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+On podcasts and conversation in depth
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+:date: 2016-01-12T10:34:00
+:category: faith
+:tags: podcasts, discussion, DanCarlin, politics
+
+(originally comment on Dan Carlin’s “Common Sense” show `no. 298`_)
+
+Hi, Dan,
+
+I have been amused by your plea for the intelligent discussion.
+I am persuaded there is a platform for the increasingly
+intelligent discussion, which is even more interesting in that it
+is more successful more depth it comes not in breadth. You won't
+have your TV discussion (who cares about TV these days?), but
+I believe there already is such platform. You heard about it
+… obviously I mean podcasts. Leo Laporte (of TWiT.tv fame) claims
+that the only thing he learned about podcasts is that they are
+more successful more in depth they go. His second most successful
+podcast is `Security Now`_ which is by far the geekiest one with
+the issues like The Current Security Issues of UDP protocol, or
+detailed description of the SSL handshake. Leo’s persuasion is
+that podcasts crave depth, and with Internet it is a way more
+possible to find enough people who are truly interested in the
+topic to desire the most depth possible. If you want to make
+a podcast about golf, he claims, it is possible, but you have to
+be the geekiest golf podcast available (and of course, it doesn’t
+hurt if you (or Leo) are a well-experienced radio show host ;)).
+
+I don't know if you publish anywhere statistics on sales of your
+individual episodes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if geekiest
+episodes of yours (e.g., Prophets of Doom) were not complete
+flops. After listening to the Blueprint of Armageddon episode
+about The Battle of Verdun (and spent half night on it ;)),
+I couldn't sleep for three days because of constant nightmares.
+However, I am grateful for that episode, because finally it was
+something which really persuade me about how the Great War
+actually was truly horrible. And I have gladly paid for the
+Ghosts of Ostfront and another sleepless nights.
+
+To have another example, I would present to you EconTalk_, which
+is the show of one professor of economics as host (from the
+George Mason University) talks with another professors (by far
+not only economists) on the level appropriate.  Russ is very open
+of being strongly free-market leaning, but he is certainly not
+a pundit, and he is willing and able to have a very intelligent
+and deep conversation with a very left leaning people or people
+whose opinions he clearly detests (e.g., various Keynesians,
+Thomas Piketty), although he is able to exactly point when
+necesary (and it happens very rarely, e.g., Piketty) that he
+thinks their arguments are weak.
+
+I can give you a way more podcasts like this: `History of
+Philosophy without any gaps`_  and he goes the walk … we are at
+the episode 244 and just starting on Saint Thomas Aquinas ;).  Or
+take for example, `Communio Sanctorum, History of the Christian
+Church`_, unfortunately after 100 episodes and being around the
+Thirty Years War the quality went seriously down as the author
+switched to not very well done apologetics and left the story of
+history. Pity.
+
+My point is that podcasts are fantastic opportunity to renew
+a very thorough and thoughtful discussion.
+
+.. _`no. 298`:
+    http://forum.dancarlin.com/viewtopic.php?p=714901#p714901
+
+.. _`Security Now`:
+    https://twit.tv/sn
+
+.. _EconTalk:
+    http://econtalk.org/
+
+.. _`History of Philosophy without any gaps`:
+    http://historyofphilosophy.net/
+
+.. _`Communio Sanctorum, History of the Christian Church`:
+    http://www.sanctorum.us/