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Episode: 2339
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Title: HPR2339: Podcast list additions
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2339/hpr2339.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 01:28:19
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This is HPR episode 2,339 entitled Podcast List Edition and in part on the series Podcast
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Recommendations.
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It is hosted by Dave Morris and in about 21 minutes long and Karim and exquisite flag.
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The summary is up made to my list on Podcast Feeds.
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Hello everybody, welcome to Hackup Public Radio, my name is Dave Morris.
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Now in 2014, I did a couple of shows on the podcast that I listened to.
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There were two because there was 80 something on my list at that time and today I'm going
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to talk about some of the editions to that list.
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There are 28, I was amazed to discover that's, I don't know what my total is, somewhere
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around 100 I think which is too much but there you go, I listen to podcasts a lot.
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What I've done is I have in my normal notes that you see on the website when you go to
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a show, it's just got a list of the feed names, of the podcast names, all 28.
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There are links which will take you to full notes where I drilled into the particular
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feeds a bit more, given a bit more detail.
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So I'm planning to go through these and just talk very briefly about them.
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Each of the entries on the long notes, the full notes consist of any website that's associated
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with the feed, the feed itself, in case you want to check it out yourself, I've got details
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of when the last episode occurred, I keep that because it's useful to know if the feed
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is sort of flagging, maybe going to die.
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I've tried to compute in the database and hold this in what the average length of a show
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is going over the last number of shows, it's not always successful because the frequency
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is very low in some cases.
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And I've also included the description that each feed includes, so these are not my words,
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sometimes they're very short, sometimes quite long.
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And I've also categorised these feeds because I keep these things.
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I upload onto my players, things, feeds, podcast episodes according to their category.
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So if I'm feeling like a bit comedy, then I can load up all the comedy ones I have,
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for example.
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So let's just go through them with a brief summary of each one.
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So first one is called World of Business.
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It's reincarnation of something I had in the previous list.
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And it's a BBC thing and it's just sort of summaries and looks at business issues from
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all over the place.
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It's quite interesting, this might be a candidate to drop off my list at some point.
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But on the whole, it's quite interesting, your mileage may vary, of course.
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And one is called Criminal.
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It's a documentary type thing and it's about criminal matters in relation specifically
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to the States.
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But not in, well, I say specifically, but mostly I should say, why interesting, this is something
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my son suggested and I'm quite enjoying it.
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Number three is a BBC one called Seriously.
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It's a documentary type thing and it's all sorts of weird, wonderful things.
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They tend to be about 30 minutes long.
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There's two a week, I think.
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That's assuming you can get access to them if you're not in the UK.
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I have no idea how that is organised these days.
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The BBC is trying to restrict things but not in all cases and I don't understand it.
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Start the week is number four.
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That's usually about 42 minutes.
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It's a sort of a discussion programme that goes once a week on Radio Four.
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And it can be really interesting, it can also be intensely boring but that's the life
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of podcast listening.
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Dan Carlin comes up next, his hard core history, if you've never heard of Dan Carlin, I strongly
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recommend that you go and check out his history stuff.
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They can be very long, there's no, the competition I did couldn't work at the average length.
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But they can be like three hours long in some cases.
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But they're amazing.
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There's a brilliant job, somebody who isn't a historian of describing all sorts of things.
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There's a lot of them.
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You can go back to the whole list of these things, including the Persian wars and the great
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war and that type of thing.
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I find them fascinating, anyway.
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Interest in history, I never had anyone I was younger but as I got older, it seemed
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to be developing it.
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Number six is the verb, it's called.
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It's a BBC show about, basically, about poetry and writing and I would not have thought
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I would enjoyed this, I just checked it to see what I thought of it, really enjoy listening
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to them.
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The guy who introduces it has got the thickest Yorkshire accent which I think is most
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wonderful.
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If you are not British, you might struggle a bit, there's a challenge, check it out and
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see if you can understand what he's saying.
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I did a show a few months back about YouTube and makers on YouTube.
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Well some of the makers also do podcasts.
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Number seven is one called Making It and it's got Jimmy Durresta, Bob Clagant and David
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Pichuto on it, all three of whom I follow on YouTube.
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I really like their podcasts.
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They do a very good job of just covering all sorts of subjects relating to their lives
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as makers and making in general.
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They seem like really, really interesting people too.
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Another one in the Making category, reclaimed audio podcast.
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This is three makers who are called Phil Pinsky, Tim's Way and Bill Loot.
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When I follow them all on YouTube and they specialize in recycling, upcycling, reclaimed
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materials.
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That's a nice way of putting it upcycling and making with reclaimed materials and well
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being one whose scavenged pallets and made useful stuff is a rabbit hutch, I'm trying
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to get rid of it at the moment, made entirely of pallets in my backyard.
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But yeah, I find this fascinating, again the people on it are most interesting to listen
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to.
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They're around about an hour long these particular shows.
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The podcast is number nine.
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This is classified, this is a music podcast because it's largely about creative comments,
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music with a bit of chat in between and it's Dave and Caroline Lee who live in South Yorkshire.
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Yeah, you shouldn't have any trouble with their, I think Yorkshire accents because I don't
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have a lot of them, but anyway British accents are strange, a wonderful thing, I can vary
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within a few miles.
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But yeah, it's a great, great show, it's about an hour long, I think it's intended to
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be an hour long and it covers some quite interesting music.
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I've met Dave at Oddcamp and I think I'm going to meet Caroline on the pod crawl glass
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go later in July.
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Open countries, my next one, number ten and it's another BBC one, it's a sort of country
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side thing while the life landscape British isle stuff.
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Another one from Dan Carlin, I've classified this one as opinion and he's talking about
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the state of the world and the state of politics, particularly American politics, but it's,
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I find it really fascinating, he does give an overview of the way things are in the world
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which I don't think I would necessarily have arrived at myself, it's certainly an interesting
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and sometimes controversial view.
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These are about an hour long, these particular shows, very good though, strongly recommend
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that one actually.
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Number 12, Philosophy Bites, I'm interested in philosophy at a general level, although
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I have my being trained as a scientist traditionally or at least currently dislike the concept
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of philosophy, I'm trying to broaden my mind a bit and listen to this one.
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It's quite short, 20 minutes average according to my computations and there are various
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bite size topics interviewing top philosophers, if you want to get into philosophy a little
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bit that can be quite useful.
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Another BBC one coming up, number 13 all in the mind, this is a BBC show on mental health
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and the mind around about half an hour long.
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One I discovered fairly recently, number 14, it's called Bacterial Files, it's only
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short about eight minutes on average and it's about bacteria and other microbes as they
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tend to be called, so that's sometimes single-celled organisms or the eukaryotic nature, the
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ones that have got nuclei in them, so things like malaria is an example, viruses as well
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as included in there.
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You just sort of use items really, well I'm into that sort of thing, so I enjoy it.
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If you're interested in the subject at a peripheral level, then you might find it useful just
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to keep you up to date on what's happening in this world and that world of science.
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Another fairly recent one is called Omega Tower, the title here is podcast bracket EN,
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well that's because the hosts are German and they do English intermixed between in their
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feet, this is a feed which is solely English stuff and these are long, two and a half to
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three hours is normal.
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Once an engineering is the hosts preference and Marcus Volta does a lot of very very very
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deep digs into all manner of subjects, he's a bit of an aviation nut so he's done things
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like going to the minute detail about certain fighter planes and passenger planes and all
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sorts of things.
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But quite a lot of other engineering, physics, plasma physics, we did some stuff on music,
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synthesizing and synthesizers and that sort of thing.
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I love that because I like detailed stuff.
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Check it out and see what you think, just have a look at his website, you can get a good
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good idea of what his stuff is all about, I should just say their stuff because there's
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two of them.
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I haven't heard the second one yet, I don't think she does the English stuff.
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Number 16, this week in evolution.
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This is one of the series that comes out of the same stable and they're particularly
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concentrating on evolution and I think they're both a bacteriologist, a virologist, the
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guys who run this so tend to be more towards that end of things.
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It's really interesting, the whole subject is huge and complex and sometimes it goes
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right over my head.
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We're looking at one and a quarter hours to two hour tight length.
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Next one is from the same stable this week in microbiology and this one is, it's got
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a very long description here which is great and they're looking at a bunch of scientists
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talking about the news in microbiology and reviewing papers and that type of thing.
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So it can't get quite deep but it's also quite good just to listen to it as a background
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or find to get an idea of what's going on in that particular branch of science.
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As an ex scientist I tend to go for this sort of stuff so your mileage may vary as they
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say.
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Urban agriculture is the next one, again from the same stable.
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This one has, the intention was to talk about food production within the built environment.
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There are things called vertical farms where people repurpose many cases or purpose built
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buildings to grow stuff in them so salad ingredients, smaller type crops, although there's
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nothing to stop it being all manner of stuff.
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But it's the repurposing of existing buildings is the most interesting as far as I'm concerned.
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But it's a growing, sorry, for the pun, but it's a developing area and something that
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we ought to be aware of for the future because there are limits on how much agricultural
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land there is in the world and growing stuff in cities and in urban areas is going to
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be the future, I believe.
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It's not, I've not been an episode since October last year, I think it might be sort of fizzling
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out a little bit.
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They've talked about the principles of it all and they've interviewed people who are currently
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got businesses around urban agriculture.
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But I suspect that the amount of material that you can talk about is dwindling.
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I'm a 19, it's a weekly space hangout and this is an astronomy podcast which is actually
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the audio from a YouTube Google plus hangout or something, I think.
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They're just basically talking about astronomy news and they're a science journalist and
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astronomers.
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It's one of my favourites I have to say, again it's a great way to catch up on what's
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happening in the world of astronomy particularly.
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Number 20 Edinburgh Skeptics Presents.
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There's a group in Edinburgh where I live called the Edinburgh Skeptic Society and they
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do quite a lot of talks and interviews which they put up as podcasts.
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They tend to be very busy around the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which is coming up in August
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and the Edinburgh International Science Festival which is in the early part of the year.
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So they're doing lots of interviews of interesting people at that point.
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Yeah it's a great one.
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I should go along and see some of the events themselves I think.
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Exposing pseudo astronomy is number 21.
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This is a guy who is a scientist and he is talking about some of the conspiracies and
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hoaxes, misconceptions and so forth around astronomy, a bit about physics, a bit about geology,
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all of that sort of thing.
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So he's talked about things like flat earth ideas and he knew centrism is that the thing?
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The sun is the center of the universe or something.
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All of these weird ideas are that the moon landing hoaxes and those types of things.
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But I find it most entertaining to listen to because he does have a lot to say and obviously
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knows what he's talking about.
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So if you're interested in these types of things it's a good one to try out.
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I'm into stationary and pens and pencils and all that sort of stuff so I listen to the
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pen addict.
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Now I think this is mentioned already as a good thing to listen to.
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I can't remember who you mentioned it now, somebody did a podcast on pens and stationery
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and things and mentioned them.
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So this is me just putting my two pen with down.
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Late night Linux you probably already know about that's Joe Resington and friends doing
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a fairly new podcast about Linux and they call it late night because they can let rip
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and swear and so forth with they feel so inclined don't do a lot of it and I don't find it
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offensive personally.
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In fact I find it most entertaining it's about an hour long.
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I think these are great actually really enjoying them.
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Sister Mae U is the next one we're now into my group that I'm calling technical podcasts
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sister Mae U is a technology podcast with a Linux bent from Australia and these are
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about an hour and a half long they're most amusing they're very good enjoying I'm enjoying
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them very much the rate has dropped a little bit in the past few months but I think just
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people's lives getting in the way.
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The change log number 25 I was recommended to listen to this it's really I'm not sure
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how much I enjoy it to be honest it's all about open source technologies and so on and so
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forth but it's it's I don't know it's not a world that I frequent much and I'm not that
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wildly interested in some of the stuff no JS and all of the web technologies and stuff
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that's just me.
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It's worth listening to to keep up to date with stuff so we'll see but give it a give
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it a try if you haven't done so already you might love it much more than 19.
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Number 26 I've got under technical I drive it is technical Duffercast the Duffercast
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Duffercast hasn't had a show since September last year I was on that show I think I might
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have killed the feed I don't know anyway the description some old Duffers providing
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worldwide wisdom well it's funny it's most amusing it's entertaining it's it does cover
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some interesting topics some interesting people on it till they let me on so yeah give
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it a shot it's a few people you might know from HPR there as well and from other podcasts
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perhaps.
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Going up to the last two full circle weekly news I used to listen to the full circle
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podcast and that closed down there's a full circle magazine and this is the magazine
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podcast just running through some of the news in the Ubuntu community so it tends to
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be Ubuntu centred but they they run through maybe 10 minutes or so of news so it's it's
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quite quite interesting final one the jack attack now I think I've listened to them
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in a long time since they since almost a little after they started they the podcast died
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off and has recently come back to life again and they they they have a more rigorous structure
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to it now I feel and it just covers some really some interesting topics and it's a husband
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and wife team John Watson and Kelly Penguin girl they call themselves and they talk about
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Linux in all manner other things they're based in Nova Scotia Canada they're shows
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around about forty forty three minutes says here average length I just like like the the
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personalities the banter the the humor and sometimes the the technical subject can be quite
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quite insightful so give it a shot I was very pleased to see it come back again so I definitely
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recommend it that's the end of my list if you are interested in these you go and look them
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through the links I've given you there's also an OPML file with all of the details in it so you
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could load it into your pod catch if you wish so I hope you found that was interesting and catch
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