Ask HN: What are your favourite podcasts?

Reply All & Startups for the Rest of Us are a couple of my favorites.

I was a huge fan of "The History of Rome" by Mike Duncan and loved his new series "Revolutions". If you like history, these are both fantastic.

Huge caveat: He got his start with "The History of Rome" so it takes him a while to warm up and relax. The first 25 or so episodes are a little more "here is the story as we know it" where as after that he adds some humor and it becomes the story of Rome instead of a list of facts.

Other ones I have enjoyed:

Listen Money Matters - a great no nonsense podcast about personal finance. It is a great jumping off point. They talk about all kinds of topics related to personal finance so you won't get bored.

The Finance Independence Podcast - This is not as regular as other podcasts but I feel the interviews on this one are a lot more engaging and thought provoking.

How I Built This - Fun show about how CEOs and founders came up with the idea that took them to the moon. Its little self congratulatory but also fun to hear the stories.

The Artificial Intelligence podcast by Lex Fridman. It's mostly focused on science tech and philosophy with a lot of high-profile guests from different fields.

Marc Maron's WTF, interviews of really interesting people.

NYT The Daily, really good interviews on current topics, by a really annoying interviewer.

Le Show, Harry Shearer. Some people here will like his skepticism of IoT (and some people here will not).

Radiolab.

Science Weekly, The Guardian.

Hidden Brain.

Freakonomics Radio.

Marketplace.

I'm a founder of a startup[1] that works in the podcasting space and my personal favorites are TigerBelly, Exchange Invest Weekly, JRE, The Indie Hackers podcast!

[1] useCastup.com

Intelligence Matters: foreign affairs podcast hosted by former #2 at the CIA. He’s a pretty good interviewer and I’ve learned a ton about how our govt perceives global threats.

Pivot: Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk (mostly tech) business. It’s excellent and Scott is really fun.

Hacks on tap: former chief obama campaign strategist David Axelrod and republican campaign consultant Mike Murphy talk politics for an hour. They know their stuff.

  *Intelligence Matters: foreign affairs podcast hosted by
   former #2 at the CIA. He’s a pretty good interviewer and
   I’ve learned a ton about how our govt perceives global
   threats.*

  ** The governments don't understand these topics. **

The youtube channel from Vinheteiro the brazilian pianist!?!

The Tim Ferriss Show The Portal Stratechery’s podcast (Exponent) Tyler Cowen’s podcast

APM Marketplace

NPR Planet Money

Armchair Expert by Dax Shepard

Joe Rogan Experience

Snacks Daily - The best podcast so far about finacial news. They comment on all industries that move the market - being milk and dairy to banks and tech. Short but very fun!

New York Times The Daily

The Wall Street Journal & Gimlet

Financial Times Banking Weekly

  Snacks Daily - The best podcast so far about financial news.
  They comment on all industries that move the market - being
  milk and dairy to banks and tech. Short but very fun!

My Favourites are The Fighter & the Kid -Comedy, Enjoy the Vue - Anything Vue.js related, Baz & Andrew House of Rugby - Irish Rugby / Comedy, No Such thing as a fish - Comedy.

I find a lot of my creative balance gets refilled by listening to improv comedy podcasts on Earwolf and Headgum networks. Earwolf in particular has been in the game for over a decade, they took production quality very serious early on, and managed to spinoff into an ad network that got bought out by a huge media conglomerate while still keeping their shows pretty niche. improv4humans and Teacher's Lounge are two shows that just put me in a completely different mental space than I am typically in, and that makes a huge difference when I'm switching gears on a coding project or trying to start making a new design for marketing.

EconTalk. Many different subjects viewed through the lens of economics. Generally free market outlook but incredibly thoughtful and always interesting guests.

The History of Byzantium. Follows Mike Duncan’s The History Of Rome and carries the story on in the eastern empire.

Hardcore History

The Editors. If anyone is looking for the steel man (as opposed to straw man) version of the conservative perspective on the news of the day, this podcast from National Review fits the bill.

My favorite podcast is No Dumb Questions. It has Destin from Smarter Every Day and his friend Matt Whitman (from the YouTube channel “Ten Minute Bible Hour”)

They do really awesome episodes on History or aspects of history that they’re interested in. The best one of these imo is ‘Siege Warfare’ episode. Other than that they talk about books and friendship. It’s a fun podcast.

1) The Archers (BBC) - to improve English

2) Reluctant Persuaders (BBC) - Comedy

3) EastEnders - just started

4) Intelligence Matters

5) Software Engineering Daily

Looks like Business Wars by Wondery hasn’t been mentioned here yet, but I’ve become a fan of late.

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.

Soft skills engineering - because it takes more than great code to be a great engineer

No such thing as a fish - Comedy podcast talking about unusual facts produced by the QI researchers (QI is a popular BBC comedic quiz show)

The Economist morning briefing

Some football/soccer podcasts (Totally football show, Zonal marking)

Some foreign language podcasts (Italian Scientificast)

Inside the Ethics Committee BBC Radio 4. Not many episodes, and getting quite old now, but still an interesting look at medical ethics and UK law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007xbtd

There's a bunch of audio comedy that I love, but it comes and goes -- BBC Radio 4 don't keep it up on their website. (Party, Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Cabin Pressure, Bleak Expectations, Don't Start -- most of these are available to buy or from other sources).

They've also put this page up and some of these look interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5Jrn1bynjTc6tPj3SV...

Steve Gibson’s Security Now. grc.com/sn.

80,000 Hours.

Darknet diaries

If you're interested in Django, Django Chat by Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson is great:

https://djangochat.com

It’s a relatively new one:

Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Kati Halper.

Duncan Trussel Family Hour

Daily Update - Stratechery

Philosophize This!