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Kate Cook @eskay8

Evening wanderers! What are your favourite ?

I'll start:

Lately, I've been really enjoying the History of English podcast, by Kevin Stroud, about the historical events that shaped the English language, from Proto Indo European to today, along with frankly fascinating bits of etymology.

historyofenglishpodcast.com/

@eskay8 ahhhhh thank you for this rec! I love Métis in Space and Politically Re-Active—hilarious, political pop-culture podcasts (esp ones featuring Hari Kondabolu, my fake celebrity boyfriend) are up my street.

@dani_p Oh cool. I'd heard of Métis in Space but not Politically Reactive. I'm pop culture-incompetent but can probably handle a little more politics if its filtered through comedians :)

@eskay8 Hari and Kamau are really adorable and funny people and they have such good energy together. They're very good filters, yes <3 <3 <3

@eskay8 Great to hear about non-tech related podcasts, I need that!

softwareengineeringdaily.com/

Really enjoy listening to Software Engineering Daily, they're really consistent with releasing new podcasts every day.

morganstanley.com/ideas/ideas-

Morgan Stanley Ideas Podcast is about business/finance management.

changelog.com/

The Changelog goes into Open Source & managing software businesses.

@alain Those sound interesting! I will check them out.

@eskay8 I'm not really into podcasts, but that sounds really interesting.

@q_aurelius It's much more in the "serial audiobook" class of things rather than "radio show via the internet", but the guy has a repetitive cadence to things that makes it easy to listen while doing other things (eg cooking, cleaning, walking) but I find I remember stuff pretty well.

@eskay8 NPRs Pop Culture Happy Hour (roundtable, generally good discussions), and Code Switch (race and identity), BBC's In Our Time (expert panels on rotating Science, history, art topics), for SFF - Storyological (short stories), Fangirl Happy Hour, Sisterhood of the Traveling Paperbacks, and The Writer and the Critic.
I also dip into Reveal (Investigative Journalism), Dissent (Labor Issues), Nerds of Prey (black women media geeks), and MF Galaxy (black SFF books/music/movies)

@Jsuttonmorse NPR's are great, and IOT is definitely one of my favourites! I will check out the SFF ones as they are all new to me

@Jsuttonmorse @eskay8 Not that I need anymore, but Storyological sounds neat! I listen to most you've just rec'd ✨

@geeceevee @eskay8 Storyological and Flash Forward are two of my favorites these days, and Storyological is reasonably short!

@eskay8

- Writing Excuses
- Hardcore History
- 99% Invisible
- Pod Save America
- Pod Save the World
- Lovett or Leave It
- The Memory Palace
- Podcastle -- The Shut Up & Sit Down podcast
- On the Media

@eskay8 Something True, a history podcast with short episodes, witty writing, and a great narrator.

@eskay8 tales from the static is pretty good. It's this guy talking about a horror anthology series from the 80s that no one else remembers.

I listen to a lot of music podcasts, too.

@eskay8 OMG that is one of my favorite podcasts!!!

@eskay8 I think I've mostly been listening to fiction and/or pop culture podcasts lately. So my go to recs on the fiction front are: Wolf 359, The Message, The Penumbra Podcast, and The Strange Case of the Starship Iris

@eskay8 oooh that sounds amazing. I love me some historical linguistics. Thanks for the tip!

@eskay8
I don't listen to a ton, but I have a few mainstays for the gym. Please note I have not been to the gym for a while, though.

A bunch of weird fiction:
Welcome to Night Vale
Alice Isn't Dead
TANIS

And food/science:
Spilled Milk
Gastropod

@eskay8 Depends on what you like. Fiction or nonfiction? Produced NPR-style stories or long freewheeling conversations? Comedy? History? News?

There's a big wide world out there. Right now I'm binging Love & Radio, which seems to be monologues of people talking really openly about important events/emotional experiences in their lives.