What are your favourite podcasts? (Anything related to Life, philosophy, science, startups, coding, VC, art, marketing, design etc...)
Huge caveat: He got his start with "The History of Rome" so it takes him a while to warm up and relax. The first 25 or so episodes are a little more "here is the story as we know it" where as after that he adds some humor and it becomes the story of Rome instead of a list of facts.
Other ones I have enjoyed:
Listen Money Matters - a great no nonsense podcast about personal finance. It is a great jumping off point. They talk about all kinds of topics related to personal finance so you won't get bored.
The Finance Independence Podcast - This is not as regular as other podcasts but I feel the interviews on this one are a lot more engaging and thought provoking.
How I Built This - Fun show about how CEOs and founders came up with the idea that took them to the moon. Its little self congratulatory but also fun to hear the stories.
The History of Byzantium. Follows Mike Duncan’s The History Of Rome and carries the story on in the eastern empire.
Hardcore History
The Editors. If anyone is looking for the steel man (as opposed to straw man) version of the conservative perspective on the news of the day, this podcast from National Review fits the bill.
Friday Night Comedy from the BBC. If you like satirical comedy and an English sense of humour then The News Quiz and The Now Show are the best there is.
The Art of Product , Build Your SaaS and Out of Beta are great if following along as people build bootstrapped start-ups is your thing.
Startups for the Rest of Us is the OG bootstrapped start-up podcast.
Planet Money and The Indicator, both from PBS, cover business, economics and society and make it interesting.
Flash Forward, by Rose Eveleth, a trip to a possible future then a walk through how we get there.
2) Reluctant Persuaders (BBC) - Comedy
3) EastEnders - just started
4) Intelligence Matters
5) Software Engineering Daily
For those who don't know, The Archers is a long running radio soap opera in a rural setting and featuring lots of aspects of rural life.
She suggested listening to The Archers daily for 12 min can improve listening skills
There's a bunch of audio comedy that I love, but it comes and goes -- BBC Radio 4 don't keep it up on their website. (Party, Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Cabin Pressure, Bleak Expectations, Don't Start -- most of these are available to buy or from other sources).
They've also put this page up and some of these look interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5Jrn1bynjTc6tPj3SV...
They do really awesome episodes on History or aspects of history that they’re interested in. The best one of these imo is ‘Siege Warfare’ episode. Other than that they talk about books and friendship. It’s a fun podcast.
No such thing as a fish - Comedy podcast talking about unusual facts produced by the QI researchers (QI is a popular BBC comedic quiz show)
The Economist morning briefing
Some football/soccer podcasts (Totally football show, Zonal marking)
Some foreign language podcasts (Italian Scientificast)
99% Invisible. A podcast about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. https://99percentinvisible.org/
New York Times The Daily
The Wall Street Journal & Gimlet
Financial Times Banking Weekly
Snacks Daily - The best podcast so far about financial news.
They comment on all industries that move the market - being
milk and dairy to banks and tech. Short but very fun!Pivot: Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk (mostly tech) business. It’s excellent and Scott is really fun.
Hacks on tap: former chief obama campaign strategist David Axelrod and republican campaign consultant Mike Murphy talk politics for an hour. They know their stuff.
*Intelligence Matters: foreign affairs podcast hosted by
former #2 at the CIA. He’s a pretty good interviewer and
I’ve learned a ton about how our govt perceives global
threats.*
** The governments don't understand these topics. **
Bloggingheads.tv/meaningoflife.tv, particularly with Robert Wright, Glenn Loury, DMZ
CoinTalk - commentary of events going on in the crypto space
Lawfare, National security law, cyberlaw podcast
Very Bad Wizards
Sport/team specific podcasts
NYT The Daily, really good interviews on current topics, by a really annoying interviewer.
Le Show, Harry Shearer. Some people here will like his skepticism of IoT (and some people here will not).
Radiolab.
Science Weekly, The Guardian.
Hidden Brain.
Freakonomics Radio.
Marketplace.
NPR Planet Money
Armchair Expert by Dax Shepard
Joe Rogan Experience
Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Kati Halper.
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Daily Update - Stratechery
Philosophize This!
"Developer Tea" (hosted by Jonathan Cutrell) - because being a great developer is not just write code.
"Frontend Happy Hour" (https://twitter.com/frontendhh) - I like the way they do it, before they start, they will pick a word, and if you say that word, you need to drink. cheers!