I've really been enjoying Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) of HN fame. Additionally: Odd Lots, Money Stuff, Chat with Traders (hit or miss, some guests are not great).
Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
21–30 of 69 posts
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#22I’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.
I miss the Ezra Klein that did a weekly policy whitepaper deep dive on The Weeds.
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#23I’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.
Klein is a smart liberal journalist and Sullivan is a smart conservative journalist. They both get guests from think tanks/mainstream media/academia. They both book guests that are on book tours. The distinction you're making is not really true.
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#24Fall of Civilizations: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
Each episode is of exceptional quality and retells history in an engaging manor. Since it's history, the entire backlog is still relevant.
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#25I would have put Coder Radio on this list but ever since Mike took over without Chris the show has lost its appeal for me.
And sadly, there are no more Jupiter Broadcasting shows left without crypto or mostly inside baseball.
Anyone know of shows in the category of two or three lads discussing computing, coding, devops, but in the style of two older guys crumudging that everything used to be better in the old days?
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#26I enjoyed Shell Game, which explores using voice agents in ever more personal situations.
The specifics of the journey are going to date quickly given the speed of AI development. But the shape of the journey and the dilemmas posed are going to be relevant for a lot longer.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/shell-game/id175311776...
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#27My favourite podcast right now is Let's Learn Everything, three science geeks taking turns to explain things to each other. In a standard episode, there's a deep dive into a science topic, followed by a lighter miscellaneous segment. Special episodes, such as the yearly HaLearnDays or the occasional guest episode, take a different format.
The three all have science degrees, and do proper research for their deep dives. This is a podcast which comes with supporting citations.
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#28Call me simple or provincial, but I really enjoyed "Good Hang" from Amy Poehler. It's a breezy interview with interesting people (doesn't hurt that I'm a long-time SNL fan).
In this vein, conan's podcast is also surprisingly good. It doesn't feel like a phoned-in retirement gig.
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#29Currently loving Revolutions Podcast by Mike Duncan. Highlight seasons so far: [3] French Revolution [4] Haitian Revolution.
Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
#30Startups For The Rest Of Us is a great for bootstrappers or other non-VC-backed founders. I find that even episodes that are not specifically relevant to the work I'm doing are good to listen to because they may bring ideas to the surface in helpful ways.