"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.