Host needs to steer conversation in less predictable ways
Topics and guests are ok, but it veers into predictable viewpoints constantly on episodes where they don’t belong. I listened to an episode about bilingual parenting, hoping that it would offer philosophical insights into raising kids that speak different languages. Instead I got thirty minutes about racism, gender studies, and colonialism.
KS-apple via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 05/21/23
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