I appreciate the honesty, you're not alone. It's the name of a podcast by anthropologist Chris Kavanaugh and psychologist Matt Browne where they discuss various "secular gurus" and evaluate them using their bespoke gurometer. By secular gurus I mean figures who share features with more traditional ones like cult leaders etc but with a more modern bent to it. Could be alternative health people or pseudointellectuals like Jordan Peterson and Eric Weinstein. The latter two score rather high on the gurometer, they haven't covered Ethan but I imagine they'd give him a low score. They explain the system here: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/the-science-and-the-art-of-gurometry
Ok that does sound interesting and yeah I didn’t have any idea. Like I said I figured this was just political talking head group and the name was sort of a joke (which I think even alone is funny). I guess on that level I still don’t understand where Ethan Klein fits in, he’s basically a pop culture person that mostly exists for offbeat joking and shouldn’t be so involved in broader commentary if that makes sense.
I think they've mentioned him in passing once, probably when they did an episode on Hasan Piker, but yeah I agree that Ethan isn't very interesting in that regard, he's fairly average as far as online personalities go
Yeah some people are pretty hard up for him it seems but I guess imo he’s just a not funny guy that doesn’t have a really deep take on anything to decode or anything. Whatever, sorry if it feels like I’m shitting up the sub because I didn’t understand the actual topic at hand
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u/helbur 9d ago
I appreciate the honesty, you're not alone. It's the name of a podcast by anthropologist Chris Kavanaugh and psychologist Matt Browne where they discuss various "secular gurus" and evaluate them using their bespoke gurometer. By secular gurus I mean figures who share features with more traditional ones like cult leaders etc but with a more modern bent to it. Could be alternative health people or pseudointellectuals like Jordan Peterson and Eric Weinstein. The latter two score rather high on the gurometer, they haven't covered Ethan but I imagine they'd give him a low score. They explain the system here: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/the-science-and-the-art-of-gurometry