The BMW Podcast | Changing Lanes

I’m with most other reviewers: this is the baby food version of an educational podcast about cars. Scripted and inoffensive to the point of blandness, the only info I took away from this series is that Sara is in Berlin and Jonathan seems permanently scarred by winters in New Hampshire. This podcast shows how completely tone deaf BMW is. Instead of respecting listeners, this pablum comes off as both inauthentic and infuriating.

Not what I expected.

As I watch the olympics I see alot of BMW advertisement! will you do a show on their bobsleds? proce? technology? I'd love to know more!

After a couple episodes, I felt obliged to write this review. First, the hosts: One knew much more than the other. This led to inauthentic “banter” neither host appeared comfortable with. One talking down to the other who was trying anything he could to remember something from hs auto shop. They clearly felt much more at home sticking to the badly scripted, generic, and elementary information they had written for them. But that provides ZERO entertainment and/or educational value. Second, the topics: Who is coming up with/ and then receiving approval for the subject matter? Let’s talk BMW history, let’s talk to the designers, the mfg. plant managers, the assembly technicians even- someone involved with the actual production of these cars we know and love. They gave us the guy from Radiolab and some hs biology teacher who isn’t funny or relatable and gave them a script written by a smart college freshman before she decides to change her major from engineering to nursing who has never driven- much less driven a BMW, in her life. I’m out.