Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast

This is still my favorite bedtime podcast. His voice is so calming, and the stories are great!

Previous review below. This is genuinely one of my favorite podcasts and has been for years now. Andy has been described as “monotone”, but I personally find his voice very soothing. He doesn’t emote as much as others, true, but he has a very natural delivery that makes each story feel less like it’s being read from a screen and more sincere. The commercials have been significantly reduced, and the Wednesday One Shots are completely gone, so I’ve changed my review from 2 stars to 5, because it’s back in the top three podcasts for me again. Thank you for listening to the listeners, Andy. <3 Previous review: 4 minutes, 4 seconds: That’s how long the reading was in the latest Wednesday One-Shot. A 7-minute episode with commercials on the top and bottom, with a 4 minute, 4 second story in between. And not one One-Shot is over ten minutes. Most clock in at six. Ads are INCREDIBLY disruptive. They’re easily the worst part of all media, but there’s an amount the consumers are willing to put up with for the creator to earn money and for us to listen for free. And I was so happy the first time I heard Andy doing ad reads, and getting pre-recorded ad placements. Like, yes! Get that money! But it’s so hard to convince myself now that the Wednesday One-Shots are recorded with the listeners in mind, like a treat to help you through the week until you get the the next full episode fix. When *more* of the episode time is dedicated to ad reads than the content comprising the podcast itself—the content the listeners came for in the first place—then sub-ten minute episodes feel more like he’s accepted more sponsors than he can reasonably fit into his usual episode lengths, but still has a contractual obligation to fulfill, so he reads a little sub-five minute story and packs the remaining (required) sponsorship plugs on the top and bottom. And the only way to avoid that is to subscribe financially? It reminds me of when Spotify made their service so hostile to free users that the only way to reasonably enjoy it was to pay the subscription just to make the ads stop. I want success for Andy, and I do hope he continues to have it. But I can’t enjoy the podcast anymore. IMO, the one-shots should have been (or stayed, if they already were) mini-sodes for Patrons and subscribers, commercial-free; extra content to reward paying members for their support and loyalty. To tempt non-paying listeners to join the paid tier for extras beyond the inclusions after each free episode. Good luck, Andy. I hope other listeners are stronger than me and can stick it out.

I have listening to this podcast for over 5 years now. I love the stories, I love Andrew’s voice because it is so soothing (my main reason to listen), and I wish more people listen to them so they can be aware of their surroundings.

I’m a regular listener of let’s not meet and other podcasts with similar material. I like the narrators voice and calm cadence, but the ads have really started to be disruptive for this podcast. Its tone is really calm and quiet and then BAM, a car commercial starts suddenly in your ear after nearly every story. There’s music, there’s sound effects and it’s obnoxious. It kills the immersion and forces me to go pick up my phone to skip through. I also dont really respect that you’re advertising gambling websites or churches. The tone of this podcast is just wrong for that. I understand that ads are important to support the podcast, but maybe reading them yourself rather than plugging in a premade ad break would work better. I don’t want to move onto something else, but if things don’t change I think it’s becoming un-listenable for me.

This used to be one of my favorite podcasts but the ads are out of control. 100% support the need for ads to fund the show but they’re after every.single.story. The show has basically become an hour of ads with a couple of “I saw a scary person once, let’s not meet” sprinkled in.

PS - the Patreon isn’t worth it either. This used to be one of my fav podcasts, but now it’s genuinely more ad than show. I know you can skip through ads, but at this point that’s literally skipping through half the episode. The stories have also gone downhill. A lot of stories where nothing actually happens or “I saw a creepy looking person, let’s not meet.” Don’t waste your time.