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Podcast news: Spotify announced some new podcasting tools as well as new exclusive podcasts to their platform that includes Renegades: Born in the USA w/ Bruce Springsteen and President Obama. That should be an interesting listen. If you get to it before I do, add a review.
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On to our picks this week…
Podcast: NASA’s Curious Universe
Publisher: NASA
Genre: Science
The eagle has landed…on Mars! NASA’s billion-dollar baby, Perservence Rover successfully arrived on the red planet, and with microphones attached. What does that mean? We, humans, get to get to hear what it finally sounds like…ON A PODCAST! NASA’s Curious Universe podcast is an easy-going, easy-to-understand podcast, that released an episode this week on the “Sounds of Mars”. In this episode, they talk about the microphone setup and what you are hearing on Mars in addition to other cool things about the journey. Fascinating!
Reviewer elenaz.elie, wrote,
If you want to relax and learn at the same time join this podcast.
Podcast: Great Pods Podcast Recommendations
Guest: Jay Shifman from Choose Your Struggle
This week’s podcast guest recommendation comes from a friend of Great Pods, Jay Shifman, a mental health and substance misuse speaker, coach, and host of the Choose Your Struggle podcast. Listen to his recommendation in the episode above. Links below!
Captain’s Hot Take: I listened to the St. Vincent episode on Kesha and the Creepies. They both had calming voices and honestly, I did not know who was talking most of the time. But that was fine! There were stories at Taylor Swift’s house where they both met which were amusing. It’s not a “let’s talk music the entire time” type of conversation.
Side note: There are no listeners reviews for Cookies for Breakfast or Kesha and the Creepies. If you listen, add a review!
Podcast: Stuff The British Stole
Publisher: ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
Genre: History (Some explicit language)
Oh, the British Empire. What haven’t they done during their time as colonizers? Whilst adding some reviews, this podcast popped up in various international critic reviews(see below). The first episode is on a toy tiger from the era of Tipu Sultan of India. Seeing how I am of Indian descent I put on that particular episode when I was on a road trip with the family. There is a short moment where one of the historians puts Tipu in a less than favorable light. Oh boy, my aunt and uncle did not like that and I got to hear it while we still had 30 minutes left on the way home. I laugh at that situation now. Putting that moment aside, I did enjoy the host’s struggle to find the bottom of the story throughout.
Fennell(host) is immensely entertaining, his podcasts are always gripping and this is an excellent series that uses history, colonialism and art to examine where we are today. Recommended."
Miranda Sawyer - The Guardian - Dec 12, 2020
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