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Ask HN: What are some podcasts you listen to?

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First and foremost, dancarlin.com for both his political and history podcasts. If you have not heard any of his history podcasts, please give it a listen.

Next would be Marc Maron at wtfpod.com and the occassional Kevin Smith smodcast. Really liking the new Fraiser podcast he is doing with Matt Mira

Dead Robot Society and Narrative Breakdown, because I do a lot of writing

And of course my podcast I do with 2 friends on writing and technology, typehammer.com

Yes, there are no programming podcasts listed. I guessed that is what you may have been looking for, and if so, sorry.

Seconded Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. It is awesome. He is an amazing storyteller and makes history come to life in a way that is fascinating and very approachable.

I've walked many, many miles with Dan Carlin in my ear.

for those of you who like history and can understand spanish, I really like "ser historia con nacho ares" its always got interesting subject matter and is really well put together. http://www.nachoares.com/seccion/ser-historia/

For literature, I like BBC 4 Open Book, its a pretty good way for me to find new books and authors to read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrsfl/episodes/downloads

Another one thats short and sweet for language enthusiast is "sozusagen!" auf BR2. (German though) http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/kultur/sozusagen/sozusagen112....

Those are the only ones that have stuck with me over the years and continually delivered good content for stuff I'm interested in.

Long time listener of Big Picture Science[1]. Lately also enjoying not so frequently updated TTL podcast[2] (the latest episode with boki beran of Intuit was quite enlightening.

[1] http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ [2] http://ttlpodcast.com/

The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/

StartUp: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

Reply All: http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/

Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money

Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/

Invisiblia: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast

1. Song Exploder: Hrishikesh Hirway interviews composers. In the interview they talk about the process of how one of their songs were created. One of my favorites: https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/song-exploder-no-24-tych... Another one of my favorites: https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/songexploder-no-8-loren

2. Radiolab: This one gets you thinking. I feel like sometimes they will oversimplify very complicated concepts though. One of my favorites: http://www.radiolab.org/story/worth/ (This one is really long. It's like a three in one. Usually they are like 30 minutes long).

3. Let My People Think: This one is a thinker too.

4. Here and Now: Basically the news.

5. NPR All Songs Considered: (I don't listen to this very much) They have guest DJ's, and new music (I'm not much of a fan some of the music they put up). They also have special episodes, which are more interesting. One of my favs: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/05/19/406500138/th...

6. NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour: (I don't listen to this very much) They talk about new movies, shows, books, and songs.

Here is an episode I like from this podcasts (I haven't had the chance to explore the other episodes though): http://www.radiodiaries.org/new-podcast-strange-fruit-voices...

Typically listen to comedy podcasts:

Earwolf and Wolfpop Podcast Networks - http://earwolf.com/ & http://wolfpop.com/

Probably Science, where "four professional comedians/incompetent scientists take you through this week in science. Incompetently." -http://www.probablyscience.com/

General:

http://longform.org/podcast

Startup Related (I don't listen to all of their episodes, but I do listen to several from): - Tim Ferriss Show - This Week in Startups - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A16Z Podcast - Harvard Business Review - Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Foundation

Non-Tech: - Serial (it's over but really interesting) - Undisclosed (the successor to Serial)

http://www.billburr.com/podcast

Scott Johnson's "The Morning Stream", "Film Sack", "Current Geek" and whatever else he puts out. He and his co-hosts are very cheerful. They are more about positive emotions than the substance. It really makes my life better and me not as grumpy.

http://hellointernet.fm

In order of personal preference:

Welcome to Night Vale

Limited Resources

The Last Geeks of a Dying World (I know the hosts personally)

Polyamory Weekly

The Dave Ramsey Show

The Tim Ferriss Show

Currently working through the catalog of:

SE-Radio: http://se-Radio.net

The Change Log: https://changelog.com/

Haskell Cast - a Haskell / functional programming-focused pod cast: http://www.haskellcast.com/

  The Simple Programmer Podcast
  Javascript Jabber

I've recently been listening to This Developer's Life; also the Blender Guru podcast (about the 3D free-software program a Blender).

javascript jabber, I don't always listen so much to the language specifics but the ideas. I enjoy it.

There is also Ruby Rogues which is pretty good too.

Hardcore History is the best podcast in the world.

Here's my list for people interested in bootstrapping / side projects:

Startups For the Rest of Us (Rob Walling & Mike Taber) http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

Tropical MBA podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tropical-mba-entrepreneu...

The Startup Chat by Steli Efti & Hiten Shah https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-chat-steli-hiten...

The Rocketship Podcast http://rocketship.fm/

Some great podcasts that don't come out often or have a limited amount of episodes:

Kalzumeus Software with Patrick McKenzie (wish it came out more often!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzumeus-software-podca...

Stacking the Bricks by Amy Hoy https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stacking-bricks-real-ent...

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding Your First Customers https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/entrepreneurs-guide-to-f...

Product People by Justin Jackson http://productpeople.tv/

Not so much about bootstrapping, but some great story-telling:

StartUp by Gimlet Media http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

Other:

The Tim Ferriss Show https://itunes.apple.com/id/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id8...

Zen Founder https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/zen-founder-startups.-fa...

I really like Freedomain Radio: http://fdrpodcasts.com

Music: Music for Programming. Science: StarTalk Radio. Fun: The Gralien Report, The Paracast.

Coder Radio and Rationally Speaking

Jeff And Casey Show

Partially Examined Life

This Developer's Life

StartUp

The Truth

99% Invisible

Planet Money

Criminal

How to Do Everything

Stuff You Should Know

Startups For the Rest of Us

The Memory Palace

The Tim Ferris Show

Smart Passive Income

Freakonomics Radio

Serial (Season 1)

Invisibilia

Wormwood

Honestly? For those who want to sort of "escape" the stranglehold of the media elite and do something weird:

Alex Jones is great. http://www.infowars.com/stream.pls (11AM-2PM CST) - He comes from Austin, TX and is sort of an icon around town :)

Another one I love is Coast to Coast FM: https://www.iheart.com/show/Coast-To-Coast/ - They talk about paranormal / UFO's / Ghosts.

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