Discovering Podcasts

For a long time now, I have filled silence with music, tv, or reading (yes, reading). I have also been feeling woefully under-informed. Yet, every time I try to get informed, it’s all so theatrical, opinionated, and one-sided. Ok. So it’s often two-sided, but that’s still a problem.

I’ve been missing radio news/talk shows. The kind I hated as a kid because they were so boring. Then a client of mine suggested a podcast that I might find interesting and showed me how to set it up on my phone. I started with her suggestion, the serial The Retrievals.

I highly recommend it. It was thorough, interesting, and definitely an important topic that most of us don’t think about.

Now I’m catching up on news, listening to stories about hot topics I’m trying to understand, learning about history, and I’m finding more each time I look. Plus, I love being able to download shows to listen without the internet.

I still can’t listen to a book being read, or a story where different characters are played by different people, but I do like the history episodes that do a snippet of this to really pull you into the thoughts and feelings of these long dead people.

Usually I only listen to music in the car, but these podcasts have been really good for me while driving lately. I’ve even sat knitting and listening. Or walked with ear buds in to get the kids from the bus stop. I’m feeling much more informed, even if I’m still not up for debating or holding an opinion one way or the other.

So cheers (with a coffee mug) to staying informed and trying to expand our minds. I’m so glad to have finally found an easy way to do this.