Here's a mega rant from Z again. B|
One thing that I hate so much, as of recently, is the state of podcasts nowadays. I'll give you a few examples. I recently got a good app on my phone that helps me find good podcasts on topics that mostly interest me (History, True Crime, and Culture.) I was lucky to find some podcasts under the 'True Crime' genre. Now, I won't name the specific podcast I listened to as to avoid needless hate, but they spoke about a topic which interests me the most in True Crime: Missing Persons and Cold Cases. The particular case spoke about in this podcast was about Tara L. Calico, a woman who disappeared in 1988 in Belen, New Mexico, believed to have been kidnapped. She remains missing to this day. Sounds interesting, right?
Whelp, the podcast I was listening to was about an hour and a half on the topic of Tara Calico. Why is it that I'm listening to these people talk about the movie they saw last week? The Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks? The crush they had in the seventh grade? Their favorite color? Why does it take 45 FUCKING MINUTES for them to even MENTION Tara Calico? The MAIN TOPIC of their HOUR AND A HALF Podcast?! So when they FINALLY start talking about Tara Calico, they go off-topic so many times, talking about how they had a bike when they were little (Tara was biking when she went missing) and other dumb shit. I literally had to stop listening to the podcast because I couldn't take it anymore. They talked to the audience as if WE knew them and their quirks, likes, and dislikes.
I understand that maybe I had a bad pick in this particular podcast, so I tried another topic. Nope. Same shit.
I cannot begin to articulate how annoyed I was when I looked for a different speaker/podcast only to find the same, IF NOT WORSE, type of speakers. These two people spoke in a 'valley girl' accent, and holy shit, I want to bash my head against the wall. It was the same as before! They took an interesting topic and spent 30-45 minutes talking about NOTHING.
I am so upset because one of the major things on my bucket list is to create a Podcast with Shine talking about History and Crime the way Shine and I do on the phone, but more professional, of course. I've listened to a few podcasts back in the day and I enjoyed listening to people talk about topics I've never heard of as well as their opinions of it. It's interesting to me, almost like a mini audiobook! I just can't stand being, well, 'catfished', in podcasts. If you are going to talk about a topic (like Tara Calico), tell me about the topic. I don't want to hear your story about a movie you saw. I want to know about Tara, her case, the details of her disappearance, and so on. Don't pick a topic and not talk about it, or, at least, don't put it under 'True Crime.'
tl;dr: I hate being catfished with podcasts that bait you with an interesting topic and not talk about it.
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