“I do listen to this sporadically as they manage to get some of the most impressive business guests on this show (thanks to being CNN), but Poppy is just such an unremarkable interviewer. Despite having such impressive credentials (honestly would not have realized from just listening to these), the interviews come off very scripted and demure. There’s only been one interview of the dozens I’ve heard so far where I felt she really tried to challenge and drive the topic forward- otherwise she sits back, accepts what they say, and throws out one prepared question after another. Nothing against that, but when you’re in a podcast format and have an opportunity to go deep with such guests, why stick to very traditional and linear TV or article like ways of questioning? My sense is she also relies a lot on the list of prepped questions from her team, and while being relatively informed on the topics, is never quite enough to engage a thoughtful dialog. Even the questions on being a woman (as one who worked in Finance as much as I support them) feel jammed and predictable in that she always asks and it’s like a prepped way of showing how “forward thinking” she is. For the simple reason that all this boils down to very boring and only basically informative interviews that are far from their potential, I have to knock this down a couple stars.”
jinsightr via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/27/19