The problem with interviews is that they're usually guided by the person asking the questions, who is usually not very smart and tries to shape everything to fit their own worldview. Usually the person being interviewed is flawed as well, since they can't get into as much depth as in writing, nor can they look at what they've said and go back to edit it. There is also less time to put thought into what's being said. Those who prefer speaking to writing are often more prone to ignoring gaps in their logic. Having read The Hero with a Thousand Faces, I've already seen how even in writing the logic of Joseph Campbell's ideas are not at all sound. I was hoping to learn something from The Power of Myth, with the expectation that with more age and experience Campbell would have figured things out a little better, but all I got here was a circle jerk of empty speculating between two pretentious individuals, one playing the teacher and the other the student, who consistently get everything wrong. While I am impressed with Joseph Campbell's ability to memorize so many myths, he takes them a little too seriously, thinking there's some kind of hidden wisdom within most of them when there really is not for the most part. Most myths, if any lesson is to be derived at all, are no deeper than an Aesop's fable or whatever your parents told you when you were five. To start with the premise that mythology contains hidden universal truths already sets yourself up for failure, and that's exactly what he does. Having perceived some imaginary patterns in myths by connecting random dots that look like they belong together, Campbell and his accomplice present them as universal rules that must be followed. There's also that whole conservative old man thing where he talks about how things are changing for the worse because people stopped believing in myths. Even though he provides countless examples of how mythology persists in the modern day, such as Star Wars. I can imagine this being some shitty podcast if it were made today.