Ask HN: What are your must-listen podcasts and why?
Hi HN community,
I'm on the hunt for some new podcasts to dive into and would love your recommendations. What podcasts do you consider must-listens, and what makes them special to you?
I'm open to all genres—tech, science, economics, philosophy, storytelling, etc. If there's a particular episode that stands out, I'd be interested to hear about that too.
Looking forward to your suggestions!
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Machine Learning Street Talk
Here's my list of finance/trading podcasts, clipped from a longer post I made on Discuit with the context being resources for new traders. I have fairly broad interests and am always interested in "why", so it isn't specifically about "lines moving up and down." On the other hand, the list may be a bit monotone to anyone who doesn't have some specific interest in the area. I do feel I have a decently curated list though:
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Great Podcasts, ranked by value:
Market Huddle (#1 general trading/finance podcast)
Forward Guidance (an incredible knowledge base, especially if you go back to critical moments in recent years like the bank failures, or the initial moment of the rate hikes)
Edit: Looking over this list 6 months on, I must note Jack Farley moved from Forward Guidance to a new podcast called Monetary Matters. I would slot in Monetary Matters into the above slot even though it is a new podcast. Forward guidance therefore should be placed somewhere in the middle of the list. The back catalog of forward guidance with Jack as a host is invaluable though. You can go and listen to great interviews before major events like the Fed Pivot, or inflation topping out, or the SVB banking crisis, etc, and learn so much by comparing the discussion to the outcome.
Alpha Exchange (the highest quality finance podcast with the best academic grade content that's still oriented to mainstream participants)
Chat with Traders (the older episodes with Aaron are the best, but the new hosts are admirably keeping up the legacy. So start from the beginning)
Flirting With Models (Corey hoffstein is great. This is an incredible podcast that has always been underrated.)
Founders Podcast (it's incredible how much you can learn from the great names of the past. And the more you listen, the more themes you pick up on did they seem to have in common)
Library of Mistakes (the host is an incredible narrative weaver and is worth following. He has the best book on the Asian financial crisis out there, and he's the go-to figure for the financial repression thesis. His somewhat recent episode on forward guidance about China is a masterclass)
The Macro Trading Floor
Edit: The hosts of this podcast split up since I've wrote this post. There is a new podcast called Macro Mondays that should be subbed out for the podcast above. It is high quality. As for macro trading floor, I do not hold Peccatiello (the remaining original host) in high regard, but the new partner he brought on, Brent, I hold an extremely high regard. "A trader's trader". Therefore, I would still recommend the podcast, but mostly because it's the only place you can find Brent on the podcast circuit.
--Other Podcasts I find useful:
Risk of Ruin
IG trading the markets
The memo by Howard marks
Things I didn't learn in school
Excess returns
Behind the balance sheet
Macro Hive conversations
The view from Apollo
Goldman Sachs exchanges
Macro horizons
Commodities focus
Inside baseball with Old Chestnut
Pirates of finance
Mutiny investing podcast
The meb faber show
The alphamind podcast
The derivative by RCM alternative
Acid capitalist podcast (especially the downfall 3 arrows interview)
When you listen to a good guest that you like on a podcast, check out the Twitter, see if they are publishing research notes, if they work at a hedge fund, check out their stock positions from their public filings, maybe listen to some other interviews they've done. Write down their name and their trade ideas and see if they're right in the future, and the ones that are right pay extra attention to in the future. Layer on value however you want, there's no set lesson plan but there's a lot of value you can extract from the resources available in the public sphere.
Edit: One more edit since I'm copying this over to HN. Jane Street has a good podcast for any OCAML devs. Signals and Threads.