Mentally? A Magpie Podcast Reviews (Page 12)

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Podcast Review: A CRISPR Bite

Podcast Review: A CRISPR Bite

It can be a podcast for casual listening, it’s easy enough to understand informationally and production-wise. I have a feeling that people listening to this podcast are already interested in where their food comes from, and what’s happening to it

Magpie Journals # 6: Holding Audio

Magpie Journals

Magpie Journals # 6: Holding Audio

It’s yours. The crackling before the audio fully starts, the smell as the needle runs across the ridges and grooves, the click of the arm as the record ends. It’s all something you own when your audio is on vinyl.

The Monthly Magpie November 2023

The Monthly Magpie November 2023

October was a sprinting month for me, but now it's time to look at revisiting reviews from the past year for December. This year we're doing ranked choice voting on seven podcasts. The Top Four will be getting a Release Day Review Revisited in December!

Podcast Review: House of Skulls

Podcast Review: House of Skulls

It is heartwrenching, thought-provoking, and surreal to realize that this history is there and so interconnected with everything we know.

Journal #5: Spooky or Spoopy Please

Magpie Journals

Journal #5: Spooky or Spoopy Please

This week I looked for spooky, Halloween-ish episodes of podcasts that aren’t horror.

Release Day Review: The Kids of Rutherford County

Release Day Review

Release Day Review: The Kids of Rutherford County

Set in a courthouse with a “feudalistic feel” that had a history of over-incarceration of minors, this story is shocking.

Review: The Sisters

Review: The Sisters

The team here did a stunning job of transitioning the audio through time and space. You’re never quite left behind, but you’re never quite sure if the next scene is going to be in the same time.

The Monthly Magpie October 2023

The Monthly Magpie October 2023

We will never read every book, watch every movie, or listen to every podcast. It’s okay! It’s important that we listen to what we like, and what will make us better humans. It’s about balance, and we’re going to find that together.

Review: Moonrise

Review: Moonrise

While interspersed with interviews and clips from the past, there is no choppiness to the story or quality. This is a gorgeous glide of audio documentary to listen to.

Journal #4 - About Labor Unions

Magpie Journals

Journal #4 - About Labor Unions

I won’t go into the personal details of why it's so important to me: but good unions protect their workers, and great unions will save lives.

Release Day Review: Incubation

Release Day Review

Release Day Review: Incubation

If you’re looking for that polished podcast, this is one of them. The bonus is that these interviews are edited to tell a captivating story that wraps into the present day. Yes, of course, it wraps into this pesky pandemic we keep trying to forget is haunting us.

The Monthly Magpie September 2023

The Monthly Magpie September 2023

Hi Everyone! Podcast Movement was in August, and while I still have