Podcasts

Since baseball was on my mind when I started listening to podcasts for this class, my first podcast is the "Baseball History Podcast" by Bob Wright, which is easily found on iTunes. While Bob isn't particularly interesting to listen to in terms of how he speaks, the content is engaging and shows his interest in the topic. Each podcast begins with "this week in baseball history," then Wright goes over one player, one baseball term, and finally, one baseball park. I found that splitting podcasts into segments is nearly essential. One long monologue on baseball would be just as daunting as one huge block of text without paragraphs. Wright's podcast did show me that a lack of character can make a podcast boring even though the content is not.

Another podcast I listened to was "The Economist" from "The Economist Newspaper Limited" which is also easily found on Itunes. I found this podcast entertaining even though there were no bells or whistles. There are no segments or any clear structure; the two men just start speaking on a chosen topic. The podcast is entertaining because the two speaker's conversation is interesting. Though this was the case for Wright, what The Economist speakers do that Wright doesn't is show some character. Like a radio show, they all have their different opinions and style of speaking while Wright simply recited the history. Therefore, the History of Baseball is better for obtaining information but the Economist is better at entertaining, which might be necessary for a subject such as economics.