I love me some The Deprogram, Chapo Traphouse, Blowback, RevLeft, Multipolarista. But every once in a while, I need a break and I need some dumb stuff to listen to or laugh at. I really like the Lets Read podcast which is just (mostly true) horror stories that people submit to the show. I couldn’t watch JRE if u paid me to, not that I think anyone would suggest it in the first place. Other than that, Cumtown, Bein Ian, dumb stuff like that.
Darknet Diaries, though its sometimes politics adjacent, depending on the subject matter of the episode. For example, they interview hacktivists that got involved with the Occupy movement in 2011 and doxed entire police departments after they started covering up badge numbers and abusing protesters.
Most of the time it’s like a true crime podcast with a cybercrime focus. One of the episodes talks about this incredible international bank heist that occurs in Bangladesh, how the thieves took advantage of the differences in 4 different time zones and the business schedules of the banks involved to cover their tracks after they hack the SWIFT terminal and start putting in orders to withdraw millions of dollars. In another episode the presenter gets to have a long interview with a Canadian man that very, very nearly got away with producing hundreds of millions of counterfeit $20 bills that were reportedly “undetectable to the naked eye”. He runs the audience through the fine details of his journey towards producing the bills, and regales us with the story of how despite getting caught he still managed to basically get away scot free!
If you’re interested, check em out on their site here: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/