CAVASShips

This podcast about Naval affairs is excellent. Both cohosts (Chris Cavas and Chris Servello) have substantial experience and credentials in the Navy world and provide timely information of what is happening in the Navy. Senior active duty, retired Navy and high level Navy related industry, e.g. shipbuilding, weapons design, ship design, political leaders are guests on the podcast and lend to the professionalism and intimate knowledge of Naval affairs. This podcast is one of the few that I have set to automatically download. Highly recommended.

Required weekly listening for every navalist

I enjoy the weekly maritime updates and the interesting guests they get most of the time, although the show has a habit of bringing on industry executives to wax poetic about their shipyards or weapons systems when anyone who’s followed the industry for awhile knows that shipyards and the Navy are making a huge mess out of nearly every project they undertake. But for me, the worst part of these interviews is the way the host Chris Cavas asks questions. He doesn’t ask questions so much as he rambles incessantly for 4-5 minutes at a time and then ends with something like “what are your thoughts.” Listening to this interview approach is intensely aggravating and I often find myself wanting to skip through his rambling just to get to whatever the quest has to say on the matter. Chris Cavas has been around awhile, he should be better than this.

This one is a keeper.