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 ?
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#52The Wookash Podcast[2]. Some of the best technical programming conversations I've heard in recent years.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice
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#53The SGU. There is only one podcast that I always come back to! https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts
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#54Most 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.
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#56Earlier 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.
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#58Earlier 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.
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.
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#59Starting Strength Radio, though no longer produced, is usually a good listen as well for humor and gym-related topics.
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#60Scamfluencers
Business Wars
The Social Radars
Big Technology Podcast