In Bed With The Right

Thank you, Moira and Adrian, for your beautiful chemistry and camaraderie, your brilliant analyses of our society, and for helping me to develop a conceptual framework to be a better parent and person in our world. Thank you for your important work and for the hope and no small amount of joy your conversations give me. On a recent day of travel, you had me in stitches with your tech creep episodes. Loved the Brontë episodes…god, more book discussions always welcome! Found you through your Andrew Sullivan series—so fracking good! I appreciate the reading lists/recommendations, too. Y’all are awesome, and I feel like you’re helping to stave off what has sometimes felt like an inexorable middle aged slide towards something closed off and afraid. Thank you both so much. 💕

A lot

I binged ~25 of these over ~2wks. I’m a prof and I’ll agree with other reviews that it feels like being in grad school again - good chewy stuff. (But like, the really annoying kid isn’t in the seminar.) I especially love hearing about early 20c stuff, which I never studied. I cannot believe so many people reviewing a podcast on gender feel comfortable commenting on people’s voices and laughs.

I find myself chuckling audibly fairly often. Both hosts are great. The real reason I’m leaving this review though is to beg you to work on the verbal tic of saying “right” as a conjunction and to end sentences. ❤️🌈

overall a thought-provoking podcast with many sharp insights! the one thing that gives me pause is the frequent jabs at people's appearances - i know that they're often talking about horrible people, but just on principle it leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. i'm sure plenty of good people also have and can't help the same features they make digs at, and it just seems unnecessary to make that the target of cruelty when there is plenty of legiminate material for moral complaint.