I haven't listened to them for a long time but I just tuned back in and listened to the most recent three. I want to get caught up with their best ones.
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the falun gong episodes rocked
I really liked the POW MIA ones
Beautiful human submarines is an all-time fav (about the titan sub). their DNC episodes & their other election/biden-centric ones have been bangers
Hell yeah. The submarine ep was an all-timer. And I also agree about the DNC/election ones as I mentioned here somewhere.
Idk about "best" but I rly liked the ghislaine trial ones. I don't think it's the same on relistening, it's rly more of an in-the-moment kind of thing. Outside of that, probably the multi-parter on nato.
Aaron Mate on RussiaGate was great. The Julian Assange episode was truly beautiful, Liz goes off at one point in a way I found really compelling, to the point that I think it made me post something here (?) and on r/TrueAnon for the first time (which was just the clip itself).
https://www.reddit.com/r/leftpodcasts/comments/lnef99/amazing_extended_monologue_from_liz_franczak_at/
The episode about the South Korean sex-hellscape Telegram thing was really good, though also extremely upsetting. And I'll go out on limb and say I really liked both of their airplane-centric episodes, even though they seemed horrified to be making the first one. Second one that focused on plane-hijackings rocked. First one about air travel writ large was still very fun in a relatively wholesome type way. Also, I really enjoye their entire recent coverage of the DNC and kind of love their way of dealing with dumb as fuck US electoralism of late. Also, there are many other great episodes but I'm just going straight off the dome here.
Liz’s monologue at the end of the Assange episode is beautifully constructed, earnest, and it’s what made me fall in love with the show
The JFK and Bush Did 911 series are excellent.
I’ve been meaning to relisten to these
The Elon history ones are pretty great if you want to better understand that douche bag and how Tesla became what it is.
Ye and the Gay in the USA (400, I think?)
I really enjoyed the whole California series but especially Eric Davis. I had just read PKD's Exegesis and it felt like such synchronicity to see the show pop up. I went back and read all Eric's books and it's just extremely my shit. Hope they can have him back to talk AI and the stagnation of the tech utopianism that defined the 90s.
Diddy do it (Patreon) perfect naming The interview with norm finkelstein should be heard by everyone Episode 309 interview with Benjamin fong
Their series on Synanon/the troubled teen industry