Hard Fork The New York Times

Hello I am 10 years old and I love your podcast it is hilarious 😆

So glad I found this podcast. I learn something new each episode.

Updated June 2024
Wow, didn’t know I had already posted a review of the show – amazing how it’s a different day but the similar comments.
I’ve gotten used to the giggling and the middle school jokes. Trying to turn everything into a ha ha. Now it’s just sort of like a gnat buzzing.

I really enjoy the podcast overall. The content is usually excellent.
I hardly ever rate something, And I never vote one star, ever. BUT… sadly I’m leaving my original one star rating as is.

The big thing that made me return to update this was the hatred they display toward Elon Musk.
It is really not a good look.
I don’t know why you feel like you need to make up your listeners minds about Elon Musk for them. It’s OK that you guys hate him, I have no problem with that. But at least try to be fair in your reporting?

It really doesn’t matter what you think about Elon‘s pay package does it?
The shareholders think it was fair, (they think that twice actually by a super majority to boot, twice actually) and they think it was unfair for a judge to nullify the shareholders decision. Funny I didn’t hear any comments about the stockholder who brought the suit owning only 9 shares of stock or the $5B plus (yes B as in billion) payment the lawyers for that stockholder are asking for. But I guess you don’t really hate those sorts of injustices?

The way you frame it is just unbelievable –
everybody knows that Kimbell Musk is on the board of Tesla??? Stockholders know that Kimbell Musk is on the board of directors because they vote for the directors 😮 Is that a surprise to you guys? Where have you been? And do you know so little about business structures that you don’t know that and try to make something out of Elon Musk’s brother being on the board? It’s as if you don’t have a grasp of the corporate world or the actual world for that matter, if you think people didn’t know that.

I always find it curious that people who produce nothing are always the biggest critics of people who create earth shattering items. If you guys actually made something (as opposed to critiquing what others create) it might not come off as so whiny and ridiculous. I’m telling you it is not a good look at all.

Honestly, I had to turn the podcast off when you started talking about Elon Musk’s alleged romantic relationships. If I was interested in that kind of stuff I would go to the Washington Post (hope I named the right one since I don’t really know the names of any cheap tabloids) or some other cheap tabloid. You think this is tech news?
I think the New York Times is putting too much editorial pressure on this podcast.

It’s turning into the drivel that is so ubiquitous in mainstream media. Such a shame, I had such hopes for this podcast in spite of the dopey banter.

This was the original review:
I really want to like this show. They select great topics but some coverage is just high school puns and lots off laughing at each others jokes. Guys a little bit of that goes a very long way. I think I could overlook most of that but these guys are such haters. I wanted to hear their review of the Cyber truck, but it was really a litany of how terrible Elon Musk is. I want to hear about technology not the host’s personal petty jealousies and issues. The section of the Cyber truck really said more about the two presenters than Elon Musk. I suppose it is a New York Times publication. Such a shame, because I think they could really provide some decent information, but it gets so lost in the laughing, bad plays on words… You get the idea.