Mad Fientist is always nice but has mostly retired from podcasting. Strong agree on the above regarding ChooseFI & Radical Personal Finance being unlistenable. I used to love Paula but her sustained crypto hype pulled the plug on my enthusiasm for & trust in her journalistic cred. Stacking Benjamins on the other hand is intentionally silly, but fun, with some great interviews.
Less FIRE-specific: I think the host of This Sustainable Life used to hang around here? Longform interviews, sometimes a bit slow, but from a genuinely unique perspective with a much more ERE lifestyle, or at least that was true some years ago (I am behind.) ERE’s Jacob has done a number of wonderful interviews too, some on YouTube - both of them see money solely as a tool to an end, so their conversations are more philosophical, values-driven, desiring to identify useful areas to improve the world, the same reason all of Pete/ MMM’s interviews are great. If Books Could Kill on the other hand is sort of gossipy fun. Most of my other nonfiction podcasts are foreign language. Gen X & older Millennials will get a big nostalgic kick out of LeVar Burton Reads, the rest can simply enjoy his flawlessly curated, vividly delivered thought-provoking picks of speculative fiction.
YouTube has a remarkable collection of video essayists & vloggers, the Green brothers perhaps among the most famous, who’ve committed themselves to tuberculosis advocacy as well as various scicomms.
I can’t recommend Huberman - I was instantly skeptical of his ethics as a neuroscientist when I looked him up & saw he chose to platform the head of neuroscience at Neuralink after a number of FDA investigations on his watch involving improper biohazard storage & pretty horrific animal cruelty whistleblowing, & now it has come out that he was stringing along at least six women in extended, purportedly monogamous relationships while pursuing IVF (a pretty painful process, not to mention expensive) with at least one.
The extreme opinionated stance he has taken on a very broad range of subjects outside his specialty & his constant supplement endorsements also gave me the grifter-tinged impression of being high on his own supply. The scientists I trust are the ones who make a point of the limits of our knowledge, not the ones who paint themselves as having all the answers. People who feel entitled to breach ethics & manipulate people in one area are likely to do it in others.
