Podcasts you like

[Habbaku]

Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History Podcast (http://revisionisthistory.com/) just started a new season. The first two episodes were a really good listen--they cover the logic (or lack thereof) behind testing for speed on standardized tests in general and the LSAT in particular.

[crazy canuck]

In the latest episode of "Emperor's of Rome" they were discussing middle republic literature.  They were discussing Ennius; whose works exists only in fragments.  Cicero discusses the dream of Mars; which the commentators said sounded quite modernistic as it's unclear from his quoting if Ennius had written a prophetic dream or an event that occurred.  Another fragment we have of Ennius is that he was Homer reborn with an intermediate life as a peacock; which the commentators found psychedelic.

Of course even professors of classical studies (as these commentators were) view the classical world from the perspective of the early twenty-first century (and being a peacock is certainly no weirder than what's found in "The Golden Ass" or Ovid's "Metamorphosis").  Still "Psychedelic Rome" struck me as amusing.

Another plug for the Literature and History podcast - he is going through Roman literature now.  There are a number of episodes devoted to that topic now.

[Barrister]

I've started listening to podcasts on my way home from work.  Now during the winter I have a couple of different hockey podcasts I won't bore anyone with.

But I want to put a plug in for The Bulwark podcast by Charlie Sykes.  The Bulwark is an explicitly #NeverTrump conservative webpage that was formed out of the ashes of The Weekly Standard when its owner decided he didn't like owning an anti-Trump website anymore.  Charlie Sykes was a conservaive radio talk show host in Milwaukee for years and years, until the 2016 election broke him and he realized he didn't understand his own audience anymore.

So anyways, it's a daily podcast about american politics all from a right-wing anti-Trump perspective.  I like it because it re-assures me that there are other people who view politics the same way as I do in this age of Trump.  And Sykes, what with his decades of radio hosting experience, is a very smooth podcast host.

[celedhring]

Any good yank sports podcast besides Bill Simmons? Preferably not baseball-centric, since I don't care for baseball.

[Barrister]

Any good yank sports podcast besides Bill Simmons? Preferably not baseball-centric, since I don't care for baseball.

As mentioned above I know some Canadian-based hockey podcasts if you're interested...

[grumbler]

Any good yank sports podcast besides Bill Simmons? Preferably not baseball-centric, since I don't care for baseball.

The Steve Austin Show isn't a sports podcast, but it often features sports (especially wrestling) and is a fun listen even if you (like me) couldn't care less about wrestling.

[Savonarola]

I was listening to a 2016 era episode of Bret Easton Ellis's podcast (about popular culture and the entertainment industry.)  At the time of recording Bret was dating a 29 year old man.  Bret made his boyfriend watch "Dog Day Afternoon."  His boyfriend said, in amazement, "They used to show movies like this in the theaters?"

[Savonarola]

I was listening to Fallo de Sistema in which they had an interview of John and Brenda Romero.  They said they had gotten offers to do a reality show of them similar to "The Osbournes."  They both thought that watching video game designers work would be really boring television.