[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 124

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most radio listening takes place in the car or while doing other things that allow freedom for the ear, but not the eyes and hands.  Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion.  I do it while âpower walkingâ (most) every other day (when itâs not cold and wet or I havenât succumbed to laziness).  The âartâ of putting one foot in front of the other can be pretty monotonous and by âpodding alongâ while plodding along the mind also gets something useful to do. 

Some of the best radio comes from the public networks of the UK, Australia, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.  Apart from the originating programâs web site, most programs are made available through any number of other amalgamation sources such as iTunes and TuneIn. 

Admittedly, these are thoroughly subjective recommendations, but my interests and tolerance for incompatible views are pretty wide-ranging. Hereâs another in a continuing series of small samplings:

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âIn The Event Of Attack, Here's How The Government Plans 'To Save Itself'â
FRESH AIR - NPR
Several years ago, when Garrett Graff was working at Washingtonian magazine, a coworker brought him a lost ID badge that he'd found on the floor of a parking garage.  "It was a government ID for someone from the intelligence community, and he gave it to me since I write about that subject, and he's like, "I figure you can get this back to this guy,' " Graff recalls.  There were driving directions on the back of the ID, so Graff looked it up on Google Maps, and it led him to West Virginia. "The road dead ends into the side of a mountain," he says, "And you can see very clearly these big concrete bunker doors â this little guard shack, chain-link fence, and then this set of concrete bunker doors beyond.â  Graff had stumbled onto one of the government bunkers designed to protect U.S. leaders in the event of a nuclear, chemical or biological weapon attack â most of which were built at the outset of the atomic age and throughout the Cold War.  "It was a facility that I had never heard of, that wasn't on any map ..." Graff says. "It just made me so curious to go back and understand what the history of these plans were, and what they are in modern times as well.â  The result of that curiosity is Graff's new book Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself â While the Rest of Us Die. Based in part on recently declassified documents, it describes the bunkers designed to protect government leaders, lines of succession to replace officials who are killed, and the roles for various agencies in the event of catastrophe.  Also, a review of the movie âThe Big Sickâ.  (44â)
http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2017/06/21/533830498/fresh-air-for-june-21-2017?showDate=2017-06-21   

âDynamic Pricing - and Should AI be Granted âlegal personhoodâ?â
FUTURE TENSE - ABC Radio National
Goods and services used to come with a fixed price, but commerce is changing. Weâre now entering the age of âdynamicâ pricing where algorithms use your data to determine just how much you as an individual are prepared to pay.  Bond Universityâs Sven Brodmerkel takes us through the ins and outs of the technology and what it might mean for your hip-pocket.  Also, is it time to start drawing up rules around their development of Artificial Intelligence to prescribe and protect their future rights?  (29â)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/dynamic-pricing-and-should-ai-be-granted-âlegal-personhoodâ/8631326

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Good listening!

John Figliozzi
Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide"
7th edition available from Universal Radio, Amazon, W5YI.com and Ham Radio Outlet
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