My trough is empty and I need more slop
The ones I listen to have already been mentioned, so I’ll just add:
- Knowledge Fight
- Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards
I’d take Robert Evans’ work with a pinch of salt.
He has a tendency to be heavy-handed with editorialising and I wouldn’t put faith in his historical research. He is fine with current affairs. But I’d put this in the infotainment category and I wouldn’t draw upon it to inform my opinions on matters of history.
I’ll listen to the two-parter on The Spanish Civil War but I can almost certainly guess what narrative he’s going to push.
True. I have noticed a quite few inaccuracies stemming from his bias and choice of emphasis. If it happens to be on a topic that I already know a lot about, or I’ve heard covered elsewhere, I usually notice details that get too much or too little attention compared with reality. But it’s still very entertaining.
I do agree with the current affairs angle, though. I first came across him through the “It could happen here” podcast, and while I don’t find the later stuff in that series as entertaining, as it’s now mostly news, I really did enjoy the hypothetical scenarios in the first “season”.
Aside from Evans’ questionable credentials working for the CIA cutout Bellingcat and openly admitting to collaborating with the feds, the other thing that I remember making me uncomfortable was how cosy Evans is with Jake Hanrahan, who is a guest star on Behind the Bastards some half a dozen times by this point.
Hanrahan works hand-in-glove with the defense establishment. If you listen to his podcast Popular Front, he does an episode on the Uyhurs with a guest whom he only introduces by their name, Nathan Ruser, and not by the fact that he works for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute which basically sets war policy for Australia in a similar way to what the RAND corporation does for the US.
At no point does Hanrahan do any journalistic work of interrogating outrageous and contradictory claims made by Ruser, he just swallows the entire narrative uncritically.
At the very end of the episode there’s a brief mention of Ruser’s bona fides but at the point in the episode where the narrative has already been fully developed and it’s likely that people have already made up their minds, if not having stopped the episode to skip to something else before they even get to hear about Ruser working for the ASPI.
Hanrahan is either an opportunist or a fed imo. I don’t trust the guy one bit. Evans does OSINT. There’s no way that he wouldn’t be able to do some basic investigation into Hanrahan’s work to get a read on him.
It’s all just a bit fishy for me.
Actually Existing Socialism
A podcast that interviews academics in their areas of expertise on socialism as it has been implemented in the real world.
Cosmopod
A podcast that is the sister to Cosmonaut Magazine that examines news, current affairs, and history.
Guerilla History
Part of the RevLeft family of podcasts. Examines history through a proletarian lens.
People’s History of Ideas
A deep dive podcast that examines the history of revolutionary ideas
Politics in Command
MLM podcast
Red Menace
Discussions on radical theory, part of the RevLeft Radio family
Revolutionary Left Radio
Current affairs, history, and interviews
Socialism For All
Narrated audiobooks and livestreams
Radio War Nerd
Examinations of historical and current wars
The obvious: Chapo, TrueAnon, Trillbillies, WTYP, Blowback, Citations Needed
TrashFuture
Chapo + making fun of stupid startups. Alice from 
is on it.The Worst of All Possible Worlds
Case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. They talk a lot about musicals and evangelical Christianity but could cover pretty much anything. For Patreon they do a series listening to Adventures in Odyssey, an evangelical children’s radio show that is absolutely horrifying.
The Dollop
Comedy show about American history, not explicitly leftist but the two hosts are leftists of some description and aren’t shy about it. Great for exposing your shitty uncle to good things by starting him on an episode like 323 - 1908 New York to Paris Car Race.
The West Wing Thing (now over)
Dave from The Dollop 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.
The Audit
West Wing Thing hosts watch things like George W Bush’s Masterclass so you dont have to.
A More Civilized Age
Leftist review of Star Wars The Clone Wars, moved on to Rebels but has paused that because of the strikes, and is instead discussing KOTOR now.
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
SciShow Tangents
Science quiz show by Hank Green
Lateral
Comedy(ish?) quiz show by Tom Scott. If you’ve seen the BBC show QI, its exactly the same thing.
Also a few short series I’ve listened to, very much the same vein as Blowback:
Alphabet Boys
Investigates the FBI’s infiltration of civil rights groups in Denver in 2020. I just found out looking it up that it had a second season a couple months ago.
Santiago Boys
A look back at Salvador Allende and project CyberSyn
Operation Midnight Climax
MKUltra stuff
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It’s a comedy podcast by an Australian couple. It’s just really funny and cute.
