Podcast - Into it or not.

Over the past few years, I have spent more time listening to podcasts than I do music (though I have been listening to a fair amount of music again recently, especially of the library music, soundtrack, dark jazz and tropica ilk, as well as some folk and electronic). I have been listening to many over the last few years, especially after a neurological incident and reading was giving me headaches (that was hard as I work as a copy-editor). It also seemed a good way to get my brain working better (my memory was very impaired especially).

I've listened to Philsophize This! before and Philosophy Bites.

I listed some of my old faves here: CLICK

Some I have regularly listened to are:

- Sam Harris (used to be Waking Up with Sam Harris and is now Making Sense with Sam Harris). I used to love his podcast more, but got a bit irritated with the identity politics going on, victimhood stuff, and laughable intellectual dark web stuff. Still he gets many interesting guests for in-depth discussion on many topics).
- Very Bad Wizards (a fun one, quite crude, but too fratboyish at times for me, by a professor of philosophy and a professor of psychology). It's being aimed mostly at college kid, but I still enjoy it often (but not as much as I used to).
- Let's Talk About Sects (I'm very interested in cults and this is my favourite anthology type one on the topic that covers many cults)
- The Adam Buxton Podcast (a British comedian has "ramble" chats with individuals)
- Big Ideas
- After On
- Book Shambles
- Rule of Three (really enjoying this one)
- The Atheist Experience (when Matt Dillahunty is on, even if he does come across as a douche too often)
- The Evolution of Horror (really helped to revive my love of horror --I came for the folk horror, especially being a big Wicker Man fan, and stayed for the zombies etc.)
- Beyond Today (listen to most of those)
- Intelligence Squared UK (and US less so) -- some good debates, but I wish there weren't the time limits and editing. I like long-form discussion generally the most.
- The Documentary
- We the People with Josh Zepps
- Scriptnotes
- Cold Case Files
- Casefile
- The Godless Spellchecker (the host irritates me, but it's still kind of fun)
- Mindscape
- Cults (could be much better, the hosts I find lacking, but I'm interested in the subject matter)
- The Economist - The Intelligence
- The Daily
- Terrorism 360 [degrees]
- Films to be Buried With
- The Cosmic Sceptic Podcast
- Science Focus
- The Science Hour
- Science
- Naked Humanity
- The Two Shot Podcast
- BBC Earth
- Unpopular Culture (sometimes, mostly for Black Mirror stuff)
- The Krynoid Podcast
- Doctor Who: Diddly Dum Podcast
- Kasterborous

And a few really rivetting podcast series, if disturbing especially in the case of the Jonestown one, were:

- Heaven's Gate (such a well done series about an infamous cult)
- Transmissions from Jonestown (was hard to take, but very well made)
- Caliphate
- Running from COPS
And I liked The Gateway

I also have enjoyed various sci-fi drama fiction podcasts such as:

- Within the Wires
- Limetown
- Rabbits

Incidentally, I also listen to a lot of BBC Sounds (I use the BBC iPlayer Radio app) for radio dramas and comedies, as well as some documentaries and news stories. I do tend to favour sci-fi, horror, and fantasy radio dramas. Those into comedy sci-fi might love this 50s spoof: https://archive.org/details/AtomicTales

EDIT: Since this might get asked in ensuing discussion, I use free podcast apps (Acast is my one of choice, good for searching and I don't have ad issues, but I also use and check Podbean since that has more content available and tends to update faster and be a little more stable).

Edited by Logan - July 31 2019 at 10:50

I currently cronologically listen to Philosophy This, i might relisten to some. The one about Bacon and Hobbes were brilliant. and those early about pre-Socratic philosophers.

I would like an indepth podcast about 70s prog and sociological anaøysis of prog, society and about Avant garde rock

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