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“I know hard work goes into every podcast so it troubles me to say Sorry for Asking is such a disappointing podcast. But that’s how it is for me when I consistently feel I have wasted 50 minutes of my life and want to stop listening...however, I like the guest and keep hoping something interesting will be said to make it worth it. But that never happens.
Sorry for Asking repeatedly fails, particularly when compared to podcasts like the Rialto Report which is the gold standard for sex worker podcasts. Sex work is such a rich topic for content but Sorry for Asking fails time and again.
I believe good hosts who treat topics with intelligence and humor—and do their research—can provoke fascinating stories and elevate the guest. Even if that fails, they can be engaged and try listening to their guest and responding. That does not happen here. Simply because the two hosts are sex workers does not qualify them to carry a podcast. In fact, the hosts drag the guests down. First and foremost, they are bad listeners. There are numerous opportunities for follow up questions and mining deeper but the hosts are intent on sticking to the script and generally giggling.
Adam Ramzi seems competent but is overly concerned with being respectful—he never utters the word “sex worker”—which is what the hosts and guests were or are. Instead the hosts overuse the term “creator” presumably because it adds respectability to their Just For Fans / Only Fans / Twitter content. (Meanwhile, no listener/fan was seeking this respectability—none of us doubt it.) Ultimately, Ramzi’s caution squeezes every opportunity for depth and humor out of the podcasts.
Meanwhile, Cole Connor giggles incessantly and upspeaks until you want to turn the volume down. I do not know if it is a persona he adopts or not, but he seems completely vapid.
The episode with Wolf Wolfgar (Dads Need Daddies) was a new low. Wolfgar is an interesting performer but Connor has a childlike understanding of the geography of Canada—which immediately takes you out of the moment as you marvel that someone does not understand the difference that Montreal and Vancouver have a huge mass of land between them. Then, neither Ramzi nor Connor brought up Wolfgar’s most popular and well-known studio movies. While we hear a little bit about Wolfgar’s upbringing, his American boyfriend, and why he stopped making studio movies there were ample opportunities that were missed to mine these topics further…because the hosts were busy being overly sincere (Ramzi) or breathy (Connor).
They also do not seem to understand their audience—the joke about “for the moms in the audience, we’ll explain what this term means”—was never amusing and got positively deadly after the third time it was said in the same episode. No one listening to this podcast needs definitions, and if we did we would Google them.
There is hope for this type of podcast—I would say one host would be plenty—but Sorry for Asking is not the answer.”
XKL777FGS via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/20/23
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