The Popcast With Knox and Jamie

I don’t normally write reviews but felt compelled because this is the only podcast I must listen to on a weekly basis. It’s like a comfort show I can’t help but return to. Knox and Jamie help me stay on top of the best shows, movies, and books while providing much needed laughs along the way. I’ve seen lots of comments about the number of ads, and while it can be annoying you can just skip through them. It’s not that big of a deal. Thanks Popcast for the delightful idiocy you bring to my ears.

I’ve been a long-time listener of The Popcast. I somehow stumbled onto it sometime around the episode about Tom Hanks. Which was maybe a decade ago at this point. When they started their Patreon I became a BFOTS. I paid every month for at least two years. I joined their AUA’s with a fun cocktail every month. Even made my husband join me for fun “Indoor Pandemic Dates” listening to their Lives. I bought the online streaming of one of their Lives and then I even went to one of their Live Shows when they came to my area - which is nowhere near the SE where they typically do them. When they branched out to The Bible Binge (Back before it evolved into Faith Adjacent) I joined along wholeheartedly even though I am a Jewish woman. I managed to join the book club and read multiple books and attended multiple live book club Conversations with Erin, Evan, the author and sometimes Jamie. As a Progressive Jewish woman I really enjoyed their content for a very long time. I appreciated their tweet in 2022 saying that they supported their Jewish followers after Kanye’s anti-Jew attacks really started getting loud. But then Oct. 7th, 2023 happened….and the shift in their tone and opinions immediately changed. For people that clearly know nothing about the complicated history of the Middle East (I am an Iranian Jew and Hispanic Jew) and certainly know nothing about the history of Pogroms against the Jewish people. They made sure to make their opinions very clear on their social medias and behind their paywalled content. I stayed because as a Progressive Jewish woman in a very progressive city I wanted to understand how people that I considered allies could so thoroughly misunderstand what both the Jewish people and all of the people in Israel have been subjected to for eons by Radical extremist ideology. I wanted to understand how they didn’t understand basic history. I tried to understand. I stayed too long. The things they have believed about Israel (which is just a dog whistle for Jews at this point) was so utterly heartbreaking that I am forced to conclude that their space is simply not for everyone anymore. Raising money for Gaza while clearly not caring whatsoever for Israel and the Jewish people. As a Progressive woman I just cannot believe that people that I once considered my type of people could be so thoroughly brainwashed by an ideology that is deadset on ridding the world of Jews…and then Christians.

Used to love this podcast. I even subscribed to their content behind the paywall, but quit when I exhausted the content available. Now their free content is riddled with ads - either for their own subscription options or by advertisers. Just listened to a 15 minute show, which was more than 70% ad content. Please, just go ahead and put the entire show behind a paywall so we are not tempted to try to listen.

I’ve been raw dogging this delightful idiocy since the dark days of the pandemic. It’s cozy overdosy in my ears and has been my faithful companion for the last 5 years. I haven’t missed an episode yet and I don’t intend to. If you are contemplating joining their Patreon I would *highly* recommend!