Podcasts
Introducing Disorderly Conduct
by Nick Glossop on June 8, 2013
Perhaps you caught Alexis Goldstein on one of her several appearances on UP with Chris Hayes, where she named names and kicked ass on all matters related to Wall Street chicanery. Whether it’s the politics and legalese of financial nonreform, or the intricacies of derivatives trading, she seems to really know her shit. And now she and fellow OCCUPant and journalist Jesse Myerson are collaborating on a podcast; …
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Louis CK on Marc Maron’s WTF
by Andrew Loewen on March 1, 2013
If like me you missed the 2-part Louis CK episodes of WTF when they were originally aired posted in 2010, they’re up on YouTube. CK is widely regarded (justly in my opinion) as the greatest comedian of this troubled present. He and Marc Maron were friends from their earliest days as 19-year-old standups in Boston, and the candor and intimacy of this interview has sent journalists trailing after Maron as …
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This Week in Comedy & Suicide
by Andrew Loewen on December 7, 2012
The Yuk Yuk’s-and-college-students vibe many people associate with standup comedy papers over a core element of humor: all the pain, anxiety, and depression. Marc Maron’s podcast has broken lots of ground bringing the tie between pain and comedy to the fore. Most of his guests talk about depression and anxiety (to really go there, check Paul Gilmartin’s podcast). Maron seems to plug a 1973 book called The Denial of …
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The Coal Window ~ Energy, Democracy, And The General Strike
by Nick Glossop on October 16, 2012
The excellent podcast Electric Politics recently played host to Dr. Timothy Mitchell who was there to discuss Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Amongst other things, his book provides a novel and provocative interpretation of modern political history with the primacy of energy source in its view. The near universal reliance on coal, he argues, heavily labor-intensive coal, furnished the concentrated, politically-organizable heft for democratizing challenges …
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Uhh Yeah Dude
by Andrew Loewen on September 24, 2012
Uhh Yeah Dude is a popular two-man weekly comedy podcast now 340 episodes strong. Two American Americans taking the pulse of America and finding it fucked. Old friends, comedians Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Larroquette (son of actor John Larroquette of Night Court fame and beyond) riff on popular culture – from bullshit television series to Starbucks’ latest horseshit product offerings – and consult opinion polls, surveys, and scientific studies to …
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The DNC & Teachable Moments; Labor and Hollywood Liberals
by Andrew Loewen on September 5, 2012
The First Lady celebrates the all-American spirit of doing undervalued, socially necessary work for no pay, in the patriotron pulpit at the DNC in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I’ve seen it in teachers in a near-bankrupt school district who vowed to keep teaching without pay.
A teachable moment in shared sacrifice. Don’t “pump up the volume.” Smile. Eat shit. For America.…
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Tig Notaro: Comedy Amidst Breast Cancer & Trauma
by Andrew Loewen on August 13, 2012
Tragedy + time = comedy. But I don’t have the benefit of time. – Tig Notaro
If you think you’ve had a streak of bad luck it’s unlikely to match comedian Tig Notaro’s this year. Not two weeks ago Notaro was diagnosed with breast cancer in both breasts. This, after having just survived a hellish series of illnesses and family tragedy. Here’s blogger and comedian Kira Hesser on Notaro’s set…
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Laugh with Charlie, at Your Penniless Internet Leisure
by Andrew Loewen on June 19, 2012
Which Charlie among Charlies am I charlieing about, you might ask. And rightly so. Unless you know me, in which case you wonder wrongly and inattentively because the Charlie is surely obvious. Might it be Charlie Chaplin? A fine guess. One of our greatest comedic Charlies. I wrote a paper or two on said Charlie in grad school after all (two papers, at two grad schools, to be precise). But …
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The Dana Gould Hour: Best New Comedy Podcast of 2012, a True Natural Fact
by Andrew Loewen on May 31, 2012
The Dana Gould Hour
This is not only the best comedy podcast to debut in 2012, it is also the only podcast to debut in 2012 that I’ve heard. It really stands alone. Dana Gould is known to some as one of the standup comedians in the 80s who instigated alternative comedy and known to others as Tits McGee YoumeanDanaCarvey? a staff writer on The Simpsons for 7 …
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Preview Episode: Comedy Bang! Bang! Will Be Televised
by Andrew Loewen on May 24, 2012
Scott Aukerman’s premier alternative comedy podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! has spun off into a half-hour IFC television series debuting in early June. Lucky for us there’s a free 22-minute preview episode featuring Amy Poehler and musical co-host Reggie Watts streaming online HERE (at least in the US and Canada, not sure about elsewhere).
I will never again hear the phrase “I wish I’d never been born” without seeing Reggie Watts’ …
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Cthulhu & the Übermensch
by Andrew Loewen on May 5, 2012
There seems no limit to comedian Paul F Tompkins’ ongoing ventures, one of which is the Dead Authors podcast, featuring Tompkins as HG Wells in conversation with other dead authors (played by comedians) in front of a live audience. So far Wells has hosted Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Dorothy Parker, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Sagan, Gertrude Stein, PG Wodehouse, and now Friedrich Nietzsche and H.P. Lovecraft at the same …
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Glenn Greenwald – Cashing in on Torture & Jeff Smith, OWS May Day
by Nick Glossop on April 30, 2012
Hear the podcast on the Majority Report with Sam Seder
Glenn Greenwald from Salon on liberty and justice for some, the government’s attitude toward torture and destruction of evidence, the failure to enforce criminal accountability for government officials and the prosecution of whistle blowers. Also, from Occupy Wall Street’s media team Jeff Smith reports on the movement’s plans for May Day 2012.
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