So, my partner of 15 years has always considered himself a "centrist". He grew up in New England, and his father is one of those rich New England Conservative (tm) types. So, anything more liberal than his father was extreme as far as he was concerned. I eventually got him to realize that his ideals were much closer to mine than to "centrism", but he is still on the fence.
I managed to get him off his NPR spree by getting him hooked on Citations Needed. I need other things to give him. He likes their "brutal honesty" and "brutality" in general, but he is also on the autistic spectrum so things with bizarre humor (like Seriously Wrong) would not fit for him. Also, not sure about anything that is specifically "Marxist" or "Anarchist" quite yet. I was thinking about Blowback and ALAB to start. Anyone have any other ideas for me?
He drives for a currently fucked delivery company right now, so he has plenty of time to listen to things. However, things that require you to listen to the back catalog to understand them (like Working Class History) might be annoying to get him attached to until I can get him to switch to a better podcasting app. I think he is still using Spotify :cringe:
Moderate Rebels is decent when they actually put out a recording (last one was 18 days ago). Very straight to the point, talking about current events. They interview people from LatAm countries and elsewhere sometimes. Very infrequent though, since they do other stuff. Stuff from Yasha Levine can also be pretty interesting. Also pretty infrequent. Neither of these are necessarily good intro podcasts however.