On social media, the bloke who does this describes himself as:
That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to.
Well, seeing as it named me personally....
I was listening to Penn Jillette talk about the episode on White Light/White Heat and he said that he knew Warhol and was friends with Reed and a lot of it was new to him. I listened and I loved it
He described it as his second longest episode (3hrs 21mins). The longest had been on All You Need Is Love. I am not a Beatles fan. So, I thought I'd give that as go as the yardstick to measure whether this was worth digging into
It was
I've since gone back to the start (shorter episodes) and worked my way up to date. I've even joined a Patreon thing for the first time for the extra episodes (ok, and to support the fucker - he's never going to finish it).
There's now been a 4hr episode on The Dead. Still not changed my mind
https://500songs.com/
|
