{"id":5344,"date":"2021-08-02T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2022-10-31T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:29:29","slug":"my-favorite-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=5344","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Favorite podcasts \u2013 we all have them. Podcasts have become a huge part of my intake. I think that podcasts are a great way to learn, laugh, and inform ourselves. Here are my current favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy Richter\u2019s Three Questions  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a great interview show. If you need to laugh and like a good conversation, this is it. Andy Richter was\/is Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s longtime sidekick. While I have always loved Conan, my only complaints about his show were that there wasn\u2019t enough time with Conan and there wasn\u2019t enough Andy. With Andy\u2019s podcasts, there aren\u2019t a lot of zany antics, but just very human and delving conversations with his very cool guests. Honorable Mention for interviews: Conan O\u2019Brien, Marc Maron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Word of Mouth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a BBC podcast headed by writer and linguist Michael Rosen. It\u2019s all about (the English) language and features linguists and historians talking about fascinating aspects of the long and cool history of the English language. Some of my favorite episodes include metaphors with Stephen Fry, Viking language, pub names, biscuit (cookie) names, and how places got their names. So cool and fun and informative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bedtime Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is also a British podcast (don\u2019t judge) which is done in short 20-minute episodes in which Richard While tells us, well, a bedtime story. A creepy, disturbing, real-life bedtime story that you want to listen to, ironically, at any time other than when you are not going to bed. Brilliantly researched and told (While is a great narrator and writer), these are very interesting stories that have occurred throughout history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re Dead to Me<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another history podcast from Britain. Greg Jenner hosts each episode on a specific theme or person (e.g. young Napoleon, the Pyramids, America becoming a country) and an historian who is a specialist on the theme and a comedian to act as sort of humorous foil. A well done, informative, and fun way to learn about history.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on a True Story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An American (finally!) podcast, in which Dan LeFebvre talks about a film which is based on a true story (hence, the name) and an historian or expert in that area. Essentially, they discuss how true to history or real life the movie is. Great episodes (that I have listened to, but I haven\u2019t listened to that many) are The Last Samurai, J. Edgar Hoover, and Master and Commander. But possibly the best so far is the 3-part episode about Band of Brothers. This was fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over to you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please Share your favorite podcast! I\u2019m especially looking for horror tales (fiction or non) to round out my collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Favorite podcasts \u2013 we all have them. Podcasts have become a huge part of my intake. I think that podcasts are a great way to learn, laugh, and inform ourselves. Here are my current favorites. Andy Richter\u2019s Three Questions   This is a great interview show. If you need to laugh and like a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/damiengaleone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Andy_Richter_at_the_2013_Final_Four_in_Atlanta_Georgia_02_cropped.jpg?fit=937%2C893&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EvEu-1oc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}