Let’s Be A Podcast!

I’m the faux-concern in the host’s voice when they announce that today’s episode contains themes that may be difficult for some to hear — “please, take care while listening.”

I hate that shit.

I'm a serious intellectual or scholar, wear no makeup, and sit in front of nicked laminate panelled walls, instead of art-directed "home office" mis-en-scene.

Im Tamra?! Im Teddi and we are Two peas in a pod!

Vocal frye ?

I'm the upspeak!

I'm the mispronunciation of people's names the under-40 hosts have never heard of!

I’m the 15-20 minutes of inane chatter and inside jokes between the hosts. We’ll get to the actual topic of the episode…after a quick word from our sponsors.

I’m the sponsors. Some dodgy food delivery service or AI company that’ll shutter in 6 months.

I’m the bookmarked list of chapters. Nobody is going to watch the full hour and a half of this shit.

I'm two Midwestern blonde fraus, discussing a crime about which dozens of true crime shows have already been made, revealing nothing new of substance, slipping into giggly chats about our private lives while sipping boxed wine and airing commercials for a food delivery service.

I'm the niche subject matter - loved by the small number of devoted fans.

I'm the +40yo closeted male public figure trying to remind everyone that I'm straight.

I'm a scammy, expensive supplement line that will be pushed onto you by the bro hosting a right-wing manosphere podcast.

I'm the comedian that appears on every other comedian's podcast. But you have never seen me in anything else.

I hate those true crime podcasts where it's obvious that the hosts have just read the Wikipedia article, r9.

R14 have you listened to more than 5 minutes of one? Why?

I’m the artificial suspense.

I’m the basic formula of the golden age of radio making a modern comeback…with a heavy true crime spin in lieu of scripted comedies and dramas.

I always bail on anything with a warning on it. No asbestos eardrums here.

I'm the ridiculously earnest ad read for a company that's been exposed as a complete scam for months, if not years.

I'm the Shure SM7b microphones everyone is using.

I'm also the hosts throwing their heads back in uproarious laughter at their own terrible jokes.

I’m Reppy Tition

I'm a Gen Xer listener repelled by every podcast I've attempted to listen to, much less watch.

I long for the days of the non-trashy talk shows. They need to make a resurgence.

I'm the ChatGPT narrative presented with an AI voice that cannot pronounce the word "Mary" correctly.

Mary!

I'm Dan Pfeiffer. I've been constantly amped up on adrenaline and caffeine since Obama's first term. This has given me a rapid speaking style that makes me prone to ramble in a race to try and get my thoughts out, utterly failing to enunciate words. I'm also apparently so full of myself that I've never seemingly bothered to listen to my own recordings, identify this problem and try to do something about it to improve -- like work with a speaking coach on my pace and delivery. I make every episode of Pod Save America a chore to get through. Be prepared to slow my segments down to .25x so I'm speaking at a normal pace, if you even bother to listen at all.

I turn off a podcast when it's clear that I know more about a serial killer/true crime event than the hosts, r15. You have to try a lot of bad podcasts before you find good ones. I don't bother with true crime anymore because they're all so surface-level.

R25 any recommendations? Particularly about missing people/unsolved cases?

I'm "You Must Remember This" one of the most error-filled, poorly-researched, unlistenable and consistently lousy podcasts ever produced.

It's not really true crime but You're Wrong About has some interesting episodes about the Donner Party, the Dyatlov Pass, the 1972 Andes plane crash, Henry Lee Lucas and "stranger danger" child abductions, r26.

I'm still listening "You're Wrong About", but I feel like it's not as interesting since MIchael Hobbes left. One of his other shows, "If Books Could KIll", is really good.

I’m the 4-minute “promotions” for Liquid IV.

I love If Books Could Kill, r29. YWA definitely dipped in quality after Hobbes left. Sarah Marshall is entertaining but she's not a journalist and isn't as good at research and summarizing as Hobbes.

I think she's better on the movie podcast You Are Good.

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.

Thanks for the clarity, R31.

I'm the two hosts or hostesses who bore people to death for 20 minutes with what they've done over the past week before they start talking about the real topic. Fast forward.

I’m the obligatory recitation of everyone who donated to the hosts’ Patreon this week.