Podcasts you like

[FunkMonk]

I'm a paid subscriber of that podcast. I enjoy it so much 

[crazy canuck]

I'm a paid subscriber of that podcast. I enjoy it so much 

Yeah, I recommend subscribing.  The Q+A bits are well worth it.

[PRC]

The current LRB Past Present Future series on freedom is outstanding.

Lea Ypi is something else... her ability to articulate and communicate complex philosophical and political concepts is amazing.

[crazy canuck]

The current LRB Past Present Future series on freedom is outstanding.

Lea Ypi is something else... her ability to articulate and communicate complex philosophical and political concepts is amazing.

I like how she takes Runciman to task on pretty much everything.

[FunkMonk]

Really enjoyed the History of Bad ideas on the PPF pod. Loved it when the geneticist said, "Mate, I'm not going near that!" on the outro music 

[Sheilbh]

One for the LRB podcast people - Gary Gerstle's retirement party

Past Present Future
@PPFIdeas
Friend of the podcast @glgerstle's retirement celebration event of choice - "Talking American Politics" with David and @HelenHet20!

[celedhring]

For Hard History fans (like me), Variety has released a 30 minute video piece with Dan Carlin discussing the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rln6-baqT3U

[Josquius]

Not a podcast I generally listened to but randomly ran into an episode of 'Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society' on the history of the word cunt and found it interesting.
Some particular highlights are the formerly accepted but no longer seen derivative words cuntbeaten (impotent) and cuntbitten (infected with an std)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2zMWQ78EM

[Josquius]

A recent rest of history episode was on the history of Italian food.
Which sounds dull but was actually fascinating.
I knew the pizza is American thing before, but that dried pasta came before fresh pasta and other things were really curious.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xg4tK1Q8tiqxYiK1rtz50?si=YTqDqwboSu-ksNS-vi6z8Q

[Darth Wagtaros]

If Books Could Kill.

Been good. They break down airport books and crappy popular self help books.

[Sheilbh]

On Italian food, also the recent Felicity Cloake (who I always love) in the Guardian on carbonara recently. First recipe is in the 1950s and has loads of ingredients including () cream.

I think probably another example of Italian food is actually Italian-American food. Also why purism in food is a fool's errand. Authenticity is marketing, if it tastes good go for it.

[Josquius]

On Italian food, also the recent Felicity Cloake (who I always love) in the Guardian on carbonara recently. First recipe is in the 1950s and has loads of ingredients including () cream.

I think probably another example of Italian food is actually Italian-American food. Also why purism in food is a fool's errand. Authenticity is marketing, if it tastes good go for it.

Yeah, I remember watching this youtube video on the topic ages ago where they mentioned Carbonara being american too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZfwyKa0Lc

This rest of history was really interesting. This whole marketing idea has been built up around the idea of lovely Italian food from rural areas like momma used to make.... When most Italian food is from the cities and the countryside ate horribly until very recent times, with Italian height only catching up with the west in very recent decades.

And yep. Everything comes from somewhere so purism is daft. Though Italians especially do tend to like to push it nonetheless which makes the disproval fun.

[Savonarola]

I was listening to The University of Oxford Lecture Series from the Classics department.  One of the lecturers described starting a feminist critique of classical literature based solely on text.  As she and her collaborator were discussing this movement they were concerned that academic rigor was phallocentric.  That amused me.  I thought "Priapus and the Grant Proposal Review" would be a worthy contemporary successor to "Achilles and the Tortoise."

(They did decide that academic rigor was not actually phallocentric, if you cared.)

[garbon]

I was just listening to Empire and they referred to Timur as the Hyacinth Bucket of history.

[Habbaku]

Really enjoying the Reading McCarthy Podcast: https://readingmccarthy.buzzsprout.com/

Exactly what it says it is. Long-form discussions with some literary luminaries and professors talking about Cormac's works in great detail.