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Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
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Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#142If you're a history geek you should definitly check out Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. This year he only made 2 episodes. 'Supernova in the east' II & III. At a whopping 4 hours each these feel more like an audiobook crammed with history rather than a Podcast. But I can definitly recommend them both & the complete works of him of course.
I ran into, by total chance, his episode "King of Kings" (which traces Achaemenid Persia and the various sources that describe them) and thought I had found a new favorite but I haven't been able to get into any of the other episodes.
I still highly recommend this episode which has nice details even if you know something about the topic and would be very illuminating about quite a lot of ancient history.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#143This is entirely off-topic, but if you're going through and downvoting people for posting their favorite podcasts in a thread like this, you should take a break from here, or the internet for a while, it's not that serious.
That's one way to view it, certainly. The other way is that downvotes are a great tool for ensuring high quality discussion, and if the thread is about podcast episodes, then downvoting full podcasts helps keep the thread organized. Downvotes aren't necessarily bad, they may just mean - hey, this doesn't belong as much in this thread, so I'm voting on it to help organize the thread for other readers.
HN’s rules seem like they fall in line with positive psychology tenants. In the spirit of HN, downvotes seem like something reserved for mean spirited or inaccurate posts. If everyone downvotes for differences in purely subjective opinion, well, I’d just stick to reddit in that case.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#144The 80,000 hours podcast probably had the largest intellectual impact on me of any media in 2019, not only in terms of actual content but pointers to other thinkers / ideas. My favorite episode was probably: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/glen-weyl-radically-... The first time I listened I noped out after the first 20 minutes due to all the terminology being slung around and (seemingly) ungrounded anti-capit…
I really enjoyed that 80000 hours episode with Vitalik Buterin. It gave me some new mental models.
I'll tack on another unrelated suggestion: Leslie Kaelbling's interview on Lex Friedman's AI podcast. It's probably my favourite from that podcast so far. She is an exceptionally clear thinker.
Those were probably my two favourite episodes of the year.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#145Every episode of Darknet Diaries[0]. Episode 49 and the two Xbox Underground episodes are excellent, but regardless of where you start you cannot go wrong with Darknet Diaries. 0: https://darknetdiaries.com/
I was going to mention the same two episodes of this outstanding podcast that deserves a much wider audience. With those two episodes taken, The Beirut Bank Job is next in line. Crazy stuff.
BTW, you might want to check out /r/darknetdiaries/ on Reddit for discussion of the episodes. Jack drops by now and then to participate.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#146Every episode of Darknet Diaries[0]. Episode 49 and the two Xbox Underground episodes are excellent, but regardless of where you start you cannot go wrong with Darknet Diaries. 0: https://darknetdiaries.com/
xbox underground was batshit insane. I loved it
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to like Dan carlin, but their is something weirdly alex jones about his voice and mannerism. However thehistoryofrome.com and revolutionspodcast.com are fantastic alternatives.
>> their is something weirdly alex jones about his voice and mannerism They are both passionate people whose articulation is rife with some distinct regional and broadcast (ie. radio) shibboleths. Only one of them is a post truth raving lunatic dangerous populist performance artist shill. You're doing a disservice to Dan Carlin and giving Alex Jones way too much power/credit by justifying a knee jerk bias based on su…
Emotions aren't always practical.
I once came across a podcast that seemed interesting. I was enjoying the content, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the narrator's voice sounded like a friend who committed suicide. I had to turn it off.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#148So this is cheating a little bit, but we listened to it on a road trip in 2019, and it was by far the most impactful podcast we heard last year:
Radiolab: From Tree to Shining Tree
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-...
It's from 2016, but it's about the underground network of roots and organisms that connects a whole forest together and how it functions. And it's amazing. And it keeps getting more and more amazing as it goes on. My wife and I were giving each other WTF looks as we were listening.
Just a taste: "Apparently, bears park themselves in places and grab fish out of the water, and then, you know, take a bite and then throw the carcass down on the ground. The fungi, you know, after it's rained and snowed and the carcass has seeped down into the soil a bit, the fungi then go and they drink the salmon carcass down and then send it off to the tree. ... And the tree has evidence of salmon consumption. ... Salmon rings in trees."
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#149This American Life: Before things went to hell https://www.thisamericanlife.org/665/before-things-went-to-h... An epic immigration compromise was in the works in the 90s... So what happened?
In what way did things go to hell?
Immigration went from an issue that was hard to make progress on (e.g. come to a compromise) to an issue where that is impossible.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#150Attachment Theory Deep Drive from Psychology in Seattle (Dr Kirk Honda). 15+ hours long, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2QKcKqY7U)
Schema Therapy Deep Dive from Dr Kirk Honda. 3+ hours long (https://player.fm/series/psychology-in-seattle-podcast/schem...)
They are behind a patreon paywall (sorta like how Hardcore History by Dan Carlin is)
If just attachment theory: John Bowlby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LM0nE81mIE), Ainsworth, Cindy Hazan, Mikulincer, Shaver, Sue Johnson. If you like Bowlby you probably will like Winnicott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaZkvvB367I (he influenced Bowlby)