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Another in the Cautionary Tales series - Number Fever; How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
Which is basically when promos go wrong!
I mean accidentally producing 500,000 winning numbers for $1,000,000 (in Filipino currency) or offering up a Harrier Jump Jet for $700k in Pepsi Points...
Fascinating listen!
https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary-tales-number-fever/
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@sparky said in Good podcasts:
If you like History podcasts, the Rest of History with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook comes highly recommended by me and has been getting lots of excellent reviews. The episodes on Weird Wars, China, Tutankhaum and Communism were especially good.
This was a good tip. Have been listening since, I reckon it's the best general history podcast I've come accross so far. Cheers.
The 7 Years War episode just been was fascianting.
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The Imelda May episode of Jools & Jim's Joyride on BBC Sounds is the funniest thing I've heard in ages.
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
Another in the Cautionary Tales series - Number Fever; How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
Which is basically when promos go wrong!
I mean accidentally producing 500,000 winning numbers for $1,000,000 (in Filipino currency) or offering up a Harrier Jump Jet for $700k in Pepsi Points...
Fascinating listen!
https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary-tales-number-fever/
Been binge listening Cautionary Tales. Great stuff.
Listening in order from the beginning. Just done the Dunning Kruger Highjack.
Shipment was extremely disturbing.
Have you checked out the other podcasts he advertises? (The Last Archive etc?). Any good?
Might look them up next.
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@booboo said in Good podcasts:
@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
Another in the Cautionary Tales series - Number Fever; How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
Which is basically when promos go wrong!
I mean accidentally producing 500,000 winning numbers for $1,000,000 (in Filipino currency) or offering up a Harrier Jump Jet for $700k in Pepsi Points...
Fascinating listen!
https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary-tales-number-fever/
Been binge listening Cautionary Tales. Great stuff.
Listening in order from the beginning. Just done the Dunning Kruger Highjack.
Shipment was extremely disturbing.
Have you checked out the other podcasts he advertises? (The Last Archive etc?). Any good?
Might look them up next.
Have you listened to Revisionist History? It's Malcolm Gladwell's one. It's pretty good - and got me on to this one as he played a clip of The Rogue Dressed as a Captain.
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@booboo the Dunning Kruger one was great, so relevant!
Shipment, not sure I listened to that one, I did skip a few.
Not gone to any others advertised yet, but am listening to another, Good Assassins: Hunting the Butcher which is pretty good, about a MOssad agent hunting the 'Butcher of Latvia'.
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
@booboo the Dunning Kruger one was great, so relevant!
Shipment, not sure I listened to that one, I did skip a few.
Not gone to any others advertised yet, but am listening to another, Good Assassins: Hunting the Butcher which is pretty good, about a MOssad agent hunting the 'Butcher of Latvia'.
Ach. Bloody atocorrect.
Meant to be Shipman (title "Catching a Killer Doctor")
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
@booboo the Dunning Kruger one was great, so relevant!
Shipment, not sure I listened to that one, I did skip a few.
Not gone to any others advertised yet, but am listening to another, Good Assassins: Hunting the Butcher which is pretty good, about a MOssad agent hunting the 'Butcher of Latvia'.
I started this, I'm two episodes in and I'm really enjoying it.
The Dunning Kruger one was good, and I actually read the actual journal article so that I can now be that twat telling people they're using it wrong on the internet.
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I've been listening to this for a while and really enjoying it
https://audioboom.com/channel/scathing-atheist
Basically 3 comics taking the piss out of religious stories that occurred in the past week.
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Stumbled onto Blackout, which is a fictional podcast where the whole US loses electricity (has been a tv series along these lines)
Is pretty good, Rami Malek voices one of the characters.
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@taniwharugby I listened to almost all that when it first came out but with 2 episodes to go just gave up. Don't know why. Might try and pick it up then.
Not a pod but for those who enjoyed Kevin Fong's series on Apollo's 11 & 13 I caught this yesterday. His latest effort
On 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became an explorer like none other before him, going faster and further than any human in history, into what had always been the impenetrable and infinite unknown. Raised in poverty during the World War Two, the one-time foundry worker and a citizen of the Soviet Union became the first human to fly above the Earth in the vastness of space. In doing so he became an instrument in The Cold War – an ideological battle between the superpowers; East versus West, communism versus democracy. In the year of the 60th anniversary, Dr Kevin Fong tells the story of how 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin came to launch a new chapter in the history of exploration and follows the cosmonaut’s one hour flight around the Earth. The Soviet Union's triumph in 1961 was the event that galvanised the United States to win the Space Race, to send the first people on the Moon by the end of the decade. Yuri’s own ambitions to voyage to the Moon were frustrated by his political masters, a faltering Soviet lunar space program and two tragic accidents.
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@nepia said in Good podcasts:
@booboo said in Good podcasts:
@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
Another in the Cautionary Tales series - Number Fever; How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
Which is basically when promos go wrong!
I mean accidentally producing 500,000 winning numbers for $1,000,000 (in Filipino currency) or offering up a Harrier Jump Jet for $700k in Pepsi Points...
Fascinating listen!
https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary-tales-number-fever/
Been binge listening Cautionary Tales. Great stuff.
Listening in order from the beginning. Just done the Dunning Kruger Highjack.
Shipment was extremely disturbing.
Have you checked out the other podcasts he advertises? (The Last Archive etc?). Any good?
Might look them up next.
Have you listened to Revisionist History? It's Malcolm Gladwell's one. It's pretty good - and got me on to this one as he played a clip of The Rogue Dressed as a Captain.
Got through Series 1. Some good stuff even if I find his leftie posturing a bit much at times.
Did like his episode on the Sudden Acceleration Scandal. How Toyota copped to the fines given the evidence against their guilt was amazing.
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Remember the name Yeonmi Park.
North Korean defector. She escaped nth korea as a 13 year old and was immediately sold into slavery in China, then an arduous life through south Korea and eventually Columbia University in the States.
Currently 27 years old.Her story is probably the most amazing thing you'll ever hear.
You will be astounded at life in North Korea since the Kim's took over. Spring is the highest death season because there is a scarcity of insects, therefore no food. Everyone must collect their own faeces because there is no fertiliser. Nobody knows the world map.
If everyone in the western world heard her story the world would be a better place and free-er from nonsense "1st world" assessments and problems.
I wish her life was taught and contemplated and examined like Nelson Mandela's was.
Yeonmi Park
If you search for her, any rendition, interview or podcast will be worth your time.
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@siam said in Good podcasts:
Remember the name Yeonmi Park.
North Korean defector. She escaped nth korea as a 13 year old and was immediately sold into slavery in China, then an arduous life through south Korea and eventually Columbia University in the States.
Currently 27 years old.Her story is probably the most amazing thing you'll ever hear.
You will be astounded at life in North Korea since the Kim's took over. Spring is the highest death season because there is a scarcity of insects, therefore no food. Everyone must collect their own faeces because there is no fertiliser. Nobody knows the world map.
If everyone in the western world heard her story the world would be a better place and free-er from nonsense "1st world" assessments and problems.
I wish her life was taught and contemplated and examined like Nelson Mandela's was.
Yeonmi Park
If you search for her, any rendition, interview or podcast will be worth your time.
Ah, false news. I was in North Korea just under 2 years ago, and saw first-hand that they've got shitloads of food.
I shit you not - two of the "attractions" we got to visit were...- A mushroom factory - proving that they've got such high-tech solutions as "telephones" in their food-production systems
- An orchard. A FUCKING massive orchard... like... dozens of square kilometres. With every tree laden with apples. But... zero people picking them. The others in my group thought I was paranoid when I pointed this out... but there were literally hundreds of acres of apple trees - all with fruit falling off, but nobody working there. Except... out bus pulled over next to a pile of about a dozen crates - filled with apples... just like as if people had been picking them. And we were allowed to get off the bus, walk down the aisles of trees, and pluck/taste apples for ourselves. There was a single aisle, where about 10 metres of the trees had been harvested. To my eyes - obviously to fill those road-side crates. The next aisle over, on either side? Full of fruit- ripe to the point where it was falling off the trees. Absolutely fucked. It seemed to me, a fucking MASSIVE operation just to "save face" - show the westerner tourists that they could feed the people. While not actually doing so.
I could talk for hours about the shit you see, and hear, and the constant mind-fuck it is just being there, and double-guessing EVERYTHING you see... are these people actors for our sake? Do these people genuinely believe what they're saying? What is real, and what is not? Are they going to be able to trace my sneaky internet connection when at the top of Mount Paektu with a short period of access to South Korean mobile internet access, and lock me up before I leave?
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@kruse please don't miss take my words over her experiences. If you think it false news I have no idea. I highly doubt she is being false but you know way more than I. Don't take my words to be an adequate representation of hers.
If half of her stories are authentic it's still a must hear tale of criminal government manipulation and how the building blocks involve identity persecution and rewriting history.
Your critique of her stories would be most valuable. Way cool that you went there👍
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@siam said in Good podcasts:
@kruse please don't miss take my words over her experiences. If you think it false news I have no idea. I highly doubt she is being false but you know way more than I. Don't take my words to be an adequate representation of hers.
If half of her stories are authentic it's still a must hear tale of criminal government manipulation and how the building blocks involve identity persecution and rewriting history.
Your critique of her stories would be most valuable. Way cool that you went there👍
Nah bro - you got me wrong.
Re-read my post with strong "sarcasm tags" on the first sentence.
This is one of the very few times where I think your "youtube research" is probably spot-on.
DPRK is fuuuucked up. Fascinating, but fucked up.
Just hearing their versions of "truth" on nearly everything, leads you to realise that either we have ALL been suckered in by the most brilliant of propaganda, or they've been fully deluded by clumsy self-contradicting propaganda. -
@kruse said in Good podcasts:
@siam said in Good podcasts:
@kruse please don't miss take my words over her experiences. If you think it false news I have no idea. I highly doubt she is being false but you know way more than I. Don't take my words to be an adequate representation of hers.
If half of her stories are authentic it's still a must hear tale of criminal government manipulation and how the building blocks involve identity persecution and rewriting history.
Your critique of her stories would be most valuable. Way cool that you went there👍
Nah bro - you got me wrong.
Re-read my post with strong "sarcasm tags" on the first sentence.
This is one of the very few times where I think your "youtube research" is probably spot-on.
DPRK is fuuuucked up. Fascinating, but fucked up.
Just hearing their versions of "truth" on nearly everything, leads you to realise that either we have ALL been suckered in by the most brilliant of propaganda, or they've been fully deluded by clumsy self-contradicting propaganda.Didn't get your sarcasm bro, all good.
Might be one of the very few times where you've made any sober sense and actually addressed the content 😉