Today, Explained

Amazing podcast. Educational, fun, and with great pacing. However, they NEVER put LINKS to what they are talking about. For example, they released an episode about Google’s AI, Veo3. The whole episode was about a short film that they made using the technology, but they had no link to the actual short film… This is basic stuff that shouldn’t be missed when publishing.

June 8th episode was so bad on how it’s edited I needed to unfollow this show. Are you trying to provide interesting information or are you trying to make it a tik tok style podcast with random sounds happening as the person talks?

Would love to hear readership addressed. Are more women or men reading today? An increase in readers of color? The episode discussed readership as a zero sum game which it is not.

Usually this podcast does a great job cramming context and analysis into a short episode but today’s made me say “are you joking?” out loud. The guest was asked to address why many people today don’t see nuclear attacks by foreign adversaries on US ground as as big of a threat as the older generation of politicians, musing that gen X didn’t want to raise a generation of kids as scared as they were, hiding under desks and “always thinking about death.” This is embarrassing analysis for a normally strong show. Millennials DID have to grow up thinking about death, we’ve been having active shooter drills since middle school. Gen Z and younger have been having active shooter drills since preschool. Kids didn’t get to stop “always thinking about death.” They just were forced to face that the real threat is coming from inside the dome.