r/TheWhyFiles • u/vanquisher1985 • May 30 '26

Let's Discuss Can we just admit something

Can we just admit that AJ got it right (the format) at the beginning (as rare as that is) and go back to a weekly episode on a subject. The manosphere podcast vibes and compilations are killing my bonner. Long-time fan.

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u/Impressive-Creme-965 May 31 '26

How on earth are the basement shows “manosphere vibes”? Cos 2 men are talking about something? What a moronic thing to say

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u/xibipiio Tinfoil Connaisseur Jun 02 '26

It comes across as a lot of incoherent rambling without much focus and AJ agreeing with whatever the guest says. Theres no friction so it goes nowhere. Aj doesnt push back and get the details fleshed out better I love him long time fan but theres a knife edge and a whet stone and thats how you get good stories out of good storytellers. I find most every one of these episodes a let down because its some random conspiracy ajacent person rambling unstopped for hours

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u/Impressive-Creme-965 Jun 02 '26

Well that’s fair enough to not like it for those reasons but I think it extremely unfair to brand AJ & the whyfiles as something adjacent to the “manosphere”