Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022?

[hnu0847]

What were your favorite podcast episodes of 2022?

Mine were:

Hardcore History Blitz 68 - Human Resources (https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-human-resources/) - discusses the history of the Atlantic slave trade

Fall of Civilizations 16: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ - discusses the rise and fall of the Bagan Empire of Myanmar

Lex Fridman #309 - John Carmack (https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/)

The Missing Cryptoqueen 11: Operation Satellite (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads) - this is the latest episode in an ongoing BBC series that investigates the whereabouts of Ruja Ignatova, founder of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam. I recommend starting from episode 1 if you're not familiar with the story.

[adamredwoods]

Sewage Sleuths:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/aug/15/sewage-sl...

Two professors noticed their streams in England and Wales had less fish, and through their persistence and interesting detective work, uncovered a massive private wastewater fraud, and government inadequacies. Was really good to listen to for both the detective work and navigating politics.

[aato]

The John Carmack interview with Lex Friedman - it reminded me that becoming a specialized IC can be a viable terminal career state; that moving into management needn’t be the ultimate goal.

[solardev]

How so? Didn't he move to Meta to manage/lead their VR efforts, then left that for his own startup?

That doesn't mean he never gets to code anymore, but he's not really just an IC anymore, is he?

[binarynate]

Acquired's episode on the history of Enron:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/enron

[digianarchist]

There have been a few good episodes this year:

Walmart - https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/walmart

Amazon - https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-com

AWS - https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-web-services

[hardwaresofton]

Shameless plug, if you’re looking to download any of these, try podcastsaver.com (I built it).

It does what it sounds like — make it easy to download podcasts

[pablo24602]

Very cool and useful- how does it work? Does the podcast index allow you to download episodes through their api? Didn't know such a website was possible

[youniverse]

Darknet Diaries is wonderful podcast overall and very entertaining to me.

The latest two part episodes of Gollumfun #128 and #129 were great. He interviews 'Gollumfun' who was one of the biggest players in the online underground. His story is just wild!

[theturtletalks]

The stuxnet one blew my mind. All these US departments coming together secretly to knee-cap Iran’s nuclear program. And the irony being that the worm was so good, it leaked into the outside world and wreaked havoc. Only when a malware specialist looked at the code, did he see the sophistication and the multiple zero-days exploits used. The journalist who uncovered all of this rightfully won the Pulitzer.

[sedawk]

Darknet Diaries: XBox Underground. It was very fascinating, nothing short of a thriller movie, the way it plays out from simple desire to hack into the realm of criminal seems almost unreal.

[gmassman]

Anaka Harris on Lex’s podcast was fascinating. I loved hearing her perspective on consciousness and the limits of scientific inquiry. Second to that was the John Carmack interview which lots of folks on HN seemed to enjoy!

[thorin]

The first one I thought of was John Carmack. Also the broken record podcast of rick rubin doing interviews of all of the red hot chili peppers had some fantastic stories.

Edit, the lex episode with Jack Barsky too ( spy)

[mushbino]

Blowback seasons 2 & 3 were both great. If you're into history at all.

[Philipp0205]

Not episodes but Podcasts:

Hunting Warhead: Follows a journalist and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/387-hunting-warhead

Death in ice valley: Podcast investigating a mystery about a dead women in Norway unsolved for almost half a century.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttp4

The Outlaw Ocean: A seven-part series that explores a gritty and lawless realm rarely seen, populated by traffickers and smugglers, pirates etc.

https://www.theoutlawocean.com/the-outlaw-ocean-podcast/

[srge]

What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health by Huberman Lab

[xyzwave]

Also the cannabis episode.

Sobering (no pun intended) look at just how detrimental cannabis can be to the brain. Covers everything from grey matter volume reductions, to tonal shifts in speech and memory loss.

I would have liked to have seen more coverage of CBD, as all signs point to it being a buffer against THC’s negative effects, but the recent science paints a fairly grim portrait of THC’s affect on cognition.

[ezhux]

Bjork - Sonic Symbolism is blowing me away at the moment, it's hard to pick a single episode.

https://pod.link/bjork

[jolancer]

Thanks for that. This is wonderful.

[topicseed]

BBC Sounds — F1 Spygate (Sport's Strangest Crimes)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dg9kj4

And quite a few from Darknet Diaries, as always.

[nicbou]

Martyrmade. I knew nothing about the history of Israel.

If you like Hardcore History, you'll like Martyrmade too.

[vallove]

Episode with Carmack definitely!!

I’d also recommend The Changelog #484 - with Brian Kernighan ( https://changelog.com/podcast/484 )

[TotoHorner]

How do you compare Fall of Civilizations to Hardcore History?

Big fan of hardcore history (listened to all of the multi-part series several times), but never heard of Fall of Civilizations.

[kranke155]

Pretty sure r/AskHistorians considers Hardcore History to be really innacurate.

BBC’s In Our Time podcast is a far superior counterpart, where academics from leading universities discuss a chose topic. It’s well moderated and beautifully informative.

[birdymcbird]

Hard to pick specific episodes but all in and this week in tech were my favorite podcasts.

Lex Friedman interviews with Robin Hanson on “grabby aliens” and Carmack were also really god

[madspindel]

Jesse Michels interview with Graham Hancock:

https://youtu.be/dfPfPB601hw

[kyriakos]

Hot Money by Financial Times

Think of it as a brief history of online adult content industry. Not the best execution but reveals some good information.

[ParadisoShlee]

Every episode of Trash Future has given me more insight than fud.

[jolancer]

I will check out Missing Cryptoqueen right now.

I can't remember if it came out this year or last year but the Exit Scam series about Gerald Cotten, the bitcoin guy that everyone thought faked his death in India, is my all time fav. https://www.exitscam.show/