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veen  ·  2287 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk podcasts! What've you been listening to?

I thought it was just my tastes changing. I have the exact same thing as you, Bootz and Ben with Radiolab. They jumped the shark somewhere in 2015 and haven't recovered since. It's such a shame because Radiolab is what dragged me into podcasts in the first place with sincere, emotional stories. But now they over-produce it, over-simplify stories and every story needs to be some audiogasm.

I have the same problem with 99% Invisible. Used to be just Roman Mars talking about interesting niche designs, but now it's a full crew of producers and radiomakers so it passed Podcast-Eternal-September.