Do we have any more podcast listeners in class? I know Sydney is. I'm interested in what you listen to.
Here are a few of favorites:
Beautiful/Anonymous-fascinating show where an anonymous caller and the host talk for an hour about whatever the caller wishes to discuss without ever giving away their identity.
Criminal- Unique stories and characters revolving around crime. Phoebe Judge has about the sexiest voice in the podcast sphere for my money.
Stay Tuned with Preet- Preet Bharara was US Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009-2017 and prosecuted close to 100 Wall Street executives for corruption among other victories. He interviews lots of big names primarily about legal cases in the news.
Throughline- An NPR show which pulls the historical thread on current events, showing how we got where we are.
Just about everything produced by BBC 4, especially In Our Time and Desert Island Discs...
ReplyDeleteNPR: Hidden Brain... It's Been a Moment... TED Radio Hour...
Just read about a BBC podcast called 13 Minutes to the Moon. Haven't heard it yet, but it sounds promising (I'm fully into the Lunar Anniversary, thanks to Mike Collins)...
DeletePhilosophy Bites... Sean Carroll's Mindscape... Making Sense w/Sam Harris...
DeleteNPR's- Wait, Wait...Don't tell me is my favorite.
DeleteI used to listen to it, but Peter Sagal's flippant attitude about everything became grating. I did enjoy Roy Blount Jr.
DeleteThree Podcasts to Listen to in July-
DeleteSummer, with its bright sunshine, improved strolling conditions, and new vistas, is a great time to get perspective on contemporary life, podcast style—that is, through narrative satisfaction, with a forgiving ratio of insights to bummers. A good place to start is “Against the Rules,” hosted by Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of “Moneyball,” “The Big Short,” and so on; it explores the concept of fairness, in realms ranging from art authentication to consumer finance, and in doing so it gets at bigger questions about structural inequality. (An episode that delves into the forces that conspired to keep public servants out of a student-loan-forgiveness program, and in debt, stops just short of soul-crushing, and may inspire you to take action.) Lewis has never hosted a podcast before—the series begins with his gung-ho description of a parking lot in Secaucus—but, perhaps not surprisingly, he’s very good at it. In the first episode, “Ref, You Suck!,” he convincingly suggests that the skyrocketing level of outrage about unfair refereeing, even as refereeing has improved, is connected to an increasing sense of general unfairness in modern life—and to the resonance of the-system-is-rigged messages by politicians from Trump to Sanders to Warren. He also talks to his young son, a fledgling basketball player, whose thoughts about referees became the show’s tag line: “Don’t pick sides. Unless it’s my side.”
If you, like me, prefer not to contemplate artificial intelligence but find yourself surrounded by it nonetheless, wondering where this is all heading, “Sleepwalkers,” hosted by Oz Woloshyn and Karah Preiss, might, like Siri or Alexa, be able to provide some assistance. Each episode investigates eerie future-is-now realms of A.I.: autonomous weapons, medical diagnostics, smart robots, brain waves flying a simulated plane. Woloshyn’s curious, thoughtful narration and interviews guide us through it all in a way that manages not to be terrifying, even when he says things like “Today, we look at transhumanism—becoming cyborgs—not just to restore function but to upgrade and enhance ourselves.” It consistently prompts realizations about what it means to be human—even as a defense against what we’ve created. In the Season 1 finale, the show’s guest Yuval Noah Harari advises us to protect ourselves against A.I. manipulation by looking inward. “On the individual level, it’s more urgent than ever to get to know yourself better,” Harari says. “Because you have competition.”
I worried at first that the offhandedly titled “Overheard at National Geographic” would make for a blasé listening experience; I like eavesdropping as much as the next person, but there are perhaps enough podcasts lacking in narrative deliberateness. But the show, hosted by Vaughn Wallace, presents sophisticated stories about fascinating and far-flung realms, just as the magazine does; my two favorite, so far, take place underwater. “At times they can sound like a creaking door, like something you’d hear in a spooky movie,” the veteran photographer Brian Skerry says in “Humpback Whale Song of the Summer.” “Other times it is more melodic; it has more of a song quality to it. And the sound is just vibrating inside of you.” As a child of the seventies, I thought I knew all the whale song I needed to know, but I was startled to discover that these vocalizations not only have specific structures but that they’re communicated culturally—often originating, Bee Gees style, around Australia. The most recent episode, equally startling, takes us to a site called Nuri, in the Sudanese desert, where the writer and underwater archeologist Kristen Romey takes us scuba diving in the murky waters beneath a pyramid—better her than me—and into an exploration of the ancient kingdom of Kush.
Sarah Larson is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her column, Podcast Dept., appears on newyorker.com.Read more »
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/three-podcasts-to-listen-to-in-july
I've been listening to "13 minutes", it's good.
DeleteSwitched on Pop. Great diversion from the hyper serious drumbeat of modernity. Dan Carlin’s hardcore History, Mike Duncan’s The History of Rome, Daniele Bolelli’s History on Fire(His episodes on Joan of Arch were very good) When it takes 2 1/2 hours to mow your lawn you can knock out quite a bit of world history during a summer! And for those of you who wish to join the cult of Bonaparte, there is the Napoleon Bonaparte podcast from two Napoleon homers.
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ReplyDeleteWhat you missed in History. Class
Radio Lab (my fav)
Ologies
One Fantastic Week (professional fantasy artist)
My Favorite Murder
Infinite Potential
Hardcore History
Super Soul conversations
The chickpeeps
The history chicks
And more....