For me it has to be the Berlin live episode and in top spot the live DnD episode, which I literally had to turn off after about 15 mins because it was too embarrassing. I can't imagine what being in the audience must have been like, lmao

(Obviously the true leftist answer is all of them)

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Lol I had a (well-meaning lib) friend recently discover the Yang interview through the Chapo YT channel and I had to deal with a flurry of unhinged messages about how Yang seemed like a well-meaning guy and it was amazing how he "held his own" :virgil-phone:

    • Antiwork [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Exactly. Like you get a huge candidate and just throw him complete softballs for an hour and a half. Embarrassing

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        To be fair, they are heavily incentivized by the media environment to do exactly this, since if they go hard on him they will never get another interview like that ever again.

        • Antiwork [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          This is such a lib take. I heard the same thing while it was happening. If you’re not going to go hard then don’t do the interview

        • spectre [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I think the options are something like this:

          1. Have a podcast, do boring interviews sometimes.
          2. Have a podcast, dunk on public figures all the time, and just blow off interviewing them cause they won't call you. If you do 2., don't revert to 1. which is lame af.
          3. Have a podcast and build a following by being "challenging but fair" as an interview, which is hard coming from the socialist left cause who would want to be "fair" to these ghouls. It would be an interesting project, but incredibly difficult until the "left" actually grows in size and coalesces better than with the Bernie campaigns (could be several years till that happens). Chapo is definitely not this and I wouldn't expect them to be.