podcasts

I have always hated this stupid ass podcast. They are your gold standard of "podcast that claims to be about X/Y/Z but actually it will be 45 minutes of really awful riffing/jokes/loud laughter and 45 minutes of us basically reading the wikipedia article for the topic at hand". And sure, that's every podcast (which is why I don't listen to any regularly) but oh my god I just wanna hear about the bridge collapse that your episode is titled after I don't care about some tweet you saw why are you talking about tweets you're an engineering disaster podcast

Haven't paid these losers any attention since they spent an entire episode shitting on the USSR with an actual Nazi as the guest

Liam's trot dad appearing in the comments to call his son a lib is pretty funny tho

Luv 2 make vague allusions to "Venezuela not actually socialist, Maduro steal election" that perfectly line up with the propaganda used to justify his kidnapping while discussing his kidnapping. Like at this point I'm waiting for the next episode where they talk about how while the US carpet bombings are bad, literally everyone in Iran has already been killed by the government so you know, no good guys here and the smart thing to do is sit on the fence while amplifying one side's narratives.

And god help them if the subject of Russia/Ukraine comes up.

I basically listen for Rocz, at this point I have no expectations of the other two I just miss my sardonic city developer guy. Real Franklin heads know.

Rocz is cool and good. I stopped listening at least 3 yeaea ago cause I couldnt stand Liam

Had to stop listening after the episode where both Liam and Nova were both seriously considering converting to catholicism. Really? The most pedophilic organized religion? "Oh but at least they have cool gold shit" shut the fuck up.

WTYP is a great premise, but the hosts are simply bad at podcasting

Even disregarding the liberalism the pod is too often simply insufferable to listen to because 70% of the runtime is taken up by Liam and Nova's infinite tight fives. I feel so bad for the guests when they're trying to explain something and are just being talked over by those two making nearly identical variations of each others jokes. They're always joking about how long the episodes are, and there's nothing wrong with long form content, but it gets pretty tiring and unfunny when there are only 45 minutes that are actually on topic in an episode that's 3 hours long. Sucks because it's a great concept for a podcast, they just execute it so shamefully.

As a funny trans woman with occasional bad opinions I like seeing myself represented.

But I've never really been able to get in WTYP, but I do listen to KJB and No Gods No Mayors, it's nice to listen to podcasts where all the hosts are trans.

my partner is away most of the week and i like to put it on to just have some ND-brain compatible chatter in the background

doesn't mean i don't yell at their takes. rocz seems to be a principled ML but is just too quiet about it. (i don't even know if I'm an ML but i do consider myself a "i'll support any viable leftist project" type)

Nova seems to be aware her opinions are terrible at least. unfortunately she short circuits my lesbian kinkster brain and i just forgive her (parasocially) every time

devon helped me realize i can be attracted to masc leaning enbies holy fuck and also seems really cool

victoria seems down for anything and an open minded leftist i like her

liam annoys me

I gave up on it awhile back too. Too long, not that good, Rocz should try doing his own thing.

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.

petit bougie mentality from london dweller - no, that can't be.

I loved their episode on the Vulcan Bridge, and the premise of the podcast is great, but yeah western libs gonna western lib, decent political takes are rare in both mainstream and more "radical" media here in the Anglosphere.

I really dropped off on listening, they've had some good episodes but Liam (and Nova to a lesser extent) really grated on me. I miss the Franklin series, still a little salty that WTYP killed it off

Justin remains the best and it’s because he barely talks lol

I keep forgetting I'm subscribed to them. I just use their show as background noise for my cats when I leave the house.

I really enjoyed the first few episodes of this, but it got podcast disease (laughing way too much at their own jokes, clearly skimming Wikipedia half an hour before recording as prep) very quickly imo.

That said, I don't recognize any of the names coming up in the comments here lol