Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

Invest like the best and For Your Innovation are two great podcasts that I came across last year.

Matthew Walker, PhD on sleep - part I and II on The Peter Attia Drive podcast.

It was really a wake up call for sleep hygeine, and prompted me to get a sleep study, which has changed my life after getting a sleep device.

This might be pretty unconventional, but I have two favourites. One is called 'The Exploring Series', and is essentially a podcast researching and summarising mythical stories, DnD lore, SCP lore, Lovecraft lore, etc. The other is Sleep With Me, which is just incessant rambling about a story or an episode of a TV show.

I don't listen to the for the content. I listen to them because they help me sleep better in the winter, when I can't open the window to hear the ambient noise outside without making myself ill. I can't sleep in pure silence, it's too quiet. Both podcast authors have very warm and soothing voices and it's so easy to fall asleep with a nice bed time story like that.

We're still children inside, after all.

Basically all of The Anthropocene Reviewed: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed

Beautiful essays by John Green. I only started listening at the end of December.

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I've also been checking out the Political Philosophy Podcast, and I've liked what I've heard till now: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/

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Again, I can't choose specific episodes, but Heavyweight is pretty amazing too: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight

Fighter Pilot Podcast -

1) B-52 Stratofortress 2) Mig-29 Fulcrum 3) SR-71 Blackbird

The Seen and The Unseen -

1) Our Colorful Past 2) The 2019 Elections 3) The India-Pakistan Conflict 4) Kashmir and Article 370

Lapham's Quarterly -

1) William Dairymple

The Joe Rogan Experience -

1). Edward Snoweden

NPR Throughline -

1) The Dark Side Of The Moon

Podcast series -

1) 13 Minutes To The Moon 2) The Chernobyl Podcast