter possible and Lighten it up with college frat boy type humour, all while explaining the facts of the story with a level of detail and research that I rarely see in more serious podcasts.
I think that’s probably enough for now. Please give me your podcast recommendations too. I’m always looking for more listening material. Please check out the Weird Movie Club Podcast.
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