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Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?
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#52- The Ground Up Show
- The Minimalists
- Levar Burton Reads
I want to, but I don't have time for more podcasts. They distract me a lot so I only listen when I take a walk or commute.
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#53I recent started listening to The Greatest Generation, a comedy podcast where two guys watch the whole of Star Trek: TNG in order (later they tackle DS9). They have a lot of fun riffing off it, especially the really bad early episodes, but there's also interesting discussion about the show's politics, whether it still holds up, etc. It's highly enjoyable, especially if you're of the age group who grew up with the show in the 80s and 90s.
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#54Risky Biz infosec podcast - https://risky.biz/
Despite not working in infosec I tune into risky busisness (risky.biz) every week, it's a good round-up of the week without the overreaction you sometimes get from twitter and here in the immediate aftermath of a big leak or vuln.
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#55I cycle out shows pretty fast but these are the ones that remain in my playlist:
* Trashfuture: A British politics podcast about the future is trash. Insightful, if a little madcap at times.
* Boonta Vista: Australian politics. The main host has an amazing radio voice.
* Citations Needed: Politics, helps analyse the media and its tropes to give you a better handle on issues and how to engage with them.
* Previously in Europe: European politics, often takes time to highlight issues and countries that do not get much mass media play.
* Revolutions: History podcast - really well constructed nuggets breaking down revolutions throughout history. I personally fled to this after getting exhausted by Hardcore History.
* Shift-F1: A formula 1 podcast. Both hosts are passionate and also have different levels of knowledge about the sport and history which engenders good discussion. The schedule is super disrupted right now due to on one of the hosts having a baby.
* The Irish Passport: Irish politics- more a series of investigative essays than "What is on this week???", very good and earnest topics and coverage.
* The Bugle: Political Satire. What John Oliver did before he got big. Andy Zaltzmann is an amazing satirist, and should be more widely appreciated. Warning: Puns
* Waypoint Radio: Video games from a set of interesting voices. Can be very Marmite due to how blinkered the hosts can be on some topics/ with certain people.
* 99% Invisible: See other comments!
And finally: * Chapo Trap House: Political comedy. You know what this is.
* Reel Politik: Like Chapo, but recorded by angry young Brits. Awful sound quality, sometimes a golden nugget hidden within. Somehow gets some amazing guests. Listening to this gets you targeted by the Daily Mail, probably.
Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?
#56'How I Built This'. Everything else that my wife and I have tried listening to is either extremely dull or frustratingly conversational.
What is it about the conversation that you find frustrating when listening to those types of podcasts?
For me it's the same. I don't have much time to listen to podcasts so general chat or low density talk just isn't efficient.
I like some conversational podcasts like After On where they tend to stick to discussing the topic at hand but I couldn't get into Stuff You Should Know or Joe Rogan as there was a lot of general chat in there or not high enough information density.
I don't want to hear 5 minutes of why somebody thinks something is worth doing a podcast on: just tell me the interesting stuff and I'll judge for myself.
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#57Someone on here recommended Jocko podcast[1] and I love it, totally not the kind of thing I'd normally listen to but very motivating.
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#58Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. But I use "youtube-dl -x" to extract audio in my home server. I listen many "podcasts" in various languages this way. Joe Rogan is my favourite, best of those should be in Netflix. When properly translated they would have worldwide audience, like the one with Elon Musk.
That's a premium feature. I find it well worth the money, plus no ads. https://www.youtube.com/premium
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#59Language / words: The Allusionist and BBC's Word of Mouth
Science: In Our Time, Inside Science and the Science Hour
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#60No Such Thing As A Fish - from the team who do research for the show QI ABC Radio Nation does quite a few great shows, you’ll find them at http://abc.net.au/rn
I love this podcast - it's such a lighthearted escape from daily life.
One thing I couldn't find out from their website: what happened to the fifty-odd early episodes which're no longer available?