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The Best Podcasts: Put this in your ears
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podcastlistener · 8 years ago
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podcastlistener · 10 years ago
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Mysteries, clothed in deft music weavings.
WHERE IS PODCASTING HEADED? Starlee Kine gives us her version on The Mystery Show. 
I miss traveling. Starlee takes me with her, proving the wanderer’s theory of “go there and shit will happen.” I like you in my buds, Starlee. Nicely done! (And a great musical touch!!!)
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podcastlistener · 10 years ago
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My Current Podcast List:
BBC 4 Global News BBC 4 In Our Time BBC 4 Great Lives Death, Sex and Money Hang Up and Listen: The Slate sports podcast Lexicon Valley: The Slate podcast about language The Moth NPR Snap Judgement Sinica: China chat The Slate Political Gabfest The Slate Culture Gabfest The Slate Double X Gabfest
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podcastlistener · 10 years ago
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Am fascinated by the twinges & cringes in monetizing podcasts. These shows make hip by cuddling me with their “honesty.” They talk like my friends, swear like my friends, feel like my friends. I hear more from them than I do from my friends. We can talk about anything together.*
So me and my pod-friends, these pod-cats, in order to hang out together, agree to the sell. Hey, saddle up the money pony! Funny how easily we all take to it. They, the irreverent, the jokers get suddenly serious because they know that the sponsors won’t handle it. Steve Metcalf (bless him) in his Toronto hangover today “shaving with a spring in his step” with his Harry’s razor. And I’m ready to ride that pony, too, thankful to Audible and Harry’s and Square Space for wanting me so much that they pay to deliver me my buddies.
Steve: razors + springy steps = trouble
The Gist’s Mike Pesca, in some ways, is a little more savvy using music to clarify the Ad portion of his content. Funny really, because he otherwise rarely signals the difference between sincerity and pesca-rity.
*Okay, they talk, I listen.
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podcastlistener · 10 years ago
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At about 12Min30sec very nice reading by Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, of Rabindranath Tagore‘s poem “The Golden Boat” in Bengali from the BBC Radio 4 Podcast “In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg“
IOT is almost always excellent, now even better with the extra time that they add on to the podcast versions (compared to the broadcast version on Radio 4).
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podcastlistener · 10 years ago
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Hey Lexicon Valley! Love you guys, BUT: you prefixed confident with “over” re:  the political incorrectness of gender in language (stewardess, waitress, actress, etc...) in your Sex Workers Edition. As a speaker of Chinese and German, I think your self-righteous guffaws missed their target. It’s easy for people to be sexist.  Harder for a language. In spoken Mandarin, not only is it impossible to distinguish waiter from waitress (both: æœćŠĄć‘˜) but even “he” from “she,” both pronounced tā. That doesn’t make Chinese society less sexist. And in German, you can’t hardly birth a burp without first deciding pink or blue.
As difficult as this makes it for us to learn German... I like it! It provides more information quickly within a sentence. We celebrate the infinite Inuit words for snow but decry gender info?! (Oh... you’re a man? I hadn’t noticed.) 
Call sexist people sexist. Not words!
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podcastlistener · 10 years ago
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WNYC: New Name New Tech City?
Love the WNYC podcasts, sure, #NewTechCity, too. They’re chasing a new name. I suggested “Life Bytes” and “Now 101 (01010101)″ but they want the tech without the tech. Good luck! But keep on putting out great podcasts.
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