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your periodic podcast rec request post
I do a lot of work where my hands are occupied but my mind is not (hello, rehousing!!!) and may main exercise is walking so I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I am always looking for more.
My favorite ongoing podcasts are In Bed With the Right, Know Your Enemy, If Books Could Kill, Maintenance Phase, Panic World, and A Bit Fruity. These are the shows I listen to every episode of and (most of them) support on Patreon so I get extra episodes. Oh, and On the Nose from Jewish Currents.
There are a number I also like but don't listen to every episode of, just dipping in and out as they interest me. These include Behind the Bastards, Hoax!, HyperFixed, Search Engine, Straight White American Jesus, Culture Study, Decoder Ring, American Hysteria, Strongwilled, 5-4, and The Dream.
Then there are my classic favorites that I haven't listened to in a while but loved madly: You Must Remember This, You're Wrong About, and You Are Good.
One limited run I listened to lately was What Happened in Nashville, about the unregulated fertility treatment industry through the lens of a big scandal that happened in my hometown and found it interesting.
Things I like in a podcast:
+ Culture and/or history and/or current events through a leftist/feminist lens. It's really important to me that these are serious thinkers or deeply insightful people, even if what they're talking about is lighter fare
+ People who take culture and internet culture seriously but want to deeply critique it
+ Stuff about religion--not in the sense of being religious but in the sense of talking about how religion works in the world
+ Stuff that is well-researched
+ Stuff about moral panics
+ I tend to be drawn to podcasts that are created by people who are first and foremost either writers/journalists or scholars (with the exception of A Bit Fruity, all my favorite current podcasts are created by people in those categories)
+ Anything Michael Hobbes is involved with lol
+ Oh and my guilty pleasure is anything about cults (other people listen to true crime stuff, I listen to cult stuff)
Things I don't like in a podcast:
+ Humor podcasts (a lot of these people are very funny, but none of these podcasts are comedy podcasts)
+ Generic culture/pop culture stuff (by which I mean the sort of overviews of just what's going on in the world of pop culture)
+ Fiction (I'm sorry, but Welcome to Night Vale is the only one that ever truly worked for me)
+ Pure news podcasts
+ Interview podcasts that focus on celebs
+ Honestly anything about celebrities, I just don't care
+ Self-help stuff
My favorite ongoing podcasts are In Bed With the Right, Know Your Enemy, If Books Could Kill, Maintenance Phase, Panic World, and A Bit Fruity. These are the shows I listen to every episode of and (most of them) support on Patreon so I get extra episodes. Oh, and On the Nose from Jewish Currents.
There are a number I also like but don't listen to every episode of, just dipping in and out as they interest me. These include Behind the Bastards, Hoax!, HyperFixed, Search Engine, Straight White American Jesus, Culture Study, Decoder Ring, American Hysteria, Strongwilled, 5-4, and The Dream.
Then there are my classic favorites that I haven't listened to in a while but loved madly: You Must Remember This, You're Wrong About, and You Are Good.
One limited run I listened to lately was What Happened in Nashville, about the unregulated fertility treatment industry through the lens of a big scandal that happened in my hometown and found it interesting.
Things I like in a podcast:
+ Culture and/or history and/or current events through a leftist/feminist lens. It's really important to me that these are serious thinkers or deeply insightful people, even if what they're talking about is lighter fare
+ People who take culture and internet culture seriously but want to deeply critique it
+ Stuff about religion--not in the sense of being religious but in the sense of talking about how religion works in the world
+ Stuff that is well-researched
+ Stuff about moral panics
+ I tend to be drawn to podcasts that are created by people who are first and foremost either writers/journalists or scholars (with the exception of A Bit Fruity, all my favorite current podcasts are created by people in those categories)
+ Anything Michael Hobbes is involved with lol
+ Oh and my guilty pleasure is anything about cults (other people listen to true crime stuff, I listen to cult stuff)
Things I don't like in a podcast:
+ Humor podcasts (a lot of these people are very funny, but none of these podcasts are comedy podcasts)
+ Generic culture/pop culture stuff (by which I mean the sort of overviews of just what's going on in the world of pop culture)
+ Fiction (I'm sorry, but Welcome to Night Vale is the only one that ever truly worked for me)
+ Pure news podcasts
+ Interview podcasts that focus on celebs
+ Honestly anything about celebrities, I just don't care
+ Self-help stuff
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This reminds me that there was a recent TV show on Netflix about the assassination of James Garfield which apparently featured scenes in the Oneida Community (the assassin lived there sometime prior to committing the assassination). Really have to see it.
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I have heard that that show is very good! It's definitely on my to-watch list!
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Religion on the Mind – the main guy is a very deconstructed Christian, who tends to have interesting dicussions.
Also, not necessarily up your alley, but maybe might work… Digging Up The Duggers. The first half of each episode is a recap and discussion of an episode of "19 Kids and Counting" (reality tv show about the Dugger family), and the second half is an in-depth look at something pertaining to fundamentalist Christianity, or Mike Huckabee, or the IBLP cult, or so on. The second half is incredibly well researched, and often involves "how religion works in the world", cults, and political stuff. If the episode recap doesn't interest you, you could try skipping directly to the second half and listening to a few of those.
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Religion on the Mind – the main guy is a very deconstructed Christian, who tends to have interesting dicussions.
That sounds like EXACTLY my kind of thing!
I don't think I have any interest in listening to the first half of the episodes, but the second half does indeed sound interesting to me, though I wonder if it would mostly be stuff I'm already well-versed in? Worth a try anyway!
These are such good suggestions, thank you!!! <3<3<3
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Belief in The Future, David Zvi Kalman's podcast about religion and its confrontation with technology
Responsa Radio, Rabbi Ethan Tucker and Rabbi Avi Killip of Hadar talking about modern questions in halacha from the seemingly trivial to the deeply controversial
The Big Dig
A WGBH podcast about new england government and infrastructure. First season is about the Big Dig construction project, second season is about the Massachusetts lottery, third season is about the fishing industry in New Bedford.
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I support Becca's podcast with my whole heart but I unfortunately never found Jones in my youth and haven't been able to get into her in my adulthood, so I am not the right audience for it.
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- World's Greatest Con: goes over big cons and schemes. Did a multi-part series, for example, on a British intelligence idea to ship fake military intel to Nazi Germany; did another on a paranormal research lab (and two aspiring magicians' desire to show up Uri Geller) in the late 70s. Fails your leftist/feminist criterion (I guess I'd characterize the host as... soft libertarian?) and the swelling music can be a bit much, but generally (IMO) very humane. If you want to try one episode, I'd say try the recent one on the original Ponzi scheme, though my personal favorites are the people who tried to cheat their way through Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and the two-parter on Crazy Eddie.
- Revolutions: My understanding is Mike Duncan got more and more radicalized as the series went on; I'm only up to the beginning of Season 6 (the 1848 revolutions) but you might want to start with Season 4 (Haiti).
- The Siecle: deep dive into French history, 1814-1914, and I mean DEEP. Dude will do an entire episode on French coinage, or the condition of the roads, or this one popular songwriter, without batting an eye. Definitely unimpressed by French colonials and royals but I'm not sure I'd call him leftist (we haven't gotten to Marx yet).
YouTube series I play while making dinner:
- Mentour Pilot / Mentour Now: I can't claim these are leftist shows (since they're mostly about planes and plane crashes... uh, they're generally pro-union and pro-regulation?) but I can tell you that the two main writers at this point (Kyra Dempsey, aka Admiral Cloudberg, and Ariadne Talchik) are trans women.
- Timeghost: probably not up your alley but they do have some cool breakdowns of culture and society in the 1920s-30s and more recently the 50s. Based out of Sweden.
- Bandsplaining: nifty deep dives into global musical history: a look at Les Ralizees Denudes, for example
- I think I already told you about Fascinating Horror / Fascinating History (the William McGonagall episode might be a good starting point for that last one) and Tasting History with Max Miller
- Not a full series but I love CGP Grey's flag critiques to distraction
Finally: I may get back to You Are Not So Smart, but I'm not 100% convinced they're keeping up with what's going on in psych research right now (i.e. I believe the current consensus on the research presented in this episode [on a cult!] is that the researchers were playing fast and loose with their data presentation). I do want to give the wicked problems episode a spin, though.