The Index Investing Show (www.indexshow.com).
This weekly hour-long podcast is devoted to an investment strategy well known to MoneySense readers. Host Ron DeLegge doesn’t use the term Couch Potato, but he’s a tuber at heart, advocating a portfolio based on low-cost index funds. His show goes beyond the standard spuds, however, discussing not only funds that track stock market indexes, but also those based on real estate and commodities.

OUR TAKE: DeLegge covers well-trodden ground, but his archives include excellent interviews, including chats with Vanguard’s John Bogle, who invented index investing, and Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal.

Sound Investing (www.fundadvice.com/sound-investing).
This weekly radio show is funded by Merriman Berkman Next, a fee-based money manager in Seattle. Not surprisingly, recent episodes have focused on how to protect your investments as markets take a pounding, usually advising listeners to remember that this isn’t the first crash in our lifetime.

OUR TAKE: Sound Investing has its vested interests, but unlike many corporately produced programs it keeps the focus on consumer education. Plus, it’s a refreshing antidote to the doomsayers out there.

The Dave Ramsey Show(www.daveramsey.com).

The tagline to Ramsey’s popular talk radio show is “where debt is dumb and cash is king.” In his Tennessee drawl, he counsels his callers on deferred gratification: “Sell yer truck, and don’t even think about that vacation until y’all have an emergency fund.” The free daily podcast on iTunes is a 40-minute abridgment of Ramsey’s three-hour radio show.