Tuesday 18 October 2016

Podcast mayhem

A word of warning, this post is about podcasts, it doesn't concern any activities of the presenters in any other field than in the podcasts. Most of them are good educators or journalists and know much more than I'll ever know, as one wonderful singer said. :) Guess what. I haven't posted in quite a while. A sure sign that I'm a bad blogger. This aside. I'm back from my long self-exile to Hungary. Again studying in the university. Life as a multiamorous person in a country that has 7 times less people than, let's say, London, isn't a lick of honey, as we say it around here. But I haven't come here to complain. I'd rather talk of podcasts I've been listening lately. The best ones of them being, well, you guessed it: 1. Savage lovecast. Dan Savages Lovecast has been a sure help for me with it's sheer existance. I've been listening to it, every tuesday since last march I think or something. Maybe a bit later. But he surely has knowledge, words and courage to say things the way they should be said. Everyone have a listen! Strongly recommended for anyone over the age of, let's say 16. Below that with parental explanations provided. Savage also talks really lot about politics, which I thought were inappropriate for someone like me, who lives in estonia, until Trump got the nomination and his statements started touching on matters concerning even our politics here. And savage's extended, ad-free edition of his podcast is called magnum, which mockingly reminds me of guns he so much hates. And here's the link. http://www.savagelovecast.com/ Available on website, stitcher and I think anywhere else, where you can listen to podcasts. 2. Multiamory podcast. Multiamory podcast is not at the first place, because It's been going on for much less than Savage lovecast. Other than that. It's a completely loveable show and on my mustlistening list, when ever new episodes come out, which has been recently really on time, which is why for example polyamory weekly didn't get the second place. And I also like the talkshow format that they're giving. Fortunately they've not yet reached the point where they'd be talking of same things over and over again so they'd feel it's boring. The entire podcast is fresh and enjoyable all together. Link: http://www.multiamory.com/podcast/ 3. New York magazine's sexlife. New york Magazine's sexlife is that kind of podcast that hasn't lost much of it's appeal even since coming out and shedding some of it's original cast, well actually 2/3 of it. Although I must admit the other participants were a sort of balancing force so that the cast wouldn't be a complete gossip and "IThinkThisIsCompletelyHowSexWorksForMe" talk. I mean. It's an awesome show and I enjoy New York Magazine's columnist's take on all the things sex, but sometimes it just goes too personal. I'm rating the cast so high, just so I could have my good memories here and for the good enjoyment it has provided me so far. And link: http://nymag.com/tags/let's-talk-about-sex/ See. This tag mostly contains entries concerning the podcast, but they don't have a dedicated website for it. Actually this place or at least one of the places here in the top three should be had by Huffington Post's Love and Sex Podcast, but I'm still upset at them for cancelling my favourit podcast without any notice. Nobody just said a thing. Huf Post's podcast satisfied that ich of mine, which wants to see citations and research. They were able to have a professional oppinion on at least most of the shows and me, who I'm completely bad at citations, I adore research, I can't say I'm turned on by it, that wouldn't be the right word for that, but I go WOW and all smiles when someone actually not only refers to research that was done, but provides citations to papers. I mean, the entire internet is full of shitty referrals to non-existent research and it's so hot when someone says, that there's some statistical data or some qualitative research done to prove this and that. I like qualitative research more, because I'm bad at statistics, don't get me wrong, I'm working on it, I'm just bad at it yet. And they fucking cancelled the show without any notice beforehand. This caused me some considerable grief in the beginning, but I guess I'm now over it. There are many good podcasts more, that didn't make it into the list, they either aren't frequent enough, or something else is in themm that I haven't yet gotten used to, or I just haven't listened to them enough, but they're good and the top three is open, so it could change, but some good links here. The polyamory weekly: http://polyweekly.com/ Kudos for it for runnig so long. And it has a poly happy moment corner and generally looks like an organised Radioshow, that plans not to stop or cancel itself in the near future. So it gets it's own article here, abit out of the top, but still held in high regard. Sex with Emily: http://sexwithemily.com/category/podcast/#.WAbv1iRGyVs She has much more that this podcast, and she promotes it alot. I have rarely heard her giving book recommendations though, but maybe I've just not heard them. And don't get me wrogn. Had I a podcast and lots of other merchandise as well next to it, I'd surely use my podcast as a medium to promote it. Sex Nerd Sandra and Tristan Taormino's podcasts used to be great too, but they haven't updated recently. Hope everything is fine with them and they'll be back doing cool stuff again in the near future. But there's always the chance to enjoy past episodes. https://sexnerdsandra.com/podcast/ http://tristantaormino.com/ And there are even more: Sex gets real, talking of sex with pleasure mechanics, stuff mom never told you etc. I can't listen to them all every week, I just don't have enough time, so I have to pick my fruits.