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Ask HN: What are your favorite podcast episodes, and who might enjoy them?

65 points| arikr | 8 years ago

Some of mine:

Tim Ferriss with Naval Ravikant, also Naval with Shane Parrish/Farnam Street - who: people interested in business, philosophy, and self-improvement

Austin Allred with on IndieHackers - who: people who want to hear about a cool business and a thoughtful founder

Tim Ferriss with James Fadiman - people interested in psychedelics

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[+] yoshamano|8 years ago|reply
Revisionist History - McDonald's Broke My Heart

The copy on the website does a much better job explaining the episode than I could.

"McDonald’s used to make the best fast food french fries in the world — until they changed their recipe in 1990. Revisionist History travels to the top food R&D lab in the country to discover what was lost, and why for the past generation we’ve been eating french fries that taste like cardboard."

I like all of the episodes, but this is a fun one to dig into if you've never listened before. Most of the episodes are more serious than this one.

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my...

[+] blain_the_train|8 years ago|reply
Is it because people will keep coming back for bland food?
[+] 34c13|8 years ago|reply
Darknet Diaries EP 6 - Beirut Bank Job with Jayson E. Street - who: people who are interested in physical security and human factor security.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/6/

Darknet Diaries EP 7,8 - Manfred: Hacking Online Video Games for Fun - who: people who want to know why application security and input validation is so damn important

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/7/

Darknet Diaries EP9: The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox - who: for those who want to understand what happened with all the bitcoins in mt gox

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/9/

There are many security podcasts out there but there are few that are as thrilling as the darknet diaries.

[+] AndrewStephens|8 years ago|reply
Never heard of this podcast before. Thanks for sharing it.
[+] andrei_says_|8 years ago|reply
Framelab with linguist George Lakoff if you would like to understand the (hidden) logic behind the seemingly insane political speech, including presidential tweets.

Also, on the huge impact of and practice of framing conversations and arguments.

Opened my eyes in many ways.

I’d start with the first episode: https://overcast.fm/+LU9RmhR6s

[+] hoare|8 years ago|reply
I really enjoy listening to hardcore history by Dan Carlin. Which is, no surprise, about history:) You could almost forget it's not an audio book from audible but a history podcast
[+] AndrewStephens|8 years ago|reply
If you like Dan Carlin, I would also recommend The British History Podcast[0], an epic more-or-less chronological take on the history of the British Isles. The host can really spin a yarn, and it is taken from primary sources.

[0] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com

[+] dccoolgai|8 years ago|reply
Been reading history my whole life and Wrath of the Khans radically changed the way I thought of everything after that.
[+] ng-user|8 years ago|reply
Recently, David Goggins on the JRE (Joe Rogan Experience).

I had no idea of this man's story prior to listening to the 2 hour podcast. It really sheds light on his incredible work ethic.

[+] jrjames83|8 years ago|reply
JRE did a good job with that interview. He has some good recent interviews on Jim Rome and Mark Divine (Sealfit). Definitely a good listen once or twice a month to hammer home a proper state of mind.
[+] Jaepa|8 years ago|reply
The Changelog - Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves

I'm not sure why I found this so fascinating, but I did. The topic was about monitoring and managing Type 1 Diabetes with a homebrew Raspberry Pi.

https://changelog.com/podcast/261

Also TechDirt - "Copyright, Music & 'Theft'"

[+] sheppards|8 years ago|reply
The wide-ranging podcasts/lectures hosted through the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/) are certainly worth exploring...

And nobody mentioned Cheap Astronomy yet (http://www.cheapastro.com) . Go for the physics and astronomy, stay for the great accent...

[+] jonmurphy1618|8 years ago|reply
Web3 with Fabian Vogelsteller by Software Engineering Daily https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/

Releases episodes 5 days a week, 40-60mins long, all related to software engineering but range from business development to blockchain backend.

The episodes are very structured which I really like but some interesting subjects are cut short to maintain the intended structure.

[+] Sonnol53|8 years ago|reply
Recode Decode- Interviews with leaders in tech (sometimes politics and entertainment) to talk about modern issues revolving the tech industry.
[+] tbihl|8 years ago|reply
Econtalk with Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns: an eye-opening discussion on why American towns and suburbs have their car-dominated form.

Conversations with Tyler -- Ben Sasse

I recommend listening to lots of econtalk, strong towns (I prefer the earlier ones), and conversations with Tyler.

[+] tmaly|8 years ago|reply
There were quite a few on the Tim Ferriss podcast that I enjoyed, but I did not have a great way to bookmark them.

I did share them with friends.

The Startup Chat with Steli and Hiten also had some great short episodes.

If you like Seth Godin, he has a new podcast called Akimbo that I have really enjoyed.

[+] Sonnol53|8 years ago|reply
Still Processing - Those who enjoy watching movies and talking about tech and thinking one step further about cultural impact/ implications of how movies/ tech are portrayed.
[+] pimlottc|8 years ago|reply
Meta note: OP is asking for specific episodes, not just podcasts.