Review of Public Intellectual - High hopes

High hopes

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“Sorry for no punctuation my phone is broken lol Had really high hopes for this as I’ve read some of Jessas writing and thought this would be a stimulating political podcast with a leftist tilt nothing is said that is actually thought provoking in a meaningful way you have to already have a lot of leftist assumptions to go in and there’s so much circular thought it actually drove me and my partner w bit crazy trying to dissect some of the things said Weird things don’t get challenged like on one ep a guest says she doesn’t like Florence and t he machine bc of it’s pre raphaelite aesthetics which she doesn’t like due to its conservative connotations I find this a little bit insane and thought Jessa would question it but she seems to want to be friendly and agreeable way more than have an interesting discussion there is a real sense of sitting in on two snobby leftists who think they’re not snobby leftists bc they call out other leftists for being snobby leftists Found myself waiting to hear an actual point being said but things are either alluded to or taken as a matter of fact or if a point is made it’s often rephrased a couple more times to idk fill up time I guess I saw her critique of chapo and red scare as unlistenable and I have to say having listened to red scare that this one is much more unlistenable She has just as annoying a vocal fry as the red scare girls but it s more high pitched her voice is slower and there’s a lot of uhhhhssss that are followed by all the frustrating things mentioned above The podcast is humourless charmless and doesn’t tell me anything new For someone criticising chapo and red scare for having an upper middle class college educated audience and not being politically educational I really expected this to be better and it’s almost funny how much she just described her own audience It really feels in hindsight a narcissism of small differences and honestly the only way to listen to this podcast is as n accessory to tell yourself you’re a smart cutting edge leftist Personally I would prefer listening to a funny charming podcast with some left leaning gals who admit to being dumb but try anywya than to listen to someone who’s snobbish and elitist without actually having the intelligence or ideas to back it up An infuriating listen and a really good example of how Alienating pseudo intellectual and gross leftism can sound to people”

podcastfansixtyninefourtwenty via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 11/27/20

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Nuanced and pleasantly casual

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“Really happy to have made this find.”

pileofbugs via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 04/26/19

Thumbs up

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“Brilliant podcast. Apparently it’s the only one on here I’ve listened to EVERY episode of so that’s gotta mean something (at least to meeeeeee).”

hjhfhjfhjjjj via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 04/01/20

Thought-provoking!