Le Batard & Friends - Mystery Crate

This is my favorite pod! I look forward to it dropping every week. Never fails to put a smile on my face and I appreciate that. Sometimes I even listen twice!

The Marvel Comic University (MCU) podcast was excellent in their review of MCU’s Phase 4 movie and TV projects. The commentators who are experts in this medium provide the listener with both praise and criticism of the Phase 4 projects giving an insider’s perspective of what has transpired and what to expect in the near future. Great job.

I love the work you guys do, been listening to the shows for years. Some honest feedback on mystery crate- it’s gotten a bit lazy in terms of what content you’re putting out. I love the antics and banter, but nobody it seems like nobody is producing this show. I love basketball illuminati because the production is so good and creative and shows off the talent. You guys are such good producers you should lean into it! Really mean this not in a way to be harsh but as someone who cares about your product and hope you can take some constructive advice. Keep on enjoying what you do, i’m still a fan no matter what.

Please have Billy and friends do the Challenge podcast for the upcoming season. I never even WATCHED The Challenge but I consistently listened to Billy, Elizabeth Fierman, Charlie Hulme, Charlie Kravitz and later on with Lorenzo Rodriguez talk about a show I had never seen and didn’t need to. I only listened because they made the podcast so fun. They had been invested in the show for yearssss and have unbelievable knowledge. It was SO fun. Lastly, they were all so GREAT together.

The idea of Mystery Crate was to be different bits and segments that each member of the shipping container got to be in charge of. It was a passion project where each member of the container was able to express themselves, and have full creative control over a segment of their own design. Therefore it was a mystery (*pointing Dicaprio meme) what kind of podcast you’d be listening to. 260+ episodes later, everyone’s career has grown, and everyone has had plenty of time and space at the mic to express themselves. Now this show seems more like an obligation. Listening to it, i get the feeling no prep is done, 10-15 min before they yell out “hey we HAVE to record a mystery crate, we need people to record!”, and nobody cares so they pull in as many Fuentes brothers, Taylors and Luis’s so that they can have enough voices and content to survive and advance another week. It lacks any inspiration or creativity. In a way it is indicative of the Lebatard show’s entire blasé attitude lately which is “we are here to fill our contractual __ hours of content. We dont care what we say, as long as it fills up time and doesnt hurt our relationship with potential sponsors”

I love Mystery Crate and pretty much all things LeBatard and Friends but doing the Darth Amin episode every single week as the primary element of MC is real lame. I want to hear the free wheeling shenanigans of the Shipping Container, not a Star Wars podcast. If Amin wants to do a Star Wars podcast great, do it as part of Cinephobe or a standalone but don’t take over MC for weeks on end multiple times a year when there’s a Star Wars show going. If the Shipping Container doesn’t want to do as much work that’s great too, make shorter MCs or every other week, all good … but it’s not a mystery doing Darth Amin every week.