#throughline podcast

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (16-22 Mar 2025)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Royal Pain (Penny00Dreadful) - 59K steddie fantasy feudalism arranged marriage fic, absolute fun read, really enjoyed the characters and how they were fitted into the setting

🥰 The Art Of Cooking For Two (littleblackfox) - 92K, Stucky, a nice GBBO AU, almost as relaxing as an actual ep of GBBO. A few side characters are a bit ooc to make the story work which was actually fine (always makes me laugh when poor Pepper gets character assassinated by being turned into her actress) [reread but the last time was over 6 years ago so it felt really new]

💖💖 +177K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

You'd Look Sweet in Lavender (SquadOfCats) - MCU: becca barnes & steve, 10K - [forgot to add this last week bc i had the wrong date on my spreadsheet!] - "The night before he leaves on the Captain America USO tour, Steve stops in to say farewell to the Barnes family. Becca shares her brilliant plan for their future." Incredible becca barnes characterization; short, sweet vignette of steve & becca's friendship

Patience (ama) - Society of Gentlemen (KJ Charles): ash/francis, 24K - the lead up to Ash & Francis' book, excellently done

Poetry of the Senses (sharkie335) - The Old Guard: kaysanova, 27K - very enjoyable sentinel AU

Blue Moon (what_alchemy) - MCU: stucky, 15K - hot, hot, hot! Love every iteration of a stucky roadtrip! (#5 of the Timestamp series but also works as 100% standalone)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Shardlake - s1, e1

Home Town Takeover - s3, e2

Doctor Odyssey - s1, e11

Death in Paradise - s14, e5

Harley Quinn - s5, e9

QI - series O, e1-5; 7-9, 11

No Taste Like Home - "Awkwafina's Korean Homecoming" (s1, e2)

No Taste Like Home - "Justin Theroux's Italian Quest" (s1, e3)

No Taste Like Home - "James Marsden's German Dish-Up" (s1, e4)

Ghosts (US) - s4, e10-16

D20: The Ravening War - "The Seeds of Conflict" (s17, e1)

D20: Adventuring Party - "That's War, Baby" (s12, e1)

D20: The Ravening War - "Bloody Harvest" (s17, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "A Fun Dark Seed" (s12, e2)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Pop Pantheon - What is the Pop Pantheon?

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - The Adventure of Silver Blaze

Welcome to Night Vale #264 - Duet

The Curious History of Your Home - Home Security

The Curious History of Your Home- Windows

The Curious History of Your Home - Dinner Parties

Short Wave - Could 'Severance' Become Our Reality?

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Ayo Edebiri's New Movie Opus

⭐ It's Been a Minute - Goodbye, church… Hello, Wellness Industrial Complex!

The Sporkful - Is A $1 Slice Of Pizza A Snack? (with Katie Nolan)

Vibe Check - Hey, Sis: featuring Imani Perry

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Sunken Pirate City at Port Royal

⭐ Switched on Pop - Lady Gaga's Monster Return

⭐ 99% Invisible - Beautiful West Oakland, California

David Tennant Does a Podcast With…Stanley Tucci

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Novocaine

Vibe Check - Elbows Up

Shedunnit - Oxford vs Cambridge

Off Menu - Ep 283: Antoni Porowski

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Real Office Space Behind Apple TV’s Severance

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - “In a World…” The epic evolution of movie trailers

Imaginary Worlds - Bonus: Superstar Stuntwoman of Silent Cinema

⭐ Throughline Plus - Sesame Street

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Snow White And What's Making Us Happy

It's Been a Minute - Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

You're Dead to Me - Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Endless Thread - Adrián and the Whale

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - The Musgrave Ritual

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Slate's Hit Parade: Insert Lyrics Here Edition playlist

Iron Maiden

MAYHEM [Lady Gaga] {2025}

Dolly Parton Radio • Upbeat

"I Know A Place" [Petula Clark] radio

The Struts Radio • Pump-up

Fleetwood Mac

[pynkhues]

Speaking of Louis, Lestat and masculinity, I think a point that people always ignore is that Louis' masculinity is important to him and he's attached to gender roles/preconceptions far more than Lestat/the way Lestat is not. I think it's communicated in the show pretty well. It's why he feels comfortable in the role of the successful businessman to Lestat's supporting spouse, but not when the power dynamic is flipped, and why Lestat feels comfortable to be the supporting spouse as well. Your recent post reminded me of the "Come to me" lyrics, and I think Lestat placing himself in the feminine role of Mélisande is another example of that. Plus the Marie Antoinette dress (note Louis being kind of uncomfortable with the camp of it all lol).

I totally agree, anon. I think the show's pretty deliberate with the fact that Louis' at his most comfortable in his relationships with both Lestat and Armand when he's acting as the businessman / breadwinner and they're acting as the supportive spouse. I mention it in the post I think you're replying to, but Lestat playing host at The Azaelia and helping to manage the staff - presumably without being paid - very much plays into that sort of dynamic, and it's one Louis seems to be repeating with Armand in Dubai given Armand's helping to effectively administrate the sales of Louis' art investments. It's a form of unpaid domestic labour which in a loving relationship, can be completely fine, but does often come with (perceived or real) connotations of roles and a certain power dynamic.

A huge part of that I think is tied to Louis' sense of masculinity and the role he wants to take in his relationships, but I also think it comes from a genuine place of wanting to be the provider, which has likely been borne out of the role he took with his mother and siblings as a young man. I talk about that more here, but I do think he needs to feel like he can look after those he cares about, and I actually do think it comes from a pure place even though it can be and is often corrupted by the fact that he's capable of real cruelty and vindictiveness when he feels scorned (i.e. he wants to provide for Grace because he loves her, and he buys her that holiday for her honeymoon, and he wants her to have the house to raise her family in, but when she disowns him, he doubles down on that out of spite not because he's letting her go and moving on, but because he's holding her to it. He knows she and Levi could never afford it without him, and he really rubs that in her face at their mother's wake. She'll always be living in his house, and that once meant something pure and good and loving, albeit paternalistic, and now it fundamentally does not).

I didn't really go into it in that last post, but I also think Louis being a voracious reader is something that gets misread a bit sometimes. Like these days, it can feel like being well-read is more common with women, particularly in online spaces, but I absolutely see the connotations on the show of it being partially a performance of class and masculinity. That's not to say I don't think he genuinely loves reading - I really think he does, and I love that about him - but this is the 1910s through 1930s when hypermasculinity and wealth was very much tied to being well-read, and a lot of contemporary authors from William Faulkner to Ernest Hemingway to Joseph Conrad, were both depicting and exploring manhood in ways that were pretty formative for a generation of men.

On top of that, reading was a symbol of class because the only people who had the time or capacity to do it were people who were both educated and had money. Louis sitting on a park bench in a three piece suit reading Charles Darwin of all people is absolutely a show of class and masculinity, and the fact that it dovetails into a conversation about diet, again, is a broadcast of wealth and status. Sure, we're talking about eating people, but if you're looking at it as a metaphor, it's symbolic of Louis having' choices about what he eats when, which is inherently about having the means and status to do so.

Plus I feel it's pretty important context for Louis and Lestat's bickering in 1.05 when Louis' reading Madame Bovary - Lestat calls Louis a snob, and Louis goes in by basically calling Lestat shallow and uncultured, which is a) very funny to me, personally, I love it when they're mean to each other, haha, but also b) I think very much evident of Louis' feelings of masculinity, particularly given it happens directly after he cites Claudia calling him the unhappy housewife. Again, Louis' rejecting that role - the house is a mess (so they've either fired their staff, or they've quit), Louis' not going to do it and neither is Lestat, and Louis' sprawled on the couch reading from his husband's library and dragging him for being too frivolous to read them.

Again, I think Louis genuinely loves reading, but I also do think for him it's fundamentally a part of his identity as a Cultured, Intellectual Man. It's why he doesn't take to the campiness of the Theatres des Vampires, or as you said, get involved in lestat's Mardi Gras performance (I'm always sooo fascinated by the fact that we don't get a reaction shot of Louis to that sequence at all - again! It feels loaded!) I think his sense of masculinity is, well, pretty traditionally masculine, and I think it's pretty vital to his self-image.

[ariadne-mouse]

The end of Coda is really exciting and Moc Weepe is absolutely stone cold for planning to sell out Saskia & the escapees to the Trust and also a complete idiot for exactly the same reason, because he should know better! Weepe, buddy, your business partner's under the table activities helping people escape the Trust are a literal showcase of how dangerous the Trust is, and meanwhile you're ignoring all that and thinking that you, specifically, are going to not get got by the trap because you KNOW it's a trap and you're going to outsmart the trap and use it to your advantage. Sir you are getting got and Imelda is doing it in 5 minute ad-hoc appointments in between her other busy commitments. Barely even had to bait the fish hook. If you don't start checking your hubris at the coat room you are going to experience Consequences (and in that sense please continue, actually, this is all fascinating)

[igottatho]

It’s been about one month since Aaron Bushnell, active duty serviceman, immolated himself in front of the DC Israeli embassy.

Today the UN called for a “non-binding” (qualifier added by US) ceasefire for the remainder of Ramadan (~two weeks). Meanwhile, yesterday Biden unilaterally approved another 3 billion dollars to be sent to Israel, begging the question, will Israel truly abide by a ceasefire?

In the past (years, not since Oct 7) ceasefires have been enacted, which Hamas and Palestinian Authority have respected, but Israel meanwhile would continue to control Gaza’s water, food & medical access, and yes, inflict violence upon Palestinian peoples. Knowing this, what is the incentive for Hamas to abide by a false ceasefire? when Israel now continues to murder children, rape women and cripple a population indefinitely.

Today I found my first real bit of info re: the Arab Spring of 2011. I worked within a large box bookstore at this time and through my years there, I was unable to find any literature on this topic. It’s been about 6 years and this may have changed, but typing “Arab Spring” into the billion dollar search function, there were NO RESULTS. This doesn’t mean the info wasn’t out there, somewhere, only that access wasn’t condoned, and academic thought was likely restricted (or … that’s how I understand it).

This is the podcast I found today and learned from. The show “Throughline” is really worthwhile in its entirety, but this episode shows us the power of social media and organizing dissent. On this near- anniversary of Aaron Bushnell political and radical act, I think a lot about the man in Tunisia who self immolated in January of 2011. His name was Mohamed Bouazizi, and his death sparked the Arab Spring,

Find it here.

[unsolicited-opinions]

A Brief History of Hamas

NPR's Throughline does a pretty good job here and underlines Israeli failures without ever approaching antisemitism. If you're one of those people trying to catch up and understand this conflict, give this a listen.

[nprshowdown]

Throughline vs. BBC World Service

Listen to Throughline Here

Brief Description: "Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and stories to bring history to life and put you into the middle of it. From ancient civilizations to forgotten figures, we take you directly to the moments that shaped our world. Throughline is hosted by Peabody Award-winning journalists Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei." (via npr.org)

Listen to BBC World Service Here

Brief Description: Not so much a show itself as much as it is a collection of shows often aired as a block overnight covering diverse world news, arts and culture, and interest stories.

[npr-stan]

Listen to: We the People: The Right to Remain Silent

Listen to: We the People: The Right to Remain Silent - https://one.npr.org/i/1241163687:1268492580

[bermudianabroad]

A couple weeks back I was listening to this podcast about political dissent through the stories of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose movement; Martin Luther King and his objections to the war in Vietnam; and the Beijing Student protests and the iconography of Tank Man.

One quote in particular stood out to me: it is necessary to have a hard spirit and a tender heart— from the letters (or diary) of Sophie Scholl.

I think what resonates is this acknowledgment that kindness, that tenderness is fundamental. Not a weakness, but a means of change.

Nothing really more profound to say about it. Just something I want to try and remember and live by in my own way.

[lisamarieblair]

The Labor Of Love (Throwback) // Throughline

There's a powerful fantasy in American society: the fantasy of the ideal mother. This mother is devoted to her family above all else. She raises the kids, volunteers at the school, cleans the house, plans the birthday parties, cares for her own parents. She's a natural nurturer. And she's happy to do it all for free. Problem is? She's imaginary.

[danny-chase]

Do you listen to Connor Goldsmith’s Cerebro podcast?

No, sorry

[ms-demeanor]

I see Behind the Bastards on your most played podcasts list, I’ve been listening to a fuckload of it recently! Any particular favs? Bonus points if they’re kind of unexpected- I tell new listeners to start w Henry Kissinger or L Ron Hubbard, but the Cambodian King was very much a sleeper hit kind of episode for me

G. Gordon Liddy, the Dulles Bros, John Wayne, Stalin, Libertarian Sea Nations, the British Genocide of Ireland, the John Birch Society, any episode with cracked alums (jason pargin, cody johnston and katie stoll, michael swaim, robert brockaway, seanbaby, daniel o'brein, soren bowie, etc) and anything with Billy Wayne Davis as a guest.

(Another throughline in podcasts i listen to is "are cracked writers involved?")

[knickynoo]

I continue to be amused by my revisiting the BTTF Minute podcast.

There's a conversation discussing MJF's very distinct way of walking. The commentary includes:

"He doesn't seem to like...move like a human being in this minute."

"It's one of my favorite things about him, well, Michael J. Fox in general because it just seems kind of a throughline with his characters is they all kind of walk, like, really erratically like that."

And it made me think about how when he was filming "Light of Day," the director took him aside and was like, "You don't walk, you bounce. And your character isn't supposed to bounce." So they put him in these heavy boots to both remind him that his character is supposed to be more serious and also physically prevent him from bouncin' all around.

[communist-hatsunemiku]

so FINALLY a new podcast has broken through my autism barrier, im listening to The Retrievals which is this insane story about a nurse at a yale fertility clinic whose addiction to fentanyl has her swapping the drug out for saline in a shitload of vials at this clinic. This causes dozens upon dozens of patients to go through extremely painful procedures because they were given fucking saline instead of fentanyl AND this pain was downplayed by a lot of the other healthcare professionals at this clinic during and after these procedures. the whole throughline of the podcast is how women's pain is interpreted and whose pain is more important, the pain this addicted nurse is struggling with or the pain she caused all these other people

[9lives2mics]

Nine Lives Two Mics (Caryl Podcast) | New Episode

🎙️The Ever-Changing Promo For “The Book of Carol”🎙️

We share our thoughts on the teasers, promos, and the overall marketing strategy for  “The Book of Carol”. Trigger warning: This episode gets very heavy so please be mindful of your mental health before tuning in.

Your feelings are valid, no matter what they are. If you’re excited for the show, we’re truly happy for you. If you’re anxious and on the fence, we see you and we get it. The common throughline of this spectrum is that we all love Caryl deeply & want them to have a beautiful & all-rounded story. We’re in this together (even if it feels like Thanksgiving dinner sometimes). Please remember to be kind to yourself & those who don’t share your opinions. We’ll be here if you want to chat, feel free to send us an ask.

(If you need mental health support, check out this resource) 

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(this episode is not spoiler-free)