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Podcast Roundup

Here is a list of podcast episodes I recommend. I included a date and episode number where possible.


Life Kit

6/14/21, You’re Probably Apologizing All Wrong

5/19/21, Be a Better Bystander

3/31/21, Raising Kids Who Help With Chores

1/6/21, What to Tell Kids When the News is Scary


Quick to Listen (by Christianity Today)

7/2/21, Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know


Hidden Brain

6/21/21, The Power of Apologies

6/7/21, This is Your Brain on Ads

4/12/21, An Unfinished Lesson


99% Invisible

6/29/21, #449, Mine!


Radiolab

        11/13/20, Breaking Benford


The Holy Post

6/25/21--7/16/21, Jesus & John Wayne: Episode 1--4

5/19/21, #457, Paul, Power, & Patriarchy with Beth Allison Barr

3/31/21, #450, The Evangelical Industrial Complex

3/10/21, #447, The Danger of Useful Christianity with Russell Moore


The Psychology Podcast with Barry Kaufman

E-241: Robert Cialdini: The New Psychology of Persuasion


Stratfor Podcast

RANE Insights on COVID 19: (Whatever the most recent couple COVID-related episodes are)


FiveThirtyEight Politics

7/15/21, Americans And Experts Agree That Democracy is Struggling


SpyCast

4/21/21, Active Measures: A Conversation with Thomas Rid

4/13/21, Russian Spy, American Defector - Meet Jan Neumann

4/6/21, Intelligence and the Presidency - With John Hedley

3/9/21, Son of Hamas, Spy for Israel - “The Green Prince”


Why Am I Telling You This with Bill Clinton

4/7/21, Stacy Abrams: How to be a Changemaker


The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

7/1/21, S4E53, Oh My Cholesterol! Eggs!

7/29/21, S4E52, Milky White Lies: Fact Checking Dairy

4/13/21, S4E30, Are you eating enough fiber? How to know

1/5/21, S4E2, Major problems with the new dietary guidelines


Very solid podcasts generally:

The Improvement Association (Five episodes)

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill (Limited series)

Revisionist History

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

I Spy

Gangster Capitalism (Season 3)


Public Safety Reform (topic area)

(Podcast, Episode, Episode Title)

What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law, #52, Pattern and Practice

Making Sense, #246, Police Training & Police Misconduct

Stratfor Podcast (RANE Insights), RANE Insights: A Conversation with David Kennedy on Rethinking America’s Inner City Violence


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