Acquired (Long episodes about companies, recents include:
coca-cola, trader joe's & alphabet)
Dwarkesh Podcast (Inquisitive curious host, mostly "AGI"
related)
Conversations with Tyler (Wide ranging, polymath host,
distinctive, hard to describe style)
The Marginal Revolution Podcast (Tyler cowen & Alex Tabbarok
discussing economics)
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson (you sort of mentioned)
The Morning Meeting (US Politics mostly. Neutral tone,
informative, forward looking i.e. what will happen next not
who is bad etc)Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
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Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#12BetterOffline [0] by Ed Zitron [1] dissecting AI hype and boosters. By a long shot. The information density and clarity are outstanding. 0: https://www.betteroffline.com/ 1: https://www.wheresyoured.at/
Zitron is good, if you like him check out "This Machine Kills" and "Tech Won't Save Us."
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#13I’ve been a fan of The Ezra Klein Show for years - whatever your thoughts of his personal politics, he’s a fantastic interviewer, and I think he does a great job at both helping define and then interrogating the strongest construction of his guest’s beliefs. He’s not a soft interviewer, but he’s genuinely trying to understand his guest, and I’ve learned a ton about how people who I disagree with view the world.
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#14Dwarkesh, Lenny, Latent Space, A16Z, BG2Pod and 'Founders in Arms' have all had some good episodes this year.
Some other episodes I've bookmarked are in this feed: https://feeds.listennotes.com/listen/rahim-nathwanis-listen-...
Felipe, the founder of Quest Learning (joinquest.com) started a podcast series about the future of learning. I was his first guest:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CjsPEKYwx8eirYlBYjxwp
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-learning...
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#15I’ve been a fan of The Ezra Klein Show for years - whatever your thoughts of his personal politics, he’s a fantastic interviewer, and I think he does a great job at both helping define and then interrogating the strongest construction of his guest’s beliefs. He’s not a soft interviewer, but he’s genuinely trying to understand his guest, and I’ve learned a ton about how people who I disagree with view the world.
His podcast has gotten a lot worse over the years. It feels over-produced now and he doesnt have a lot of interesting guests on anymore. 90% of it is useless policy wonks no one has heard of pumping their latest shitty book no one will read.
Andrew Sullivan (Dish Cast) is doing a much better job and isnt associated with a main stream media org.
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#16Dwarkesh - AI + some history
Lex = AI + some history
Dishcast - politics + books
Sam Harris - everything
All In - tech news
Tyler Cowen - random good shows
Pirate Wires - news (coming back I heard)
Joe Rogan - famous interesting guests at least once a month
Ben Shapiro - if you want to hear the opposite of what you're reading in the NYT (Surgey Brin approved)
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#17I really enjoyed the "Michael Hobbes Podcast Universe" this year. He's a reporter who is now making entertaining podcasts debunking claims in the media/zeitgeist. I appreciate that he takes a pragmatic approach -- to paraphrase something he said: "There's probably an impact on kids having so much screen time, but this data you're citing doesn't show what you're claiming."
If Books Could Kill: https://www.ifbookspod.com
Maintenance Phase: https://www.maintenancephase.com
You're Wrong About: https://yourewrongabout.com (Hobbes retired from this one around Oct 2021)
There's a similar podcast where he's also made an appearance:
In Bed With The Right: https://open.spotify.com/show/7JirL3UVKjyy5MTy8PouHh
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#18The best ones I've discovered in 2025 - not necessarily the best ever
The David Frum Show - https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the-david-frum-show/ Overthink - https://overthinkpodcast.com/ Singletrack - https://www.youtube.com/c/SingletrackPodcast The Glenn Show - https://glennloury.substack.com/podcast
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#19I learn a lot listening to the Money Stuff podcast.¹ The newsletter² is also great but I don’t always have time to read every one. I also really enjoy Why Is This Happening.³ Chris Hayes really shines as an interviewer and policy wonk when he’s not in the cable news format. While Ezra Klein seems to be leaning into Democratic Party whisperer, Hayes is leaning into policy nerdity that I miss from Vox-era Klein.
¹ https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1308-money-stuff-the-podcast-...
² https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
³ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-this-happening-...
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#20I’ve been a fan of The Ezra Klein Show for years - whatever your thoughts of his personal politics, he’s a fantastic interviewer, and I think he does a great job at both helping define and then interrogating the strongest construction of his guest’s beliefs. He’s not a soft interviewer, but he’s genuinely trying to understand his guest, and I’ve learned a ton about how people who I disagree with view the world.
His podcast has gotten a lot worse over the years. It feels over-produced now and he doesnt have a lot of interesting guests on anymore. 90% of it is useless policy wonks no one has heard of pumping their latest shitty book no one will read. Andrew Sullivan (Dish Cast) is doing a much better job and isnt associated with a main stream media org.
I actually enjoy some of the wonkishness. Hearing a good interview with people who are experts in a particular field is a great way to learn.