Factually! with Adam Conover - Podcast Rankings and reviews

The topics are always fresh and interesting. I love the way Adam Conover has reverence for facts and his audience but gives his nuanced takes on complex issues honestly. Adam is an excellent interviewer, advocate, and an all around amazing entertainer, but more importantly this show has integrity, openness, and useful insights. Listen, learn, & laugh. As a teacher, I highly recommend this series and Adam’s other work to explore the difference in the way things are and the difference we can make in the future when we use facts and critical thinking skills along with ethical humanistic values!

I normally love Adam and this show. He often delves into topics that not everyone is talking about and his guests are normally experts in their field in some way. However, I really hated the prison abolition episode. As an abolitionist myself, I felt it barely scratched the surface of what the abolition movement really is and misrepresented the ideas behind it. It’s an odd choice to talk about abolition with someone who is not a supporter of the movement nor an expert on the topic. There are plenty of folks who would’ve been more authoritative and unbiased in this discussion. Many of whom are both scholars and former prisoners themselves. The guy you had on was not it.

The episode with Rashid Khalidi during the week of Jan 15 helped fill in quite a few holes I had in understanding what’s going on in Israel. I just downloaded the book and I hope that will fill in more and lead me to other information. My thanks to Adam for having this conversation and being open to learning along with all of us.

I watch and listen to everything Adam creates. He’s smart but modest, has great guests, and is fun and funny. I love that an episode titled FREE WILL DOES NOT EXIST was followed by an episode titled FREE WILL ABSOLUTELY EXISTS.