I've been listening to a few podcasts here and there, and I have to say that most of them are sort of dismal affairs. Even the professional ones can be a trifle annoying - why do NPR podcasts have to keep interjecting station idents that say "you are listening to an NPR podcast" every two minutes.
They Might Be Giants has launched a promotional podcast, and I have to say it's the best thing I've heard them do in over a decade. The host is not one of the band, but somebody named Cecil Portesque (googling the name only seems to pull up people talking about the podcast) who manages to capture the essence of every single first-time amateur podcaster: "well, I guess it's raining outside" he says, in a voice that sounds like the song ended before he could put away his bag of potato chips.
The gold is in the TMBG tracks themselves - played straight through, not just excerpts - particularly a gob-smacking cover of "It Was a Very Good Year" and a segment on "wild turtle calls of North America."
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