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Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by igravious »

• Philosophy

• - Partially Examined Life: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/

• - Philosophy Bites: http://www.philosophybites.com/

• Comedy

• - Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast: http://www.billburr.com/podcast

• - The Bugle Podcast: http://thebuglepodcast.com/

All you need is philosophy and comedy, anything else is superfluous.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by camikazeg »

wwweston wrote: post #45
cromulent wrote: post #18

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Here's a good starting point: http://dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-41-thors-angel...

I've heard Carlin's podcast recommended several times, but latel I'm tired of history that primarily gives me a finished narrative, andam interested more in finding accounts where they spend a lot of time discussing sources (e.g., I'm less excited about hearing about Ben Franklin's life than I might be about the letters of Ben Franklin). How does Hardcore Hisotry stack up in this regard?

Hardcore History is all finished narrative. Where Dan Carlin really shines is taking facts from history, like body counts from ancient battles and making them visceral so that you can really feel how terrified people would have been if there city was being besieged by Mongols, or if you were a soldier in Stalin's army and were used as so much cannon fodder against the nazis.

If you are more interested in the primary sources, he's probably not for you, but if you want to feel history rather than just hear about it, then I highly recommend.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by didgeoridoo »

Another vote for ShopTalk[1]. Also Jen Simmons' The Web Ahead[2] is fantastic, and gets into some higher-level trends and concepts in tech, art and design. For my Chris Coyier overdose, I tack on Codepen Radio[3]. On the UX and design side, I love The Dirt[4] and Hustle[5]. Finally, The Businessology Show[6] does a great job covering management and leadership (focused on the agency/service world).

[1]: http://shoptalkshow.com

[2]: http://thewebahead.net

[3]: http://blog.codepen.io/radio/

[4]: http://freshtilledsoil.com/thedirt

[5]: http://funsize.co/hustle/

[6]: http://www.businessology.biz

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by kleer001 »

I submit that being a good designer (of software or hardware or 2d or 3d images) demands a well rounded education, a diverse set of interests, and a morbid sense of humor. To that end I submit these following podcasts to excite the weak connections in our brains:

www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss

www.maximumfun.org/subscribe

and bonus, the excellent but extinct Word Nerds podcast:

http://thewordnerds.libsyn.com/

(you might need to add/dL them one at a time)

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by jordw »

tomkinstinch wrote: post #14

I get enough tech in my daily life, so I look to podcasts to enrich my life in other dimensions and teach me new things. Here are some of my favorites: * Cooking, food, and molecular gastronomy; Cooking Issues: http://www.heritageradionetwork.org/programs/51-Cooking-Issu... * Outdoor adventure; Dirtbag Diaries: http://dirtbagdiaries.com * Music and poetic music breakdown (uniquely well-suited to audio as a medium); S…

If you like Song Exploder, a friend of mine and I started a music production podcast where we dissect one song each week that you might also like: http://songaweek.net/
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