Maybe we can distill the secret formula for what can make a podcast good if we discuss what can make them awful
EDIT: Gonna take a moment to shamelessly shill for my shitty, tiny podcast no one listens to - https://open.spotify.com/show/0herzR8g2CsOqI3o3aD4kA
I'll confess my sin. Before I got to chapo and heard about the podcast named after it, I finally got a smart phone. One of the first podcasts I'd listen to on my commute was Mueller She Wrote.
It took off during the eponymous investigation and I thought it would be like a true crime podcast while also giving news updates on what I thought was important.
In retrospect, I cringe just looking at the image the show uses, but the fawning over the FBI and Mueller in particular got to be too much. I stopped listening on the third episode, but the memory won't leave my brain.