5 Podcasts to Make Your Downtime Less Boring (With Some Bonus)

The Tim Ferriss Show: Tim Ferriss wrote the 4-Hour Work Week (a book we HIGHLY recommend reading) and quickly became one of Ric’s favorite entrepreneurs. He has over 450 episodes to date which allows for hours of endless entertainment. Tim Ferriss is funny, witty, and knowledgable which is the perfect recipe for an interesting podcast. He brings on a variety of guests from business to entrepreneurship to fitness to culture and he leads his interviews with poise and originality. He guides interviewees in a way that gives them the space to talk freely without many interjections. 10/10 would recommend.

Armchair Expert: I think Dax Shepard is a gift to this world and his podcast should be celebrated. His interviews give a humanistic perspective to people we see as only celebrities. They talk about struggles with addiction and mental health, the behind the scenes work put into acting and comedy, love, life, and everything else in between. He’s interviewed some of my favorite people and they’re laugh-out-loud funny. In the end, he and his co-host Monica break down each episode with a “fact-check”. Their banter is funny and lighthearted and they provide data to support (or prove otherwise) the things discussed in the interview.

Smartless: This is a new podcast that we’ve been listening to since episode one. Jason…