Yeah for real, the way the good gods are introduced as "civilized alternatives" and then are revealed to still be so awful. The slag king sticks out and so do the stewards (the train ppl) particularly. I'm sympathetic to your audio issues I have the same issue with this and the magnus archives on most platforms, but the (proprietary ) podcast app I use now, pocket casts, has this lil voice boost feature that makes them a bit more listenable.

The grinding lord is so strange I wasn't really paying attention to the state of the radio guy until now and he's really going through it