Give your top three, and optionally a summary of what they’re about and why you love them.
They don’t have to be programming related podcasts (but those are certainly welcome). I am mostly interested to hear about podcasts of any genre, but I am posting it here as I’m keen to get the opinions of other tech workers, fans and hobbyists.
Five to Four : “a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks” with Peter from If Books Could Kill which got quite a few mentions
Embedded.fm : best tech podcast I know, nominally about embedded programming, but also a lot of peripheral topics, origami comes to mind. Few tech podcasts manage to discuss deeply technical issues in an interesting manner.
Conversations with Tyler: general interest podcast with long conversations with a diverse cast of sometimes very high profile guests. Just came across it a couple of days ago and was surprised I never heard of it. Tyler has had folks like Daniel Kahnemann, Noam Chomsky, Neil Stephenson but also has great lesser known people. A recent podcast was about the history of Chinese cuisine…