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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
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Caught a Radio NZ advert for Season 2 of Matangireia. It's a series of interviews with prominent (retired) Maori politicians.
So I subscribed and have listened to the first two of Series 1. Metiria Turei and Aunty Tariana Turia.
Really interesting, thought provoking and educational both of them. I never had much time for Turei's politics but man she comes across as passionate, principled and committed. They both do but it wasn't a surprise with Dame Tariana. The other characteristic they seem to share is happiness at being out of Parliament.
I've had my eyes opened a bit. Thoroughly recommend.
Matangireia | RNZ
Matangireia is a series of conversations examining the political legacies of MÄori politicians.
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Tom Breihen, who does the Number Ones column for Stereogum, talks with Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Operators) and friends about his run in with BTS fans on the internet, and other shit about modern pop music.
Fortune Kit is one of my favourite podcasts, as it uncovers weird, original, and often off-putting stuff in music, in an era where pop and rock are generic garbage or just recycled instant nostalgia. They also do a lot of ironic smart-assed shit too, like everyone else.
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The Lazarus Heist (done by BBC World Service)
Starts off talking about North Korea and the Sony cyber attack following the movie, The Interview.
It does delve into a bit of NK history too, I'm 4 eps in and is pretty good.
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@tim said in Good podcasts:
Tom Breihen, who does the Number Ones column for Stereogum, talks with Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Operators) and friends about his run in with BTS fans on the internet, and other shit about modern pop music.
Fortune Kit is one of my favourite podcasts, as it uncovers weird, original, and often off-putting stuff in music, in an era where pop and rock are generic garbage or just recycled instant nostalgia. They also do a lot of ironic smart-assed shit too, like everyone else.
Hmm, how did I miss this post earlier? I don't know if I want to hear what Breihan sounds like as I prefer to read the no,1's column in the pompous music snob voice I've created for him in mind. I don't want that ruined with his actual voice.
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Listening to 'Operator'
Which delves into the early days of the phone sex industry, and the technology developed at the time, that they reckon if any industry other than the sex industry would have been huge news.
Focuses mainly on one company that was the largest provider at the time.
Fascinating listen so far, ep 4 where I am upto is explicit where they recreate some actual calls and stories.
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Onto another one, The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes on trial
I vaguely recall the name, but dont recall much otherwise.
Interesting story so far (3 eps in)
The Dropout Podcast - ABC Audio
Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world's youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye? How did the woman once heralded as "the next Steve Jobs"...
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@taniwharugby great book on it, also a documentary on TV somewhere
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@mariner4life and another Podcast on The Great Fail
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The latest episode of rugby direct is an absolute cracker with a brilliant guest...
Rugby Direct - Summer Edition: Raeburn Shield
Elliott catches up with the man behind the Raeburn and Utrecht Shields - mythical rugby trophies that don't exist but perhaps should.
I joined Elliot to talk Raeburn and Utrecht Shield which was cool.
14 minutes I suggest worthy of your ears
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@davesofthunder did listen to that this morning.
Worth a listen.
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"The Coming Storm" from BBC Sounds.
About the motivation behind the Jan 6 "insurrection", and how it was spawned by the QAnon conspiracy, what QAnon was, how that arose from the Vince Foster suicide and the Clintons, through 4Chan, 8Chan and now (Am up to Ep 5) into the Russia collusion conspiracy.
Am enjoying.
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This was excellent, I couldnāt really stop listening to it until finished. About the Trojan Horse letter in Birmingham UK that kicked off a huge series of events/change in schools, socially and government policy. A lot going on including the interaction between the two
Journalists, one veteran and one beginner.I hadnāt listened to S-Town so have since listened to that which is also very good but I think the Trojan Horse one is better.
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@unite said in Good podcasts:
This was excellent, I couldnāt really stop listening to it until finished. About the Trojan Horse letter in Birmingham UK that kicked off a huge series of events/change in schools, socially and government policy. A lot going on including the interaction between the two
Journalists, one veteran and one beginner.I hadnāt listened to S-Town so have since listened to that which is also very good but I think the Trojan Horse one is better.
This was awesome. I liked how whenever they brought in a new character and started discussing or interviewing them it really wasn't apparent which way it was going to go.
I'm about to do a deep dive on the documentation available (reports etc).
I had no prior knowledge of this story either, which seems strange in hindsight.
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@nepia said in Good podcasts:
@unite said in Good podcasts:
This was excellent, I couldnāt really stop listening to it until finished. About the Trojan Horse letter in Birmingham UK that kicked off a huge series of events/change in schools, socially and government policy. A lot going on including the interaction between the two
Journalists, one veteran and one beginner.I hadnāt listened to S-Town so have since listened to that which is also very good but I think the Trojan Horse one is better.
This was awesome. I liked how whenever they brought in a new character and started discussing or interviewing them it really wasn't apparent which way it was going to go.
I'm about to do a deep dive on the documentation available (reports etc).
I had no prior knowledge of this story either, which seems strange in hindsight.
Iāve gone back and started it again, well worth a second listen.
85 - Boys That Stereogum (ft. Tom Breihan) by Fortune Kit
Theranos: A Bloody Mess
Rugby Direct - Summer Edition 2
The Trojan Horse Affair