I first found out about the podcast when I was looking for podcasts to listen to on Reddit. This is one of the most recommended ones, but the time always put me off from listening to it. Earlier this week, I decided to go ahead and listen to part I of his latest series, Supernova in the East. We also heard about this podcast earlier in the semester, from the episode about podcast pioneers. From listening to the soundbyte of Dan Carlin’s intro there, I would say you could get a sense of how much history he actually covers.

I listened to “Could you eat 93 hamburgers in 8 minutes?”, which is about how Takeru Kobayashi helped popularize competitive eating. As for a focus sentence:

Working with the community:

I used to use Apple Podcasts as my main source before Spotify started adding podcasts and expanding their offerings. As for the podcast I listened to, I listened to Looking Out by Criminal. Criminal was one of my favorite podcasts for the better part of a year, but then Covid hit and they stopped producing so many episodes, so I stopped listening to them so much. I checked if it was available on Apple Podcasts, and it was, so I listened to the next podcast I hadn’t listened to yet.

I listen to 99% Invisible on a regular basis, so I went back and listened to one of my favorite episodes from the last year or so. I really enjoyed this episode because of the topic: sand. It seems pretty innocuous and boring, but when they dive into it you learn more and more about how sand’s been used in the past, in the present, and the effects of using sand in so much stuff. The story began as an introduction into why sand is important, and you begin to realize it’s in more places than you may expect. It’s in the concrete of the Roman Coliseum and their aqueducts. It makes up much of the Empire State Building in the form of glass and concrete. And, it forms the basis for a vast number of homes around the world as either concrete or glass.