Initial disclaimer: I’m very much a progressive person.

Recently listening to podcasts like Heavyweight, Reply All, Invisibilia, Underunderstood etc, I noticed that while the episode - or podcast overall - is investigative journalism lite, something incidental but progressive might happen (using the correct pronouns for a trans person, for example.) I also recently rewatched the Some More News episode on why conservative comedy is so awful, which sparked my pondering.

So… while I’m not interested in veering to the right, this did get me wondering what content might be out there that I’ve not been exposed to at all. Are there (relatively) apolitical podcasts out there that mirror those lite journalism examples above?

  • @TropicalDingdong
    2•9 months ago

    I mean there is always talk radio, but you are in some ways conflating sociallity and politics (and perhaps rightly so?). They may not be different in the way you are seeming to think they are. The only suggestions I could maybe offer are for pretty niche topics.

    Here is a crotchety conservative mine engineer from Canada doing tool breakdowns and reviews:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVwc4DZbcoE

    Here is a some-what anti-vax gardener from Austrailia:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhz9FGHirrI

    Here is a young mason teaching you how to make block foundations:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySfTC_PT_2w

    None of these are as produced as what you mention, but I don’t like things very produced. However, each of these pod casters has some things they definitely lean to the right on.