Full list: [[Podcasts - 2025]] ### Notables **[[ill-advised by Bill Nighy]]** My favorite new podcast. It’s perfect in length and content, and a wonderful waste of your time (as promised). **[[The Last Invention]]** An interesting series about AI: its history, the different perspectives around what to do about it, and what the future may look like. **[[Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs Drawing Lines]]** (*[[The Ezra Klein Show]]*) Coates is so good on this; he makes Klein seem small and out-of-touch. He should have a bigger platform. **[[Grief Is A Witch-Hag (Part 1)]]** & **[[Grief Is A Witch-Hag (Part 2)]]** (*[[True Anon]]*) Two-part interview with [[William T Vollmann]]. **[[Champions of Cormorants Argue the Water Bird is Unfairly Vilified]]** (*[[Ideas]]*) The misunderstood Cormorant! Fascinating history of the racial context underlying how this bird is perceived in parts of the world. **[[Fashion Neurosis with Karl Ove Knausgaard]]** (*[[Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud]]*) Another new-to-me podcast this year. This episode is a great example of the series. **[[Sonya Walger - LION]]** (*[[Beyond the Zero]]*) Listening to Walger talk about her reading and writing was awesome. Loved hearing about the story behind the book’s cover. **[[OpenAI Is Not A Real Company]]** (*[[Better Offline]]*) From Ed Zitron’s podcast: a glimpse into how he sees the AI industry. **[[Beschloss & Meacham - We Don't Have the Words for What We're Seeing]]** (*[[Impolitic with John Heilemann]]*) When historians don’t have words for what they’re witnessing. **[[Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes]]** (*[[The Tucker Carlson Show]]*) I know, I know, I know. Can’t ignore what’s happening on the right, and this interview feels like a canary in the coal mine for post-Trump Republican Party. Carlson’s treatment of Fuentes is egregious. **[[Chris Anderson - Karoline Leavitt Isn't Rosalia (and Other Inconvenient Truths)]]** (*[[Impolitic with John Heilemann]]*) Chris Anderson is the photographer paired with [[Chris Whipple]]’s *[[Vanity Fair]]* piece about the Trump Administration ([[Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the 'Junkyard Dogs' - The White House Chief of Staff on Trump's Second Term]]). He talks about the how and why behind his iconic photos.