Would "24 infotainment podcasts" be a better way of describing this list?
Nothing wrong with infotainment. Maybe it will even make you seem more interesting at parties. Nothing wrong with that, either. But it's not the same thing as being smarter.
Nothing wrong with infotainment. Maybe it will even make you seem more interesting at parties. Nothing wrong with that, either. But it's not the same thing as being smarter.
I guess define "smart".
But do any of the listed podcasts do that? To work a muscle or your brain, you have to actively...well, work. I haven't tried all of the podcasts they listed, but of the ones that I have tried, they're all passive entertainment. (And again, nothing wrong with that.)
Infotainment - broadcast material that is intended both to entertain and to inform.
Information - facts provided or learned about something or someone.
From that, I believe infotainment is intended to be consumed as entertainment, while also being intended to inform. As opposed to just raw data or facts which aren't necessarily distributed with the purpose of entertaining.
The one by amateurs vary a lot in quality. Some - like the History of England podcast - seem to be done by amateurs who are extremely well informed (though skip the first 20 episodes of the History of England podcast if you give it a go). Others seem to be about the same quality as someone giving to you a synopsis of a Wikipedia page they just read. When in doubt I'd stick to the ones by experts in the field.