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Now that we're the one publishing podcasts, I feel like I listen to podcasts
slightly differently than before. How different? I'm just paying more attention to edits,
I guess. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a cool effect. Uh-huh. Oh, like,
they have a composer for this, like, three-second sounds that they produce.
Yeah, yeah. But because English podcasts, especially, at least on my collection,
most of them are, like, very professionally done. They're from NPR, like, Vox Media.
They have, like, a whole team of people doing research, fact-checking, editing, producing.
And, like, the podcasters themselves are, you know, professional speaker,
like, professional radio speaker or something. So they obviously sound posh. There are a couple
of more, like, hobby podcasts in English that I listen to. But those, if they become popular,
they also get picked up by media companies. Yeah. Like the Sounds Like a Cult that I
recommended to you. Right. Have you listened to episodes? Yeah, I do, I do. Like, when I'm
cooking or washing dishes at night when I want to relax. Yeah, Sounds Like a Cult is a pretty
funny one, right? Yeah, it's really, really good. It's funny. It's, like, nerdy but funny and silly
but thought-provoking sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Which one, like, do you have off top of your
head? Do you have any favorites or anything that you listened to recently?
I've listened to Wine Cults recently. Oh, I haven't listened to that one. Actually, yesterday.
It was really interesting. You know, some people are really, really serious about wines and wine
tasting. And then there is a professional, she said it's like a tea tasting. It's similar. But,
you know, they try not to be alcoholic because it's wine tasting. Yeah. And then, yeah,
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um, I haven't finished it yet. Listening to it. But yeah, it's a, yeah. Yeah. I realized that
I should probably explain to listeners what this podcast is about. So,
before we dive into it. So, Sounds Like a Cult is a podcast where two girls, one is comedian
and the other is a writer, author. She has a book about linguistics, like, kind of like
pop linguistics, I guess, about languages around cults. Like, what kind of languages
people in cult use to entice people into the cult? Or, you know, how they make people feel
like they belong in this cult, you know, in a very nefarious ways sometimes. And then they rate
the cult, you know, is this live your life? Is this a safe kind of cult? Just enjoy? Or is this,
you know, be careful while you're enjoying it kind of cult? Or is this, you know, get out as
soon as possible kind of cult. And the topic ranges, I'm looking at their back numbers.
Topic ranging from the royal family, the multi-level marketing. What is it called in
Japanese? Like, Nezumiko? Megachurches, astrology, cult of cheerleading, cult of
Elizabeth Holmes. That was pretty funny. They have cult of academia as well. If you haven't
listened to it, Masako, you should listen to this. I think I did. It was, yeah, it was funny. Yeah.
Yeah. It's like, most of these cults that they pick, I don't really participate in them. But
once in a while, they pop up, like the ones that I do like, such as Trader Joe's.
Oh, I haven't listened to it yet. I don't think so.
Yeah, yeah. Or like, cult of, like, I mean, I don't like Taylor Swift, but there is Taylor
Swift. You know, like, I know the existence of it. So I can relate. Or cult of Starbucks.
Cult of diet culture was also interesting. I think that's just like,
diet culture is like, a whole nother episode on its own. It's like,
it's everywhere these days. Yeah. And especially, I feel like it has a different, even more severe
twist of it in Japan. Oh, yes, yes, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. So like, yeah, it's pretty funny. I
think it's very, very American podcast, I think. Two girls are American, and they speak
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they speak in the millennial American ways. So if I guess any of the people listening to this
podcast that is trying to sound like late 20-something millennial American girls from
New York, who are currently in LA, that's a podcast to listen to. And it's pretty funny.
And they, so I listened to, I stumbled upon them when they were releasing their first episodes.
And their editing was like, you know, they were doing it themselves. Yeah. But from season two,
they got picked up by, like, professional media. So they have, like, all the people,
like, they have all the editors in their house to help them with the editings. Very,
it's not like very polished, I think, the style. Yeah. You know, so many good podcasts, Asami.
Yeah. So you recommended some, and yeah, I really like all of those.
Yeah. What is it that I recommended to you? I think, for example, In Our Time. It's a little
different from, not little, very different from. Very British. Yeah. Yes. But it's so interesting.
It is, it is. Superconductivity. Yeah, I remember listening to
Dirac. Like, Dirac notation, he's a famous physicist. That episode was very interesting.
There was also very interesting episodes, like a mini series about Darwin. Okay. And that was
really interesting because it, they talked about how people misunderstand Darwinism
with eugenics, eugenics, and how that is kind of exactly the opposite of what Darwin
had talked about. But eugenicists in the 70s and 60s cited Darwinism as like,
oh, this is the nature's way, you know, it's like, so very, very dark, but very interesting.
I liked, yeah, I like the scientist episodes, but I also like, I love how they also talk about arts
and like, they talk about Sistine chapels, or like Angkor Wat. I thought those were super
interesting as well. I'm sure they talk about, talk a lot about neuroscience in some of these things.
Yeah. Yeah, those are interesting too. Neuroscience is such an interesting thing
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to talk about. I'm jealous because there's so many neuroscientists with good podcasts that's
actually interesting and friendly to non-scientists as well. If I talk about physical
chemistry, no matter how good I am, if I was, I cannot attract the same kind of audience.
Really? Every time when I, you know, listen to what you say, it's so interesting, although
our, you know, fields are so different, but you are good at explaining, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, thanks for that, but I just genuinely think that,
neuroscience, you know, it's because everyone is interested about human, like we want to know what
we are, and it's like interesting to learn about the brain phenomena, like how does bilingualism
happen, or why are people synergetic? Is that synergetic? What is it, like, when you can hear
the color, or like see the sound? That's,
say, um, that's, 共感覚。共感覚, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, but I don't, I'm forgetting the
English word. It's like, see, this is the problem with bilingual people, like, I'm not good at words
in general. Well, we both forgot for some reason. Yeah, yeah, we need to Google. Synesthesia.
Okay, right. There you go, there you go. I can't sleep at night tonight.
Okay, okay, let's stop this talk.
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