This is charming..
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He's doing pretty good for 93. And he tells a good story.
There's a link to more stories from the Moth on the right. Real stories, told live without notes.
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Having finished the series S*TOWN (Excellent, but glad it ended. 7 Episodes is 6 and 1/2 episodes longer than my attention span) I find myself back at "The Magic Tavern".
I like it, but am somewhat dissuaded by the sheer number of episodes. The website - well, it could use some improvement. A lot of improvement. The biggest criticism I have is that there's no navigation - I mean backward and forward throughout the series, I listen to episode 10, I have to search for episode 11, or browse the archives. There's links to the archives, to related episodes, to random episodes, to the shops, the sponsors, the tags, but - and it seems they should have noticed this - no "Next" or "Previous" or "First" or "Last" links. A petty inconvenience, but it's noticeable.
In any event I'm enjoying it. It's that perfect mix of Improv with a few scripted cues, but a lot of it's off the cuff banter and ribbing, baiting one another and trying to stay in character and form...amusing. And it reminds me of too many nights out myself with a few too many drinks and the right companions, you could have recorded something very close...
Enjoyable. Not Genius, but well done, and it's got that "I could have done this" (but didn't) flavor that makes it all that much better.
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A couple of new podcasts recently discovered, one - S*TOWN - Host Brian Reed travels to Woodstock, Alabama, to solve a listener-reported murder and the story unfolds (not as you might think) from there. Poignant, complex. The other a more whimsical look at the misadventures of Arnie Niekamp after he falls through a rift behind a burger king into a seemingly enchanted kingdom that's strangely parallel to our own...
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A fine podcast that goes a little deeper on the Wells Fargo scandal, with added commentary by ex employees.
Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/07/497084491/episode-728-the-wells-fargo-hustle
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