Listened to a fair bit more. A few other things I've noticed:
I think they throw out some interesting thoughts here and there. They never seem to say anything about the form their podcast takes, or why they're doing it, which is the kind of interesting gap that you only notice after listening to hours and hours of it (which is the necessary standard for submission to the London Review of Podcasts). I wonder what they think they're doing? It's not that odd for a podcast, but it is one that is in so many ways so off the cuff, and which deals with media, the online, and so on to not turn that gaze back onto itself.
Part of the interest is in how improvisatory it feels. There's a bit of a sense that they are trying out ideas and that a lot of what they say has just popped into their heads on the fly. Which is pretty different to the podcast genre as a whole, which tends to deal in fully formed ideas and experts spooling out the ideas from their book or whatever. But it also over time leaves me with the feeling that it's not sincere, and that they don't mean half the things they say. One of the quirks of the podcast, which is almost a technique, I mean I think if we were talking about books where the critical vocabulary is so advanced we'd call it a technique or a device or whatever, is that it's mostly not that clear whether they're being ironic or if they really believe in what they're saying at any given time.
I've started to find the worldview a bit depressing, overall. The same themes come up again and again, in particular the failure of the democratic party, criticizing the woke, characterising more or less everything as a mental illness, social media damage. It's not a problem or a surprise that a podcast returns to the same themes. But overall it's hard to get over the negativity of it. I'm all for negativity in general coz it's generally accurate, and that's the only thing I want from analysis or cultural commentary really. I think the podcast almost indulges in it though, to the point where while it's a nice counterpoint to the mainstream world, I find it a bit exaggerated. And obviously on an affective level, if we're going to treat it as we would music, it's not exactly an elating thing to listen to, at least not after a while.