Podcasts / parker's stuff

I have consumed podcasts for a very long time, and occasionally I like an episode so much that I share it here. My interests span technology, politics, government, law, and science, which can be reflected in some of the podcast episodes I found the most engaging & memorable:

I listen in Overcast and extracted my favorited episodes (297!):

Bay Curious (9)

2024-05-07 – Exploring San Francisco’s Hidden Tunnels (permalink)
2024-03-27 – Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe at SLAC (permalink)
2022-11-20 – Why Doesn’t BART Go More Places? (permalink)
2022-10-30 – The Complicated Origins of S.F.’s Beloved Japanese Tea Garden (permalink)
2022-10-09 – Prop. 29: Dialysis (permalink)
2022-10-09 – Prop 31: Flavored Tobacco (permalink)
2022-05-28 – Golden Gate Park Was Once Miles and Miles of Sand Dunes (permalink)
2022-02-04 – Bay Curious Presents: Berkeley’s Rainbow Sign (permalink)
2021-09-04 – State of Drought 4: Saving Water In Your Home (permalink)

The Ezra Klein Show (12)

2024-05-04 – Is Green Growth Possible? (permalink)
2024-05-04 – A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism’s Failure to Build (permalink)
2023-12-14 – India Is Transforming. But Into What? (permalink)
2023-11-11 – What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand (permalink)
2023-07-25 – Biden, Psychedelics, Twitter, My New Book — and So Much More (permalink)
2023-06-08 – Three Sentences That Could Change the World — and Your Life (permalink)
2023-06-06 – Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind (permalink)
2023-01-24 – There’s Been a Revolution in How China Is Governed (permalink)
2022-07-05 – A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Rightward Shift (permalink)
2022-02-22 – A Critique of Government That Liberals Need to Hear (permalink)
2021-05-05 – How to Have Better Conversations About Hard Things (permalink)
2021-04-09 – The Best Explanation of Biden’s Thinking I’ve Heard (permalink)

Civics 101 (11)

2024-04-24 – Why is Marbury v. Madison in Trump’s Supreme Court brief? (permalink)
2023-06-28 – The 14th Amendment (permalink)
2023-06-28 – Socialism, Communism, Fascism (permalink)
2023-05-25 – The Fairness Doctrine (permalink)
2022-03-08 – Why You Should Care About the Federal Reserve (permalink)
2020-07-07 – Civic Action: Voting, Part 1 (permalink)
2020-05-26 – The United States Postal Service (permalink)
2020-05-08 – AP US Government Prepisode (permalink)
2020-03-14 – Independents (permalink)
2018-08-01 – The Death Penalty (permalink)
2018-05-23 – Freedom of Information Act (permalink)

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (3)

2024-03-29 – SE Radio 609: Hyrum Wright on Software Engineering at Google (permalink)
2022-03-30 – Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL (permalink)
2019-07-26 – Episode 374: Marcus Blankenship on Motivating Programmers (permalink)

Masters in Business (7)

2024-01-21 – Shomik Dutta on Climate Tech Investments (permalink)
2023-04-30 – Benjamin Clymer and Jeffery Fowler on Hodinkee (permalink)
2022-08-23 – Bill Browder on High Finance, Murder and Justice (Podcast) (permalink)
2020-02-01 – ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards (permalink)
2019-09-20 – Sarah Ketterer Discusses Investment Management (permalink)
2019-09-15 – Kara Swisher Discusses the Tech Industry (permalink)
2019-06-16 – Jon Stein Discusses Fintech and Robo-Advisers (permalink)

Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates (1)

2024-01-16 – Episode 6: Sam Altman (permalink)

The Lawfare Podcast (20)

2024-01-16 – Chatter: Rachel Maddow on her book “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism” (permalink)
2023-11-03 – Chatter: The British Empire’s Territorial Peak, 100 Years Later, with Matthew Parker (permalink)
2023-08-28 – Rational Security: The “Damn Danville!” Edition (permalink)
2023-06-14 – Read With Me: The Trump Indictment (permalink)
2023-05-03 – Cox and Wyden on Section 230 and Generative AI (permalink)
2023-03-30 – Talking IoT Security with Google (permalink)
2022-10-22 – Presidential Transitions with David Marchick (permalink)
2022-03-31 – Data Federalism (permalink)
2021-05-12 – Jerusalem on the Brink (permalink)
2020-09-16 – The Spymasters with Chris Whipple (permalink)
2020-08-16 – Adam Jentleson and Molly Reynolds on Getting Rid of the Senate Filibuster (permalink)
2020-07-07 – David Priess on the History of the President’s Daily Brief (permalink)
2020-06-02 – Bart Gellman on ‘Dark Mirror’ (permalink)
2020-05-20 – Trump and his Predecessors with Kate Andersen Brower (permalink)
2020-05-13 – The President’s Tax Returns and the Supreme Court (permalink)
2020-05-03 – Law, Policy and Empire with Daniel Immerwahr (permalink)
2020-04-06 – Stephen Holmes on Liberalism in the 21st Century (permalink)
2020-03-07 – Joseph Nye on “Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump” (permalink)
2020-02-14 – Alex Stamos on the Hard Tradeoffs of the Internet (permalink)
2020-02-05 – Leon Neyfakh on Iran–Contra and Other Scandals (permalink)

DealBook Summit (1)

2024-01-05 – Jamie Dimon on Why He Thinks We Are Living in One of the Most Dangerous Times (permalink)

The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) (2)

2024-01-02 – Tolkien’s turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues (permalink)
2024-01-01 – Medieval Welsh (permalink)

Twenty Thousand Hertz (15)

2023-12-20 – Tournament of Champions (permalink)
2023-11-21 – Headphone Handbook (permalink)
2023-09-20 – Subtitles: On (permalink)
2023-06-22 – From Cylinders to Streaming (permalink)
2023-01-31 – Tokyo Rose (permalink)
2022-08-14 – Ted Lasso’s Dark Forest (permalink)
2022-06-09 – Relearning Boléro (permalink)
2022-04-28 – Ta-da! It’s Windows (permalink)
2022-03-03 – Happy Little Episode (permalink)
2021-09-09 – Let It Beep (permalink)
2021-08-19 – Domestic Symphony (permalink)
2021-04-28 – Muzak (permalink)
2020-10-21 – Dies Irae (permalink)
2020-03-18 – Cremona (permalink)
2019-01-14 – Silence (permalink)

Search Engine (2)

2023-10-20 – Is there a sane way to use the internet? (permalink)
2023-09-02 – How do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant? (permalink)

The Tim Ferriss Show (19)

The Daily (40)

2023-09-20 – The Sunday Read: ‘The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty’ (permalink)
2023-08-28 – The Sunday Read: ‘The Fight for the Right to Trespass’ (permalink)
2023-08-02 – The Sunday Read: ‘The America That Americans Forget’ (permalink)
2023-04-16 – The Sunday Read: ‘The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets’ (permalink)
2021-12-26 – The Year in Sound (permalink)
2021-06-14 – Apple’s Bet on China (permalink)
2020-12-09 – The Sunday Read: ‘The Social Life of Forests’ (permalink)
2020-08-30 – The Sunday Read: ‘In the Line of Fire’ (permalink)
2020-08-10 – The Sunday Read: ‘A Speck in the Sea’ (permalink)
2020-07-06 – Four New Insights About the Coronavirus (permalink)
2020-05-19 – Trump’s Purge of the Watchdogs (permalink)
2020-04-03 – The Return of the Governor (permalink)
2020-03-30 – A Bit of Relief: Jody’s Playlist (permalink)
2020-03-23 – The Pandemic and the Primary (permalink)
2020-03-14 – Special Episode: A Bit of Relief (permalink)
2020-02-25 – Can Corporations Stop Climate Change? (permalink)
2020-02-20 – The Latest: The Nevada Debate (permalink)
2019-10-25 – ‘A Prophet’: The Zeal of Bernie Sanders Supporters (permalink)
2019-10-18 – The Week Diplomats Broke Their Silence (permalink)
2019-09-25 – An Impeachment Inquiry Begins (permalink)
2019-09-20 – Anatomy of a Warren Rally (permalink)
2019-09-05 – Walmart Enters the Gun Control Debate (permalink)
2019-08-21 – What American C.E.O.s Are Worried About (permalink)
2019-08-16 – Russia’s Mystery Missile (permalink)
2019-07-31 – What Does Kamala Harris Stand For? (permalink)
2019-07-12 – Can Gun Makers Be Held Accountable for Mass Shootings? (permalink)
2019-06-10 – How a Secret U.S. Cyberweapon Backfired (permalink)
2019-05-28 – What Actually Happened to New York’s Taxi Drivers (permalink)
2019-05-10 – A Founder of Facebook Says It’s Time to Break It Up (permalink)
2019-03-26 – Why Didn’t Mueller Decide on Obstruction? (permalink)
2019-02-25 – Why Controlling 5G Could Mean Controlling the World (permalink)
2019-02-19 – The Democrats and Israel (permalink)
2018-12-22 – What the West Got Wrong About China, Part 2 (permalink)
2018-12-22 – Senator Claire McCaskill on Losing Missouri and the Politics of Purity (permalink)
2018-12-11 – The Business of Selling Your Location (permalink)
2018-08-03 – How Paul Manafort’s Plans Backfired (permalink)
2018-06-04 – When Democratic Newcomers Challenge the Party Line (permalink)
2018-05-23 – A Crossroads for the Democratic Party (permalink)
2018-05-22 – Rod Rosenstein’s Impossible Choice (permalink)
2018-04-25 – Hong Kong’s Missing Bookseller (permalink)

Unexplainable (6)

2023-07-20 – The Black Box: In AI we trust? (permalink)
2022-01-10 – The quest to build a star (permalink)
2021-08-05 – How low can you go? (permalink)
2021-05-26 – The hunt for a new Pluto (permalink)
2021-04-25 – The Twilight Zone of the ocean (permalink)
2021-03-20 – Journey Toward the Center of the Earth (permalink)

Radiolab (5)

2023-07-18 – The Fellowship of the Tree Rings (permalink)
2023-04-11 – The Library of Alexandra (permalink)
2022-08-02 – The Humpback and the Killer (permalink)
2021-11-22 – Mixtape: Help? (permalink)
2021-05-19 – Brown Box (permalink)

Decoder with Nilay Patel (2)

2023-07-15 – Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft (permalink)
2020-02-03 – Recode Decode: Edward Snowden (permalink)

Lex Fridman Podcast (10)

2023-06-19 – #385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia (permalink)
2022-12-01 – #341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming (permalink)
2022-11-05 – #335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump (permalink)
2022-07-17 – #301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy (permalink)
2022-05-30 – #289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine (permalink)
2022-03-21 – #270 – David Wolpe: Judaism (permalink)
2022-02-24 – #266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar (permalink)
2021-07-19 – #199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel (permalink)
2020-07-28 – #104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage (permalink)
2020-07-20 – #109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming (permalink)

The Talk Show With John Gruber (1)

2023-06-18 – 379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig (permalink)

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future (3)

2023-06-16 – When Your Childhood Was Their Content (permalink)
2020-08-16 – How Google Search Sold Out (permalink)
2020-02-23 – Inside Facebook’s Supreme Court (permalink)

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson (2)

2023-06-12 – How to Change Your Life: Self-Efficacy, Learned Helplessness, and Growth Mindset (permalink)
2023-05-23 – Saying No to Your Past, Embracing Growth, and Becoming Lighter with Yung Pueblo (permalink)

The Secure Developer (3)

2023-06-08 – This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends - A Look At Supply Chain Security With Nicole Perlroth (permalink)
2020-03-14 – Sustainable And Scalable Ways To Buy Down Risk With Clint Gibler (permalink)
2020-03-14 – Five Ideals For Better DevOps And Security With Gene Kim (permalink)

Where the Internet Lives (2)

2023-06-01 – A Creative Water Solution for a Dutch Data Center (permalink)
2023-04-20 – Data Centers Help Fuel the Solar-Energy Boom (permalink)

ACM ByteCast (2)

2023-05-19 – Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman- Episode 37 (permalink)
2021-05-28 – Leslie Lamport - Episode 16 (Special Episode in Partnership with the Hanselminutes Podcast) (permalink)

History Daily (2)

2023-04-26 – The Armenian Genocide (permalink)
2023-03-29 – General Grant Launches the Appomattox Campaign (permalink)

How I Built This with Guy Raz (5)

2023-04-11 – Orangetheory Fitness: Ellen Latham (permalink)
2023-02-01 – HIBT Lab! MKBHD: Marques Brownlee (permalink)
2023-01-17 – Complexly: Hank and John Green (permalink)
2019-09-23 – Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson (permalink)
2019-07-26 – Dave’s Killer Bread: Dave Dahl (permalink)

Hard Fork (2)

2023-04-02 – Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT (permalink)
2023-04-02 – Bard Fork + How to Talk So Chatbots Will Listen (permalink)

Before Breakfast (4)

2023-03-30 – Get close to get close (permalink)
2022-07-23 – If/Then (permalink)
2021-05-13 – What’s stopping you? (permalink)
2021-01-26 – How to stop being late (permalink)

World Class (7)

2023-03-22 – Finland’s Role in Global Security and Defense (permalink)
2020-03-09 – Global Populisms and Their Threats to Democracy, with Anna Grzymala-Busse, Didi Kuo, and Frank Fukuyama (permalink)
2019-12-13 – Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy, with Francis Fukuyama (permalink)
2019-09-19 – The Fight Against Disinformation, with Alex Stamos (permalink)
2019-06-10 – The Presidential Standoff in Venezuela, with Harold Trinkunas (permalink)
2019-05-21 – Facebook’s Former Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos Weighs in On the Mueller Report (permalink)
2019-01-11 – Former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos on Russian Election Interference (permalink)

Radio Headspace (5)

2023-02-18 – Emily Nagoski on the Science of Lasting Relationships (permalink)
2022-10-27 – The Problem with Self-Criticism (permalink)
2022-07-05 – Let Expectations Go (permalink)
2022-03-31 – The Journey to Letting Go (permalink)
2022-03-09 – Brick by Brick (permalink)

CoRecursive: Coding Stories (1)

2023-02-01 – Story: The Untold Story of SQLite (permalink)

Masters of Scale (3)

2023-01-07 – 49. Ray Dalio: How to embrace conflict (permalink)
2020-04-24 – Rapid Response: Build government back – better, w/Jen Pahlka (Code for America, USDR) (permalink)
2018-02-12 – 5. Lead, lead again, w/Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg (permalink)

Freakonomics Radio (4)

2022-12-29 – 528. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life is Meaningless and Amazing (permalink)
2020-11-13 – 439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears (permalink)
2020-08-15 – 429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal? (permalink)
2020-05-01 – 416. How Do You Reopen a Country? (permalink)

The TED Interview (6)

2022-10-29 – Randall Munroe answers your wildest questions (permalink)
2022-05-09 – Sir Ken Robinson (still) wants an education revolution (permalink)
2021-05-20 – What it really takes to make change | Jacqueline Novogratz (permalink)
2020-05-29 – What we learn from the crisis can make our economy stronger with Kristalina Georgieva (permalink)
2020-03-31 – The quest for the coronavirus vaccine with Seth Berkley (permalink)
2019-11-21 – Frances Frei’s three pillars of leadership (permalink)

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra (3)

2022-10-28 – Episode 4: A Bad Angle (permalink)
2022-10-19 – Episode 3: The Day (permalink)
2022-10-18 – Episode 1: Trip 19 (permalink)

Security Cryptography Whatever (1)

2022-07-13 – OMB Zero Trust Memo with Eric Mill (permalink)

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (13)

2022-02-12 – #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation (permalink)
2021-11-17 – #124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media (permalink)
2021-09-11 – #117 Kat Cole: The Power of Possible (permalink)
2021-06-01 – #112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position (permalink)
2020-06-09 – #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative (permalink)
2020-05-12 – #83 Brian Koppelman: What Really Matters (permalink)
2020-03-22 – #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People (permalink)
2020-01-12 – #73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities (permalink)
2020-01-12 – #72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits (permalink)
2020-01-12 – #57 Sheila Heen: Decoding Difficult Conversations (permalink)
2019-09-23 – #64 Greg Walton: The Big Impact of Small Interventions (permalink)
2019-09-22 – #66 Dr. Emily Nagoski: Pleasure is the Measure (permalink)
2019-07-26 – #62 Dr. Sue Johnson: Cracking the Code of Love (permalink)

The David Rubenstein Show (2)

2021-11-12 – Senator Joe Manchin (permalink)
2019-06-27 – Melinda Gates (permalink)

99% Invisible (10)

2021-09-29 – 460- Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse (permalink)
2021-06-18 – 447- Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green (permalink)
2021-05-19 – 443- Matters of Time (permalink)
2020-02-05 – 388- Missing the Bus (permalink)
2019-05-29 – 355- Depave Paradise (permalink)
2019-05-23 – 281- La Sagrada Familia (Repeat) (permalink)
2019-05-19 – Sound and Health: Cities (permalink)
2019-05-16 – 354- Weeding is Fundamental (permalink)
2018-06-27 – 313- Right to Roam (permalink)
2017-10-05 – 271- The Great Dismal Swamp (permalink)

Kubernetes Podcast from Google (6)

2021-07-31 – Software Supply Chain Security, with Priya Wadhwa (permalink)
2020-07-29 – Scheduling, with David Oppenheimer (permalink)
2020-07-11 – Scalability, with Wojciech Tyczynski (permalink)
2020-06-10 – CNCF: Under New Management, with Priyanka Sharma (permalink)
2020-06-02 – CoreDNS, with John Belamaric (permalink)
2020-02-12 – CockroachDB, with Peter Mattis (permalink)

Today, Explained (24)

2021-07-30 – The spike in gun violence (Part II) (permalink)
2021-07-30 – The spike in gun violence (Part I) (permalink)
2021-05-02 – The enduring mystery of long Covid (permalink)
2020-06-14 – Copaganda (permalink)
2020-06-08 – Biden his time (permalink)
2020-06-01 – American Nightmare (permalink)
2020-01-31 – The invisible border (permalink)
2019-11-18 – Noise will be noise (permalink)
2019-06-26 – Republicans on the run (permalink)
2019-06-12 – Planting dreams (permalink)
2019-02-05 – The Shadow Rulers (permalink)
2019-01-18 – When your power company is a felon (permalink)
2018-09-29 – “Somebody’s gotta explain this to Trump” (permalink)
2018-07-31 – Manafort, day in court (permalink)
2018-06-20 – Happy Juneteenth! (permalink)
2018-06-04 – Why does everyone hate George Soros? (permalink)
2018-06-03 – The poorest rich country in the world (permalink)
2018-05-23 – Arbitration Nation (permalink)
2018-04-08 – 20 shots and a cell phone (permalink)
2018-04-08 – It’s never too late to understand the war in Syria (permalink)
2018-04-03 – Gerrymandering 101 (permalink)
2018-03-05 – President for Life (permalink)
2018-03-02 – Mueller 101 (permalink)
2018-03-02 – The Quiet War on Obamacare (permalink)

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter (1)

2021-07-11 – Do you need to do a detox? (permalink)

Stanford CDDRL podcast (1)

2021-04-03 – Identity And The End Of History (permalink)

Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions (2)

2020-12-07 – EP 4: Is it too late to stop climate change? (permalink)
2020-11-23 – EP 2: Is inequality inevitable? (permalink)

Stephanomics (2)

2020-10-29 – How to Build Back Greener After the Pandemic (permalink)
2019-11-10 – What the Sanders or Warren Wealth Tax Means for Inequality in the U.S. (permalink)

Reply All (4)

2020-10-02 – #167 America’s Hottest Talkline (permalink)
2019-07-01 – #144 Dark Pattern (permalink)
2019-04-11 – #140 The Roman Mars Mazda Virus (permalink)
2018-07-28 – #125 All My Pets (permalink)

LeVar Burton Reads (1)

2020-08-19 – “Your Rover is Here” by LP Kindred (permalink)

Seeking Refuge (1)

2020-07-13 – [Bonus] Salva Dut | Water for South Sudan (permalink)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (2)

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath (2)

2019-10-04 – Part VII: Charging Decisions (permalink)
2019-07-26 – The Report Part II: Hack. Dump. Divide. (permalink)

The Penguin Podcast (1)

2019-09-13 – Eoin Colfer with Paul Smith (permalink)

The Anthropocene Reviewed (1)

2019-03-29 – The Hall of Presidents and New Partner (permalink)

CodeNewbie (2)

2019-02-04 – S7:E3 - Can you do open source full-time? (Jessie Frazelle, Bryan Liles) (permalink)
2019-01-29 – S7:E2 - How do I level up? (Ben Orenstein) (permalink)

The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom (1)

2018-03-29 – Joel Califa, Senior Product Designer at GitHub (permalink)

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