My podcast feed is looking pretty light these days. Looking for recommendations, especially if they have a leftist bent.
- guerrilla history
- Qanon Anonymous
- Trillbilly Worker’s Party
- Tech Won’t Save Us
- Radio War Nerd
- Millenials are killing capitalism
- This is hell
- the deprogram
- Citations Needed
- The dig
- Cars and comrades (they’re users on this site)
I heavily second This Is Hell. It’s really good and there’s a million back episodes. Chuck is a great interviewer and radio host.
I’d catch any of the recent Palestine ones (although they had someone who rejected the labeling of Israel as a settler-colony because “it confused the issue”) or browse any title that catches your interest.
Caveat: They have all kinds of guests from libs to Marxists which means they’ll occasionally have some weirdo who will mention totalitarian China / Soviet Union. There’s a German historian who hosts an occasional segment called The Past Inside The Present and it kinda sucks so I skip them.
Not enough love in here for Rev Left Radio. My boy Breht has been out here making high quality educational communist podcasts for years!
Also check out his other shows, Guerilla History, and Red Menace
For climate and scifi enjoyers: the interview with Kim Stanley Robinson about "ministry for the future" is a really great episode.
I always take revleft as a given on these lists, but you're right another plug never goes astray
Always gotta suggest Chapo because I used the subreddit for a year without knowing about the podcast.
My #1 rec is trueanon if you don’t listen already
Ghost stories for the end of the world is great for psychedelic deep state conspiracy shit
I really like last born in the wilderness, he covers a lot of topics but most regularly climate change and the Anthropocene. It’s heavy, but insightful
The Matt and Chris spin-off shows are great, hell of presidents and hell on earth
Ghost stories for the end of the world is great for psychedelic deep state conspiracy shit
Programmed to Chill if you want to fall asleep to a guy whispering about wild circumstantial connections between serial killers, cults, and the deep state
Blowback podcast has several seasons of US..... involvement....in the world. Afghanistan, Korea, Cuba, and I forgot the other. I finished two and they were pretty amazing.
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is this site's official podcast and yet nobody has mentioned it, disgraceful!- Death Panel, a bunch of pinkos getting into the nitty gritty of covid and other health topics
- Srsly Wrong, two entertaining and cozy anarkiddies who make elaborate sketches and don't get caught in sectarianism
Death Panel is so good but I’ve mostly had to stop listening to it because it’s too upsetting
I still love citations needed. They are so good and anytime an insurer comes up, there is always an episode i can send someone about that topic. It is essential.
Boonta Vista is great if you have a stupid sense of humor like mine.
Tech Won't Save Us / This Machine Kills if you have a luddite bent, both are amazing but somewhat academic.
If you can stand the incredibly obnoxious I Heart Radio ads, Alphabet Boys is a very well produced series about a fed infiltrating the BLM movement in 2020. The second season is about a fed clusterfuck involving CIA and FBI butting heads during a sting operation.
I've also been listening to If Books Could Kill, which is all about skewering shitty self help books.
Infrequent but usually good:
- Crackdown: The drug war, covered by drug users. - this is my #1 rec; very good personal/political work on a niche subject. Exemplary of what podcasts could do.
- Bad Gays
- Making Gay History
- Narcotica
Subscribe but don't autodownload: Knowledge Fight, r/askHistorians podcast, Hamilton Morris Podcast, I don't speak german, Studs Terkle Archive
Recently added: Bringham Young Money, Seeking Derrangements, Where there's woke
RIP: Bottlemen, posting through it, spycops, Eat the Rich
Limited series: This Land, The Log Books
Of those mentioned already by others the ones I will especially endorse are Qanon anonymous, tech won't save us and trash future. Some of the other ones I will have to listen to.
There was a Lemmy liberal who got smug when I said the FBI is bad because of COINTELPRO (among other reasons).
He says that the FBI no longer does that and I’m misinformed and need to do more research instead of being stuck in the past
I responded with the Intercept article about the mercenary thug abuser volunteering to be an informant during the 2020 protests
Never got a response from the guy.
Speaking of boonta vista, bigsofttiddy.png is one of the very few things to consistently make me laugh.
Yeah, it's pretty funny too, and they have a lot of crossover
Some less political ones:
Oh No Ross and Carrie is a podcast where they investigate paranormal claims and rate them on how pseudoscientific, dangerous, and creepy they are. I almost always enjoy it but it's worth jumping around and listening to what intrigues you.
Just the Zoo of Us: they talk about two animals per episode and rate them at the end.
The Empty Bowl: a meditative podcast about cereal news and reviews.
Hey Riddle Riddle: Chaotic podcast where they do a lot of improv scenes and bits, and also they try to solve riddles.
Age of Napoleon
approved and on two guest episodesThe Dollop is pretty enjoyable. Waiting to see whether Dave or Gareth says something that gets them arrested first as they get more and more unhinged by reality.
Oh also Blowback, of course.
That new John Brown one isn't half bad.
Dave is such a total dick and totally unable to accept any criticism of any kind, mild pushback or even the plebs talking in his general direction. It will absolutely be him. Also his researchers should unionize to stop him taking the fucking credit
It's gonna be Dave because it's very funny to egg him on and make him very mad online
It is, but Gareth is starting to lose it. Things are getting to him. He's been doing a lot shrooms too, to cope, I think.
The soul cycle episode I just kept going “Damn, Gareth isn’t doing well”
Lol, yeah he started off strong in that one with the holiday greeting.
Yeah but he's supposedly starting ketamine therapy soon. Might mellow him out.
Probably my favourite podcast for the last couple of years. Most people probably listen for the news and social commentary, real heads listen to hear two best friends talk about hardcore and skating.
Actually Existing Socialism (also available on podcast apps, obviously)
Imo extremely underrated. It focuses on interviewing experts in their field - historians, anthropologists, journalists, etc. - on their area of specialisation.
It's a really good podcast if you like deeper dives and you're either looking to get hyped about books or you want to get the thesis of a book without doing the reading (I see you!)
The episodes interviewing Bruni De La Motte and Victor Grossman on the GDR are particularly good but basically all of the episodes are great.
Worst of All Possible Worlds - Case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire
The Dollop - Comedy American history. The episode 1908 New York to Paris Car Race is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard
Trashfuture - British Chapo. Also making fun of startups.
Well There’s Your Problem - Leftist comedy podcast about engineering disasters.
A More Civilized Age - Leftist analysis of Star Wars Clone Wars, Rebels, and more recently Knights of the Old Republic
Trillbilly Workers Party - Southern leftists
Short series:
Alphabet Boys - A cop infiltrated the BLM movement in 2020
Operation Midnight Climax - CIA/FBI drug related fuckery
Santiago Boys - Rise and fall of Allende
Oh also The Audit - Dave from The Dollop and his friend dissect things like George W Bush’s masterclass and PragerU’s videos. The same hosts previously did The West Wing Thing, where they watched and analyzed The West Wing. You don’t need to have watched the show to enjoy the podcast.
I will just add stuff to the list that hasn’t already been commented.
-secret antenna (pretty obscure leftist/conspiracy theorist kind of podcast hosted by women)
-acid horizon (heavy theory/philosophy)
-why theory (also heavy theory)
PS thanks to everyone else for the recommendations!
