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Online badsin

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I've noticed over the past 18+ months I've almost completely stopped watching TV news, and very little normal TV. I tend to watch podcast's now, mainly the following :
Joe Rogan
Chris Thrall
Shaun Attwood
Russell Brand
I watch these through YouTube or Spotify.

Does anybody else watch podcasts? If so who, and on what platforms?
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Sorry to be pedantic, but are podcasts really for watching? I listen to several podcasts regularly but have never thought to watch one.

Isn't a video podcast just the same as streaming video from Netflix, Amazon, YouTube etc?

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Sorry to be pedantic, but are podcasts really for watching? I listen to several podcasts regularly but have never thought to watch one.

Isn't a video podcast just the same as streaming video from Netflix, Axxxxxx, YouTube etc?

You may well be correct, I'm a relative newbie to it. If so, I stand corrected.
Possibly use multiple media outlets to get the largest audience?
Who do you follow MH?

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You may well be correct, I'm a relative newbie to it. If so, I stand corrected.
Possibly use multiple media outlets to get the largest audience?
Who do you follow MH?

I prefer the short documentary style series rather than any 'ongoing' on-the-fly "radio" talk show type things. Some interesting ones over the last few years (most tend to be US but some UK):

Where is George Gibney?
The Last Days of August
Chameleon (first series anyway)
Cautionary Tales
The Drop Out: newsworthy right now with the trial of Elizabeth Holmes underway
Slow Burn - Watergate
Slow Burn - Bill Clinton's impeachment
Slow Burn - David Duke
Catch and Kill  (about Harvey Weinstein)
Serial
S-Town
Nice White Parents

And selected episodes/story arcs from This American Life, The Guardian Today in Focus

Offline Stretfordender

I love the Joe Rogan ones. Only thing is they are sometimes over 3 hours long. Recently watched the Amanda Knox one. He's an excellent interviewer without ever seeming to have an agenda.

Offline Rick2468

I listen to:

Quickly Kevin Will He Score - 1990s football nostalgia show with Josh Widdicombe. I love this so much and even saw the show when they did a live one.
No Such Thing As A Fish - Comedy / random facts podcast written and presented by the question writers from QI. Basically I think they use the material that doesn't make it on to the TV show because it is so obscure. I don't actually like QI but I like this podcast.
Pop Detectives - Comedy pop show presented by Ricky Wilson and Tony Blackburn
Spectacular Failures - Documentary about big businesses that made stupid mistakes and went bust such as Toys R Us and Kodak
Chris Moyles - Only if I have time and nothing else to listen to. Loved Chris Moyles back in the day, think he's still good but think I've outgrown him!