The Iced Coffee Hour - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I really enjoyed this podcast when I first started listening, but in the last 6 or so months it has taken a turn I’m not really okay with. I’ve noticed the host only really highlights big named conservative guests. There hasn’t been that counterpoint or counterbalance in that comes from having guests with different standpoints. I think it could be improved. There ~must~ be a liberal somewhere who have interesting financial/life journeys to share.

I enjoy the content of the podcast; however, I have to max out my volume just to hear it. If I watch the same episode on YouTube, I can listen to it at normal volume levels. I can’t really recommend the podcast on Apple Podcast until this issue is fixed.

Graham, awhile back, you encouraged Doug DeMuro to take on paid sponsorships…that they could be done without alienating listeners.

I’m here to tell you that the frequency of your ads and the unpredictable sound levels compared with show content volume are alienating me….and many others I’m sure.

I understand that these ads and sponsorships are important revenue sources for your show. If you fail to strike a better, more listener-friendly balance between content and ads, you will lose followers and imperil your revenue stream.

Thanks.

I enjoy the show and the guests, but the volume of the voices is way too low - I need to turn my car stereo up twice as loud as anything else in order to understand what people are saying.

The editing is too sporadic and choppy, feels like you’re listening to a TikTok influencer video the whole time. First episode I listened to had 5 different ads in the first 20 minutes and no warning as to when they were coming up.

Really liked the person they had on and I listen to his other podcast too so I really wanted to listen to the whole thing. The whole thing was honestly a mess from the start.

Clearly the hosts are only about clickbait and making money, not about presenting a clear and thoughtful conversation with value to the listener.

I tried listening to this show, and only made it halfway through an episode before deciding it was not for me. This wasn’t due to the abundance of ads either. The TLDR of my review is that the hosts don’t seem to have a lot of life experience and the podcast is annoying to listen to.

The podcast tries to set a casual, but semi-intellectual tone. However, there’s something I can’t put my finger on with these hosts. I’m not sure how old they are, but the line of questioning they have with their guest (it was a political commentator) felt really poor. I’m not one to go off of feelings alone, but my gut told me these two don’t have a ton of life experience interacting with regular people. It’s almost like they missed the retail/service industry/manual labor jobs that most people, even upper middle class kids, go through as they grow into independent adults. My only caveat is that these guys might be younger than they look, because one was still referencing his experience in high school as if it was fresh in his mind.

At best these guys seem like they are young, dumb, low-information interviewers who are genuinely curious about their guests’ opinions. In the middle, they’re concern trolls with set opinions making a buck off of their guests, drawing in audiences hungry for YouTube drama. At worst, they’re cynical twenty-five year olds from the venture capital or finance world, and they’re seizing on a media opportunity, making as much as they can by interviewing as many controversial guests as possible.

All in all, it just makes for a bad podcast and an annoying listen.