Podcasts

[RoadRunner79]

So I find myself listening to podcasts a lot recently.  Some are radio shows, and some are stand alone podcasts.  I listen to them when I'm driving for work, or in the office (not doing field service).  Even the ones that are more entertaining, I find make you think.  Sometimes they are just background noise, but I catch little bit's and pieces here and there.  Anyways, here are a few that I recommend.   Do you have any podcasts that you really enjoy?

Revisionist History by Malcom Gladwell -  Malcom is a great story teller.  I could probably listen to him talk about anything.  His podcasts has a number of interesting ideas.  I recently really enjoyed his podcast "12 Rules for Life"  http://revisionisthistory.com/

The way that I heard it by Mike Row - This is the dirty jobs guy.  Again, a perfect voice for narrating, and can make most anything interesting.  This is one of the top short podcasts where he will craft a story about some one in history, and normally in an unusual way, that you may not realize who he is talking about to the end.   Both entertaining and informative.  http://mikerowe.com/podcast/

Patterson in Pursuit by Steve Patterson -Steve is an academic who is pursuing philosophy outside of acedemia.  In fact, he doesn't think too much of the current nature of academia.  There are a lot of philosophical topics which he covers, and often interviews people and discusses topics of interest with them. I find this podcast informative and thought provoking.  There have been a few podcast which where just dry philosophy, and not as interesting, but overall; I like it.   I actually found this author while looking up things in discussion here.  http://steve-patterson.com/podcast/

Unbelievable by Justine Brierley - I listen to a number of Christian podcasts, but this is one, that I thought may be of interest to those on an atheist forum (if there's interest, I can recommend a few others).  The Unbelievable podcast is from a British radio show of the same name.  Justin often has two guests who debate various topics, which mostly center around Christian interests.   Because of this, there are often atheists who come on the show to debate with Christians.  Justin is a fair and balanced moderator, who has a talent for keeping things on topic.  A continuing praise is that listeners do not realize that he is a Christian, until they listen to a number of shows.  This is an excellent podcasts to here multiple views on Christian issues both from Christians and non-Christians. https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Sh...e/Episodes

So; does anyone here podcast?   Do you have something that you would recommend I add to the list? 

If you do podcast, and have an apple device, I also highly recommend  the "iCatcher" app.

[Alexmahone]

Waking Up by Sam Harris

[brewer]

https://www.tntradioempire.com/podcasts

[downbeatplumb]

No such thing as a fish. podcast.

http://qi.com/podcast

[FatAndFaithless]

Hardcore History is another good one if you don't mind 3+ hour-long podcasts.

[RoadRunner79]

Hardcore History is another good one if you don't mind 3+ hour-long podcasts.

3 hours is a bit long.  Especially with all the other's I listen to.   The Patterson podcast was often running 1.5 -2 hrs.   Which he has been trying to limit it to 1 hour or less.   I think that it is better.   I often don't have 2 hours to listen at one time.

[SteveII]

Waking Up by Sam Harris

I've been listening to this one lately. I like it. Don't agree with Harris and some guests on everything, but all around informative, quality discussion.

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Hardcore History is another good one if you don't mind 3+ hour-long podcasts.

LOL, 3+ hours is only an installment. If you listen to the whole topic, will be 4x that.

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So I find myself listening to podcasts a lot recently.  Some are radio shows, and some are stand alone podcasts.  I listen to them when I'm driving for work, or in the office (not doing field service).  Even the ones that are more entertaining, I find make you think.  Sometimes they are just background noise, but I catch little bit's and pieces here and there.  Anyways, here are a few that I recommend.   Do you have any podcasts that you really enjoy?

Revisionist History by Malcom Gladwell -  Malcom is a great story teller.  I could probably listen to him talk about anything.  His podcasts has a number of interesting ideas.  I recently really enjoyed his podcast "12 Rules for Life"  http://revisionisthistory.com/

The way that I heard it by Mike Row - This is the dirty jobs guy.  Again, a perfect voice for narrating, and can make most anything interesting.  This is one of the top short podcasts where he will craft a story about some one in history, and normally in an unusual way, that you may not realize who he is talking about to the end.   Both entertaining and informative.  http://mikerowe.com/podcast/

Patterson in Pursuit by Steve Patterson -Steve is an academic who is pursuing philosophy outside of acedemia.  In fact, he doesn't think too much of the current nature of academia.  There are a lot of philosophical topics which he covers, and often interviews people and discusses topics of interest with them. I find this podcast informative and thought provoking.  There have been a few podcast which where just dry philosophy, and not as interesting, but overall; I like it.   I actually found this author while looking up things in discussion here.  http://steve-patterson.com/podcast/

Unbelievable by Justine Brierley - I listen to a number of Christian podcasts, but this is one, that I thought may be of interest to those on an atheist forum (if there's interest, I can recommend a few others).  The Unbelievable podcast is from a British radio show of the same name.  Justin often has two guests who debate various topics, which mostly center around Christian interests.   Because of this, there are often atheists who come on the show to debate with Christians.  Justin is a fair and balanced moderator, who has a talent for keeping things on topic.  A continuing praise is that listeners do not realize that he is a Christian, until they listen to a number of shows.  This is an excellent podcasts to here multiple views on Christian issues both from Christians and non-Christians. https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Sh...e/Episodes

So; does anyone here podcast?   Do you have something that you would recommend I add to the list? 

If you do podcast, and have an apple device, I also highly recommend  the "iCatcher" app.

I listen to Revisionist History. Pretty good. I'll look up the rest and add them.

[CapnAwesome]

Hardcore History is another good one if you don't mind 3+ hour-long podcasts.

3 hours is a bit long.  Especially with all the other's I listen to.   The Patterson podcast was often running 1.5 -2 hrs.   Which he has been trying to limit it to 1 hour or less.   I think that it is better.   I often don't have 2 hours to listen at one time.

You just listen to it in blocks. I love hardcore history.

[RoadRunner79]

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I listen to Revisionist History. Pretty good. I'll look up the rest and add them.

For Christian Podcasts, I would also recommend:

The Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast by Greg Koukl -  It has some oration, where Greg speaks his mind on a topic, but often it is reasoned responses to Christian and non-Christian questions.  There is also STR Ask which is just a short podcast answering questions only (ussually limiting the response to around 4 minutes.)   He has a quote that Good Philosophy (thinking) is caught not taught. Meaning that it's not just learning a bunch of rules, but breaking down and issue, and learning how to think through it.  https://www.str.org/podcasts In looking here, they have a couple of other podcasts from thier staff, that I might try.

Cold Case Christianity by J Warner Wallace - This is a podcasts by former atheists and LA cold case detective Jim Wallace.  He often talks about his experience with evidence, and making a case for the Christian position.  He's sympathetic to the views of atheists, as he was what he called an aggressive atheist for 35 years.  Because of this, he doesn't take any money for his ministry and does things a little different from some.   He talks about his journey to Christianity, and how he applied the evidence, to come to believe that it is true. http://coldcasechristianity.com/category/podcasts/

And thanks for the endorsement of Wake Up by Sam Harris.  As one of the pointed to New Atheists, I may have been making some bad assumptions about it and glossed over this.

One other I recommend is the Eric Metaxas Show - Eric talks about a number of things, although often Christianity and politics.  I can see he may not be to some peoples liking, but I think that he is entertaining and at times informative.  http://www.metaxastalk.com/podcasts/ Metaxas is the host of the Socrates in the City events and is also participates in the Breakpoint podcast from the Chuck Colson Foundation.  I would recommend this as well.  http://www.breakpoint.org/category/podcast/

LOL... I probably shouldn't be asking for more podcast recommendations!

[Angrboda]

I've never been into podcasts. I prefer to read my information rather than hear it. But one of the apps on my Roku has a section for tuning in podcasts. I might take advantage of that, but I suspect the sources of that app -- it's a web radio app -- may differ from those of traditional podcasts.