@Gaagaagiins#27880 going to check out thunder bay - I love “the north county” and go backpacking there whenever I can. I may be an FIB but I'm one of the good ones. Might save this for the drive when I head to isle royale this summer…
@yeso#27902 If you remember, let me know what you think. Most of the reactions to it that I‘ve encountered are people from Thunder Bay (whose general reactions to it can be summed up as “yep”), indigenous people not necessarily from Thunder Bay (whose general reactions to it can be summed up as "yep, but wow, it’s pretty crazy there in Thunder Bay"), and while I don‘t think I’ve spoken to one directly about this podcast but I can imagine the well meaning but still fairly oblivious white Canadian response to anything related to indigenous issues, which is mostly to start acting like you just told them your grandma died. So it will be fun to get a different response to it
@Gaagaagiins#27910 I subbed just now so I won't forget, looking forward to it!
the only podcasts i listen that i don't believe are well known are political.
[richard wolff does a podcast](https://economicupdate.libsyn.com/rss), and if you don't know about that guy, he's great listening. he's an economics professor, and the show is a half hour, a fifteen minute segment about some news stories you might not have heard about, then an interview with usually pretty interesting guests.
[trillbilly worker's party](http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:300222802/sounds.rss) is hosted by three people from appalachia, bringing their perspective from that region to the news of the day, and occasionally reading letters submitted to their local paper, mostly gossip, which is great.
and finally, my fave of the bunch, [trueanon](http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:672423809/sounds.rss) is like qanon if it was true. i hesitate to include this one, because i don't want people thinking i'm a kook, but i am a kook and it's a good podcast.
In terms of lefty stuff that isn't insanely popular I really enjoy Eat the Rich where three guys who have worked all kinds of rough manual labor jobs go through the millionaires and billionaires that make our lives worse one at a time. Makes me angry in a good way, and I highly recommend their episode on the Sacklers if you can stomach it.
I'll also second the above Trueanon rec, even if I don't know how to recommend it without sounding like a conspiracy psycho. It's just really good, ya gotta believe me.
Another really great left-perspective show is [Death Panel](https://https://www.deathpanel.net/), which puts a focus on healthcare and shines a light on a lot of things that the healthier of us may never have to consider.
I also record my own show with a couple of friends, but I don't want to ruin this great thread with self-promotion, so I'll find another place to plug that. On the other hand, We've recorded a lot of episodes and it's DEFINITELY true that nobody knows about us.
lol the conspiracies trueanon covers are unfortunately entirely possible, at least among the episodes I’ve listened to. Some of that operation paperclip/condor stuff is 100% known, just consent-manufactured out of the USA consciousness.
I’d recommend radio war nerd too but it’s probably too popular for this thread.
I really like Ingrid Burrington’s writing & art, I was excited to hear she got a pod bc she’s been doing that Roman Mars stuff in print for a while, it’s about dead and dying corporations and the space mining ep feels like where it’s really taking off: https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-sell
https://youtu.be/_ROSfB6NTg4
reminder that Legacy Music Hour has a running gag where the show is only supposed to be up to the 16-bit era and rob always wants to play music from Sega 32x but he‘s not allowed until the “beyond 16-bit” episodes.
video is unrelated yet relevant, because it is brent playing wagyan land and was uploaded this week.
it’s 100% dry humor, which isn‘t a suprise since brent is a comedian/producer and works with tim & eric and eric andre, basically anything they touch he’s been a part of, often as an actor / scenario writer.
https://youtu.be/6FEdlAL3bX0
whichever episode I listened to this week, they played this track, a good‘n
"sometimes she doesn’t sing it, she says it…… anyways it‘s cool…. this is some kind of call and response type thing…. by the way this is a TAITO game Darius is a TAITO game."
also probably mentioned before but here’s brent playing some beautiful video game music in his comedy skit.
https://youtu.be/_sYQeIO6Wyg
I saw him at the last time Yuzo Koshiro played a live set in LA. Also they do live podcast recordings in LA, before covid. I didn‘t necessarily care enough to go but my friends did and I’m glad. 
also the other guy in this comedy skit would later appear in twin peaks: the return for galls sakes.
Well, the Video Game History Hour is probably the opposite of a podcast nobody knows about around here, but I absolutely needed to post about the most recent episode somewhere, so here it is!
https://gamehistory.org/ep-34-the-crpg-book/
This is completely essential listening imo--Felipe is a thoughtful and insightful guest who, along with Frank and Kelsey, brings up topics well beyond the scope of CRPGs. These include:
This barely even scratches the surface--everyone please give it a listen!
cw: discussion of Harvey Weinstein, sexual violence
I'm in here to rep more CANADALAND environ content, but I learned about something pretty compelling today.
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/711-gagged-by-law/
A former professor of law and one of the whistleblowers against Harvey Weinstein have started a campaign called [Can't Buy My Silence](https://cantbuymysilence.com/), and the campaign is focused mainly on NDAs (non-disclosure agreements). I thought I would share it in here, as the use of NDAs, abusive workplaces, and workplace predators are so widespread in videogames that I can't imagine this won't be of interest to many people here.
Dr. Julie MacFarlane argues that NDAs are fundamentally **not** legally enforceable. Like, the moderate compromise position there is that they're not enforceable when it comes to NDAs that employers use to gag victims and protect abusers, but that that the fundamental weakness of NDAs may extend even to what's seen as boilerplate NDAs that have become standard at the onset of employment and also as lumped into severance. For example, if an employer isn't willing to grant someone severance pay unless they sign an NDA, how do we not view that as the NDA being signed under duress?
Interesting thing to think about.
oddly that reminds me of a couple programmery type podcasts.
the array cast is about the array languages, the one family of languages most programmers don‘t know. very nice listening, and it’s worked for me at least to cultivate a curiosity about code like this:
`{(d w in)←⍵ ⋄ ⊃+/,w{(⍴in)↑(-⍵+⍴d)↑⍺×d}¨⍳⍴w}`
and also [Future of Coding](https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/c4157e60-c7f8-470d-b13f-a7b30040df73/564f493f-af32-4c48-862f-a7b300e4df49/ac317852-8807-44b8-8eff-a7b300e4df52/podcast.rss), which is like, you know programming? what if it were completely different? it's also really slickly produced, at least the newer episodes.
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@“hellomrkearns”#p22481 Here’s a new one : Cinema Oblivia.
> “Your home for discussions on disregarded, tossed aside, thrown away, outdated, out-of-fashion or otherwise unremembered films.”
> Hosted by James Eldred aka Lost Turntable.
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There’s only been three episodes sofar: Flash dance, Streets of Fire & Sorcerer.
if anyone wants to be on this one, James is looking for potential guests
https://twitter.com/LostTurntable/status/1492265327526580224
Brandon was on Retronauts talking about Street Fighter Alpha and I didn't see it on the front page, so I assume no one knows about it:
https://retronauts.com/article/1845/retronauts-episode-435-street-fighter-alpha
TW: Pretty much anything triggering to do with drug use you can think of, not necessarily in this post but for sure within the content of the podcast.
I only started listening to it but I'm gonna recommend yet another political podcast: [Crackdown](https://www.crackdownpod.com/), and my recommendation comes extremely highly.
||It's a podcast about the so-called war on drugs, drug use, and drug user activism, all as distinct things too of course. The zinger elevator pitch is that it was conceived of out of the idea that a war should be covered by war correspondents, and you aren't much of a war correspondent if you're not on the battlefield. It's a project borne out of VANDU, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, a grassroots non-profit organization whose board consists exclusively of former and current drug users. The podcast's editorial board features those people as well as members from the BC Association of People on Opioid Maintenance, and the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society. In their own words, "journalism need not be “objective” nor produced by people who are distant from the topics and communities they are covering. We believe that some of the most powerful journalism comes from a particular point of view." Couldn't agree more, although it was also made in partnerships with academic and clinical co-operation.||
||I'd probably be the first to tell you that non-profit work and radicalism are often depressingly incompatible, but this is the sort of non-profit who I would definitely say are the legit ones. They were the people who started the first safe injection site in North America, Insite, which was started while explicitly unsanctioned. Insite is legit now but if you ask me non-profits don't get much more real than that.||
||Fair warning, but the podcast pulls absolutely no punches, emotionally speaking. It was clearly made with so much shared love. But if you have been a part of or have had any sort of connection to communities like this you know the amount of grief and loss and pain those communities bear (and if you haven't, perhaps you will form one from listening). It's obviously part of what I am recommending it so highly, because I think it does a beautiful job of it and it's obviously not even remotely exploitative or voyeuristic seeing as it was made by the community in question, but little attempt is made to shield the listener from that part of the story.||
So if you choose to listen, take care of yourself if this is an intense topic for you. Actually take care of yourself either way.
I've mentioned it elsewhere, but FUN with Kevin Gifford and His Pretend Pals is an excellent game music podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fun-with-kevin-gifford-and-his-pretend-pals/id642181963
@“hellomrkearns”#p64276 whoa! were there really only six episodes, all back in 2013?
@“whatsarobot”#p64279 that's it! was a solid 6.
@“hellomrkearns”#p64377 i just can‘t believe i’d never heard of it before!
not an unknown show by any means but thought I'd share This Is Hell on occasion of the host facing down some health problems
https://thisishell.com/
huge archive of blood-curdling dad jokes and in-depth commie stuff
y‘all might enjoy this videogame pod which I don’t think I have seen mentioned on here yet: https://intothecast.online/