Comment by imgabe
2 years ago
Which makes it such a shame that people throw them around like they are an authoritative source of anything. It’s literally just some guy who read a book and has a microphone. It’s as good as whatever book they read.
2 years ago
Which makes it such a shame that people throw them around like they are an authoritative source of anything. It’s literally just some guy who read a book and has a microphone. It’s as good as whatever book they read.
Podcasts, in general, are not made to cater to bonafide genius intellectuals.
Maybe every so often a conversation within a podcast episode contains some extraordinary analytical insight not found elsewhere, but to expect an entire series of episodes to average out to anything close to that is too high of an expectation.
That being said, it is probably correct to ignore most of them.
> Maybe every so often a conversation within a podcast episode contains some extraordinary analytical insight not found elsewhere
Much like comments written on the internet.
> That being said, it is probably correct to ignore most of them.
See above.
Podcasts, like live news, radio talk shows, and other scheduled throughput based media, have to fill time with content. If there's nothing intelligent to say, they say stuff anyways.
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It’s an easy and entertaining consumption method and the sources are linked right there…
Or books, in this case. Multiple primary sources.