Rich Roll. Absolute fave. Not even vegan.
Ask HN: What podcast has been most influential on your life?
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Re: Ask HN: What podcast has been most influential on your life?
#62Late Night Live, Phillip Adams. The smartest people in the world, all of them, 3 a night, 4 nights a week for 20 years, with humour. This is the most remarkable lifetime achievement in radio anywhere - better than Studs Terkel.
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#63Build & Analyze with Marco Arment & Dan Benjamin
Not because it was insightful and entertaining (though it was) but because it was the first tech-related podcast I listened to and inspired me to create my first iPhone app which got me a job.
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#64Radiolab, specifically "The Rhino Hunter" (https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/rhino-hunter)
Made me realise that I'm not qualified to hold an opinion on... well, almost anything. This completely changed the way I think.
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#65- The Dave Ramsey Show: Dave is not for everyone, for one he is an absolutist and is very religious and politically conservative, but his advice is very simple when it comes to personal finance and provided a solid base for me to learn more about the fundamentals of personal finance. Plus his callers are a great deterrent from doing stupid things with money. - Marketplace w/ Kai Rysdall: Pound for pound the best econ…
I really liked your description of The Dave Ramsey Show. That's exactly why he's not for me.
Totally agree with you on Marketplace though.
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#66EconTalk. Early in my career, I was a regular listener to three tech podcasts: Java Posse, StackOverflow podcast, and Software Engineering Radio. All three were valuable to my career in different ways, but EconTalk has most affected the way I think. For those who aren't familiar, the host of EconTalk is a professor of economics, so many of his conversations revolve around the world of economics, but since economics t…
I tried to get into EconTalk but I found most guests mindnumbingly oblivious to real world concerns. It felt to me that they were just sitting in their offices making up things about the world but never bothered to check their theories.
Not every episode is like that.
Take [0], where John Allison of BB&T discusses his business philosophy, and as an aside mentions that his bank doesn’t issue negative amortization mortgages (a cause of the recession) in 2007.
Or [1], where Michael Lewis discusses Moneyball and The Blind Side.
Or [2], where Christopher Hitchens discusses George Orwell.
Or [3], where Paul Graham talks about Hackers and Painters.
EconTalk has something for everyone.
[0] http://www.econtalk.org/allison-on-strategy-profits-and-self...
[1] http://www.econtalk.org/michael-lewis-on-the-hidden-economic...
[2] http://www.econtalk.org/hitchens-on-orwell/
[3] http://www.econtalk.org/graham-on-start-ups-innovation-and-c...
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#67Chapo Trap House
Just came to say that and it was already taken.
Ok, Citations Needed.
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#68This is a hard question to answer because there are two possible interpretations to this question. The first is that is asking only for podcasts that have made a significant impact on your life. The second is to simply go through your podcasts and pick the one that has impacted your life the most, however small. I'll answer according to the latter. --Astonishing Legends has stretched my mind with the unexplained and…
I really enjoy Hello Internet as well, but in what way has it expanded your hobbies?
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#69No Agenda. I was looking for something different after starting to get burned out from Tech news stuff a few years back. I enjoy the deconstruction of media coverage and events that they do especially when its stuff that the media isn't covering because they are too busy with "Trump did/said today" sensationalism that has taken over the media as of late.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do wish more podcasts had alternative support methods other than advertising. Unless the podcast doesn’t have ads and is done mostly out of passion and the host's own growth (The Collective) or I can pay to receive an ad-free feed (CANADALAND) I’m not going to subscribe to the audio-equivalent of a TV talk show.
Why though? Most podcasts with ads also come in an app where you can just skip past the ads with a couple clicks. Is it really not worth doing that to keep a show you like alive?
The few podcasts I listened to with obnoxious ads won't lose much with my lack of listenership (Tim Ferriss podcast)
They usually require more than just a few skips also (last I listened the Tim Ferriss podcast had 4-6 minutes of ads at the beginning and due to the variable length I couldn’t just set an auto-start to when the actual show starts).