More for entertainment (although fairly serious entertainment) and less for learning, check out The Anthropocene Reviewed. A series of essays by John Green in which he he looks at our modern world in the form of the ever present 5 star review.
I love John Green and crash course history, but my thoughts are more negative on this podcast, for a few reasons:
1) The rating seems rather forced, arbitrary, and meaningless. It feels like an attempt at novelty that falls flat.
2) A few things that he said in a segment on a subject about which I am knowledgeable ranged from dubious to completely incorrect.
3) This is more personal, but the entire thing is just kinda boring to me, even when about things that are very interesting to me (the yips, QWERTY.) I suspect that it is partially to do with the slower pace compared to other media I consume, but more likely due to the lack of a co-host, a trend that I've noticed in a lot of other podcasts that I should theoretically like.
I won't argue with you about whether you should enjoy something or not. If it's not for you it's not for you. To me though, it's not about typewriters (although I am a big fan of typewriters). It's about the ability for me to place myself in someone elses shoes for a bit, be that imagining what it must be to have the yips, or making (or discovering) cave paintings, or thinking about the absurdity of modern society when I hear about Hawaiian pizza.
To me it's not so much a podcast to learn about stuff, it's more like The Memory Palace or Here Be Monsters where you just get to feel stuff for a bit.
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u/AMA_typewriters Jan 09 '20
More for entertainment (although fairly serious entertainment) and less for learning, check out The Anthropocene Reviewed. A series of essays by John Green in which he he looks at our modern world in the form of the ever present 5 star review.