But the main show is noticeably shifting to the right. Starting to skip episodes, and this series on boys in school is pretty disappointing. Such an important topic but not handled with the depth and nuance it deserves.

Fascinating conversation and interview that overviews how LLMs fundamentally work and illustrates their capabilities through many fascinating thought experiments and first-principles reasoning about what it is we animals are doing when we think. Otherwise, overall great journalistic podcast that gives space and attention to very relevant issues and perspectives.

I support NPR! Love the Jackpod — both the venerable Jack and the brilliant (and my fellow gen Xer) Meghna. The combination of history, literary allusions, social critique is perfect. A new breath of life for Boston NPR. But I’d still like less of the lockstep woke ideology more broadly speaking at the organization — or for it to be balanced with more moderate povs.

I look forward to the Jackpod every week. Jack is a national treasure!

Please bring back the callers-like how it was done with Tom Ashbrook hosting; it is not the same without the listeners involvement.

Discovered this show, on NPR, late last year, can’t get enough of it! I really like that it tackles things we all may be thinking about, but feeling it’s just us, and no one else, thinking about it. Great Journalism, with believable, high level national and international guests, and—though it does bring a sense of urgency to certain subjects—overall, it is non-sensationalistic. It does tell it like it is, with care and objectivity. I’d say this show covers more issues, more intelligently, and better, than my former daily (national) 130-some years-old newspaper did, which I just unsubscribed from. For a long time I’d lost respect to Journalism (and I’m a non-practicing one, myself), but thanks to hosts such as this one, I’m regaining my trust in (at least) some of them. This show is definitely worth listening to. I do wish it was longer, as 48 minutes just isn’t enough to tackle some of the issues discussed, in greater depth.

The “bro” podcast as you call it, assuming youre talking about joe rogan. Joe Rogan was a democrat. Democrats went crazy and more so far to the left that it left the reasonable people on the sidelines, thats the problem Jack. You have a very shallow view of some things. You need to open your ears and listen.

I love the Jackpod but haven’t seen an episode of it lately.

Host is knowledgeable and it’s nice bouncing around with topics each time.

Updated again - Jack Beatty is national treasure and he and Meghna have great chemistry. I could listen to him opine about any topic. Kudos to the team for the superlative Jackpod. Updating my review after the new format: I’m a native Bostonian and have been a loyal listener for two decades. Unfortunately, I think the recent rethink of On Point is not working. The audio diaries duplicate content within the episode and I’m already tired of the format and delete them unlistened. I also am now skipping whole episodes. The new narrative style, pre-recorded content, and lame music is not working. Bring back the Friday News Roundup! Getting more of Jack Beatty is a pleasure, as is Meghna’s great interviewing, but overall I’m disappointed with the new On Point. We don’t need another This American Life. I know budgets are tight due to the pandemic, but it doesn’t make sense to screw up something that works. Kudos to Meghna and the On Point team for their thoughtful, nuanced, intellectually-rigorous coverage of news and culture. I’m more than a bit confused by the sharply negative reviews here saying that On Point and NPR in general is partisan; if anything, I find that public radio has tried too hard to present both sides of the story since the 2016 election, sometimes to the point of having a conspiracy-theorist crackpot face off with a professor or scientist or other expert. That said, I find Meghna to be eminently balanced in her interviewing.