Fav & Recommends

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CURRENT EVENTS

• Hysteria | Crooked Media (CURRENT EVENTS/FEMINISM)

• Lovett or Leave It | Crooked Media (COMEDY SHOW/CULTURE)

• What a Day | Crooked Media (MORNING NEWS)

• The Problem with Jon Stewart | Apple TV+ (CURRENT EVENTS/POLITICS)

• Without a Country | Gas Digital (CURRENT EVENTS/POLTICS/POP CULTURE)
  
  

POLiTICS

• Pod Save America | Crooked Media (POLITICS) 

• The Lincoln Project | (CENTER RIGHT/POLITICS)

• 538 Politics | (POLLING/POLITICS)

• The Skepticrat | (FAR CENTER/POLITICS)

• The New Abnormal | The Daily Beast (US POLITICS/COMEDY/LEFTIST)

• Political Gabfest | Slate Magazine (US POLITICS)

• Left, Right & Center | KCRW (US POLITICS)

• Pod Save The World | Crooked Media (WORLD POLITICS)

• The Majority 54  | (PROGRESSIVE/US POLITICS)

• Cognitive Dissonance | (NEWS/POLITICS)

• Hacks on Tap | (POLITICS)
  
  

COMEDY

• Guys We F*cked | (COMEDY/FEMINISM/NSFW)

• Smartless | A Test Pattern Media (COMEDY/POPCULTURE)
  
  

EVERYTHING ELSE

• Strict Scrutiny | Crooked Media (LAW/SCOTUS COVERAGE)

• Offline with Jon Favreau | Crooked Media (ONLINE CULTURE/SOCIAL COMMENTARY)

• Armchair Expert (POP CULTURE/PHILOSOPHY/BEING HUMAN)

• America Dissected | Crooked Media (SOCIETY/CULTURE)

• Citations Needed | (MEDIA/PR/POWER)

• GastroPod | (FOOD/COOKING/FOOD CULTURE)

• The Economics of Everyday Things | Freakonomics (ECONOMICS/SOCIETY)

• The Future Of Everything | The Wall Street Journal (SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY) 

• Flightless Bird | Armchair Expert (CULTURAL & SOCIAL COMMENTARY)

• Pod Damn America | (LEFTIST COMMENTARY/COMEDY)

• No Stupid Questions | Freakonomics (RANDOM)

• Speaking of Psychology | American Psychology Association (PSYCHOLOGY)

• Behind the Bastards | (HISTORY)

• a16z Podcast | (TECHNOLOGY)

• Hard Fork | (TECHNOLOGY)

Most Links open in YouTube Podcasts Or thEIr Websites

Recommended Podcast App: Pocket Casts

SPECIFIC EPISOIDE RECOMMENDATIONS
(links direct to YouTube Podcasts, MuckRack, or their respective websites, when available)

ARTIFICAL INTELEGENCE & TECH

• Algorithms Are Everywhere. How You Can Take Back Control | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (JANUARY 23, 2023) 

• Being Human in the Age of AI | THE GRAY AREA (May 8, 2023)

• Can AI Be Regulated? | ON POINT (May 1, 2023)

• Ghosts in the Machine: Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, & Capitalism | REVLEFT RADIO (April 10, 2024)

• How The Internet Is Radicalizing Young Men | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (April 23, 2023)

• Legal Consequences Of Generated Content | PRACTICAL AI: MACHGINE LEARNING, DATA SCIENCE (July 18, 2023)

• Real or AI? The Tech Giants Racing to Stop the Spread of Fake Images | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (September 15, 2023)

• Robocab | TODAY EXPLAINED (August 17, 2023)

• The Communication Epidemic Pt 1 | CHAMPAGNE SHARKS (April 30, 2023)

• The Man That Destroyed Google Search | BETTER OFFLINE (April 25, 2024)

• The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born | CYBER (December 13, 2023)

• Two Writers Wonder If They’ll Be Replaced By AI | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (January 15, 2023)

• When AI Hears A Problems | IN MACHINES WE TRUST (May 16, 2023)

• When AI Watches the Streets | IN MACHINES WE TRUST {May 19, 2023)

FOOD & HEALTH

• America's Toxic Food System | SOME MORE NEWS (August 10, 2023)

• Are We All Addicted to Ultra-Processed Foods? | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (March 12, 2023)

• Fighting For The Right To Die | WHAT NEXT (April 27, 2023)

• Food Contamination Is On The Rise. Here's What History Can Teach Us About How To Stop It | AMERICA DISSECTED (November 21, 2023)

• How Can You Be Kinder To Yourself | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (September 10, 2023)

• The End of the Calorie (Encore) | GASTROPOD (January 17, 2023)

• The Failures of 'Organic" Farming | TBD (April 28, 2024)

• The Hidden Battle over Grocery Store Shelves | THE SPORKFUL (January 15, 2024)

• The Inflammation Theory of Disease | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (May 16, 2023)

• Is It Too Late To Escape "Forever Chemicals" | WHAT NEXT (April 18, 2024)

• Is Ultra-Processed Food...Even Food | AMERICA DISSECTED (October 21, 2023)

• Understanding The Mind Of A Serial Killer, With Louis Schlesinger, PhD | SPEAKING OF PSYCHOLOGY (April 10, 2024)

• Weight, Weight, Don’t Tell Me with Prof. Harriet Brown | AMERICA DISSECTED (January 24, 2023)

• What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (February 13, 2024)

• Where's the Beef? Lab-Grown Meat is Finally on the Menu | GASTROPOD (July 11, 2023)

• Why the Future of Mental Health Care Could Be in Your Gut | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (February 17, 2023)

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

• Aliens From Earth? | UNEXPLAINABLE (March 6, 2024)

• Compost Yourself | TODAY EXPLAINED (January 17, 2023)

• How Climate Change Will Reshape Where Americans Live | FIVETHIRTYEIGHT POLITICS (May 4, 2023)

• How We're Learning to Talk to Animals | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (August 15, 2023)

• Is It Too Late To Escape "Forever Chemicals" | WHAT NEXT (April 18, 2024)

• Love Canal: Even Dirtier Than It Sounds | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (March 26, 2024)

• NASA Plans to Bring Bits of Marks to Earth. It May Change How We See Space | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (May 12, 2023)

• Unraveling Mysteries in the Ocean's Darkest Depth with Susan Casey | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (April 30, 2024)

• Why Do We Cry | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (January 22, 2023)

POLITICS & SOCIETY

• America Keeps Me Up at Night with Dr. Richard Haass | OPEN BOOK WITH ANOTHONY SCARAMUCCI (April 2, 2023)

• America’s Midlife Crisis with Tom Nichols | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (March 23, 2023)

• Are Drag Queens Coming For Your Kids? | SOME MORE NEWS (June 21, 2023)

• A Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (April 12, 2023)

• A Sociopath's Guide to Death, Sex, and Money | DEATH. SEX & MONEY (April 16, 2024)

• Blame Capitalism (3 Parts) | TODAY EXPLAINED - VOX

  • Blame Capitalism: Profit Over Everything (September 15, 2023)

  • Blame Capitalism: The 99% (September 22, 2023)

  • Blame Capitalism: Degrowing Pains (September 29, 2023)

• Elon Musk Unmasked | TECH WON'T SAVE US (November 17, 2023)

  • Origins of an Oligarch (Part 1) 

  • Creating the Genius Myth (Part 2) 

  • Building An Empire (Part 3)

  • Shaping The Future (Part 4)

• Escaping America | CANADALAND (April 24, 2023)

• Greedflation Is Real | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (April 2, 2024)

• How We Got Here | POLITIX (January 3, 2024)

• "Is Trump Insane?" with Anthony Scaramucci | UNCOMFRORTABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH JOSH SZEPS (April 11, 2023)

• Polling, Parties, and Polarization with Alexander Theodoridis | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (JANUARY 26, 2023)

• PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense and the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex | CITATIONS NEEDED (September 27, 2023)

• Made In America | ON THE MEDIA (April 7, 2023)

• Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (March 12, 2023)

• Matthew Desmond (on poverty) | ARMCHAIR EXPERT (January 11, 2024)

• Saving Democracy with David Pepper | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (May 25, 2023)

• The Agents of Chaos with Ron Insana | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (January 24, 2023)

• The Explosion of Antisemitism with Mike Rothschild | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (December 6, 2023)

• The "Graying Population" Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security | CITATIONS NEEDED (December 2, 2023)

• The Principles of Communism: Friedrich Engles & Communist Political Theory | REVLEFT RADIO (September 27, 2023)

• The US South's Elites Have Kept the Region Poor and Underdeveloped | THIS IS HELL (April 16, 2024)

• TOP SECRET: Our Classified Documents System Is [Redacted] | THE PROBLEM WITH JON STEWART (January 24, 2023)

• The Resurgence of QAnon with Will Sommer | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (April 6, 2023)

• Trump’s Potential Trials Are a One-Man “Stress Test of the Legal System” | THE POLITICAL SCENE (March 24, 2023)

• The Threat of White Christian Nationalism | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (Febraury 7, 2024)

  • Piety Not Required with Jeff Sharlet (Part 1)

  • The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory with Tim Alberta (Part 2)

  • The Power Worshipers with Katherine Stewart (Part 3)

• What Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did the Term Become So Powerful? | THE POLITICAL SCENE (January 30, 2023)

• When A Miscarriage Becomes A Crime | WHAT NEXT (December 20, 2023)

• Why Iran Attacked Israel | TODAY EXPLAINED (April 15, 2024)

• Why Is Child Labor Making a Comeback? | THE WEEDS (May 17, 2023)

• Why We Can't Give up on Persuasion | THE GRAY AREA (April 17, 2023)

• Why Millennials Dread Motherhood | TODAY EXPLAINED (December 15, 2023)

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTS

• Mobile Home Parks | THE ECONOMICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS  (September 27, 2023) 

• Obsolete Occupations | CITATIONS NEEDED (May 1, 2024)

• Poisoned Booze | CITATIONS NEEDED (December 27, 2023)

• The Cult of Preppers | SOUNDS LIKE A CULT (January 24, 2023)

• Why You Should Make Silly Things  (ft Simone Giertz) |  OFFLINEWITH JON FAVERAU (June 18, 2023)

Links direct to Goodreads (not affiliate links)

• Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic - Wann, de Graaf, Naylor | NONFICTION/SOCIOLOGY

• A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn | NONFICTION/HISTORY

• Democracy in American - Alexis de Tocqueville | NONFICTION

• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser | NONFICTION/HEALTH

• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal  - Mary Roach | NONFICTION/SCIENCE

• Impossible Vacation - Spalding Gray | FICTION/NOVEL

• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan | NONFICTION/HEALTH

• It Can't Happen Here -  Sinclair Lewis | FICTION/CLASSIC

• Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen | NONFICTION/HISTORY

• Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell | NONFICTION/SOCIOLOGY

• Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences - John R Hibbing | NONFICTION/POLITICS

• Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us - Michael Moss | NONFICTION/HEALTH

• Spanking Watson - Kinky Friedman | FICTION/MYSTERY/COMEDY

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach | NONFICTION/SCIENCE

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon | FICTION/MYSTERY/YA

• The Glass Castle A Memoir - Jeannette Walls | NONFICTION/BIOGRAPHY

• The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn - Mary Roach | NONFICTION/EDUCATION/POLITICS

• The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story - Douglas Preston | NONFICTION/HISTORY

• The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism - Steve Kornacki | NONFICTION/POLITICS

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History -  Elizabeth  Kolbert | NONFICTION/HISTORY

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell | NONFICTION/SOCIOLOGY

• True to Life: Why Truth Matters - Michael Patrick Lynch | NONFICTION/PHILOSOPHY

• You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation - Deborah Tannen | NONFICTION/SOCIOLOGY

SERIES/TV

• Brand New Cherry Flavor | NETFLIX

• Doom Patrol | MAX

• Fallout | Amazon Prime

• Fargo | HULU

• Ghosts | PARAMOUNT +

• GLOW | NETFLIX

• Good Omens | Amazon Prime

• Hunters | Prime Video

• iZombie | CW

• Justified | HULU

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | HBO/YouTube

• Minx | STARZ NSFW Nudity

• Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes | Norwegian Language

• Poker Face | PEACOCK

• Resident Alien | PEACOCK

• Russian Doll | NETFLIX

• Sliders | FOX

• Stan Against Evil | HULU

• Star Trek: Lower Desks | PARAMOUNT +

• Stranger Things | NETFLIX

• Ted Lasso | Apple+

• The Good Place | NETFLIX

• The Last of Us | MAX

• The Orville | HULU

• The Righteous Gemstones | MAX

• Quantum Leap (1989) | PEACOCK

• Quantum Leap (2023) | PEACOCK

• United States of Tara | Varies

• Why Women Kill | PARAMOUNT+
  
  

FILM

• The Holdovers (2023) | Comedy/Drama

• Barbie (2023) | Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy

• Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023) | Action/Comedy/Thriller

• The Menu (2022) | Psychological Thriller

• Armageddon Time - TRIGGER WARNING (2022) | Drama/Coming-of-Age

• Don't Worry Darling (2022) | Thriller/Mystery

• Vengeance (2022) | Thriller/Mystery

• Violent Night (2022) | Action/Dark Comedy

• The Adam Project (2022) | Sci-Fi/Drama

• Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) | Action/Thriller

• Free Guy (2021) | Action/Sci-Fi

• Don't Look Up (2021) | Comedy/Disaster

• Dinner In America (2020) | Comedy/Drama/Music

• Enola Holmes (2020) | Action/Adventure/Crime

• The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Horror/Comedy

• Best of Enemies (2019) | Drama/History

• JoJoRabbit (2019) | Comedy/Drama/War

• Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) | Thriller/Mystery

• A Simple Favor (2018) | Thriller/Mystery

• Hotel Artemis (2018) | Action/Crime

• Ingrid Goes West (2017) | Drama/Comedy

• Deadpool (2016) | Action/Adventure

• Look Who's Back (2015) | Comedy/Drama/Satire - TIGGER WARNING - German Language

• Troll Hunter (2010) | Drama/History/Horror Norwegian Language

• Inglorious Bastards (2009) | War/Drama

• Collateral (2004 ) | Thriller/Crime

• High Fidelity (2000) | Romance Comedy

• Plunkett & Macleane (1999 | Drama/Comedy/Action

• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Romance/Comedy

• House of Yes (1997) | Comedy/Drama

• Box of Moonlight (1996) | Comedy/Drama

• Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) | Comedy/Drama

• Natural Born Killers (1994) | Action/Crime/Romance

• Schindler's List (1993) | War/Drama

• Man Bites Dog - TIGGER WARNING (1992) | Comedy/Crime/Drama French Language

• School Ties (1992) | Drama

• Newsies (1992) | Musical/Family

• Mermaids (1990) | Comedy/Drama

• Say Anything (1989) | Romance/Comedy

• Beetlejuice (1988) | Comedy/Fantasy

• Big (1988) | Comedy/Fantasy

• Dirty Dancing (1987) | Drama/Music/Romance

• A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) | Comedy/Family

• The Princess Bride (1987) | Romance/Adventure

• The Sound of Music (1965) | Musical/Romance

• The Wizard of Oz (1939) | Fantasy/Musical

I spend a lot of time trying to find interesting, fun, engaging, and high quality content on YouTube. This is what I've found:

• Answers With Joe [science]

• Big Tugg [entertainment]

• Chain Baker [food]

• Climate Town [environment]

• Dark Matter 2525 [religious philosophy]

• Doctor Mike [health]

• Drew Gooden [entertainment]

• Ethan Chlebowski [food]

• Evan and Katelyn [creativity]

• Food Wars - Insider Food [food]

• Home RenoVision DIY [home DIY]

• Honest Ads [humor]

• How to Cook That [food & science]

• Jazza: Fun with Art & Creativity [cretivity]

• Kendra Gaylord [architecture]

• Kurtis Conner [entertainment]

• Laura Kamph [creativity]

• Legal Eagle [law]

• Nick Lewis [interior design]

• North of the Border [creativity - clay]

• Not Just Bikes [environment]

• Philosophy Tube [philosophy]

• Project Farm [product testing]

• Simone Giertz [creativity]

• Sorted Food [food]

• The Stitchery [sewing]

• Technology Connections [technology]

• Viva La Dirt League [gaming]

• Weird History [history]

• You Suck At Cooking [food]

• zefrank1 [animal science]

Internet & Culture Youth Commentary
Drew Gooden
Eddy Burback
Funky Frog Bait
Jacob Sharpe
Jarvis Johnson
Jarvis Johnson! GOLD

SPECIFIC EPISOIDE RECOMMENDATIONS

• 10 Changes To The Bible (Part 1 of 2) | TREY the Explainer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKp4yWGTfXo

• 10 Changes To The Bible (Part 2 of 2) | TREY the Explainer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX62bRIG-OI

• 100 Food Hacks I Learned In Restaurants | Joshua Weissman
  https://youtu.be/H_erG7HSK0A?si=ZJPqdAqVtUiry_-g

• Activities That Can Be Traced to Paganism | Weird History
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mm6aWTip7o

• Do Stop Leaks Products Work | Project Farm
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqD4Ha766w8

• Homesteading in a Changing World | Little Mountain Ranch
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Sy7DtixIk 

• How Communist Propaganda Changed America | Epic Economics
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDU_MWsD98

• Plagiarism and You(Tube) | hbomberguy
  https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=P5grJ41FntwrY130 

• Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal - Chapter 1 - American Experience | PBS
  https://youtu.be/zT0S5aMqLyY?si=LtNTD041slWjoTyz 

• The Problem with Fast Fashion...& why everything you buy seems cheap now | Shelby Church
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXKH633Qo0Y

• Who Broke Gas Prices? | Climate Town
  https://youtu.be/QnBqAzJXVGo

• World Religion Family Tree | Useful Charts
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l8Uqve9HoU

• Why No One Is Having Kids Anymore...The Childfree Movement | Shelby Church
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odAeCCdwZCs

I spend a lot of time trying to find interesting, fun, engaging, and high quality content on YouTube. This is what I've found:

SPECIFIC EPISOIDE RECOMMENDATIONS

• 10 Changes To The Bible (Part 1 of 2) | TREY the Explainer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKp4yWGTfXo

• 10 Changes To The Bible (Part 2 of 2) | TREY the Explainer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX62bRIG-OI

• 100 Food Hacks I Learned In Restaurants | Joshua Weissman
  https://youtu.be/H_erG7HSK0A?si=ZJPqdAqVtUiry_-g

• Activities That Can Be Traced to Paganism | Weird History
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mm6aWTip7o

• Do Stop Leaks Products Work | Project Farm
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqD4Ha766w8

• Homesteading in a Changing World | Little Mountain Ranch
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Sy7DtixIk 

• How Communist Propaganda Changed America | Epic Economics
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDU_MWsD98

• I Took a Real Jim Crow Literacy Test: Here's What Happened | NYTN
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoUct-62nUo 

• Plagiarism and You(Tube) | hbomberguy
  https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=P5grJ41FntwrY130 

• Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal - Chapter 1 - American Experience | PBS
  https://youtu.be/zT0S5aMqLyY?si=LtNTD041slWjoTyz 

• The Problem with Fast Fashion...& why everything you buy seems cheap now | Shelby Church
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXKH633Qo0Y

• Who Broke Gas Prices? | Climate Town
  https://youtu.be/QnBqAzJXVGo

• World Religion Family Tree | Useful Charts
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l8Uqve9HoU

• Why No One Is Having Kids Anymore...The Childfree Movement | Shelby Church
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odAeCCdwZCs

• Painting Soundtrack (on YoutUbe Music)

• Chillin' Tracks (on YouTubeMusic]

• Borderlands

• BioShock

• Fallout 4

• Fallout 76

• Fallout New Vegas

• Far Cry 5

• SIMS 4