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Planet Money is just sad now. It used to be some of the best financial reporting out there -- almost as good as Money Stuff by Matt Levine. Now it's always fa
by nostromo 4y ago
Planet Money is just sad now. It used to be some of the best financial reporting out there -- almost as good as Money Stuff by Matt Levine.
Now it's always falling over itself to be cute and talks down to its audience. It's like they think they're a podcast for middle schoolers, and if they're not cracking lame jokes and playing silly songs nobody will listen.
- orev 4y agoSad? Are you expecting lectures from economists? I’m sure you can find that somewhere, but I would expect podcast from a major media outlet to sim to be more accessible. There’s a lot of complex economics involved and I think they do a good job of explaining it in a layman’s terms.
- jononomo 4y agoI completely agree with this -- I can't stand podcasts that add cutesy stuff. I don't like wasting even one half second of time.
- pgwhalen 4y agoI’m curious how long ago you think Planet Money was good. I was never a regular listener, but I can remember 5 years ago being turned off by the relative lack of depth and time consuming humor. I always wrote it off as “not my style” or “for a different audience” as opposed to thinking it was objectively bad.
- nytesky 4y agoPlanet Money started around financial crisis and it was pretty concrete economic news about the crisis.
- adamgordonbell 4y agoI mean, I haven't listened in a while, but the coverage of how things played out during covid was very interesting to me. Also, when they tracked a t-shirt thru the supply chain or bought mortgage securities. One of the major forces behind it left to start Gimlet at some point.