Brief descriptions/genres definitely recommended. Please don't be afraid of being :LIB:, I feel like so many podcast recs on this site focus of Political Pods which while fun, I can find myself listening to audio content for 6 hours on some days and I don't always wanna blast politics into my ears, and I know a lot of other people don't either.
If you have white woman true crime brain or are interested in like cults or high strangeness shit(catch all term for UFOs and cryptids and ghosts and ghouls), Last Podcast on The Left is a pretty good mix of informative and comedic.
Just two caveats, the further back you go they are more kinda assholeish and more likely to make disrespectful jokes about victims, and avoid anything to do with Russia or China like the plague because these guys are lib comedians.
Also while they are like conditionally cop critical when it comes to cops fucking up in a specific case or topic, they don't ever really go full ACAB and they will do cop praise if theres like a cop that did a "good job", but this is kinda inherent to all true crime content just by virtue of how cherrypicked it is.
I tried starting LPOTL from the beginning after getting it reccomended to me and it put me off forever :sadness: i feel like we should recommend a start point or else it needs a CW for Dudes Being Dicks About Gruesome Crimes
I'd say probably like anything below 100-150 is likely to either be half baked or have really shitty unfunny bits, or both.
After that I think its probably best to see if theres a topic thats already slightly interesting to you and start there.
Starting from the most recent is also isnt a terrible idea cause there arent that many running gags or references usually, or they go by fast and dont occupy a ton of time, their relatively recent MKULTRA series is pretty indepth.