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Re: Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

The Daily - An NPR-like ~20 minute podcast from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/the-daily

Indie Hackers - Insightful 1:1 interviews with founders of smaller 'lifestyle' businesses. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast

In Our Time - Wonderful history podcast from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

Lovett or Leave It - Insightful weekly political podcast from Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama who was once called "the funniest man in Washington." https://getcrookedmedia.com/lovett-or-leave-it-6077c7aca95c

The Perceptive Photographer - 10-15 minute podcast released every Monday from my favorite photography teacher. Insightful and brief snippets about a variety of topics of interest to fine art photographers. https://www.danieljgregory.com/perceptivephotographerpodcast...

Pod Save America - Twice-weekly podcast from four guys who used to be in the Obama White House. Super-insightful political commentary. Lots of coarse language. https://getcrookedmedia.com/here-have-a-podcast-78ee56b5a323

Pod Save the People - DeRay McKesson's weekly podcast on social justice and activism. Even if you don't know DeRay's name, you'd probably recognize him based on his blue Patagonia vest. https://getcrookedmedia.com/pod-save-the-people-56bc42af53d

S-Town - A co-production from Serial and This American Life. It starts off as a murder mystery and then goes off into left field. A beautiful, sort of American Gothic look at our country. The ending left me feeling a bit...empty maybe? Still, an incredibly worthwhile way to spend seven hours. https://stownpodcast.org

Re: Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

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Post by teekert »

Linux Unplugged (Jupiter Broadcasting) [0]: Informal chat with some cool people from the Linux world, often guests like Martin Wimpress (Ubuntu Mate, Raspberry Pi enthusiast), Frank Karlitschek/Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud), Ikey Doherty (Solus/Coreboot), etc.

Linux Action News (Jupiter Broadcasting) [1]: 30 min overview of news from the Linux world.

No Agenda: For a healthy news diet [2].

TWIT: Loving the over-friendliness and forced extravertedness less and less and missing Dvorak, but still, a nice Tech overview.

Story Grid: (From time to time) In depth analysis of books from the perspective of a writer and editor. Very insightful.

[0] http://linuxactionnews.com/ [1] http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/115911/halls-of-endless-l... [2] http://www.noagendashow.com/

Re: Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

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Post by SyneRyder »

aatchb wrote: post #21

Some that haven't been mentioned: Security Now - Steve Gibson basically reviewing the week in software and hardware security. Rationally Speaking - Intellectual stuff No such thing as a fish - fun trivia from the people behind the QI tv show.

If you're interested in Security Now, you might like Risky Business: https://risky.biz

It feels like an upgrade to me, by people who spend their days working in infosec. They've had interviews with members of LulzSec, the NSA's General Counsel, and the guy behind PwnAllTheThings. They also broke the inside story of what actually happened in Australia's national census outage.

My one hesitation is it's starting to feel like pro-5eyes propaganda. They were very dismissive of the Shadow Brokers last year (because "NSA superiority"), and have had to rewrite history since the actual 0-days & WannaCry were released. So I don't listen to every episode anymore, but I do find it informative.

Re: Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

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Post by rubayeet »

[0] Tell Me Something I Don't Know - Trivia show with a twist, hosted by Steven Dubner of Freakonomics fame.

[1] How I built this - Interviews successful entrepreneurs on their background, motivations, challenges etc. in building their businesses.

[2] Revolutions - Podcast on some of the biggest political revolutions in history. I am going through season 2 (American Revolution against the British Empire).

[3] War Stories - "Traces the evolution of warfare through the eyes who lived it". Season 1 focused on armoured warfare (a.k.a. Tanks). Waiting on Season 2.

[4] Science Vs - Researches the fads/opinions (organic food, meditation, ghosts etc.) to figure out if they are based on science.

[0] http://tmsidk.com/ [1] http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this [2] http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ [3] https://angrystaffofficer.com/war-stories-podcast/ [4] https://gimletmedia.com/science-vs/

Re: Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

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Post by Pandabob »

Econtalk for its usually insightful discussions. http://www.econtalk.org/

Conversations with Tyler for the same reason as Econtalk. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-with-tyler...?

Bodega Boyz because nothing makes me laugh like Desus and Mero. https://soundcloud.com/bodega-sushi

Re: Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

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Post by cjCamel »

Not technical, but tech related:

http://exponent.fm/ Exponent by Ben Thompson (of Stratechery) and James Allworth is great for analysis of big tech issues and news.

https://trackchanges.postlight.com/ Track Changes by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade can be quite light, but they have some interesting guests and have lived on the web since it started.

Funny stuff - if you like Football (Soccer) then The Football Ramble is essential. http://www.thefootballramble.com

For british nonsense humour two of them have just stated a spin off. Humour is subjective though so YMMV and don't judge me! http://stakhanovindustries.com/lukeandpeteshow

(edited all of my beautifully crafted markdown links because I forget HN can't do that)

Re: Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

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Post by mvindahl »

Mostly

- Reply All

- Planet Money

- Hanselminutes

Reply All is about the internet and planet money is about money, but in both cases it's as much about people and the interesting things that we do.

Hanselminutes is Scott Hanselman interviewing interesting guests about aspects of software development. It has a laid back and friendly pace. Scott is always well prepared and a very nice host.

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