"Each week, the International Spy Museum offers a new SpyCast featuring interviews and programs with ex-spies, intelligence experts, and espionage scholars. SpyCast is hosted by Dr. Vince Houghton, historian and curator at the International Spy Museum. Dr. Houghton specializes in intelligence, diplomatic, and military history, with expertise in the late-WWII and early-Cold War eras."
Love this podcast. Aces.
I'm including this podcast because of the topic, and I want to like it, but there are issues.
If I was very insecure about my credibility in this oeuvre, I'd pounce on just about any opportunity to call out the failings of others because it would allow me to virtue signal how knowledgeable I am...
Stories about and interviews with self-starters, entrepreneurs. It's almost always much more interesting than I think it will be. Like the story about the founder of Whole Foods and the person who started 1-800-GOT-JUNK.
"Nate Silver and the FiveThirtyEight team cover the latest in politics, tracking the issues and 'game-changers' every week."
It can be a little cacophonous, but it's informative and incisive in a way my own mind is not, so I deal with it.
"Ezra Klein gives you a chance to get inside the heads of the newsmakers and power players in politics and media. These are extended conversations with policymakers, writers, technologists, and business leaders about what they believe in and why."
Tbh, episodes are often kind of long, and I usually agree with him and his guests, so... I don't always listen too closely, but his episodes trying to bring context to the situation in Gaza are illuminating.
It's not that I don't have an opinion on that "situation" either, but I am not ready to be polemic here, yet.
"About Unconscious Human Behavior, and Biases that direct our Relationships"
I have loved many episodes of this podcast, but after awhile, it becomes more tiring than inspiring to pick apart every aspect of mentality, psychology, jealousy, assumptions, fears, love, regret, ugh... too many feelings, too much work
"A celebration of self-delusion." Genius. Not regularly updated, but there are some gems. I've even re-listened to some episodes because they were dense but interesting.
Each episode has a general theme like fear, happiness, leadership, or work. There are ~2-4 stories with excerpts from a TED talk and an interview with the speaker. Very polished production.
"A podcast about language by Helen Zaltzman." She's British and very amusing.
"The Cipher Brief is a digital, security-based conversation platform that connects the private sector with the world`s leading security experts. We deliver a relevant analysis of news and events that helps readers accurately anticipate and safely navigate the complex, unstable, global security environment. The Cipher Brief was founded by former CNN Intelligence Correspondent Suzanne Kelly on the belief that reporting on the latest security breaches or global security issues alone won't always help find solutions to the bigger problems.
"Everything is Alive is an unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects.
Two guys talk about things that used to be conspiracy theories but later turned out to be true, like Disney buying up entire towns and COINTELPRO. This is one of the few podcasts that, the more I listen to it, the more I like it.
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm. From Techmeme.com, Silicon Valley's most-read news source. 15 minutes and you're up to date.
This is a series podcast that is good to listen to in order.
"From the producers of Radiolab, a series about how the Supreme Court got so supreme."
Short episodes on singular topics like: CIA, Supreme Court, the electoral college, nuclear weapons, welfare, super PACs, etc.
"With great power comes great scrutiny. Every Friday, Recode’s Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the way technology is shaping business and culture across media, advertising, politics, and more. Produced by Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network."
"Four former aides to President Obama — Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor — are joined by journalists, politicians, comedians, and activists for a freewheeling conversation about politics, the press and the challenges posed by the Trump presidency."
"Covert Contact covers the key national security, intelligence, and technology stories that are shaping our world."
The full title is Covert Contact: The Blogs of War Podcast but it's a bit long for my tastes and my layout.
My first podcast; the one that started me on the glorious road of story listening and learning. The tales I've heard here have opened my eyes, broken my heart and healed it back up.
More signal, less noise—we distill the day’s critical cyber security news into a concise daily podcast. Building upon our popular Daily Briefing, our daily podcast includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world. We publish each weekday afternoon (in time for US East Coast drive-time.)
From Frasier Cain, publisher of Universe Today, and his guest host Dr. Pamela Gay, who will unperturbedly mispronounce at least one totally ordinary word in every episode.
The Lawfare Podcast is the weekly audio production of the Lawfare staff in cooperation with the Brookings Institute. Podcast episodes include interviews with policymakers, scholars, journalists, and analysts; events and panel discussions.
This is a series podcast that is good to listen to in order. Season One is about Watergate. This is one of the best podcasts I've ever had the good fortune to listen to. Specifically, it tells the story of Watergate from the perspective of the people who lived through it and what it was like not knowing how it would all turn out... a thing many of us living in America, and the world, can relate to with regard to Trump, election meddling, the Mueller investigation, etc.
Season Two is about the Clinton Impeachment.
"In Intelligence Matters, former acting Director of the CIA Michael Morell, speaks with top leaders of the U.S. intelligence community as they reflect on their life, career and the critical roles they play in shaping national security policies... Sponsored by Raytheon, making the world a safer place."
Feel like that's kinda debatable, Raytheon, but thanks for supporting an insightful podcast.
"The Defensive Security podcast is an attempt to look at recent security news and pick out lessons we can apply to the organizations we are charged with keeping secure. This podcast is hosted by Jerry Bell (@maliciouslink) and Andrew Kalat (@lerg)."
This one is fairly casual, production-wise, like the information conveyed could be done in a much more concise manner, but it's more like sitting in a room with people having an interesting conversation, and sometimes that's what works.
“‘A podcast about the internet that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.” – The Guardian
About, "the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world." Host Roman Mars has the most soothing voice I've ever heard. Also, every episode is fascinating, even when you think you wouldn't maybe care about the topic, there's usually a good reason they developed it into an episode.
True stories from the dark side of the Internet.
Darknet Diaries is a podcast covering true stories from the dark side of the Internet. Stories about hackers, defenders, threats, malware, botnets, breaches, and privacy.
The show is produced by Jack Rhysider, a veteran to the security world. He gained his professional knowledge of security by working in a Security Operations Center, a place to where threats are detected and stopped.
Recorded Future takes you inside the world of cyber threat intelligence. We’re sharing stories from the trenches and the operations floor as well as giving you the skinny on established and emerging adversaries.
Hosts: "Geoff Siskind, digs into the minds of cyber criminals with cybersecurity expert, Bruce Snell, giving us an in-depth view of the vulnerabilities we face so we can stay observant, and out of the hacker’s path."
"...explores the intangible forces that shape human behavior—things like ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions."
Not regularly updated but often interesting... kind of a cross between 99% Invisible and Hidden Brain but hosted by women, which is shockingly rare.