I'm a long time fan of this podcast! Great to see it appearing on hacker news. I would recommend going back and listening to all 99 previous episodes and the 2 since this one also.
[0] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/86/
Darknet Diaries is entertainment first and foremost. It's also a for-profit podcast where it's advertising becomes a problem.
I say this disappointingly, as I like good technical podcasts, but I have found very few in the security space which work well for me.
The information density is low. There's a whole lot of unnecessary back-and-forth banter between hosts and the the typical kind of old-school AM radio type bullshittery. A 30 minute segment often based on a four paragraph blog post.
The other big problem I have with the show is that the advertisement model has a whole lot of dark patterns. It's been sometimes difficult to tell which segments are "sponsored" (paid adverts) and which is attempted-NEWS/info. In fact, most of the shows are just one advert after another, and the guest speakers are often sleazy and leave out important information. That makes Darknet Diaries a misinformation source for me. I stopped trusting what I was hearing after awhile.