Podcasts

[Some Dude]

I spend most of my day sitting at a computer. I listen to a lot of music but over the last 5 years I have also developed a large library of regular podcasts that I listen to and enjoy. I wanted to share a history one first, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. He has just finished a 5 part series on the Mongols and their impact on history.

If you like history, check out his archive which progressively moves into his shop for sale but the last 3 years is still available. In particular for those of you into Roman history i.e. The Fall of the Republic, check out his 6 (or VI) part series ending in a 5 1/2 hour marathon.

 

[Some Dude]

Security Now is a weekly podcast covering technology security issues ranging from vulnerabilities on your personal computer to identifying cloud based data services that can protect your data properly. I have been listening to this podcast for several years and the entire archive is available. I have learnt about some very useful things via this podcast including LastPass which helps you manage and store important password or information, a security analysis of various cloud data storage solutions (dropbox, amazon, etc), and advice about protecting your privacy online.

 

[gav]

EconTalk by Russ Roberts is quite good. As is The Paleo Solution Podcast by Robb Wolf.

 

[albaby]

I spend most of my day sitting at a computer. I listen to a lot of music but over the last 5 years I have also developed a large library of regular podcasts that I listen to and enjoy. I wanted to share a history one first, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. He has just finished a 5 part series on the Mongols and their impact on history.

If you like history, check out his archive which progressively moves into his shop for sale but the last 3 years is still available. In particular for those of you into Roman history i.e. The Fall of the Republic, check out his 6 (or VI) part series ending in a 5 1/2 hour marathon.

Compelling journalism SD,love his Common Sense pods as well,well worth "a buck a show".Al

 

[Some Dude]

Compelling journalism SD,love his Common Sense pods as well,well worth "a buck a show".Al

Indeed. I was going to mention Common Sense in a later recommendation. Did you listen to his last podcast about the meeting invitation? Was fascinating, especially in light of General Mattis being very recently push out.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Trump / Rogan had 45 million downloads ... also on Spotify

Josh Rogan specialises in very long (to sceptical listeners, interminable) free-form interviews. Some go on for four hours or more. His previous guests include Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson and Alex Jones, but a great deal of the show consists of Rogan shooting the breeze with comedians and mixed martial arts fighters. The spirit is part California woo-woo (psychedelic drugs, floatation tanks, mushroom powder coffees), part starry-eyed tech-worship and part old-school blue-collar politics.

Rogan’s distinguishing characteristic is that he is open-minded to a fault. His genius as an interviewer is his ability to summon up a sincere (and often credulous) fascination with almost anyone his producers put in front of him: businessmen, kickboxers, social scientists, philosophers, shamans. The guests he most respects are know-it-all alpha males or credulous goofballs willing to indulge wild speculation about (a perennial Rogan theme) the existence of aliens.

Unsurprisingly, Trump and Rogan got along well. The hyper-confident Rogan even seemed a little starstruck, treating Trump with unusual deference and solicitude. This was not Trump’s most eccentric podcast appearance. Rogan managed to stay off aliens, floatation tanks and psychedelics and keep (mostly) to conventional political subjects. The questions were all softballs. Trump had the benefit of a huge audience and free rein to boast about his accomplishments ad nauseam...

....The Democrats played impeccably by the old rules: expensively produced television adverts, a much-eulogised ground operation in the swing states, phalanxes of eager volunteers sallying forth to pound pavements and knock on doors. Trump, meanwhile, made a much-mocked tour of young male anti-woke podcasters: Theo Von, Lex Fridman, Logan Paul. Each of these men commands an audience in the tens or hundreds of millions. Trump’s appearances were greeted in many quarters of the media with (often understandable) bemusement and hilarity. Why was a former president of the United States reassuring the former martial artist Paul that aliens “would never be able to take you in a fight” or discussing the benefits of psychedelic drugs with Fridman, or quizzing Von on his cocaine habit ("that’s down and dirty, right?").