Ask HN: Podcast Recommendations?

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I have a couple friends who have recently been getting into podcasts. They've been asking me for suggestions. So I wanted to put together a list of podcasts (programming or any genre) that I can send to anyone.

I started a google sheet (link below). Do you guys have any recommendations?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kLWzTcsBMlwRjP71qWPYYa5NDwjFqbChdwG37PyQEKA/edit#gid=0

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For economics and economy-related cultural topics, I really like NPR's Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/127413729/planet-money/). The episodes on average are really short (anything from 6 to 20 minutes) so they're great for a quick passtime.

The polar opposite would be Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, with each episode seldom less than four hours. But with a fantastic narration and historical research that's head and shoulders beyond any other podcast I've ever seen (https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/)

LSE's Public Lectures and Podcasts is a great resource as well for more academic topics, albeit more in politics and economics rather than tech: (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/london-school-economics-...)

Mike Rowe's podcast is another one that's great for when you need just to plug in a few minutes gap of free time with just general amusement and stories (http://mikerowe.com/podcast/)

A subject of interest to me personally is true crime and criminal justice, and there are plenty of quality podcasts on the subject. Two of the best out there are Sword and Scale (http://swordandscale.com/), and Criminal (http://www.thisiscriminal.com).

You can find a LOT of dev-related podcasts on dev.to site: https://dev.to/pod

Awesome, I didn't know they had podcast links! Thanks

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