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I want to love WTYP but Nova makes it increasingly hard when she talks geopolitics
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They have a few good episodes when they shut up and let the guests speak, the mexican train one was pretty great. I have a hard time respecting these so called "professional" podcasters who see the large amount of money they recieve as validation for their ego rather than a reason to improve their "art".
Are there any good theory podcasts? Like a podcast with people who actually know what they are talking about discussing theory without trying to force bits out of it every 5 seconds. My problem with the current crop of left wing podcasts is that, as an English speaker, they are usually just current events discussion (often about minute details of American or British politics or some extremely online thing) that often devolves into in-jokes and bits. The episodes of WTYP that I geniunely loved are the ones with expert guests, thats what I feel most of these current affairs podcasts are missing, because when you have the same three or four people every week you very quickly leave the scope of their knowledge. The constant need for content to keep that petty bourgeoisie gold mine going leads to them either filling the the space with inane personal details or small talk that they should have got out of the way before beginning to record. I dont need a podcast every week or on a schedule, I need a podcast that makes something because they have something of substance to say.
Rev Left Radio and Red Menace are both very good for this in my opinion. Breht and Alyson are very knowledgeable and professional and manage to host some of the few podcasts that don't succumb to the more jokes than content disease.
We're Not So Different is a rare intersection of good politics and informality. Dr Eleanor Janega is a medievalist and one of the more prominent historical materialists of our current time, Luke Waters is an non practising lawyer who likes star wars and Marxism-Leninism.
They talk about history (mostly medieval but not always) in a conversational manner.
Not explicitly theory but Aaron Good's American Exception podcast is excellent.
https://jumble.top/f/americanexception.xml
Varn vlog, despite very acerbic personality, has a lot of bangers (if you want to avoid current discussions completely, that’s more for interviews) and while suffering from same super structural disease of western marxists (you more likely hear about why heidegger is a dipshit than why cobalt prices margins has to stay low, but the scope is so big of western philosophy shenanigans, there is always something interesting). (well, there is some distaste to ml-s, china and (american) anarchists, but that’s whatever, one has to hear comradely critique)
And alpha2omega, best boy (if misguided) about cybernetics in podcast form
Jacobin's podcast feed is pretty good IMO. Especially The Dig.
Haven't listened in ages but Partially Examined Life. They cover philosophy and aren't explicitly political, I don't even remember if they're leftist or anything. But they don't really joke about it and discuss the topic at hand quite thoroughly imo. I learned a lot from them.