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Pulsar wrote:So which podcasts do you listen to? I'm looking for new material myself; I mainly listen to history podcasts, but I'd like to expand my horizon.
smudge wrote:I second (along with Pulsar) Mike Duncan's stuff- especially History of Rome.
As Pulsar also implied, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is terrific.
I LOVE Very bad Wizards.
http://verybadwizards.com
If you are into philosophy The Partially Examined Life is good.
https://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com
Skeptics with a K is currently my favourite skeptical podcast.
http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/
Crocodile Gandhi wrote:Pulsar wrote:So which podcasts do you listen to? I'm looking for new material myself; I mainly listen to history podcasts, but I'd like to expand my horizon.
If you're into history, then I can't recommend The Memory Palace highly enough. It's bits and pieces of quirky (usually US) history. But highly produced and told in a dramatic, engaging way. Some episodes are only 3 minutes long. Others more toward 20 minutes. But all well researched and thoroughly entertaining.
Another favourite is 99% Invisible. It's a podcast about design. Or, more specificaly, how there is hidden deisgn in everything. Some episodes are about architecture, others are about things like how the designs of US postage stamps are chosen. One really good episode is about how almost all doors are designed wrong. Another episode is about how the design of flags is hugely important to how much we care about the location that the flag represents.
On a completely different note, I'm a big fan of a podcast called Hello From the Magic Tavern. It's an improvised comedy podcast about a guy who got sucked through a wormhole into a magical, fantastical land and each week he, along with a wizard and a talking badger, interview a different inhabitant of the magical land of Foon.
Crocodile Gandhi wrote:Editing is the biggest issue in podcasts. The ones I like most are usually those that are highly produced. That said, there is a certain level of charm in shows that include a level of unprofessionalism. Where sometimes someone will spend a minute searching google to find an answer. It's a bit more real that way. More like an actual conversation between friends.
Made of Stars wrote:Sam Harris' Walking Up podcast is good - he has an interesting range of guests on, although he likes the sound of his own voice a little too much at times.
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