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I only recently really started listening to podcasts. It’s my way of detaching a little bit from the news but still staying connected. As far as that goes, my main listen is The Bulwark.

Outside of that, I love listening to Fake Doctors, Real Friends. I was a big fan of Scrubs and it started out with Zach Braff and Donald Faison rewatching the show and talking about it with a guest, but they finished the show so now it’s mostly them just shooting the shit with different guests. Very entertaining to me, feels like you’re just hanging out with friends.

Oh, and The Brotherhood podcast. *ducks*
 


New KYE with Chris Hayes is really interesting. They talk about the commodification of attention and how that is driving our politics today. Really good listen.

I hope more and more people come to realize that we can’t allow our lives to be mediated by these platforms.
 
I think many here will enjoy, if not appreciate, this. NPR has a spin-off podcast called Embedded. There's a three-part series about a father who goes completely off the Evangelical/prophesy/conspiracy theory deep end. It causes a lot of issues within their family.

So, the father and son make a $10,000 bet about these Evangelical prophecies coming true in 2024. We are talking about martial law in the United States, Trump being put back into power despite losing the election, Biden and Pelosi being convicted of treason... All kinds of nutter butter stuff.

The regular NPR Sunday broadcast introduces the story and goes over the first year bet. Here:



The Embedded podcast, which has the four part series is below.

You will have to wait a week if you don't subscribe to the podcast.

Intro:


Episode 1:


Episode 2:


Episode 3:
 
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^^^^It looks like all of the Alternate Realities series are unlocked for non subscribers.^^^
 
Does anyone know of a center-left podcaster that has a daily show?

I listen to the 15-minute updates from the Wall Street journal, NPR and daily wire. I also listen to some portion of Ben Shapiro's daily show. I'm looking for someone like Shapiro that has a left-leaning opinion.

When I say "like Shapiro", I mean someone that is reasonably intelligent and can carry a show without leaning on a bunch of guests.
 


Couple of really good American Prestige episodes on “white liberalism.” Both episodes are well worth the listen.
 
Always -
Daily Beans-
Sarah Silverman

Sometimes-
John Fugelsang
Bob Cesca

Recently -
I needed something angrier / more intense
Keith Olbermann

Anything Maddow does
 
Also want to again plug Josh Citarella’s great podcast: Doomscroll.

It’s a project aiming to inject traditional left-wing political perspectives into the right-wing online ecosystem via the YouTube and podcast platform algorithms. He’s done a lot of work related to how people become radicalized on the internet.

 
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A few weeks ago on Ones and Tooze, Adam 'The Tooze' Tooze had a blistering take on Abundance.
 
This is the type of resource offered up by the National Constitution Center. "The State of the American Idea," (53 mins--With Excerpt/Transcript): The State of the American Idea - Podcast | Constitution Center "Charles Cooke of the National Review, Melody Barnes of the University of Virginia, and Sean Wilentz of Princeton University explore the debate about the core values of the American Idea—liberty, equality, democracy, and federalism—throughout American history and model the way in which Americans of different perspectives can come together in the spirit of civil dialogue. This program was recorded live on February 9, 2024."

Just to give an idea, some other Constitution Center podcast titles are: "The Future of Birthright Citizenship," "What the Black Intellectual Tradition Can Teach Us About American Democracy," "How Religious Were the Founders?" and "The Evolution of Originalism." There are many other good and useful offerings there. Direct link to podcasts here: Podcasts from the National Constitution Center | Constitution Center
 


Really good video by Taylor Lorenz about how the last five years have lead us to this moment.
 


Zizek has the ability to the cut through the noise in a way that few remaining left intellectuals do.
 
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