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Citations Needed
Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.
This is a good one. Specifically, I would recommend showing the Mike Rowe episode to all your liberal and apolitical friends. Every time I bring this topic up to my family they refuse to accept that he is some sort of republican 'agent.' Hopefully I will trap them in the car at some for a trip long enough where I will force them to listen.
If there was one podcast I could (successfully) convince more people to listen to, it would be Citations Needed.
This is almost certainly a very good podcast on all relevant levels, but when I see a title like "the post-neoliberal ad-hominisation of the reverse mortgage non-discouse" or "the soft de-radicalisation of centering managerial loss-prevention perspectives" my inner organs rebel and cease to function. It's like when zero-irony people see a Don Hughes tweet. I'm not clicking on that.
The only non-pedophile podcast focused on uncovering the truth of the Epstein conspiracy. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, & @yung-chomsky in their journey digging through the Ep-Files.
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Description A leftist podcast about philosophy, current events, and revolutionary politics. Operating out of a bunker somewhere on the Great Plains.
Love Breht. Too many eps lately though that are just another angle on "Psychedelics, Meditation and Communism"
pardon the necro but I had to rep this, it's one of my favorite podcasts at the moment.
It literally has an episode on like everything, its a great tool to learn about historical events and leftist ideology from a marxist perspective.
A podcast-with-slides about engineering disasters. Featuring Justin Rozniak / donoteat01 (the Franklin guy)'s engineering expertise, Trash Future's Alice Caldwell-Kelly's jaded sarcasm, and I dunno, Justin's roommate or something. About one in four episodes will make you want to pitchfork some capitalists, and the rest are very funny.
Trillbilly Worker's Party
Trillbilly Workers Party is a podcast about a town called Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Trillbilly Workers Party is a podcast about extraction capitalism and the plight of the working class by the Kentucky Koterie
I enjoy it because I don't have to listen to some goddanged coastal elites tell me about socialism
Description: Chapo Trap House is an American political podcast founded in March 2016 and hosted by Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Biederman, Amber A'Lee Frost, and Virgil Texas. The show is produced by Chris Wade and formerly by Brendan James. The podcast is strongly associated with the dirtbag left, a term coined by Frost to refer to a style of contentious left-wing political discourse that eschews civility for its own sake in favor of vulgarity.
To add to this, if you only ever listen to a single podcast episode in your entire life, make it the 1908 Car Race episode of The Dollop. I made the mistake of listening to it in public and it literally had me on the ground struggling for air several times, tears streaming down my face.
The one, the only, The Rube, still one of the funniest things I've ever heard
#56 Newport Sex Scandal and #237 Jet Pack Madness are some of the all time greats imo
I love the Battle of Hayes Pond episodes because, being an american history podcast, so many episodes are bummers in which good people suffer and evil triumphs.
Well, not in this episode. This is an episode about the KKK getting pissed that some native americans were getting too friendly with some black people, and life was generally just getting too nice, so they have a rally that they plan to turn into a pogrom.
Let's just say the Battle of Hayes Pond does not go well for the KKK.
My favorite episodes have been #261 Henry Ford's Henchman with Matt Christman as a guest and #346 Henry Clay Frick about the Homestead steel strike.
The only good boomers share deep knowledge of geopolitics and military history and also complain about travelling and family troubles
I'm recently unemployed and had to cut all of my Patreon subscriptions, but this is the one I kept. There are a lot of great - absolutely great - shows being produced, but there is something unique about this one.
TrashFuture
a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism by @raaleh, @HKesvani, @milo_edwards, @inthesedeserts and @aliceavizandum
Behind the Bastards
There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the removed dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
Ah the filter caught that word because of its ending not the word itself. I’ll push a change
Behind the removed, huh? :soviet-hmm:
We might want to revisit the slur regex after we get going and add/remove things as we see fit. Great podcast though. Robert Evans is a really cool dude.
Oh lovely, the word filter even mucks up the URL. Search for "Robert Evans podcast" and you'll probably find it.
EYES LEFT is a military podcast hosted by two anti-war Army veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, Spenser Rapone and Mike Prysner, covering issues from a left-wing and socialist perspective.
EYES LEFT gives updates and progressive commentary on military news, war developments, failings of military leadership, veterans’ issues, radical military history, and how US troops can resist Trump and US foreign policy.
Some funny lefty lawyers (including Rich Lather of twitter fame) talk about how awful laywers are and discuss some really dumb lawsuits
As a frequent visitor of BestOfLegalAdvice to hate-read about the legal system, and the people who choose to dedicate their life to it, this sounds right up my ally. Thanks for the rec.
Also check out 5-4. A bunch of lefty lawyers including the_law_boy of Twitter fame talk about landmark supreme court cases and why the supreme court sucks.
it's like if BOLA was good and the lawyers at least remember what morals are.
Anarchist, anti-sectarian podcast that grew out of the host's experiences with the Occupy movement and the dysfunctional sectarianism that ultimately caused it to fall apart. Chill, wholesome, and absurdly well edited, with episodes typically consisting of the hosts Shawn and Aaron discussing theory interspersed with silly skits that demonstrate that theory.
Their Library Socialism series is probably their best stuff and a great starting point for understanding their style.
They also host a book club that's currently going through a series of essays each week to make it easier for people to jump in, and anyone's welcome to join if they request an invite.
They also have an outstanding episode on prison abolition. It's far better than most of the prison abolition literature I've found, because it squarely addresses the "well what about murderers/other violent criminals" question and goes into significant detail about how an alternative justice system could function. Calling for such a radical change is far more effective when you talk about how to do things better, not just the problems with the current system.
DM me on the Discord and I'll try to nab one. Or you can subscribe to their Patreon to not need a current member of the book club to vouch for you.
love this one. when people are like, "well what does a utopia look like" they take you there (or dystopia) in a fun way.
https://blowback.show/
Blowback, a 10 episode podcast with a leftist perspective on the Iraq War, aka a truthful one. Co-hosted by Brendan James of Chapo Trap House.
I'm actually about two episodes in so far, and I absolutely love this podcast.
