Most everything from Cool Zone Media is going to be pretty decent. Haven't listened to the whole catalogue, but Ed Zitron of Better Offline is an established nonmember (as far as I know) friend of the sneer and Behind the Bastards is truly excellent.

Maintenance Phase is an excellent examination of diet and health grifters, and Mike's others (You're Wrong About and If Books Could Kill) are also pretty excellent.

I also want to spotlight Wittenburg to Westphalia, a history podcast ostensibly about the wars of the reformation and the social and economic chamges of the early modern period. But in order to really give a sense of how dramatic those changes are, he has so far provided only an incredibly thorough examination of medieval European society from the politics to economics and social structures. He has an episode about unfree labor that I found particularly interesting.

I tend to like "Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff" more than "Behind the Bastards". Need some nugget of hope in these dark days. A lot of the cool people have been downright inspiring.

My daily podcast is "It Could Happen Here", but some other mainstays in the educational side include:

• Live Like the World is Dying
• Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
• It's Going Down
• Final Straw Radio
• Reaction (especially liked her dives on the Pinkertons and "The Business Plot")
• Srsly Wrong [unrelated to the similarly named thing]
• The Iron Dice
• Bad Hasbara
• Frontline Herbalism if you like plants

Behind the Bastards is very easy to listen to and usually focuses on documenting the bad shit that various reactionary and fascist figures have done (in a humorous manner — the host was a writer for Cracked during its peak). a couple of the most recent episodes have covered some of the same topics we talk about in SneerClub and TechTakes, and they’re well worth a listen even if you know the subject matter well. I haven’t checked it out yet, but I think It Could Happen Here is a spin-off with the same main host that’s also broadly anti-fascist.

e: also, and I had to look this up cause I keep switching podcast apps: I Don’t Speak German is also good, and my co-admin David was on it (episode 82? I swear it was more recent than that… David were you on more than once?)

These aren’t exactly educational but the two pods I bring up in this joint are “If Books Could Kill” and “Scam Goddess”. Again, they aren’t exactly educational but you’ll learn from them!

Some others that might work for you, mixture of informative and entertaining hosts

• Some More News
• This Machine Kills
• Never Post
• Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
• Maintenance Phase
• You're Wrong About

If you want interesting historical deep dives, I always enjoy Dig - the history podcast. Well researched by actual scholars, which goes hand in hand with the episodes not dropping that often.