Sara is very enjoyable with her dry humor and intelligence. Sometimes she gets a little overboard in the emotional melodrama, but it’s worth that to hear her insights.
Michael is bearable at times, but ironically doesn’t realize that he would be the most insufferable date of all, despite his denigration of insufferable dates.
The biggest downside is the clutching of pearls on a random topic, and how terrible the transgressor is, but it’s usually a nothingburger…or, in a bizarre typical example, they will denegrate the usage of a common phrase or stereotype, say Nicole Brown Simpson being described as objectively good looking. Their outrage over the usage of the term, plus the dramatic puzzled questioning of WhAt tHaT eVEn iS?!?!, they present as a crime against humanity. Wut? But then later they refer to Paula Barbieri, as, you guessed it, objectively good looking. Ugh. Please. Weathervaning is not clever.
A fair number of episodes have just plain wrong information, or bizarre interpretations of the facts.
Especially annoying is taking the side of someone who is guilty, just because it presents as being socially conscious or empathetic. For instance, the non-revelation that the welfare queen that Ronald Reagan demonized, actually didn’t steal millions of dollars is not news. But their support of her, and riffing in conclusion that it would be great if she had is, well, gross. There’s no shortage of other episodes where someone who shouldn’t have done what they did gets glorified. Oops.
Last problem is that more than half of the 100+ episodes heard don’t qualify as you’re wrong about revelations. They’re just rehashes of items that have already been unmasked in the arena of common knowledge for many years.
When they are on, it’s good. When they are off, or wrong, or banging the drum for a guilty cause, move to the next episode.
