Good podcasts

Hansi on 10/05/2017 - 07:42
Last edited 10/05/2017 - 07:51

Hey everyone,

Let us know which podcasts you're listening too.

They may be entertaining or offering great advice.

Ozbargainers are usually after good life or financial advice to "get ahead in life".

I use Pocket Casts on my phone, podcasts played at 1.5x speed,and the app has a setting to skip intros and quiet breaks in the podcasts which are not of any value.

Here goes mine:

News:

  • The Daily
  • BBC news
  • The Economist

Financial:

  • Planet Money
  • Motley Fool Money
  • NPR planet money
  • Marketplace All in One
  • Listen Money Matters

General:

  • Tim Ferriss Show
  • TED Talks
  • Decrypted

Entertainment:

  • Freakonomics
  • Sword and Scale
  • Crimetown
Education & Work

Comments

  • manshrew on 10/05/2017 - 08:29
    +1

    I started to listen to podcasts again recently, so far the list is:

    Serial - The first season was good, but I didn't enjoy the second as much.
    S-Town
    My Dad Wrote a Porno
    Revisionist History
    The Hilarious World of Depression
    No Such Thing as a Fish

    I might add a few of yours to my list.

    • carwashhair on 10/05/2017 - 10:04
      +1

      I really haven't listened to many podcasts, but can wholly vouch for serial and S-Town as fantastic bits of long-form storytelling. Both spinoffs of This American Life. And Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History presents similar but different; each episode is more like a chapter in one of his books. A writer who is fantastic at drawing seemingly disparate threads together into an intriguing story

  • Martini on 10/05/2017 - 08:48

    "Roderick on the Line" will change your life.

  • GC1 on 10/05/2017 - 09:21

    To add to @Hansi list:

    Entertainment:

    The Moth Radio Hour - People tell stories in "story slams"
    Here's The Thing - Interviews by Alec Baldwin

    Financial
    How I built This - another NPR show.

    @manshrew - Serial S3 is out and has good reviews.

    • railspider on 10/05/2017 - 10:11
      +1

      I don't think Serial S3 is out yet?

      There is a new podcast by the Serial creators & NPR called 'S-town', is that what you're thinking of?

      It's not bad, only 7 ~50min episodes. Better than Serial S2, but not as good as the original.

      • GC1 on 10/05/2017 - 10:33

        Yes, S-town. My bad.

  • o53djz7qTPY4der on 10/05/2017 - 10:08

    Phoebe's Fall.

    606

    Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy.

    Serial

    In The Dark

  • Halo375 on 10/05/2017 - 10:16

    Funny RPG Podcasts:

    One Shot - professional improvisors playing different role playing games each month
    Campaign - long form story telling of a disfunctional crew in the Star Wars universe
    The Adventure Zone - a family playing dungeons & dragons together which is good fun

  • Diji1 on 10/05/2017 - 10:22

    The Joe Rogan Experience
    Criminal
    Benjamins Walker's The Theory of Everything
    Common Sense with Dan Carlin
    Radiolab
    This American Life
    The New Yorker Radio Hour
    The TED Radio Hour

    • Hansi on 11/05/2017 - 07:51

      Actually, Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" Podcast was amazing too, I have listened to the episodes several times.

  • shapers on 10/05/2017 - 10:22
    +1

    Joe rogan experience :)

  • Succulent Synth on 10/05/2017 - 10:23

    Comedy/Rants

    • Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast
    • WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

    Science, Internet Mysteries, Urban Legends, Paranormal etc

    • Reply All
    • Astonishing Legends
    • Mysterious Universe

    Political/News

    • Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
    • No Agenda

    Crime

    • Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie & Emily Webb
    • Crimetown

    Financial

    • The Dave Ramsey Show
  • Heracles26 on 10/05/2017 - 10:30

    • Waking Up - Sam Harris

    • Joe Rogan Podcast

    • Big Think

  • fruit on 10/05/2017 - 10:42

    Do you really listen to all of that list?

    • Diji1 on 10/05/2017 - 11:21

      I listen to stuff while I do other stuff. Phone + BT speaker such as Logitech X50.

    • Hansi on 10/05/2017 - 18:33

      Hi fruit,

      Those are the English speaking podcasts I listen to the most.

      I do not listen to every podcast of every channel, but decide what is interested based on the description of the podcast when it comes out.

      Some of the news podcasts I listen to daily, as well as some foreign podcasts, which I think are not of interest to anyone here though.

      I work on a computer all day, doing analysing / data science stuff, so I listen to many of my podcasts at work ( I would say 2 - 3 hours a day ).

  • Diji1 on 10/05/2017 - 11:20

    I use Pocket Casts

    It doesn't auto skip ads though right?

    • Hansi on 10/05/2017 - 18:29

      Hi Diji1, unfortunately it doesn't.

      You can set when a Podcast should begin ( x MM:SS after the start of the podcasts ) to avoid the intros.

      The other function I meant was "Trim Silence". Whenever there is no sound / nothing being said in a podcast, that part will automatically be cut out.

      The design of the app is good, a user profile to save your settings and the ability to customise a lot of things made me stick with this one after trying a few different apps.

    • Holysmoke on 10/05/2017 - 22:10

      It doesn't auto skip ads though right?

      Any app that does this?

      And any other good podcast apps for iphone?

  • idjces on 10/05/2017 - 18:18
    +1

    good thread idea, i'll have to look into some of these. I left off that are already in the OP

    • Stacking Benjamins - an easy listening light hearted finance show
    • Afford Anything - probably my second favorite show after Tim Ferris, life and money philosophies, good interviews
    • Money for the rest of us - delves into finance topics
    • Invested - the rule #1 podcast - value investing, drags on but they eventually get to some good lessons
    • Death Sex & Money
    • The Art of Charm - interviews some interesting characters
    • Bulletproof Radio - goes deep into body science
    • Stuff You Should Know - they pick a topic an interesting topic and go into it, somewhat like a good wikipedia summary. Eg, the 10,000 year clock was pretty fascinating
    • Tell Me Something I Should Know - spinoff from the freakonomics author, a light hearted game show
    • Happier With Gretchin Rubin - can have some good life tips on living a better/happier life
    • Hardcore History - how wars in the past played out, really interesting, something I wouldn't have the time to learn about otherwise
    • Hansi on 11/05/2017 - 08:05

      Thanks, I added some and will see if I like them.

      I actually already listen to the bottom 4 from time to time, except for Hardcore History.

      That podcast from Dan Carlin is just amazing and I've had to listen to the World War series several times.

  • GC1 on 10/05/2017 - 21:23

    @idjces I read a blog called Afford Anything - it is very good. I wonder if it is the same person?

    • idjces on 11/05/2017 - 00:16

      Yes, I believe so

  • The Value on 01/01/2018 - 17:00
    +1

    We need an Ozbargain podcast(

    Top 5 posts,
    Top 5 comments
    The items that were on sale,
    General discussion on Australian culture

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