Opinionated charade master.

Is a visionary. i am listening to what sounds like cutting edge but checking datelines they are 4 yrs old. Bravo B

So many qualified journalists who can explain the Tavistock situation and Benjamin has brought on someone who sounds like she is in active psychosis and can’t directly answer a question. What are the editorial standards on this one man show? Throwing a dart at some Twitter screenshots?

Awesome podcast!

Boring faux intellectual with no convictions or principles asking questions that often run several phrases too long. Quite unbearable.

I keep checking back because Boyce has interesting guests on a variety of relevant and challenging topics. However, I’d say about half the time I end up checking out early because his interview style can be frustrating. I know it’s part of the job of a host to direct the conversation to an extent, but he interrupts and talks over some guests to the point it’s uncomfortable to listen to. I hope this changes at some point, because the guests and topics really are worthwhile.

Love this podcast because it discusses the nuance of gender from a variety of perspectives. And more. Ben has done great work with his podcast.

I’ve followed Benjamin since he posted the Evergreen saga on his YouTube channel and have continually been impressed with his relaxed and easy interviewing style and the wide variety of viewpoints and stories he features on his podcast- not everyday that you get to hear from lesbians, detransitioners, Christians, terfs, trans people, etc all on the same platform. The interviews always seem to draw out the true perspective and experience of the guest and there never seems to be a ‘gotcha’ moment or a soap box. The only agenda seems to be to allow free thinking people space to share their thoughts- especially those thoughts that go against the mainstream. Keep it up Benjamin!

I've been listening for a few years and usually enjoy it but recently it seems like Ben went from interesting interviews to interviews with legitimate white nationalists and dudes with views on women bordering on incel. It's feeling less heterodox and more soapboxy. I find myself checking in less often.

Boyce is an underrated interviewer. His presence at Evergreen made him noteworthy, but his skill interviewing makes him worth listening to every week.

Love this trio thrashing thru this bewildering landscape. Thoughtful and informative

Benjamin Boyce is an amazing podcast host. His fresh, eclectic views and charming ways allow him to pull answers and stories from some of the most diverse interviewees around.

Ms Kavatanna was interesting and one of the better episodes recently. Excellent conversation and intriguing guest.

These are the perspectives not often heard. It’s great to see many smart, well-spoken, insightful people get a voice. The detransitioner stories are particularly eye-opening.

Great interesting guests, but smug smarmy intellectually impoverished host

This podcast has introduced me to some awesome thinkers. I’ve learned a lot. Interviewer has an ego and interrupts a lot. I often am frustrated by his arrogant interjections. I’ll keep listening but hope he improves interviewing/conversation skills.

So important, so moving. A huge resource for us in these polarized, troubled times. Essential listening. Thank you Benjamin and guests

I agree with another reviewer who thinks Ben and this podcast are floundering. The concept is great and the information is often valuable but there’s only so many detransitioning teenagers you can interview before it becomes rote. They all say the same thing.

He also makes this staggered sharp intake of breath sound that makes him sound like he’s going to cry. I’m so attuned to his breathy noises now that I can’t I hear them

Benjamin this indoctrination isn’t just California, been in Oregon for a decade—-you asked if teens were acting this out—look at Portland—and teens cannot think for themselves—they are political activists now

Thank you so much, Benjamin Boyce, for these enlightening conversations. You do a great job as an interviewer: asking probing, intelligent questions; allowing guests plenty of time to share their experiences and insights. I love this podcast.

Benjamin has refined an art form that we need now more than ever. He allows and draws out emotional conversations that are no doubt therapeutic to his guests but engage our culture in uncomfortable but necessary reflection. Thank you Benjamin. Please, please continue your work.

I had no idea how calming it’d be to listen to an episode that starts directly into the conversation, no ads, no overt addenda or structure by the host. Incredible.

Just the usual conservative-type grievance stuff, but presented as a “Calmversation” in an attempt to make such radically bigoted ideology seem reasonable.

Love the calmversations. We need someone like James for the Trans ideology in schools.

Great questions + good humor + very timely subjects, glad I found it. Please get Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on… they are also doing important work, and much of it dovetails with the issues you cover. It’s time we start admitting that Evolutionary Biology has an answer to so many of our ills and societal queries. Thanks for all you do.

I like Benjamin's unobtrusive interview style. While gender ideology is not the sole focus of the podcast, it still serves as an amazing resource of voices on the topic and builds a strong defense against its illogic. I hope Benjamin wins an award someday-- God-willing that day will be soon.

We are on the cusp of the birth of alternative media, and the death of corrupt distorted media, and Benjamin is a fantastic guide. He’s super curious, genuinely uses his many talents to navigate and introduce us to awakened people. I watched the evergreen series last year, it was just the red-pill chaser I needed!

Boyce’s greatest strength is also what makes him unique in interviewing—he shuts up to let his guest speak uninterrupted. This was a smart approach because he quickly gets out of his depth with guests who are more accomplished than he is, so the ability to listen, which also let the audience focus on the guest, was really the jewel in the crown. Lately he seems to be faltering due to his personal limits inhibiting the ability to scale up. This is important because he is no Peterson or Rogan (or even Heying/Weinstein), he brings no greater capital to the table. I would guess the more obvious this becomes the greater ratio of filler cat video content viewers will see. We all have room for improvement and Boyce is no exception. I see a lot of raw talent with burgeoning scholarship potential if he can break through a stagnating development plateau. I believe his platform in particular is vital for having guests that aren’t sensational enough yet to make it to Rogan or Peterson. But through unforced error he has floundered with prominent guests too often at this point, and there are other podcast options.

Continuously interviewing unheard of thinkers of import.

The Boyce is a conversation, yes - but also the diary of a tumultuous era, a Rashomonesque reincarnation of Samuel Pepys’ history-witnessing log. In so far as Boyce asserts himself into the thoughts of his interviewees, he does so as the paper presses back against the diarizing pen with the most firmly written words of the previous days and weeks and months, bringing the present entry into dialogue with the past’s. Also, he starts the episodes media res and that’s my jam.

I’ve been watching Benjamin on YT for years, since the beginning of the Evergreen debacle. Ben is a non-partisan, clear thinker with the soul of a poet and a voice like Tom Jones or Barry White: smooth, silky, and distinctive. His interviewing skills have ruined me for all others. Plus, he likes cats. What’s not to love?

It’s nice to listen to conversations when the interviewer doesn’t take themselves too seriously, while simultaneously not sugarcoating the nature of the current American culture war.

You continue to nail it. Excellent information.

Saving minds with intelligent conversation & information, thank you Benjamin B!

Listened to this episode, and giving 3 stars because it is important to point out that rhetoric from both left and right-leaning folks is frequently biased and polarizing. I have seen this first hand, as I have some friends and family knee-deep in these identity politics on both sides. It takes a mature mind to reach beyond these lines, to listen to and read information that conflicts with one’s beliefs, and even more mature is to accept that one may have more growing and learning to do. I decline to give 2 more stars because I find the guest’s maturity to lack being at this level. There are a few reasons why. He mentioned conversations on college campuses about “anti-in the blank,” and forums which contain anti-white male speech. I do not agree with degrading anyone for who they are - no one has been able to pick their parents. That is true for every person on this planet, who ever was, and will be. Yet, I would like to ask the guest, who is a former violent racist, why he spent most of the interview in judgment of those who oppose racism, because he had a oneness moment, he is studying Buddhism now, and seems to imply that we should all just get along and forget about our differences. This would be great of course, but that is not the reality we live in. I understand the guest not wanting to be “anti-fill in the blank.” I get it, we are all one. This line of thinking creates division. Also, we are not treated as all one in society. Our country (USA) has a lot of reckoning to do with all sorts of inequalities. They are measurable with data. They have been studied, written about on scholarly levels, and prevent this oneness from achieving fruitfulness. While I completely disagree with liberals bashing the white man when that happens, I do agree with coming to terms with the reality we live in. Frankly, the conversations being had on college campuses need to be had (as long as it doesn’t devolve into demonizing “the other”). What it sounds like to me is that the guest finds it inconvenient to hear some of these realities. It can be hard to come to grips with some of this stuff. By “stuff,” I mean the real problems people face on a daily basis due to their perceived status in this country. It takes a strong mind and sense of humility to hear it. I do not think the guest displays this strong mind or humility. Instead, he complains about those tough conversations being had, and seems to mentally throw up his hands in the air and say, “well why can’t everybody just get along? I found peace, why can’t you?” I find it intellectually flaccid. That is why I give this episode 3 stars.

At all

Ben is the best

I stumbled across this podcast after seeing Benjamin’s name referenced in a blog. I haven’t watched the YouTube channel so I’m really happy this is available in podcast form. I consider myself left of center but I, like many “progressive types,” have grown increasingly alarmed at the rhetoric and authoritarian reach of what are supposed to be groups representing progressive politics. I don’t identify with almost anything on the right so it’s been strange to be so at odds with what I considered “my people.” It’s good to hear that this is actually a much bigger issue and Benjamin is such a great interviewer and I really appreciate his willingness to encourage reasoned and respectful opinions from all sides.

Thought about giving BB 4 stars, so I don’t get dismissed as a fan girl (which I am). He was in the right space at the right time, with a Fully Working Brain (at Evergreen when it fell apart). His arguments are compassionate, rational and necessary.

Absolutely necessary breakdown of divisive & authoritarian Evangelical Left politics. & many enlightening inteviews with those from the pinnacle of the grievance hierarchy: the ACTUAL trans community, and not the hidden tribe. class-privileged whiteys who transplain for them

Been a fan of Benjamin since his perspective on the Evergreen debacle. Time is fleeting, and watching all the YouTube videos was increasingly difficult. Now I can listen to the podcast while working & driving, and not miss an episode! Benjamin’s work is very authentic and grounded. He has meaningful, deep and challenging conversations, that are so interesting and thought provoking. I highly recommend giving him a listen.