Mobituaries with Mo Rocca - Podcast Rankings and reviews

It’s generally a really good and entertaining show, but just have your ad-skipping finger ready. YMMV, because podcasters can use all sorts of services to send different ads to different people nowadays. By my count, nearly 29% of this download was advertising (and I’m not counting the host hawking his book at the end).

I counted 24 individual commercials in the download. Apparently, the bigwigs at iHeart and CBS think of podcasts like they think of TV shows… the more commercials the merrier.

Not only were there 24 commercials, but several of them were repeated more than twice (including the one for a female sex-enhancer drug, a large national hardware retailer, a social media company, a prostate cancer drug and one which was so poorly produced that I couldn’t figure out what it was for).

So enjoy the show, but don’t do so while washing dishes, or cleaning the cat’s box; you’ll want to have clean, dry fingers ready throughout the podcast, to skip through the ridiculous surfeit of annoying commercials.

The new season of Mobituaries has way too many advertisements in it. Four minutes of adverts before Word One is spoken? And another four-minute hit later, along with a two-minutes later? Ten minutes of ads in a 30-minute show?

No other podcast I’ve listened to has this much time set for advertisements, and I’m listening to hour-plus-long shows.

One of the best podcasts, period. Fun, informative, thoughtful, interesting, and most importantly, very well produced. I hope you make many more episodes for many more years

Mo Rocca. Great name. Great voice. Great personality. Perfect for podcasting. The idea is awesome!! The execution of the idea is fantastic!! The topics are so amazing, varied and unexpected. Thank you so much for coming up with this, creating it and continuing to produce this podcast even when I’m about certain the show has ended forever. Keep going. I love this podcast and miss it when there’s a break. Thank you Mo and everyone.

Moe. Come on. Your storytelling is amazing but THESE ADS!! You’re backed by CBS, so don’t tell us you need this much revenue for a podcast. I’m unsubscribing because I feel like I’m being sold every soda and pharmaceutical under the sun and the stories are just blips in the endless stream of advertisements. What a joke.