Russ Robert's Econtalk podcast is fantastic. He brings on all sorts of authors and discusses their books, challenges their theories, gets challenged back. He'

Russ Robert's Econtalk podcast is fantastic. He brings on all sorts of authors and discusses their books, challenges their theories, gets challenged back. He's had Michael Pollen on about psychedelics and I thought he was pretty fair and engaged considering he's a conservative Jewish guy in his 60's that leans more right than left (though with libertarian beliefs, but mostly economic ones). It's a very academic podcast (Russ is an economics professor at the Hoover Institute), but his podcasts on the financial crisis (I think there are over a dozen) are really good if you want to understand how all the stuff works under the hood. He had former heads of the Fed on, numerous professors who are globally recognized as monetary experts, etc. And the podcast archives go back to like 2006.