Podcasts

 Continuing our feature on Podcasts, we have a few suggestions for you and welcome suggestions.  For those of you who are already Podcast listeners, we’d love to hear from you with your suggestions, recommendations, and cautions. What do you listen to? What’s your favorite? Do you prefer your news in the written word or streaming? Have you thought of making your own Podcast?  Send your Podcast suggestions to j.hilburtdavis@comcast.net

For those of you who are not familiar with Podcasts, it’s easy to get started. And, also, since Podcasts are portable, it’s a good way to avoid the “driveway moment”--- a radio segment so compelling that people will leave their cars running in the driveway to finish listening to it. There are many ways to search for a Podcast: just use your search engine (Google, Firefox, Safari, etc.) to find a person, subject, or specific Podcast you’re interested in (“how to,” sports, cooking, travel, black holes, films, etc.) and click on. If you already have Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, you can look through them.  An example of a Podcaster search engine is https://www.listennotes.com   The most popular music (and now a source for many podcasts) source is Spotify https://open.spotify.com/  It is a subscription service (there’s a charge). Pandora https://www.pandora.com/ offers music with no fee but you’re subjected to interruptions; Pandora does offer a paid subscription if you can’t stand the ads.

Here are a few Podcast samples:

“Beginner's Guide to Podcasts” https://www.wmfe.org/beginners-guide-podcasts Part of Vermont Public Radio's “A Beginner's Guide to Podcasts,” with a step-by-step discussion on getting started.

“A Beginner's Guide to Getting Into Podcasts” New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/smarter-living/podcast-recommendations-apps.html

“The Ezra Klein Show” (Apple)] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447 and also on Spotify. Ezra Klein invites you to a “podcast/conversation about things that matter.”

“What it Takes” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-it-takes/id1025864075 Revealing, conversations (interviews from the American Academy of Achievement) with leaders in the arts, science, technology, public service, sports, and business.

“How I Built This”  https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this  Conversations with individuals who build their own businesses.

“Aria Code”  https://www.metopera.org/discover/podcasts/aria-code/   The Met’s acclaimed podcast collaboration with WQXR and WNYC studios.

So—here are just a few samples. Search for your own favorites and let us know what you recommend! We’d love to hear from you.

--Jane Hilburt-Davis