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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"

Being about as left as you can get in the States without being a complete and utter nutjob, I agree with your assessment. He has such an honest way of approaching whatever it is he is talking about. I might disagree with some of his conclusions or premises, but I do enjoy listening to him for a solid alternate point of view.

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I was a (somewhat) early adopter of listening by way of this American life.

I love a bunch posted here already.

Around 2 years ago I subscribed to the audio edition of the economist. Now, I have no time for podcasts but absolutely LOVE the economist and cannot recommend it enough.

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Sam Harris's - Waking Up. I have gotten the most amazing book recommendations from his guests!

Joe Rogan - he generates a lot of content I do not care about but his interviews like Billy Corgan, Elon Musk, Sam Harris, etc are some of the best on the internet. (Bonus - you can watch them on youtube also)

I dont like Ezra Klein's podcast (I think he comes off as a pretentious know-it-all), but I do like that he asks every guest for 3 book recommendations, so I almost always skip to the end to write those down too.

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Easily the How I Built This podcast. Entrepreneurial without the Silicon Valley kool-aid or being too mainstream. Guy is an excellent interviewer and a very entertaining host. And I love how it focuses on a variety of different startups, from Cisco to Starbucks. You definitely have to catch one of his live shows.

Runner-ups: radiolab, TIA, a16z, recode, knowledge project.

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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.

Rogan is really good with a certain type of guests but he seems to fail with a lot of business guys. His interview with jack Dorsey was just terrible. He also let Lance Armstrong get away with a lot of whining about how jealous people were after him.

But in general I like Rogan a lot. You just have to accept that he is a curious guy that sometimes doesn’t have much background in the topic they are talking about.

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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.

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I really enjoy Sam Harris's 'Making Sense' (formerly 'Waking Up' podcast). He invites experts on various topics and has informative conversations with them. Some are about scientific topics such as climate change and others are more about personal stories and explorations of thoughts such as recently with Stephen Fry. Sam's business model is also very exemplary: no ads and the podcasts are free. He has the luxury of…

I do wish more podcasts had alternative support methods other than advertising. Unless the podcast doesn’t have ads and is done mostly out of passion and the host's own growth (The Collective) or I can pay to receive an ad-free feed (CANADALAND) I’m not going to subscribe to the audio-equivalent of a TV talk show.

Why though? Most podcasts with ads also come in an app where you can just skip past the ads with a couple clicks. Is it really not worth doing that to keep a show you like alive?
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