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incomingalbatross · 8 months

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Week Four of Commute Radio. This time I listened to a couple long items.

Lord of Spirits, specifically the "Land of Giants" episode. LONG. Very solid though. Clear and extensive answer to "what the heck are nephilim, then?" which goes beyond the basics into general Old Testament history. I found it convincing, and may come back for more episodes.

Swan Lake, Acts 2-4. Very good! Obviously not getting the full experience, since I can't track the story through the music alone, but I liked it and would listen again Also, *meme voice* was anyone going to tell me John Williams borrowed from Tchaikovsky or was I just supposed to listen to this myself.

Artifexian The second episode had less focus on actual worldbuilding, so I wasn't as interested, but it's still fun and I'll come back for more. Might start picking and choosing my episodes once I have a better grasp of their content, we'll see.

Sacred and Profane Love on "Transfiguring Love in the Brothers Karamazov." I haven't read it, but the episode was very good stuff.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons I have come to the conclusion that I like Vivaldi, which is nice to know. :) Also reminded that there's a Hayley Westenra song that borrows from this. I should listen to her stuff again.

Reply All Another glimpse into someone else's world via the medium of Odd Internet Things. Still interesting and entertaining!

Out Alive Again, a survival story like the last one. I think this podcast is probably a really good resource for getting some idea of how real people actually process near-death situations - during and after - which is something most of us probably don't encounter a lot in the wild.

Presidential John Adams! My fave. Not a lot of new information about him but I liked hearing it anyway. Also emphasis on his whole frenemy thing with Jefferson, which never gets old. (Though I have to register a complaint because they DID mention that the two died within hours of each other on July 4, but they DIDN'T mention the BET. Which I was waiting for!!)

The Good List Another Catholic-talks-about-good-things podcast I'm trying. Listened to an episode talking about Father Brown (not a deep dive, but nice), and half of an episode about morning routines (genuinely interesting, actually). Will keep trying this one, but I think it might be smart to skip ahead to when they changed the format and made them longer. Will see

#i've listened to two episodes of almost every podcast on my list now #(my current list is at 16 - i've dropped a few that didn't grab me and added a few new recs)#so i think it takes me two weeks to go through the rotation once #alongside a healthy proportion of classical music

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