I did find that Sensible Socialist podcast by doing a key word search
for socialist again. I subscribed to it and to make room I unsubscribed
from one that has had no episodes for some time. It is interesting that
by doing that key word search I came across a number of podcasts that
were not there the last time I did it. Podcasts come and go, so it is a
good idea to repeat any key word searches one has done before
periodically. As you point out, though, if you confine yourself to just
the ones that show up in a key word search you are likely to miss some
of interest. You just don't think of the right key words. There have to
be other ways to find them. That Mint podcast is an example. I would
never have thought of searching for the word mint. Nevertheless, I
subscribe to more podcasts than I can possibly listen to. I go for
political, science and literary podcasts. The literary ones mostly deal
with science fiction, but I have branched out into others. There is a
whole series of podcasts, for instance, that have titles that start with
the words new books in. The genres they cover are numerous. But the only
way I am going to have time to listen to and read everything I want to
listen to and read is if Ray Kurzweil's vision of immortality comes
around and I am one of the first ones to get the treatment.
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Thomas Paine
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
On 4/5/2020 6:40 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
There are some podcast feeds that exist, but no one is actually producing episodes for
them so doing a search may send you down some blind alleys. I've had feeds that just
went dead after a while. Also, there are a number of podcasts that are done for working
class people which don't have the word, "socialist", in the title. There's the
Working Life podcast which is done by the US Postal Workers. It's not socialist, but it
deals with issues faced by working people. There's another one that slips my mind, but
the name of the woman who does it, will probably come back to me because she writes a lot
of stuff and I come across her name. Moderate Rebels is usually about international
politics and it's way left of center. So is Pushback. Both of those come from The
Grayzone Project. It's similar to Mint Press, but a bit better. But these do not come
from any socialist party. The guy who does The Sensible Socialist is part of Richard
Wolff's organization which is definitely Marxist in orientation.
Miriam
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I was not aware of that. I may check it out. I have done a podcast search for
various key words in the past and socialist was one of those words, but I don't
remember coming across that one. Perhaps it is new.
If that is the case I might want to do some key word searches again. It has
been a while since I did that.
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Thomas Paine
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
On 4/5/2020 1:32 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Are you aware that there is a podcast called, The Sensible Socialist?
It was mentioned on an episode of The Grayzone Project's Green lines,
which is not a podcast, and I subscribed because I was curious. I'm
not especially impressed, but you might like it. I've listened to one
episode so far, which is about the Carona Virus. I'll try the one on
socialist theory which also downloaded.
Miriam
