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Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

CrazedGeek wrote: post #17

I listen to mostly political, comedy, and political comedy podcasts: * Doug Loves Movies * FiveThirtyEight Politics * Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 (for The Now Show) * MSNBC Rachel Maddow * My Brother, My Brother and Me * News Quiz Extra * No Such Thing as a Fish * Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast * What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law * Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes

Con Law is a great podcast. I'm always amused by Roman Mars's description of Elizabeth Joh. Also, WITH consistency blows me away. Last week's episode with Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman made me say "holy shit!" out loud at least twice.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by torvald »

timonoko wrote: post #36

Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. But I use "youtube-dl -x" to extract audio in my home server. I listen many "podcasts" in various languages this way. Joe Rogan is my favourite, best of those should be in Netflix. When properly translated they would have worldwide audience, like the one with Elon Musk.

> Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio.

Oh but you can. I have just tested on android, but if you open YouTube in Chrome and ask for the «Desktop site» in the menu, you can play, turn of the screen (the music stops), you turn the screen on again (without unlocking), and get a little toolbar you can press play to resume playing.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by nathan_f77 »

I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites:

Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth

Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money

Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme

Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards

Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again

I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep coming back to.

I'll also listen to The Tim Ferriss Show if there's an interesting guest. He had an awesome conversation with Drew Houston recently, and there were lots of interesting stories from the early days of Dropbox.

I also really enjoyed Caliphate, but it's a mini-series that's finished.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by lyk »

timonoko wrote: post #36

Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. But I use "youtube-dl -x" to extract audio in my home server. I listen many "podcasts" in various languages this way. Joe Rogan is my favourite, best of those should be in Netflix. When properly translated they would have worldwide audience, like the one with Elon Musk.

Check out newpipe, it's in f-droid. It supports audio-only with the screen off, and downloading audio from videos.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by Torakfirenze »

nathan_f77 wrote: post #43

I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites: Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know,…

SYSK and TIHP are awesome, +1.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?

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Post by timonoko »

torvald wrote: post #42
timonoko wrote: post #36

Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. But I use "youtube-dl -x" to extract audio in my home server. I listen many "podcasts" in various languages this way. Joe Rogan is my favourite, best of those should be in Netflix. When properly translated they would have worldwide audience, like the one with Elon Musk.

> Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. Oh but you can. I have just tested on android, but if you open YouTube in Chrome and ask for the «Desktop site» in the menu, you can play, turn of the screen (the music stops), you turn the screen on again (without unlocking), and get a little toolbar you can press play to resume playing.

But does it stop streamin video too? I was living in Norway for two months this summer. 3 hours of Joe Roagan would have been 5 euros in roaming costs. Much cheaper is to start "Youtube -x" in my Helsinki server, and repack the audio into low quality 2 mega MP3-file.
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