Ask HN: Best podcasts in 2012?

karolisd13y ago· 2 in thread

It's not technical, the only podcast I listen to is: WTF with Marc Maron - http://www.wtfpod.com/ - he's a comedian who usually interviews comedians and they can go pretty deep sometimes

superfreshOP13y ago

Yeah, I've heard some great episodes of WTF. It's one of the few I listened to this past year as well. Its interesting hearing a more serious side of comedy, the guests he has on are pretty well-known too.

davelope91113y ago

i hear http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/you-made-it-weird/ and http://www.comedybangbang.com/ are also great for comedy that can veer into the deep end.

mdaniel13y ago

99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss

This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast

BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio

Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio

Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13

Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/

The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast

On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia

Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss "The Ethicist") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2

Planet Money Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289

WNYC's Radiolab http://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab

To the Best of Our Knowledge http://feeds.feedburner.com/ttbook

With Good Reason Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/WithGoodReasonRadio

I was tempted to put them in preferential order, but to be honest the go-to podcast depends on how much time I have (length of commute, how tired before bed, that kind of thing).

dmschulman13y ago

Seconding Planet Money (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/), in fact the whole Marketplace team is pretty stellar (http://www.marketplace.org/marketplace-podcasts)

TWIT is always pretty fun as well (http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/)

Smithsonian puts out an interesting presentation every so often too (http://www.si.edu/podcasts/)

Granted these are all great podcasts, but they've been around and entertaining way before 2012.

mcrider13y ago

As posted previously, IMO the best podcast (episodes) of the year for

Web devs: http://flapcast.com/playlist/16

Entrepreneurs: http://flapcast.com/playlist/18

There are a variety of podcasts in there, just click on each episode link to see the rest of the podcast's archive.

unemployed13y ago

What are the podcasts you're already listening to?

Also, Personal favorites this year:

http://www.creativemornings.com/ http://unity3d.com/unite/archive/2012

Old School Toughness from Hardcore history. feed://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/history?format=xml

jarek-foksa13y ago

I was listening to Mohammed Abshaun's videlog [1] most often this year. It helped me a lot in getting stuff done and kept me motivated to work on my startup. I also like Mixergy, but I guess everybody here knows about it.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/user/mohammedabshaun/videos?view=0

mrlyc13y ago

Management: HBR (Harvard Business Review) Podcast http://hbsp2.libsyn.com/rss

Interviews: Conversations with Richard Fidler http://abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodc...

zardoz9013y ago

Not really tech focused, but great nonetheless

- Skeptics Guide to the Universe ( http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ ) - Cognitive Dissonance ( http://dissonancepod.com/ )

adamors13y ago

Q http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/qpodcast.xml

Not technical at all, it focuses mostly on music, culture and art with some politics.

klaut13y ago

Ruby Rogues: http://rubyrogues.com/