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Podcast Friday - Emptying the drawers
Mar. 28th, 2025 11:43 amAlright now I'm procrastinating at work, so let's see...
The Agenda with Steve Paikin - Still Plenty of Strange New Worlds for Star Trek to Explore
Fuck Steve Paikin, but Robert Picardo was in Toronto to shoot Starfleet Academy and Paikin got to interview him. Picardo is awesome, you can't really have a bad interview with him. His interview on InvestiGates was good too.
Free City Radio - Interview with Shir Hever on the call for an arms embargo on the Israeli state
Shiv Ever is an Israeli who now lives in Germany and spends a lot of his time working on the BDS campaign. In most of his interviews, he describes the negative impacts that war in Gaza has had on the Israeli economy. Let's say that it's kind of collapsing. He's full of hope for the future of Palestinians. Stuff we need to hear.
Disrupting Japan - The forgotten mistake that killed Japan’s software industry
Okay this might be the most niche I've ever gotten. Not that I was wondering why there wasn't a great software industry coming out of Japan before noticing this episode. Seriously though, it was such a behemoth of technology in the post-war era until 2000 (i.e. until networks and software started to matter more than hardware) that being told that its software industry is shit made me ponder. (I knew that the PS/2 or /3 was insane to develop for, and contributed to the XBox taking part of its market share because Microsoft had a developer-friendly platform that PC Developers already knew well... But I digress)
Movement Memos - Breaking Down Sudan’s Struggle: What the World Is Missing
A good overview of the conflict in Sudan, from an always great podcast. I wanted to share American Prestige's episode but it's members-only. This one is as good, and features Toronto BLM alum Yusra Kogali.
Ideas - Why the 1976 novel Bear is still controversial — and relevant
Marian Engel's 1976 ursosexual novel Bear was not a joke but a real literary work, and you may ignore it at your own peril.
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The Agenda with Steve Paikin - Still Plenty of Strange New Worlds for Star Trek to Explore
Fuck Steve Paikin, but Robert Picardo was in Toronto to shoot Starfleet Academy and Paikin got to interview him. Picardo is awesome, you can't really have a bad interview with him. His interview on InvestiGates was good too.
Free City Radio - Interview with Shir Hever on the call for an arms embargo on the Israeli state
Shiv Ever is an Israeli who now lives in Germany and spends a lot of his time working on the BDS campaign. In most of his interviews, he describes the negative impacts that war in Gaza has had on the Israeli economy. Let's say that it's kind of collapsing. He's full of hope for the future of Palestinians. Stuff we need to hear.
Disrupting Japan - The forgotten mistake that killed Japan’s software industry
Okay this might be the most niche I've ever gotten. Not that I was wondering why there wasn't a great software industry coming out of Japan before noticing this episode. Seriously though, it was such a behemoth of technology in the post-war era until 2000 (i.e. until networks and software started to matter more than hardware) that being told that its software industry is shit made me ponder. (I knew that the PS/2 or /3 was insane to develop for, and contributed to the XBox taking part of its market share because Microsoft had a developer-friendly platform that PC Developers already knew well... But I digress)
Movement Memos - Breaking Down Sudan’s Struggle: What the World Is Missing
A good overview of the conflict in Sudan, from an always great podcast. I wanted to share American Prestige's episode but it's members-only. This one is as good, and features Toronto BLM alum Yusra Kogali.
Ideas - Why the 1976 novel Bear is still controversial — and relevant
Marian Engel's 1976 ursosexual novel Bear was not a joke but a real literary work, and you may ignore it at your own peril.
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