I mentioned a couple podcasts last night.
First was the Amp Hour podcast, specifically an episode where they interviewed someone who reverse engineers ICs for the automotive industry:
The second was Stay Tuned With Preet. Preet Bharara doesn't avoid politics, but that's not what the podcast is about. He interviews other lawyers so you can hear what a courtroom is like from the perspective of a prosecutor or a defense attorney or a defendant, and he asks them about their more memorable cases.