#you're dead to me podcast

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (25-31 Aug 2024)

the truly unhinged chaos finale we needed

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 Murder By The Book (Nero Wolfe #19) (Rex Stout, author; Michael Prichard, narrator)

😊 Where There's A Will (Nero Wolfe #8) (Rex Stout)

😊 Sink or Swim (RELIC #2) (Maz Maddox, author; Kirt Graves, narrator) - immediately adored what a grumpy asshole Baha was (we did get his cameo in the prev book and he was hilarious there too) - fun action adventure, not quite as madcap feel as the first but still extremely entertaining

💖💖 +278K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

the kiss that lingers (greenbergsays) - 9-1-1: Buddie, 10K - cute, cute, cute. More fics should focus on kisses on Buck's birthmark!

god was a dog-man (spqr) - TW: Sterek, 12K - reread, still love this fic that made an ingenious and valiant effort to basically write fix-it for the movie

Just Another Page of Kinky Doodles - Inspired Art (kurozawa46) - MCU: Stucky, art - some really great art inspired by a really great series

Ordinary Life (astolat, Speranza) - SGA: McShep, 20K - I think this might be the first SGA fic I've read? At any rate, banger fic (as you'd expect from these authors) and you really need zero canon knowledge

What's with today, today? (Cecily_v, liminalmemories) - 9-1-1: BuckTommy, 4K - cute and fluffy au (literally fluffy since it's about stuffie day at the library)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Taskmaster - s16, e7-10

Adventuring Academy - "Shinji and Batman (with Ify Nwadiwe)" (s5, e3)

Dirty Laundry - s4, e2

Monét's Slumber Party - s1, e4

Adventuring Academy - "The Mythological Meets the Logistical (with Matthew Mercer)" (s4, e4)

D20: Never Stop Blowing Up - "Superbomb" (s22, e10)

D20: Adventuring Party - "An Evil Guided Meditation" (s17, e10)

Handsome - Ginger Feimster (Fortune's Mom) asks about coming out

D20: A Starstruck Odyssey - "Welcome to the Spacin' Life, Buddy" (s12, e1)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Our Tail Was Not Between Our Legs" (s8, e1)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - August 25: Another Bad Night

You're Dead to Me - Benedetta Carlini

Pop Culture Happy Hour - When Celebrities Portray Themselves

⭐ Switched on Pop - Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars bring back the duet

Today, Explained - Hackers probably stole your Social Security number

Vibe Check - Two Ladies and A Mutha featuring Elise Hu

It's Been a Minute - The rise of the Pumpkin Spice Latte

99% Invisible - Not Built For This #2: The Ripple Effect

Imaginary Worlds - 10th Anniversary Special Part 1

99% Invisible - Not Built For This #3: The Price is Wrong

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Crow

Imaginary Worlds - Becky Chambers Goes Wayfaring

Consider This - Wrongfully imprisoned for decades, Ben Spencer is exonerated

Re: Dracula - August 30: Millions of Kisses

Dear Prudence - I Found My Happily Married Mom’s Profile on a BDSM Dating Site. Help!

Dear Prudence - Prudie Plus: My Partner’s Parents Are Homophobic and Racist. Help!

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #2

99% Invisible - Not Built For This #4: Unbuilding the Terrace

Today, Explained - Equal-opportunity murderball

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Afraid And What's Making Us Happy

You're Dead to Me - Palaeolithic Cave Art

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Struts

Wig Wam

Take a Chance - a Metal Tribute to ABBA [Amberian Dawn] {2022}

The Struts

lofi hip hop radio 📚 - beats to relax/study to [Lofi Girl]

The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) {1994}

Machines Of Loving Grace

KMFDM

Jimmy Buffett

[myths-and-chaos]

After a hectic couple of days, the facts are back!

In Ancient Greece, the Olympics weren't the only series of "games" held on a four year basis- there was actually 4!

The Olympic, Nemean, Pythian and Isthmian games were each held in their own sanctuaries across Greece. Each of these sanctuaries and temples are renowned for their panhellenic nature- simply, they were sites travelled to and utilised by people from all across Ancient Greece, and were typically far larger than other temples in the area.

Olympia, in the ancient state of Elis, was a sanctuary of Zeus, famed for its now destroyed statue of Zeus (which stood a whopping 40ft! and was created by the sculptor of the Parthenon- Pheidias discussed in chapters 5.11-12 of Pausanias' Description of Greece)

Nemea, in the ancient state of Argolis, was most famous for its temple of Zeus (similarly to Olympia) (Discussed briefly in Pausanias 2.15.2-3) and of course the Nemean Lion of Heraklean legend was from this area!

Isthmia, on the ancient Corinth Isthmus, was a sanctuary to Poseidon, having won the Isthmus from Helios- who in turn gained the sky above the city (Pausanias, 2.1.2-2.2.2)

Delphi, the site for the Pythian games in the ancient state of Phokis, was a sanctuary to Apollo, known for the Delphic Oracle, and the earliest of the Pythian games comprised of nothing but hymn singing! (Pausanias, 10.7.2-8)

A really interesting source of information (for the Ancient Olympics) is the You're Dead To Me podcast available on Spotify and BBC sounds, in which Prof. Michael Scott discusses the games with host Greg Jenner and a comedian guest- honestly I 100% recommend this podcast anyway as each episode centres around a different era/ figure from history!

[brasskingfisher]

Just discovered the best euphemism for a dildos:

"Copies of the male member (for the purposes of female masturbation)"

[breitzbachbea]

AL-ANDALUS YDTM EPISODE!!!

[hesbuckcompton-baby]

history facts!!!!!!! yes please

ANON SO TRUE!!!!

HISTORY FACT! the Bayeux Tapestry is NOT a tapestry, nor is it from Bayeux. it's an embroidery (tapestries are made on looms - this was not), and it was created by nuns in Canterbury. it may have been commissioned by Odo of Bayeux but it's not actually from there.

Bonus since we're on the topic - that guy everyone thinks is Harold Godwinson on the Bayeux Tapestry??? that ain't him.

Beneath the name 'Harold', we can see a man with an arrow in his eye, and for a long time people have assumed this was Harold Godwinson (who was King of England at the time) but it's NOT

And we know it's not him for a couple of reasons

As a general rule, the action described in the tapestry text typically appears at the end of the sentence. The man believed to be Harold is not in the right place for this to be correct

Recent examinations of the tapestry have found that the thread used to embroider the arrow in 'Harold's' eye dates back to the 19th Century. The Bayeux Tapestry was made in the 11th Century. This was not an original addition (typical Victorians, fucking with history - but that's a rant for another post)

By looking at accounts from around the time of the Battle of Hastings, we know Harold didn't die from an arrow to the eye - dude got dismembered real bad <3

So when we consider all of this, it's much more likely that the real Harold Godwinson is actually the man on the ground to the right of the figure most people label as him👍

[minakoaiinos]

Twitter getting obsessed with conspiracy theories about where redacted is makes me feel so fucking terrible when there is so much worse going on that people are literally begging you to pay attention to but instead you want to focus on scenarios you made up in your head and play true crime detective

[flowercrown-hobbit]

One of my favourite podcasts is you're dead to me from the BBC. It's about history but specifically things that they normally don't teach you at school, like queer history and the history of Bollywood movies. The presenter is Greg Jenner who wrote jokes for horrible histories and there is also one expert and a comedian. One episode Matthew Baynton there to learn about medieval ghost stories.

[dabblingreturns]

So @radioactivepigeons recommend a podcast to me called "you're dead to me" by the BBC she promised a comedic looks at history.

So of I pop to stitcher and type in "dead to me" because who can be botheted to remember exact titles of podcasts

And I find a podcast called "dead to me"

And I click on the first episode to discover it's about boom of Buddhism among greatfull dead fans and how that mirrors the spead of Buddhism in 5th century BC India....due to some social and economic similarities

And I listened to it a bit and it was interesting but I had but it wasn't very comedic and it sounded very American.

So I went to the next podcast called "you're dead to me" which was two Australian and I figured "okay BBC does get people from the commonwealth....that why it's called BBC world service" but then there was no history....just a really funny rant about KitKats

So I whent online and found the correct podcast....which hadn't been available in my podcast app.....

So now I have two podcast apps, a backlog of podcasts to listen too.

And a creaping belief that what ever your podcast is about, if it had the phase "dead to me" in the name, I'll probably enjoy it.

[youkilledpetunia]

Yoooooo Mat is in today's new episode of You're Dead to Me: Medieval Ghost Stories. How appropriate.

[puppadumz]

Me, starting Haunted House Flippers after the explanation that the marriage dynamic changes quickly for the better:

"Aw, she's so mean to him, that must be what changes."

Me, 10 minutes into the first episode:

"Never mind, I would've committed homicide. Janet is actually holding it together pretty well."

Me @ Tom:

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (18-24 Feb 2024)

i'll always prefer the og but this iteration is entertaining

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 The Old Codgers Greatest Hits Album (AggressiveWhenStartled, author; quietnight, narrator) - 57K series, canon-divergent stucky co-starring peter parker. Reread of this hilarious forever fave where first teenage peter is forced to deal with two body-swapped geriatric supersoldiers and then bucky is forced to deal with two teenage spidermen trying (and failing) to stealthily rescue their "dog". Great podfic by quietnight, absolute hilarity

🥰 History of American Capitalism (Zenaidamacrouras1) - 85K, shrinkyclinks college AU with superstar QB!Bucky & history nerd Steve - incredible found family dynamics, can't believe @zenaidamacrouras1 made me actually really get into an AU that involved both undergrads AND football. The nerve! The talent! (the fic is single POV but there's an amazing companion piece that's Bucky's convos with this sister that give a his POV on some of it and it's equally amazing)

💖💖 +347K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Half sleep, half waking (softestpunk) - The Sandman & Rivers of London crossover: dreamling, 8K - amazing crossover! I wish there was 60K of this for me to read

Road to Joy (Oddree13) - Stranger Things: steddie, 25K - latest chapter in this omegaverse steddie series that I absolutely adore

Knit One, Purl Two (mollus) - MCU: stucky, 32K - reread; forever fave WS recovery fic with lots of softness in the form of: knitting, dancing, soap making and senior citizens

Red, White & Royal Goose (fairestfaerie) - RWRB: alex/henry, 7K - I just love a good Soulmate Goose of Enforcement fic

This Sunlit Land (eyres) - MCU: stucky, 38K - wonderful canon/timeline-divergent WS recovery AU

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Resident Alien - s1, e1-3

QI - series S, ep 7-9

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "The Fall of New York City" (s7, e1)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Heaven and Hell on Earth" (s7, e2)

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Stress Tested" (s21, e7)

D20: Adventuring Party - "A Negroni and a Bowl of Spinach" (s16, e7)

Ghosts (US) - s2, e16-22; s3, e1-2

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Vibe Check - Hey, Sis: featuring Kimberly Drew

The Sporkful - Can A Restaurant Makeover Make Diners Spend More?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Boston’s Blue Hill

Short Wave - The Life And Death Of A Woolly Mammoth

Desert Island Discs - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cellist

I Said No Gifts! - Jay Jurden Disobeys Bridger

The Assignment with Audie Cornish - Where Does Fani Willis Go From Here?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - World’s Loneliest House

⭐ Switched on Pop - Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)

Shedunnit - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1)

Up First - Julian Assange Extradition Hearing, Egypt Buffer Zone, Louisiana Special Session

Today, Explained - The Panama Canal is drying up

It's Been a Minute - Jada Pinkett Smith, the artist

Vibe Check - Welcome to Tip Check

Outward - True Detective: Night Country’s Lesbian Subtext

⭐ Code Switch - Why menthol cigarettes have a chokehold on Black smokers

Short Wave - When The Sun Erupts

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Stone of Destiny

⭐ 99% Invisible #571 - You Are What You Watch

Films To Be Buried With - Tyler James Williams

Ologies with Alie Ward - Black Hole Theory Cosmology (WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?!) Part 1 with Ronald Gamble, Jr.

Off Menu - Ep 226: Noel Fielding

NPR's Book of the Day - 'Thank You Please Come Again' pays homage to Southern gas station food shops

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Buffalo Soldiers National Museum

The Assignment with Audie Cornish - Jake Tapper on American Political Scandal

⭐ Throughline - Dance Yourself Free (Throwback)

If Books Could Kill - The Better Angels of Our Nature

Our Opinions Are Correct - We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon

⭐ Today, Explained - Fight at the Museum

The Sporkful - Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Bagels

Dear Prudence - My Friend Has a Master’s Degree in Lying. Help!

What Next: TBD - The Coasts are Sinking

Short Wave - Didn't Get A Valentine's Love Song? These Skywalker Gibbons Sing Love Duets

Endless Thread - Endless Thread: The Musical

⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Industrial Musicals

Strong Songs - "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden

You're Dead to Me - Queen of Sheba [turned out to be really perfect timing to have this knowledge right before getting to certain relevant bits in my current read The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi]

It's Been a Minute - Have we hit celebrity overload? Plus, Miyazaki's movie magic

Simply Reflecting - Did You Say Delusional?

Under the Influence - Seeing is Believing: The Power of Demonstration Commercials

Hit Parade - The Bridge: Bon Soir, Barbra

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Chromeo

Living Colour

Chicago House Foundation

Presenting Soundgarden

Swing Fever [Rod Stewart & Jools Holland] {2024}

Adult Contemporary [Chromeo] {2024}

Campfire Classics

[thebendsbyradiohead]

i know white man with a podcast has become almost a meme by this point but i genuinely cannot listen to podcasts hosted by men? i've tried several times with different ones but their voices are sooo aggravating and i'm always like "uhh yeah sure, whatever u say bro 🙄"

if a man has anything worthwhile to say he should write a letter and send it to the newspaper like god intended, keep the talking to yourself

[qcomicsy]

If batkids had a podcast XVI

Red hood: Just us today?

Nightwing: Just us today.

Red hood (laughing) I wonder why–

Nighwing: Dude– (laughing as well)

Red hood: I–

Nightwing: Dude don't do it–

(just both of them chuckling)

Red Hood (close to the mic): They're grounded.

Nightwing: (CACKLES)

Nightwing (crying): This is not funny

Red Hood: This is hilarious.

Red Hood: Were last survivors of our kind. . .

Red Hood: Adults.

Nightwing: Adults.

Red Hood: He can't ground us anymore.

Nighwing, chuckling: He can't ground us anymore

Red Hood:

Red Hood: Fuck.

Nightwing:

Red Hood: We're b– (pause) We're both the oldest now.

Nightwing: Yeah– You, me and–

Red Hood, at the same time: Yeah– (pause) This is so surreal

Nightwing: You think?

Red Hood: Yeah. Dude – I was. . . I was the youngest.

Nightwing: Oh your sweet summer– I was a only child.

Red Hood: (Cackles)

Nightwing: It really isn't that weird to me.

Red Hood: Really?

Nightwing: Yeah– I was always the oldest man.

Nightwing: I was the oldest of my team

Red Hood: What?!

Nightwing: Yeah!

Red Hood: You're fucking with me.

Nightwing: Nah man– I was the oldest. I am the oldest, I'm not dead.

Red Hood:

Red Hood: You're older than Arsenal?

Nightwing: I'm older than everybody man.

Nightwing: People look at me and assign me to take care of children.

Red Hood (imitating Damian voice): "Father genes"

Nightwing: HA– "father genes" (pause) Why are you looking at me like that?

Red Hood:

Red Hood: You're ancient.

Nightwing: IM NOT ANCIENT.

Red Hood: You're older than the Teen Titans, fucking older than Young Justice.

Nightwing: You're older than Young Justice

Red Hood: I was dead man it doesn't count.

Nightwing: Of course it does– How old are you?

Red Hood: How old are you?

Nightwing:

Nighwing: I– I am an adult.

Red Hood: Uh-huh.

Nightwing: In a reasonable age.

Red Hood: You're in your thirties aren't you?

Nightwing: NO

Nightwing:

Red Hood: You look like you're in your thirties– The bag under your eyes

Nightwing: Because I'm tired????

Red Hood: The hunched posture.

Nightwing: Hey I do not have hunched posture– Fuck you.

Nightwing: You try to take care of an entire team of teenagers just to end up taking care of more two and a grown ass depressed middle aged man.

Red Hood: That was Red–

Nightwing: That was Red. (pause) I would have fucking killed him.

Red Hood: Oh Definitely.

Nightwing: Point still stand man I'm tired.

Red Hood: Both of us.

Nightwing: Both of us– (chuckles) Robins if you're hearing this I love both of you and I would do it all over again. Titans– (closer to the mic) You know what you did.

Red Hood: (Cackles)

Red Hood (closer to his mic): You know your sins.

Nightwing (laughing): Flash owe me 30 dollars.

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[colin-becher-death-countdown]

okay so I paused the podcast as soon as I heard Colin's voice and started writing down my thoughts

COLIN BECHER WILLINGLY MAKING A PHONE CALL?? AGHHHHH YES CMMMONN DIE DIE DIE!!!!

oh my god please that'd be so heartbreaking if he died rn with that final message, that would literally be a dream come true if that was how he died, like no mess, no statement, just a sorry to bother you, I'm not as important as whatever you're dealing with rn

Goodbye Alice from Colin and now a Goodbye Gwen from Lena, very circular I like it, one dead (presumed he's dead to me) one alive

Oh Gwen you've got a big storm coming

"Even if it was on the train. Which we can't be sure of" HMMMM IF ONLY THERE WAS A WAY YOU COULD FIND OUT THAT INFORMATION, IF ONLY THERE WAS A WOMAN DESPERATELY CALLING YOU TO RELAY THIS INFORMATION, IF ONLY

"WE WANT YOUR TEETH"!!!!!!

Celia channeling Joshua Gillespie and Sam channeling Jonathan Sims, and only one of those people got killed by a unicycle so not looking good for you Sam

The Dark namedrop

"I try not to see these days." Melanie King be like

That old woman was actually Agnes Montague chillin (I mean she would be in her 70's soooo)

The Custodian needs to join a union

that is not what I meant by joining a union

17 missed calls from Alice in unit 17 okay I hear you

IT'S THE LAW OF EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE!!

Hmm I wonder if Celia knows the apocalypse was reverted in the other world.

"SLICED MY WHO FROM ME" CELIA DID YOUR WHO GET TURNED BLOODY FROM YOUR WHAT TOO???

A Bouchard in charge ain't that just the way, balance truly is restored

Oh Sam and the Archivist are gone, perhaps they are in the Magnus Archives world now, the Archivist has a recorder to keep them on track, or maybe they will also Unionise

[ultimate-marysue]

This post inspired me to think about secret identity logistics and I think Cass being so cavalier with her secret identity would actually help. Like, it makes the rest of the family's secret identities better because Cassandra Cain is obviously Blackbat/Batgirl. By contrast they would look even more civilian and if someone is not going to realize their kid is a vigilante is Brucie Wayne.

"But wouldn't they connect the dots to the rest of the family?" Listen, If those were bats they'd simply get out of the kidnappings and hostage situations they get themselves into like Cassandra. The fact that they always need to be saved proves they're, indeed, civilians.

Also, I doubt the math would math unless you knew very specific internal things to connect each vigilante to their civilian identity. Brucie is, for starters, as civilian as can get and thanks to the Mandela effect everyone is convinced that he was caught on camera making out with Batman anyways. So that's a non-starter.

Dick Grayson is trying to be a regular person, so the public would know he exists and comes back to important things but he's mostly out of the public eye. Plus, he's a police officer, why would anyone assume he's in kahoots with his little sister that was adopted after he'd already left Gotham?? And when he came back to Gotham for a while to take care of things for his father, is not like there was a new vigilante. It was still batman and Robin (the Robin was new, but Dick Grayson is an adult so, not likely).

Then we get to the big one: Jason is legally dead. You can't assign him any vigilante because he's mmm super dead. I'm sure there's a true crime podcaster trying to argue that he was the second robin and died doing robin shit, that's why Batman and Bruce broke up. But even if it's compelling, it's also considered in really bad taste. Also, can't be tied to Cassandra because she arrived after his death.

Tim gets a similar reaction to Brucie in the sense that there's no way he is a vigilante. He's the immunocompromised Twink from Forbes "30 under 30". He's literally physically incapable of being a super hero due to both a lack of Muscles and a lack of time. That boy has to run an entire massive money making machine and, for all gothamites know, he may very well be asthmatic as well. Plus, he gets kidnapped like crazy. If he was a hero he would at least now how to avoid being put in those situations. They suspect he's covering for Cass though, since he's smart enough to realize his sister is freaking Batgirl.

This means that even if Cass is Batgirl they can't really trace Batman, Nightwing, Red Robin or Red hood back to the family (not to speak of Batwoman, Catwoman, Huntress, Batgirl a 1 and 2, Oracle or spoiler). So at this point why would you even try to connect the others? Clearly Cass is the exception, not the rule.

Like, sure, Duke did survive the Riddler ruling Gotham and if you put some effort, it wouldn't be impossible to tie him to the We Are Robin movement. But also ...is it because he's black? Is it because he's the only black person from Gotham you know of?? His sister is a vigilante, and he is black, so he must be the black vigilante of course (He would be the one making this comments in social media through his sock puppet accounts and the True Crime/conspiracy communities would be too scared to touch that one with a ten foot pole)

Damian is another one where I think Bruce would do what he can to protect him from the press (partially for his own good and partially because he's the opposite of media trained). Most of the info the tabloids would get is from people tangentially related to him. Like, sure, he does look a bit like the new robin, and his sister is Batgirl. But, unless you're one of the people claiming he's the lovechild of Bruce Wayne and Batman (test tube baby??? Batman trans???) it wouldn't make a lot of sense now, would it?

Like Cass is so fucking weird compared to the rest of her family's civilian identities it makes them look rock solid by comparison.