Everything that happens while listening to podcasts — the ads, the tangents, and the 'before we get into it' that lasts 20 minutes.
Host reads a mattress ad
'Before we get into it' intro goes 10+ minutes
Guest plugs their book at least twice
Audio quality difference between host and guest is jarring
Host mispronounces a guest's name and keeps going
Three sponsors in the first five minutes
Episode is two hours long and could have been 45 minutes
Host laughs at their own joke for way too long
Interview question answered with a question
Guest uses 'honestly' to start every other sentence
Host checks in: 'does that make sense?'
Subscribe reminder in the middle of a sentence
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Technical glitch that nobody edits out
Guest plugs their newsletter and Instagram and Twitter
Host has clearly not read the guest's book
Patreon pitch lasts longer than any interview segment
Tangent takes the episode completely off-topic for 15 minutes
Promo code that expired months ago still being read
'We'll link that in the show notes' — show notes are empty
Host and guest talk over each other and both stop
Episode titled as a question that never gets answered
Sound of someone's dog or child in the background
Host forgets what they were saying mid-sentence
Guest circles back to promote something a third time
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