It is a topic I’m interested in so that is enough to keep me listening, but the author comes across as extremely petty and it is turning what should be something that is exciting for me to listen to into a chore that I have to grind through. Within a span of a few minutes he name dropped two people in different stories for the sole purpose of criticizing them for some minor offense. I don’t need to know the name of some guy in the 1960s who didn’t support your work. Literally just don’t tell me his name and just leave all of the axe grinding out of the story. I’m guessing he feels like he was bullied by a lot of people in academics for having non mainstream views, and now that it turns out he was right, he is taking a victory lap and settling scores against anyone he thinks wronged him in the past 50 years.