Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion. I do it while taking my daily (more or less) 3 mile walk, while I’m “plodding along”.
While there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of great podcasts from other sources, the ones sponsored via public radio have been vetted through the worthy objectives of the medium. Here’s what I’ve been listening to recently. I hope you might find these suggestions — in roughly 90 minute bites -- helpful in enhancing your own enjoyment of radio, our favorite medium. __ __ “Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Kamala Harris and the Democrats” THE NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR - WNYC New York and NPR In these final days of the Presidential campaign, Vice-President Kamala Harris has been getting in front of voters as much as she can. Given the polls showing shaky support among Black men, one man she absolutely had to talk to was Lenard McKelvey, much better known as Charlamagne tha God. As a co-host of the syndicated "Breakfast Club" morning radio show, Charlamagne has interviewed Presidential candidates such as Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, as well as New York City's embattled Mayor Eric Adams and many more. He tells David Remnick that he received death threats just for speaking with Harris—"legitimate threats, not ... somebody talking crazy on social media. That's just me having a conversation with her about the state of our society. So imagine what she actually gets." Charlamagne believes firmly that the narrative of Harris losing Black support is overstated, or a polling fiction, but he agrees that the Democrats have a messaging problem. The author of a book titled "Get Honest or Die Lying," Charlamagne says that the Party has shied away from widespread concerns about immigration and the economy, to its detriment. "I just want to see more honesty from Democrats. Like I always say, Republicans are more sincere about their lies than Democrats are about their truth!” (37”) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/458929150/the-new-yorker-radio-hour “Fascism, Fear and the Science Behind Horror Films” ON THE MEDIA - WNYC New York and NPR Donald Trump is being called a fascist – by his former appointees, as well as by his opponent Kamala Harris. On this week’s On the Media, a historian of fascism explains why he sounded the alarm back in 2018. Plus, the science behind why horror films make your skin crawl. Guests: Jason Stanley, a professor of Philosophy at Yale University, who has written several books on fascism. Science writer Nina Nesseth explores how horror filmmakers make our skin crawl, the anatomy of a jump scare, and why all screams aren’t created equal. Her book 'Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films’ delves into question – why do we crave being scared senseless in the movie theater? Rebecca Clark-Callender dives into the history of Black horror to see what it is and who it's for. Robin R. Means Coleman, professor of Media Studies and of African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia and co-author of 'The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar’. Tananarive Due, author, screenwriter, and lecturer on Afrofuturism and Black Horror at University of California, Los Angeles. Rusty Cundieff, writer and director of 'Tales from the Hood' (1995) Betty Gabriel, actor widely known for her acclaimed performance as "Georgina" in Jordan Peele's blockbuster Get Out (2017). (52”) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/fascism-fear-and-the-science-behind-horror-films — — A compendium of these suggestions, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is published every other month in the CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX). For further information and membership information, go to www.cidxclub.ca John Figliozzi Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide” NEW!!!! 11th EDITION now available from universal-radio.com, amazon.com. amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.com.au _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
