I am still subscribed to the Patreon, and listening to their weekly episodes.

I recently discovered MSA 21, a YouTube channel that takes readings from some of Lovecraft's stories and adds in full illustrations. So they are like a narrated comic. Half of it is in Russian. But the other half is in English. I found one little issue with the Nameless City episode, in which there was some kind of visual artifacts for several seconds. Then I think the audio and video got separated by those few seconds.

That sounds neat! I may check that out!

I love the music they use for The Call of Cthulhu entries on the H.P.Lovecraft Literary Podcast.

I have discovered some podcasts I have neglected to post about here.

American Hysteria is similar to You're Wrong About, in that it covers various hysterias and moral panics. Unlike YWA, it only has one host. But I like her voice (which is really important to me liking a podcast), and she has good stuff.

Why Are Dads? is done by one of the people from You're Wrong About, plus another person. They tackle movies which feature dads, and talk about the film in general and the dad issues and portrayls of dads in them. So far they have done Dirty Dancing, Jaws, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and a couple others.

Lions Led By Donkeys is kind of marginal for me, because I am not thrilled with the voices of the two podcasters. Just as some people have a face for radio, people also have a voice for it. Not them. In any case, they are two US veterans who talk about not the lions of military history, but the donkeys. The leaders who just totally screwed up. Like Haig in WW1, or the British retreat from Kabul, The War of 1812, and so on. Or just about total crap shows, like the Iran-Iraq War. Sometimes it is not about the losers so much, but just about things in the military in general. I just finished one on the Cold War and nuclear weapons (and all the accidents with nuclear bombs - sorry about those ones we dropped on your Spain!) that was well done.

And for something completely different, The Dirt is an archaeology podcast. I like the two hosts. They have good voices, and have a fun time doing the show, which translates into a fun show. They talk lots of archaeology stuff. I just listened to one on the Paleo Diet. Not the modern fad diet, but what we have found people were eating in the stone age. They just did one about warding off evil, and how people did so in the past.

I just finished a 6 part Lion Led By Donkeys series on The Iran-Iraq War. It was really good. The podcast that is, not the war. The tag line for this war is: "But wait, it gets worse" Or as the podcaster said, it was like a chess game, played by two idiots who did not know how to play chess.

I actually remember this. I was in my early teens when it stared. It was on the news occasionally, especially when it started. Though later the coverage petered out, especially once it turned into a mostly static affair of Iraqis in trenches and Iranians mounting human wave assaults (with martyrs on white horses of course). The podcast fills in all the many gaps in my memory. As well as reports on the things the news did not, such as how America gave Iraq the chemicals they would need to produce the poison gas they used on Iranian cities. It is how we knew Saddam had chemical weapons in the First Gulf War. We kept the receipts.

HPLHS has The Curse of Yig radio drama for sale. Just in time for Halloween!

Today I discovered The Old Gods of Appalachia. It is a fiction show, set in an alternate Appalachian Mountains. It is about the coal mines tearing out the life of the Mother Earth, and the terrible price she exacted from her plunderers. It is about the green forests where humans were never meant to tread. It is about something that cracked open deep within the bowels of the earth, where sunlight never fell, and what crept forth.

Needless to say, it is backwoods horror with a very strong Lovecraftian bent. It reminded me a lot of Asher Elbien's book Ghost Days, and of course Manly Wade Wellman's Silver John stories.

Unfortunately, it is all in the .m4a format, which my player does not recognize. So I have been forced to convert all the files, which is a real pain.

Ooo neat! I can get it on Apple Podcasts! I’ll definitely be checking this out!

I started it, and I’ve only listened to the prologue, the first, and second episodes, but so far I’m loving it! The atmosphere is really good! For some reason, I can’t help but think of the Swampfolk from Fallout3: Point Lookout, lol.

I recently discovered Our Fake History. It is a podcast that sheds the light of reality on history's myths. The stories that sound too crazy to be true, but are, and the ones that just plain made up.

I am about 20 episodes in, and it has been good so far. They had a really good 3 parter on Joan of Arc, and another good one about the Trojan War. As well as William Wallace, Napoleon, Cortez, Nero, and other figures and events with all sorts of myths created about them.

Blake from MonsterTalk has a tradition of doing a reading of a ghost story every Christmas. The recent ones are for Patreon subscribers only. But the older ones can be found here and enjoyed by everyone. So curl up with one of these mini-audiobooks and celebrate the season with some old school haunts.

Currently listening to a podcast called “Revolutions” where the guy talks about various revolutions in history. The first “season” was about the mess that were the English Civil Wars, and now in the second season he is talking about the American Revolutionary War. It’s also produced my favorite quote of the day! In reference to George Washington’s penchant for being able to get his Army out of really bad predicaments, the host said “George Washington could lead an army out of hell before the Devil even knew he was gone!”. I lol’d

Revolutions is one of my favorites. I learned a lot listening to it. They hit a lot of the high points revolution-wise from the English Civil War onward. I would say the host really hits his stride in the French Revolution. In the English and American serieses (serii?) he sort of rushed things. But he takes his sweet time in France, and it brings a lot more depth to the events.

I just recently did a re-listen to the French and Hatian serii. Otherwise I am caught up with where it currently is, deep in the Russian Revolution. That series is gigantic. It up to something like episode 82, and has only gotten to 1920 or so.

I can hardly wait for the Russian Revolution. What a mess that was!