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Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?
My podcast listening dropped off a cliff when suddenly I no longer had a commute a few years back. Recently I've been interested in finding new shows -- daunting task, better to ask!
What are y'all listening to on the tech and general interest side?
- purpleblue 3y agoJoe Rogan Experience is the best podcast that I listen to. It has a wide variety of guests and topics, from regular politics to Neil deGrasse Tyson to Elon Musk to Bernie Sanders to aliens to psychedelic drugs to anti-mRNA vaccines. Joe Rogan is also an excellent interviewer because he asks questions without an agenda.
- icepat 3y agoI'm curious where you see that he asks questions without an agenda. Do you not feel that in several of his discussions (ie: Sanjay Gupta) he tends to ask questions indicating a very clear one? And regarding his choices of guests, do you think perhaps there's a bias towards more fringe beliefs?
- psychlops 3y agoNobody would listen to a podcast that only had mainstream guests describing their non-fringe ideas. His primary choice of guests are MMA fighters and comedians which one might safely describe as a fringe professions.
- vidyesh 3y agoHe has stated clearly that he invites guests based on what he is interested in at that moment or that phase of his life. So yes, sometimes some weeks the guests are very biased and towards a certain kind of beliefs, some(experts) are just his friends now at this point who like the platform he gives so millions(?) would listen. I am not going argue he asks the best questions but you can often see that the way he is not an expert but a knowledge seeker, the guests are free to speak what they want and leads to interesting discussions. His personal knowledge is limited to his curiosity and interest but when the guest starts speaking of topics he isn't aware of he keeps asking good questions which are vague most of the time. I do not listen to all episodes but only when the guests are interesting and/or the topics they cover are interesting or very new to me.
- icepat 3y agoDo you consider the approach he takes to "seek knowledge" is perhaps tainted by bias? For example, the information he seeks out, he may seek out in a way that confirms his pre-existing biases rather than seeking to test them? For example, his reliance on VAERS reports when talking about vaccines.
- purpleblue 3y agoHe's a human being, not a robot. He's trying the best he can and he's being completely honest about it. I'm not sure what you're expecting from him, but he's not perfect nor does he claim to ever be. He's trying to be honest and open-minded more than anyone else in media so I appreciate that immensely. Are you saying the VAERS reports are useless or biased?
- icepat 3y agoThey're unverified, and unreliable: https://theconversation.com/unverified-reports-of-vaccine-side-effects-in-vaers-arent-the-smoking-guns-portrayed-by-right-wing-media-outlets-they-can-offer-insight-into-vaccine-hesitancy-166401 https://theconversation.com/unverified-reports-of-vaccine-si...
- purpleblue 3y agoAh, okay so we shouldn't bother with checking VAERS anymore. Got it.
- icepat 3y agoEssentially yes, as laymen VARES is useless. VARES reports are useful for scientist to identify things to study. The useful data comes out of the peer reviewed studies that the VARES report spawn, not the reports themselves. They're simply datapoints that need to be taken in conjunction with the rest of the inputs to the study and you can not extract meaningful conclusions from them alone. They're as useful as looking at only 1-star product reviews that don't even verify the submitter owns the product. John's Hopkins has a good overview of their intended use: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/what-vaers-is-and-isnt https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/what-vaers-is-and-isnt > Moreover, the CDC and FDA do not restrict what people can report, as long as it happened at some point following a vaccination. That means events that happen even years later and have no obvious connection to a vaccine, such as feelings of anger, end up reported in the system
- purpleblue 3y agoI guess it depends on what the definition of "without an agenda" means. He has opinions, some of them very strong, but he doesn't bring someone on to push an agenda that he wants to publicize. He has people on that he wants to have a genuine discussion with. And he's not beholden to any particular ones and is willing to have an open-minded debate or discussion. With Sanjay Gupta, he brought him on so that he could have a debate about the COVID vaccine, and Gupta conceded many points that Rogan made. He never has "gotcha" questions like many journalists, and I believe it's an entirely honest discussion with all of his guests. For example, he has had hard-core pro-Palestinian journalists like Abby Martin, and very pro-Israeli talk show hosts like Ben Shapiro. He's had politicians from all sides of the spectrum. He is more than willing to have people debate the COVID policies and vaccines but no one takes him up on his offer, like Peter Hotez. He has some independent journalists like Alex Berenson who is very much against the legalization of cannabis, something that Rogan uses often. In terms of "fringe beliefs", what do you mean? I like the fact that he has a variety of topics, some of them absurd, like aliens. Not everything has to be serious.
- psychlops 3y agoFunny how you get downvoted, not because you are wrong but because people don't like your opinion. Joe Rogan is the most successful podcast ever made. He is doing it all right.
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- agonz253 3y ago> most successful podcast ever made. What's that Schopenhauer quote, "he who writes for fools will always find a large audience". I suppose the same can apply to podcasts.
- psychlops 3y agoThat's why I write for as small an audience as possible. This comment is just for you agonz253.
- germanattanasio 3y agohahahaha this comment made my day
- zerojames 3y agoThis Week in Google is my favourite podcast (they don't talk too much about Google though, a recurring theme they mention in the show). They have a great panel: a reporter from Wired, a journalism professor and author, a photographer (who is also the network community manager), Leo (who hosts the show) and a rotating set of guests. I am interested in every show they produce. This Week in Tech is also great, but I prefer the TWiG panel :)
- jackthetab 3y agoLogged in just to say that same thing.
- kstrauser 3y ago“Roderick on the Line” sounds like my friends sitting around and talking about everything imaginable.
- digitalsushi 3y agoMy anti-answer is that podcasts have been making me sad (cause they are usually just the news, for me), and I've been listening to my late 90's late-teenager playlists on my commute to unspool my day, and force myself to remember nostalgic times and try to cope with everything. Basically using nostalgic music as a cheap drug.
- billywnyc 3y ago"60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (there are more than 60...)
- kelseyfrog 3y agoIf Books Could Kill The Secret History of Western Esotericism Astral Codex Ten(ty solenoid entity) Stanford Psychology Les Nuits De France Culture I get enough tech here. These are for making me a more well-rounded individual. Note: I'd love to get an entire set of medschool lectures as a podcast - does this exist?
- rounakdatta 3y agoBeen listening to Hardcore History recently - very very intriguing. Also, am a fan of a new video podcast by Amit Varma & Ajay Shah called [Everything is Everything](https://www.youtube.com/@amitvarma/featured https://www.youtube.com/@amitvarma/featured). Note that latter can be a bit India-focussed at times.
- miiiiiike 3y agoThe ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id201853034 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id201671138 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id1614253637 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-learn-about-con-law/id1242537529 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/99-invisible/id394775318 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/99-invisible/id3947753... Articles of Interest: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/articles-of-interest/id1455169228 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/articles-of-interest/i... The Problem With Jon Stewart: The Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-problem-with-jon-stewart/id1583132133 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-problem-with-jon-s... More Perfect: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-perfect/id1117202653 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-perfect/id1117202... Planet Money: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834... Science Vs: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/science-vs/id1051557000 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/science-vs/id105155700... Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-friend/id1438054347 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... The Indicator: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-indicator-from-planet-money/id1320118593 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-indicator-from-pla... Criminal: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criminal/id809264944 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criminal/id809264944 Imaginary Worlds: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imaginary-worlds/id916273527 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imaginary-worlds/id916... Fly On The Wall: https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/fly-on-the-wall-with-dana-carvey-and-david-spade/id1603639502 https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/fly-on-the-wall-with-d... WTF: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast/id329875043 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtf-with-marc-maron-po... Spellburn: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spellburn/id661011349 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spellburn/id661011349 Heavyweight: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/heavyweight/id1150800298 https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/heavyweight/id11508002... Sometimes: Decoder: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-patel/id1011668648 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-pat... Dozens that I listen to occasionally.
- slipperlobster 3y agoI listen to a few podcasts focused on US politics: David Pakman (has a finance background, very level-headed in his viewpoints): https://davidpakman.com/ https://davidpakman.com/ I Doubt It: https://dollemore.com/ https://dollemore.com/ I also listen to non-politics stuff: Factually: https://www.adamconover.net/ https://www.adamconover.net/ Dumb Dad Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dumb-dad-podcast/id1464774523 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dumb-dad-podcast/id146...
- TheAceOfHearts 3y agoI like David Pakman but feel like this type of political content needs to be consumed in far greater moderation and not on a daily basis. People that cover politics tend to hijack your brain with a lot of inconsequential events and information. A good metric for me is probably something like: is this going to be important or relevant in a few weeks? David Pakman had a podcast episode with Lex Fridman and even he recommends that you treat him as a small part of your media diet.
- slipperlobster 3y agoAbsolutely agreed (and I do follow that advice). I throw this stuff on in the car when I'm dropping off the kid at school. Still good to know what's going on day-to-day, albeit a bit more micro-level than not.
- Cenk 3y agoAccidental Tech Podcast: https://atp.fm https://atp.fm
- daniel_reetz 3y agoFor curious hacker types interested in aerospace, infrastructure, and the history of computing, I HIGHLY recommend Omega Tau Podcast . For computing nerds, check out, for example, Episode 248. For flight nerds, Episode 91, for infrastructure nerds, Episode 146. http://omegataupodcast.net/ http://omegataupodcast.net/
- surprisetalk 3y agoI maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the past: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin American Innovations Brains Cautionary Tales Chemistry for Your Life Dear Hank & Jon Deep Questions with Cal Newport Endless Thread Everything is Alive Experimental History Freakanomics Harmontown Hey Riddle Riddle The Joy of Why Land by Hand Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr More Perfect Patented: History of Inventions The Permaculture Podcast The Peter Attia Drive Planet Money Reasonably Sound Reconcilable Differences Reply All Revisionist History The Strong Towns Podcast Stuff You Should Know The Tim Ferriss Show Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson Twenty Thousand Hertz Support these cool tech podcasts produced by my friends: devtools.fm The Changelog Elm Town Future of Coding Hest Software Unscripted TODEPOND PODCAST
- huevosabio 3y agoHH and Conversations with Tyler are both great, will check out some of your other recommendations. For history, the Fall of Civilizations Podcast is also fantastic.
- withzombies 3y agoArticles of Interest is _so_ good. It's a great take on the 99% Invisible "design of everyday things". I was definitely blind to clothing and textiles and Articles of Interest is really enlightening. You may enjoy Search Engine by PJ Vogt[1], it's really well done. Its the quality of the original Gimlet Podcasts and a bit different than his previous show (Reply All). [1] https://pjvogt.substack.com https://pjvogt.substack.com
- celeritascelery 3y agoSome of my favorite technical podcasts Oxide and friends: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends On the metal: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal Handmade network: https://handmade.network/podcast https://handmade.network/podcast Signals & threads: https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/ https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/
- d1str0 3y agoThe Adventure Zone is my all time favorite podcast. 3 brothers and their dad playing DnD but they don’t take the rules as seriously as many other actual-play podcasts. The Critshow is another great one.
- thepablohansen 3y agoI'm an avid consumer of podcasts. Here are my recommendations Interviews - Sam Harriss - Sean Carrol - Lex Fridman - Possible (Reid Hoffman) - Manifold Lifestyle/Thoughts - 80k hours - Hackers Incorporated - Startup Therapy "Creator Economy" - Colin and Samir - Media Empires - The Editing Podcast - Creator Science (Tech) News - The Journal - Hard Fork Investing/Business - Art of Investing - Acquired
- dpbriggs 3y agoThe only one I listen to consistently is the Rational Reminder podcast.
- IanCal 3y agoLost Terminal is wonderful as a story. The way things are revealed and the calm tones really elevate it. I don't want to spoil anything I'd just very strongly recommend it. Seems there's text YouTube videos but it's also a regular podcast. https://lostterminal.com/ https://lostterminal.com/ It's also short, 5 mins each I think for the first series and 10 for the later ones.
- ilikecakeandpie 3y agoMy recommendations are general, really don't have anything to do with tech: No Such Thing as a Fish The Dollop We're Here To Help We Can Be Weirdos Off Menu
- andy_xor_andrew 3y agoI'll be the weirdo and admit... I enjoy true crime podcasts. But!!! But... I don't like the mindless exploitative stuff (which is unfortunately 95% of it). I like the hard-cutting journalism stuff. My favorite 3 are Swindled, Court Junkie ('Court', not 'Crime'), and In the Dark. Swindled is a dry recounting of white-collar crimes. Funny and informative and kinda scary. Court Junkie focuses not on the crimes, but on the court cases, and is 75% real audio from the courtroom, with additional narration by the host. And In the Dark is maybe the most gut-wrenching of them all, especially season 2. This podcast uncovered evidence in a wrongful conviction that ended up going all the way to the supreme court. This one is true door-to-door journalism - literally knocking on the doors of homes in a small rural Mississippi town to ask what people remember about a crime from decades ago, and ultimately taking down a corrupt district attorney. Just amazing.
- kayge 3y agoFor anyone interested in an intersection of True Crime and Tech/Hacking, you should definitely check out Darknet Diaries: "true stories from the dark side of the internet". The host, Jack Rhysider, has been at it for a couple of years+ now and continues to refine his story collection & fact-checking processes, all while steadily improving production value.
- kstrauser 3y agoI love Darknet Diaries. And along those lines, Malicious Life is really good.
- jonnyreiss 3y agoThe Stuxnet Episode (https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/29/ https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/29/) is one of my favorites
- aktenlage 3y agoOn the technical side, I love CoRecursive, enjoy Soft Skills Engineering, and recently started listening to Latent Space, which I also like so far.
- FanaHOVA 3y agoLet me know if you have any feedback on Latent Space :)
- aktenlage 3y agoI didn't hear many episodes yet. Jeremy Howard was just awesome, I love that guy. The episode with Michael Royzen was so full of jargon that I often couldn't follow and didn't finish it (yet?), even though I am really interested.
- mbork_pl 3y agoNo longer active, but the archives of "The dice tower" gave me lots of joy back in the day (until they changed the format - around 2017, I guess - I liked the previous one better).
- houseatrielah 3y agoBankless is an Ethereum podcast. Below is an interesting episode. 120 - Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of a16z | Reinventing the Internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXHITeaGB8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXHITeaGB8Q
- patapong 3y agoMine is scriptnotes: https://johnaugust.com/scriptnotes https://johnaugust.com/scriptnotes Two well-known scriptwriters (John August, behind e.g. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Craig Mazin, behind Chernobyl and The Last of Us (HBO)) discuss screenwriting and the movie industry. They have great guests as well - most recently Neil Gaiman for example. They are very interesting to listen to, and give great insight into the different aspects of screenwriting. At the same time, it is different enough from tech where it does not feel like work, while I still learn fascinating stuff.
- wenbin 3y agohere’s my playlist (6000+ episodes) https://www.listennotes.com/playlists/wenbin-fangs-podcast-playlist-kr3-ta28cJu/episodes/ https://www.listennotes.com/playlists/wenbin-fangs-podcast-p... focused on individual episodes, no podcast subscriptions.
- flarion 3y agoNo Priors (AI/VC) The Revenue Formula (RevOps) Saastr (SaaS) Twenty Minute VC (20VC) FT Tech Tonic Looking for good ones about biotech / immunology / longevity.
- Ajay-p 3y agoI love the podcast Lore by Aaron Mahnke. It is very pleasing and easy to listen to. I also listen to American Scandal, Business Wars, and American History Tellers. The Wondery network has some really engaging content.
- jcpst 3y agoHuberman Lab Osterholm Update TapeOp Podcast The Canadian Bushcraft Podcast The Working Songwriter How to build a sustainable music career and collect all revenue streams
- thaddeusmt 3y agoA few tech and Python specific podcasts I've been listening to while I do dishes: The Real Python Podcast Talk Python To Me Software Engineering Radio Maintainable
- kennethologist 3y agoLex Fridman Huberman Podcast Stratechery My First Million All In Pod PG Essays The Knowledge Project Not Investment Advice The Tim Ferris Show
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoDoug Stanhope
- chrisrickard 3y agoI only really listen to Latent Space, really good pod on AI/Gen AI/ AI Engineering.
- FanaHOVA 3y agoThank you :)
- xbpx 3y agoPolitics: Know Your Enemy, The Dig About movies (and politics): Michael & Us, Unclear and Present Danger Tech: Oxide and Friends, Twenty Thousand Hz Science: Nature Podcast, Quanta Magazine Podcast
- lukas099 3y agoC-SPAN's Bookshelf feed for long author interviews of new nonfiction books. I find this a good way to get the distilled essence of a book without the time commitment. [1] https://www.c-span.org/podcasts/subpage/?series=bookshelf https://www.c-span.org/podcasts/subpage/?series=bookshelf
- joewferrara 3y agoI enjoy Sharp Tech (Stratechery’s podcast), though unfortunately it’s mostly paywalled but has free episodes. It’s good for the business side of big tech and the two people on it, Ben Thompson and Andrew Sharp keep it pretty light and fun, which is nice because business stuff can be dry as hell.
- mikewarot 3y agoIt turns out too many of them are hosted on YouTube, so my listening habits will have to change. Hello Internet Cortex The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens The Amp Hour Podcast Beau of the Fifth Column Peter Zeihan The Business of Machining The Wee Scone Variety Show Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman Dark Horse with Bret Weinstein The Portal with Eric Weinstein Joe Rogan (if he's got a good guest) The Anthropocene Reviewed
- throwaway167 3y agoFT Daily Briefing.
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- t-3 3y agoA few I don't think I've mentioned before: Nuntii in Lingua Latina - headlines in Latin and the original languages Cato Daily podcast - very high quality and in-depth discussion
- ebb_earl_co 3y agoThe only podcast I make sure to keep up with is Making Sense with Sam Harris [0] [0] https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes
- BasilPH 3y ago- Seldon Crisis: I know the host Joel personally, and he's such a great guy. The embodiment of software professionals being creatives. - Volts by David Roberts: Interesting by itself, but makes me less pessimistic about the climate crisis. He talks to a lot of fascinating entrepreneurs, usually working with "hardware", which as a software engineer always feels like magic to me. - 13 Minutes to the Moon: Blew me away, and it's relatively quick listen. It's a detailed retelling of the moon landing with original audio. - Dolly Parton's America: Also a limited series. Goes into why Dolly Parton is such a cultural icon. Learned a lot about the US. I'm professionally interested in podcasts since my company provides transcription services. We're launching a free magazine of podcast transcripts. If you enjoy knowledge-dense podcasts, feel free to suggest your favorites for transcription: https://withfanfare.com/podread/ https://withfanfare.com/podread/
- darrylb42 3y ago- CanadaLand - Behind the tech with Kevin Scott - Childish - Dev interrupted - Doug Loves Movies - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - The HanselMinutes Podcast - Law Bytes - Maintainable - StackOverflow podcast - Midnight Local - Newcomer
- Koealaquillage 3y agoWell, some of those are in french, other in spanish and some in english: - L'apéro du Captain (french, comedy/news) - 2 heures de perdues (french, comedy/movies) - El hilo (spanish, latin american news) - Las noches de Ortega (spanish, character comedy) - Podcast Science (french, science) - My Dad Wrote a Porno (english, comedy) - Planet Money (english, economy) - Histoire du Monde (french, locked-in on France Inter application, news) - RadioLab (english, news/investigation) - Freakonomics (english, news/economy) - How I built This (english, company building) - Gastropod (english, food)
- i_don_t_know 3y agoI'm listening to and enjoying the German Rugby podcast "Die Eierköpfe - Der Rugby Podcast".
- TheAceOfHearts 3y agoI keep track of Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan's podcast releases and listen to em when the guest seems interesting. I've listened to some episodes of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal when he has interesting guests on. For example he recently did two podcasts with Joscha Bach who is always a really creative guy to hear from. Also learned about Machine Learning Street Talk because Joscha Bach was a guest on there and he was promoting his appearance. Godbolt, the guy that made Compiler Explorer, also had a few podcast episodes which I enjoyed. Someone already mentioned it, but Conversations with Tyler can be really good as well. He did a podcast with Paul Graham which HN readers might enjoy.
- guhcampos 3y agoA few I haven't seen on the list, by looking at my recent listens. I'm not saying all of them are good, I'll often listen to podcasts as background noise, so don't take this as sanctioning or recommentations: - Science Vs (science) - Freakonomics Radio (curiosities) - If Books Could Kill (politics I guess) - The Atlas Obscura Podcast (curiosities) - Robinson's Podcast (philosophy of science) - Twenty Thousand Hertz (sound engineering) - Tiny Matters (science) - Unexplainable (curiosities) - Talk Python to Me (programming) - Decoder Ring (curiosities) - Ologies with Alie Ward (science, most of the time) - Sawbones (medical science) - Skeptoid (curiosities) - SciShow Tangents (science) - In Defense of Plants (... plants?) - You're Wrong About (curiosities) - No Stupid Questions (psychology) - Hidden Brain (Psychology) - Radiolab (curiosities) - Overthink (philosophy) - Philosophize This! (Philosophy) Plus a whole bunch of Brazilian Portuguese shows, too.
- Koealaquillage 3y agoTech: None really Comedy: - L'apero du Captain (french, discussion about tech news and general news, and other less reputable things) - Deux heures de perdues (french, movies spoils with critics) - Las noches de Ortega (castellano, character impersonating and improbable stories) - My Dad Wrote a Porno (english, porn book spoil and critics) Science: - Podcast Science (french, everything is in the name) - PlanetGeo (english, condensed lecture about geoscience topics) - ScienceDiction (english, links an actual word with an often suprising scientific stories) - Undiscovered (english, stories about scientific discoveries, how they happened and in which context. I think it is the best thing ever produced by human beings. But I may be partial) History: - Culture 2000 (french, summary about a theme by four teachers who have tried to study it during the last two weeks) - Beyond Huaxia (english, history and cultural development of far-east asia with a strong accent of the territory that is today China) News: - El hilo (spanish, south-american news) - Histoires du monde (french, locked-in on France Inter app, short summary of a world event) Economy: - Planet Money/The Indicator (english, general economy podcasts covering the news or an economic concept. The second is shorter and more nerdy) - Freakonomics (english, behavioral economy. The recent episodes are less interesting and consist more often in interviews of people linked with the political world. It is made by one of the author of the books of the same name)
- voisin 3y agoRich Roll
- billbrown 3y agoThe best interviewer I've found is Peter Robinson for his Hoover Institution podcast "Uncommon Knowledge." He's got great guests and really elicits great answers. (He was a speechwriter for Reagan and the one that wrote his "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech.) The best investing podcast I've found is "The Week Ahead" by Complete Intelligence. I look forward to it every weekend for its variety of guests and subjects. Patrick O'Shaughnessy's "Invest Like the Best" podcast has a good variety of guests and he asks incisive and insightful questions. National Review's "The McCarthy Report" has astute legal analysis from a former U.S. Attorney. Institute for Justice's mutli-season exploration of the 14th Amendment "Bound by Oath" is well-produced, outrage-inducing, and fascinating. "Breaking News" is a new podcast by Ben Hunt (of Epsilon Theory fame) that explores the news' nudges and narratives.
- epiccoleman 3y agoGeneral interest - my favorite is Very Bad Wizards. The two hosts are university professors in psychology and philosophy. They cover all kinds of different things - usually some piece of media like a book or movie, where they will sort of analyze it deeply and just generally chat about it. They'll also often cover a silly or interesting philosophy or psychology paper as an opening segment. They're just fun to listen to. They hardly ever touch anything political which is very refreshing. For their Patreon supporters they have also been going episode-by-episode through Deadwood, which I watched because of their coverage and think is one of the greatest TV shows ever made. Their analysis of each episode really enhanced my experience of the series. (They just finished covering the second season, so one more to go). I also enjoy Sam Harris's podcast, been listening to him for years now. I don't listen to every single one, but he has some pretty interesting guests sometimes. I like his general "theme" of being interested in the mind, meditation, psychedelics, and also just what's going on in the world. Obviously gets much more political but not the exclusive focus of his pod. Last, I like the Fifth Column a lot, which is an explicitly political podcast covering current events - they tend to lean a little more right than me but the overall bent of show is sorta centrist/libertarian and I think they do a pretty good job of lambasting both sides of the aisle. I listen to a few others at varying frequencies. One other standout I'd mention is Knifepoint Horror, which releases a 20-60 minute horror story about once a month. The guy behind it has a pretty unique and interesting approach to horror fiction and I can't think of a single one I didn't enjoy.
- jonah 3y agoWe've been listening to a lot of Hidden Brain lately. If you're in the PNW or interested in that area the Timber Wars series is a must listen.
- flarion 3y agoWhat episodes do you recommend from Hidden Brain?
- bennathanson 3y agoMy top three would have to be Empire, Conversations with Tyler, and Fresh Air (if the guest is interesting).
- freefaler 3y agoWhat works for me best is not only to subscribe to a particular podcast but use "search-based" RSS feeds to track particular guests. On my Android phone "Podcast Addict" app can use search to create feeds based on keywords. So I put names of guests I found interesting and when they go to a new podcast it finds that episode.
- xattt 3y agoSpecific to Ontario and, to a lesser extent, Canada: The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
- el_don_almighty 3y agotimesuck by Dan Cummins The absolute best for long format (2.5 hrs) breakdown of mystery, murder, history, comedy, and other amazing stories told by a wickedly intelligent host with a strong sense of comedic irony. Every episode gets me through my Saturday chores with laughter, amazement, and the occasional onset of 'sudden allergy syndrome' aka tears. Nimrod is pleased https://timesuckpodcast.com/ https://timesuckpodcast.com/
- areichert 3y agoThis might be a slightly more difficult question to answer, but instead of people listing the podcasts they like, I'd love to hear which podcast episodes in particular people would recommend? Otherwise, as interesting as this thread is to read through, the amount of recommendations here is a bit overwhelming :P
- UtopiaPunk 3y agoFor news, I like "Today Explained" by Vox Media. Episodes are about 25 minutes long. Each episode they dig into a single issue for the entire episode. Sometimes they will discuss some aspect of a hot button issue (there's a few recent episodes on the Israel/Palestine/Hamas conflict), but sometimes they'll talk about other interesting topics too. A couple of recent examples are the 50 year history of hip-hop, or how some healthcare services or moving into stores like Dollar General. Another podcast I like a lot is Maintenance Phase. It's basically about debunking ideas on health and nutrition. Has US-centric angle, it's well-researched, the format is pretty loose and conversational, and the hosts are pretty fun. Probably a love it or hate it kind of podcast.
- stranded22 3y agoI have found a new podcast to listen to - Paper Cuts. They summarise the UK newspapers each weekday at midday. I’ve listened for 2-3 weeks and love it. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/paper-cuts/id1689798044 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/paper-cuts/id168979804...
- kseifried 3y agoI listen to the #osspodcast Open Source Security Podcast. It cured my baldness and also is a great additive to soups and milkshakes. https://opensourcesecuritypodcast.com/ https://opensourcesecuritypodcast.com/ I was not paid to post this message. This is a totally organic high quality review! Seriously though, I wasn't paid, we do this for free.
- rickoooooo 3y agoYour podcast is in my rotation of infosec podcasts along with: darknet diaries malicious life Application security podcast hacked privacy security and osint show Day[0] shared security I've been enjoying it. Thanks for putting it out there!
- smitty1e 3y agoThe Futility Closet is a chef's kiss: https://www.futilitycloset.com/ https://www.futilitycloset.com/
- groovybits 3y agoOne show I always catch every week: Security Now https://twit.tv/shows/security-now https://twit.tv/shows/security-now
- bbyford 3y agoAI or game dev stuff mostly: - machine ethics podcast - future of life institute - infinite monkey cage - Lex Fridman - Designer notes - game makers noteboook - three moves ahead
- chalsprhebaodu 3y agoI only regularly listen to comedy podcasts. - Threedom: Funny people Scott Aukerman, Lauren Lapkus, Paul F. Tompkins talk and play improv games - Hey Riddle Riddle: Chicago improvisers Adal Rifai, Erin Keif, and JPC try to solve riddles and then do improv scenes tangentially related to them - Doughboys: Funny people Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell and usually a guest review chain restaurants in America - Scott Hasn’t Seen: Comedan Shaun Diston and deranged human being Scott Aukerman and a guest watch and talk about one of the many movies Scott somehow has never seen.
- FeloniousHam 3y agoMonster Man[0] - Medieval studies professor does a gentle deconstruction of all the monster entries in the classic D&D Monster Manuals. Short and delightful, if you are (or ever were) inclined toward RPGs. [0] https://www.patreon.com/monsterman https://www.patreon.com/monsterman