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Podcasts Part 1: Local-ish

I have a lot of time during work to listen to podcasts.  I have a 45 minute commute.  At the moment, I spend hours standing up looking for insects and diseases in fruit.  I also have a lot of time after all of that to do paperwork.  Listening to podcasts is one of the few ways that I like listening to major news events because otherwise I'll keep jumping down the rabbit hole of all of the bad things that are possible to go wrong in life when I search through the news websites.  I think B has even stopped checking websites for that reason.  Just for fun, I'll list a few of my favorites (in no particular order) and in a couple of posts.

Local-ish:

Hello Bakersfield
I spent my whole childhood living in southwest Bakersfield and only moved to Fresno ten years ago with the original intention to study linguistics at Fresno State.  I've liked watching the Fresno downtown and Tower District revitalization.  It's also been really fun watching my old friends who stayed or moved back to Bakersfield buy houses in the downtown area and embrace their new neighborhoods.  A few months ago, I saw on Facebook that my old coworker Brian Boozer started producing a few months ago, and I got curious.  And then hooked.  My favorite episode so far is #4: This Bakersfield Life featuring Miranda Whitworth.

Two Guys Talkin' Fresno
After hearing about Hello Bakersfield, I looked up local Fresno podcasts and found this one and Flowing with Famous.  In Two Guys Talkin' Fresno, Craig Scharton and Paul Swearengin interview local people and review current happenings in Fresno.  It's a lot like listening to a tamer KMJ talk show about interesting subjects.  I was wary of both men, but their banter is entertaining.  My favorite episode so far is the June 7th episode about neighborhood revitalization.  The only episode so far that I wasn't impressed by was about the Mosquito Abatement District.  It did give a good overview of the mosquito abatement program in Fresno, but it did get some mosquito information wrong.  (Example: If you remove all mosquitos, we would also lose major pollinators for certain flowering plants.)  Moving on...


Flowing with Famous
This is similar to "Two Guys Talkin' Fresno," but with younger guys.  I love the flow of it (no pun intended) and focuses more on local events including music and art.  This is much closer to everything I love about the "Hello! Bakersfield" podcast and less conservative ranting.  One of the hosts also has a podcast about Aikido that I will check out once I figure out which other podcast to stop listening to. :D

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