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b_b  ·  2799 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: #trypod

We The People from the National Constitution Center is my favorite of my regular podcasts. Most people will probably find it murderously boring, but a few people will love it as much as I do. For those people, do yourself a favor and get on board (Looking at you, blackbootz).





Dala  ·  2799 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Isn't Lyndsay Beyerstein from Point of Inquiry joining We the People soon? I need to add that to my feed.

dublinben  ·  2799 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It looks like she's launching a new show for Rewire News call The Breach.

blackbootz  ·  2799 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll definitely revisit this one. I'm a fan of Jeffrey Rosen (I liked his biography of Brandeis per your suggestion). But I recall being slightly annoyed at some of the live tapings this series featured. It made the conversations more forced and unnatural. I'm not criticizing the participants but found myself distracted by the stress in their voice.

Are those live tapings a minority of the series? I'll happily revisit it.

b_b  ·  2799 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Most of the episodes are Rosen playing moderator to two lawyers who have opposing views of some constitutional issue. My biggest problem with it is that they don't really do sound recording, editing, or mixing very well. I don't know anything about how one should do that, but I know when something consistently sounds like pure shit. Sometimes I think that Rosen just has the record feature of his iPhone turned on, and then puts that directly on air.

blackbootz  ·  2799 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll give it another go. Any particularly good episodes you recommend?