I asked this already in the megathread but maybe I will get some more answers here.

Anyone got recommendations for good podcasts? Gaming/History/Politics/Nerdshit, etc. I’m waiting for my new glasses, and my current ones are slowly killing me. So I would like to do stuff that I can do without using my eyes.

I dont really do podcasts usually so this is new territory for me.

EDIT: AGAIN Thanks for all the recommendations so far. Lots of cool stuff to sink my teeth into.

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I'm going to do @wtypstanaccount04's job and recommend Well There' s Your Problem. A leftist podcast about engineering disasters which more often than not concludes it's rent-seeking behavior, complete disregard for worker safety, and just existing in capitalism the reason why bridges fall down.

    • TallFroGuy [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      (this shares some hosts / guests with Trashfuture which is one of the two other podcasts I listen to)

      WTYPP is the best podcast with slides around . The best way I can explain it is your substitute teacher trying to give a civil engineering lecture while two smartass students crack jokes and distract him. It's the only podcast I know where a host will stop talking about the orphans crushed under mining slag to take a leak, crack a beer into the mic on their return, argue about some inside joke from 30 episodes earlier and then calculate how many inflation-adjusted xboxes a company was fined for killing all these orphans.

      It ranges from the dry, detail oriented explanations of an event, to the wider capitalist pressures that led to the conditions where it occurred and there will be an equal number of irreverent jokes throughout.

      Then it all wraps up with the user-write-in section about how ways their own bosses have tried to kill them to save a buck.

      Also I introduced it to a friend and they're trans now so be prepared. 10/10 podcast.