What podcasts are you listening to?

[LoathedVermin72]

Really enjoying Darknet Diaries

[Simple Torture]

In Our Time is back from their summer break, motherfuckers! Who's ready to listen to three British academics discuss The Iliad for 48 minutes? ::fire emoji:: ::fire emoji:: ::fire emoji:: ((airhorn sound)) ((airhorn sound))

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh5x1y

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Someone recommended The Mind Palace to me, anyone have experience with it? It looks short and has 101 episodes.

[LetMeSleep]

Is Serial season 2 going to send me down a rabbit hole like season 1? And should I check out the This American Life pods?

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Is Serial season 2 going to send me down a rabbit hole like season 1? And should I check out the This American Life pods?

No, not at all. Totally different season/case/impact.

And absolutely you should check out TAL.

[LetMeSleep]

Are there any TALs you'd recommend or just hit the start?

Also, More Perfect S3E01 is right up your alley, Joe.

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I'll check it out. Thanks!

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Are there any TALs you'd recommend

Not really. I'd say just start wherever.

[Simple Torture]

Are there any TALs you'd recommend

Not really. I'd say just start wherever.

The Harper High School 2-parter from 2013 is great.

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Are there any TALs you'd recommend or just hit the start?

Also, More Perfect S3E01 is right up your alley, Joe.

What's the title of the episode?

[washing machine]

Looking for a digestible (15-22 minutes) current events podcast to listen to while I make coffee and breakfast. Not NPR’s Up First.

[guestT]

Do you have a Google Home, Alexa, or similar? I just say "Hey Google what's the news?" and get everything I need to know in ~10 minutes.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[washing machine]

Looking for a digestible (15-22 minutes) current events podcast to listen to while I make coffee and breakfast. Not NPR’s Up First.

Here & Now is perfect for this

Thanks, trag rd. Another NPR source was just the thing I was looking for.

[LoathedVermin72]

It’s too hard to find good podcasts. There are so many shitty ones.

[Simple Torture]

It’s too hard to find good podcasts. There are so many shitty ones.

That feeling when you read the description of a podcast and get super excited, only to listen to it and realize it's shit is a very particular kind of disappointment.

[LoathedVermin72]

It’s too hard to find good podcasts. There are so many shitty ones.

That feeling when you read the description of a podcast and get super excited, only to listen to it and realize it's shit is a very particular kind of disappointment.

Sooooo much rides on voices, pacing, and format. It’s tricky to get right.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[washing machine]

Looking for a digestible (15-22 minutes) current events podcast to listen to while I make coffee and breakfast. Not NPR’s Up First.

Here & Now is perfect for this

Thanks, trag rd. Another NPR source was just the thing I was looking for.

the lack of real pastries is turning you into a jerk

Now that’s the kind of heard it here first nugget I can easily digest for breakfast!

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Someone recommended The Mind Palace to me, anyone have experience with it? It looks short and has 101 episodes.

I listened to the first ten episodes and it's like a muted Radiolab. The commercials take up half the time of the show, though I imagine that gets better as the episodes move on. Plus it helps that by subscribing I got the newest episode and it really does sound like Radiolab and shows a natural progression from the earliest episodes. Not sure if I'll stick with it, but then even the newer episodes are usually less than 15 minutes so it won't be that bad.