Josh Ritter is my favorite of this genre. (Live more than recorded, for the most part.)

Some folks are just… really into rats, you know?

The guest's doing the same thing, no? Speaking as someone who's been a guest on a couple podcasts, I know I was.

The first 5? It gets better in 7, and much better in 9.

A really good comedian can come up with an hour of material in maybe 2-3 years. These guys try to come up with an hour every week, and it mostly just amounts to dragging things out way too long and expanding on premises that weren't worth doing in the first place.

If I was a serial killer, I probably would have started that way too.

An unpopular opinion, but definitely a thing some guy typed!

Robin Williams IS Eddie Pepitone in…

In all fairness, you probably wouldn't have been able to convince me of that a few years back either.

That is, like, Lethal Weapon 5 hair.

"Get Off the Shed" had a reason to be what it was, yeah.

Bad, but in a boring way, of course. Frequently about politics, an area the show clearly has no interest in but feels obligated to take stabs at anyway.

Eh… it's around 1/4 good, 1/4 passable, and 1/4 fun to play "now why did they think this would work?" Which still puts it ahead of the Era of Sketches About People Shouting at an Unseen Figure or Figures in the Middle Distance (the "Cheri Oteri Era")…

Fugue state music career!

The music of Amelia Fletcher (Talulah Gosh/Heavenly/etc.) My wife's not necessarily a fan, though, so guess it's not the end of the world.

I'm the opposite. Enjoy Seinfeld (haven't seen it in a decade, but assuming I'd still like it), can't endure Curb. It's just so… joyless, like a comedy version of Oedipus Rex. I mean, I suppose that's the point, but it's just not my thing.

To me, I'd draw the line between Johnston and Willis, in that Johnston is clearly a person with serious mental issues, but has ALSO written some genuinely tuneful and affecting songs — i.e. his personal story is an interesting sidenote, but ultimately the music is the point. I find Willis is a bit more uncomfortable,…

Well, the distrust of government. Conspiracy theory as a way of parsing the world is basically right-wing. Also, before he went off on this tangent, he was nominally a Republican; I'd imagine his opinions on things not related to his current hobby-horse still skew that way.

Is it leftist, though? I'd consider Greenwald essentially conservative.

The alarmism outweighs the journalism by a wide margin, though. If he was saying "here these things are," that'd be great, but like Snowden, he follows that up by essentially screaming, "now be paranoid about it!"