Types of Podcasts, a guide

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Ya know what? I don’t think the boomers were right. Their equivilant to podcasts was FM Radio having talk shows at 6am with wacky hosts that use slide whistles, fake laughs, and crazy sound effects every 3 seconds.

They didn’t have it right. There’s absolutely room for something way better…but those awful 80s morning shows were still better than these podcasts.

I just miss people talking about something they know in an organized and professional manner.

I just don’t care for random string of consciousness to pretend I am part of a conversation I can’t actually participate in.

Might want to try BBC’s ‘In Our Time’.

Or ‘The History of English’.

‘ArtHoles’ for biographies of some famous artists.

I also enjoyed John Siracusa’s musings and rants about tech on ‘Hypercritical’ — listened through it quite recently, despite it being a decade old. There was one episode where Siracusa went into a diatribe about filesystems and particularly HFS+ for two hours: what some modern filesystems can do and how HFS+ does none of that. It was great. Siracusa is now in the ‘Accidental Tech Podcast’, but it’s more of a conversation deal.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

BBC