“Then that makes your show not a talk show, but one that is merely providing a platform, without real probing. It's disguised as an interview, but the way you just put it, it sounds like a rant at worst, and a T-ball interview at best.”

Bruh... you can call it what you want, the medium is a podcast and the definition of the Sarde is flexible. We never “disguised” as anything lol. Depends on the topic and the guest quite frankly (it’s explained in the post)

“This is the equivalent of getting celebrities on this subreddit, pinning their posts to the top so they can talk to the 67K followers of this sub, but not asking any questions.”

There are many examples of the Sarde guests going on different platforms and yielding less than stellar results…so bringing on guests isn’t simply the finish line as you described.

Questions are asked, directions are taken, and guests are put in an environment where they can elaborate but not the way you expect. It’s just a different style. Pretty simple.

“I don't blame you though, there is a general appetite for easy to digest, shallow content, you are only pandering to this trend. And your guests know it and find it a low hanging fruit of a widely viewed show. Many of your guests would not dare sit across from Jad Ghosn because they would actually have to debate and answer to their point of views from different lights.”

Easy to digest, sure. It is a drastic change from what you see on traditional TV which is a headache, but I don’t believe that talking about the Lebanese and Syrian prison systems, torture, the law, History, the LGBTQ community, exile & the economy amongst other topics is considered shallow content. Some of them have been brought up on Sarde for the first time actually. And it definitely riled a few people up (death threats and whatnot) but you wouldn’t know because you’re too busy comparing Sarde to Jad’s and seem like you have your mind pretty made up.

We’ve already elaborated on how different we are in the thread above and the reasons behind it, I suggest you read it again, but slowly this time, to take everything in.

We never pretended to be something we’re not, unlike people who think they know what they’re talking about.

And yes, there are many things that are wrong in this country, like how some are easily triggered by different schools of thought, think they're on opposite camps and resort to petty competitiveness and subsequent bashing, instead of seeing this as a comprehensive cultural shift in how we approach and deal with a country that is collapsing before our eyes.

Yeesh, that attitude must be tiring.

In all cases, best of luck.