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Moonside wrote

Honorary mentions:

  1. Citations Needed. A leftist debunking show. It's generally good stuff, but the debunking angle is inherently limiting imho.
  2. History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. The last three words are the central gimmick, really. It's quite common to skip from Aristotle to Descartes in popular treatments of the topic so the treatment here is an ambitious corrective. The reason I hesitate to recommend it so strongly is that listeners who really want to learn should probably spend the time studying a paper history of philosophy instead. But it is still the best educational podcast I've listened to. There are also similar shows on Africana and Indian philosophy, which I can recommend with less hesitations as there is a lack good quality introductory material on those topics.
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Moonside wrote

Offtopic suggestions:

  1. More "podcasts" - turn Youtube videos into mp3s and listen to the files. Lots of talking head content really is that.
  2. Audio books are in practice like tightly edited and narrated multihour single episode podcasts. Many are freely available on Youtube (piracy or not) and libraries have more you can loan (or stream). There's only so much time I want to or get to spend sitting at home which is how I read paper books so I'm glad to steal some commute back to me.