Back before COVID when I regularly guest-hosted the NosillaCast I had a tradition of doing a segment with podcast recommendations. I spent a lot of time listening to podcasts back then, and I have a broad taste, so I always had some shows to share. Did the pandemic reduce my podcast consumption? Heck no! So let\u2019s revive the tradition 🙂<\/p>\n
Rather than try rank my recommendations, I just popped them into alphabetic order.<\/p>\n
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This one\u2019s pretty niche, but if you\u2019re interested in what\u2019s going on in aviation, this weekly show by the folks behind the amazing Flight Radar 24 app will keep you in the loop. I don\u2019t have a lot of time to dedicate to my love of aviation, but I do want to keep up, and this show is just perfect for that \u2014 one hour a week, and I feel I\u2019m keeping myself in the loop.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a huge fan of British storyteller and economist Tim Harford, and I think this show is his best work yet. History has a lot to teach us, and it\u2019s very often not the lesson we think. Think you know what really went wrong with the infamous exploding Pinto gas tanks? You probably have the same misconceptions I did, but listening to the show I realised it was as important as I thought, but for totally different reasons!<\/p>\n
There are lots of podcasts where a tech journalist interviews tech people, but this be is different for two reasons. Firstly, host Nilay Patel focuses his questions on how the tech leaders he interviews made decisions, which guarantees insights you don\u2019t get on other shows.<\/p>\n
Secondly, Nilay sets up each show with an intro to put it in context before he plays the interview. He also uses the intro to explain any jargon that comes up in the conversation. This is great because it means you won\u2019t be distracted trying to figure out the term, and Nilay doesn\u2019t have to interject with an explanation and interrupt the flow of the conversations.<\/p>\n
I regularly plug Darknet Diaries<\/a> on Security bits, so rather than repeat myself I\u2019ll plug my second favourite security show instead \u2014 Malicious Life. This show is supported by the Israeli security firm Cybereason, and hosted by Ran Levi who has a wonderful Israeli accent, and the cutest mispronunciations 🙂<\/p>\n The main show\u2019s main episodes tell stories from the history of cybersecurity in detail. Those story episodes are interspersed with so-called B-sides, which discus a current cybersecurity news story with a relevant expert (often a Cybereason security pro).<\/p>\n If you\u2019re wondering how this differs from Darknet Diaries, Jack Resider builds his episodes around specific people, Ran builds his around specific events. That may not sound like a big difference, but it really is. It\u2019s the difference between Ann Frank\u2019s Diary and Churchill\u2019s History of WWII.<\/p>\n This is a fun weekly science podcast that focuses on the news for the majority of the show, then pivots so what I can best describe as science games to finish. They show us always a panel show, and the tone is conversational \u2014 thinks science geek friends catching up on the week\u2019s news over dinner. It\u2019 also LONG, so I have Overcast set to cut the silences and play it at 1.25x speed.<\/p>\n The news segments do a good job filtering the important nuggets from the hype, and adding the larger context that\u2019s often missing from main stream coverage.<\/p>\n The games vary depending on the hosts, but three recurring segments definitely dominate:<\/p>\n Excellently researched and meticulously produced half-hour shows exploring something at the edge of our scientific understanding. The edge is where the fun is, it\u2019s where we know what we don\u2019t know, and we\u2019re figuring out how to learn more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back before COVID when I regularly guest-hosted the NosillaCast I had a tradition of doing a segment with podcast recommendations. I spent a lot of time listening to podcasts back then, and I have a broad taste, so I always had some shows to share. Did the pandemic reduce my podcast consumption? Heck no! So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[1040],"class_list":["post-26489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26498,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489\/revisions\/26498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Sceptic\u2019s Guide to the Universe (theskepticsguide.org\/\u2026<\/a>)<\/h2>\n
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Unexplainable (vox.com\/\u2026<\/a>)<\/h2>\n