Radio is not dead

[Craig Good]

It's just called podcasting now. We may indeed be in the Golden Age of podcasting. In case you'd like to hear any of my contributions to the podstalt, here are some links. You can read/listen right from the web sites or subscribe via iTunes.

Skeptoid is, not surprisingly, a skeptical podcast, and one of the oldest. I've been guest-hosting a few episodes. 

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4431 (Acupuncture)

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4446 (The Fallibility of Memory)

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4460 (Plastic Bags)

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4439 (A Skeptical Look at the News)

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4467 (Baby Myths)

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4474 (Solfeggio Frequencies)

If drama is more your cup of tea you might enjoy Earbud Theater. It's rather in the vein of audio Twilight Zone or a rebirth of the Mercury Theater. I've edited and mixed a couple of these. The last is one I also wrote and sort of directed. There'll be a new episode (final mix happened right after the picnic) up on Monday evening, I believe.

You can go to http://earbudtheater.com/podplay-index/ and scroll to

911 (Wrote, directed, edited, mixed)

The Creaky Stairs (edited, mixed)

This Monstrous Life (edited, mixed) <- a holiday episode for fans of This American Life

So much for today's self promotion. It came up at the picnic, which is why I posted.

[Brian Howell]

Thanks a lot for posting these, Craig! I'm going to give both of these 'casts a spin soon. I listen to a lot of podcasts and also have a love for old-time radio drama.

When I was twelve, I discovered the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, a weeknight broadcast of radio plays, some original, others drawn from classic works (e.g., Twain and O'Henry). RMT was hosted by noted stage and screen actor E.G. Marshall (who also narrated my father's long-lost television documentary special on human evolution, The Man Hunters). The casts varied and occasionally included well known actors and actresses. Production values were always high. Story quality varied, especially for original ones, but many episodes are very good and some are outstanding. 

Trivia: the opening/closing RMT theme music were borrowed from the Twilight Episode Two. Other music was drawn from other CBS properties. The creaking door effect that was the show's logo was also borrowed from another radio mystery program, Inner Sanctum, which was broadcast 30 years earlier. Both programs were produced by Himan Brown.

Nearly 1,400 CBSRMT shows are available to download and listen from http://www.cbsrmt.com. Technical quality of individual episodes vary. They're great to download and listen to while driving. 

Oh, and I just discovered that many episodes of RMT forerunner Inner Sanctum are available from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Inner_Sanctum_Mysteries_Singles. I listened to a lot of those, too. They were played in rotation with other classic radio programs on KSFO in the 70's and early 80's during its Golden Age of Radio hour weekday evenings, which preceded RMT. I was almost certainly one of the few 7th graders in the United States at the time who knew about Fibber McGee's closet and the Shadow's secret power. (You'll have to look those up for yourself.)

On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 12:34:58 AM UTC-7, Craig Good wrote:

It's just called podcasting now. We may indeed be in the Golden Age of podcasting. In case you'd like to hear any of my contributions to the podstalt, here are some links. You can read/listen right from the web sites or subscribe via iTunes.

[Scott Hotes]

Craig, these are very cool, thanks for sending!  Lot's of good fuel for discussion here.

You picked on an easy target with acupuncture, although it was interesting to hear how

far "common wisdom" is from reality in terms of its history.  Now onto more challenging

targets, like the benefits of public education and social security... :)  

Or maybe whether Democracy is feasible in our modern world?  See for example:

http://www.outlookindia.com/article/democracy/215477

Regarding memory, a book I really like that opened my eyes on this topic was:

Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

Scott

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[Craig Good]

On Jul 15, 2015, at 14:41 PM, Scott Hotes <sah...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Craig, these are very cool, thanks for sending! Lot's of good fuel for discussion here.
> You picked on an easy target with acupuncture, although it was interesting to hear how
> far "common wisdom" is from reality in terms of its history.

Thanks! When picking my topics I was surprised that Brian hadn’t already done an acupuncture episode. To me it’s fruit that hangs nearly as low as homeopathy.

>
>
> Regarding memory, a book I really like that opened my eyes on this topic was:
>
> Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
>

I’ve heard good things. It was even mentioned in an academic talk I heard recently about how appreciation of humor rewards the brain for switching to “slow”.






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