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The CBC and the LA Times have teamed up to publish this short-run podcast titled The Outlaw Ocean, looking into what happens at sea when you're outside legal oversight. In Episode 2: The Dark Fleet, host Ian Urbina starts following the Dark Fleet, fishing boats that turn off their transponders and go on overfishing in international and sometimes national waters of other nations. He does so aboard the Bob Barker, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's flagship. The crew of the Barker have decided to target The Thunder, the world's most nefarious illegal fishing ship. (It's on an Interpol list.) When they first meet and it's clear that there's going to be an encounter, the ship ditches its nets and decided to run for it. When a secondary Shepherd crew tries to pull the net out of the water (to keep it for evidence), it takes hours and hours to pull everything in because it's so long. So begins this long pursuit...
You can read the transcript here. But reading "intense music" doesn't live up to hearing the great sound production in this series. :)
Anyway, I'm at episode 4 now and it's a pretty intense podcast... There's been murders and slavery so far, so listener beware.
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A Conversation with Retired Forest Ranger Peter Romkey.
Shared Ground is a podcast I've started listening to recently, looking at the relationship between humans and the environment in Mikmaq'i, i.e. Nova Scotia. I find the podcast generally a little light, but this interview with a retired forester was really fascinating, in particular the importance of decomposing boles (trunks) in a healthy forest, and impacts of clear cutting and other forms of "enlightened" forestry. That sounds a bit nerdy but I thought it was pretty fascinating.
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I really need to write down my impressions right after listening to an episode... I have a backlog of 15+ episodes but I don't recall enough about them to write them up. Sigh.
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#PodcastFriday is a tag where people recommend a particularly good episode from a podcast. The point of this tag is NOT to recommend entire podcasts--there are too many podcasts out there, and our queues are already too long, so don't do that. Let's just recommend the cream of the crop, the episodes that made you *brainsplode* or laugh like crazy.
You can read the transcript here. But reading "intense music" doesn't live up to hearing the great sound production in this series. :)
Anyway, I'm at episode 4 now and it's a pretty intense podcast... There's been murders and slavery so far, so listener beware.
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A Conversation with Retired Forest Ranger Peter Romkey.
Shared Ground is a podcast I've started listening to recently, looking at the relationship between humans and the environment in Mikmaq'i, i.e. Nova Scotia. I find the podcast generally a little light, but this interview with a retired forester was really fascinating, in particular the importance of decomposing boles (trunks) in a healthy forest, and impacts of clear cutting and other forms of "enlightened" forestry. That sounds a bit nerdy but I thought it was pretty fascinating.
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I really need to write down my impressions right after listening to an episode... I have a backlog of 15+ episodes but I don't recall enough about them to write them up. Sigh.
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#PodcastFriday is a tag where people recommend a particularly good episode from a podcast. The point of this tag is NOT to recommend entire podcasts--there are too many podcasts out there, and our queues are already too long, so don't do that. Let's just recommend the cream of the crop, the episodes that made you *brainsplode* or laugh like crazy.