Veeky Forums approved podcasts?

Veeky Forums approved podcasts?

Entitled Opinions on Life and Literature

ion, protagoras, gorgias, phaedo, symposium

This. It's great

Read books you pleb, it's way faster, you can read 10 minutes of podcast in something like 3 minutes
If you don't know what to do while commuting listen to classical music

IQ2US Debates

>Open Yale Courses. Especially: Kagan's Ancient Greek History, Rogers's Milton, EchevarrĂ­a's Don Quixote, Dimock's Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, and Mazzotta's Dante in Translation.

These are top tier. As for true podcasts:

>The Brookings Cafeteria if you're into foreign affairs and want the mainstream American elite consensus and sharp expert analysis.

>History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps/History of Philosophy in India. Fascinating survey of the history of philosophy by an academic philosopher (his expertise is in medieval philosophy, esp. medieval Islamic philosophy) and with frequent interviews with academics.

> In Our Time: based British man bullies three Oxbridge academics for 45 minutes. It's great.

> Nature Podcast: interesting discussion of current issues/happenings in science, from a prestigious publication.

One tier below is:

>Mike Duncan. Great narrative history of Rome/various modern revolutions (English, American, French, Haitian, Spanish-American, and July so far), but from a non-academic who is sometimes a bit off-base. But really, Duncan does a great job for the most part, even as a layman, of presenting these events accurately, in detail, and with some pretty decent insight. Very impressive all things considered.

> Dan Carlin. Frequently makes errors, but offers really fun big discussions of historical people/events. Very much pop history/history as entertainment.

Popular podcasts which are shallow pop stuff but still alright and fun to listen to:

>99% Invisible
>Fresh Air (not really fair to put this in here, there's some world-class interviews in FA's backlog).
>Serial/In the Dark
>Lore
>On Being (very hit or miss for me)
>Planet Money
>Radiolab
>Revisionist History (run by Malcolm Gladwell of all people)


I'm sure I missed a ton, but those are a few of the ones I listen to. Bon appétit.

Read a book, you nigger.

Some people have a commute or chores and like to listen to podcasts then. And don't care about classical music. Chill hombres.

Then do the stuff, and then focus on the book. How fucking hard is it?