re: Shawn Ryan and Megyn Kelly Question Tulsi Gabbard's Resignation Reason

Damn, I was just thinking today, how the hell do people listen to Shawn Ryan. He seems like a perfectly nice guy and a patriot, but imo he is absolutely punishing to listen to. The never ending awkwardly long pauses, the hokey gift schtick, and he seems weirdly uninformed to be a podcaster. I tried listening today because Megyn was on and 15min in he sounded completely dumbfounded that there’s a Michael Jackson movie out And routinely drops 4-5 hour podcasts? Howww lol

Shawn Ryan’s popularity is interesting to me because he’s not particularly bright, clever, or funny and he’s an awful interviewer.

I genuinely enjoyed his podcasts with priests, SF guys, and the 160th guy was good. His tech interviews are interesting at least to me showing what we are capable of.

Lately his guests haven’t really interest me. I tried listening to Cenk, especially for Cenk point of view and what he went through, I couldn’t finish it.

I’ve been hitting audible up lately as most of the podcasts haven’t been very good.

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Shawn started in his attic with SEALs and other spec operators. He was helped with psychedelics.

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And honestly his show was at its absolute best. He told a story about an actual face-to-face encounter with Jesus Christ when he was in Central America doing things he shouldn't have been doing. It profoundly changed him, though not immediately.

He was bringing a spotlight to the opinions and real, untold stories of baws like Jocko, Tanto, Shrek and Cody Alford. It was raw, emotional, unfiltered and sometimes difficult to listen to- not because of the format but because of the hard reality of what these men saw and did. Alford's interview is still one of the best long-form podcasts I've ever seen. Bro went from being a MARSOC Raider and an absolute well-oiled, unchained carnage machine, to being a big player in the criminal underworld, to being an optimistic motivational speaker and most recently a born-again Christian.

Now, you've got Shawn razor-focused as Never-Trump with an unhealthy obsession with the Epstein Files, interviewing people like Hunter, Cenk, Ro Khanna and Megyn. What happened to having guests like Nick Frietas and AJ Gentile (from "The Why Files") and John "MrBallen" Allen? Those were fun because the content wasn't predictable. The Gentile interview touched on everything from politics to Bigfoot to hollow moon to the moon landing to psyops and Covid. If you haven't watched that one (or seen The Why Files on YouTube), I highly recommend it.

It's almost all political theater now instead of real stories that shatter the spectrum. VERY obvious propaganda and gaslighting. And I see it because I didn't just start watching Shawn recently. I was riding with him from the beginning. The shift and the change happened very rapidly. I mentioned Shawn seeing Jesus at the beginning of this reply, because now it looks like his new "god" is that big fat paycheck, just like you said. It's disappointing. Shawn has done some good things for sure, like bringing child predators to light and his very public beef with Dan Crenshaw was awesome, but he is collapsing from within right now.