I listen to an assortment of NPR podcasts, namely NPR's Book of the Day, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Wild Card with Rachel Martin, and the TED Radio Hour. I sometimes listen to Up First as well when I'm not in the mood to spend two hours listening to Morning Edition.
Got tired of npr and now get my news from monocle radio podcasts even though I'm not an "ultra-high-net-worth individual". I find it more international-focused and since I live in Europe more relevant to me.
Revisionist History - The recent Alabama Murders story was a super interesting look into the death penalty.
The Colin & Samir show - interviews with Youtube creators. Recent John Johnson interview about doing stand up comedy for youtube was hilarious.
Lsat 12 months I listened to lots of Peter Attia, for health and aging information but not listening to him anymore because I found the Epstein emails problematic.
Latent Space gets a lot of play from me.
Darknet diaries is always great.
Corecursive, because I'm making it. Working on new episode about social media algorithms.
The Adventure Zone, Hardcore History, The Rest is History, Fall of Civilisations, The All in Pod, Planet Money, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Noclip Crewcast, The Retro Hour, The WAN Show and a bunch of podcasts in Spanish and Norwegian that I doubt anymore would care about.
Good nerd stories, alas it was cancelled, so no new ones:
- Uncharted with Hannah Fry
Some great fiction:
- Achewillow - horror, but not excessively horrible.
- Desert Skies - humor, about folks who work in the first sphere of the afterlife, folks who are recently dead and arrive in Buick Skylarks are equipped with microwaveable burritos and information about the spheres to come.
Fantastic poetry:
- Poetry Unbound
Really fantastic interviews, alas, it's no longer updated:
Here's my usual playlist (tilted towards policy stuff):
The Realignment
AI Summer w/Dean Ball (he has a good substack too)
Dwarkesh Podcast
American Diplomat
Marginal Revolution (also has a good blog)
Statecraft with Santi Ruiz
The Dynamist
Derisky Business from Center for a New American Security
School of War
The Sunday Show by Tech Policy Press (also has a newsletter)
Econtalk
Natsec Tech by SCSP
Politico Tech (also a range of newsletters)
ChinaTalk
CQ Rollcall
Goodfellows by the Hoover Institution
Hudson Institute Events Podcast
Conversations With Tyler
.think atlantic
Building for the Future by CSIS
Into Africa by CSIS
War on the Rocks
Rational Security
The Vergecast
A16z podcast
Not particularly 'educational' at all, but "My dad wrote a Porno". Was recommended it by a friend and have been wetting myself laughing on the work commute.
Also "Stuff you should know" is a super popular one that always gets a listen.
My podcast would be a good fit for this audience. Three engineer friends and a rotating guest each pitch a tech product or startup idea that we wished existed, but don't have time to build ourselves. Bicycle Lasertag, Cabinets that _are_ Dishwashers, Planetarium Swimming Pools, etc.
The ones that feel the most like they "get me" are probably Weird Studies and Very Bad Wizards. I'm a fan of Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast too.
When I want to dip into political news, I trust the Fifth Column guys to have fairly measured and reasonable takes with a vaguely libertarian bent. I have a handful of other political shows too from various perspectives of the aisle that I'll sometimes tune into when something big seems to be happening, but I generally don't consume much politics.
Also, I'd be remiss not to mention the excellent Knifepoint Horror, whose creator has been delivering exemplary horror short fiction of a very particular style for over a decade now. I always listen to those basically immediately after they come out.
I find sort of escape in listening to non-technical podcast giving more of a insight into how broad, curios and overall marvelous and different the world is.
Granted, there are good podcasts, but I've switched my listening time (mostly commute for in office once a week) to audiobooks. I find books to be much more consistently high quality content, regardless of the source. There are bad books, but the quality tends to be higher than podcasts. I mostly get audiobooks through my library, but I also sometimes listen through Spotify.
https://thespaceabove.us/ extremely good listen with a lot of details in the early years of the space program. I found renewed interest in the area. Even started replicating some of the missions in KSP
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 62.0 ms ] threadAlso from the BBC, the 13 Minutes series (?): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xttx2
...and The Fall of Civilisations: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fall-of-civilizations-...
...ocasionally a smattering of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.
Really curious to see what other people are listening to.
I'm trying to be a bit more "intentional" with my podcasts, especially as its easy to amass a huge list of stuff and then not listen to 95% of them.
Edit: grammar
The Colin & Samir show - interviews with Youtube creators. Recent John Johnson interview about doing stand up comedy for youtube was hilarious.
Lsat 12 months I listened to lots of Peter Attia, for health and aging information but not listening to him anymore because I found the Epstein emails problematic.
Latent Space gets a lot of play from me.
Darknet diaries is always great.
Corecursive, because I'm making it. Working on new episode about social media algorithms.
- Uncharted with Hannah Fry
Some great fiction:
- Achewillow - horror, but not excessively horrible.
- Desert Skies - humor, about folks who work in the first sphere of the afterlife, folks who are recently dead and arrive in Buick Skylarks are equipped with microwaveable burritos and information about the spheres to come.
Fantastic poetry:
- Poetry Unbound
Really fantastic interviews, alas, it's no longer updated:
- Partners by Hriskikesh Hirway
Linguistics and language:
- The Allusionist
Tabletop RPG:
- My First Dungeon
The Realignment AI Summer w/Dean Ball (he has a good substack too) Dwarkesh Podcast American Diplomat Marginal Revolution (also has a good blog) Statecraft with Santi Ruiz The Dynamist Derisky Business from Center for a New American Security School of War The Sunday Show by Tech Policy Press (also has a newsletter) Econtalk Natsec Tech by SCSP Politico Tech (also a range of newsletters) ChinaTalk CQ Rollcall Goodfellows by the Hoover Institution Hudson Institute Events Podcast Conversations With Tyler .think atlantic Building for the Future by CSIS Into Africa by CSIS War on the Rocks Rational Security The Vergecast A16z podcast
Also "Stuff you should know" is a super popular one that always gets a listen.
https://spitball.show
Darknet diaries
The Cine-Files
60 songs that explain the 90s: the 2000s
Hackaday Podcast
EconTalk w/Russ Roberts
The Jay Martin Show
Unherd with Freddie Sayers
The Winston Marshall Show
The Chris Hedges Report
And a couple of watch nerd shows on YouTube:
Teddy Baldassare
This Watch, That Watch
When I want to dip into political news, I trust the Fifth Column guys to have fairly measured and reasonable takes with a vaguely libertarian bent. I have a handful of other political shows too from various perspectives of the aisle that I'll sometimes tune into when something big seems to be happening, but I generally don't consume much politics.
Also, I'd be remiss not to mention the excellent Knifepoint Horror, whose creator has been delivering exemplary horror short fiction of a very particular style for over a decade now. I always listen to those basically immediately after they come out.
Oxide and friends: From oxide conputers, great tech interviews and various tech topics
Geopolitical cousins: weekly take on geopolitics that doesn't feel dreadful
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Search Engine https://www.searchengine.show
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