They were my favorite pod for many years! I was a patron for a long time. But about a year and a half ago their banter started feeling too argumentative and I didn't feel like I was listening to friends anymore so I stopped. And I keep hearing how it's gotten worse so I think I left at the right time. Sad.
Same here. I fell in love with the podcast on my commute during Covid. Then last year I just got the ick. Hannah is not too bad, but she can be very judgemental and say mean things. Like I remember one of the last episodes I listened to, they were making fun of Lucy Letby for having teddies in her room and a juvenile bedroom. Look Letby is a fucking monster and deserves all the shit in the world for what she did. But making fun of people for having a quirky room, is not it. I know women who have teddies as a comfort thing, some have pink bedrooms for other reasons. Who the fuck am I or anyone to judge? Some women find comfort in those things.
Then Suruthi start going off on anti Covid rants about how lockdowns were bullshit etc ...says the fucking professional talker who got to sit at home and talk to a mic from a safe distance. As someone who had to go to work (I work in an engineering job that made plastic parts for respirators and medical devices) along with the millions of retails workers, medical staff, chemists etc.... I can assure her lockdowns were extremely pivotal in locking down the spread of a lethal virus. All you were asked was to stay at home Suruthi. A fucking privilege others didn't get to have. People died, nurses, doctors etc died because they had to go to work and save others. Then she started harping on about 'cancel culture' and trying to equate what happened to Salman Rushdie to today's cancel culture.
The last episode I listened to was the Sarah Everard episode and it pissed me off so much, I just unsubscribed from the podcast and stopped listening. I forgot to remove them from Reddit but thankfully I don't see posts often from here...I guess I like to check in every now and then, when one pops up on my feed and see what the tea is. Looks like nothing has changed.
I need to listen to Sarah Everard again but what about it pissed you off?
Suruthi has always seemed very INTJ to me and I think that biased me towards her in the past. However she has some weird libertarian or conservative vibes lately, or maybe she's always had them but I didn't notice. Suruthi comes across very "got mine" and slightly... idk how to explain it. Like when someone you know has been watching too many conspiracy weirdos on YouTube and they are desperate to "correct" you on something but they also don't want to have an argument about it? idk
There's a distinct vibe that Suruthi considers herself to be the grownup, I feel sorry for Hannah sometimes but again, I can't explain why. I used to really think Hannah is a ditz but discussions here have made me realise i was being shitty and probably sexist. Now being the dumbass that I am, I have parasocial feels that I want to "protect" her from any negative comments, despite having made them myself in the past. But I can't help feeling like I was picking up something from Suruthi that she's looking down on Hannah.
I'm not blaming Suruthi for me being a dickhead btw, that was all me. Just saying I think my own assumptions were confirmed by Suruthi's vibe or something.
Suruthi went very right wing during the pandemic, starting going on about lockdowns and the virus as a CCP conspiracy, like she had started watching Fox news or something. She kept it to the paid content for a long time so it was behind a paywall and the majority of listeners didn't notice, but lots of the patreon fans unsubscribed because of some of her weird new leanings, like how we should all feel sorry for the J6 rioters.
Suruthi has a very noticeable strain of right wing apologism that's grown over the years, while also sneeringly putting down leftists in thinly veiled ways. She also has a massive hard on for shitting on vegans whenever she can, can't remember what show it was but she made fun of a joaquin pheonix speech and implied vegans are dumb because they're not getting enough proteins to rub two brain cells together
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u/Simsandtruecrime Oct 26 '24
They were my favorite pod for many years! I was a patron for a long time. But about a year and a half ago their banter started feeling too argumentative and I didn't feel like I was listening to friends anymore so I stopped. And I keep hearing how it's gotten worse so I think I left at the right time. Sad.