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I used to listen to the "classics":

- This American Life

- 99% Invisible

- Serial

- Invisibilia (sp?)

- TED Radio Hour

- Radio Lab

But after a few years they all feel very boring.

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I feel a bit of that from 99%, but not from TAL and Serial. Though I'm still mourning the loss of David Rakoff.

I'm feeling that about 99% Invisible too. I like the show, but the several minutes of ads and cross-promotion for every Radiotopia production & challenge coins & "beautiful nerds" is getting really grating. And putting random episodes of other podcasts into the feed or as an extra 15 minutes at the end of episodes is really annoying.

I still listen to it, but it's on my shortlist of podcasts I may unsubscribe from in 2016.

Heh, except for the challenge coins, I don't really mind any of that; just that it got somewhat repetitive. I'd rather they'd cut the episode length and maybe only released bi-weekly.

Agreed, they're all same-ish now.

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