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If you read here much or know me IRL you know I love podcasts. I have a playlist filled with podcasts with lots of topics. I listen to politics, science, comedy and history and even more. 

One podcast that makes me laugh every week and lifts my spirits no matter what I face in the day is "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" from NPR. I wait for WWDTM eagerly each week to show up with a new episode. It happens to be the podcast currently playing as I write this. It is a fast paced hour filled with silliness, news, a guest, and call in game players. Maybe someday when I grow up, I can go to a live show. That would be so fun!

So do you have favorite podcasts? I use the app "Podcast Addict" to listen to mine what do you use? Let me know all about you and podcasts. Leave a comment!

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A Favorite Podcast

The Unmade Podcast is filled with fun conversation. The premise is simple. The idea is to make a podcast about unmade podcast ideas. What makes it so special is the conversation between the two friends that make this show, Brady Haran and Tim Hein. So many times I find myself laughing along with the guys which can make people wonder if you are okay when you are giggling with headphones on. This podcast does exactly what I want it to do. It takes me away from the doom and gloom of the news and puts a big smile on my face with every episode. 

Take a chance and subscribe and learn about Tommyball and the Shroud of Tim. You'll smile, you'll be amused, you'll laugh outloud and you won't regret it.

One more thing. You can follow on Twitter @Unmade_FM

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For Curious Minds

If you have a curious mind like I do your life is a journey filled with attempts to know all the things. I have found a podcast that can help with that. Consider, like I do, listening to "Ologies" which is a podcast hosted by Alie Ward. Besides bringing experts with knowledge of  Medusology (jellyfish), Plumology (feathers) or Cryoseismology (ice quakes) Alie will tell you a secret about herself at the end of episodes. 

You can follow Alie here-

• on Instagram
• on Twitter
• on Facebook
• to support the pod check out the Patreon page

Be sure to check out the Ologies website for information about episodes and merch. Go on, you know you want to.

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Desert Diaries, A Podcast

I was searching for podcasts on Podcast Addict, the app I use on an Android phone, about Arizona and found Desert Diaries, listened to the first episode, was charmed and subscribed. I really enjoy seeing the state through Sam Walker's eyes. We plan on retiring to a home we own in the Phoenix area next year. Jim, I think, is finally realizing that a retirement life can be a good thing. He has been mulling this whole idea of being a retired person over for a few years and is finally able to see himself as a person without a job and still having a good life. 

For me the main reason I read and listen to podcasts is because I can hear of lives and experiences from other points of view. Sam Walker's podcast Desert Diaries is such a fun way to hear about life in Arizona. She seems to take on the most problematic times of life in a new country with humor and joy in her story telling. She and her family decided to move here from Manchester England. I admit the my American ears love listening to her accent and she learns about a new county and life in the desert with husband, kids and a dog. The episodes are about 10 minutes or less and always leave me with a smile. Just search your favorite podcast app to find something new and fun. Trust me on this one.

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Two New (to me) Podcasts

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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All of the Above With Norman Lear

In the last couple months I have pretty much given up watching televisions with two exceptions, the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. I use podcasts as background noise to my days and to inform and entertain me. I have blogged before about a couple of my favorites, HumaNature and Telemetry.

Another favorite among so very many is Wait Wait Don't Tell Me from NPR. The only way I heard that show before was on road trips when the only station on the radio was Public Radio. At other times Jim likes music too much for me to have a chance to listen to talk shows. Now with my little Podcast Addict app I can listen whenever I want.

Earlier this week I heard an episode of Wait Wait from 2016 that had Norman Lear as a guest. He was so much fun to listen to that I stopped what I was doing and did just that. He was 93 when this particular show aired and he was asked about what got him so far and what could he say to others hoping to live so long. His words have been in my mind all week and I want to save them here.

I heard those words as instructions for living a life with a sense of accomplishment and the joy of being able to look forward to new things. Sounds good to me, in fact, it makes me smile just to think about using this phrase myself. 

As for Mr. Lear who is now 95, he has a podcast of his own. I have listened to several episodes and been delighted. The show is "All of the Above with Norman Lear" and as of this writing there are 38 episodes ready to listen to. So far I have listened to episodes with writers, actors, musicians and other performers from Michael Angelakos to Rita Moreno to RuPaul.

From Yellowstone to Hollywood, my curious mind wants to hear about it all.

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HumaNature Podcast

Do you ever listen to podcasts? I discovered them about a year ago now and love them. Podcasts can bring the latest news to you or comedy or history or just some really great storytelling. I subscribe to many and use the Podcast Addict app to listen to them on an Android phone. The app lets me find new podcasts through recommendations, organize my podcast lists in several ways and provides a background to my days.

One of my favorite storytelling podcasts is HumaNature from Wyoming Public Media. It brings stories to you from the place where meetings between humans and nature happen. The stories expose how those meetings have changed lives and strengthened the spirit of those whose stories are being told. There are 35 episodes in the series so far and I always look forward to what the next podcast will be about. You can follow HumaNature on twitter or facebook or subscribe on you favorite podcast app. 

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