I’m not a watcher of TV but a listener of Podcasts. In an age of abundance and information overload, I find it increasingly important to listen to experts in their respective fields as opposed to catching rehearsed sound bites and sensational news encapsulated in commercial advertising. It’s so refreshing hearing enthusiastic scholars talking about a subject they are passionate about in a long-form open conversation. I got into podcasts roughly a year ago and haven’t looked back. I can honestly say I feel like I’ve had an extra college education since graduating, it feels totally liberating. Plus, as most of you know your brain works like a muscle; the more we use it and learn the longer it functions optimally.
There are new podcasts popping up all over the place with many different flavours to suit most listeners. My go-to are still the Joe Rogan Podcasts on Youtube, I consider these the gold standard of the podcasting world. If you are completely new to podcasts this is often a good place to start. I thought I might share some of my favourite podcasts below. For those of you who are already podcast crazed like me, I’d love to hear from you and what you listen to. I’m constantly on the lookout for new material!
Here is a list of my favourite podcasts so far:
Andreas Antonopoulos – Bitcoin expert and educator
Ben Goertzel – AI Expert, CEO and founder of SingularityNET
Brian Cox – Physicist and professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester
Derren Brown – Mentalist and illusionist
Elon Musk – Inventor, serial-entrepreneur, engineer
Graham Hancock – English author and journalist, specializing in ancient civilizations and investigating our expansive human history
Hamilton Morris – Writer, journalist, documentarian and drug researcher
Johan Hari – Writer and journalist. Expert on addiction and depression
John Anthony West – Author and lecturer on Ancient Egypt. Creator of the Magical Egypt Series
Matthew Walker – Professor of neuroscience and psychology at Berkeley. Expert on sleep and dreams
Neil deGrasse Tyson – Astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science communicator
Paul Stamets – Mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal fungi
Sean Carroll - Theoretical physicist specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology
Randal Carlson – Master builder and architectural designer, teacher, geometrician, geomythologist, geological explorer and renegade scholar
Robert Schock – Associate professor of Natural Sciences at Boston University. Geologist and proponent of the sphinx water erosion hypothesis
Wim Hof – Dutch world record holder, adventurer and daredevil. Commonly nicknamed the Iceman.