Uninformed Opinions

Recorded Friday morning, June 5: three days before release, four days after the New York Times piece discussed in this episode, and one day before... well. This is a developing story, and the episode is a snapshot of that morning. What has already changed since recording: Lyndsey Fifield, the woman whose allegations anchor the Times piece, has publicly disputed the paper's handling of her account,...

Wes Huff calmly tells Steven Bartlett he's going to hell. The grin is the argument. In Episode 4 of Uninformed Opinions, the response is to that clip. Wes Huff — PhD candidate at Wycliffe College, Reformed Baptist, the current most-credentialed face of evangelical apologetics — telling the host of Diary of a CEO , with a slight grin, that yes, he will go to eternal damnation. The episode opens els...

Episode 3 of Uninformed Opinions: the response is to Amelia Carter — specifically to the introduction of her Mirror Podcast episode titled "The Left Fell For A Long Con." It starts with a clip. Senator Josh Hawley pressing Dr. Nisha Verma, a double board-certified OB-GYN called before the Senate to testify about medication abortion safety, on whether men can get pregnant — eleven times, over five...

In Episode 2 of Uninformed Opinions, the case is made for something genuinely difficult: defending the humanity of Ye — not the music, not the art, but the man — in the aftermath of everything. The episode opens sixteen years back, to middle school, a new school, being bullied, and finding in My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy something described plainly as a refuge that kept the host alive. That p...

One Battle After Another and Sinners — Two Leftist Films and Why the Oscar Discourse Missed the Point. Is One Battle After Another racist? The discourse says maybe. The camera says something more complicated. In this episode of Uninformed Opinions, we slow down on the most cited scene in the film (Lockjaw watching Perfidia) and ask what the camera is actually doing before we decide what the film i...