Kinoma Notes

Wil Wheaton is one of my favorite peo­ple on teh inter­nets, and recently I’ve learned that he has pretty great taste in podcasts.

Can’t place the name? Wil played Gordie in “Stand by Me”, who got leeches in his under­pants and told the epic story of Lard Ass. He played Wes­ley Crusher in “Star Trek: The Next Gen­er­a­tion”, who got leeches in his under­pants and saved the day at least seven times.

He’s now a writer, actor and geek who’s mar­ried with two stepchil­dren, has writ­ten sev­eral books, and some­times wears sweaters with clowns on them and gets leeches in his under­pants (although not simul­ta­ne­ously). He has an excel­lent blog.

As of today, the pod­casts he’s fea­tured in his “Pod­casts I Love” posts are avail­able in Kinoma Guide.

• NPR: Dri­ve­way Moments — “This ingeniously-named pod­cast is cho­sen by lis­ten­ers from NPR sto­ries that are so com­pelling, they stay in the dri­ve­way when they get home and lis­ten to them until they’re over. Some of them are inspir­ing. Some of them are funny. Some of them are so sad it’s hard to lis­ten to them. All of them are incred­i­bly awesome…”
• Pseudo­pod –  A great hor­ror fic­tion pod­cast. Wil says, “Some of the sto­ries are very dis­turb­ing — this is hor­ror, after all — but I have yet to hear one that’s gory for gore’s sake, or dis­turb­ing for the sake of being dis­turb­ing. Some of them, like ‘Clock­work’, aren’t even scary; they’re just cool.”
• The Night Air — “Each show com­bined inter­views with music and sound­scapes to cre­ate some­thing unique and remark­able. I was hooked, and I’ve made count­less com­mutes endurable by leav­ing my body on the train and let­ting my mind go wher­ever The Night Air takes me.”
• Radio Free Bur­rito — Although this isn’t tech­ni­cally a “pod­cast he loves”, this is Wil’s very own pod­cast and cer­tainly deserves a place here.
• 60-Second Sci­ence — “Every day, the geniuses at Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can spend just one minute shar­ing some­thing cool and inter­est­ing from the sci­en­tific world. Their sto­ries are all over the place, too, from plan­e­tary sci­ence to neu­ro­science to genet­ics.”
• Stuff You Should Know — “Kids, learn­ing isn’t just fun, it’s awe­some. [This pod­cast] cov­ers diverse top­ics like How Moon­shine Works, How Can­ni­bal­ism Works, and How Aban­doned Cities Work. [It’s] worth lis­ten­ing to for their amus­ing inter­ac­tion as much as it is the fas­ci­nat­ing ‘wow, I did not know that’ infor­ma­tion they dispense.”

You can find these in Arts & Cul­ture > Peo­ple > Wil Wheaton — Pod­casts I Love right now, and they’ll soon appear indi­vid­u­ally in appro­pri­ate cat­e­gories as well. Or, just Search > Kinoma Guide to find them.

Enjoy!

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