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Christopher and Tom peel back the layers of Zack Snyder’s 2011 fantasy action film, Sucker Punch

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Even though it's pretty subjective, I'm curious what other comedy podcasts out there are on the top of their game.

Currently I've been listening to Your Mom's House but I've heard from others that it's fallen a bit since it's earlier years.

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Description

"The New Gurus" is a podcast series created by Helen Lewis for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. The podcast explores the rise of internet gurus in various fields, such as productivity hackers, dating coaches, crypto enthusiasts, and wellness influencers. Across eight episodes, Helen Lewis investigates the origins of these charismatic individuals, the power they wield, and the reasons behind people turning away from mainstream medicine, politics, and media to embrace their advice. The series aims to provide insight into the appeal and potential dangers of these internet gurus and what their popularity says about society.

Personal opinion

Helen Lewis seems like an absolute treasure. Just discovered her yesterday through another podcasts. Now I'm not exactly a fan of the BBC, but she strikes me as the personification of exactly what journalism should be and desperately needs to be. I don't mean any ill will towards her career, but I genuinely hope she considers branching out independently someday. If she does, I'll be among the first to support her as a paid subscriber.

Interviews in other podcasts

Embrace the void

Blocked and Reported

substack

The Bluestocking

[The Journal.] Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change #theJournal https://podcastaddict.com/the-journal/episode/163897748 via @PodcastAddict

The first of a four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism, both during World War Two and immediately after, in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves. In this episode, we look at the rise of fascism, the start of the resistance during World War Two, the partisan formations of the mountains and the participation of women in the resistance.

A podcast for readers of sword and sorcery and sword and planet

Interesting multi part series about the Microdot gang who made millions of trips in the sixties

My own recommendations:
HorrorBabble
Levar Burton Reads
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
The Cybrarian (on YouTube)
The Eldritch Archives (on YouTube)

Occasional SYSK Listener here. I am baffled by the amount of new shows that pop up under the their Banner. Thematically these Shows are totally random and they only ever seem to get advertised for a very short period befor the next one takes their place. Are they just pumping out these shows hoping one is a hit and makes worth all the misses? How is this sustainable? Especially since they only ever seem to advertise their own networks Content?

I've recently finished the fantastic series on BBC Sounds about the events at the Fukashima nuclear power plant a decade ago. Each episode is roughly half an hour long, and it's really well acted and very engaging (It's called Fukashima)

Another from the BBC that I've been loving is Call Jonathan Pie. Okay so Jonathan Pie is a YouTube satirical journalist. In the podcast he's taking calls from the general public. As someone who's usually on board with his politics I think it's pretty great.

What about you?

I love to listen to audio dramas while I work, but I go through them so fast. Anyone have suggestions for a high quality, interesting audio drama? The very first one I listened to was We're Alive and I've been hooked ever since. Thanks.

Lots of AI news, which suits me.

While UnderUnderstood feels more like the spiritual successor to Gimlet's Reply All, the co-hosts of Hard Fork (Kevin Roose and Casey Newton) banter in a way that reminds me of P. J. Vogt and Alex Goldman.

Anybody knows if it's gonna get a third season?

I liked it. Any other fans?

With the increased popularity of lemmy and suggestion that meta is getting into the federated game, I was wondering if there are any podcasts dedicated to news and views surrounding the fediverse.

Good evening all,

I recently finished listening to a great podcast called The Downtime Project which discusses post-mortems from large companies. The hosts analyze the root causes of the outage, what the company did well, and what the company could have done better.

I found this format fascinating and learned how to approach complex systems and identify some shortcomings in my own systems that I manage.

Unfortunately, it looks like there's only one season currently and I'd like to see if there's anything similar that anyone else is listening to.

Formats similar to this would be awesome, but anything tech-related would peak my interest!

Finally, after roughly 250 episodes

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Meanwhile, In Myanmar

A great podcast episode on how misinformation, conspiracy theory and mass paranoia spreads in the digital age.