Podcasts
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Added descriptions to mine~
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And mine...
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Bawdy Storytelling is my new favorite thing. I cannot stop laughing.
"Bawdy Storytelling – dubbed 'The Moth for pervs' by the LA Weekly – is the nation’s original sex and storytelling series. Founded, emcee’ed and curated by sexual folklorist Dixie De La Tour, Bawdy Storytelling features real people and rockstars sharing their bona fide sexual exploits. Bawdy Storytelling’s one-of-a-kind approach to sex-positive personal narrative has coaxed liberating tales out of everyday people, creating unforgettable experiences for performers and audiences alike. These stories aren't memorized. Storytellers aren't reading from cue cards. This is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant, hilarious, transformational tales at each and every show."
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I've been listening to History that Doesn't Suck. It was rough (unprofessional) at the start, but steadily improved so I kept listening. At episode 65 their sound engineer had to quit and Airship took the podcast on and HOLY SHIT the change in quality. It was everything I loved about the podcast (seriously researched, nuanced, unapologetic, funny) but now with the sound expertise of an audio drama.
I was casually binging - now I can't put it down.
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Little Wars -- a podcast that covers traditional games broadly; board games, card games, tabletop RPGs, you name it
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I'm in love with the story of Unwell -- Which is ... really hard to explain, so I'm just gonna C/P from their website:
Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange assortment of residents.
This show is very LGBTQIA+ friendly. One main character is nonbinary, and another is gay and it's all very naturally done rather than forced. They also open most of their episodes acknowledging indigenous land rights.
This one is ongoing.
Then there is Steal the Stars. This is a Sci-Fi story about forbidden love, from the website:
Steal the Stars is the story of Dakota Prentiss and Matt Salem, two government employees guarding the biggest secret in the world: a crashed UFO. Despite being forbidden to fraternize, Dak and Matt fall in love and decide to escape to a better life on the wings of an incredibly dangerous plan: they’re going to steal the alien body they’ve been guarding and sell the secret of its existence.
This one is finished. It was incredible. Highly recommend. There was mild gore in this one.
If you're a markiplier fan the short The Edge of Sleep is great. This one is another Sci-Fi drama. There is some content warning that needs to be had: murder, assault, attempted sexual assault, and attempted bodily mutilation.
From the website:
When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died. Now he and a band of survivors must stay awake and uncover the secret of this global epidemic, before they fall asleep.
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I just listed to Do No Harm from Wondery. It is about families who have had their kids taken away by CPS with no evidence except for a single physician saying there is possible abuse.
It is a horrifying read and if you are a parent you will hug your kids for a while after.
In the last episode they state that if you are a black child in America there is a FIFTY percent chance that by the time you are 18 you have had a CPS case open on you.
I've been highly critical of CPS ignoring my reporting on kids, but damn. This is the opposite problem.
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If you're into stories about shitty people being shitty: Behind the Bastards
If you're into current events and misery: More News and also Worst Year EverThose three have a lot of overlap in hosts, but Robert Evans is a fantastic journalist and funny dude.
Right wingers need not apply, because I don't want to hear how these things pissed you off. Not that I care, cause righties are pieces of shit, but,
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So for the fans out there:
A podcast about Avatar and Korra, hosted by Janet Varney (Korra) and Dante Basco (Prince Zuko), where they explore the various episodes and interview some of the minds behind the work.
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The name basically says exactly what it is about. It follows times that a wide held belief was just plain... wrong. I just finished an episode about leaded fuel and it was amazing.
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Couldn't they have just named that one Human History?
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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Lol, the best quote so far is:
Science is the process of getting things a little less wrong.
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@silverfox One of my formative reading experiences as a youngster was an article by Isaac Asimov titled "The Relativity of Wrong," about the importance of being iteratively slightly less wrong.
Also, I think I would probably quite like the podcast you've recommended. -
I've been doing a lot more roadtripping with youngest (8 year old) now that we have two colleges to run things too/help with homesickness this year.
He's really into Brains On!, which is a science/trivia podcast for kids. Wish I'd found it sooner. Its also pretty fun for the grown ups/young adults in the car too. I would put the beginning age at around 5 depending on the kid.
