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Re: Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?

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Post by zhenyakovalyov »

psbp wrote: post #52
ianceicys wrote: post #2

Have to recommend the podcast from No Agenda. No Agenda, a show where former VJ Adam Curry and columnist John C. Dvorak, two experts from the media industry, have a conversation about politics. Twice a week they deconstruct the news cycle and give insights into the narrative of the mainstream media, political campaigns and the government. https://www.noagendashow.net/

I don't have time to get into this, but I think it's pretty embarrassing that this podcast is still recommended. It's not "media deconstruction", it's two out-of-touch, low information conservatives repeatedly being incorrect and then changing their narrative to fit whatever is currently popular in conspiratorial conservative media.

i would agree. i was a listener from 2007 to 2017, the only value that they have provided for me was the obscure and the absurdist humour with jingles and banter.

it does not make you smarter or more aware of what’s happening, but you can have an occasional laugh.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?

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Post by mod »

guidovranken wrote: post #32

Soft White Underbelly Interviews with addicts, homeless, prostitutes, pimps, murderers, gang members and other interesting folk on Skid Row, LA. I've heard some really mesmerizing, tragic and bizarre things on that channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly

Second this, and add that a lot of interviews are with old timers in Appalachia.

I particularly like those ones.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?

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Post by AzzieElbab »

e1g wrote: post #44
RedBeetDeadpool wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be careful that you yourself don't try exaggerate your claims either. In the exact source your article links describing "serious inconsistencies in her story": > https://thediplomat.com/2014/10/north-korea-defectors-and-th... The rebuttals come from a Swiss-born businessman, Felix Abt, who I would say is an "interesting" guy himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Abt https://twitter.com/felixabt He has capi…

Hey thanks for your thoughtful engagement on this! I grew up behind the Iron Curtain, in the middle of Siberia, and witnessed the “glory” of a totalitarian communist government first hand. It was a different government, but also to a much more mature age than what Park saw herself. Since move abroad, I’ve seen “testimonials” from people with my background that were not technically wrong, but certainly were purified t…

Her experience is consistent with other North Koreans. I also grew up in the USSR, NK is on a completely different level of misery

Re: Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?

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Post by e1g »

AzzieElbab wrote: post #67
e1g wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey thanks for your thoughtful engagement on this! I grew up behind the Iron Curtain, in the middle of Siberia, and witnessed the “glory” of a totalitarian communist government first hand. It was a different government, but also to a much more mature age than what Park saw herself. Since move abroad, I’ve seen “testimonials” from people with my background that were not technically wrong, but certainly were purified t…

Her experience is consistent with other North Koreans. I also grew up in the USSR, NK is on a completely different level of misery

It's difficult to compare regimes based on individual narratives - in the USSR example, we have The Gulag Archipelago that is extremely rigorous, popular, and compelling (I read it in both the original and translated versions), but historically questionable, and the author's wife called it "folklore". For North Korea, the Wikipedia page for Ms. Park says this: "Many North Korean defectors accounts of North Korea, both good and bad, contradict claims Park has made. She has been accused of exaggeration and tall tales by some."
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