My slop bucket is empty and I need new things to drown out my thoughts with, post the shows you listen to!
This Is Revolution - A regular communist news/history/philosophy show which isn't run by crackers
TrashFuture - Chapo Trap House, but British. Critical tech, but silly.
Minion Death Cult - Showcasing the best of boomer Facebook. If c/the_dunk_tank were a podcast.
Qanon Anonymous - What are the cranks up to?
Work Stoppage - Labor news
This Machine Kills - The preeminent critical tech, Marxist-Luddist podcast. Groundbreaking stuff.
The Red Nation Podcast - Indigenous affairs, with many Marxist hosts.
Beep Beep Lettuce - Stoner Communism
Pod Damn America - "A gothic socialist podcast for the stupid children"
TrueAnon - 👁️
The Deprogram - A Texan, a Balkanoid, and an Iraqi walk into a bar
5-4 - "Why the Supreme Court Sucks" - somewhat lib, but good analysis of US federal jurisprudence and dunking on judges
Guerilla History - If you like Revolutionary Left Radio, Breht is on here too
Revolutionary Left Radio - Breht Oshey is a solid dude
Tech Won't Save Us - Critical tech, hosted by Paris Marx
Working People - the most wholesome labor program in existence, hosted by Maximilian Alvarez
Srsly Wrong - libertarian / utopian communist comedy
The Antifada - The leftcoms make some very good points and rarely miss
Trillbilly Worker's Party - Appalachian communist comedy podcast
Radio War Nerd - A smorgasbord of military history and current events with relatively few brainworms
Citations Needed - :citations-needed:
General Intellect Unit - Critical tech
Red Menace - Cliff-notes for foundational revolutionary texts. Very good.
ALAB Series - The best legal podcast, very intermittent though
If you are looking for something to listen to right now, I recommend Year Zero: The Thousand Year Stare - A crossover episode between Trillbilly Workers Party and The Antifada in which Sean and Terrance discuss Giovanni Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Century" for two hours. This obscure podcast episode caused interest in the book to spike, used prices to soar, and ultimately resulted in a new printing run from Verso.
ALAB Series - The best legal podcast, very intermittent though
We just gotta take turns suing them into releasing new episodes.
Revleft Radio, The Deprogram, First Thought (premiers tmrw), Re-imagining Soviet Georgia, and Red Game Table (DND but soviet and spoopy)
My list:
The obvious: Chapo, TrueAnon, Trillbillies, Trashfuture, WTYP, Citations Needed, Blowback.
Somewhat popular here:
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The Dollop - 2 comedians go through a history story and make jokes, leans leftist but not explicitly.
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The West Wing Thing (now over) - Dollop host and another guy watch and discuss every episode of The West Wing and get very angry about it, I've never seen the show and the podcast is great.
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The Audit - West Wing Thing hosts watch things like George W Bush's Masterclass so you dont have to
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A More Civilized Age - Leftist review of Star Wars The Clone Wars
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We're Not So Different - Podcast about Medieval history with Dr Eleanor Janega who was just on one of the Hell on Earth appendix episodes
Probably not as known here:
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The Urbanist Agenda - New podcast from Not Just Bikes. Only 2 episodes so far.
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Dear Hank and John - Hank and John Green answer listener advice and give dubious advice
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SciShow Tangents - Science quiz show by Hank Green
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Lateral - Comedy(ish?) quiz show by Tom Scott. If you've seen the BBC show QI, its exactly the same thing.
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Rooster Teeth Podcast - People from Rooster Teeth talk about whatever, I just like the vibe if I'm out of other things.
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I have three that haven't been mentioned or aren't obvious:
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Geopolitical Economy: Ben Norton's podcast. He frequently has Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai on
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Cosmopod: The podcast of Cosmonaut Magazine
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If Books Could Kill: hosts are kinda radlibs but it's really entertaining.
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The Dollop - it's the horrors of US history but in an amusing package.
Blowback - Horrors of US Imperialism but well covered in an intriguing manner.
https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast -a podcast on the works and life of Alexandra Kollontai a Socialist woman's activist from the early 1900s.
Blowback - Horrors of US Imperialism but well covered in an intriguing manner.
Honestly I hope this ones gets a documentary form someday, it could work really well
The only one that sticks out to me that nobody here mentioned is The East is a Podcast, which is an show based entirely on anti-imperialism. Persian-Canadian communist host, I think his lens is fundamentally that Western leftists spend basically no time listening to anyone who isn't from like the US or at best Western Europe.
A lot of the eps don't even have the host, their just called like ""The Kwame Nkrumah Mixtape" or "Chavez's 2006 UN General Assembly Speech". Great curation - obscure speeches and interviews with :ture-fist:s, :fidel-sarcastic:, :malcolm-checks:, :parenti:, Edward Said, Walter Rodney, etc etc.
The host himself can be a bit tedious at times, but gets good guests too. The Gabriel Rockhill eps have been really really interesting, that guy has a really interesting project cooking.
Oh also Hammer & Camera is a film review podcasts by the guys who used to do The Horror Vanguard eps with Breht on Revolutionary Left Radio back in the day, low key but often good.
A random podcast called Quorators popped up and I’ve been enjoying it. It’s basically just bantering around the insanity of Quora including the many answers where people fantasize about shooting home invaders and intellectuals who think washing your ass will make you wealthy.
Last Podcast on the Left has been fun. True crime and supernatural stuff. I’m not sure what makes them different from other shows. Perhaps they just try to make dark jokes rather than psychoanalyze every killer and stuff.
Alphabet Boys - the story of how the FBI hired a violent felon to infiltrate the racial protests during 2020.
Quorators is made by one of the members of pod damn america Alex is a funny guy. I don't know much about jeremy though
Remember Shuffle - latest stuff has been getting really good. Light hearted analysis of the what made American culture tick through the 2000's, and what impact they left on the current cultural trends.
Oh yeah I like that one too. It's wild how much stuff from that time just got wiped from my memory. Like I forgot Dane Cook even existed for like ten years until their latest episode brought it all back
Ghost Stories For The End Of The World - intersection and overlap of intelligence agencies and organized crime post ww2
In addition to mentioned: alpha2omega (understanding class series and something like latest 297-298 episodes I feel give very missing perspectives in typical leftist slop) when I want more forward looking stuff. regrettable century/swampside chats for varn endearing crankiness mainly.
Seriously, listen to 297 episode tho, it’s about some venezuelan stuff, but last half is very interesting, also makes you go :amerikkka:
Cornerspati for random eu shenanigans, more lighthearted and carscomrades for random autolore
“Tides of History” by Patrick why man and “Fall of civilizations” by idk but it’s fucking dope.
They both turn incredibly dry presentions of absolutely vividly fascinating topics into an enjoyable listen that also educates.
Like, I majored in history, good professors made going to class a highlight of the day and bad ones made it a chore. Now imagine one of the good ones decided to a lecture series with high production values and needed to earn their audience instead of their audience choosing to be there for a degree.
It’s better than that. You’ll learn so much and enjoy it without realizing you spent the last hour taking in the same info an entire 100 course provides.
I highly recommend starting with a. Topic you already like, but my personal favorite is the collapse of pre-antiquity and the sea peoples.
