Podcast Thread

[dsavitsk]

2 hours ago, TMoney said:

Any good place to start, or just jump in?

Any week is as good as any other. It's a bit of a slow burn as you get used to Harry's idiosyncrasies and usual bugaboos (crypto, ai, elon, nuclear power, catholic church abuse, the army corps of engineers, etc.)

[mikeymad]

And for more funny stuff. 

Enjoyed the following so far. Mostly just shooting the shit. 

• Bob Odenkirk
• Jason Bateman
• Michael Cera
• Fred Armisen
• Tony Hale
• Jake Johnson
• Andy Richter
• Patton Oswalt
• Sarah Silverman

 

[blessingx]

Everyone knows RadioLab. Their delivery can get really annoying, but this one on the two times the Electoral College was almost abolished was good. 

https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-unpopular-vote

 

[blessingx]

Apple gave Hysterical their podcast of the year award. It’s pretty good. 

‘Hysterical is a podcast about a mysterious illness that affects a group of high school girls in LeRoy, New York in 2011. The podcast explores the cause of the girls' sudden and violent symptoms, and whether it was something in the water, inside the school, or "all in their head".’

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hysterical/id1753789609 

[blessingx]

Okay, this made waves five years ago, but I've only recently heard. Its not perfect and certainly has it's own bias (which shows increasingly near end), but is amazingly successful on accomplishing a nearly impossible task - sympathetically setting the social context on why people would join the Peoples Temple and follow Jim Jones to Guyana and the Kool-Aid. It might just be the most compassionate series I've ever heard and even in the prologue you sense it's the podcast you didn't know you needed. Heavy diversions into the worldwide Communist struggle, SDS, Weather Underground, Black Panthers, etc.

GOD’S SOCIALIST: THE RISE AND FALL OF PEOPLES’ TEMPLE

https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/gods-socialist-the-rise-and-fall-of-peoples-temple

Start: https://www.martyrmade.com/podcast-parts/11-gods-socialist-prologue or https://content.blubrry.com/martyrmade_podcast/Jonestown1.mp3

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-martyrmade-podcast/id978322714?mt=2

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6bVxCGj6FBEVSmIzdzer3K&ved=2ahUKEwjFwpDK7OmLAxXBCjQIHcf_BP0QFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Onl3v7ol4q1Q3SxXGwQQB 

 

 

Edited March 8 by blessingx

[mikeymad]

New Podcast started today. Yeah you can find it on your phone, but the YT fun is just too fun, even before Tina joins.

 

[mikeymad]

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-324-whats-good-for-the-goose/

Common Sense 324 – What’s Good for the Goose

 

A little out of date for these times, but I always want to hear what Dan had to say.

 

[mikeymad]

Okay a new discovery and I may get a little obsessed. 

A Podcast that is about a comic strip. Repeating that - A Podcast (Audio) about a Comic Strip (visual).

 

9 Chickweed Rage

https://www.9chickweedrage.com/

 

About:  In 1993, Brooke McEldowney began writing and drawing the newspaper comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane. Nearly 30 years later, it's still going strong. For some dumb reason, Brooke Dillman and Jeff Drake read the comic strip, even though it only makes them angry. This is their podcast, certainly one of the worst ideas for a podcast ever: a podcast about a newspaper comic strip that (as far as they know) no one reads. This is 9 CHICKWEED RAGE.
 

[dsavitsk]

Alan Alda is a national treasure. He has a podcast called Clear+Vivid where he talks to interesting people. It's great. And it's a nice diversion from everything being political.

[Knuckledragger]

This video is probably exceeds the time and interest of anyone here.  I've had it on while working on photos.  I have mixed feelings about it.  Piers Morgan is an insufferable, pompous jackass and physical evidence that the denizens of my fine state didn't toss quite enough things into the Boston Harbor back in the day.  I don't know much about Sean Carroll.  Eric is the, uh, less crackpot of the two Weinstein brothers.  This is damnation with the faintest of praise.  There was a time, maybe 15 years ago where I heard him speak on learning disabilities and thought he was seriously smart.  It could be he was, in that moment and on that subject.  It's also just as likely that I fell for a grifter.  It wouldn't be the first time.  In any case, Eric stages a Chernobylesque meltdown here because the "serious" physics community doesn't regard his crackpot theories in the, ahem, gravity he'd like.  Sean Carroll is a polite academic type and responds to the full state of Eric's emotional diaper as best he can.  Piers, whose job it is to have as much drama as possible on his show, barely manages to contain his smirk while thinking "this is going to get SO many views" to himself.  The temper tantrum starts around the 20 minute mark.

[mikeymad]

ew...

{begin rant}

Well you were right. I didn't have the stomach to watch past a few minutes. As soon as I heard 'Physics Establishment' I knew that it was Crackpot time and I was done. I am sorry I gave it that much time, they probably got credit for a view. I at least was able to give it a thumbs down.

There are several vids by Angela Collier about Crackpots - and they are scary people that are mad....

 

I like Sean Carroll - I read his pop physics books back in the day:

• From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
• The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
• Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

I would rather read papers than books aimed for public consumption now. But Sean is a well respected in the industry with over a hundred published research papers. He falls in the camp of Brian Greene for me as a science educator. 

In some ways I hate that he did this. It raises the status of 'people that yell' that their theory is worthy of debate. 

{end rant}

Back to working on my theory of everything that they cannot handle....