Podcast Picks
Because of a recent road trip, I had a plethora of time to devote to catching up on a couple of podcasts. One of them was Dear Franklin Jones, which almost made me fall asleep at the wheel, but The Habitat was quite alright.
The premise is interesting enough: a NASA mission–HI-SEAS–of six volunteers was organized in a hyper-realistic space pod atop the Mars-like atmosphere of Hawaii. These volunteers were then forced to share very limited space with the other volunteers for a year. Drama and romance ensues. Cliques are formed, and the claustrophobic nature of the dynamic is reported on exhaustively. It does get a little tedious, but keeping in step with the nature of the mission, the podcast has to be a little tedious to be an accurate portrayal of HI-SEAS.
The strongest part of the entire series was the beginning and the end. Near the middle, I found myself smoking some extra roadtrip cigarettes to make up for the lull; but, regardless, the series was immersive enough to warrant my attention for 70% of the entire show. That’s pretty good. And because I am a copywriter for podcasts sometimes, through freelance gigs and the like, I can really appreciate good quality content in the podcast realm.
In review: listen to the Habitat; skip Dear Franklin Jones.
Up next: Slow Burn seasons 1 & 2.
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