It was very sad to find out for me today. I’ll have to look around for something to replace it, just not sure what type of podcast i want to sub in
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BBC is rerunning Millport one of my all-time favourites.
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Still catching up on episodes of You Are Not So Smart, and it’s just so good.
Current nugget of wisdom from episode 203:
The call to purpose does not lie within you, it lies with the needs of others
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I listen to these, so I count it as a podcast.
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That was fun. I don’t really believe in most of that sort of thing, but I will always love a good spooky story. Also, tangent time, as this eerily ties in to something that happened just a few days ago.
My sister was asking me if I’d ever heard of this story about a set of mysterious hoofprints appearing in the snow, whatever made them seeming to defy physics as it traveled over and through obstacles like rooftops and drainpipes as though they weren’t even there, and people freaking out and thinking they’d been visited by the devil. Sure, I said, that’s the Jersey Devil legend. But no- she was talking about the DEVON Devil!
At first, I assumed I’d made some mistake and gotten the legends conflated in my head- that the Jersey Devil was purely a cryptozoological phenomenon and I’d heard the Devon Devil legend later and somehow transposed it to New Jersey. But no, looking closer, the Jersey Devil has an almost identical story of impossible footprints, half a century later and across the Atlantic Ocean from the Devon legend. It’s like the exact same story but with the dates and the specific locations mentioned swapped out- 1909 instead of 1855, Camden instead of Dawlish, etc. Newspaper articles seem to confirm them each being actual separate events, not just people repeating the earlier legend and adapting it for their audience.
Ignoring the actual legends themselves and possible explanations for them, why does nobody EVER mention how weirdly similar these two events are? This is the first time I’ve ever come across any link made between them, and I had to make the link myself just based on the Devon Devil story ringing a familiar bell in my head. You’d think cryptozoologists and weird phenomenon fans would be making a big deal out of this, but aside from the Wikipedia article above providing a link to the Jersey Devil at the bottom of the page, I can’t find any mention of the similarity at all.
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This seems interesting…
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I’m still soldiering on and catching up on eps of You Are Not So Smart. It takes a lot for me not to recommend almost every episode, i honestly believe it could enrich folks’ lives. Especially the episodes around and after 2020, the earlier stuff is about defining biases and fallacies but after a certain point it gets more specific into how to deal with or manage folks in certain mind sets (or how to change if that’s you). The current trio of episodes i really want to recommend are episodes 254 through 256, it is about having conversations to change people’s minds. Realistically there’s like 20 or more related episodes across the years but if i gotta recommend just one listen to 255
Edit: Shoutout to Ep 252 about Procrastination
Re-edit: Thanks to the podcast i have an ongoing list of books and podcasts i need to buy or listen to.
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A few days ago, somewhere in these over-lapping threads, @Heikki recommended the Weird Little Guys podcast.
Thank you. It’s very good. It’s not the usual podcast with two guys shouting into microphones and filling time by laughing at each other’s jokes. I can only take about 10 minutes of that. This was dense, informative and serious.
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This isn’t for most people.
Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society. We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years embedded in places he’s not meant to be. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed.
Watch Away Days documentaries at
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BBC hasn’t cut off it’s radio from the rest of world yet. The idea that I will need a VPN to listen to BBC 4 Extra is fucked up been listen to that since it was called BBC 7.
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I found out recently that another podcast i’ve been listening to for years is ending. Possibly not entirely shutting down but will probably come back as something different. Its the Questlove Supreme podcast.
So now i’m down 3 podcasts. I’ll need to look for replacements, my problem isn’t necessary finding something, there’s just too many to choose from but hopefully this weekend i’ll find some i like
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