Amazing Podcast Episodes: ~3x curated episodes per week show

Amazing Podcast Episodes: ~3x curated episodes per week

Summary: Curating & reposting the ~3 best podcasts per week. There are simply too many good podcasts out there, let us pick the best three each week for you. Copyright is owned by the publisher, not this podcast, audio is streamed directly from publisher's servers.

Podcasts:

  HBR IdeaCast: Jerry Seinfeld - Stopping and Starting With Success | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2091

Jerry Seinfeld shares his insights into innovation, self-criticism, and how to know when to quit. The U.S. comedian conquered 1990s television with his sitcom and is now finding a new audience for his online talk show, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."

  Bothsides TV: Glenn Beck Interview by Brent Weinstein | Upfront Summit 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:00

Glenn Beck Interview by Brent Weinstein | Upfront Summit 2017 by Bothsides TV

  Cal Cast: DRAKE talks about his past, current projects and future plans | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:55:11

This week's episode features a wide-ranging conversation with entertainment superstar, Drake. Drake talks about how he got his start, his biggest fear in life, upcoming projects, who he'd love to work with, his relationship with his mother and his future plans.

  On Being: Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:21

What if the first question we asked on a date were, "How are you crazy? I'm crazy like this"? Philosopher and writer Alain de Botton's essay "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" was, amazingly, the most-read article in The New York Times in the news-drenched year of 2016. As people and as a culture, he says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. How might our relationships be different — and better — if we understood that the real work of love is not in the falling, but in what comes after?

  TED Radio Hour: Screen Time - Part I | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3692

It's normal for us to always be glued to our screens. So how are they changing us, and how will they shape our future? This hour, TED speakers explore our ambivalent relationships with our screens. (Original broadcast date: September 11, 2015).

  The Daily: Feb. 10, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:56

Is President Trump’s travel ban headed to the Supreme Court? Did the boy in the photograph make it to America? Plus: your stories about living through history.

  How I Built This: Virgin - Richard Branson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2094

Richard Branson took a record shop and built it into a label, a bank, an airline, space tourism, and 200 other businesses — all under the name Virgin. But the serial entrepreneur has also had his share of failures.

  RadioLab: Stranger in Paradise | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:35

Today we travel from the storage rooms of the Smithsonian to the sandy beaches of Guadeloupe, chasing the tale of one trash can tipping raccoon.

  Something You Should Know: What Really Motivates You and The Science of Chocolate and Weight Loss | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:48:04

What motivates you? Money is probably high on the list. But it is important to realize that there IS a list. Money isn’t the only thing. In fact money can sometimes be a de-motivator. So you see it’s complicated. Here to explain it is Dan Ariely,he is a professor at Duke University, and author of the book Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivation. He has some great stories of how motivation works that involve IKEA Furniture, Intel and AARP.

  This American Life: Didn’t We Solve This One? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:59

We’ve fought two wars since 9/11. We got help from tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans—some were targeted or killed because they helped us. We owe these people. We’ve passed laws that say so. So why has it been so hard for us to get many of them to safety?

  Reply All: Man of the People | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2434

This week — a new technology falls into the wrong hands.

  Freakonomics Radio: Is the American Dream Really Dead? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:26

For years, economists promised that global free trade would be mostly win-win. Now they admit the pace of change has been "traumatic." This has already led to a political insurrection -- so what's next?

  Vox's The Weeds: Inauguration Special | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2597

Shortly after the inauguration ceremonies ended, Ezra, Matt, and Sarah gathered to analyze what it all means in the first Trump-era Weeds episode.

  The Ezra Klein Show: Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4711

Elizabeth Kolbert covers climate change for the New Yorker. She's the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. And she recently wrote a paragraph I can't stop thinking about. "The problem with global warming—and the reason it continues to resist illustration, even as the streets flood and the forests die and the mussels rot on the shores—is that experience is an inadequate guide to what’s going on.

  Debrief By Bloomberg News: Debrief: Jamie Dimon on Trump, Taxes and a U.S. Renaissance | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:25

In this episode, we speak with Jamie Dimon, the billionaire CEO of JPMorgan whose storied business career includes stints at Citigroup and American Express. The New York Times once called him "Obama's favorite banker.'' But for now, it looks like he won't be joining the Trump administration. We caught up with Jamie in mid-December in Detroit, where he was speaking at the restored Garden Theater about the bank's $100 million investment in revitalizing the city.

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