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The Bat Segundo Show

By Edward Champion

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Podcast Description

A cultural podcast featuring quirky and long-form interviews with contemporary authors, filmmakers, and cultural figures

Customer Reviews

Remarkably Good Interviews with Literary Authors

By day, Ed Champion is a mild-mannered paralegal in San Francisco. By night, he is host of the Bat Segundo show, perhaps the best podcast for fans of literary fiction. It's hard to believe, but Mr. Champion has single-handedly created one of the most interesting interview shows for book lovers. Not only does he talk with established literary superstars like John Updike, but he also invites small press authors who probably couldn't get an interview anyplace else. Most of these shows are far superior to the boring, mainstream stuff you hear on NPR. Don't let the goofy introductions to each podcast fool you -- these are serious interviews. Mr. Champion knows his stuff, and is a highly intelligent, insightful interviewer. This is a great program, an example of what a determined, highly resourceful book lover can do in this digital age of ours. Hats off to Mr. Champion.

Great interviewer... horrible comedian!

The interviews on this podcast are intelligent and unique, yet unpretentious, with the interviewer willing to ask confrontational questions of his celebrity guests. The one offputting and embarassingly amateurish aspect of this otherwise excellent podcast is the ear-gratingly unfunny character of "Bat Segundo" the interviewer portrays when introducing each show. It's as if on each episode of "Fresh Air," Terry Gross were to flirtatiously adopt the voice of Jimmy Cagney and make dumb jokes about being a prohibition-era gangster. Why? It's a real shame, because I can imagine someone trying out this podcast could easily hear these annoying introductions and assume the show is created by a clueless mental lightweight when everything after the introduction is professional and first-rate. I can understand the interviewer's desire to give the author interview format a quirky turn in order to set the show apart and express his own creative side, but these segments are so bad (the Spanish shouting theme tune almost defies the listener to keep listening despite its glass-shards-in-the-eardrums assault). A kindly editor or plain-talking close friend is desperately needed to help this guy "kill his darlings" and separate this red-glaring, pus-dripping blemish of an introductory conceit from the robust, healthy flesh of the rest of his show.

Really terrific interviews, strange technical problems.

I can't really argue with the posters who are annoyed by the comedy bits at the top of these episodes, and I also agree that they are a minor annoyance in comparison to these terrific and unique interviews. My largest annoyance with this podcast is its tendency to repost the same episode every day for a few days in a row sometimes. I listened to and loved the Bonnie Tyler interview (Yes, these interviews are so great that I became caught up in an interview with friggin' Bonnie Tyler), but woke up about 4 days in a row to find that the show had automatically re-downloaded it, despite the fact that I delete the things after listening. Please get a handle on this tech issue, and you'll have a really really great thing going.

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  • Category: Literature
  • Language: English
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