Podcasts I Believe Are Worth Listening To:

Specific episodes I’ve found thought provoking, interesting, or entertaining:

Title: #401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3.
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
John Mearsheimer shares his educated opinion on current geo-politics as well as conflicts and the history leading up to them

Title: Gas Stations
Podcast: The Economics of Everyday Things.
An insight into the unseen world of gas stations, their operation, and their surprising economic details

Title: Girl Scout Cookies
Podcast: The Economics of Everyday Things
About the details of an impressive business model and an example of an even more impressive girl scout.

Title: Leonardo Da Vinci
Podcast: How to Take Over the World
I recommend listening to part 1, part 2, and the endnotes. This is a wonderful supplementation to Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson as much of the material in the podcast is based off the book. The host narrates this in an extremely entertaining manner, adding in little details and fun facts along the way. He ties together the full life and overarching themes associated with Da Vinci very well.

Title: #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI.
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Andrej Karpathy has been one of the leading figures / researchers in this AI revolution of late. He has invaluable, intelligent, original ideas about a wide variety of topics, from the origins of life, to the future of intelligent life. Although, it does take a little while to get used to how fast he talks.

Title: Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Yoshua Bengio, one of the premier figures in the advancement of deep learning and one of the most cited researchers in AI, shares interesting opinions and thoughts about machine learning and the future of AI.

Title #377 – Harvey Silvergate: Freedom of Speech
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Harvey Silvergate, a free-speech absolutist, makes his case for free speech absolutism and speaks about cases of censorship today.

Podcast: The History of Rome
Episodes: 1-179
This podcast shares the story of the most famous empire in history in an engaging way. I highly recommend this if you are interested at all in history or ancient civilizations.

Title: #328 – John Danaher: Grappling, Jiu-Jitsu, ADCC, and Animal Combat.
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
John Danaher, I believe, is the greatest mind in the jiu-jitsu space. He is enormously gifted and intelligent and this podcast is full of wisdom. If you are a fan of philosophy or grappling / combat sports, this podcast episode is for you.

Title: #295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Richard Wolff is a tenured professor at the University of Massachussetts. He argues for Socialism, Marxism, Communism. I believe it is important to hear both sides of this argument.

Title: Marc Andreessen on Building Netscape and the Birth of the Browser
Podcast: The Ben and Marc Show
Marc Andreessen discusses how he built Netscape, the first feasible browser, and what led him to it.

Title: Oppenheimer and the Catastrophe of Communism
Podcast: The Ben and Marc Show
I listened to this after watching Oppenheimer and so it was interesting to hear about the accuracies and inaccuracies of the movie and what Christopher Nolan got right and wrong. Ben and Marc also make lots of good points and well thought out arguments against Communism.

Podcasts I like in general:

Masters in Business
The name describes the podcast. All things business, innovation, investing, etc.

Acquired
Acquired tells the stories of the founding of the worlds largest businesses (Amazon, Spotify, Nvidia, Enron, etc.) in a compelling fashion.

The Ben and Marc Show
Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen are both brilliant and articulate their ideas very well. They co-founded the venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz (roughly 50mm in AUM), so they are very in touch with the happenings in politics, tech, start-ups, etc.

The Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex approaches all conversations with an even temper and humility, resulting in great convos about all things from science to politics to history.

BG2Pod with Brad Gurstner and Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley and Brad Gurtstner are both venture capitalists and very smart. They discuss the economy, start-ups, tech, etc.