Fun to listen to, expertly produced. Craig will almost always win. Here is why:
-Craig answers the question subjectively: whether this is a summer or winter album to me. He therefore has two paths to victory: (1) guest agrees with Craig, based on their own (not Craig’s) subjective experiences with the album; or (2) guest, interpreting objective factors (title; production; lyrical content; lore around making; etc,), comes to same result as Craig.
-Compare Jody: Jody is interpreting those same objective set of favors set out in Craig Path (2) to answer the question, leaving him with only one meaningful path to victory: if the guest analyzes those same or other factors to come to the same conclusion. In theory Jody, like Craig, has a second path to victory - if his factor analysis coincides with the guest’s own subjective answer (I.e., if the guest answers the question the way Craig does, even though Jody doesn’t). But guests are more likely to attempt to answer the question using Jody’s mode of analysis than Craig’s, leaving Jody’s second path to victory much narrower. This also explains Jody’s good-natured griping when he loses: if the answer to the question is always subjective, then there can be no right or wrong answer even though Jody thinks that there is, because he is analyzing the album itself, not his own experience with it. Great pod though!
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