Podcasts

The following are podcasts approved by the Scissorhead commentariat, by a vote (probably rigged) and in no particular order:

• 99% invisible https://99percentinvisible.org
• amicus with Dahlia Lithwick https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/ id928790786
• Benjamin Walker’s Theory of Everything https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com
• Cautionary Tales https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/id1484511465
• Deconstructed https://theintercept.com/podcasts/deconstructed/
• Dolly Parten’s America https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dolly-partons-america/id1481398762 (this was a one-time series of 13 episodes produced by RadioLab)
• Freakonomics Radio https://freakonomics.com/series/freakonomics-radio/
• Freakonomics MD https://freakonomics.com/series/bapu/
• Gardener’s Question Time (BBC) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gardeners-question-time/id325945259 (super fun Q & A program by British gardeners)
• Grammar Girl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grammar-girl-quick-and-dirty-tips-for-better-writing/id173429229
• Ideas (CBC) https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas
• Invisibilia (NPR) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisibilia/id953290300
• Maeve in America https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/maeve-in-america-immigration-irl/id1168787462 (wonderful podcast by Maeve Higgins in 2016, 2017, mostly interviewing immigrants to the USA, but sadly discontinued)
• Now & Then https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/now-then dialogue with two American Historians, Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman
• Off Track (ABC-Australia) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/offtrack/ Australian wildlife and wildlife issues
• On the Media (WNYC) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm
• People I Mostly Admire https://freakonomics.com/series/people-i-mostly-admire/
• Politically Re-Active (W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politically-re-active-with-w-kamau-bell-hari-kondabolu/id1125018164 on again and off again, currently nothing recent
• Quirks and Quarks (CBC) https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks CBC science radio
• Radio Diaries https://www.radiodiaries.org/podcast/
• Radiolab (WNYC) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab
• Reveal https://revealnews.org/podcast/
• Rumble podcast with Michael Moore https://rumble.media
• Scene on Radio http://www.sceneonradio.org check out some of the earlier series, especially on race in America, “Seeing White,” “The Land That Never Has Been Yet”
• Science Friction (ABC -Australia) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/ Another wonderful science podcast from downunder
• Science Vs https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs
• Stay Tuned with Preet Bahara https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-podcast/
• Stuff the British Stole http://www.marcfennell.com/stolen
• Stuff You Missed in History Class https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-you-missed-in-history-class/id283605519 episodes on, well, stuff you never learned in history class, by two hard-working and fun researchers
• Subtitle https://subtitlepod.com/ A podcast about languages and the people who speak them.
• Tech Nation Radio http://www.technation.com/
• Al Franken Podcast https://alfranken.com/the-al-franken-podcast
• The Allusionist https://www.theallusionist.org/ (about language)
• The Doc Project (CBC) https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject
• The Last Archive https://www.thelastarchive.com/
• The Moth https://themoth.org/podcast story-telling
• The Professional Left Podcast https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/ bluegal and driftglass
• The United States of Anxiety https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxiety
• This American Life https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
• Twenty Thousand Hertz https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/twenty-thousand-hertz/id1171270672 about sound, in many forms
• Up Against the Mob https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/up-against-the-mob/id1582232276 eight episodes from a former USAttorney and state prosecutor in NY & NJ
• Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/id121493804
• Weekly Skews https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weekly-skews/id1555965843 comedians Trae Crowder and Mark Agee (also visual version on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZKjoCn4BvtUA20G6Z8vAHQ)
• The wellRed podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellred-podcast/id1204019130 (Trae Crowder, Corey Ryan Forrester, and Drew Morgan)
• What Roman Mars Can Learn About ConLaw https://learnconlaw.com/ (originally started out as “What Trump Can Teach us about Constitutional Law,” but since he is out, he still left a mess for us to learn about) really interesting stuff
• Skeptics Guide to the Universe:  https://www.theskepticsguide.org/
• Le Show (Harry Shearer):  https://harryshearer.com/le-show/
• Bad Women: The Ripper Retold  https://www.pushkin.fm/show/bad-women/
• Broken Record:  https://www.pushkin.fm/show/broken-record-with-rick-rubin-malcolm-gladwell-bruce-headlam-and-justin-richmond/
• Behind the Bastards: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661
• Clean Up on Aisle 45: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cleanup-on-aisle-45-with-ag-and-andrew-torrez/id1549502623
• Fever Dreams: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fever-dreams/id1558716930
• Film Sack: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id336862816
• Justice Matters: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/justice-matters-with-glenn-kirschner/id1526751534
• QAnon Anonymous :https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/qanon-anonymous/id1428209307
• Hellwqrld: https://shows.acast.com/hellwqrld/episodes
• Mass For Shut Ins by Ed Burmilla (aka Gin and Tacos): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mass-for-shut-ins-the-gin-and-tacos-podcast/id1341525125