Good podcasts
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With the Premier League kicking off this weekend I am enjoying The Football Writers Podcast. Not something I'd listen to religiously but a good overview of the game
Also RNZ Caucus - Panel discussion between Guyon Espiner, Lisa Owen, Tim Watkins & Scott Campbell on NZ election related issues that assumes the listener has a brain and the ability to focus for more than a nano-second.
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The Great Fail: The Blockbuster Bust
Pretty good listen, looks at how many think that Netflix killed Blockbuster.
Was very interesting.
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
The Great Fail: The Blockbuster Bust
Pretty good listen, looks at how many think that Netflix killed Blockbuster.
Was very interesting.
Business Wars have a series of eps about this.
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
The Great Fail: The Blockbuster Bust
Pretty good listen, looks at how many think that Netflix killed Blockbuster.
Was very interesting.
The whole series is fascinating
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@MiketheSnow fascinating is the right word, a few of them I haven't been taken with but some are as you say fascinating but also very good.
Got the Pan-Am one in my list stil
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Been enjoying 'what a lad' podcast with James Marshall. The Pranks are pretty funny too.
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
@MiketheSnow fascinating is the right word, a few of them I haven't been taken with but some are as you say fascinating but also very good.
Got the Pan-Am one in my list stil
TBH, I find the series quite slight. I've listened to three of them now and they feel like advertisements for a longer series of podcasts on each topic.
Plus, that woman's voice grates on me.
In saying all that I still want to listen to the Pan Am one.
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Been listening to 'Relative Unknown' which is based on a guy who was part of one of the first Hells Angels Chapters and he ends up as a state witness against the gang with his family in Witness Protection, story is told by his daughter decades later.
Good listen.
@Nepia some of them I dont think I'd be interested in a multi ep series about them, so works for me.
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Only listened to 2 of these so far...they interview serial killers alreadyin prison for life or on death row.
Good despite what they are about.
So kinda Mind Hunters, but almost light hearted, despite the content, they put paid to some of the theories about what makes a serial killer, with these dudes just talking about the people they killed like we would talk rugby...actually, no, there are heated passionate conversations about rugby, these guys just dont care.
One dude kills a chick, has her in the boot of his car, parked opposite a police station while he is in court for a burglary charge, which he says was bullshit.
Where the bodies are buried
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
these guys just dont care
Sorta like the definition of a psychopath
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@dogmeat well yeah, but you gotta hear the way these ones talk, so casual, laughing as they talk about what they have done, 2 eps eps so far, and both in prison for about 10 murders all up, yet both reckon they have killed more like 50 each.
Alot of it done over the phone from prison (recorded during Covid)
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Tom Browns Body - basically about a teen who just vanishes one night.
3 or 4 eps in, is interesting, but the narration style and music seems a bit too light hearted and up-beat for the content, and the PI hired to investigate when the mother thought the police werent doing a good enough job, I reckon he and Donald Trump would be great mates.
A number of the recorded interveiws he would be telling the interviewee how great he was at finding missing people, always bigging himself up, was all very odd.
Have been listening to a few sci-fi ones, but very hit and miss!
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I recall somebody made a suggestion some time back about podcast by a forensic structural engineer who did podcasts on engineering failures.
I can't find the post and am not going all the way back through nearly 500 posts to look for it.
I forgot to follow up but have stumbled across either the same guy, or another bloke who is quite fascinating.
I suspect many of you are like me and register for heaps of on line webinars that you don't end up having time to log in to.
So happens last week I did have time and inclination to watch one presented by above mentioned engineer called Sean Brady, through Engineers Australia.
Absolutely fascinating presentation on the clusterfuck that led to the collapse of the Florida International University Pedestrian Bridge that killed 6 people.
Won't go into details but serious all round fuck up and nobody was blameless. Scheduled for an hour, but took 90 minutes.
Then received an email from Engineers Australia with a list of podcasts that included same bloke.
Shortish podcasts, about 20 min long in very similar style to the webinar (but less detail and no diagrams ).
Have listened to four of them this morning on the I90 Tunnel collapse in Boston, the Montreal Olympic stadium (no collapses just cost blow outs: $40m became $800m), the Hyatt Recency collapse in Kansas City, and Citicorp Tower (saved from collapse).
And you don't have to be a engineering nerd to enjoy. Keep a the technical details simple (And sends you to Google if you're keen.)
Link:
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Monster: DC Sniper
Very interesting story about the 2 guys involved and one of them who was under 18 years and changes to the US constitution which would see him 'eligible' for parole next year!!
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Jools & Jim’s Joyride
Jools Holland and Jim Moir (Vic Reeves) with guest each episode.
Done the first two - Bob Mortimer and Jane Horricks - laugh out loud funny.
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@booboo said in Good podcasts:
I recall somebody made a suggestion some time back about podcast by a forensic structural engineer who did podcasts on engineering failures.
I can't find the post and am not going all the way back through nearly 500 posts to look for it.
I forgot to follow up but have stumbled across either the same guy, or another bloke who is quite fascinating.
I suspect many of you are like me and register for heaps of on line webinars that you don't end up having time to log in to.
So happens last week I did have time and inclination to watch one presented by above mentioned engineer called Sean Brady, through Engineers Australia.
Absolutely fascinating presentation on the clusterfuck that led to the collapse of the Florida International University Pedestrian Bridge that killed 6 people.
Won't go into details but serious all round fuck up and nobody was blameless. Scheduled for an hour, but took 90 minutes.
Then received an email from Engineers Australia with a list of podcasts that included same bloke.
Shortish podcasts, about 20 min long in very similar style to the webinar (but less detail and no diagrams ).
Have listened to four of them this morning on the I90 Tunnel collapse in Boston, the Montreal Olympic stadium (no collapses just cost blow outs: $40m became $800m), the Hyatt Recency collapse in Kansas City, and Citicorp Tower (saved from collapse).
And you don't have to be a engineering nerd to enjoy. Keep a the technical details simple (And sends you to Google if you're keen.)
Link:
So I've pretty much been through the entire back catalogue.
Only a couple of disappointments. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was a little leftfield and not in keeping with his other episodes, and I didn't listen to the episodes on Apollo 13 as I've only recently finished series 2 of 13 Minutes to the Moon.
Anyway, I'd recommend 'Stranger than Fiction' about the I-40 bridge collapse (because it was), the 'Virgin Galactic Crash', and 'Why Expertise Can Hold Us Back' (fascinating story about fire jumpers).
Last two released are on Pike River. Was meant to be a two part series but they've had to stretch it to three due to the amount of information. Part 3 now due next month.