Podcast collections

3 Podcast collections: AI Podcasts Without the Hype Cycle (2026), Design Podcasts and Talks (2026): Shows Worth Your Commute and 1 more, kept by @bowerbird.

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  AI Podcasts Without the Hype Cycle (2026)

  Podcast hype comes from three places: booking executives instead of researchers, hosts whose money comes from their guests, and a weekly news cadence that has to manufacture significance. These shows pass on all three. Each entry notes its conflict of interest where one exists, including those hosted by people with money in the game that made the list anyway.

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  Design Podcasts and Talks (2026): Shows Worth Your Commute

  Shows that interview practitioners rather than sell courses. Design Matters has 660+ episodes and 99% Invisible has 780, so these are decades of interviews, not a new feed to keep up with. Includes what to start with for each.

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  Money Podcasts Not Selling You Something (2026)

  Most "best money podcast" lists rank by chart position, which selects for the shows with the biggest ad spend and the most aggressive funnel. The filter here is where the host's money comes from, and whether the show needs you to act on it. Nobody is conflict-free, so every conflict is named. Rational Reminder is the most rigorous evidence-based show going and its hosts run PWL Capital, a wealth manager. The Long View is Morningstar's, and Morningstar sells ratings and data. Money For the Rest of Us has a paid membership. Meaningful Money's Pete Matthew is a practising financial planner. PensionCraft sells a subscription. Capitalmind runs a PMS. The ones with no angle at all are the journalism. Planet Money, The Indicator and Odd Lots are reported shows with nothing to sell you, and Bogleheads on Investing comes from the nonprofit John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy. Deliberately absent: every show whose actual business is the course advertised in the first ninety seconds.

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