Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/39-admission-to-sugar-...

It’s about how the CIA might have written the Wind of Change song sung by the Scorpions in the 80s, but it has a nuanced take on it.

There was also a really good podcast about the Iraq war called blowback: https://blowback.show/

Edit: updated correctly that the podcast was with the CTO.

13 Minutes to the Moon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2

A magnificent BBC podcast series that covers in extreme detail the Apollo 11 mission, including explanations of the busy chatter that you hear from mission control audio.

From the link below: "What are the police for? Producer B.A. Parker started wondering this back in June, as Black Lives Matter protests and calls to “defund the police” ramped up. The question led her to a wild story of a stabbing on a New York City subway train, and the realization that, according to the law, the police don’t always have to protect us. Producer Sarah Qari joins Parker to dig into the legal background, which takes her all the way up to the Supreme Court... and then all the way back down to on-duty officers themselves."

[1]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-sp...