https://longshadowpodcast.com

On Spotify and elsewhere. Started as a history of 9/11, has evolved into more diverse topics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EP7tmaUQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNHrL1i0SzU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCQUH429ME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqM_fQMWiks

Thanks, I'm actually really interested in that. Big fan of LC and VR as a youth. I think Billy is a very solid interviewer and charming (!) in the role from what I've seen. Anything that starts off with talk of Ronald Shannon Jackson is very welcome.

Oh my god, they're talking about Coltrane and I'm thinking of this Navy picture of him and then Reid brings it up for the exact same reason. Good stuff.

Nice pic. Stealing it.

Regular reminder that you really need to drop in on:

Death is just around the corner
Echo’s bones

The original conceit was kind of a late night AM radio broadcast at the end of the world, but that was dropped fairly quickly.

It’s kind of a one-take monologue format by a midwestern gothic anti-imperialist leftist who is very deeply read and was a jazz musician - troubled guy, has lots of stuff going on - wear your big boy pants when listening, but absolutely makes the most compelling podcast going.

His pods regularly destroy me, especially a recent-ish one where he went after WASP assholes cosplaying as catholic converts - being born catholic deeply traumatized me as a child, and hearing him lay it all out was both horrific and enormously compelling.

LIYL: bowie, scott walker, pynchon, religion, william t vollman, delillo, bolano, djuna barnes, william s burroughs, dos passos, Iain Sinclair, J G Ballard, esotericism, hermeneutics, marx

His ‘pean counterpart is Ghost Stories at the End of the World, similar in some ways. Worth a listen and goes down a bit easier - his subjects are much mote historical

I can’t think of any podcasts with NPR production values that will be anything but embarrassing in some years time, but these are one for the books.

I tried to start the Gravity's Rainbow run (or maybe it was JFK? can't remember) for "Death is just around the corner" a couple times based on the rec here, but couldn't find a proper archive. Is it out there, or do you have to subscribe to Patreon or similar?

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Dec 07, 2025 12:21 amHis pods regularly destroy me, especially a recent-ish one where he went after WASP assholes cosplaying as catholic converts - being born catholic deeply traumatized me as a child, and hearing him lay it all out was both horrific and enormously compelling.

Similar background here – got a link for this episode? Much obliged.

jimmy spako wrote: Sun Dec 07, 2025 4:59 am

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Dec 07, 2025 12:21 amHis pods regularly destroy me, especially a recent-ish one where he went after WASP assholes cosplaying as catholic converts - being born catholic deeply traumatized me as a child, and hearing him lay it all out was both horrific and enormously compelling.

Similar background here – got a link for this episode? Much obliged.

Edit: having trouble linking to the episode directly, will see if I can figure it out

jimmy spako wrote: Sun Dec 07, 2025 4:58 am I tried to start the Gravity's Rainbow run (or maybe it was JFK? can't remember) for "Death is just around the corner" a couple times based on the rec here, but couldn't find a proper archive. Is it out there, or do you have to subscribe to Patreon or similar?

Patreon is a mess, but I think the free ones are collected
here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/9317 ... =condensed (Filter down to the public episodes)

Not! Easy! Listening!