The preamble is killing me.
Older episodes, see the China Miéville episode, get right to the point. We hear him come in before we’ve even spent two minutes listening. I tried to listen to the Mariana Enriquez episode but was dismayed when nearly twenty minutes had passed and the host was still talking to himself. I got to wondering if Mariana would ever arrive or if I’d been had. He seems to go on and on, in love the with the sound of his own voice, until any interest a listener might have has long since evaporated. Side note: he also used to talk faster. Now it seems he’s trying to set a personal record for speaking as slowly as he can, as if in a kind of reverse Speed scenario, where if he exceeds a certain number of words per minute, a bus will explode. An absolute slog in what should be a home run podcast.
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