Good podcasts
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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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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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@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!
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…
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!
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…
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
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. -
@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!
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…
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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