If sarcasm could kill…
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“I loved this show when they focused on airport books. The silly sarcasm was fun and made sense for the genre, including the sometimes uncharitable comments and exaggerations. Once they get into politics and serious current events, they do the thing that they accuse the worst books of doing - make huge leaps and use throwaway funny comments to hide that they’re simply following their biases. Cute when you’re attaching “the five love languages,” very problematic when you’re discussing the Middle East. If these episodes were a book, they wouldn’t pass their own critique.
Tried listening to the Sam Harris one but they lost me when they flippantly dropped “genocide” about Israel/Palestine mere minutes after discussing accuracy and fact checking regarding body counts. What makes it ok for them to not keep the same standards they accuse the books they discuss of not keeping? Ugh.”
Tiny Prof via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/06/24
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“Once again, Michael Hobbes breaks down cultural influences, viral ideas and mainstream nonsense. This is very much in line with what I love about all of his work. The doctrinal throughline is this: True things are always messy and complicated and that’s okay.”
EV15plus via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/04/22
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“What algorithmic hacking got this to the top of the charts? This is awful.”
SullaSF via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/05/22
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United States of America ·
11/03/22
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