Sweet and simple animal/adventure podcasts?
December 23, 2019 11:44 AM Subscribe
Recommendations for innocuous podcasts about animals or adventure that could be set up for easy access on my (very conservative) mom's Kindle Fire?
My mother is laid up in hospice at home with a diagnosis of metastatic cancer. She's also recovering from a gnarly emergency surgery, so although she was kinda out of it for a while, she's been way more engaged and conversational over the last week.
This morning when I visited, I realized that she's been totally stimulation deprived outside of visits from hospice staff and conversations with my dad. She can't manage a handheld device yet, and can't sit up in bed to watch tv or anything. I downloaded some audiobooks but I think they might be too long for her to stay engaged with.
She really likes dogs and the Iditarod, so I put on a half hour Blair Braverman interview and she LOVED it. I'd love to curate some stuff for her to listen to, but I'm only here once a week, and I'd like to be able to download podcast episodes (or interesting short story audio books?) that my technologically-limited father could easily play for her while I'm not here.
Podcast recommendations? App tips for the Kindle Fire?
Possible subjects of interest:
- Cool animal adventure stories are probably the safest topics.
- Maybe some triumphing over adversity stuff? However, they're very far rightwing Evangelicals (Islamaphobic, homophobic, very anti-immigrant, don't believe in climate change, consider most churches to be far too liberal), and I'd rather not make any waves at this point.
- Some swears are probably okay, as long as they're the old-fashioned kind that show someone is down-to-earth or means business.
- Although she's cooked and crafted in the past, I worry that any podcasts about that might be kind of a bummer, since she's in end-of-life care right now and likely won't regain the mobility to do those things.
My mother is laid up in hospice at home with a diagnosis of metastatic cancer. She's also recovering from a gnarly emergency surgery, so although she was kinda out of it for a while, she's been way more engaged and conversational over the last week.
This morning when I visited, I realized that she's been totally stimulation deprived outside of visits from hospice staff and conversations with my dad. She can't manage a handheld device yet, and can't sit up in bed to watch tv or anything. I downloaded some audiobooks but I think they might be too long for her to stay engaged with.
She really likes dogs and the Iditarod, so I put on a half hour Blair Braverman interview and she LOVED it. I'd love to curate some stuff for her to listen to, but I'm only here once a week, and I'd like to be able to download podcast episodes (or interesting short story audio books?) that my technologically-limited father could easily play for her while I'm not here.
Podcast recommendations? App tips for the Kindle Fire?
Possible subjects of interest:
- Cool animal adventure stories are probably the safest topics.
- Maybe some triumphing over adversity stuff? However, they're very far rightwing Evangelicals (Islamaphobic, homophobic, very anti-immigrant, don't believe in climate change, consider most churches to be far too liberal), and I'd rather not make any waves at this point.
- Some swears are probably okay, as long as they're the old-fashioned kind that show someone is down-to-earth or means business.
- Although she's cooked and crafted in the past, I worry that any podcasts about that might be kind of a bummer, since she's in end-of-life care right now and likely won't regain the mobility to do those things.
Best answer: There's a new podcast called Dog Tales that might fit the bill. Episodes so far include the story of the first seeing-eye dog, a two-part series on Balto and Togo, and episodes on police and military dog heroes.
posted by northernish at 3:04 PM on December 23, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by northernish at 3:04 PM on December 23, 2019 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Thank you! We already had some James Herriot downloaded, and I've bookmarked the others.
posted by redsparkler at 11:46 AM on January 1, 2020
posted by redsparkler at 11:46 AM on January 1, 2020
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posted by ChuraChura at 2:23 PM on December 23, 2019 [3 favorites]