Anyone Here Listen to the Shittown podcast?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:47 pm
My wife and I went on a road trip and she wanted me to listen to this podcast she'd listened to a couple times (so this was her third time). We only made it through four of the six episodes, but holy crap, what an amazing, weird story.
It's about a guy in Woodstock, Alabama who fixes old clocks. In fact, he is a world-renowned antique clock restorer. The series is not really about his clock-fixing, but about the town he lived in and how screwed up he thinks it is. The dude is clearly a genius, and it's fun listening to him talk about complex subjects in his thick, backwoods Alabama accent. Reminds me of working with very smart people in that part of the country (Alabama is beautiful), and impresses upon me how much culture has taught us (erroneously) to associate a Southern accent with stupidity.
Anyway, I don't want to give anything away here. The story has many little plot twists and turns. You listen a while and think it's about one thing and it turns out it's about something else entirely.
One thing I do want to mention, however, is that one of the minor characters in this true story is a guy who owns a real hardware store called "3K"... in Alabama. I suppose "3K" makes for a cheaper sign than actually having to spell out all three Ks.
I was just wondering if anyone had listened to this as well. If not (and even though I haven't finished it yet), I highly recommend it.
It's about a guy in Woodstock, Alabama who fixes old clocks. In fact, he is a world-renowned antique clock restorer. The series is not really about his clock-fixing, but about the town he lived in and how screwed up he thinks it is. The dude is clearly a genius, and it's fun listening to him talk about complex subjects in his thick, backwoods Alabama accent. Reminds me of working with very smart people in that part of the country (Alabama is beautiful), and impresses upon me how much culture has taught us (erroneously) to associate a Southern accent with stupidity.
Anyway, I don't want to give anything away here. The story has many little plot twists and turns. You listen a while and think it's about one thing and it turns out it's about something else entirely.
One thing I do want to mention, however, is that one of the minor characters in this true story is a guy who owns a real hardware store called "3K"... in Alabama. I suppose "3K" makes for a cheaper sign than actually having to spell out all three Ks.
I was just wondering if anyone had listened to this as well. If not (and even though I haven't finished it yet), I highly recommend it.