I'm glad that you find the joys of 18XX games through my list. I had a regular game group pre-pandemic and spent a lot of time with them. There's nothing like them in tabletop gaming.
Your insight about Weird Studies is spot on. In hindsight I should have a Favorite Podcasts section too since I've spent more time listening to them in the past year than ever. WS would definitely be at the top.
(Also I suspect they listen to the weird studies podcast, what with the Ishmael Reed and Doris Lessing)