This 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?
I really appreciate that this was episode 665.
Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
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#162Other podcasts come and fall by the wayside, but I'll always look forward to the next episode of In Our Time ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot ). I'm excited to try others listed here that are new to me, though.
I recently discovered iot, and good lord is that the best podcast. I adore how the host wrangles academics on his show to keep them on topic. Just hilarious. And the topics are all over the place, making each week a real undiscovered gem.
I love IOT and appreciate Melvin Bragg, but I’ve increasingly felt he tends to arbitrarily challenge (and even bully) some of his guests - typically younger women. On the other hand, he has “regulars” who, suave as they may be, invariably get a pass to ramble - and they are all old English men. He also clearly has much less patience for scientific topics than the humanities, and on literary subjects he pushes his own biases pretty strongly (which is a bit of an abuse of power). I have this feeling that he’s turning into a latter-day John Humphrys, it might be time for some rotation.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#163So this probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but my favourite podcast discovery in 2019 was Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast. Each week Jess McKenna, Zach Reino, and their band are joined by a special guest and together they improvised an entire hour-long musical from scratch without anything prepared ahead of time, including the music. It's just utterly remarkable how good and clever and funny it is…
If you ever get the chance to see them, the Improvised Shakespeare Company does something in the same vein, and it’s absolutely incredible.
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#164Fighter 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
There's a fighter jet podcast?! My inner jet-obsessed child is very excited for this.
The excellent Omega Tau podcast also has lots of interviews with people who flew or fly various planes including the F-16, F15, Tornado, F-14 and others.
There is also an excellent episode where the host Markus, got to live his childhood dream and fly an F-16!
It's also excellent on science and engineering generally.
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#165Artifical Intelligence - AI Podcast with Lex Fridman has been great. In particular the Donald Knuth, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig episodes were great.
There is a podcast called Physical Attraction that has done a series on nuclear fusion that have also been terrific.
The Omega Tau podcast where the host Marcus got to live his childhood dream and fly an F-16 was also wonderful.
Podcasts were terrific last year. So many great conversations with experts in various fields.
People often bang on about how internet bubbles deleteriously impact political conversation with bubbles but don't remark often enough on how experts in various fields are able to have a direct conversation with thousands of people for a trivial cost.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#166History Time, the occasional superb Rogan Podcast when it's not MMA, Fitness FAQs (calisthenics from a licensed PT), some Alan Thrall podcasts about form and nutrition, PBS Eons and of course Kurtsgesacht.
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#167If 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.
For a less revenant view of history, I enjoy ray & cam
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#168If 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.
So good. The Wrath of the Khans episodes are some of my favorites.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#169Peter Thiel on Eric Weinstein's The Portal. John Carmack on Joe Rogan - not really impactful but still a really good episode.
Eric Weinstein's The Portal really is amazing. A top 5 highlight of 2019 as far as I'm concerned.
This guy is such an intelligent speaker. The podcast is excellent.
Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
#170- The Program Audio Series, https://programaudioseries.com/
- SleepWalkers, https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/sleepwalkers/id1449757...
- Meditative Story, https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/meditative-story/id147...