I personally really like Trueanon but I do think it has its flaws. For one thing, it’s first and foremost a conspiracy podcast, so you have to be conspiracy minded to really get into it. And I’m not convinced they vet their sources. The hosts are communists, I think, so they’ll often have good analyses of capitalism and also American culture. But they’re not investigators or journalists. Liz worked in media, I think, and Brace is an undercover CIA agent pretending to be a recovering addict turned YPG soldier turned manual laborer turned union organizer turned podcaster. But that’s the nature of any conspiracy stuff, but I always take things like the Spider Network or some of the crazier details around, say, JFK or 9/11 with a big helping of salt.

Also sometimes they’ll talk about stuff I just don’t give a shit about. Like celebrity gossip. Or an episode about a rapper/dealer from SF who went to Kansas City and got shot. I listen anyway because eventually they’ll include in their discussion critiques of capital and culture, but it can be a lot of minutia until they get there.