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Ask HN: Best podcasts in 2012?
16 points by superfresh 4917 days ago
I'm thinking of getting into a few more podcasts in the new year. What were some of your favorites in 2012?
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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).

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Not really tech focused, but great nonetheless

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

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

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

The Industry, by Adam Stacoviak, Jared Erondu, and Drew Wilson.

Great group of folks talking about design-focused startups and a lot of cool front-end tech.

I've enjoyed Systematic, http://5by5.tv/systematic/.
I've been enjoying http://techzinglive.com/ lately
The http://packetpushers.net/ guys are great.
Philosophy Bites.

Du Nord Football Show.

Responsible sports.

I prefer to read about tech.

NPR's Planet Money

Lapham's Quarterly