Podcasts are my go-to for getting through a workday without falling asleep in a puddle of drool. I was wondering if there are any other - Podcast Polymaths - on here and which ones do you all listen to?
In my boredom-dodging efforts, I try to listen to Podcasts about... really anything. Anything I don't know about is somewhat interesting enough for me to perk up to out of curiosity. Especially if the hosts make an effort to be funny or exciting with the information they're sharing. My list so far includes:
1) This Podcast Will Kill You: which talks about all the different diseases, ailments, and pathogens. How they work biologically and where they pop up throughout history.
2) Second Date Update (By brooke and jubal): Basically a radio show segment where, on behalf of a listener who is struggling to get a response from someone they went on a first date with, they call the person up and get their side of the story to figure out where the date went wrong and if they (the radio show) could pay for a second date.
3) Writing Excuses: A group of at least four successful fiction (scifi/fantasy/etc.) writers spend 15-20 minutes discussing different things they've learned about specific topics in regards to writing, publishing, marketing, etc. The author of the Stormlight Archives, Brandon Sanderson, is one of the main hosts. They usually have at least one guest author/publisher/etc. that joins or cycles in with each new episode.
4) Call Her Daddy: Uhhhh, basically female "locker room talk" podcast about sex and dating. Hosts are extremely funny. Second funniest podcast in my roster.
5) Jenkins and Jones: Basically black nerds who hold a podcast to discuss current events, pop culture, and weird stuff from a uniquely and culturally black perspective. Funniest podcast in my roster.
6) Various Cracked podcasts from the humor website Cracked.com. Generally really funny and really informative.
7) Bingemode: Review different works of fiction, both shows and books, in an analytical, yet hilarious, manner akin to an AP English/College English Lit Literary Analysis class.
8 ) The Portal: Not really sure how to describe it, but the host Eric Weinstein is considered part of the "intellectual dark web". Podcasts varies from interviewing presidential candidates about politics, to interviewing war veterans about war, to interviewing physicists about the search for a theory that unifies everything/propaganda of physicist community in promoting String Theory.
9) Casterquest
10 ) Hey Riddle Riddle (before they stopped tackling different riddles every episode and started mostly doing improv comedy sets)
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Next one I'm going to try is a science fiction podcast called Dotting the I in Spaceship.
I am open to any suggestions
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