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TED Radio Hour
The TED Talks enterprise is way overblown. This podcast is another TED outlet for the recycling of old ideas and philosophies that seem new and innovative thanks to slick production touches. TED Radio Hour is also heavy on re-broadcasts (but they appear to be new episodes in the feed).
The Joe Rogan Experience
The comedian’s pod is consistently in the top of the charts for most downloaded. But he’s run out of material and instead regurgitates anecdotes and states opinions, in a very emphatic manner, as facts. So sad.
Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell
The Malcolm Gladwell brand, which includes the pseudo-social scientific books The Tipping Point and Blink, can be infuriating for its trite content that seems groundbreaking owing to Gladwell’s well-spoken, pop sociologist modus operandi. (We’ll give the English-born Canadian writer something: Dude’s savvy.)
In June, in collaboration with Panoply Media, Gladwell debuted Revisionist History, which “reinterprets something from the past.”
By August, after ten episodes, Revisionist History was done. Did the so-called nouveau genius run out of ideas?
Last Podcast on the Left
Brevity is an art form. By that standard, the Last Podcast on the Left is art-less.
The show that focuses on serial killers, the occult and other true-crime dramas doesn’t care about a tidy, listenable length. (Two hours on Ted Bundy? Three hours on the “satanic government”? Why?)
Also unhelpful: copious amounts of bro-down riffing and jokes that are a half-step above junior-high fart jokes.
