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Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

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Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

#51

Dwarkesh - AI + some history Lex = AI + some history Dishcast - politics + books Sam Harris - everything All In - tech news Tyler Cowen - random good shows Pirate Wires - news (coming back I heard) Joe Rogan - famous interesting guests at least once a month Ben Shapiro - if you want to hear the opposite of what you're reading in the NYT (Surgey Brin approved)

why am i being downvoted lol ?

Because you mentioned Rogan and especially Shapiro without distancing yourself from them. Good for you and let the knee-jerk downvoters knee-jerk themselves to oblivion.

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

#52
The Koerner Office[0]. I have a lot to learn about all facets of business and Chris does a good job of keeping things practical and simple. The episode about hummingbird food[1] in particular blew my mind.

The Wookash Podcast[2]. Some of the best technical programming conversations I've heard in recent years.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcFBcfrmC2k

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/@WookashPodcast

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

#53

The SGU. There is only one podcast that I always come back to! https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts

Certainly one of the few podcasts that I've stuck with. I think I started about 15+ years ago, and I know it was running for a while before that. Can't say every episode is great (not a fan of the live shows) or every segment is great (what's that noisy), but you can't beat it for it's consistency and general interest.

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

#54

Most of my podcasts are movie related. If I had to purge them all and start with just 5 though I would go with. Blank Check The Flophouse 99% Invisible Cautionary Tales The Rewatchables I maintain The Flophouse is the funniest podcast around.

Have you tried How Did This Get Made? I've enjoyed these shows, sometimes live, immensely. They celebrate the worst movies ever made, hilariously.

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

why am i being downvoted lol ?

Because you mentioned Rogan and especially Shapiro without distancing yourself from them. Good for you and let the knee-jerk downvoters knee-jerk themselves to oblivion.

Just because you listen to them doesn't mean you agree with everything they say -- I listen to Ezra Klein too and read Slow Boring, even though I disagree with almost everything they publish.

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

#58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you mentioned Rogan and especially Shapiro without distancing yourself from them. Good for you and let the knee-jerk downvoters knee-jerk themselves to oblivion.

Just because you listen to them doesn't mean you agree with everything they say -- I listen to Ezra Klein too and read Slow Boring, even though I disagree with almost everything they publish.

Of course not, it would be strange to agree with everything anyone says. I listen to Shapiro and his Daily Wire brethern even though I hardly agree with everything they say and consider most of them to be far too eager with the God hammer - Shapiro is one of the better ones in that respect, probably because Judaism doesn't proselytise - mostly because I want to get their perspective as a counterweight to the mostly 'progressive' news media. If I agreed with everything they or the 'progressive' media said I would not need to listen to or read what they produce because I already agree.

As to the downvoted list I agree with some - Friedman, Rogan, Shapiro - but I just can't listen to Sam Harris any more due to his extreme TDS and his inability to recognise when he has been wrong on something - the SARS2 unpleasantness being an example of such. He was an interesting part of the 'intellectual dark web' which was a much-needed counter to the mentioned 'progressive' narrative pushed by the media but he went off the rails first when Trump became president for the first time and later when SARS2 hit. For news I'd add the Spiked podcast and the Brendan O'Neill show for some UK perspective, Aron Flam's 'Dekonstruktiv Kritik' (in Swedish) as a counter to the 'progressive' Swedish state broadcasters Sveriges TV and Sveriges Radio (they call themselves 'independent' but that is a flagrant lie) and the 'progressive' print/web media. Listen to and read both those 'progressive' outlets as well as some of the mentioned counterparts to gain a wider perspective on what actually happens in the world.

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

#59
I have really been enjoying the early Jordan Peterson Podcast episodes. They are good for the soul. Unfortunately, I listened to a couple of the latest ones and they seem much more angry and less nourishing; this may have been a fluke though.

Starting Strength Radio, though no longer produced, is usually a good listen as well for humor and gym-related topics.

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