#jjho

I saw someone else do this (theirs was specific to narrative fiction, but I'm listening to a lot more than that.)

This will be for recommendations, but also hopefully serve as a reminder to myself down the road.

Part One: The Ol' Reliables

Judge John Hodgman One of the first podcasts I even began listening to, and it's never NOT been on my subscription list. Even though it can be predictable (once you've heard 500 of these, you can guess where the rulings are headed) it's still delightful. Love John, Love Jesse. Love the whole deal. 8/10

My Brother, My Brother, and Me I came somewhat late to the party. So, after the most-problematic character traits of the boys were gone. 2 of the 3 of them always make me laugh. In my opinion, I only fail to enjoy about 10 of the episodes. 9/10

99% Invisible The GOAT. Funny, fascinating, and well-produced. It's been on my list for like 10 years? And it has introduced me to other phenomenal podcasts, books, and people. 10/10 no notes.

No Such Thing as a Fish 4 (usually) researcher for QI talk about weird facts they learned. It's great. 9/10

Sawbones Dr. Sydney McElroy and her clown husband discuss medical history. Although really, there are quite a few episodes of currently-relevant issues as well. Good stuff, though not without it's flat points. 8/10

Welcome to Night Vale Again, an all-timer. Though to be honest, it fell off my list for a while there. But when I went back and listened to the first 100 again to get caught back up, I refell in love. Great world, great writing, great narrator. Some of the deeper lore stuff doesn't always land with me (I still don't know how Huntokar like, matters). 8/10

Cautionary Tales The newest-comer to this slate. Fascinating stories told in a cunning way. Which is to say, sometime manipulative storytelling to pad out the 30 minutes or whatever. They hook you, then you find out that they lied up front sometimes. And sometimes they have ads for Crypto...which is so discordant on a podcast about watching out for scams. 6/10 (2 points off for their annoying and poorly-chosen ads, honestly. May be a ploy to herd people to their Patreon.)

Thank you @tomakeitbeautifultolive for finding this! I was looking for it for like a week and then I gave up. BUT YOU FOUND IT! This is GRRM’s talk with JJHO where they discuss Fire and Blood at the Loew’s Theatre in NJ. 

I really really wanted to see this because JJHO is like my weird internet uncle. I listen to his podcast (Judge John Hodgman)  every week and I was so stoked when I found out he was going to host this event. 

My favorite moment of this whole talk was JJHO and GRRM are discussing the new prequels coming out from HBO, (Its around 44 minute mark) and JJHO asks “Have you considered doing a series in Westeros’s Edwardian period?” (So like 500+ years after the events of Game of Thrones) 

And GRRM just kind of laughs off the question and doesn’t really answer it, but I want to discuss it. 

Some suppositions: 

Jon and Dany parallel Jaehaerys and Alysanne and rule for 50+ years of peace and prosperity. 

Events leading up to this period roughly parallel historical events

A third point that I can’t think of but, this looks weird with just two bullet points