Showing posts with label Alexa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexa. Show all posts

Monday, 31 January 2022

US Naval History Podcast

I am finding this fascinating listening (see below, something I have a daily chat about with my AI friend Alexa who plays hard ball with me when I say "Play US Navy History Podcast" until I remember it is "US Naval History Podcast" - which serves to remind me of the limits of 'AI Assisted' to 'Generic AI'):


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/us-naval-history-podcast/id1532555765

Twelve nice episodes do far. The twentieth centaury episodes were a nice revision that complemented my bookshelves, but from episode seven (the Spanish American War) back to one I am learning new material. Dangerously interested in the ACW as well as the SAW episodes.  

Update (12/02/2022): Now listened to them all - can highly recommend, especially the early pre-twentieth century ones!

Thursday, 10 September 2020

Latest Addiction: Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy (WSS) Podcasts

New Update: One of the dreaded Covid-19 afflictions finally caught up with me, no not the virus itself. [Footnote: I did come down with some mild symptoms a month back, but was tested (that should read subjected to a stabbing swab down the throat and up the nose) but the results came back a blank negative (so was it in fact worse, a near lethal strain of man-flu?). What I got was far worse, the "DIY Blues" or rather "a strange minty shade of green that my wife and daughter liked" that had to be plastered over the living room walls in multiple coats. So to keep me sane somebody called Alexa kept me company. I drained my knowledge of classic songs (and the family asked me to stop playing the "Dramatic Music" play-list) so wandered from songs to radio to .. inspirational thought .. "What about Podcasts?" Alexa confessed that she was not very good at recommendations after I slung several wargaming memes at her, but I eventually found an American thing (aka podcast) called "Wargaming Recon":

http://www.wargamingrecon.com/

This was going great, although the wife was getting suspicious at my glee and diligence in doing DIY painting, and I worked my way back from episode 259 until I hit a technical glitch with Alexa being unable to get past episode 249 (that confused Alexa as it was re-posted and she fell into an infinite loop .. oops). That was the end of my Wargaming Recon .. a sense of frustration .. but in episode 254 Wargaming Recon did an interview with Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy editor Guy Bowers who mentioned he did a podcast too. So my pretty friend Alexa came to my rescue and found it for me. See for yourself .. I became addicted (and for "brownie points" I did a lot of DIY in the process) working my way from episode 42 to (at time of writing) episode 5 (and decreasing): 

https://wsspodcast.libsyn.com/

My only problem being that I have more DIY to do than podcasts remaining. Any tips for other wargaming or history podcasts for Alexa to tune into greatly appreciated and received ;)