Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by LaikaF » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

- The Dollop -- Comedic American History

- Omnnibus -- Pop culture minutiae with that guy who's good at Jeopardy

- Mission to Zyxx -- Improve scifi comedy

Occasionals/not currently airing: - Mystery Show -- solves a mystery they can't google while being very spunky

- Revisionist History -- Uses history to make a point

- Alice Isn't Dead -- Hard to describe. Best listened to in a car at night

- Darknet Diarier -- Old hacking stories

- Hardcore History -- Very long engaging history stories

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by alecco » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 5:33 PM UTC

Philosophize This! (But beware of extreme postmodernism in later episodes)

The Productivity Show

Found My Fitness

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by Dowwie » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

  - EconTalk
  - Waking Up, with Sam Harris
  - On the Media
  - LSE Talks

The London School of Economics is one of the few prestigious schools who doesn't hoard their speaker series events.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by joezydeco » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 5:51 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #13

Planet Money just turned 10 years old and in that time I haven't found a podcast that has been more consistently informative and entertaining. Some recent highlights: - P is for Phosphorus https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor... - How the Social Security Number Became our National Identification https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/03/14/593620579/epis... - The Poop Cartel: https://www.npr.…

Planet Money was invaluable in understanding what was happening during the 2008 financial meltdown. They were creating new episodes nearly every other day to explain the next domino that was falling.

Since then they've done a nice pivot into using that style to explain other gears in the global economy. The series about making a T-shirt, for example, was excellent.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by hikhvar » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

Mostly german podcasts with focus on science and comedy.

English podcasts:

- omega tau - science and engineering (http://omegataupodcast.net/) now ten years old. Realy good mixed bag of topics. They interview people who know stuff or have done stuff. Last 4 topics were:

   292 – Gene Editing with CRISPR/Cas 

   291 – Flying in the Papuan Bush

   289 – Music Production at Sandlane Studios

   288 – Flight Research at NASA Armstrong, Part 3: Historic

German podcasts

- Methodisch Inkorrekt ( https://minkorrekt.de ) Review of 4 new science papers from all research subjects

- Kohlenpod (https://kohlenpod.de ) Germany is closing down all black coal mines this year. This podcast releases one episode every sunday until the end of the year and discusses the history of black coal in germany. He started with the Episode 52 and count towards 0.

- Chaos Radio Express ( https://cre.fm ) Weekly radio show with guests from the chaos computer club. Mostly tech related. Since this is also a public radio broadcast show, it tries to explain tech topics to non-tech people.

- Omega tau ( its mixed german and english)

- Kack und Sachgeschichten (http://www.kackundsachgeschichten.de ) Discussing movies and series.

- Alternativlos ( also mixed german/english depends on the guest ) ( https://alternativlos.org/ ) Politics. Not day-to-day politics but the "big pictures".

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by jkmcf » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

Active Podcasts:

- Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories & Hardcore History Addendum

- The Art of Manliness (i.e., everything I wish I knew as a teen, not specifically for men, mostly author interviews)

- History Extra Podcast (focussed on British history)

- Stoic Meditations

- The British History Podcast

- The Economist: Babbage (science news)

- Mike Duncan's Revolutions (deep dives on select revolutions since 1600)

- The World in Time / Lapham's Quarterly (great author interviews)

"Finished" podcasts:

- Mike Duncan's The History of Rome

- Lars Brownworth's Norman Centuries

- Lars Brownworth's 12 Byzantine Emperors

- Jamie Redfern's Hannibal and the Punic Wars

- Jamie Redfern's The History of Alexander the Great

- Tony Cocks' Binge Thinking History

- The Ancient World

- The History of the World in 100 Objects

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by bitVelocity » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 7:34 PM UTC

Jocko Podcast - never missed one.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by daneyh » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

gjstein wrote: post #26

Perhaps not quite what the OP is looking for, but I use podcasts mostly for music consumption. My favorite (for quite a while now) is The Anjunadeep Edition [1], which delivers a 1 hour continuously-mixed "deep" (often programming-friendly) electronic music every week. I'd be curious to hear what other music podcasts HN recommends. [1] Here's a recent episode I enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chn4SZWnJbc

Yes!

Out of the more recent episodes 201-David Hohme & 206-Modd were top quality.

If you enjoy Anjunadeep then I think you will also like 'When We Dip' , Canopy Sounds and Magician on Duty podcasts. They really go well with the anjunadeep style although I would say is more laid back then Anjunadeep (which has an at times housier/trancier vibe).

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by poke111 » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 8:02 PM UTC

anonu wrote: post #79

I'm an "ETF Guy" so I listen to a lot of the wonky ETF and Finance-related podcasts: - Behind the Markets with Jeremy Schwartz - Invest like the Best - with O'Shaughnessy - not just finance stuff. example: Recent podcast on "Tracking" wild animals in the bush was great. - The Curious Investor - AQR's new Podcast on financial factors and the like - The Meb Faber Show - Meb Faber runs a fund and has interesting guests…

If you're looking for something on the right - Ricochet has a number of excellent podcasts. They are trying to be like the NPR of the center right.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by aoctavio » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

webjac wrote: post #96

If you speak spanish and want a fun podcast about tech insights, pop culture, philosophy and overthought analysis on simple things I love listening to Robot: https://revistaelrobot.com It's fun, entertaining, they have over 170 episodes and more than 3 years running on a weekly basis. Really enjoyable.

IDK. I have listen to each of the 172 episodes so far several times each... yes, there are enjoyable moments, but some of the hosts are weird and a little politically incorrect. Just my opinion.