I came across this podcast by chance about 2 weeks ago while looking for something to listen to before a flight. I started with the Disney season and became so enthralled that I finished it before returning home from my trip. Now, just 2 weeks later, I’ve finished the seasons on Facebook, dating apps, and just a few moments ago, the season on Apple. Every seasons is executed so well, being engaging, informative, and concise all at the same time. Loving it and looking forward to more!

I truly enjoyed this other look to Disney. Growing up in the Nickelodeon era and going to Disney parks as a kid really placed everything into perspective as to the how Disney has become what it is today. Would highly recommend listening.

I love every season of this podcast until the Disney series. Was there a conflict of the interest disclosure that I missed? I was shocked at how much time this podcast spent on its knees for Disney, whitewashing Disney’s epic 10 year run of failures. Everything below is major news and critical to understanding the company and non of it was covered. The Star Wars IP is on fire - every streaming show from SW has been canceled after one season. The Sequel trilogy was a failure with no plans for a movie in the works since. The SW park themed hotel closed to major embarrassment. The most beloved IP in history is now a money loser and is trash because of Disney. Marvel too is a dumpster fire, with failure after failure of characters no one cares about and writing so bad you me jab a pencil in your eyes to stop it. Only Deadpool saved that IP and that was Ryan Reynolds not Disney. Their animated movies have been major failures and as of right now - Snow White - the IP that is second only to Mickey Mouse is set to lose hundreds of millions. Hundreds of Millions. Delayed years. Snow White is now trash. Not one word of this was discussed. Any talk of the streaming service was glossed over as a challenge to the company. Star Wars, Marvel, Disney animation- all untrustworthy and hated by their target audiences. The “segment” (maybe 5 minutes of one episode) that dealt with Disney’s idiotic shift into politics was also glossed over, framed within a CEO struggle, and left with no actual truth being disclosed. The podcast made it feel like Disney did the right thing and after the Florida debacle nothing happened. The truth is they are lucky to not have been sued for neglecting their fiduciary duties. Politics are arguably Disney’s biggest problem…not discussed at all. The support for far left causes, actors and actresses currying animosity from the public with politics and idiot press interviews. Blaming the audience for failed content, and leaked videos of executives talking about their “not so secret gay agenda” to front load children’s programs with gay themes and messages - all happened and were never touched on in this podcast. All of this has been Disney’s only legacy for 10 years. Box office failure after failure after failure across all genres (blamed on political agendas), streaming service in disarray, being sued by talent for actual political retribution against female actresses (now in discovery), falling stock price, ruining classic IP, and to drive my point home - Disney of all companies had to fight off a hostile takeover. And yet Voxmedia didn’t see fit to discuss any of this. Disney is so vulnerable that it almost had a hostile takeover. No one would buy that 10 years ago. And this podcast didn’t want you to know. So I won’t be listening to this podcast anymore. I want truth. This was pathetic.

I’m enjoying all the seasons in the podcast, but the duplicate ads in a row are so frustrating.

I’m enjoying the Disney season a lot. But how does episode 3 focus on the “decline” of Disney Animation barely mention Frozen? It basically skips from Lion King to Wish as an example of how far Disney Animation has fallen. To not focus on one of the most successful animated franchises of all time seems to be a major oversight.

I was enjoying it. Until Season 9 episode 3 Mr. Kafka introduces “Trump expert” Maggie Habberman. She was a problematic journalist before his presidency. Choosing her to interview has given me pause to trust the reporting and storytelling.

Season covering Disney has been fascinating, but honestly the best part of listening to all the episodes is the original music! Looked forward to hearing it every beginning, end, and transition for each episode. It perfectly mixes cool beats with this little melody that is somehow essence of Disney? So well done!

The host in the second episode is hard to listen to/take seriously. There’s really no need for profanity, and the narrating doesn’t need to be dumbed down.

I have nothing against the new host of the Disney podcast but I feel like I’m listening to an audiobook. If I wanted to listen to an audiobook I would but I wanted to listen to podcast. This new season is going to be used to go to sleep. They should have just recasted one the previous hosts. Please fix this for next season.

You made it sound as if electric cars are great for the environment and are the future, and completely neglected to mention that the electric grid in the US will be unable to handle even a slight increase in electric car numbers, and also how polluting the making of the batteries actually is - so not so good for the environment after all. Very disappointing storytelling.

A ton of potential. Just so left leaning that it’s ruined.

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This was advertised on Kara Swisher as a series about Twitter, and within twenty minutes, it’s about Black Lives Matter, re-litigating events from years ago that have already been covered ad nauseam, e.g. the bird-watching incident in Central Park. Most of Vox’s liberal audience probably agree that Amy Cooper was in the wrong, but must we hear about it everyday, in podcasts about completely unrelated topics, in perpetuity? Not everything is about race. Find something new to talk about.

Very liberal/left leaning with disdain for conservative viewpoints on full display, but to their credit much of the facts appear correct.

I am new to this show with season 8 and plan to backtrack to listen to all the past seasons. As I read through the comments I see people saying it is too sympathetic to Elon and others saying it is liberal media brainwashed content. What I love about those responses is that it shows that the podcast is bringing in many perspectives and, for the most part, is speaking about events as they happened and have been reported by the people involved. I think that the show was wonderfully narrated, separated into cohesive bites of topics, and captivate many of the aspects of what Tesla and its owner are doing. I really loved the comparison episode between the other vehicles and when elements were subjective, such as quality, they used metrics like repeated to deduce answers rather than using opinions. Overall, I’d recommend this podcast to a Musk lover or a Musk hater. Interesting, thought provoking, and well done.

This doesn’t feel objective or historical, more like a hit piece.

Tesla is light years ahead of the competition especially in the AI arena which is a large part of EV desirability. In the review of Tesla vs the competition, the authors failed to weight this feature appropriately indicating a bias against Elon Musk. Further, authors failed to mention how many years it takes other car manufacturers to produce a new car model and the $$ it takes, especially in the EV market.

Liberal media take on one of the great entrepreneurs of our lives and amazing company with inspired goals. Stoops to rumor and liberal talking points far too often. At one point ranks Lucid (with 10K cars many) as superior to Tesla. Just whinny sad women with no insights and limited story telling ability. Sadly, not worth a listen.

They really captured the full breadth of the Tesla story

I’ve been bouncing around different seasons and most are reasonably interesting, until I tried season 4 about delivery apps. Yes I’m sure the restaurants at taking a hit from the apps, but so are the customers. Clearly this person has never ordered from a delivery app ever in their life if they think it’s “basically free” to get food delivered, it’s no where close to as cheap as picking up yourself. In addition to delivery fees, services fees, and tip which probably total at least 20-25% of you bill, you also have the actual items only the menu all costing $1-4+ more per item in the delivery app then they cost on the menu of the restaurants website or in person menu. The fact that these delivery app idiots are losing money must be due to huge inefficiencies on their part. They have zero customer service personnel, so if you have an issue they just give you a credit (or not) based on an algorithm - I had one time where I mentioned one $8 item was missing and the refunded me like $40 from the order, and another time where my food didn’t show up at all and they wouldn’t do anything for me. Regardless, it’s super unaffordable to regularly order through delivery apps because it costs an arm and a leg relative to picking up the order yourself, it’s really only worth it if the place is 15+ minutes away. And anyone with half a brain who has ordered before knows that, so either the writers don’t have half a brain or have never used the product they are writing about…

This is a treat for techies. Very well created. Well done.

Musk was right about Covid and did what most sane people want to do, get away from dem run areas

I've enjoyed previous seasons but the current season about Tesla is extremely sympathetic to Elon Musk, tipping over into fawning at times. Lots of, well he didn't actually invent anything related to the companies he's been a part of, BUT he's still so cool and hard core! It makes me question the journalistic integrity of the reporters and skeptical of previous seasons.

In episode 3 performance ratings…you compared a Tesla S Plaid @ $108,000 to a Lucid Air Sapphire @ $250.000…car value should have been a factor in your test. Your following the same path as YouTubers who ran the Plaid against a Bugatti Chiron @ 3 million and a Mclaren Senna. @ 1 million..For another 50K Tesla could certainly throw in extra 1000hp motors and smoke them all.

I have really enjoyed this series overall, but the level of enjoyment really stems from who is hosting the episode/season. For example, the cohost for the Tesla season is a bit hard to listen to. It sounds like she’s telling a story about Tesla to kindergartners. May not be able to continue listening to the rest of the season unfortunately.

I don’t know why women thing talking like a frog is acceptable. This podcast is unbearable because the woman struggles with mouthful of frogs!

Genuinely wondering if this latest season isn’t done by AI.

The content of this podcast is well organized, edited and researched. It could be an amazing listen but sadly, it isn’t. The two podcasters literally read the script. It’s impossible to imagine the story when it’s read so poorly. Take a lesson in how to present material so it does not sound so canned! Please! It’s the most painful listen because of this.

However, Sangeeta goes over the tolerable limits with her “ vocal fry” or frying voice. In some episodes I had to skip the potion when clearly she exaggerates that voice tone.

Overall I’ve been a big fan of this podcast since it launched but I just need to shout into the void that the hosts on the dating app season bring the entire show down a bit. Very monotone and not very engaging, they manage to make really interesting subject matter feel bland.

A look behind the screen to understand the mechanics and financial drivers of the industry. Loved this series that explains the IPOs and players. The algorithms seems be be a combination of your data input with your behavior and the markets’ responses to you. It’s like a net pulling in a crowd to sort through. The computer has no magical knowing about the “right” person.

This has been a great podcast - until the latest topic. Don’t get me wrong, the topic was fine - online dating - but the treatment made me want to rip my ears off. If you’re a fan of self-absorbed valley-girl wanna be’s you should love this version. If not, then listening to the series is akin to nails-on-blackboard torture of the highest order. Hopefully, future topics will be treated as a topic for adults and not tweens trying to impress one another with how cool they think they are.

Boomer here from the world of dating before computers and 50+yo. Most folks of my age reluctant to date online or even try it. I loved the comprehensive scope of this podcast and the thoughtful presentation. Great job, everyone!!!

Originally this was a show about telling us about tech companies and the stories behind them, now it’s a degenerate podcast telling us polygamous relationships and dating fake people is ok. You had a great show and this season has sucked because you want to push your degenerate agenda. Whoever wrote this season please fire them.

The interviewee whose name I don’t know how to spell (starts with an M) desperately looks for reasons to criticize Bumble. Pretty pathetic. Stop looking for what’s wrong and start appreciating what’s working. Novel concept.

Come on. You’re compromised. Taking money from a company like Tinder means you’re not engaging in serious journalism. Especially when you’re doing such a great job otherwise. And important work. I want to trust you. Not sure I can.

Heard this as a “guest episode” from On with Kara Swisher. Wow. Incredibly dull and uniforming. As if it was written by chatgpt. I won’t be back.

Was a great series but the new dating app season has so much annoying vocal fry, like I’m listening to a kardashian.

Completely misses the history of dating apps. And online dating. Grinder came way before tinder and before that queer’s and gays been using the online since the inception of the internet.

this is such a smart and informative podcast. i can’t stand the music that plays when the host is speaking. just let her speak lol. maybe it’s because I’m gen z and this is made for/by millennials so the industry best practices sound inauthentic in my ear. Like it’s a choice being made bc a consultant said it increases average listening time and not because it fits the content. I don’t know why so many nymag podcasts do this, they’re fabulous and don’t need it

Loved the Tinder ep!

This was an interesting season, featuring Facebook. However, it felt like it was heavy on slanting towards being pro Facebook and pro Mark Zuckerberg. But I appreciate the reporting and it giving us somewhat of a deep dive into Facebook’s history, it’s controversies, and the possible future the company is headed to. Thanks!

This show informs, investigates, narrates, and teaches. If ever you needed a reminder why Podcasts are a great medium, listen to this show. Amazing work!

Still. Track your. Location. In. Back. Ground so. They. Know. Where. U. Are. So. What private about this

I wanted to learn about the future of Facebook but instead it’s just covering the past. I was there. I want to know what on earth they are thinking with this Meta product and I haven’t gotten any info on that.

Outstanding content

Wow, you did a phenomenal job explaining all the complexities around this challenging and emotional topic. It was the equivalent of watching an episode of Frontline. Good job.

Hands down best podcast about the tech influencing our lives the most.

Since zero is not allowed, I had to go with 1 star. Why would I listen to anything that is all revisionist history, and not presenting facts? They did a WHOLE episode about the iPhone launch and the App Store, and NEVER ONCE MENTIONED WEB APPS?! Instead they try and sell this version of history that users somehow didn’t know or even conceive of a world with applications. This is ONE MILLION PERCENT FALSE!!!! We knew from LITERALLY DAY ONE, while tinkering with our brand new iPhones we had just purchased an hour earlier, that they completely missed the boat by not offering third party apps. None of us were happy about it. And there was IMMENSE pressure on Steve Jobs and Apple to allow apps from the iPhones launch. We HATED web apps. We were all angry about it. This world where we didn’t know anything apps or their potential is just a complete lie. That world did not exist. This whole first episode of the Apple season is pure fiction. I’m done with this garbage.

Funny enough I’m listening to this podcast for an economics class in college. Hands down the best part of my class is hearing this podcast and then making connections to economic ideas. This podcast is a highlight of my academic career- thank you!!!!