Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome.
another podcast i love ended its run in Oct last year (Oh No Ross & Carrie). I had caught up around early October and jumped over to another one to catch up there as well, and today i noticed that ONRAC had released a single episode in the time i hadnāt listened to it and it was a short farewell. Seems like something major happened to one of the hosts, hope theyāre ok
Iām still sad about that one. The awkward, sudden way it ended and the hosts recording separate goodbye messages left a lot of people speculating that the hosts themselves had some kind of falling out, but nobody knows for sure. All I know is that it was a horrible way for a beloved 13 year old podcast to end, and while Ross said heād be moving on to new projects, I havenāt heard a single peep from him since ONRAC ended. 
It was very sad to find out for me today. Iāll have to look around for something to replace it, just not sure what type of podcast i want to sub in
BBC is rerunning Millport one of my all-time favourites.
Still catching up on episodes of You Are Not So Smart, and itās 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
I listen to these, so I count it as a podcast.
That was fun. I donāt 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 Iād 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 werenāt even there, and people freaking out and thinking theyād been visited by the devil. Sure, I said, thatās the Jersey Devil legend. But no- she was talking about the DEVON Devil!
At first, I assumed Iād made some mistake and gotten the legends conflated in my head- that the Jersey Devil was purely a cryptozoological phenomenon and Iād 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. Itās 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 Iāve 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. Youād 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 canāt find any mention of the similarity at all.
This seems interestingā¦
Iām 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 folksā 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 thatās you). The current trio of episodes i really want to recommend are episodes 254 through 256, it is about having conversations to change peopleās minds. Realistically thereās 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.
