Ask HN: What podcasts do you watch regularly?

[SRSimko]

I'm a big fan of podcasts and I'm always looking to discover new shows. I'm curious what shows do you watch / listen to on a regular basis? I'm a big fan of:

Mixergy, TWiT, This Week in Venture Capital, This Week in Startups, Sitepoint, Standford Entrepreneurship Videos (not sure if that is considered a podcast), Reporters' Roundtable

You?

[tomjen3]

Hardcore History. It's a very good show about various fascinating topics in history, such as the fall of the Roman Republic, the war on the eastern front in WWII, Apache Culture and it's demise, etc.

It's obviously very far from startups, but I think every curious hacker would be interested and there is such a huge break between the episodes that it doesn't take too much time to follow it.

You can download the episodes here [http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php?page=hharchive]. If you don't know where to start either try show 32 since it is a self contained episode or shows 27 through 30 if you have more time (and the stomach).

[jsm386]

Hardcore History: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh - Best way to describe it is 'geeking' out on History. The host is a journalist - not a historian - but he does his research.

[Dramatize]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[dsuriano]

5by5's shows: The Talk Show, Hypocritical, Build and Analyze.

http://5by5.tv/

[swilliams]

Back to Work (http://5by5.tv/b2w) is one of my favorites too. It's not tech-centric, but offers some fantastic insight into life outside of the text editor. And if you're lucky, Merlin might do a Dr. Phil impression.

[jcstauffer]

I think it's actually hypercritical, but I like your name better :)

[andyford]

For the OP (and HN readers in general), I recommend Founders Talk - http://5by5.tv/founderstalk. But make sure to check the list of all the shows - http://5by5.tv/broadcasts - lots of good ones.

[bradleyland]

5by5's shows are great live as well. They keep a backchannel open on IRC at #5by5 that has a fairly regular crew. Dan's an excellent host in that he's adept at skimming the backchannel for direction and relevant items.

[sambeau]

I realise that Gruber gets a load of bashing on HN of late. But I love The Talk Show. It hits just the right not of apple, tech, film and schoolboy sniggering.

I especially like the schoolboy sniggering.

[pstinnett]

The Pipeline is another good 5by5.tv show. It's just interviews made by Dan Benjamin, different people each episode, but it's usually great!

[SRSimko]

Looks like they have a bunch of great shows I look forward to exploring.

[yan]

I always keep up with: This American Life (thisamericanlife.org), Radiolab (radiolab.org), Planet Money (npr.org/blogs/money/) and The Brain Science Podcast (brainsciencepodcast.com). Others are more on a per-episode bases.

[barapa]

RadioLab from NPR in NYC. Interesting stories from a science perspective, with a very cool story-telling format.

http://www.radiolab.org/

[zumbojo]

37signals Podcast, This Developer's Life, Freakonomics Radio, Hanselminutes (in addition to several already mentioned by others).

[DomainNoob]

In addition to many of those already mentioned I like... Bookworm! Deep interviews with authors: http://feeds.kcrw.com/kcrw/bw Stewart Brand's Long Now Foundation talks: http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml This Week In Venture Capital w Mark Suster: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThisWeekInVentureCapital-audio Stuff Mom Never Told You: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-mom-never-told-y... LA Public Library ALOUD talks: http://events.lapl.org/podcasts/rss/itunes/aloudrss.aspx Futures in Biotech: http://leo.am/podcasts/fib/ Fora.tv audio podcast of the week: http://fora.tv/media/rss/podcasts/featured_audio.xml Econ Talk with Russ Roberts: http://www.econlib.org/library/EconTalk.xml C-SPAN After Words: http://www.c-span.org/XML/podcast/aw_feed.xml Big Ideas: http://feeds.tvo.org/tvobigideas Automate My Small Business: http://automatemysmallbusiness.com/podcast/ A Prairie Home Companion: http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/podcasts/xml/prai...

[zdw]

http://packetpushers.net/

It's a networking podcast mainly focused on high end datacenter stuff, but also they have a wireless specific podcast periodically. If you're into hardware and systems engineering, it's quite interesting. They also get a lot of vendors on and really grill them.

[nerdyworm]

http://castcurator.com/ Mostly just the music stuff I listen to and a few recommendations that I got over the past few days. I will go ahead and add all the podcasts that pop up in this thread and create a HN feed for them.

[harold]

The Changelog, The Dev Show, Floss Weekly, Linux Outlaws, No Agenda, Startups for the Rest of Us

[joeguilmette]

I listen to 'Stuff You Should Know' by Chuck and Josh at HowStuffWorks.com. The topic is usually very interesting and the hosts are very entertaining. While it is usually very well researched, I like that it is light enough that I don't have to pay attention to every sentence.

Who Charted and Doug Loves Movies are pretty good 'brain off' entertainment as well. And I've listened to Planet Money and This American Life for years and years and years.

[seanc]

Many good podcasts at the CBC! (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation):

Dispatches: Former international correspondent Rick MacInnes-Rae talks to his international correspondent friends - http://www.cbc.ca/dispatches/

Ideas: One hour lectures and discussions with people who think deep thoughts about a wide variety of topics - http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/

[stevenp]

For politics with some humor injected, I like to keep up with the Majority Report (majority.fm), and the Stephanie Miller Show (stephaniemiller.com).

I also regularly keep up with the Slate Political and Pop Culture "Gabfest" podcasts, although they can be a bit dry and elitist at times.

For pure entertainment, I like Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and The Moth is also great if you like shows like "This American Life" but can't always commit to a whole hour.

[jhonnycano]

I listen regularly http://eslpod.com and is a very good help for us non native-english speakers

[mcrider]

Just checked out startups for the rest of us from harold's recommendation.. Looks good. Anyone have any other good recommendations about startup podcasts? Other than This week in startups--I can't stand Calacanis.

Also, I recommend Too Much Information (http://tmipodcast.com/) -- Interesting topics and wry humor, its a good listen.

[swanson]

I try out a few new podcasts every quarter. The three that have stuck (in order of enjoyment): TechZing, Changelog, Founders Talk

http://techzinglive.com/ http://thechangelog.com/ http://5by5.tv/founderstalk

[3dFlatLander]

Astronomy Cast -- They have a pretty big show archive that has aged very well.

In Our Time, a BBC radio podcast focusing on history.

PBS Frontline (a tv show, not a podcast) streams all their shows online. Great for current events.

The Economist Audio Edition requires subscription to magazine, but if you want to catch up on the entire world in a couple of hours, this is the way to go.

[staunch]

The History of Rome. http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

"A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending (someday) with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire."

[stuartjmoore]

For something a little different, my choice for non-Hacker Newsesque podcast would have to be Comedy Death Ray Radio (http://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-death-ray-radio-scott-auk...).

The single funniest thing I've ever heard.

[russjhammond]

WTF w/ Marc Maron - he is a comedian that has been around forever, though I had never heard of him but interviews other comedians every week. The best episodes so far are the ones with Carlos Mencia, Robin Williams and Louis CK.

Also - Monocle Weekly - These are the guys that make Monocle magazine.