It’s been a while since I’ve talked about the podcasts, but then there isn’t much new that I’ve been listening to. In fact there’s a little less on my Miro feed list.
For instance, I removed "College Humor Dot Com" because the motherfuckers weren’t funny and they were too smug about it to. Sort of like Jay Leno.
A video podcast that is funny, is Showbeast(RSS). This is a surreal kids show with puppets and greenscreens and a surprisingly innocent insight into the child psyche. At least considering that the people making this are clearly a bunch of Bay-area weirdos. I would recommend watching the Nose Raptor episode as a first glimpse of the Showbeast world.
Another kids video podcast I’ve been watching (for no good reason really) has been Komet Kameratene(RSS), which I’m guessing could be loosely translated as Comet Capers. It’s a Norwegian kids’ show about a bunch of muppet aliens who explore Earth and learn valuable lessons that involve talking to Norwegian children who are almost entirely non-white. There’s no subtitles, but the Norwegian is close enough to English, and the children’s humor so broad, that you almost don’t need them. Certainly the scenes with the Norwegian-speaking alien chef are virtually identical to scenes you may remember with the Swedish Chef.
The only new audio podcast is The Moth(RSS). If you listen to This American Life, you’re probably already familiar with some of this material. The Moth is a series of publicly performed stories, and we are assured before every episode that the stories are all told without notes and they are all true. Whether or not you believe that, they tend to be dramatic and amazing. This last week a guy told a story about how he used to earn his living with internet gambling. Oh, and he hated cockroaches. That’s the dramatic part.