My car has satellite radio, and the funny thing about it is that 90% of the time it’s tuned to CBC. [I work with CBC Manitoba (news ) and CBC Radio, but I've been paying Sirius monthly for no reason for a while now].
Turns out our national public broadcaster talks about smart stuff & topics I care about. Here are my hand-selected podcasts that you should totally get.
1. Spark
Brilliant & MILFish Nora Young talks tech, Twitter, robots, futurism, and the practical impact of it all on your life. Bonus coolness: legit UGC!
End credits democratically include everyone who contributed to the episode, (listeners too), often via phone.
Be inspired by everything: subscribe to this podcast.
2. Age of Persuasion
Mellifluous Terry O’Reilly talks golden age of advertising, replete with insights into classic marketing strategies.
Juicy tidbit: this podcast is brand new, because it took forever for CBC to get permission to use all the copywrited jingle action. The back catalogue of older stuff isn’t up on iTunes (yet?).
See through everything: subscribe to this podcast.
3. Q
I first heard of Q when Billy Bob Thorton went nuts on silky smooth host Jian Ghomeshi last year. In solidarity, I gave Q a listen, and ❤ the easy-going analysis of current culture (always situating Canada in a broader ‘North American’ context) and media panels examining—you got it—the media.
Discuss everything: subscribe to this podcast.
