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Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?

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I started listening to my first podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, late last year. I only picked episodes with guests who really interested me. Some of my favorites were the ones with Jamie Foxx, Neil deGrasse Tyson, David Goggins, and Sam Harris.

But now, I’ve gone through all the episodes with guests I care about, and I’m looking for something new to dive into.

What podcasts do you enjoy, or what Joe Rogan episodes did you like that I should give a listen?

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All In, if you’re looking for a mix of technology, business, and politics. The hosts are all investors from the tech world.

Investors are the worst people to hear about these topics from. In general, Silicon Valley VCs are the most arrogant and clueless category of people I've come across in the business world.

They're usually people who attribute their success entirely to their own intelligence/wisdom, even though it's usually mostly luck, being born into a wealthy family, and/or fortunate timing. They then think they can examine every other topic in the world on first principles with no education on those topics at all, and they come up with some of the absolute dumbest takes. Calcanis and Sacks in particular are idiots with enormous egos.

Maybe OP wants to hear right-wing talking points from wealthy people who support fascists, I don't know. But they could at least get these takes from people who are educated on the topics they discuss.

It’s one of the most popular podcasts around for a reason. And you may label them as idiots but they’re successful and listening or watching just one episode would make it clear they are intelligent. Your note on “right wing” to describe lifetime democrats and “fascists”, which is meaningless and overused, maybe will deter some. But for open minded and curious people, I think it’s a great listen, even if you disagree with them.

My first instinct was to say I was shocked that he was impressed with Rogan, but I know that's fruitless because so many people are impressed with Rogan.

Right-wing or not, Rogan and his guests blow it out their ass for every episode but his audience laps it up. There are real experts there that spend 10, 20 or 30 years learning something and would really feel bad if they got it wrong, whereas Rogan and his guests live in a universe where they can make up whatever "alternative facts" [1] that entertain or possibly please the audience and it shocks me that this pandering works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

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