The best 35 podcast-episodes since 2010

Today is a really sad day for me. My beloved Podcast-Client Instacast has closed down due to „no money left“. I normally can remember very vividly things or places that that I’ve been to when listening to spoken words. Therefore the following list is something personal.

There is basically two things in Instacast that kept me from switching for all those years:

1. The Mac-desktop client that synced flawlessly with the iOS-apps
2. The list of favorites that I used heavily to collect all the best episodes that I came across.

Since I’m now in danger of losing these favorites, I thought I could compile this list of episodes here for your listening/reading-pleasure.

To my shock this dates back up until 2010, where I added my first episode. Some of these are german. Sorry, but that is the way it is ;-)!

RIP Instacast, you’ll be missed.

2010

• CRE151 Die ARM-Architektur
  Great german talk about the ARM-processor-architecture by Chaos Radio-Express. I remember listening to this while driving through the Egyptian desert in a tourist bus, back from the „Valley of kings“.

• CRE 163 Ruby On Rails
  also by Chaos Radio-Express

2011

• Das atomare Vermächtnis der Nordmeerflotte
  a german feature about the Russian North sea fleet which’s radioactive remains rott away on the Kola island.

2012

• CRE 195 Das Gehirn
  a thorough description of the inner workings of the brain. I love how Chaos Radio-Express goes into the details.

• Anna Kendrick
  This episode by the Nerdist Podcast changed Anna Kendrick’s image for me. Really funny woman with a strong opinion.

• angespielt #042 - XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  Listened to this on vacation through the Dominican Republic and couldn’t wait to get back home to play the game.

• CR184 Technik und Krieg
  Interesting topic and episode.

2013

• 087 RR Book Club: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby with Sandi Metz
  If somebody knows how to do object-oriented design then it is Sandi Metz.

• Camilla Luddington
  Really funny episode with the girl you played Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider reboot.

• 52: Karim Morsy and djay 2
  Really interesting in-depth interview with the maker of the djay iOS/Mac App by the Iterate podcast.

• Katee Sackhoff
  Very funny episode with the woman who played „Starbuck“ on the Nerdist. Good humor she has.

• Tom Hanks Returns
  Great guy, great interview by the Nerdist

• Sasha Grey
  Nuff said.

• Chris Hadfield
  He was the commander of the Internation Space Station for one year and talks about his experience.

• 58: Paul Haddad on Tweetbot 3
  I still consider Tweetbot 3 the best designed iOS7-style app. Here one the lead designers/developers talks about their decisions.

• 79: The Gentle Wise One (Uncle Bob Martin) Uncle Bob enforces clean-code and good-software-design like no other. By the The Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast

• Moby seem to have done A LOT OF drugs in his days.

2014

• Serial - OMFG. If you haven’t listened to this crazily good podcast which explores a 1999 highschool-killing. Go NOW. Don’t read on.

• Christina Ricci you don’t get interviews like the Nerdist’s anywhere else.

• Jamie Alexander also a fun and insightful episode

• Arnold Schwarzenegger so you thought he is a „dummy“ or was lucky to get successful. Listen and think again.

• William Shatner well it is Cpt.Kirk

• CRE206 Das Ohr
  a really important episode if you like you ears and want to understand how they work for you.

• 45: Visual storytelling in the digital age Storehouse must be one of the most beautiful apps around. Here their team talks.

• angespoilt #056 – Watch Dogs this game was a hit before I listened to this.

• 40: Nitin Ganatra episode II: OS X to iOS Nitin Ganatra was on the original iPhone-team and shares his experience in three episodes on the Debug podcast, which I found this the most insightful of them all.

• Live at SDCC 2014 with Evangeline Lilly and Michael Rooker Very entertaining episode with Evangeline Lilly from Lost and Michael Rooker from the Walking Dead.

• Philosophie - Was übrig bleibt, wenn nix übrig bleibt - Über das Nichts - You like hard thinking? Try to follow this german episode which talks about the „nothing“.

• Pick Up Artists - Mit Verführungskünstlern auf der Jagd really scary stuff. I don’t get this, but if this works … it tells.

• John Cleese
  

2015

• Gillian Anderson Scully talks about how she accidentally became part of a hit-show.

• 17: Final Exit The Criminal podcast is the next best thing since Serial. This episode tells a story about an organization that helps people commit suicide. Crazy stuff.

• Absturz über den Alpen - Erste Ermittlungsergebnisse zur Flugzeugkatastrophe One of the few reports about the Germanwings crash that one could actually bear to listen to

• Episode 3 - Jay’s Day Since the Serial podcast concluded without a real opinion (the only way to go IMHO). This is a podcast by the team that tries to free the convicted murder. This episode reveals a twist about the investigating police-team.

• Die große Erziehungssendung the german podcast Sanft & Sorgfältig is not only funny, but can also teach you some things. Which it does here.

Hope this list helps you find something nice to listen to.

I’d love to get to know YOUR favorite episodes.