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Is VTs fall from the top and upcoming rise directly correlated with the ending and subsequent reboot of Scrubs?
Huge if true
Thankful my moron lab just carries socks out to the back yard and doesn't actually eat them. She has a pile of stuff that she hordes out there. Toys, socks, shoes, boxes. Anything she manages to ninja out of the doggie door really. Then she complains to us when she can't find any toys inside.
I spent hours at the VT vet school over Christmas one year trying to save a beloved pet. She spent weeks there, so I hung out a lot and one of her neighbors one night was a lab that had eaten most of a clothes hamper full. Socks, underwear, towel and washcloths. Unable to pass that much, he'd had to have his stomach opened and emptied. They kept it in a bucket for the techs to marvel at. It was a prodigious feat. While he got out soon after, my dog finally recovered enough to come home and live another 8 years.
Diary of a CEO for me...
CFB: SZD and Two Deep. I dabble in others like Cover 3, but the first two are the main ones.
Soccer: Tifo, Totally Football Show, and Managing Madrid
Non-sports: Chapo, Blowback, Who? Weekly, the Rewatchables, ALAB series
I prefer to primarily read history, but I listen to some other history podcasts here and there.
I like the journal but miss when they would do like 45 minute deep dives into businesses versus now they just do quick hits of the daily news.
My favorite politics podcast is triggernometry
Spittin Chiclets - Hockey
Chasing Scratch - Golf (2 regular guys decided to see what it would take for avg Joe to get to scratch...season 9 now and still trying. Hilarious stuff)
I always feel weird commenting on april 16th since I wasn't a student until 2008. But I do remember people asking me 'are you afraid of going there after the shooting?' (which was a stupid question for a variety of reasons, and an even stupider question given the rise in gun violence we've seen since... but I digress) - My response was that seeing the way the community responded confirmed that I made the right decision.
I think Chris Fowler summed it up best:
You don't arrive at Virginia Tech accidentally. You have to work to get there, journeying into
the Blue Ridge Mountains. It's lovely, picturesque, and seems very far away from the dangers of the outside world.There is a collective strength of spirit there that feels quite different from other campuses we visit. It's a big school, of about 26,000. But it feels like a tight community.
The official name is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. It's not a curriculum or a setting for everyone.
But most students who are there want to be nowhere else. That spirit seems to endure long after leaving Blacksburg. Once a Hokie, always a Hokie.
Oh man, what a question:
College Football/Sports:
- Split Zone Duo
- Phantom Island (not only college football)
- Who Killed College Football
- Shutdown Fullcast (AKA the internets ONLY college football podcast)
- College Football Enquirer (listen to about half of these)
- Solid Verbal (rarely listen to these days, but it's still in my feed)
- TSL (really just their football stuff)
- Served with Andy Roddick
Long(er?) Form Reporting & Storytelling (idk what else to call this):
- Freakonomics
- Search Engine
- Planet Money
- Radiolab
- More Perfect
News/Politics:
- Science Fridays - latest and greatest in scientific discoveries. Episodes are 10-20 minutes, a few times each week
- The Journal - WSJ
- Raging Moderates
- The Ezra Klein Show
Other stuff:
- History of the second world war - incredibly detailed review of WW2. I'm over 100 episodes in and just got to the invasion of Poland
- Against the rules with Michael Lewis - he's one of my favorite authors. First few season of his pod were fantastic.
- Foster and Friends - Bud Foster pod. I skip a lot of them but there were some absolute gems during the football job search
- Undivided Attention - AI/Social Media/tech Policy stuff.
- Vacation Bible School - A realistic, historically accurate review of the bible. As a non-christian living in the south, it's just a fascinating/interesting listen for me.
- Lenny's Podcast - Product Management pod. Career stuff.
That's most of my listening. There's a few other VT pods in my feed, but most of it is redundant to what I read on TKP so I skip a lot of them.
As someone who remembers Tosh.0 I never would have guessed he had this in his skill set. Wow
Chapo Trap House
Respect the Dead
The Reaction Podcast
Hearing TJ Stewart is back but not sure if thats just at SERTC or both
The Philly Chapter alumni group would have a walk for remembrance every year. The group has kind of fallen apart this year and I did not even hear about one. Alas, the old head moved away and he/his wife did a lot. I'm also working insane hours, so not able to set up anything either. Hope work slows down and there is increased interest in the chapter with energy from Franklin. Unfortunately, as the football team goes, that is how the Philly Chapter goes.
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Behind the Bastards
Smartless
Old Gods of Appalachia
Do people think JMFF will be our Buzz for football?
Pablo Torre Finds Out is such a good podcast.
Once We Were Spacemen podcast with Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion, though I mostly enjoy when they talk with other people. The two of them talking to each other is fun in small doses, but it is better when they are diluted a bit with a third person.
The Fillion/Tudyk one, the Felicia Day one and the Levar Burton one were all fantastic.
If you like golf, The Shotgun Start is a fun listen. I also listen to The Fried Egg and No Laying Up podcasts, but SGS is the only one I try to never miss.
I always catch the weekly Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast.
Split Zone Duo is one of my favorites for college football.
Depending on the guest I'll listen to Good Hang with Amy Poehler and Working it Out with Mike Birbiglia.
Freakonomics has a big backlog of interesting episodes. I'll come back to that one when they hit on a topic I want to learn about. It is very well-made.
The only podcast I watch/listen to right now is the Tosh Show on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@toshshow
I genuinely think he's an excellent host and interviewer. His best episodes are when his guests are someone he's known for a long, long time, like the one with his wife, her best friend, his french friend, his father in law, etc, but in reality they are all good.
AYE YO PAUSE
That's a lot of man to be edging with
It is now