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What podcasts are you listening to and explain where necessary

I’ll go first:

great detectives of old time radio: old radio detective shows

rockabilly dj: I love rockabilly music

unashamed: Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty

Suspense: the CBS mystery radio broadcast from the 60s and 70s.

big band bash: old time big band music

several ska podcasts.
 
Middle Of Somewhere: Comedians Chad Daniels and Cy Amundson just banter back and forth.

TimeSuck w/ Dan Cummins- Another comedian who discusses crimes and serial killers in a “fun” way.
 
Pod save America
Lovett or Leave It
Conan O’Brian needs a friend
Freakonomics
Hall of Shame
Revisionist History - because I like everything Malcolm gladwell does
Broken record
Happiness lab
Work life with Adam grant
 
Jocko Willink
Brian Johnson
Knowledge Project
Tim Ferris
Learning Leaders
JJ Reddick Podcast
Woj Podcast
 
Serial was interesting a few year ago. S1 was about the murder of a high school student in Maryland and S2 about Bowe Bergdahl's desertion from the US Army in Afghanistan (I went looking for Bergdahl as part of a Special Operations task force).

My favorite podcast ever is Hardcore History with Dan Carlin. He does longform format podcasts (3-4 hours per episode, maybe 12-16 hours per series) of extremely high quality investigation into a topic. I've done his WW1, Achaemenid Persian dynasty (maybe the world's first superpower - Cyrus and Xerxes who fought the Greeks) and Mongol Empire. The thing about Carlin is he does an amazing job of using primary sources. He reads direct translations of 10,000 year old cuneiform tablets that discuss the Assyrian invasion of a particular town, or the diary of a Han Chinese minister who was captured by Genghis Khan. It helps give you a first-person perspective of events we are normally used to learning in a much more academic way. Carlin has a cool voice, like Jeremy Irons from the Lion King. It's perfect for a long road trip to the beach.
 
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
How Did This Get Made?
Broken Record
StarTalk
American Elections: Wicked Game
Hardcore History
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Noble Blood
Mobituaries
History This Week
 
2close2call sports

Stumbled upon this one night. All things sports with a focus on Philly teams and Pitt. Kid is really good and his father is a Pitt grad
 
Hoop Collective
The Lowe Post
This American Life
Radios Westeros
History of Westeros
 
Malcolm Gladwell is brilliant. I love his books and Ted talks.
SoufOaklin4Life said:
Pod save America
Lovett or Leave It
Conan O’Brian needs a friend
Freakonomics
Hall of Shame
Revisionist History - because I like everything Malcolm gladwell does
Broken record
Happiness lab
Work life with Adam grant
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Dan1911 said:
What podcasts are you listening to and explain where necessary

I’ll go first:

great detectives of old time radio: old radio detective shows

rockabilly dj: I love rockabilly music

unashamed: Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty

Suspense: the CBS mystery radio broadcast from the 60s and 70s.

big band bash: old time big band music

several ska podcasts.
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CBS Radio Mystery Theater of the 1970’s. The great Hyman Brown produced it.
 
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Has anyone seen those commercials on TV that shows a podcast host talking into a mic? I think it’s about business/economics, the one commercial he was discussing retirement savings. Seemed like he knew what he was talking about but I couldn’t find his name anywhere.
 
Ski11585 said:
Just going off these Deadspin articles. I admittedly can't stand Gladwell so I don't listen to or read anything from him.

https://deadspin.com/malcolm-gladwells-penn-state-rabbit-hole-isnt-very-deep-1838381737

https://deadspin.com/malcolm-gladwell-goes-on-bill-simmonss-podcast-to-dust-1838218193
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What I remember reading was more about Spanier and Curley and how they "defaulted to truth" as in relied upon the reputation that they understood of Sandusky. It was more a defense of them and their actions than of Joe Paterno.

As far as Gladwell goes in general, I think he is very self-consumed but he constructs books that are easy to read and have digestible points that are useful/helpful.
 
Ski11585 said:
Just going off these Deadspin articles. I admittedly can't stand Gladwell so I don't listen to or read anything from him.

https://deadspin.com/malcolm-gladwells-penn-state-rabbit-hole-isnt-very-deep-1838381737

https://deadspin.com/malcolm-gladwell-goes-on-bill-simmonss-podcast-to-dust-1838218193
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Listen I have no love for paterno-
But those are shallow hot takes without understanding the context .

by that flawed rationale he defends the Stanford swimmer rapist , too .
Which he doesn’t .
It’s simply about understanding the circumstances of events and why they go wrong -
Not because people are evil or negligent -
But because most people have a flawed belief that people are good.
And those who lack that - catch the issues early (ie Bernie madoff)- but also are basically incapable of normal social interactions the other 90% of the time when things are normal

and if ya don’t like gladwell- I’m not trying to change your mind .
 
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