Good podcasts
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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:
BHP - Brady Heywood Podcast clips
A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.
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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!!
Monster: DC Sniper
Listen to Monster: DC Sniper on Pandora - From iHeartRadio and TenderfootTV, ‘Monster: DC Sniper’ reinvestigates the beltway sniper attacks. This true crime podcast places the listener in Montgomery County, Maryland on October 2nd, 2002 when an unidentified sniper began randomly killing people...
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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:
BHP - Brady Heywood Podcast clips
A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.
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.
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My favourite podcast at the moment is Our Fake History where the guy looks at history and historical myths and tries to work out what's true or not. It's been going for a few years and has about 120 episodes that I've been slowly making my way through.
Lots of interesting topics. I burnt through all the high interest ones pretty quickly but have found some of the ones I've been less interested in to be really good and has sent me down (good) rabbit holes of research.
I tried to do a search to see if I'd already mentioned but the word fake mostly seemed to bring up the US Politics thread, so if I have already mentioned it this is a reminder.
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@nepia I havent started listening, but a few eps on my list - Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, which tells stories of mistakes, catastrophes and heists, soundbite I heard was pretty good.
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
@nepia I havent started listening, but a few eps on my list - Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, which tells stories of mistakes, catastrophes and heists, soundbite I heard was pretty good.
Listened to one of his on the Torey Canyon.
Similar vein to Sean Brady.
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@sparky The History of Rome is also a good one it’s about 200 episodes or so of 30 mins goes through the whole history up until 420AD, I’m currently on the history of Byzantium which is a follow on I’m 193 episodes deep on that both really good.
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@mikey07 I've been working my way through The History of Rome off and on for a couple of years I think I'm up to Theodosius but it's a while since I dipped into it. I agree it's bloody well done. My problem is a lot of the podcasts I follow are topical so I have to listen to them first - that's about 8 hours worth a week, but I will get back to the fag end days of Rome soon I hope.
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@taniwharugby said in Good podcasts:
@nepia I havent started listening, but a few eps on my list - Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, which tells stories of mistakes, catastrophes and heists, soundbite I heard was pretty good.
Listened to a few of these, was a good one on the Dunning-Kruger hijack, Harold Shipman (and statistics) and one on the Curse of Knowledge (not unlike the dunning-kruger effect) meets the Valley of death
All very interesting
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@dogmeat luckily being a courier driver I just chuck it on and go through my day, I’m abit over the history of Byzantium I’m up to 1082 and it’s already 175 podcasts in but I like to finish what I started. Before I move on to the next
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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!
Cautionary Tales – Number Fever; How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
Pepsi twice ended up in court after promotions went disastrously wrong. Other big companies have fallen into the same trap – promising customers rewards so generous that to fulfil the promise…
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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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