#the atlas obscura podcast podcast

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (18-24 Dec 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰👂‍ Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (Lucy Worsley, author & narrator) - an excellent biography

😍 All That You Are to Me series (2bestfriends) - 87K, shrunkyclunks - holiday reread, 'the lumberjack steve/twink bucky fic of our hearts' - main fic 67K, sequel fic 20K

😍 It's the Best Time of the Year (chicklette) - 40K, shrunkyclunks, holiday time fic - reread of a fave with baker!Bucky & Cap!Steve - perfect blend of angst, fluff and action

😍 (if only in my dreams) (jehans) - 45K, stucky no powers AU - reread of holiday season friends2lovers/2nd chance with some QUALITY pining

💖💖 +323K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

SHOCKING! Spiderman's Alien Baby: Friendly Neighborhood Hero and His Hanukkah Blessing (AggressiveWhenStartled) - MCU: Peter Parker v the Geriatric Supersoldier Husbands, 4.8K - no one writes the adventures of a hapless Peter tangled up with the Geriatric Supersolider Husbands like AggressiveWhenStartled - pure hilarity throughout (and ZERO alien babies despite the title)

One Does Not Simply Walk Into JoAnn Fabrics (And other millennial lessons from The Winter Soldier) (attackofthezee (noxlunate)) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 11.9K - forever fave; holiday reread of a recovering WS who gets a job working at JoAnn's and falls hard for a customer

Bucky Barnes Has His Shit Together (and Other Lies He Tells Himself) (betts) - MCU: stucky no-powers AU, 14K - holiday reread of recovering vet Bucky & single dad baker Steve

Here Comes Santa Claus (AidaRonan) - MCU: stucky, 6.7K - holiday reread - hilarious and hot - Bucky meets Santa!Steve and this santa definitely fucks

then a small thing happened (BeaArthurPendragon) - MCU: stucky no-powers AU, 35K - new holiday fave about recovering photojournalist Bucky and astronaut Steve - LOVED LOVED LOVED

rockin' around (wearing_tearing) - Stranger Things: Steddie/Ronance/Fruity Four, 13K - an absolutely DELIGHTFUL advent collection of ficlets - every day was a pop of pure joy to read

Knit One, Purl Two (mollus) - MCU: stucky, 32K - holiday reread, forever fave - recovering WS/Cap with healing via crafting with a delightful knitting group

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Taskmaster - s14, e1-10

Glass Onion

Single All The Way

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Decoder Ring Plus - Encore: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong

Switched on Pop - Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tumbleweed Christmas Tree

99% Invisible #519 - Balikbayan Boxes

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Priscilla’s Homecoming

It's Been a Minute - (Almost) 20 years of 'Love Actually'

Off Menu - Ep 41: Joe Lycett (Christmas Special)

Into It - Matt Rogers Has Heard of Christmas, But 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'

Off Menu - Ep 175: Alex Horne (Christmas Special)

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Simply Christmas (Deluxe Edition) [Leslie Odom Jr]

Merry Christmas…Have A Nice Life [Cyndi Lauper]

Trans Siberian Orchestra playlist

Classical Christmas

A Sunny Brazilian Christmas

A Merry Little Christmas [Linda Ronstadt]

A Legendary Christmas [John Legend]

Jingle Bell Swing

It's a Holiday Soul Party [Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings]

Twelve Songs Of Christmas [Etta James]

Home for Christmas [Daryl Hall & John Oates]

A Very Too Many Zooz Xmas [Too Many Zooz]

A Heavy Metal Christmas [Christopher Lee]

A Heavy Metal Christmas Too [Christopher Lee]

Merry Flippin' Christmas Vol. 1 and 2 [Bowling For Soup]

Punk Rock Christmas

Classic Soul Christmas

my rockabilly christmas playlist

my xmas playlist

[wigmund]

Spotify's Wrapped for 2023

[thoughtportal]

In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a number of tiny, mysterious doors scattered throughout Atlanta, Georgia, which ask viewers to imagine what might be found on the other side.

Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Join us daily, Monday through Thursday, to explore a new wonder with cofounder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters.

[dtafm]

ATLAS OBSCURA // Cover Art [Unused]

The show wound up going in a different direction, but I couldn’t let these lovely drawings I made sit on the hard drive never to be seen.

[biglisbonnews]

Podcast: Yellowstone's Zone of Death Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a 50 square mile patch of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho—that might just be the perfect place to commit a crime. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Join us daily, Monday through Thursday, to explore a new wonder with cofounder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-yellowstones-zone-of-death

[lingthusiasm]

Lingthusiasm Episode 73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory

Maps of languages of the world are fun to look at, but they’re also often suspiciously precise: a suspiciously round number of languages, like 7000, mapped to dots or coloured zones with suspiciously exact and un-overlapping locations. And yet, if you’ve ever eavesdropped on people on public transit, you know that any given location often plays host to many linguistic varieties at once.  

In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about the complications that come with trying to map languages and dialects. We talk about the history of how people have tried to map out linguistic varieties, and how geopolitical factors like war, colonialism, migration, education, and nationalism influence which languages are considered to exist and where, in the context of Inuktitut, French, BANZSL (British, Australian, and New Zealand Sign Languages), and the Faroe Islands. We also talk about sprachbunds, aka how languages and dialects are more like gradients of colour rather than patchwork pieces.

This episode was updated with a corrected definition of sprachbund [14:54 - 16:08] on 23/10/2022.

Read the transcript here.

Announcements:

November is our anniversary month and this year we’re celebrating 6 years of Lingthusiasm! We invite you to celebrate with us by sharing your favourite Lingthusiasm episode by sharing a link to your favourite episode, or just sharing your lingthusiasm. Most people still find podcasts through word of mouth, and lots of them don’t yet realise that they could have a fun linguistics chat in their ears every month (or eyes, all Lingthusiasm episodes have transcripts!). If you share Lingthusiasm on social media, tag us so we can reply, and if you share in private, we won’t know but you can feel a warm glow of satisfaction - or feel free to tell us about it on social media if you want to be thanked! We're also doing a listener survey for the first time! This is your chance to tell us about what you're enjoying about Lingthusiasm so far, and what else we could be doing in the future - and your chance to suggest topics! And we couldn’t resist the opportunity to add a few linguistic experiments in there as well, which we’ll be sharing the results of next year. We might even write up a paper about the survey one day, so we have ethics board approval from La Trobe University for this survey. Take the survey here! In this month’s bonus episode we interview Liz McCullough (no relation), of Lingthusiasm production manager fame, about linguistics and science communication. We talk about how Liz got interested in linguistics through science and music, her varied career path going back and forth between museums and universities, and how she's worked with us on the intersection between linguistics and science communication.

Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 60+ other bonus episodes, access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds.

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

The Lingthusiasm Listener Survey

Twitter thread by @jon_speaks_ about the continuum of Faroese

Wikipedia entry for Faroese

Atlas Obscura article about Edmond Edmont

Wikipedia entry for Edmond Edmont

Wikipedia entry for BANZSL languages

Wikipedia entry for Dialect Continuum

Superlinguo post ‘New Publication: Mapmaking for Language Documentation and Description (in Language Documentation & Conservation)’

WALS entry for Hand and Arm

Native Land Digital map with polygons

NASA Webb vs Hubble telescopes

Tweet by @marinakoren of a Webb telescope image of space

You can listen to this episode via Lingthusiasm.com, Soundcloud, RSS, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download an mp3 via the Soundcloud page for offline listening. To receive an email whenever a new episode drops, sign up for the Lingthusiasm mailing list.

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Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com

Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic.

Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, and our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.

This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

[copperbadge]

Re: Shivadhverse Eddie Rambler Crossover with Ghost Adventures and “looking for the ghost of Alekha.” So, will we be revisiting the wine cellar again? And in the best traditions of BBC radio, will Noah be podcasting the filming of the documentary of the filming of the programme? 😁

Noah has definitely hosted at least one sleepover with his friends from the Maritime Academy where they snuck down there after lights-out and told ghost stories all night.

If you really want to get layered with it, Noah is totally making a podcast about Eddie posting video clips of a documentary film crew documenting the filming of a horror film about podcasters exploring a wine cellar.

Also Atlas Obscura has an article about the Lost Wine Cellar of Askazer-Shivadlakia, but they note that it's not open to the public and in order to see it you may need to convince the old dude who lives there that your interests are both genuine and scholarly. That said, if you do, you have good odds of also getting a tasting of some of the wine that was pulled out of the cellar.

[simarcana]

What's "Roadside Oddities"?

No one asked, but I'm going to explain it anyway. Roadside Oddities (RO for short) is a project I've been thinking about for a while. I'll make a post about the characters later this week, but for now, I'll talk a little about the MacGuffin of the story. Roadside Oddities is a site and a Podcast owned by the main character of the story, Alika. They keep track of his mystery-seeking adventures on the road, but in very different ways.

Roadside Oddities is a site and a Podcast owned by the main character of the story, Alika. They keep track of his mystery seeking adventures on the road even if in different ways.

The site is an occult-enthusiast guide. Heavly inspired by Atlas Obscura. It's Alika's main source of income as he often collab with local small businesses to advertise odd courses or promote tourism in usually forgotten cities on the map. He's also writing a book about the most extraordinary places on the East Coast, but God knows when it'll see the light of day.

A podcast about the world's most strange, mysterious, and wondrous places. Alika Diamandis crosses the United States by road since 2020 and is still creating the definitive occult-enthusiast guide on his homonymous website. Here, you'll face unbelievable events and meet fascinating people. You'll hear about mysterious lights in the night sky, wendingos, and small towns' unsolved cases. Turn on the radio and enjoy the ride.

On the other side, Alika's podcast sounds almost like fiction. His listeners often debate whether the stories in it are real or not. Alika never gave them a straight answer on the topic. The podcast follows uncanny adventures that never made it to the site and are always narrated by Alika in first person. Rarely, he adds some recordings from the people involved, but even here, listeners are not sure they are legit recordings or someone reading a script. With some delightful, eerie, and supernatural vibes, Roadside Oddities will keep you with your headphone on from the first minute to the last.

The podcast follows adventures so uncanny they never made it to the site and are always narrated by Alika in first person. Rarely he adds some recording from the people involved but even here listeneres are not sure they are legit recordings or someone reading a script. With some delightful uncanny and supernatural vibes, Roadside Oddities will keep you with your headphone on from the first minute to the last.

Last but not least, Alika has IG/TikTok and sometimes goes live while exploring.

I'll try my best to implement all the most interesting aspects in my gameplay and to post more or less regularly!

----------------------------------- site template: @dayslily tiktok template: @gloomfishish 

[meret118]

HORSES NEIGHED AND FIRES CRACKLED as Queen Tamar of Georgia walked among her troops on the eve of battle in July 1203. Her enemies outnumbered her soldiers nearly two to one. Still, the queen did not waver as she spoke words of courage to the assembled army. In a show of humility, she stood before them barefoot while wearing lavish garments full of religious symbolism to inspire a righteous bravery in all who saw her. As she finished her rousing speech, hardy, battle-worn soldiers stood, raised their spears, and shouted, “To our king!” The next day, the Georgian army decimated their foe.

In the late 12th and early 13th centuries, Tamar the Great ushered in Georgia’s golden age. She expanded borders, oversaw massive architectural projects, and helped define the kingdom’s unique identity at the crossroads of East and West. She sat on war councils and, as one chronicler wrote, “took counsel with them, not like a helpless person, or a woman, and did not neglect the dictates of reason.”

As father/daughter historians Jonathan and Emily Jordan demonstrate in their book, War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield, Tamar was far from history’s only warrior queen. The pair recently launched a new podcast with Diversion Audio (also called War Queens) where they dig into all the twists and bloody turns of Tamar’s story alongside other battle-hardened queens.

Atlas Obscura sat down with Emily Jordan to talk about why Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli had it out for her favorite fortress-seizing countess, an African queen who went toe-to-toe with Portuguese enslavers, and why so often these women’s stories go overlooked.

. . .

Who is your favorite person you highlight in the book or on the podcast? And why?

I think in terms of courage, I’d have to say Caterina Sforza. She’s really just an incredible Renaissance woman. She learned all about medicine, botany. She got to interact with Botticelli and Da Vinci. She went to people during times of plague with medicines that she created and studied. My favorite story about her is when her husband’s political interests were compromised when the pope died. Her husband was a paranoid, vicious man, but his family member was the pope. And when the pope passed away, that got Caterina thinking, “We may not be confirmed as the ruler of this city, of Imola.”

So she rides down to Rome, while pregnant, in her early twenties, and she takes hold of this great fortress, Castel Sant’Angelo. The cardinals have to cross in front of the castle on this big bridge to get over to Vatican City. So she points the cannons right at them and says. “Rome, hold up. Stop. I’m in charge.” She stops all of Rome and stops the cardinals from electing a new pope until they confirm her and her husband’s titles. The fact that she did this in her early twenties while pregnant is insane to me.

Did any of these war queens have experience in battle?

Queen Njinga Mbandi of Ndongo-Matamba [two African kingdoms located in present-day Angola] is by far the most physically capable of all the women we write about. Very few of our women really had a lot of hand-to-hand combat experience; Caterina Sforza had a little bit. But Njinga [sometimes spelled “Nzinga”] would charge into battle with her people. She lived during the 17th century and was the leader of her tribe. She had an older brother who was in power before her, but she was a better hand-to-hand combat fighter, leader, and diplomat, so she kind of takes charge. She was this amazing chameleon and takes on different types of cultures in order to unite her people.

She was trained to do this martial art. It’s linked to the Brazilian art of capoeira where you almost do dances as exercises, jumping side to side out of the way of arrows and bullets. Certain scholars even claim that a part of the art, called ginga [pronounced and sometimes spelled “jinga”], is named after her. Their main weapon was a form of battle axe, and she was really well-trained with that axe as well.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (23-29 Apr 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰👂‍Something Wild & Wonderful (Anita Kelly, author; Mark Sanderlin, narrator) - really enjoyable contemp romance about 2 guys who meet hiking the PCT - great MCs, great supporting characters

😍Backhoe (Zenaidamacrouras1) - 123K, no-powers modern AU with a smol Steve & beefy Bucky - absolutely incredible fic where Steve's an art grad student/activist & goes to protest a pipeline in Appalachia, which is going to be built across Bucky's family land - this fic was fantastic! Great (& authentic) sense of place & community, well-developed OCs (Bucky's sisters) - it's a meet-cute followed by all the work an actual relationship takes, very real & genuine with the emotions & hurdles that come up.

🥰Gravity's Got Nothing on You (zosofi) - 86K, sterek au, fake dating, frenemies-to-lovers with the encouragement(?) of some magic wolf figurines - it's probably been 8 years since I read this and it's as delightful as I remember - they're both so emotionally constipated it's hilarious

💖💖 +143K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

All I'm Saying, Pretty Baby series (IrisLanding) - Stranger Things: steddie, 21K - "Steve and Eddie stumble into a series of dirty talking sexual adventures that may actually lead somewhere."

turn down the lights, turn down the bed (rockinhamburger) - Ted Lasso: Trent/Ted, 25K - Trent, drunk & thirsty af & bemoaning his life, accidentally texts Ted instead of his bestie. Some really good dicking, angst & emotions ensue.

Love Runs Wild (DevilDoll) - TW: sterek, 9K - a fucking forever fave classic from the "Neckz 'n Throats" universe

Thursday Nights with Bucky Barnes (Ellessey) - MCU: stucky, 4K - short but super duper meet cute with grumpy Steve and NOT the normal laundromat guy

Not In The Answer But The Question (aimmyarrowshigh) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 27K - reread this fantastic shrunkyclunks with cap!steve (who's busy not processing his trauma) meeting queer disabled jewish deli owner bucky. So fucking good. Plus it will make you crave BEC bagels (which I 100% ordered from our local place this AM)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Dirty Laundry - s2, e11

Um, Actually - s1, e5; s6, e2-6,8-12, s8, e3-4

Shrinking - s1, e1

Schmigadoon! - s2, e5

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s9, e3

Ted Lasso - s3, e7 [x2]

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Weird Al Yankovic

Into It - Roy Wood Jr. Is Ready for Late Night

Switched on Pop - Who killed the key change in pop music?

⭐Desert Island Discs - Dara Ó Briain, comedian and television presenter

99% Invisible #534 - For Amusement Only (Free Replay)

⭐Vibe Check - You About to Lose Yo’ Job

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Harry Belafonte

ICYMI Plus - We’ve Learned Nothing From West Elm Caleb

Decoder Ring Plus - The Artist Who Was Both Loved and Disdained

Ologies with Alie Ward - Delphinology Part 2 (DOLPHINS) with Justin Gregg

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Last Wild Apple Groves

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Telling Time through the Trees with the Places Team

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Caring for Canids

Shedunnit - Bonus: What is "Cosy"?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Moose Boulder

Into It - Are We Into Ed Sheeran's Lawsuit, Tucker Carlson's Firing, and Timothée Chalamet?

Endless Thread - The Birds and the Bugs

Sidedoor - Bill Nye the Sidedoor Guy

You're Dead To Me - The Rise of the Tudors

⭐Hit Parade Plus - The Bridge: Video Pilled Suburbia’s Child

ICYMI Plus - Should We All Be Pirating More?

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Paul McCartney

Presenting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Instru-Metal

Emily King

Presenting Dio

Presenting Iron Maiden

Alestorm

synthwave radio [Lofi Girl]

Presenting Alice Cooper

Presenting Rush

The Look Of Love - The Very Best Of ABC [ABC]

[l8tof1]

thank u for tagging me @collarboen 🥰 i got so excited to do this and then i realized i don’t consume a lot of specific music or shows so i’ll adjust this a little!

rules: tag people you want to get to know better

last podcast: i walk 10k steps every day and listen to podcasts as i do! got back into true crime recently and am catching up on ‘generation why’ eps. also, always, ‘99% invisible’ and ‘atlas obscura’ to learn about the amazing places that exist everywhere! plus ‘my dad wrote a porno’, i re-listen all the time. AND ‘borderline salty’ about food and cooking with carla lalli music who i adore.

currently watching: booktube. old house renovations on youtube. random youtubers i’ve watched for a decade. this 🤏 close to paying for ad-free youtube because it’s literally all i watch.

currently reading: liveship traders series by robin hobb. it’s my first ever try at fantasy which i never thought i could get into but this series is addictive! best book i’ve read so far this year: open water by caleb azumah nelson. please please read, it’s so tender and gorgeous and sexy, themes are friendship and love and male vulnerability.

current obsessions: soba noodles. my plant babies - they’ve grown so much this summer, they make me so happy. 🥹 autumn, i guess? i am longing for colder weather and cozy clothes and rain etc etc, you get it.

no pressure tags: idk i’ve seen a lot of people do this already but if you haven’t yet, do it!! <3 

[dyingforbadmusic]

SUNDAY ON THE POT WITH GEORGE John Gedraitis 37" x 22", acrylic on canvas Donated by Jim Schulman 1994

Can the swirling steam melt away the huge weight of George's corporate responsibilities? A fine example of labor intensive pointlessism, this painting is curious for the artist's meticulous attention to fine detail such as the stitching around the edge of the towel, in contrast to the almost careless disregard for the subject's feet.

Some background about the painting in the Atlas Obscura podcast

[hrtsmom]

3/10 Sunday 25°, wind chill 14° Matthew Waterhouse

6:45 AM

I hate the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. That is all.

Breakfast: blueberry banana Cheerios w/blueberries, string cheese, Black Raven tea

Lunch: Harvest Wheat Toasteds w/shrimp scampi cheese spread, radishes w/ranch, dried kiwi, 15-grain bread w/peanut butter & strawberry jam, Bear Crunch popcorn

Supper: air-fried steak, maple glazed carrots, pan-fried potatoes

Watched: Simon & Simon: “Love, Christy”

6:45 PM

So I made a new pair of earrings today, inspired by Crowley in the Good Omens TV series. And I just happened to share a picture of them on Bluesky, and happened to draw Neil Gaiman’s attention to the picture. And the next time I looked, I had 30+ mentions, which is like ten times the attention I’ve gotten for any of my posts on there ever. Including a like from Bebe Neuwirth, of all people. Sadly, no new followers, so the fame will be gone in a few hours. Ah well. I haven’t decided whether to keep the earrings or not. They’re much longer than I usually wear, but on the other hand, they’re special.

Listening to: The Atlas Obscura Podcast: “Secret Places With Ashley Ray”, “Whiskey You’re the Devil” by the Pogues

[firstofficerrose]

Hey Antigone Funn enjoyers! Go listen to Atlas Obscura's podcast from a week or two ago called "A Journey Through Death With Joanna Ebenstein"! This is excellent stuff!

[biglisbonnews]

Podcast: Arrows Across America Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we talk to an adventurous couple who set out to document and unearth the arrows of America—once used to help pilots find their way across the country. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Join us daily, Monday through Thursday, to explore a new wonder with cofounder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-arrows-across-america