I’ve been looking for more podcasts since I started going on daily walks.
Mine are:
- Conan O’Brien needs a friend
- Wolf and owl
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Tooth and Claw! I haven’t seen that mentioned. Awesome podcast about animal attacks and animal facts
Really into The Deprogram and chewing through the backlog.
What’s it about?
A dirtbag left pod with guys from around the world, basically. The hosts are an Iraqi, a Slav, and a Texan and their guests can be from anywhere.
Interesting, subscribed.
I dropped the ball a bit on listening to podcasts therefor right now it’d be “This American Life” but normally I also enjoy the Flophouse.
That would be Startalk, with Neil Degrasse Tyson. The only podcast I really follow.
Been meaning to listen to that, subscribed.
If you like that, let me recommend Space Nuts. Astronomy news with fun hosts
Cool!
A toss-up between Philosophise This and the BBC’s In Our Time for me. Thinking Allowed is also in the mix and I’ve recently started Mike Duncan’s Revolutions which is proving entertaining too.
Probably “Philosophize This”
Any episode of any of these that especially stick out to you?
Probably “Philosophize This”
Ha, spellcheck got to it.
That one takes few episodes to settle down but all from around ep 40 or so are good. The last few - starting with 179 - are looking at AI and consciousness and covering a lot of great viewpoints.
In Our Time - “Polidori’s The Vampyre” and “Thomas Paine’s Common Sense” are both ones that I heard recently and found particularly interesting. Also Thinking Allowed’s “The Petite Bourgeoisie”.
Just downloaded them, thanks for the recommendations!
Darknet Diaries
Intelligence Squared
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape
IMO, Sean seems more intent on impressing the audience and the expert rather than conducting a good interview. I listened to an episode that involved category theory and he regularly interrupted the guest so he could show off how much he knows about it.
I’m relistening to that episode now because I’m curious about what it is you perceived.
He interjects sometimes to help tie things together (“and this is interesting because of [earlier observation]”) or to adjust the level of technicality to suit his intended audience (“we’re allowed to use the word torus here”). Not all Mindscape guests have a solid feel for the podcast and default to giving popscience breakdowns with analogies and leaving out technical jargon, and so he has to set the bar a bit by explicitly allowing the introduction of technical terms and bringing together of complex related topics.
Don’t know if that’s what made you feel like he was trying to show off.
I perceived this when he interrupted the guest to jump to different aspects of category theory that she isn’t talking about at the moment.
Well I don’t know what you are referring to, but I’m not going to argue about your perception. I listened to the whole thing again (there are usually things that pass me by the first time, so I don’t mind doing that for the interesting episodes) and I don’t know how he could have done a better job at steering the conversation. He’s a podcast host; he needs to pick at the parts that are of particular interest to him and his audience in a limited amount of time, as well as keeping the level of technicality just right so as to be digestible.
For someone familiar with the topic, it’s natural to feel like they could have gone on about something at a more advanced level, and for someone entirely unfamiliar, it’s natural that they would want to linger on things they don’t quite get instead of moving on to something else.
Anyway, I’m not really going anywhere with this. Just curious about your perception since I tend to think of SC as someone quite smooth and approachable around people (unlike me). I guess even he can’t be smooth enough for everybody all the time.
If you are into videogames I will definitely hear the video game history foundation podcast
- Roderick on the Line
- Risky or Not?
- Penn’s Sunday School
- This Podcast Will Kill You
- Reconcilable Differences
- Accidental Tech Podcast
I love Reconcilable Differences! Probably my favourite podcast at the moment. I’m currently working my way through all the old episodes. ATP is very good too, but I think it’s too focused on current events to go through all previous episodes
All Fantasy Everything is the only podcast that has ever existed. 3 very funny friends/comedians + a guest fantasy draft anything and everything from the world of pop culture.
Some examples of previous draft topics include:
-People named Tom -Words that make you sound stupid -Movie Deaths -Bald People -Power moves -Movie Roles that Nicolas Cage should have had
Usually those two:
WANshow from the LinusTechTips team
Darknet Diaries by Jack RhysiderDarknet Diaries is fantastic!
Dear Hank and John (funny John and Hank Green)
Hardcore History with Dan Carlin
The Debaters (Canadian comedy show where two comedians debate whether something (ex: malls, big weddings, etc) is good/bad and get judged by live audience)
- check out the pretzels vs peanuts episode
Darknet Diaries is nothing like every other podcast I’ve ever listened to. Listened to every episode 2-3x. It’s a podcast mostly about social engineering, hacking and cyber security.
Start with episode:
- 92: The Pirate Bay
- 116: Mad Dog
- 102: Money Maker
It’s really insanely good. Took a break after binging the first 50 or so episodes. Looks like I haven’t even listened to your favourites yet!
That’s a good one, used to listen to it then fell out of it for some reason, I’ll get back to it.
Casefile’s seeies on The Silk Road is an incredibly good deep dive.
I love the Episode about The Pirate Bay
Check out Casefile’s series on The Pirate Bay!
Edit: I was stupid yesterday and conflated The Pirate Bay and Silk Road
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
Is this the Silk Road one? Can’t find anything on just TPB.
Oh shit, I’m so sorry, my brain was pulling a dumb. I was conflating TPB with Silk Road D:
Sorry about that!
You’re good, thanks!
Xbox underground episode is wild
Listening to that right now, crazy stuff, like Microsoft throwing Dev kits away at the dump.
I’ve watched the one about the World Bank and I was mind blown ! The post twist are amazing ! And the story telling very good.
Stuff You Should Know
Also Radio Lab
Second this. Josh and Chuck have been teaching me so much for so long, I can’t imagine not having this one.
The Constant It is ‘a history of getting things wrong’, with deep research and fun way of storytelling.
Might be worth checking out “cautionary tales” too then. Similar kind of vibe
- Co-recursive
- the Haskell Cast
- the Lambda Cast (not that fun to listen to but it taught me a ton)
