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by GuinansEyebrows 262 days ago
it's a shame; i generally agree with most of what ed has to say and i think his arguments come from a good place, but the website is pretty irritating and i find his delivery to be breathless and melodramatic to the point of cliche (not befitting the serious nature of the topics he argues). i had to stop listening to his podcast because of the delivery; its not an uncommon situation for other CZM podcasts but at least some of them handle their editorial content with a little more maturity (shout out to Molly Conger's Weird Little Guys podcast).

I hate to make the comparison between two left-ish people who yell for a living just because they're both British, but it kinda feels like ed is going for a john oliver type of delivery, which only really works well when you have a whole team of writers behind you.

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I love almost all of the CZM shows, and even I have a hard time making it all the way through a full-on rant from Ed :/ and I agree with him. Sorry, Ed.
He's a performative contrarian. His arguments are...fine but not worth the spittle that comes along with it.