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   granville

   10/25/2024

   I might have mentioned this before, but Jon Ronson (“The Men Who Stare At Goats,” etc) did a podcast series for the BBC which is more like an audio documentary called “Things Fell Apart.” Season 1 is basically the long road to the culture war: the young film maker whose weird, experimental film for his pastor father helped ignite evangelicals’ obsession with abortion (previously seen, like other birth control, as a “Catholic hang up”), etc. A lot of shit I didn’t know before at all.

   Season 2 is intense: it’s basically the lead-up to the month in 2020 around the death of George Floyd. The first episode is specifically an exploration of “excited delirium,” and how TASER spread junk science around it to get around lawsuits because their “non-lethal” product sometimes kills people.

   You rarely mention podcasts, I have zero interest in the “two bros chatting” kind but audio docs like these are fantastic and Ronson in particular is really talented at the whole “theater of the mind” thing. There’s only so much time one can dedicate to observing how fucked up the world is so I am always trying to carve out a few to figure out how it got this way.

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      Doug Holland

      10/25/2024

      For a long stretch some years ago, I listened to numerous podcasts, but my interest waned. As you mention, “two bros chatting” has limited appeal, and for absorbing information, I do much better with reading than with listening.

      More urgently, I run out of patience *instantly* when podcasters tell me they’re “sponsored by” something or anything, and almost all ‘successful’ podcasts seem to be sponsored. My willingness to be advertised to is near zero.

      But THINGS FELL APART is from BBC, so it (hopefully) won’t have ads, and you’ve made it sound very, very interesting. I am hungry for an intelligent take on modern stupidity, and will give that show a two-eared listen!

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