Comments by "M.A.B." (@m.a.b.4104) on "Why is the US Airdropping Aid to Gaza? | Pod Save The World" video.
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1:00:29 I have watched and enjoyed numerous episodes of Lex's podcast but tried to start to watch the Tucker episode and found it impossible and had to stop because Tucker is so full of it in a boring, predictable way. Lex has a habit of when he interviews a polarised figure like Tucker, he will follow it up by trying to get an interview with someone who represents the opposite side, or someone who is an expert in the subject matter in question. The almost 3 and a half hour episode following Tucker's with Serhii Plokhy, a Ukrainian academic at Harvard, provided the necessary information to counter Putin's interpretation of history, denazification and other current military strategies, etc, etc, in a way that goes further than any hard ball questions that Tucker could have asked if he wasn't such a (useful to some) idiot. Lex's format of often having long form interviews with competing sides of polarised issues can be debated on the merits of its effectiveness, but I have found on multiple issues it has proven to be informative in an educational sense. Criticisms of platforming too often those from the "intellectual dark web" may be valid, but with 415 interviews conducted, I find this less significant. Compared to Lex Fridman, the number of shady characters actively doing current harm to society is surely much more of a problem. The only people who don't skip and pay attention to the Tucker episode on Lex's podcast, are die hard Tucker fans already committed to his BS.
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