I'm going to comment on the second part. I enjoyed his podcast for quite a while, never liked the interview-type podcasts before. Once the pandemic started last

I'm going to comment on the second part. I enjoyed his podcast for quite a while, never liked the interview-type podcasts before. Once the pandemic started last year, somehow he came of for me as completely disconnected from the real world, just living in his own safe bubble and passing judgement based on his privileged status, basically becoming very "academic".