3 Podcast Episodes to Melt Your Brain

Free brain wrinkles are great. It doesn’t happen often. Just ask my $150,000 bachelor’s degree (FML).

You could spend years sifting through hundreds of thousands of podcasts, or you take advantage of the work I’ve already done and listen to the following: 3 podcasts that will make you stop what you’re doing and listen with sheer vigor to the words being said. These are the 3 best podcast episodes I’ve ever heard.

First, we have Stephen Fry–actor, writer, comedian, author, Twitterer–an all around enthusiast of the first degree. And his podcast on language (yes, just general language) will make you practically clamber to use your tongue (for good, not evil). Fry is an almost superhuman wordsmith, with a love for the spoken word that will infect you, and you’ll want it to. Subscribe to his podcast, there’s a lot there, but this is one of the three best episodes of any spoken word I’ve heard.

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Continued after the jump.Nothing trips me out like God and Physics. And that is why Rev. Sir John Polkinghorne is my Ken Kesey. Anglican priest and theoretical physicist, he makes some of the most abstract concepts in the human canon seem not just reachable, but elegant. You will listen to this, titled “Quarks and Creation,” and wander around for hours thinking about its ramifications.

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If you like this, you might like the NPR series, Speaking of Faith. If not, move on to

Radio Lab by WNYC has a podcast that is simply delightful. Fun, fresh, and adventurous, it spans many topics, but the one on the afterlife really got me thinking. They approach this typically religious topic from the standpoints of science, literature, imagination, and sociology.  Altogether a profound journey.

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I know these are all really metaphysical, but that’s just kind of the mental disposition I have. Do yourself a favor. Listen. Enjoy. Think.

Get Excited.