All the AI detection in the world won’t save a city from fire, when reservoirs have been left empty for over a year, budgets are cut by millions, hundreds of firetrucks are inoperable due to lack of maintenance, and competent officials are overlooked in favor of D.E.I hired who are incompetent and unqualified. Typical NPR programming making excuses for failed Democrat policies.
I was exited to listen to this podcast since it was advertised on the Hubspot's Daily Show. I was so disappointed. I found it to be factual but super dull and boring. Nothing engaging and the hosts/commentators sound like they all were trained at the same broadcasting school - you know that typical inflection. They don't sound like real people and they're nothing like the Daily. Can't believe that show recommended them. I'm 0 for 2 on their recommendations. Guess you can only have one really fun podcast about business and tech!
Also, the best financial tech review podcast intro music. As everything in the Marketplace podcast series, it has a strong "leftist" bias and little comments that become annoying. Like in today's episode they seemed to just get super happy that a tech company lost ~10% market value... or that people are leaving OpenAI, because you know they want to be for profit now, and making lots of money is bad... It could be a very good program
So sad to hear that Ms. Jamali is not a fan of Gin. Our go-to Gin for a Gin Martini (definitely stirred not shake; love 007 but he definitely got it wrong…) is Hendricks. If the Gin is not juniper berry dominant, then it is not preferred, in our humble opinion. Love this podcast!
I was uneasy with this pod before with the opening and closing ad segments that easily took up 40% of runtime. Now, the producers insert super disruptive ads in the middle of the episode. There’s no intro/outro to this new block and rhythmically it’s very confusing to interrupt a story/interview in a place that was not planned for any break.
I simply ADORE this and the broader Market Place team and have been listening for years. But the emphasis of AI-related episodes is getting to be too much and annoying. I understand the significance of the burgeoning technology but it's almost every day that the episodes focus solely on AI/chat tech. There is still plenty of other material to cover! I've had to start skipping the AI/chat episodes. They're somewhat redundant.
Kimberly Adams does an excellent job coherently and fully reporting on topics but also gives necessary focus to resources beyond the reporting. Today's episode on Apple Safety Check was particularly good in this, sharing resources for victims of domestic abuse & stalking, as well as organizations working to keep privacy in tech front and center. Well done, Kimberly and team!
Kimberly has taken over hosting Market Place Tech podcast from Molly Wood. Her voice is clear and reporting has continued to engage with fabulous short stories. Glad to hear PODCAST continues to thrill on all things technology.
You’re starting to sound like cable news when reporting economic indicators, especially ones that are scary like inflation. Then you use a flat tone when reporting positive indicators. News informs but also shapes public opinion. Be careful about inciting fear. But the scary numbers into bigger context and give people hope.
Molly, host of the Marketplace Tech podcast, highlights all aspects of the digital economy and more in this can’t miss podcast! The host and expert guests offer insightful advice and information that is helpful to anyone that listens!
Imagine if Molly and other APM hosts were just more upfront about where they stand/see things, maybe there wouldn’t be as many frustrated listeners. This is why I have more respect for places like Pod Save America or Daily Wire.
Please interview more sources and cover disability and tech more broadly! Loved the weeklong series in August and September Haben follow-up, but disability exists in paracosms of virtually every story involving people, and with 1/4 of society disabled it would be great to hear daily questions about accessibility with regard to products, systems and more.
I’m changing my long time rating from 5 to 1, would be 1/2 if able. I left Kai Ryssdal’s Marketplace podcast just after he took a hard left when Trump was elected. I stopped my hundreds of dollar donations then but kept on with Tech but today when Ms. Wood mentioned the president doing something untoward with no evidence or context that was the last straw. Her interviews have an agenda. I’m very interested in tech not opinion. I can go to CNN or MSNBC if I want reporters to give me their opinion. I went back several times to see if Mr. Ryssdal moved back center (where I thought he was during the Obama years) but nope. He’s full of hatred of our country and president just like Ms. Wood is not exhibiting. I unsubscribed today. It’s a shame because I have heard some great things about tech from some of the folks who were able to talk about tech and not politics. Since NPR has lost the “Public” from its existence they can go get the cash they need from companies they support. I’ll work to end taxpayer subsidy for shows like this. The best episodes seem to be done by stand in hosts. After six years I’m walking away from this now dysfunctional podcast.
I have been a long-time listener to Marketplace tech; Since Wood has taken over as host, the podcast has become more anti-tech with a political agenda that provides little to no substance besides a biased opinion. Wood seems under informed, lacking understanding, and changes the narrative into the latest political controversy. The interviews appear to be staged to support the biased and lazy reporting. Unsubscribing from podcast, it’s too bad since this was a great tech podcast with the previous hosts.
Since Molly Wood has become the host of this show it has slowly descended into the realm of opinions and politics in the context of tech. I want to hear more about tech in the market place not the opinions and politics of others. Unfortunate.
NPR seems only to make shows that tell me how privileged and lucky I am to donate to my local NPR station. Well this podcast has convinced me to no longer donate. I also now support decreases in funding for Public Radio and Television.
Molly has a great mind for tech and hunting down the hidden. But I hate the anti conservative politics that she weaves into everything. An example? US has reason to suspect China of spying by way of tiktok. How does MW report it? The evil dictator Trump has deprived the deserving citizens of the USA of a life enriching app all so he can steal an election. No investigation from non political sources. No evidence. Just anti Trump hate. I don’t love Trump but I can be honest about the good things he’s done and the bad. MW only sees bad from him and it taints her reporting. It’s too bad. I miss the good old days. Unsubscribing.
If you’re looking for a show where the host doesn’t hold tech’s feet to the fire, this show is not for you.
Journalists should be adversarial by nature and Molly is a superb journalist.
I don’t always agree with her analysis but this show is a breath of fresh air.
Keep up the great work Molly and everyone behind the scenes!
Molly frequency glosses over the facts and instead concentrates her energy on delivering snarky, politicized commentary. If you are looking for tech news, this is not your best source.
This show is much more about ‘sociology’ and personal opinions on topics like ‘internet censorship’ than actual ‘technology’ or ‘business’. Molly’s an activist masquerading as a journalist and It’s kind of a joke.
I like the topics and the guest speakers, but overall it’s mostly just driven my Molly’s own personal view on things, which often leads to very unbalanced conversations. Still informative, but know you’re not getting just news, but a lot of opinion, which is mostly anti-tech companies.
I love the regular marketplace podcast but ... This podcast is played as a segment of the regular marketplace podcast, so if you are a listener of marketplace you will hear the same thing twice. Only listen if you don’t get the regular marketplace podcast or if you like redundancy.
I’m done. Been very patient over the 3 yrs or so that I’ve been a subscriber. It continues to get more and more political. Anti-Trump, climate change, racism...every hot button issue out there.
I want tech news. Not politically leaning “news” loosely related to tech.
This week was the final straw. “Climate change is responsible for “The Un-housed” (not homeless) and also for racism.
To loosely put those blatant political messages into a story about what tech companies are doing to combat climate change is nothing more than a loosely veiled political statement.
Consider me “unsubscribed”.
Love the podcast, but I have one gripe. Please, please, please... stop using the Google and Amazon wake words in your stories and ads. The advertising part is the part that irks me.
Love the show.
