Podcast Thread

[blessingx]

For those looking for a brief podcast on Ukrainian history (may have a slant so good to supplement)… 

The real and imagined history of Ukraine

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-real-and-imagined-history-of-ukraine/id1346207297?i=1000552254822 

https://megaphone.link/VMP8516007310 

[Voltron]

34 minutes ago, Adi11aQ said:

I haven’t listened to the podcast yet, but I definitely do since I’ve been studying the history of Ukraine for the past several years, and I’m willing to find out more about it. Also, I hope you will explain in more detail what you meant by “imagined history of Ukraine.” I don’t think I’ve met this wording/ concept anywhere else. By the way, are you posting your podcast only on apple music, or do you also use any of the rest of the Top 7 podcast hosting services? I use Spotify and wonder if I could find your podcast there. 

Whoever you are, you've stumbled into the wrong forum. 

[orientexpedite]

It’s just an AI language bot in testing - Google the user name and see how many forums it’s joined and posted on today.

[Grahame]

So automated spam?

[Knuckledragger]

I haven’t read the comment yet, but I definitely do since I’ve been studying the history of comments on Head-Case for the past several years, and I’m willing to find out more about it. Also, I hope you will explain in more detail what you meant by “AI language bot.” I don’t think I’ve met this wording/ concept anywhere else. By the way, are you posting your comments only on head-case.org, or do you also use any of the rest of the Top 7 places that have nothing to do with headphones? I use SomaFM and wonder if I could find your comment there. 

[blessingx]

I kinda thought the singularity would be more dramatic.  

[Grahame]

23 minutes ago, blessingx said:

I kinda thought the singularity would be more dramatic.  

[mikeymad]

So, I follow this guy Craig Benzine on the YouTubes (aka WheezyWaiter), and he started up a podcast with Greg Benson (MediocreFilms). 

So naturally they start a podcast -- Two Guys Talking About Lettuce

https://anchor.fm/lettuceguys

It is what you would think, but also nothing that you would think. 

If you enjoy two comedians spending an hour just doing bits, this is for you.

They started to put them on the YouTube as well. 

There is something about humor that does not resolve that I really enjoy.

 

[dsavitsk]

On 6/23/2020 at 8:30 PM, TMoney said:

I've enjoyed Michael Lewis' Against the Rules podcast the past two seasons. If you enjoy Michael's written work, you'll be right at home.

First season was on the role of referees in American society, the second season was on the role of coaches.

https://atrpodcast.com/

Listening to this two years later. It's quite good. And who knew it is antivenin, not antivenom?

Edited June 19, 2022 by dsavitsk

[TMoney]

Latest season on the distrust of experts was also pretty poignant. I was worried Lewis would retreat a bit after what happened to his daughter but I am glad he is back on his horse doing his thing. 

[dsavitsk]

On 6/19/2022 at 9:39 AM, TMoney said:

Latest season on the distrust of experts was also pretty poignant. I was worried Lewis would retreat a bit after what happened to his daughter but I am glad he is back on his horse doing his thing. 

I am finding season 2 to be unlistenable.

[TMoney]

I've really been enjoying this one, "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs."

It is a bit like a audiobook history of rock music with musical snippets thrown in.

I just jumped in mid-stream. No need to start at the beginning.

Edited June 29, 2022 by TMoney

[dsavitsk]

Spies don’t talk—it’s the cardinal rule of the business. But here at Foreign Policy, we get them to open up. On I Spy, we hear from the operations people: the spies who steal secrets, who kill adversaries, who turn agents into double agents. Each episode features one spy telling the story of one operation.

https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ispy/

 

[VPI]

My podcast with the Chief of Police in Austin on police reform is out on all your favorite podcast providers.  He wouldn’t stop playing with his key ring the whole show, but it is an interesting look at how they are changing police training to train police that fit better in today’s world. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/security-concepts/id1532932465?i=1000569008541

 

[n_maher]

On 6/23/2020 at 1:44 AM, dsavitsk said:

Is it possible that there is not a dedicated podcast thread yet?

https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/

 

 

I just finally got around to starting this, it's quite good and definitely entertaining. 

[blessingx]

Plain English with Derek Thompson: The Science of How Music Hits Have Changed in the Last 60 Years

Derek welcomes Chris Dalla Riva to discuss the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that music hits have changed since the 1960s

Worth a listen. 

[blessingx]

I want to give more info to encourage listening, but will hold off. This is a big picture piece about how doctors treat patients pain, especially women, how patients lie to themselves if they already consider themselves "defective", how sympathetic one is to those causing pain and what it means if you're not sympathetic? Anyway...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/podcasts/serial-the-retrievals-yale-fertility-clinic.html 

https://www.vulture.com/2023/08/retrievals-serial-podcast-nyt-review.html 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-retrievals/id1691599042?i=1000618732469 

Edited August 19, 2023 by blessingx

[dsavitsk]

Project Brazen ... announced the launch of “Spy Valley: An Engineer’s Nuclear Betrayal”

The series, hosted by award-winning intelligence and national security journalist Zach Dorfman, explores the story of a man named James Harper, a Silicon Valley engineer turned spy, and how he began selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Bloc.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spy-valley-an-engineers-nuclear-betrayal/id1696589693

[blessingx]

A couple suggestions...

First, another Serial podcast, The Trojan Horse Affair, an investigation into a mysterious letter appearing in 2014 alleging an Islamic plot to subvert British schools. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trojan-horse-affair/id1606918193

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/podcasts/trojan-horse-affair.html 

Second, two philosophers and a guest discuss controversial propositions in Brain in a Vat, which from the first few listens has been a mixed bag (Imagine there is no gender? 👍 Is Islam more rational than Atheism? 👎), but I bet there are treasures among the episodes. Assume I'm late to the party here, but came across in an article of a professor, Stephen Kershnar, suing to get his position back having lost due to comments made during the Sexual Taboos episode.

https://podcasts.apple.com/en/podcast/brain-in-a-vat/id1509951964

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/braininavat

https://www.youtube.com/@BraininaVat/videos 

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I've been immersing myself in Quantum Computing so have been listening to The New Quantum Era.

[Dusty Chalk]

My favourite episode of Relatively Certain:

https://jqi.umd.edu/news/taming-chaos-physics-and-ai

I love that she doesn't sound like a physics professor.  And I love the unit of time, "goes bonkers".

[dsavitsk]

There is a podcast called The Julia La Roche Show. It's basically a series of interviews dealing with macroeconomic and market issues. The host is not particularly good as an interviewer, but that turns out to be more feature than bug as she tends to have smart people on her show and she just lets them talk. Anyway, this is not a recommendation for the podcast in general as there are better ones on the same topic.

However, one recent interview is worth a listen. It's with Scott Galloway (a B-school professor at NYU). I don't think he is right about everything, or really anything in particular, so this isn't an endorsement of his views, but I think what he has to say is interesting and worth listening to. The first few minutes are pretty banal middle class investment stuff, but it gets more interesting.

 

Edited April 25 by dsavitsk

[mikeymad]

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yfbspod

That's right, your favorite band sucks!

[dsavitsk]

I have continuously not posted this on the incorrect belief that I already had. The single best podcast there is is Le Show by Harry Shearer.

https://harryshearer.com/le-show/

[TMoney]

Any good place to start, or just jump in?