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Comment by BjoernKW | Hacker News Reader

The first one is a very well-known and popular one: The Tim Ferriss Show is a long-form interview show with a single guest per episode. It provides profound insights on a wide range of topics and areas of life (given the guests' diverse backgrounds). In Tim Ferriss' own words the show's aim is to deconstruct world-class performers and tease out their tactics, tools, and routines: https://tim.blog/podcast/

Revolutions is an in-depth history podcast about, well, revolutions: https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ So far, it has covered - amongst others, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the Springtime of the Peoples (1848) and the Mexican Revolution. The current season is about the Russian Revolution.

Another amazing history podcast is 'The History of England', which provides meticulous detail on England's long and colourful history: https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/

I really struggle to listen to Tim Ferriss's podcast.

He has amazing guests, but he'll routinely spend 2-3 full minutes asking a single question. After the fifth or sixth clause in a single (question) sentence, I just want to shake him and yell "shut up and let your guest answer!!!"

The interviewing style feels as if he weren't expecting a conversation, as if he had one and only one shot to fully qualify and give context to every single question before mailing them to a person in a far-away place.

Aside from the interviewing style, the breath-taking amount of ads generally keep me away from his podcast except for a few guests I simply must hear.

I can listen to Tim just fine, but I had similar problem with Andrew Warner of Mixergy.

If you'd like a cliffs-notes version of the podcast, that is what most of Tim's books.

I.e. Tools of Titans are very much this and I heard Tribe of Mentors is similar in this regard.

This is a major pet peeve of mine. I use the breaker app to cut through the umm and hmmms but I wish there was a way to summarize what the speaker is saying as well, and cut away the part when they are just overiterating the obvious. (by comparing the transcribed audio to the footnotes perhaps)

Timmy is the worst interviewer on pods... Asks questions that don't require him even to be present..in fact, some of his shows he isn't (and they are arguably better). He should learn to listen and actually have discussions.

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