Lizcast: Favourite pods not recommended by me
We all have recommended so so much over the years but here are the recommendations from the boys that have stuck with me (Liz)Wild Wild Techhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wild-wild-tech/id1519846548Great stories of how tech shapes our culture in wild ways.Would you be surprised to find out scientists are using World of Warcraft to learn how to fight COVID-19? What if I told you that I could spoil almost any movie based on who uses an iPhone? Or how about the fact that Disney is afraid of butts? Well, that’s Wild Wild Tech, the podcast that brings you the wildest, most bizarre, most interesting stories about how tech is shaping our culture.Shipwormhttps://twoupproductions.com/shipworm/podcastMore pods embracing the movie length pod and I like it. IIn this first of its kind feature-length audio movie, Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live. itten by Zack Akers and produced by Skip Bronkie, Shipworm is the fourth podcast from Two-Up, the studio known for breaking ground in fiction (Limetown), musical (36 Questions), and documentary podcasts (The Wilderness).Wind of Changehttps://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/If there were more eps I would listen to those eps. It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall has just come down. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. A heavy metal band from West Germany, the Scorpions, releases a power ballad, “Wind of Change.” The song becomes the soundtrack to the peaceful revolution sweeping Europe — and one of the biggest rock singles ever. According to some fans, it’s the song that ended the Cold War.Decades later, New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe hears a rumor from a source: the Scorpions didn’t actually write “Wind of Change.” The CIA did.This is Patrick’s journey to find the truth. Among former operatives and leather-clad rockers, from Moscow to Kiev to a GI Joe convention in Ohio, it’s a story about spies doing the unthinkable, about propaganda hidden in pop music, and a maze of government secrets. “Wind of Change.” An offbeat eight part investigationScam Goddesshttps://www.earwolf.com/show/scam-goddess/Scam Goddess is a podcast dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it! Each week host Laci Mosley (aka Scam Goddess) keeps listeners up to date on current rackets, digs deep into the latest scams, and breaks down historic hoodwinks alongside some of your favorite comedians! It’s like true crime only without all the death! True fun crime!Knifepoint Horrorhttps://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/Tales of supernatural suspense written and produced by Soren Narnia.The text of these stories is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. CC BY 4.0Music by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com, unless otherwise noted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.