What are your favourite podcasts?

I was a huge fan of "The History of Rome" by Mike Duncan and loved his new series "Revolutions". If you like history, these are both fantastic.

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.

EconTalk. Many different subjects viewed through the lens of economics. Generally free market outlook but incredibly thoughtful and always interesting guests.

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.

I find a lot of my creative balance gets refilled by listening to improv comedy podcasts on Earwolf and Headgum networks. Earwolf in particular has been in the game for over a decade, they took production quality very serious early on, and managed to spinoff into an ad network that got bought out by a huge media conglomerate while still keeping their shows pretty niche. improv4humans and Teacher's Lounge are two shows that just put me in a completely different mental space than I am typically in, and that makes a huge difference when I'm switching gears on a coding project or trying to start making a new design for marketing.

The Artificial Intelligence podcast by Lex Fridman. It's mostly focused on science tech and philosophy with a lot of high-profile guests from different fields.

Exponent, a weekly podcast covering a topic from Stratechery, Ben Thompson and James Allworth on business and technology strategy.

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.

1) The Archers (BBC) - to improve English

2) Reluctant Persuaders (BBC) - Comedy

3) EastEnders - just started

4) Intelligence Matters

5) Software Engineering Daily

Inside the Ethics Committee BBC Radio 4. Not many episodes, and getting quite old now, but still an interesting look at medical ethics and UK law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007xbtd

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...

My favorite podcast is No Dumb Questions. It has Destin from Smarter Every Day and his friend Matt Whitman (from the YouTube channel “Ten Minute Bible Hour”)

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.

Reply All & Startups for the Rest of Us are a couple of my favorites.

Soft skills engineering - because it takes more than great code to be a great engineer

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)

Invisibilia. Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia/

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/

Looks like Business Wars by Wondery hasn’t been mentioned here yet, but I’ve become a fan of late.

The Art of Charm to increase my emotional intelligence, self-confidence and social skills.

The Tim Ferriss Show The Portal Stratechery’s podcast (Exponent) Tyler Cowen’s podcast

Snacks Daily - The best podcast so far about finacial news. They comment on all industries that move the market - being milk and dairy to banks and tech. Short but very fun!

New York Times The Daily

The Wall Street Journal & Gimlet

Financial Times Banking Weekly

The youtube channel from Vinheteiro the brazilian pianist!?!

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.

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.

Some of my go to podcasts are:

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

Marc Maron's WTF, interviews of really interesting people.

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.

APM Marketplace

NPR Planet Money

Armchair Expert by Dax Shepard

Joe Rogan Experience

My Favourites are The Fighter & the Kid -Comedy, Enjoy the Vue - Anything Vue.js related, Baz & Andrew House of Rugby - Irish Rugby / Comedy, No Such thing as a fish - Comedy.

Darknet diaries

80,000 Hours.

It’s a relatively new one:

Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Kati Halper.

If you're interested in Django, Django Chat by Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson is great:

https://djangochat.com

Steve Gibson’s Security Now. grc.com/sn.

I'm a founder of a startup[1] that works in the podcasting space and my personal favorites are TigerBelly, Exchange Invest Weekly, JRE, The Indie Hackers podcast!

[1] useCastup.com

Duncan Trussel Family Hour

Daily Update - Stratechery

Philosophize This!

These two podcasts are tech/career podcast.

"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!

EconTalk and The Fifth Column.

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.