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So, I admit to my newest addiction: podcasts.
I am such a Luddite that it is difficult for me to stay in the 21st century without slippage backward, but I finally had to get a new laptop. Successful at THAT I thought "How about a tablet, too" and THEN I discovered podcasts!
Oh, dear, oh my. I am already 80 and don't see how I can catch up before moving into the end times. Mine, that is.
Anyone else? And if so, tell me your favorites.
Here's mine.
True Crime Junkie
Death, Sex, and Money
Terrible, Thanks for Asking
Of course I can now listen to such things as Handel on the Law and Marketplace any time I want, not just 12-3 on Saturday and 4 pm on weekdays.
So I love Podcasts. How about you?
Best on them all in my blue ribbon race is "Terrible, Thanks for Asking", in which the moderator takes on a different subject weekly about things we have survived, things we are going through. Everything from infertility to widowhood to homelessness to- you- imagine- the- worst- and- they- cover- it.
Hope everyone's having a good new year. Or relatively so. And what in the WORLD should I post this under? Hearing?

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Thanks for sharing Alva! I'll have to check some of these out.
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Still just ploughing through podcasts.
Anyone into "catfishing" stories should access the podcast "Sweet Bobby". About 6 0r 8 episode of one very sophisticated scheme.
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Alva,

Since you are a true crime fan, you must listen to Gone South season 1. It’s fascinating! It takes place in the metro New Orleans area. I know the area well.

I will tell you that it is about a prominent attorney, Margaret Coon who was murdered early in the morning while walking her dog in a wealthy, gated community on the north shore. It’s very well done and extremely interesting.

The case is still unsolved.
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Alva, I'll definitely check out that podcast. Sounds just mine my kinda thing. Thank you!
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ST, definitely try the podcast True Crime Junkie. Look up their website. Ashley and Brit have 5 years of crime for you to catch up on!
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Alva, you're a woman after my own heart. I just got into Podcasts recently. I'm a big true crime junkie. So far I have two that I listen to: Mrballen (he tells true crime and stories of the "strange, dark, and mysterious"), and Truecrimes recap. I'll have to check out some of the ones you listed and that others have listed here. This is the lighthearted kind of thing I needed today!
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MJ, that is a great story about your Daughter's history major. My partner is a major in history and the book pile to his side of the bed proves it is still, in his 80s, his passion.
Someone recently told me that Duncan also did a series about the women of Rome. I just look at that. To me, Rome is THE eternal city. There is nowhere like it and its surrounds of all the places I have visited in my life. It is something you FEEL more than you know, when you are there. I was just reading another Frances Mayes book, this one about her homes and the homes of others, and what make a building, a place, your HOME. It's her latest book and I think I have not read her for years, but a lovely book, and what she says about Rome is so resonant for me.
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History of Rome led my daughter to become a history major in college. She was always talking about "Mr. History of Rome." She's years out of school now and still a history fanatic.

I'm embarrassed to say I never have listened to that one yet. I need to add it to my list.
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One more! S-Town is very good.
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Stomperz, So sorry for your loss. the woman who started Terrible, Thanks for asking suffered a miscarriage, the death of her young husband of cancer, and the death of her father all within weeks. Her interviews about the loss of a spouse, of your feelings after loss, are some of her very very best. So start at the beginning and access her old podcasts if your tablet allows it.
SomeGuyinCa, I love Crime Town! And thanks for History of Rome.
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Every morning mine are: 😃
npr news now
Stuff You Should Know
Hidden Brain
Making Sense
Hidden Br?in
Artificial Intelligence and You
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Just tried adding "Terrible, Thanks for Asking".
Recent widower after 56 Years.
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Criminal

1A (especially the Weekly Round Up)

Hidden Brain

What Next

Crime Town (both season's are great but season 1 is amazing).

Revisionist History

You're Dead To Me

Science Vs

History Of Rome (Mike Duncan)

There's more but that's a start.
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I love listening to podcasts!
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Alva,
Mobituaries isn’t dark. It’s kind of quirky.

Here’s the blurb:

CBS News correspondent Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries. Each episode of Mobituaries covers his favorite dearly departed people and things, from the ‘Latin Lover’ who redefined Hollywood masculinity in the 1920s to the TV dog who introduced kids to literature in the 1990s. Every Wednesday, hear fresh takes on famous legacies and uncover people worthy of their overdue moment in the spotlight. Even if you know the names, you’ve never understood why they matter until now!

Happy Listening!
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Almost everything that is PBS or NPR I have already been able to get and have gotten it. I heard the "Serials" when I had an internet logitech radio. But now I am on for all the podcasts. And I surely do love them. Glad there are other fans. Mobituaries surely sounds right up my (dark) alley!
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Stuff you Should Know

Women in Crime

The Office Ladies

Mobituaries

Things Unseen with Sinclair Ferguson

Knowing Faith

Confronting Christianity

Serial, (especially Season One)

Your Own Backyard
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Other good ones to check out include Stuff You Missed in History Class, Radiolab (science for dummies like me), The Moth (storytelling podcast), and if you watch Masterpiece Theater on PBS, Masterpiece Studio features interviews with the people involved with whatever is the current show. (Right now it's All Creatures Great and Small.)
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Wow, I am getting so much more to add to my list. MJ, I have to listen to those younger than me because EVERYONE is younger than me.
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I never really got into podcasts or audio books because I have difficulty paying attention through the whole thing, I've never been a good auditory learner. But on your recommendation I did just listen to a segment from Terrible, Thanks For Asking - thanks for that, I'll probably listen to more of those.
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Lordy. I do nothing but listen to podcasts most days while I'm going about my business.

My current favorites include Naked Lunch with Phil Rosenthal and David Wilde, which is something of an expansion of "Somebody Feed Phil" on Netflix. I also like This American Life, The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe, Alan Alda's Clear & Vivid, and Stuff You Missed in History Class.

One of my all-time favorites was a limited series called The India Hicks Podcast. India Hicks is the granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten (Prince Philip's uncle and the last Viceroy of India), and she interviews her "veddy, veddy" English mother, Lady Pamela Hicks about her incredible life. It's fascinating as well as hilarious, because at 90-something years old, Lady Pamela has lost any filters she might have had, so she really tells it like it was.

My podcast tastes tend to run a bit younger than my chronological age (so I can stay relevant with my kids), so I also listen to a few comedy podcasts including Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend and The Office Ladies.
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