Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there?

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Ser_Ocelot@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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?

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Nemo@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How could it be both right-leaning and apolitical?

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- ptz@dubvee.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Could be right-leaning topic-wise but not getting into the politics of it. If I had a good example, I’d have replied with it. lol
  
  As a left-leaning analogue, NPR is pretty apolitical, but the stories they cover and the words/phrasing they choose to use are designed to appeal to those who lean left.
  
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  - fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Uh… NPR absolutely gets into the politics of things. Maybe not a deep dive, but 90% of what I hear that isn’t music I’d describe 100% as politics.
    
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  - yarr@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How would one ever discover that a given podcaster is right wing if they are apolitical?
    
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- Ser_Ocelot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Okay, that’s a good question. Tbh I wasn’t sure anyone would respond so I tried to keep the post succinct. I just meant that I’d been listening to podcasts about a neutral topic and then the host would say something to show their leaning. And my only exposure to the right was mostly via the alt right. So I was wondering if there was interesting content out there where the focus is mostly neutral also
  
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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It can’t…
  
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ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ll try to actually give some answers.

I’d say efap qualifies along with most the individuals. More long form film criticism than journalism outright though.

Dave Ramsey is worth a listen to his radio show, but they other personalities in his group are pretty trash imo. He’s financial advice.

If you listen to local radio, in my experience most the people involved are moderate to slightly right leaning. It’s uncommon to really come up though.

Hunting and fishing podcasts tend to be more right leaning, maybe give some of them a try.

You won’t get newsy/journalism content without going pretty far right to things like project veritas or patriot radio levels.

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- Ser_Ocelot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank you so much! EFAP might be closest to what I’m looking for so I’ll check it out. I’m in Ireland so my local radio might be of a different flavour, but it wouldn’t be a bad thing to get a better idea of what’s going on in the community.
  
  Thanks again
  
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ad_on_is@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m not interested in veering to the right

I wasn’t interested in smoking, until I lit up the first one with my friends

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- Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think it’s a bad idea to frame conservatism as something so attractive that you will inevitably become addicted to it if you’re exposed. Like, I grew up in a stupidly red county and heard and saw shit that would make your hair curl. All it did was run my ass out of there to California and give me a heightened sense of when dog whistling is happening.
  
  If you’re capable of critical thinking and it’s not eating into your mental health, finding out what your enemies are saying isn’t bad. It allows for more effective messaging and makes you seem less out of touch.
  
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- L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I too believe in false comparisons and slippery slope arguments.
  
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  - ad_on_is@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    But isn’t that exactly what right wingers do?
    
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- lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Look at the implications of what yourself is saying and then you’ll notice that your two comments promote right-wing discourses, through your irrationality. What you’re saying effectively is the same as saying one of those two things:
  
  Right wing discourses are highly convincing for rational people, unlike left wing ones. OR
  
  People are a bunch of irrationals who can’t “sieve” discourses based on rationality.
  
  This shit is not a taboo dammit. You can - and should - sieve through the statements of any political discourse, between what’s true vs. false or moral vs. immoral. And when you do this with most right-wing discourses, you find so much babble that it’s easy to discard; or at least irreconcilable moral premises. It’s safer than you’re pretending that it is.
  
  (NB: this is coming from a heavy smoker and a communist.)
  
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  - ad_on_is@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I would argue there is a difference between getting addicted to a drug, and trying to educate one’s self to other political views.
  
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  - ad_on_is@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    yeah, and I was educating myself on how people can get addicted to bad-smelling shit… and here we are.
    
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ooli@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
www.somethingyoushouldknow.net

Something you should know is just about learning new things. But the host conservativ bias show sometimes during interview

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Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Following.

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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What kind of podcast? Last Podcast on the Left is pretty apolitical in its topics but has some conservative undertones. I think one of the hosts used to work for Fox News? It’s been a few years since I listened to them though.

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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVwc4DZbcoE

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhz9FGHirrI

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

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.

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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
you’re probably looking for centrist content.

That or a very small time moderately right leaning, centrist right leaning geezer who simply yaps about stuff on the internet.

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MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you’re into pro wrestling, a lot of older wrestlers have podcasts and they’re generally pretty conservative.

Chris Jericho keeps politics typically separate but has donated to the Republican party in the past, Matt Cardona is at least center right depending on where you sit, Busted Open has a variety of hosts and some are definitely right wing.

All of these are first and foremost about other topics though, so the political leaning of the hosts rarely gets involved.

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