Everything is politics. But let’s hear it.
bonus point for not being history, but it doesn’t have to be.
TrueAnon, it’s a pod by and for conservative small business owners
There’s something really grating about TrueAnon to me. They cover some interesting topics but the content is poorly fleshed out often times. Brace is obviously an intelligent guy but he’s constantly punching down, they toe the irony line so much and sometimes they miss the mark entirely and sound like reactionaries. They present themselves as communists, but very few times will they align themselves as such explicitly. Their coverage of the rich sometimes sounds like fetishism and gossip instead of detailed critique. Like, their episode on Larry Elison was just off putting at times, they just seemed to offer the guy more empathy than they do a vast majority of less privileged people they talk about.
For sure grating and gossipy.
But paradoxically, some of the most clear-headed analysis when they talk about subjects I’m very familiar with. It’s an unfortunate fact that a lot of our favorite internet politics people are kinda talking out of their asses when it comes to a lot of subject. I think Brace and Liz actually do the reading.
Articles of interest - podcast about the history and culture of clothing
Nymphet Alumni - Culture of clothing + some pop culture talk
The Age of Napoleon - The life and times of Napoleon. Currently in 1810, so there’s quite a backlog
Stavvy’s World! The first half of the show is an interview (usually another comedian) and the second half is a call-in show where he gives advice.
He has good politics but it’s not a political show. If he’s addressing a question that deals with our capitalist hell-world, he says it.
Respect the Dead is gay man and his bestie ripping on usually shitty people who can’t issue defamation lawsuits anymore.
Some that I’ve been listening to more than others lately:
- Be Gay Solve Crime
- Buried Bones
- Knifepoint Horror
The Weekly Planet podcast. They talk about movies and comics and TV shows and very rarely video games. They also have the Caravan of Garbage on youtube which is just the name of the show and they cover things they like too
One of the hosts is a guy who got divorced and isn’t weird about women. The other drives trams for a living
Also this: https://youtu.be/Uk2S6CHNjG8?t=12
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I’m listening to Magnus Archives, a horror podcast about some agency that documents lovecrsftian esque events.
Oh yeah this one is great
Damn, it’s all history because I’m a fucking Nerd.
Behind The Bastard by
Sy OppingintonRobert Evans. Yes I know the allegations, no I don’t think it’s enough to say his podcast is worth skipping.The Dollop because sometime the bits leave me laughing so hard, in fact you can hear where they needed to edit out my laugh in one of their live shows.
Does Stavvy’s World count or is that a day time interview show at this point?
For actual plays I listen to The Glass Cannon and its offshoots. For history its the Dollop, Sawbones (kinda lib but the host Sydney gives a lot of free Healthcare to the homeless so I tolerate her telling me to vote blue), and recently Trouble in River City. When the trough is low or I just need noise regardless of content I keep Quorators and occasionally still MBMBAM in reserve.
Glass Cannon is the only actual play that I consistently listen to, though I do find some of the campaigns are really hit or miss. I think Troy Lavallee, one of the two main GMs, is really grating and has issues because his comedic instinct is to make all the NPCs kind of weird, deranged and often just clumsily flirting with the PCs. So their best campaigns are ones like Time for Chaos which not only has a very strong cast, but is a very detailed pre-written campaign that kind of keeps Troy on the rails.
Yeah. When Troy NPCs hit they can really hit but they mostly miss. He definitely goes to that well too often; It was really noticeable in Marin’s Hold. I feel like he has a little more restraint on Time For Chaos.
I learned about 372pages from somebody on here a million years ago. Two guys reading books that they expect to be terrible and which usually do not disappoint in that regard. Very funny most of the time.
So like a bad movie pldcast but about bad books? That sounds like it could be funny
Yup, like a 2-man bad book book club.
The hosts are libs but it doesn’t usually come up.
They are history podcasts, so somewhat tangentially political, though not directly.
I really like the Bible Lore Podcast. Most people have heard of it since the host has guested on bigger podcasts like QAA and Chapo, but it is going through the surrounding history and textual analysis of the bible from a critical perspective. Mostly doing textual and historical analysis to show how narratives and beliefs were later crafted and changed for their current times. It is currently in late Iron Age Judea but is promising to get to the historical Jesus movement and the early Christian church.
Also Wittenburg to Westphalia, it is nominally about the wars of the Reformation, but it has been going for ~8 years and has yet to get to Martin Luther despite the title, but the host has done a huge amount of attempts to sum up medieval and feudal society to make it clear what changes over the wars of the Reformation. Kind of got scooped by Hell on Earth and copycat history podcasts since he spent so much time just on context and background, but it is good for that background. The host spends a lot of time on what actual life was for common people and “minorities” (e.g. women of all social classes, Jews, etc.), the variations in the peasantry and serfdom, etc. Unfortunately the host’s personal life has not been going great and his child seems to have a lot of health problems, so there has not been many episodes released for the last year or so.
Ooh, real interested in the ‘reformation’ podcast. Thanks!
Your Kickstarter Sucks had me laughing out loud by myself last night such that i had to consciously quiet myself to not awaken my kid. I can throw on any episode from any time and it usually hits.
victory light but i guess they do be talking politics & news
I listen to these two intermittently:
- Guys a podcast about guys
- what’s all this then: two British women talk about why Britain is like that
Sometimes I get sick of them and don’t listen for a month or two but then I pick them up later. They’re pretty good numb fun
