The Cut
The Cut
Vox Media Podcast Network
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Boring
Please bring back the topic episodes, these interviews are so boring. The cut has so many cool articles I wish this podcast reflected that.
salpal100
Sadly Boring
I used to love this podcast and now I have to be desperate for entertainment to listen. Lindsay seems like a cool girl but she doesn’t have the charisma to carry a show. Please bring in some more energy!
Kjimmz
I miss the old “The Cut”
Like so many others, I was an avid listener since 2019. I find this “new” continent quite boring and repetitive and miss the old cultural reporting days full of fun juicy reporting. Where’s the pop culture! The deep dives! Explorations of femininity and power! Come back Imy :’(
liliam2c
Miss the old podcast
I miss the older days of The Cut. The in her shoes episodes are getting repetitive and are so boring.
netxnic
Ugh! Just rename it In Her Shoes!
I wish they did more stories and less interviews, they’re boring!
Bostonbub00001
Take us back!
Please bring back the podcasts with different topics. I hate “In her shoes” it’s the same thing over and over no matter the guest. I miss the old topics in which we could relate to. I miss coming on here excited on what the topic would be.
NoelDashing
Generic over-produced style bleeding into content
I agree strongly with another reviewer who said we could use more of the 2019-style episodes where the interviews felt intentional and not like something to just fill up the feed. There was also another reviewer who said this podcast may be too young for them, a millennial, and that it might be more for Gen Z. I am Gen Z and this stiff, generic production style definitely does not appeal to us either. It seems very millennial to me. That “mhmm? mhmm” is so annoying. It sounds like some consultant said you have to add a bunch of royalty-free-sounding music behind the host reading off a script. It could use a more conversational tone.
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Definitely Displeased.
Please, some 2019 on our 2022
The 2019 episodes were so amazing! The interviews that have been keeping the feed active are boring and feel like a barely restrained yawn in a mandatory meeting.
carla2692
In need of a revamp
I started listening to The Cut’s podcast when Avery Trufelman was hired and stuck with it after she left. The narrative story telling and deeper dives into topics covered in the magazine were great. Since the podcast has exclusively become the “In Her Shoes” conversations it has gone downhill. The range of guests is great but the questions are often very surface and don’t make connections to a larger story. Like how does the podcast connect to the magazine now, other than the fact that Lindsay hosts it? Also, the episode intro where Lindsay says these are people we love, admire “or just find interesting” sounds SO condescending to me. I think The Cut needs to invest in rebuilding the podcast staff and finding a new vision for the content or just stop doing the pod.
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RuandaC89
Feedback for Sparkle (Oct 5, 2021)
As a faithful “Sound Opinions” listener, I enjoyed hearing a different take on the R. Kelly debacle on this podcast. However, I found it journalistically questionable to not directly credit Jim Derogatis, and instead just refer to “that columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times”.
Kevin Finn
Usually interesting
I love the episodes with a subject, but the interviews are boring. 🥱
Queefqueen2016
Boring interviews
The Cut is such a great column because it has sass, snark, and a point of view. This podcast is just canned interviews that put me to sleep. Needs a new host who brings more energy to the table.
ClairePDX12
Revolving door of hosts
I always enjoy the episodes but what is going on with this show? All of the hosts the past few years have been great and the stories give the essence of what I like about The Cut but there is no consistency. I am genuinely curious why they keep changing hosts and take breaks from putting out episodes.
Jackie in Cambridge
Interesting, but…
I like this podcast, the topics are interesting and short enough to listen in one sitting. But there’s one thing that makes me reach for the pause button as fast as I can—vocal fry. I would love to, in the nicest way possible, just suggest to some of the reporters to have some awareness of the podcast as an audio medium and to try to speak in a normal, unaffected way.
SarahInChicago
Immature
I’m not sure what happened to this podcast in the past 1-2 years but it has gone downhill. Hosts cultivating self absorbed, bratty narratives laced with annoying vocal fry. Yuck. Unsubscribing today.
treehouse50
BA Parker is the best part of this show
BA Parker’s episodes are the best!!! More of her plz!! The latest episode about money didn’t sit well with me. The interviewer just giggled when the out of touch bro described his “broke” friend who earns $150,000 a year.
ca$hmoney1243
Definitely changed
Occasionally there are interesting episodes, but nowhere near as intimate or thought provoking as before. I don’t want to blame the reporters, because I get the feeling that they’re being pressured into taking the show in a new pop-y direction. Ever since they got rid of the old host I’ve noticed that the stories just feel like fluffy advertisements for articles/celebrities that are featured in New York magazine. And now that Avery Trufleman is absent (the perfect face for this show and totally squandered, by the way) I don’t know why I’m still here 🤷🏻‍♀️.
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sjdhsjsxjjs
Sad angry women parade
You got that Ivy League education and that dream NYC / LA job and ur soooooo sad and angry.
Dill BeBasio
Why bother being nice? Again?
Didn’t this come out already in March of 2021? Love the episode, but I’m just confused..
kristyq🌟💫✨
Not Cutting It
The episode on “Your Antivaxxer…” assumes that there is/should be only one perspective. This might be called a novel viral implicit bias, not a cut, but a dull blade slipping over a narrative that deserves slicing and dicing with a sharp investigative journalism tool.
Cindarama
It’s not what it was
I’ve tried, but the newest iteration of the podcast is so trite. Each episode offers up 30+ minutes of the most flat, obvious angle on a topic that’s often been wildly over-covered already. No interesting angles, very little depth. So disappointing because this used to be one of my very favorite podcasts when Molly and Avery were hosts. Now I’m unsubscribing.
driggs22
Loved Transracial Adoptee Ep
This episode is SO good. Truly excellent job Schuyler Swenson. The flow made a lot of sense. I liked the interviews, I learned a lot and I was moved.
RBeyB
Love the Diverse Topics
I absolutely LOVED the episode, Can Poker Help You Win at Life? I think this is such an important topic in today’s world. I love how diverse the topics are, although only started listening to recently. I tend to get bored of mainstream podcasts because it is usually only focuses on limited perspectives, that turn very redundant, and often feel recycled after some time. Or they focus on topics that are only relatable to a small potion of population. This podcast is the opposite- with B.A. Parker and Jazmin Aguilera hosting, you can feel the charisma and great banter between them and their different perspectives on the same topic give great variety, and make me think twice about how I would have thought about a topic. LOVE IT! Exposes me to new views, ideas, humor, and perspectives, which is what I look for in a podcast. Will keep listening and telling my friends! Please keep topics diverse!!
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Galadreal
Miss Molly
There’s a lot less substance in the commentary than there used to be. Feels amateur, younger, immature.
lk610
Probably great for Gen Z
I think this show is strongest when the hosts bring in the perspectives of more mature and experienced women- I’m glad that the “In Her Shoes” segment is back. The rest of it has gotten- and I’m so sorry to say this- really cringe and navel gazy. It feels like The Cut is trying to pivot to a younger, under-30 audience, which is fine! It’s just not for me anymore.
zonkzos
Ads
First and last episode I listened to, there was an ad for Facebook/Instagram targeted ads. This is the opposite of what I’m looking for, and Im a millenial.
LibListener
Avery is *chef’s kiss*
I love the subject matter of all the podcasts eps and how it mixes it up. Avery is an awesome host and her voice is absolutely gorgeous I just love listening to it.
janejanesuperbrain
So self important
I liked the earlier version of the podcast. The newest incarnation feels like a caricature of in touch urbanites. I had to stop listen ingredients when Alison Bechdel intoned about Buddhist practice and exercise. The host may be good at giving women who live in cities what is marketed to them, but there’s nothing new here, just insufferable commentary.
AnotherPodcastEnthusiast
Love this podcast!
I feel like this podcast aligns so much with my interests! Also what I really enjoy is how much it expands my existing interests. You don’t just listen and think that was good. There is usually a book I want to read after listening or an episode directs you to another thing to investigate.
Kdeea
Miss the old version
Bring back Molly Fischer!
CurlingFan20
Loved the episode ‘how do I know if I want kids’!
I absolutely loved how open and honest Avery was with her own thoughts and feelings about motherhood. So real without the need to sugar coat. I really appreciated this super honest conversation as a 41 year old woman who just finally decided kids are not going to be happening in this lifetime. Wish the episode kept going as these types of real conversations are so hard to find!
Oliviakun
Not all that relatable.
Hit and miss! Cringed my way through the episode with Brock from San Diego - too many recorded "genuine" conversations and intimate moments for the sake of one person trying to say.... something?... about post-vaccine life in a podcast. I did really enjoy the recent episode about racist memorabilia, as well as the one about moving home! But the episodes where the narrators recount their very individual take don't feel like a deep dive into a topic so much as one person's niche experience presented as enlightening! Which can be hard for me to swallow.
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witchninj
Sober episode
Was listening to another Vox podcast and heard the commercial for this one (specifically the sober in pandemic one) and decided to check it out. The episode itself was pretty good and I’m likely to check out a couple more to see if it’s my thing. My biggest issue was the opening ad during the sober episode. It was for subscription wine!! Is that a joke? An episode that’s likely to attract sober or sober curious people intros with a prompt to drink more? Very odd and off putting.
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Joeyleaters
Good, but there’s def room for improvement
The strongest episodes are ones where the producers are acting as an ensemble. Love the episodes hosted by BA Parker. Episodes around important topics like alcohol and age felt alienating and like they missed the mark. Love you Avery but not all of your opinions are gospel.
Dannerzz
Typical NYMag
A few interesting topics. Countless trite cliches. No real insight.
bjohns383
Fluff Podcast
I want so badly to like this podcast. As a professional millennial woman living in a big city, i think I am the demographic. I continue to listen every week even though I struggle to finish every episode. The topics are interesting, and there are usually a couple sound bites throughout that I find intriguing. Ultimately though, the episodes are very surface level and the interviews are poorly conducted. The episodes feel poorly thought out and researched. I find the host’s vibe incredibly self indulgent. Why are the topics vaguely linked to her (ie SHE is burnt out, SHE is turning 30)? I’m completely uninteresting in exploring topics through the eyes of this woman. She has no insight to share, and isn’t even good at interviews. This podcast needs a better producer and host to do justice to otherwise interesting topics.
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Marycchayden
Used to be great
The current host has a way of talking about the questions that are on her mind as if they are the questions that are on everyone’s mind. The episodes are like existentialist thought pieces for recently woke people. Instead of learning about the world and the people in it, we learn about some person’s thoughts about a world they show little real curiosity about.
sertralinequeen
Don’t Expect to Learn Anything
I followed Avery here after listening to Articles of Interest and her appearances on 99pi... but whoever is producing this podcast is not putting the work in. It’s the equivalent of listening to a couple of your most uninformed friends chatting about their feelings about a topic... maybe cathartic for them, but there are almost no expert insights or solid information to help you actually learn anything about the subject. Why even bring up a topic if you aren’t going to go anywhere with it?
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MrBowden
What happened?
So disappointing. The most recent episodes are superficial and I don’t listen to the episodes in their entirety because of this tone I can’t quite characterize yet. “I’m from New York and now I am California nice! (Groan) how do I become not nice?” I mean this conversation could have gone to deep and complex places within interpersonal dynamics in the workplace or various cultures in communities...cognitive distortions. I speak for myself but I’m really over the whiny day time show for shallow privileged children trying to be validated .
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floating hippo
Insight and Wisdom
I really appreciate the insight, relatability, and wisdom of the staff of The Cut. I learn. Lot about myself in many domains from alcohol, being anti-racist, raising awareness of my own privilege.
Kyle.grallop
like I really tried
Sorry. Tried a few episodes but 100 likes and 50 totally’s every 5 minutes causes me to hit the delete podcast subscription button. Millenialls is it? try language please. I’m sure it’s good but could not take all the likes! It’s an idiot sound.
Bootsy Ampleforth
Started strong, stagnating now
At first, The Cut put out fairly thoughtful episodes with timely reporting, where the host/producers chimed in a relatable way. But the editorial content started declining around fall 2020 and now it’s often dull, superfluous topics that sometimes come off as actively trend-consumerist without actually informing on much. I don’t think it’s interesting enough to stay subscribed, but I’m open to coming back.
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Jenmng
Used to be GOAT, now meh
I loved this podcast with a passion. A lot of what made this podcast great - a curious host, deep conversations, thorough and solid reporting - has been replaced by bad Millenial Vibes™️ (and I am a Millenial myself). It feels like it’s really taken a turn to something more “palatable” but totally lacking in much depth or personality. Add to this a host who seems a bit overly focused on her own opinions but won’t actually engage or interview deeply and it all feels pretty superficial and poorly scripted. I was so disappointed by the host’s work in the episode on “Am I Radical Enough?,” which had some good interviewing but was peppered with bad metaphor, like “next, we talk to a teen who was a Sophie, then a Zena, and back again...” when that interview happens, the host asks questions with some incredulosity in her voice around the topic compromise, all the while blandly voicing her own opinion - it felt like she was hardly listening. Why comment at all, if you’re admittedly torn on a topic? It’s hardly even a sound bite. I wanted her opinions less, and the reporting and interviews of people more.
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Garglefrub
Sound quality
I don’t know what happened. It used to be fine. Now the commercials are 10x louder than the stories. Good show though!
eahiv
Like making a new friend
I’ve really come to look forward to The Cut episodes. Avery Trufelman’s thoughtful explorations of ‘oh yeah I’ve been thinking about that, too’ topics — and the stellar guest perspectives — have felt like the long conversations I’d be having if I could somehow go to house parties safely during a pandemic. Please keep exploring movies from our youth, movements from this moment, and the impacts of late-stage capitalism on our minds and bodies thank you.
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weespesh
Incredible but sound issues
I’ve been listening to The Cut since it’s inception and have truly LOVED every ep. Lately the sound has been off where the content of the podcast is quiet and the ads and interstitials are SO loud I have to race to turn the volume down bc it’s an assault to the ears. Just a heads up for whoever is editing the sound!
quecutemarie
Content is good but the audio quality has been off
The last few episodes have been so quiet while the ads are so loud! Why?? Please fix! Love the podcast otherwise!
HollaL111
Thirty, flirty, & thriving episode
This episode was completely ageist and perpetuates the lie that there are “milestones” to reach before/by a certain age. What about the women that are not as privileged as this podcaster - to have their “career”, etc. And it also assumes that women control when, how, and even if they get married - as if it’s a goal one can achieve. The same with kids. What about the people who physically and financially can’t have kids? This episode completely ignores any of that and instead blindly floats within its own extreme privilege without acknowledging those who are not as lucky.
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singsong52
Loss in Quality
I used to love this podcast and looked forward to it every week when Molly hosted. The stories and interviewees were super endearing, but ever since the new host took over, the show has a totally different vibe. The stories are incredibly one dimensional, and often share a singular, ultra pretentious perspective. Such a bummer.
searchnrescue
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