That page mentions the potential for weaponisation with a 100% fatality rate. Well thank you very much for another thing to keep me awake at night.

Check out all the other microbe.tv podcasts[0]. They're all deep but not too impossible for someone without a science background. The hosts try to explain things without using too much jargon. They also do some YouTube live streams where they take questions from the chat.

They have two podcasts for microbiology. This Week in Microbiology is similar to TWiV in that they usually cover papers or talk to a researcher about a paper. Matters Microbial doesn't cover papers but has interviews with working microbiologists where they geek out about their research.

They also have a great podcast on immunology with very enthusiastic hosts, one for neuroscience, one for parasitism, and a couple of infectious disease/clinical/public health podcasts.

The great thing about all of them is how infectious the hosts' enthusiasm is.

0: https://www.microbe.tv/science-shows-by-scientists/

Puscast, ended a bit ago: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/persiflagers-infectiou...

Same guy, also ended: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-gobbet-o-pus/id32920...

A lot of knowledge there if you listened end to end.

it's a shame that the guest's audio is so faint, the delta between the volume of their voices makes it unlistenable for me. that episode needs to be remastered badly.