I only listen to “The Indicator” and “Planet Money” podcasts from NPR now. Even those I only listen to occasionally. The “two podcast hosts having a fake scripted conversation with fake laughter” format is irritating.

As a mostly liberal but not leftist, I find that other podcasts I tried to listen to can be a bit much when it comes to race (I’m Black FWIW). I haven’t come across all of the trans topics that the X thread is complaining about it.

And maybe I’m just over discussions about race issues because I know what a large part of America is about and I’m just over it.

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Meh. I dumped them ~23 years ago. Post-9/11, their format seem to jump from "music with some decent news" to "endless so-called news for you to obsess to in your personal Fear Bunker". Also, their notion of "balanced" shifted to reporting that Senator Slime(D) said "2+2=3", and Senator Sleaze(R) said "2+2=5" - with their reporter carefully avoiding any mention of "4".