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

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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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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...

Is it because people will keep coming back for bland food?

> why for the past generation we’ve been eating french fries that taste like cardboard

We could both listen to the podcast but I'll guess and say it's because they don't use beef tallow in their fries anymore after vegetarians complained.

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.

Never heard of this podcast before. Thanks for sharing it.

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

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

Been reading history my whole life and Wrath of the Khans radically changed the way I thought of everything after that.

A follow up for people that enjoy hardcore history, would be The History Of Rome by Mike Duncan. All of The History of Rome is available on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItwGz43a_ak&list=PLmhKTejvqn...

It's really great that it's on YT because it allows you to listen to the podcast at a faster speed.

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

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.

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.

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'"

First of, the episodes that Jerry Colonna took part in in Gimlet Media's podcasts, which are:

https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/shadowed-qualities-seaso...

https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/running-a-family-and-a-b...

https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/sell-apartment-keep-star...

And then I'd recommend Jerry's own podcast series: The Reboot Podcast

Erwin McManus – The Problem With Love

http://pca.st/episode/43d50de0-b75b-0133-2e57-6dc413d6d41d

Erwin McManus – Don't Give Up Your Freedom

https://castbox.fm/episode/Don't-Give-Up-Your-Freedom-id5651...

Erwin McManus – Why Jesus?

https://castbox.fm/episode/Why-Jesus%3F-id5651-id655230?coun...

Here are two of my favorite Freakonomics podcasts:

1) Improving Social Trust would help the economy as much as a tax cut.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/trust-me-rebroadcast-2/

2) We underestimate our "tailwinds" and overestimate our "headwinds". This relates to many discussions, including issues of privilege:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/life-hard-rebroadcast-2/

If you're fascinated by Supreme Court cases, I can't recommend highly enough Radiolab's More Perfect. They really open up your eyes into why cases were decided in that manner and the history behind the cases!

This podcast on the Commerce Clause is my favorite so far.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-perfect...

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...

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.

Recode Decode- Interviews with leaders in tech (sometimes politics and entertainment) to talk about modern issues revolving the tech industry.

Unfriend Me:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unfriend-me/id1290475944...

http://feeds.frogpants.com/unfriendme_feed.xml

Touchy topics civily discussed.

I am going to shamelessly link to a blog post where I answered this exact question.

https://sheep.horse/2018/3/podcasts_worth_listening_to.html

My interests tend towards history, film, and music.

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.

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.

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.

Meta note: OP is asking for specific episodes, not just podcasts.

Programmer Throwdown is pretty solid.. I don't have a favorite episode but they guys are great

I think you're referring to Programming Throwdown (http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/).

Jim Florentine's podcast has pretty good commentary on cringey social media posting trends.

To Be Continuous, by Heavybit - who: software developers, project managers, startup-founders

Excellent question.

Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. (helped comb up some memes I had)(man, that politics is hairy like dreadlocks, like a relegion)

The Prisoner's dilemma on Radiolab. (opened up my 3rd eye, otherwise I can't stand their over-production)

Waking Up with Sam Harris. Fascinating conversations for anyone who likes to have their mind changed.

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