Apple Podcasts 12+

Writing as a happy vegan it is important to get one’s daily beans. I was missing mine, after a week of none at all (but I did get ‘clean up’) I realised I was a victim of the Apple podcast malfunction….At my age the brain slows down a bit.
I found it hard to believe how much my spirits lifted when I again started getting my beans. I am not American but have been so worried about the Former Guy’s reign of lawless power and how it would affect the whole world that I have been obsessively watching and listening to American political commentary.
I can’t believe he wasn’t arrested before he boarded the helicopter to take him to Florida, at the very least for campaign finance violations. I don’t understand why your legal system moves so slowly. Having said all that, I love your podcast and look forward to it every day. Especially like the good news segment.
I also really like the swearing. That’s the other cultural difference we have with you. Australians swear a lot and it isn’t censured much on TV either, except during kids shows.
I’ll relax when the orange buffoon is doing a 20 year stretch and his co-conspirators are kicked out of Congress. In the mean time I’ll keep listening to the daily beans because it stops me from slashing my wrists.

To keep this short, I’m pretty well read in horror as well as philosophical literature and lit generally. The quality of Jeff’s work truly floored me and is the first writer or podcast I’ve actually signed up to. He has inspired me to commit to supporting his writing. He reads his own writing to you which is so good, so nuanced that it felt like I was getting 2 things for the price of one. His work really stretches the containment of the horror genre. It has many elements of social critique, philosophy and the many “angles on the human condition” that “literature” lays claim to. The guy is not a narcissist despite his talent and has lived a real life. It annoys me that he lives so far away from me, it would be good to meet him and ask a few questions. All up, well worth patronage.

The latest update has made this app nearly unusable. It no longer can queue podcast episodes without… duplicating episodes, adding every episode to the end of the playlist (which can add hundreds of old episodes to your playlist). If you come out of the app it will forget which episode you were last listening to so you have to re queue your list. Not impacted by the new version but now annoying is the sleep timer only going up to 1 hour, now the queue is not working properly this means you can’t rely on the app stopping once your queued episodes have been played so I have woken up many a morning for it to be playing 2 year old episodes it for some reason it has decided to play (without downloading). I have often had an issue with a podcast re downloading old played episodes but the individual podcasts have often taken the blame for this… however the vast errors from the latest update makes listening to podcasts painful. I hope they will fix it soon but given it’s been a few months so far and many other reviews stating the above I am doubtful which is a great shame.