[ SECRET POST #4386 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4386 ⌋

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[bur]

You're just making me want more food podcasts. Right now the only one I listen to is Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap. I used to listen to Foodstuff, but it lost my interest even though the hosts are adorable.

[(Anonymous)]

Are there recipes involved in these podcasts? I could get behind food podcasts if it was like... useful to me, lol.

[bur]

Nope. Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap is them eating (and rating) odd food finds they've been sent and going on rambling tangents while they do it, and Foodstuff's the history of different foods.

[(Anonymous)]

Sad faaaaace.

[(Anonymous)]

Gotta disagree here, I absolutely love hangout podcasts (as long as the hosts are likable)

[(Anonymous)]

OP's problem is probably that they're really supposed to be about X, but instead, they take 30 minutes to even get to the point.

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly thought the issue is those lengthy ramblings about the food they cooked but which are actually ads for Hello Fresh and similar products.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear you. I think there are two problems.

1. I get the impression some podcast hosts use the podcast as their main hangout. You can tell, sometimes, that they haven't seen each other in a while. Which makes sense - when my friends and I hang out, there's a lot of initial small talk before things get interesting. But... record everything once you get the small talk OVER with.

2. Other podcasts seem to be partly about the topic, and partly about the hosts. So you actually are supposed to care that Reagan and Madison have new onesies just as much as you care about their thoughts on the latest episode. Which works for some people, but I don't really care.

I'm not saying I completely dislike "real talk" as it were - I quite enjoy it in moderation. But one podcast episode was 20 minutes of onesies, ten minutes discussing the actual episode, 20 minutes talking about sushi, ten minutes going back to the episode. Another podcast episode had the hosts texting a host who wasn't there. Why not just edit that part out?

[(Anonymous)]

Disagreeing here for sure. If a podcast host I like winds up getting a really bad t-shirt, like 3-wolves-1-moon or ahegao faces-level of bad, then it means that some shenanigans are afoot.

On a much more down-to-earth note, I appreciate hearing what some of my favorite podcasters talk about. They have the same interests as me, so if they like something then it's a good chance for me to maybe check it out. Alternatively, if they have gripes about something, then odds are I already had gripes about that something but was not able to put my complaints into as eloquent words as they do. Sometimes just hearing what they talk about also gives me a chance to hear about local news that I otherwise would not know about.

[(Anonymous)]

I listen to very few podcasts, but they don't involve off-topic chit-chat. I didn't realize that was a thing in podcasts. I have limited patience for it on Youtube (although it's always fine if it's about nerd stuff and it's funny).

[dwell_ondreams]

I listen to 10 podcasts regularly. The hosts of 2 of them ramble quite a bit, but it's always funny, so I'm ok with it. If it was boring rambling, I wouldn't bother with them, so I get where you're coming from.

[(Anonymous)]

I was about to post that I can't relate to this secret at all, but then I realized that I do have one podcast I listen to where I don't care at all about the hosts' lives. I think it's because the jocularity seems really forced, plus one of the hosts I listened to for years on his previous podcast that rarely included any RL stuff.

The best solution is for podcasts to include timestamps in the show notes so you can skip ahead as desired.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm okay if they talk about trivial shit, don't care to hear about what their spouses and kids are up to. If I wanted that, I'd be on Facebook. The skip-ahead-15-seconds button is very useful :)

[(Anonymous)]

That's a thing? We listen to very different podcasts.

[(Anonymous)]

This reminds of food bloggers/recipe posters who feel the need to tell some long story from their youth before they get to posting the actual recipe.

[(Anonymous)]

At least there's a reason for recipe posters to do it - recipes can't be copyrighted, so all the preamble is the part that can be. This means that you can't just repost their entire page.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you (at least in some cases). I used to listen to a daily film news podcast which all too frequently filled the space not only with "what we've watched/read/played" (which is at least technically sometimes linked to the main topic), but also with "magic stuff one of the hosts is really into", random side-staff as their diets or family trips, and "theme park attraction reviews" (which I don't care about in general, but double so, because I'm not in the States). Just give me movie news, people.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree op, I see no point in listening to a podcast if it takes an eternity to get to it, I quit out of one podcast after jumping forward to the15 min and hearing the presenter talking about picking up his shirt from the dry-cleaners instead of the actual subject of the podcast....