It was recommended on here about 5-7 years ago in a topic I can’t find, but basically it was a single guy reading old news stories for 30-40 minutes and he had a bunch of production around it to make it “old timey” including old school radio or TV ads, and then he would end each episode with a “Question of the Day”.
I wanna find it again because it was oddly comforting. I don’t know if it’s still around.
Is this it ?
I have the books. They are full of little oddities like this:
In August 1960, the submarine U.S.S. Seadragon surfaced at the North Pole. During their visit, the crew laid out a softball diamond with the pitcher’s mound at the pole. “If you hit a home run you circumnavigated the globe,” recalled crew member Alfred S. McLaren. “If you hit the ball into right field, it was across the international date line into tomorrow, and if the right fielder caught it, he threw it back into yesterday.” Captain George P. Steele later claimed he hit a fly ball at 4 p.m. Wednesday that wasn’t caught until 4 a.m. Thursday.
Ross, Greg. Futility Closet: An Idler’s Miscellany of Compendious Amusements (p. 67). Futility Closet. Kindle Edition.
No sorry, the guy’s voice was difference and he didn’t have any sort of cohost, but the general theming is the same.
Tomorrow? He’s the pitcher!
Took me awhile to get the joke, but it was worth it.
Ikeep checking back, hoping the OP has discovered the podcast.
Because I’ve heard two routines of people reading newspapers and commenting, and they were hilarious.
(One was John Finnemore and a friend going through a London paper. The other, from the 70s, was one of the Firesign Theatre guys reading a Sunday Newspaper Comic from the 40s.)
I would be very interested in this, so here’s a bump hoping someone catches it… I love going to newspapers.com and reading of people I admire, but I love reading all the other stuff, and save them all to read… one day.