Co-sign. If you Jamelle, Isaac, June, Sam, and all the other FOPs want to start a similar show. I’m all in.
I wish Hang Up and Listen still existed to hear you rant.
I’m absolutely gutted. My single favorite item of media to consume every week for over a decade.
You are a worse person for complaining loudly about the boot on your neck than they are for controlling the foot.
This precise argument is the life's work of E.D. Hirsch. A left-liberal, democrat himself who believed in what is usually labeled as a conservative approach to education. Denying young people the canon locks them out of lots of conversations/rooms/power. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._H...
Until relatively recently, you were part of the Republican Establishment! I would read the book where you lay out what you missed breaking bread with these people for decades. And perhaps some critical self-reflection of how you enabled some of where the GOP/right is today.
I also thought they pulled the punch. But I don’t know if following through would work for a kids show. But they did also have Stripe wake up in the bushes. So they definitely left non kid stuff in too.
In the last decade I've really come to see all appeals to decorum or civility as tools of oppression. Not only is the boot on your neck, but how dare you express discomfort with it such offensive language.
Try being a teacher and having them in class...
I teach science and have gotten in heated discussions with ELA teachers where they claim reading doesn’t count as homework, which I find absurd, but many of them hold as true.