Meh,
Yes, SM sounds like a pompous professor of comparative lit you had to take as an undergrad, and the show sometimes sounds like the Yale English department graduate student lounge. Sure, not every topic is interesting. In fact many are insufferably dull and pointless. But that’s life sometimes. Go ahead and skip a few weeks because when they have an interesting topic, it’s a pretty good discussion. Having said all that, I agree with most recent reviewers that the flood of other podcasts is annoying AF. It’s cool to let us know about them, but don’t automatically assume we’re interested in those podcasts, like when U2 put their new album on everyone’s iTunes, whether you like U2 or wanted the new album or not.
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