Anyone else getting tired of podcasts?

A random thought brought on by a random video.

This isn’t a thought-provoking, deep dive into the world of podcasting.

Instead, it’s just a ramble about a video that I came across today from James Smith:

Probably like many readers I fell into the world of podcasting through Joe Rogan. There’s no denying that his method of podcasting is what influenced the entire industry, and at the time it came as a novel concept for examining novel ideas and information.

And from there it seemed as if a new era of disseminating information was upon us, in which long-form discussions where concepts and thoughts are allowed to breathe and not recklessly summarized were heavily encouraged. It allowed for things that normally wouldn’t see the light a new arena to be viewed.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like those ideas are being lived up to, and quite honestly in recent months I found myself growing tired of podcasts.

Part of this seems to be due to the fact that nearly everyone and their mother has a podcast now, and in some regard this wouldn’t be an issue as you can find any niche to talk about.

But the main issue, or at least my main issue, is that with the increase in podcasts appears to have come with an increase in bad information. And with this bad information also comes the inability to discern bad information from well-researched, evidence-based ideas. And as more people from otherwise “credentialed” backgrounds enter into the podcasting sphere there comes a growing personal concern that many podcaster may rely on the trust and naivety of readers in order to obfuscate poor information.

Essentially, with all of the podcasts going on out there I find myself growing more and more skeptical over what podcasts are actually providing good, informative information and which ones are just in it to get views and money. I generally find my growing disagreeableness makes it difficult to just “trust” that a lot of the information that is being spewed on podcasts are actually of merit, when it’s likely that a lot of this information is presented in a way to game engagement.

I could probably ramble on some more, but I think James Smith hit on a lot of points that I have thought about. I’m generally just curious what people’s thoughts are on podcasting in general.

Do you guys see this going on in the future, or will be reaching a point where the market is just overly saturated? Is the quality of podcasts going down as the incentive to gamify the system goes up? Have you started growing skeptical of anything you come across in podcasts?

Anyways, just curious what people’s thoughts are.

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