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down1nit posted:My wife was a guest on the SGU 12hr livestream! 🍉 Also, speaking of raging/laughing at questionable people, Decoding the Gurus is pretty solid. Is the Skeptics' Guide still worth a listen? I listened to literally every episode for the first ten years and then just kinda got bored with it when Rebecca left. I do think Steven Novella is one of the smartest people alive though. Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 02:28 on May 21, 2021 |
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There was a Behind the Bastards episode along those lines from April 13, 2020. It was called “A conversation about Tiger King and rural America.”
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You can also rate & review through the iOS app but use Overcast (or whatever else) for your regular listening.
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5-4 is a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
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mrfart posted:If books could kill is a nice new podcast where the hosts look back at the ‘airport bestsellers’ that had a big impact on society, and how loving awful they really are. 
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Incidentally, co-host Peter’s other podcast, 5-4, is very good and very funny. And also infuriating, since it’s about how much SCOTUS sucks.
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Gripweed posted:the one guy from 5-4 launched a new series called If Books Could Kill. Speaking of the latter though, the co-host is (national treasure, IMO) Michael Hobbes, formerly of You’re Wrong About. YWA is still going and is still very good, but it’s not quite as good as when Michael was co-hosting it.
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BtB has a sibling podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. The episodes I've listened to (so far) have been good.
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The Behind the Bastards folks have repeatedly said they have no control over what ads run on the show. Not sure what determines whether Robert himself does an ad read, which he's definitely done for Better Help and a few other craptastic companies. Those are definitely regrettable, since other show-inappropriate ads (like commemorative gold Reagan coins) are often very funny and will probably get zero business from the audience. Whereas Better Help etc are bad for insidious reasons.
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This Podcast Will Kill You is a really good science-y podcast on diseases. I particularly liked the Dancing Plague (#40) and Myxomatosis (#91, but not if you like rabbits...) episodes.
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Decoding the Gurus is indeed a great show. I did have to stop listening when I realized that I was inadvertently giving way too much attention (i.e., not zero) to clowns like the Weinsteins, who are the academia versions of incels. It looks like recent episodes are on other stuff though, so I might have to dip back in.
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Cugel the Clever posted:A recommendation along the lines of DtG is actually where I first heard of DtG: the I Don't Speak German podcast. They do a similar thing, but with focus on shining a light on fascists rather than gurus. I got the impression they were a tad miffed at DtG as the Harris interview came out not long after the crossover episode with IDSG and IDSG is very anti platforming fascists and the fash-adjacent (of which Harris is), but DtG has an open "right to respond" and a different assessment of who exceeds the bounds of acceptable discourse. IDSG has had low output for the last year, unfortunately, as the hosts have had life get in the way, but their back catalog is absolutely worth a listen.
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COPE 27 posted:It also drives me crazy how often they miss the more substantive critique. There was one episode recently where they were criticising the racist implications of some school achievement argument (which, fair enough) but skipped over the fact that these are specifically designed to destroy public sector unions. I quit If Books Could Kill because they too often poo poo on stuff just to poo poo on it, and too often went for lazy critiques. Like, there's a lot to criticize in The Four-Hour Workweek, and its title deserves about 1% of the attention it usually gets. Tim Ferriss only called it that because he A/B tested titles and that's what sold the most copies. Their incessant "he sure is working more than four hours hahahahahaha" got so tired, same as their "he sure seems to give a gently caress after all hahahahaha" in the recent episode on Mark Manson's book.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah if Books Could Kill feels well intentioned but they’ve run out of interesting material & need an editor. Like their ep on Rich Dad Poor Dad was fascinating as they discussed how the rich dad probably didn’t exist, but the Identity Trap was nearly two hours about why it’s bad this author I’ve never heard of is using flawed research. Then when they got into books like Atomic Habits and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a gently caress, they (rightly) critiqued some stuff that needed to be critiqued, but they also spent a bunch of time dunking on general advice that a person may or may not find useful. Like, if you find reframing "I have to do this" as "I get to do this" helpful - and a lot of people do - then great! If you don't, that's cool too. Same as the bit about Disappointment Panda in Manson's book; I actually do think it's good to keep in mind that you will always have problems/things will never quite be perfect (this notion of dukkha/wheel out of kilter is literally at the core of Buddhism), but ideally they can be better problems than you might otherwise have. Other folks might not find this helpful. Regardless, this is hardly in the same league as, like, William F Buckley's book that they covered. And yeah, the time commitment thing is exactly it. I think a lot of podcasts suffer from this, and I have serious concerns about the quality of podcast info writ large, especially because I so frequently find myself going  when podcasters veer into my areas of competence. (Hobbes once said some grotesquely incorrect things about calories on Maintenance Phase that pretty much torpedoed my faith in his rigor.) Whereas you have other shows like Hardcore History that infrequently drop mega-episodes only when they're fully baked.
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Cockblocktopus posted:It's the latest iteration of the Michael Hobbes podcast arc. You're Wrong About is still good. Maybe because Sarah is super-smart, has guests come on who do the heavy lifting of knowing about the topic, and because she has a producer. And the Patreon has ...*checks*... almost 25k members. What a sweet gig. Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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Minotaurus Rex posted:Anyone got any links to high quality criticism of Sam Harris other than on Decoding the Gurus? Whether that’s podcast, articles or YouTube I’m easy. The late Michael Brooks wrote a book on the IDW, Against the Web. It isn't just about Harris but certainly includes him. Also, Eiynah Mohammed dedicated a bunch of episodes of her podcast (Polite Conversations) to criticizing him re: Islam in particular. IIRC she has a fairly sarcastic delivery a lot of the time, but her content is good.
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