Podcasts Worth Hearing — 6/30/17

A selection of my favorite podcasts of the week on the topics of finance, business, investing, technology, and economics.

This week, we hear about the history of the iPod, the decline of small towns, and much more. If you’re new here, we ❤ new subscribers.

🏆 Best of the Week 🏆 — Longtime chief of staff/consigliere to Steve Jobs, Mike Slade is on the Internet History Podcast discussing Apple’s cash flow improvement following Jobs’s return from Next and the unlikely history of the iPod (Web link and iTunes link). The Nebraska senator who moonlights as an Uber driver, Ben Sasse joins Tyler Cowen to discuss the decline of small towns and why he is bullish on travel (Transcript link and iTunes link). Remember Marc Andreessen’s point about the “fast-growth” and “slow-growth” sectors of the economy in his talk with Axios’s Dan Primack? Well, economist Michael Mandell is on FT Alphachat substantiating much of what Marc said and predicting a coming productivity boom (Web link and iTunes link). Formerly at the Motley Fool and now at the Collaborative Fund, Morgan Housel talks about the media business model and why he invests at “the intersection of for-profit and for-good” on The Flyover Labs podcast (Transcript link and iTunes link). A bonus for those wanting to laugh. Judd Apatow of Superbad, Knocked Up, and Girls fame joins Bill Simmons for a hilarious 1+ hour discussion on things that will make you laugh (Web link and iTunes link).