• baffled_and_aghast@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    16 days ago

    Those shows were very influential on me. However I feel they were too much on the same page and the discussions would hit the same beats over and over. Ben is at his best when he’s on another person’s podcast and his talk turns into the most incredible information dump.

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 days ago

      Same, yeah. When I first discovered the Geopolitical Economy Report, which was originally called something else but I forgot what, I was blown away. I hadn’t received such high-quality information through podcasts previously. I used to listen to The Deprogram which was what got me into listening to podcasts in the first place, but that is decidedly less informative and much more feelings and lib-aligned imo. I still listen to the Geopolitical Economy Report, but I do miss Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discussing things too.