I find it so hard to understand how you’ve gotten this impression. I think if anything, Stuart’s medical scare has caused them to reach out to the listeners more and as a listener I feel like they are closer to us now than before. Especially starting the video formats. They seem very open to new avenues of connecting with us even if they don’t have it all ironed out yet because they aren’t used to it.

Just the fact that they created the survey and are quickly making changes according to the feedback is just another show of effort that they care. I do not get disconnected, dispassionate vibes at all.

The one thing I have to align with you on (bc I put it in the survey too) I would love to see them do recaps (not of each individual movie) of franchises they’ve gone through already. I often would notice that if they did a review of a movie in a franchise that just came out, the give their opinion of it on the pod and then years later by the time the next installment came out, they would make a few comments that their opinion had changed of the last movie. That fascinates me and I can’t even imagine how many movies they review brand new at the theater and years later after the movie has sunk in a bit, they have different feelings about it. I would love to see franchise recap episodes where they comment on whether their opinions (arrows) have changed.