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Return of the Repressed is suited for exactly this.
I started going through the True Anon Falun Gong / Shen Yun episodes again, think it's about 5 hours.
Some of my faves:
- The Dollop
- Behind the Bastards
- Rev Left Radio
- The Deprogram
- Chapo
- Citations Needed
- Blowback
- Tech Won't Save Us
- Better Offline
- The Socialist Program
- Economic Update
- Team Human
- Democracy Now
If you want something less serious, Boonta Vista is great. Started out as basically Australian Chapo but is now a collection of random segments that are mostly weird local news stories
Worst of All Possible Worlds, “case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire,” in particular their series Whit’s Endless Summer which is about the evangelical Christian children’s radio drama Adventures in Odyssey and is completely insane. They also just talk about media in general, find a movie or a game you like that you’ve talked about and the episode will be interesting.
The Dollop is a great road trip one, one comedian reads a history story to another comedian. Some great ones are 1908 New York to Paris Car Race, The Pieman, and James Sullivan and the 1904 Olympic Games
Trillbilly Worker’s Party is always good, their meandering ramblings on late stage capitalism, environmental collapse, and religion scratch an itch for me
Fall of Civilizations had a good episode on Byzantium that’s a few hours long, although it is better as a video because of all the gorgeous drone footage of the Bosporus and Istanbul they used was mama mia 
I haven’t seen all their stuff yet but I’ve enjoyed it quite a lot, I can just personally vouch for the Byzantium episode as being quite informative and well done
Trillbilly worker's party gives me sanity as somebody who lives in the south, good reminder that people with a progressive and anti capitalist perspective still exist here even if we're a minority, it's not hopeless. IRL organizing does it better but I sometimes feel like that's a tiny bubble
Trillbilly Worker’s Party is always good
They have great guests and interviews often as well. Any episode with Kate Wagner or Alex Aviña is a guaranteed banger
Their latest episode was with Kate, about the shit show great American state fair. It's so good.
Awww yeeee 
Everything in the fall of civilizations series is good but some of the earlier episodes are very limited in scope
We're Not So Different! It's a history podcast focused mostly on the medieval era that's hosted by Marxists. They have a whole series of history through the lense of historical materialism that I really enjoyed, they have on really good guests to talk about their areas of expertise sometimes, they did an episode where they watched A Knight's Tale and talked about it, and they're both pretty outspoken about their politics when it's relevant to the discussion
I could swear Luke was on HB at least several years ago promoting the podcast when they were just getting started.
No way, that rules! I could totally believe it too, wouldn't be the first/last time that happened
Yeah I've tried looking for the specific post/comment before but the search function is less than ideal, was probably 4-5 years back.
Sounds about right, having also tried to find comments from long ago
Interesting. I have trouble finding modern literature on medieval history through a Marxist lens.
What do you mean by modern? Silvia Federici is one of the most well known Marxist feminist historians around and she's been putting out stuff about the late medieval period and early modernity for like 30 years now.
Some of my historian friends have issues with the accuracy of her most famous book, Caliban and the witch, but they admit her analysis is on point.
I've read Caliban and the Witch and agree with your friends, but it's 20 years old. In English language scholarship the discipline doesn't have big names medieval Marxist scholars that I know of. Also in Caliban and the Witch, she explicitly rejects strict Marxist analysis as well as feminist theory to do a sort of middle ground between them, so I don't really consider it Marxist (more Marx inspired).
From what I understand of the professional discipline, Marxist history has largely gone by the wayside in "the cultural turn." Historians are being trained to reject ideology, so a lot of historians will put a stink on anything explicitly Marxist unless it has a wealth of primary sources backing it. More modern topics have more sources available, especially for the lower classes. Basically if you wanna do Marxist history, it's way less resistance to do it for 19th century and on.
The exception is that Gramsci is still prevalent in medieval scholarship, and where I see Gramscian analysis flourishing is space-place theory. But that doesn't focus as explicitly on class analysis, more how lived experience filters everything (including class).
Where medieval history is breaking new ground these days is largely with incorporating other disciplines, namely archaeology and linguistics. I think there's definitely ground to break for medieval Marxists. If history as a profession is going through "the material turn" then there's gotta be ways to tie in dialectical materialism. But that's a tall order because economic history (whether Marxist or liberal) likes to have a wealth of numbers to play with, and medieval history just does not have that solid of numerical data.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do yourself a favour and listen to The Stalin Eras podcast episodes by Proles Pod
Matt and Chris from Chapo's Hell on Earth series is ~12 hours, about the protestant reformation and foundation of capitalism and is very good
THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
It's a horror audio drama and the best work of art I have ever listened to
Pedagogy of the oppressed audio book is about 7:45, and thats with the long intro and foreword. I listen on 1.5x speed cause he talks too slow. So if you want something you can get through and complete during the drive, thats a decent choice.
Have you listened to Dungeon Crawler Carl yet? I'm more of a reader, but I hear the audiobook is amazing.
I haven't! I'm not great with audio books either, honestly, I'd rather read the thing, but I'm open to changing my mind.
Pendejo Time
- Also, I enjoy listening to The Dollop, Chollop and Past Times all with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds.
- Blowback
- Citations Needed
- Death Panel
I'm a blowback fiend. I usually listen to it or wtyp when I have a few hours to kill.
Same haha those were gonna be my recs but you got me beat
Speaking of John Brown, that lib 5 part podcast American Carnage wasn't half bad.
Might like Dollop then, if the improv stuff isn't a turn off. They did a 3 parter on John Brown that had me in tears at the end.
You might "test listen" a few episodes of "The Dollop". I typically like listening to the guys riff but sometimes they just won't know when to stop a cringe bit.
Otherwise, The Dollop should be pretty solid.
Could also try a handful of "The West Wing Thing" episodes. Dave Anthony, from The Dollop, and his co-host slowly descend into madness by watching and talking about (almost) each and every episode of the early 00's hit TV series, "The West Wing". I para-socially found their rage to be cathartic regarding a show that I've never watched but seems to have influenced so many Democrat and "centrist" political creatures of the USA.
I second the Dollop, Im personally not a massive fan of their other podcast The Past Times after I had to listen to one episode that was them mistakenly defining the word "Fenian" repeatedly. But the best episodes of the Dollop are some of the best podcast episodes fullstop. Someone else in this thread recommended the 1908 New York to Paris Car Race episode, which is my favourite episode. The Rube is also another good one.
If you're not already familiar with The Black company series by Glen Cook, its awesome
The locked tomb series Myth and legends podcast. Project hail mary
Most of the good education and edutainment pods have already been listed, but if you wanna just laugh then Teacher's Lounge is some of the funniest media I've ever experienced.
Tides of history and its continuation past lives is a fantastic podcast about history, but i would skip the interview episodes
Trashfuture is one I like listening to. It's funny without being obnoxious.
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