You're Wrong About

This podcast is 100% my comfort pod. Sarah’s voice, opinions, her laugh, they’re all comforting to me. The guests are almost always perfectly engaging and have a good rhythm with Sarah, too. I dunno. I just really feel like this is what I listen to when I need a break from the outside world/noise.

The addition of guests every ep has completely changed the nature of the show, especially since almost of all them don’t do the researched walkthrough of a misremembered event (which was the show’s whole premise). Now it feels less like “you’re wrong about this” and more like “let’s have a casual convo about something random”. It’s especially bad when Sarah the host also knows a lot about the random topic so it feels like listening to two friends giggling about a nerdy topic you don’t understand or care about. Should have ended it when Michael left and just started a new pod if what she wanted was to stop doing research and start just having little convos about her personal interests.

Used to love this show, but shocked by the lack of data on the phone episode. There are valid studies showing phones are damaging student’s attention spans, tech literary, and critical thinking skills. Disappointed and unsubscribed.

I don’t consider this to be journalism. It’s just two people, particularly Sarah, making a bunch of smarmy, unfunny comments about a serious topic. I couldn’t get past the first 15 minutes.