Podcasts are the background sounds and voices of my daily life. I go to sleep with a couple designed to help with that. I wake up with podcasts that give me currents news and fill my curiousity needs about other interests like sewing, knitting, philosophy, outer space (NASA has some great podcasts), technology, nature and so much more. Can you tell I suffer from severe FOMO (fear of missing out)? I added two new podcasts to my queue on my Podcast Addict app this week and am enjoying them both very much.
If you like history you want to add Jon Meacham's "Hope, Through History". I like his long view of our country over time. I found an introduction to this limited series on RADIO.COM.
Welcome to Hope, Through History, with Pulitzer Prize Winning and Best Selling Author and Historian, Jon Meacham and directed and produced by Cadence13. HTH explores some of the most historic and trying times in American History, and how this nation dealt with these moments, the impact of these moments and how we came through these moments a unified nation. Season One takes a look at critical moments around the 1918 Flu Pandemic, the Great Depression, World War II, the polio epidemic and the Cuban Missile Crisis. These stories of crisis—the term originates in the writings of Hippocrates, as a moment in the course of a disease where a patient either lives or dies—are rich, and in our own 2020 hour of pandemic and slow-motion but indisputably real panic, there’s utility in re-engaging with the stories of how leaders and citizens have reacted amid tension and tumult. The vicissitudes of history always challenge us in new and often-confounding ways; that’s in the nature of things. Still, as Winston Churchill once remarked, “The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope”—the hope that human ingenuity, reason, and character can combine to save us from the abyss and keep us on a path, in another phrase of Churchill’s, to broad, sun-lit uplands.
My other new podcast is "Yang Speaks" by of course the smart but light hearted Andrew Yang. I would like to know a lot more about how he sees the future for America. This weekly podcast is introduced with these words......
What do you do after you go from anonymous man to serious presidential contender, and the election is over? Well if you're Andrew Yang and you've done the math, you start a podcast. Entrepreneur, best-selling author, nonprofit founder, philanthropist, and former Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang, finally gets his chance to speak in this weekly podcast, Yang Speaks. Andrew will bring in guests he’s met along the campaign trail, from world-renowned experts, to popular celebrities and artists, to random interesting Americans from all walks of life. On this weekly podcast, the man who willed a national movement and conversation into existence around Universal Basic Income, will discuss and explore today’s biggest challenges through a variety of topics - including technology, entertainment, policy, sports, pop-culture, snacks, and anything on his mind - with a general outlook towards the future of our lives and shared humanity.
If you end up listening or subscribing to these I would love to know about it in the comments. Also if you have a favorite podcast to recommend leave a comment about that too. I would love to hear from you!
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