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“If you want to listen to 3 smirking luvvies agreeing with each other about how terrible the right is and patting one another on the back because the left is so much more enlightened, kind, compassionate and intelligent, then this is the podcast for you. The sheer amount of bad faith reasoning, deliberate misinterpretation and, at times, downright misquoting on display is staggering, but this is then compounded by the hypocrisy of their continual calls to regulate (ie: censor) social media in order to combat mISiNfOrMaTiOn. Barely a week goes by without at least one of them indulging their obsession with Elon Musk, whining about how Twitter is such a terrible place nowadays and how it should be taken off him and placed in the hands of “better” people who will only allow the right kind of opinions.
As for the presentation - there are far too many lame in-jokes and they often become quite intrusive, with the presenters shouting over each other in an attempt to out-banter one another. It’s a bit vicariously embarrassing tbh, like a group of nerdy students in the student union bar trying too hard to be witty and laddish at the same time. John Sopel, in particular, loves the sound of his own voice and doesn’t seem to know when to stop labouring and over-extending analogies…metaphors…similes (his habit of listing synonyms in what sounds like an attempt to pad the content also grates). Likewise all the performative swearing, which has the vibe of teenagers doing it in order to sound edgy. It’s toe-curlingly cringey. Also, the presenters’ habit of starting sentences with “Look…”, as if they’re becoming exasperated by talking to somebody who is too dim to understand them, is very irritating. As. Is. Their. Habit. Of. Putting. Full. Stops. Between. Every. Word.
It really is awful and is basically little more than tired old MSM pabulum given a retread in a podcast format.”
P. S. Doff via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
09/19/24
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“Delivery and analysis is reminiscent of “Newsround”. Wish they would say, “right” less often at the end of their sentences.”
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09/13/22
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Great Britain ·
09/04/22
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