TAKE THAT, AMANDA PALMER!
“Real Talk is an unstructured conversation between a group of friends, featuring shockingly honest discussion about their lives, including sex, drugs, childhood, and adolescent mistakes. Hosts Nick and Dan are humorous and relatable, and they frequently have guests who join in the conversations. Even when they are talking to mutual acquaintances unknown to the listener, the stories remain interesting. Sue thoroughly enjoyed Nick, whom she found to be incredibly self-aware and open to full-disclosure. We do suggest the hosts remember to introduce themselves and guests in each episode. Also, some episodes have questionable audio, specifically Episode 002, in which one of the hosts was using a very poor microphone. Additionally, this show was difficult to find due to possible multiple feeds of episodes.”
Daniel gave us 2 and a half stars out of 5, whereas the charming, delightful, witty, and beautiful Sue gave us 4 out of 5 stars.
Anne is a man.
Anne is also a prolific podcast reviewer who typically writes about podcasts like Berkeley’s “Physics for Future Presidents” podcast or Stanford’s “Global Geopolitics” podcast. So when he posted this review of Real Talk, it goes without saying that we were very shocked he would have listened to more than ten seconds of it (let alone write a review of it)!
But he did and it’s as interesting to me as it is well-reasoned and articulate. Here are a few quotes…
They are aware of their lack of achievement, but they seem to be far from finding a way around it.
and…
The decision to record and publish their talks demand a sound psychological explanation. Is it a plea for help?
I urge you to browse around Anne’s blog. He features tons of great podcasts.
