Review of Mormon Stories - LDS - Love the content, hate the

Love the content, hate the narrative

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“I’ve been listening for 6+ years and exmo for 11. The core information and subject matter that gets covered is interesting and validating. It’s mostly well researched, and production quality is very good. My criticisms are: John is very condescending and dismissive to anyone that doesn’t have “orthodox” scholars. The college attended and the paper on the wall seems to be the value and credibility of the person. The Trevor Milton episode certainly showed that. It spent more time criticizing people’s appearance, where they were from, and their level of eduction to discredit anyone involved rather than give any real insight. Multiple times the guest had interesting facts but was cut off with prolonged awkward laughing and jabs at people’s previous jobs or level of education. The show in general become very black and white with no nuance. If the church promotes something, MSP is against it. Every episode seems to have a narrative agenda that’s not hidden very well. So, it shouldn’t need to be interjected over and over. It would be nice to hear the stories get covered without interruptions every 20 seconds to make a point. Lastly, I wish John could pay attention to the guests better. I know it takes a lot to run a live podcast, and I’m sure there’s a good reason for it. But, the amount of times people have to repeat things they’ve said multiple times already in the same podcast gets irritating. I’ve noticed that the things that get skipped over are typically said right before John interrupts and interjects a correlation to a narrative that’s being pushed that episode. We’re not dumb, we typically get where the story and episode is heading in the first 5 min of the 20 min intro. I just want to hear the stories and I’m capable of coming to my own conclusion at the end. These criticisms shouldn’t keep anyone from listening. It’s a great podcast and does have great content, I just hope it can evolve more into informative and interesting rather than certain ideas good, certain ideas bad.”

Postmoroni via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 12/21/23