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[the Pretty Little Liars novel series by Sara Shepard]

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All the podcasts that I currently listen to are hosted by queer millenials or at least left-leaning straight and/or older people. I've been listening to one lately that I've mostly been enjoying, but a few things the host has said have been a bit...questionable. He's older and divorced and has mentioned that people have thought he's gay, so I don't know if it's overcompensating, but he's been very r/ihavesex at times and then at other times very self-deprecating about his luck with women, and at times veering slightly into toxic masculinity territory. I don't get the impression that he's bigoted or hateful or anything (plus he bashes Trump and Republicans constantly whenever politics comes up for what awful/bigoted people they are), but he obviously has some personal insecurities when it comes to his sexuality/masculinity and some things he says have bothered me a bit. I'm debating whether it's enough to stop listening when otherwise I enjoy the podcast...I don't know.

Anyway, what sorts of things make you guys stop listening to a podcast?

Constantly going off topic for long stretches of time. One unrelated tangent, fine. A few short unrelated tangents, annoying, but fine. Constant 5-10 minute long tangents, not fine.

I dropped My Favorite Murder because I got bored. Also, the fandom was a nightmare. But mostly I don’t have the bandwidth for podcasts. I usually need visual stimulation because I lose focus with auditory-only input.

Ads for sketchy companies/products. Constant banter/inside jokes/personal topics in podcasts that aren't meant for that content. Bad sound quality.

I dropped Wine and Crime because they lost their third and the dynamic didn't work anymore. I also stopped listening to a comedy news podcast because the news is depressing, no matter what comedy you put with it. I dropped My Favorite Murder because they cut back to one story per episode and added in a lot more ads. But most podcasts that I've really enjoyed ended instead of me dropping them. RIP Caustic Soda, I still miss you.

I dropped Wine and Crime because they lost their third

Ahh, that makes sense! I don't listen to them often (I have a friend who is a fan and only listen when I'm with her), but listened recently and wondered why there were only two. That is disappointing for people who are fans! I hate when podcasts lose hosts and dynamics change. :(

Typically if I deliberately drop a podcast it's because (like with any media) the fandom killed my enthusiasm for it, not anything the podcast itself has done. I need to be able to talk to people about what I listened to, and if the fandom is bad I can't do that, and that feeling of discomfort carries into the next episode, repeating and increasing until I feel physically sick to listen any more.

More often though, what happens is that I see a new episode in my feed, don't feel like I'm in a good headspace to listen to it, put it off, and then suddenly I'm like 20 episodes behind and it feels like too much work to catch up so I just give up and move on. It's not a deliberate decision, I just run out of spoons. Sometimes in the future I hop back on the wagon, sometimes I don't.

When there's not chemistry between the hosts, and that's apparent pretty much right away. That's the main thing with podcasts for me--there have to be at least two hosts, and they have to have good chemistry (by my standards). There have been podcasts with topics I found interesting, but didn't think there was any chemistry between the hosts and I dropped them after one or two episodes.

SA

Also if they say anything that could even vaguely be interpreted as rightwing, I'm out.

Other than obvious stuff like lack of interest, not liking the hosts, etc.:

* off topic rambling, too much personal stuff, too much banter (if it's not a comedy podcast), too many in-jokes
* mumbling, failure to enunciate words or make an attempt to pronounce them properly, hosts talking over one another too often
* crappy audio
* ads for dumb shit

Usually if I find myself not tuning into new episodes or wanting to finish the podcast. It can either be because I find the podcast boring, the hosts off topic chatter annoying/boring/a chore to go through, or the presentation not to my taste.

I tend to like more laid back and feels more like friends hanging out and exchanging stories on their new project podcasts.

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