Podcast Central

[MartyFunkhouser]

Been listening to Rap Latte lately. Fun podcast and the episodes are less than an hour long. I've mostly been listening to the episodes to the episodes where they are expressing how much they hate Drake, which has been fun.

[Green Monstah]

I’ve been listening to Diary of a CEO a lot lately. Episodes are typically a little too long, but so is my commute. Last episode’s guest was Ben Bikman, a BYU professor. As someone who constantly fights with my weight, I found him to be extremely helpful. I’m about 60 pages in to his book “Why We Get Sick” as well.

[BigFatMeanie]

I’ve been listening to Diary of a CEO a lot lately. Episodes are typically a little too long, but so is my commute. Last episode’s guest was Ben Bikman, a BYU professor. As someone who constantly fights with my weight, I found him to be extremely helpful. I’m about 60 pages in to his book “Why We Get Sick” as well.

He also talked on the subject at a BYU devotional

His research is compelling but it would be easier to digest his message if he wasn't simultaneously in the weight loss/diet business: https://gethlth.com/

Bikman is very active on Twitter - battling back and forth with folks about the merits of different diets and research and stuff. Remember when The Dude got blocked on Twitter by Jason Fung when he joked about entering the scam phase as Dr. Fung started to "monetize" his research and philosophies beyond The Obesity Code book?

[Green Monstah]

I remember that a bit.

FWIW, he didn't mention his diet products on the podcast, so maybe he isn't a complete sellout.

[PaloAltoCougar]

My weekly hike is my happy place. When not simply communing with nature, I listen to podcasts and today's were especially good. The first, in two parts, was The Rest is History featuring guest Anthony Scaramucci (surprisngly well-read and thoughtful) discussing each U.S. President since FDR--really interesting. The second was Fresh Air featuring Anne Applebaum (highest respect for her), How Regime Change Happens in America. Very strongly recommended!

[Northwestcoug]

Beach Boys. Meh. Overrated.

I get they aren't for everyone, but overrated? They have great songs, great harmonies, and they laid a blue print present in most modern music.

How could you not love this (not even a Brian Wilson composition)?

I've largely fallen off the 'A history of rock music in 500 songs' bandwagon, but I went back to find one to learn more about The Beach Boys. This one about 'God Only Knows' is very typical of his podcasts, giving very interesting background with a lot of names you won't remember, and only bringing it back together to talk about the specific song in the last few minutes. At any rate, it's pretty interesting, and after listening to it I'm more team USUC than JL on The Beach Boys spectrum. Not that I'm listening to their stuff all the time, but still, there's some really good tunes there.

https://500songs.com/podcast/episode...he-beach-boys/

Bonus fact: did you know a mix of Bach and an acid trip inspired Wilson to write the music to "California Girls"?

[Northwestcoug]

And while I'm thinking about it I might as well plug a couple of really interesting but long episodes. Save these for a road trip.

"All You Need is Love". Just a really informative dive into the societal and historical background during this time. It's a long one and you likely won't remember most details, but he paints a very interesting picture of what the world was like during this time:

https://500songs.com/podcast/episode...y-the-beatles/

Sympathy for the Devil. About as long as the other one but it's broken up into multiple episodes. Come for the treatise about the preexistence a la Milton's 'Paradise Lost', stay for how the emerging drug culture and tax laws changed politics in the UK and abroad. This one is more depressing than "All you Need is Love", still just very interesting to learn about. This is the first episode:

https://500songs.com/podcast/song-17...lth-and-taste/

"Hey Jude". Again, the song itself is not the most interesting part, but what was going on in the Beatles' lives and the world around them instead.

https://500songs.com/podcast/episode...y-the-beatles/

[USUC]

And while I'm thinking about it I might as well plug a couple of really interesting but long episodes. Save these for a road trip.

"All You Need is Love". Just a really informative dive into the societal and historical background during this time. It's a long one and you likely won't remember most details, but he paints a very interesting picture of what the world was like during this time:

https://500songs.com/podcast/episode...y-the-beatles/

Sympathy for the Devil. About as long as the other one but it's broken up into multiple episodes. Come for the treatise about the preexistence a la Milton's 'Paradise Lost', stay for how the emerging drug culture and tax laws changed politics in the UK and abroad. This one is more depressing than "All you Need is Love", still just very interesting to learn about. This is the first episode:

https://500songs.com/podcast/song-17...lth-and-taste/

"Hey Jude". Again, the song itself is not the most interesting part, but what was going on in the Beatles' lives and the world around them instead.

https://500songs.com/podcast/episode...y-the-beatles/

Whoa. Thank you for posting these. I've never heard of this podcast before.

[Northwestcoug]

Whoa. Thank you for posting these. I've never heard of this podcast before.

A couple of years ago when I came across this podcast, I tried to listen to every one chronologically. While super informative and interesting, at some point I got tired of listening about bands I didn’t have much interest in. I tapped out around song 75 and started searching for ones that I had interest in. You do miss out on some background facts that he references earlier this way, but you get enough facts to enjoy the single episodes as is.

[Northwestcoug]

I'm excited for the "Collateral Damage" podcast, hosted by Radley Balko. He's highlighting all the bad that has come with the war on drugs. I'm halfway through the first episode which chronicles how the death of a 92 year-old woman brought down the entire narcotics division at the Atlanta police department. I've already heard about police cover-ups, lies, and evidence planting that came about because of the federal money flowing to police departments encouraging more drug arrests. You know, like what inevitably happens when we place too much trust in governments skirting laws when blowing up boats, etc.

https://theintercept.com/podcasts/collateral-damage/

[Green Monstah]

The Rest is History is excellent. Two English chaps do a fairly good job of churning out engaging, high quality historical content. It’s become my go-to lately, and there is so much archived content, that I may not be without a podcast for a couple of years.

[falafel]

I'm excited for the "Collateral Damage" podcast, hosted by Radley Balko. He's highlighting all the bad that has come with the war on drugs. I'm halfway through the first episode which chronicles how the death of a 92 year-old woman brought down the entire narcotics division at the Atlanta police department. I've already heard about police cover-ups, lies, and evidence planting that came about because of the federal money flowing to police departments encouraging more drug arrests. You know, like what inevitably happens when we place too much trust in governments skirting laws when blowing up boats, etc.

https://theintercept.com/podcasts/collateral-damage/

Links from The Intercept remind me of our dear friend Walter Sobchack/SpaceGhost.

Also, sounds like a good podcast. Subscribed.

[Shaka]

The bad part of the war on drugs is that we haven't fought it at its source. Trying to take down local networks and minor drug dealers hasn't done a thing. We should be going after the cartels and any country that supports them directly.

Good Trump!

[Northwestcoug]

The bad part of the war on drugs is that we haven't fought it at its source. Trying to take down local networks and minor drug dealers hasn't done a thing. We should be going after the cartels and any country that supports them directly.

Good Trump!

I seem to remember that's been tried before, both by internal and external players. And not just half-assedly like Trump's performative extrajudicial killing of drug runners in boats (are they really drug runners? Who's to say, just trust us!).

The most effective way to make a significant dent in drug use is to address the root cause of abuse/addiction. Doing the typical drug war thing is easy. It's also why it's been a failure.

[BigFatMeanie]

I seem to remember that's been tried before, both by internal and external players. And not just half-assedly like Trump's performative extrajudicial killing of drug runners in boats (are they really drug runners? Who's to say, just trust us!).

The most effective way to make a significant dent in drug use is to address the root cause of abuse/addiction. Doing the typical drug war thing is easy. It's also why it's been a failure.

For the uninformed, such as myself, can you elaborate on what the root cause of abuse/addiction is?