Podcast roundup: The best this week, from CYBER to The Last Laugh and The Ezra Klein Show

Our lowdown on the best episodes from a selection of podcasts that deserve a listen this week. About the episode: In this week’s podcast, Makuch sits down with Edward Snowden to talk about his life in Russia, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and press freedom in the United States and beyond. — The Ezra Klein Show Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle About the podcast: Vox’s founder and editor-at-large, Ezra Klein, presents far-reaching conversations about hard problems, big ideas, illuminating theories, and cutting-edge research. About the episode: In light of two recent essays on the world’s changing relationship to work — Anne Helen Petersen ’s BuzzFeed piece defining and describing, “millennial burnout”, and Derek Thompson ’s Atlantic article on “workism” — Klein sits down with Petersen and Thompson for a conversation about what happens when work becomes an identity, capitalism becomes a religion, and productivity becomes the way we measure human value. — The Last Laugh: A Daily Beast Podcast Jon Lovett Gets Frustrated About the podcast: Every week, The Daily Beast’s Matt Wilstein interviews some of the biggest names in comedy — as well as the new voices crashing the party — about what it’s like to be a comedian in this current cultural and political moment.