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Re: Ask HN: What podcast has been most influential on your life?

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Joe Rogan definately. Not even a competition. The long format with interesting people is hard to beat. I love how he doesn't try and smear people when he does the interviews. Of course, I don't listen to every episode but he releases them so often so there is always something interesting to hear about. Joe Rogan is how journalists should be like.

His approach is very commendable. He listens, pulls people up when they say things that need further explination or sourcing and has a wide range of guests. He takes a lot of flak about being "right-wing" or missing things every now and then but I think he honestly tries to do a good a job of getting objective, fact based interesting topics covered by experts or "famous faces"

> He takes a lot of flak about being "right-wing"...

Except Joe Rogan isn't "right-wing" at all. He's very much a "left-leaning centrist".

Re: Ask HN: What podcast has been most influential on your life?

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https://samharris.org/podcast/ Sam's podcast. The goal of finding the _best_ answer, not _your_ answer changes the conversation completely. If you want to see clear thinking in practice, this is where you should spend your time.

That's his brand, but I am not convinced that he lives up to that standard. Dude lacks intellectual humility big time, and seems to support scientific racism[0]. [0]: https://samharris.org/ezra-klein-editor-chief/

> Many readers also fail to see how asymmetrical any debate on this topic is. Whatever I say at this point, no matter how scientifically careful, appears to convey an interest in establishing the truth of racial differences (which I do not have and have criticized in others). Does it matter that Stephen J. Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man was debunked long ago, or that James Flynn now acknowledges that his eponymous effect cannot account for the race-IQ data? No, it doesn’t. This is a moral panic and a no-win situation (and Klein and my other “critics” know that). I did not have Charles Murray on my podcast because I was interested in intelligence differences across races. I had him on in an attempt to correct what I perceived to be a terrible injustice done to an honest scholar. Having attempted that, for better or worse, I will now move on to other topics.

He later, at the request of his audience, did a 2 hour talk with Klein. This is all (the quote above, the links) included in the page linked in parent. You can draw your own conclusions.

Re: Ask HN: What podcast has been most influential on your life?

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Joe Rogan definately. Not even a competition. The long format with interesting people is hard to beat. I love how he doesn't try and smear people when he does the interviews. Of course, I don't listen to every episode but he releases them so often so there is always something interesting to hear about. Joe Rogan is how journalists should be like.

I really like Joe Rogan also, what did you think about the Jack Dorsey interview. Most of the people that like him seemed to think he went soft on him.

I haven't heard that one since I don't know who Jack Dorsey is. :)
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