Podcast Recommendation: Hidden Almanac

[contrarianarchon]

The Hidden Almanac is a alternate-history Alamanac podcast. Every episode is only 5-7 minutes long, and they cover topics like "On this day", "In the garden" and saint's feast-days, for a world mostly, but not entirely like our own. It degenerates into the hosts arguing about stuff and so on fairly often, but mostly it's just someone talking about obscure points in occult horticulture or saints which probably don't exist.

Link is here: http://www.hiddenalmanac.com/

(It's written by Ursula Vernon (who also writes as T.K. Kingfisher), of the excellent webcomic Digger, among other things)

Any of you who listen to podcasts should check it out! It's really freaking good!

(In other news, I now have a phone capable of wifi, so that's great! Among other things, I can listen to podcasts again!)

Comments

[brin_bellway]

Co-signed! Hidden Almanac is great. At least, as of spring 2017, which is as far as I've gotten. (There was a time that I was caught up, but I haven't had much podcast-listening time these past couple years.)

Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap, which is the same hosts but as themselves rather than fictional characters, is pretty good too. They occasionally get Discourse-y, though.

---

Congrats on the Wi-Fi!

(Though I'm confused as to why the phone having Wi-Fi access would be necessary for podcasts.)

[contrarianarchon]

I'll additionally co-sign K&UEC as great (but yes, sometimes has discourse, sometimes by drunk people) but I haven't actually listened to it for over a year; my previous phone couldn't handle podcasts, so I'm going to be going through the back-catalog of stuff I liked then and listening to them. Once that's done, I can start working on the list of 20 or so podcasts which I've been recommended since then!

(Specifically why I needed wifi to access podcasts is because I don't have enough phone-data to play audio on my phone indefinitely, and the supply chain of manually-download-on-laptop, retry three times because they're big files and my internet is spotty, pass them to phone, every time I wanted to listen to something, was sufficient inconvenience which made me listen to music instead.)