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Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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No Agenda Show https://www.noagendashow.net ITM! Welcome to the home of The No Agenda Show, an award-winning podcast where Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, two experts from the media industry, discuss news & politics. Twice a week they deconstruct the news cycle and give insights into the narrative of the mainstream media, governments and political campaigns. For more information, please read our mission statement.

+33, since HN is value for value.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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I'm excitedly waiting for S3 of the Blowback podcast [0]. The first 2 were incredibly good. [0] https://blowback.show/

I heard an interview with Brendan and Noah on the WarNerd podcast. They were clearly pumping their new season on the Korean War and I came away pumped. I might have to check this out.

After I wrote that comment I realised it's actually started. First episode is already very good and a promising start for the season!

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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2.5 Admins - with Jim Salter from Ars. It’s a great sys admin podcast BSD Now - everything *BSD. Quality has declined quite a bit since Benedict joined, though. Corecursive - some really great stories on software development. The recent one on debugging LISP in deep space is great. Changelog - Sometimes decent interviews with founders and in-depth tech interview. Avoid JS Party though, it’s really daunting. Cyber - s…

Some good choices here (though I like Benedict.)

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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I listen to a lot of podcast episodes (over 5,000 in the past 5 years [1]), but I don’t subscribe to podcasts. The way I listen to podcasts is similar to how I consume web contents: Search by topics/people, and Find podcast episodes to listen, then move on, not subscribing to podcasts. Search by topics/people, and Find web pages to read, then move on, not bookmarking websites. For podcast recommendations, I’d suggest…

This response is annoying since it didn't answer the OP's question and instead just promoted your own product. I get sharing your stuff when it's relevant, but couldn't you at least share some podcasts you've enjoyed before pitching your site?

It looks like that's all in the first link. I took the RSS feed from there and put it into Overcast.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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[0] The Jordan Harbinger Show - Jordan has some amazing guests, is charismatic, and a pleasure to listen to (twice a week) [1] No Such Thing as a Fish - Dan, James, Andrew and #GetAnnaOnTwitter deliver interesting facts with great humour (weekly) [2] Techmeme Ride Home - Brian gives a great brief breakdown of tech news (daily) [3] Software Engineering Daily - Mostly interesting deep dives, when it's not a promotional…

this showed up in my google results and made my day. Thank you so much for recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show :)

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Why are you trying to build a habit of consuming media? Some people just don't care for them. That said, I listen to ATP, Comedy Bang Bang, and Roderick in the Line regularly. Much less than when I used to drive a car. It's entertainment, nothing more.

I'd say not all media is "bad". Much of the podcast suggestions in these comments are wholesome, or at least teach the listener something. That'd on a whole good, better than mindlessly listening to ads or news on the radio?

I didn't necessarily intend to characterize media as bad, just not something to build a habit of listening to. As in, to me it would be weird to want to watch more tv arbitrarily. Seems like a good thing people would have done with audiobooks to try and be more productive, but did they really learn anything?

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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- Coding Blocks is probably the podcast that was most influential in my career https://www.codingblocks.net/

- Coder radio for fun and rants https://coder.show/

- Grumpy old geeks for fun and more rants https://www.gog.show/

- The Program was launched here on HN and it's some of the best sci-fi you can listen to https://programaudioseries.com/

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What am I missing about Dan Carlin? I'm 12 episodes [0] in and it's OK but not seeing why it's so revered. [0] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-12-steppe...

You probably don't like audiobooks on history. He's just great at telling captivating historical stories and finding interesting historical angles. If that's not your thing (or if you have a PhD in historical studies and think he's crazy/wrong/too reductive/...), that's totally OK. By the way, he also has a podcast called Common Sense, which is focusing on politics (as the name suggests).

I'm actually listening to Richard J. Evans trilogy on Nazi Germany. Carlin feels very "pop history" in comparison. Maybe the longer episodes are better?
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