Vital stats: Format: interviews (and at best, unedited interviews) concerned with religion or systems of belief and/or perception more generally Episode duration: ~50m (produced shows) or up to 2h (unedited podcasts) Frequency: ~8-10 total per month I recall hearing years ago on Jordan, Jesse, Go! how much Jordan enjoys listening to On Being[RSS] [iTunes] with Krista Tippett, which […]
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Vital stats: Format: interviews with the movers and shakers of an archipelago you probably haven’t heard of Episode duration: 15-45m Frequency: 2-5 per month When I first heard of The Faroe Islands Podcast [RSS] [iTunes], I heard it as a sort of punchline. “Oh man, this archipelago off of Europe? That only has 50,000 people? The Faroe […]
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Vital stats: Format: golden-age Loveline, more or less, but with fewer calls and more discussions of the breakdown of society Episode duration: 45m-1h10m Frequency: 8-9 per month Mention this though I often do when writing about things Adam Carolla-related, I tuned in to Loveline throughout my adolescence with a near-religious dedication. Those nightly two hours with Carolla and […]
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Vital stats: Format: a “podcast about language, from pet peeves, syntax, and etymology to neurolinguistics and the death of languages” Episode duration: 25-30m Frequency: 1-2 per month, with gaps I grew up with a reputation as a “smart kid.” Given your presence here, maybe you did too. If so, I do hope you handled it […]
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Vital stats: Format: two publishers talking books, and much else in the cultural space besides Episode duration: 40m-1h20m Frequency: 1-2 per month Checking out any new bookstore, I head immediately to its world literature shelves. That is, I see if it has them at all. It usually doesn’t. Though small, the world literature shelf at […]
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Vital stats: Format: letters on one Englishman’s America, from 1946 to 2004 Episode duration: 15m Frequency: N/A If you want to learn about a place, talk to its outsiders. That rule has guided my study of Los Angeles ever since I moved here; rightheaded or wrongheaded, observers with few roots in the city write the […]
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Vital stats: Format: Q&As, often post-screening, with directors, writers, writer-directors, and other filmmakers Episode duration: 40m-2h30m Frequency: often weekly, though it varies I moved to Los Angeles for the filmgoing, sure — how many other cities offer the chance to experience all eras of cinema, theatrically, pretty much every week? — but also for the […]
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Vital stats: Format: interviews with writers and editors of long-form articles Episode duration: ~45m-3h Frequency: erratic “TV Made Fresh Daily”: that, to me, remains the core product of the FX network. Then again, I haven’t watched since about the turn of the millennium, but so many of my pleasant televisual memories come from tuning in […]
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Vital stats: Format: interviews with writers and editors of long-form articles Episode duration: 35m-1h Frequency: weekly Say 3:00 a.m. has rolled around. I’ve walked my lady home, downed whatever wine remained in the night’s bottle, sent the day’s last few dangling e-mails, read two or three page-downs on Twitter, glanced at Facebook, and checked the New […]
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Vital stats: Format: two expats on the news from Japan, especially of the irksome variety Episode duration: 35-55m Frequency: erratic They call it “Seidensticker Syndrome”, in a tribute of sorts to famed translator and Japanologist Edward Seidensticker. Seidensticker, to put it far too uncomplicatedly, had a love-hate relationship with the country and the people who […]