Podcasts

I listen to a lot of Podcasts. It’s a great way to fill time that would otherwise be “dead” - commuting, walking, working out, doing household tasks, etc. I’ve been enjoying podcasts since I got my first iPod (a refurbished 2nd Generation iPod Nano) in 2007. I listened to more podcasts on that iPod than music.

As far as my podcast player of choice, I prefer Marco Arment’s excellent Overcast (it’s really good, you should use it).

Here’s a list of what’s currently queued up in my podcast feed:

What I’m Currently Listening To

(Listed in rough order of listening priority)

• Astral Codex Ten Podcast
• Animal Spirits
• Brave New World
• Cortex
• Clearer Thinking
• The Compound and Friends
• The 80,000 Hours Podcast
• Risky or Not?
• The Adam Ragusea Podcast
• Food Safety Talk
• Reply All
• Rationally Speaking
• Modern Finance
• Exponent

Past Favorites

• The Ezra Klein Show
• Philosophize This
• Do By Friday
• Pivot
• Hello Internet
• Election Profit Makers
• Back to Work
• Top Four
• Reconcilable Differences
• Against the Rules
• You’re Wrong About
• Maintenance Phase

Tips and Tricks

• rewind.website (a.k.a. “Cast Rewinder”) allows you to “Subscribe to a podcast from the beginning”. Basically, you put in the podcast’s RSS feed and it creates a new feed that updates at your desired frequency (i.e. weekly) and releases old episodes sequentially as if they were new. This is super useful for going back and listening through a long-running podcast from the beginning, at a regular pace. It’s also open source!
• Podsync is a self-hosted project that allows you to make a podcast feed from a YouTube or Vimeo channel. Can easily be self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi.

(Updated June 20, 2022 )