• Kilnier
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      7 months ago

      If you listen on Amazon’s ad free feed only 1/3rd is plugs and ads rather than half!

      Great content but I can’t take the amount of plugging and begging he does. I get it. Journalism is genuinely in trouble but he’s got to find a better balance or pitch.

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        They only beg for one month a year. The ads are annoying, but they have to pay for it somehow.

        I pay the bare minimum annual fee to get the ad free version. Totally worth it IMO.

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      I used to listen regularly, but in the last episode I had listened to the host needed to correct something they’d previously said and instead of owning up to the mistake did a really wishy washy glossing over it that soured my opinion on the trustworthiness of the podcast… It’s been a good while now, so maybe time to give it another go

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        7 months ago

        What was the correction? I found Jesse Brown is pretty good at the mea culpas (and they’re always fun to listen to). The sidekick that does Wag the Doug doesn’t seem as good.

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          Honestly it’s been a good while and I can’t remember. I think someone else had proved them wrong about something, and it was acknowledged in a way that felt maybe a little dismissive? Not in the full way I’d expect from someone who cares about the truth anyway, and very much in a way I know they’d call others out for. Created sort of whatever the opposite of Gell-Mann Amnesia is where I just couldn’t forget it.

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            I had a similar experience. It must have been around 2021. Maybe it was about the Freedom Convoy. It’s a while ago and I forgot the details but it’s not the first time he rubs me the wrong way. Kinda stopped listening to the podcast because of it.