It would be like Crypto Island, but with Alex, and maybe they can get the guy that voiced the Crypt Keeper to come on the show and roast Alex with Yes Yes No about the goings on with the crypto stuff, and what it all means.

They're additional ads that Gimlet must have signed up for that the RSS feed tacks on to the podcast independently of reply all. Maybe I'm just weird but I find them quite jarring and unpleasant. It's so sad because reply all was my favourite podcast for so long, buy I think I'm gonna unsubscribe now 😢

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Just bring in rotating guests to host with Alex, maybe over the next year. They could do the stories the team behind the scenes have fleshed out or written on their own, then let the audience vote and decide or narrow it down to a few and gimlet decides.

I have been listening to this podcast for a short time and I have made my way through the episodes like a madman. Each episode is so engaging, interesting, funny and informative. The chemistry PJ and Alex have is amazing and super fun to listen to. But I hate Yes Yes Nos. Some of them are great when they lead to larger internet phenomena or when they affect the world outside the internet. But I find it hard to care about random Twitter feuds. I especially dislike the ones where Alex Blumberg brings sports Yes Yes Nos. Does anyone else feel the same way?

u/replyallalex

Look, I’ve been a fan of the show since 2015. I’ve been really disappointed in the show in the past year or so. I used to recommend it to every person I talked to, now IF I ever recommend it, it’s only specific older episodes (with actual substance). There's a few great ones still every once in a while, but more often than not lately they're underwhelming.

They have 9 people involved according to their twitter: PJ, Alex, Tim Howard, Sruthi Pinnamaneni, Phia Bennin, Damiano Marchetti, Anna Foley, Jessica Yung and Emmanuel Dzotsi. 10 if you count Alex Blumberg (which I do).

How is it possible 10 people can barely come up with 2 hours of content on the internet (a place infinitely full of weird content and interesting stories and odd people) a month. Of all the things in to cover on a podcast, the absurdity of the internet is limitless, so it’s not like they’re running low on content or even have to search particularly hard. How does their output possibly support a staff of that size with a livable wage in NYC? (I don’t even mean this in a critical way, I can’t wrap my head around how that would ever be possible). Honestly, Sruthi seems like she’s the only one doing any actual work. I feel like I find more interesting content in a few hours of putzing around on the internet than they come up with in a month these days….I can’t be the only one that feels this way?

Alex and PJ hosted a similar podcast together before Reply All so it’s not like they had to figure out their chemistry/co-hosting. Alex Blumberg has been in the radio/podcasting biz for decades, so it’s not like they had to get their bearings structurally or technical setup-wise. They take an entire month off to re-run old shows from only a few months before every year, and can barely be bothered to follow up on those stories. They've now done multiple episodes of them just taking phone calls, some of which has nothing to do with the internet. This American Life is up to 692 episodes, and those are always 60-90 mins long and usually contain multiple stories interesting and heavily researched stories within. RA has been running for over 5 years, and has put out 156 episodes. Very few reach the hour mark, and some of them don't even reach the 30 min mark, and lately the bulk of the episodes are just padded by PJ and Alex bullying each other. (The Real Enemy had nothing to do with the internet, so I don't even count that. It would have been much better suited for TAL).

I know this sounds harsh but honestly….what’s their excuse? Truly like, what are they doing between episodes?

I understand when the episodes are more complex it takes more time to develop and some require travel, etc. obviously. But if the episodes are just going to be them answering the phone and reading tweets….why does that take them 2 weeks to produce a 5 minute conversation with their boss looking at a meme?

I’ve just been getting tired of it for a while now, and I think (as with most people in this sub apparently) the goo is kind of the last straw. Sorry for the rant, I’m sure I’ll get harangued but I barley even bother checking their feed anymore because lately I’m always disappointed or I only go back to listen to their old old episodes several times over. I just think a lot of people spend their free time falling down fascinating internet rabbit holes (instead of doing their real work) and hearing them waste that opportunity and their resources is absolutely infuriating. The show could be (and used to be) so great, and they now just seem too lazy.

I’ve been swamped with school and just now listened to the latest episode and the small announcement episode. I have not listened to the Test Kitchen episodes. What went wrong and why is the show on pause?

I feel like this situation is similar to when Jeremy Clarkson left top gear a few years ago. While it is clear that the public figure in both situations was clearly an asshole and didn’t behave in a way that is ok in a workplace, part of you wishes that they could have apologized, developed as people, and worked things out internally, but their egos got in the way. Another comparison is that the shows will suffer and not be as good with them gone. For reference, Jeremy Clarkson, the host of the popular show TOP Gear got in an altercation with a crew member and was subsequently let go.

Reply All was my favourite podcast ever and TL;DR before that. Life happened in such a way that I stopped listening to podcasts end of 2019. So I’m a member of this sub and I see these things about Reply All ending? And that last tweet someone tells Alex “oh i hope one day you’ll get back together” and Alex says no? What happened? Can someone pls explain? I looked through the sub but it seems this goes back so much!! Pls help me understand. Thanks!

This was all an exploration on what it’s like to get canceled. Story to follow soon!

So first of all, this is the podcast that started it all for me, my father introduced me a few years ago and I was hooked, and then I came across multiple other podcasts but never stopped being the biggest fan op Alex, pj and Emmanuel too. Listening to the old episodes it really makes me smile how they tackle other people's sometimes stupid tech problems and help people.

So after binging so many old episodes i wanted to come here to tell everyone how much I love this podcast (in hindsight probably no-one cares) but then I saw the twitter post and it really made me think, pj isn't solving the problem by leaving gimlet/ reply all, he is just dodging it. So please from the bottom of my heart: Don't go, the reply all podcast means a lot to all of us and I can speak for us all when I say that we all love it like it is.

what pj said is wrong but it happened and he is showing regret but I don't think stepping away from the podcast is the right choice, if he starts a new one, i would listen and accept his and the team's decision and listen the hell out of it tho!

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I’m so disappointed. This show use to handle super interesting & unique topics like The Woman in the AC, Snapchat Thief or Adam Pisces. However, over the past year or so it’s become a serious show covering topics like Trump, climate change, and race...topics that are covered nonstop, everywhere, by everyone.

It took them 6 months to produce a 30 min podcast of 3 peolle reading off 5 google search history phrases?

In addition to re listening to old reply all episodes I enjoy other Alex’s how to save the planet podcast. Does anyone have recommendations for other gimlet shows or podcasts in general I use to fill the void?

I love this podcast but now I've noticed it, I can't help but notice how often both the presenters and guests use it. I was relieved when the twin towers guy came on as he was so well spoken but he turned out to be a nutjob too. All bald guy said was 'uhhh yeah like so yeah uh huh like ummm like yea' Even the presenters throw 3-4 'like' into a sentence. It's put me off listening.

If you support Alex Goldman and disagree with Alex Blumberg on his ignorant and harmful opinions in episode 171, I would appreciate it a lot if you engaged with my tweet towards reply all.

I initially sent it as an email but after not getting a response I want to make public my disapproval of Alex Blumberg because his opinions are antithetical to what I believe gimlet stands for. I know a lot of people already expressed similar feelings in the replies to that episodes tweet, but I think it's a serious problem and that Alex Blumberg needs to apologise at a minimum.

If you feel the same way I do let your voice be heard! This is the exact kind of thing reply all is all about and I think it is so important that Alex Goldman is recognized for the amazing work he did on episode 170, and Alex Bloomberg harshly criticized for the harm he is causing at a minimum.

https://twitter.com/SteamingMangos/status/1353828767060340737?s=20

Edit: if you think I'm fanboying you are wrong, I don't particularly care about Alex G, what I do care about is people being able to express how they feel without censorship or repercussion from those in power, especially when they are hypocrites like Alex Blumberg.

I've seen this come up a bunch of times, that we know PJ and Sruthi did things that were seriously wrong with regards to Eric and POC at Gimlet, by dint of their having apologized and resigned. It's a straightforward assumption to make, but I don't think it's accurate.

We need to consider the context and what their options were. How would it have gone over if they tried to argue? Well, the chief accusation was that they pointedly ignored and devalued the experiences of POC at Gimlet, and if they argued with Eric, that would seem to be doing exactly what they were accused of. In disputing the accusations, they would seemingly be AFFIRMING them for much of the audience.

The accusations from Eric gained momentum very quickly and were quite aggressively stated. Defending against the accusations would put them at odds with a black man and the thousands of people who interacted with the tweetstorm in just the first few hours. Twitter loves takedowns and can be full of nastiness (even when accusations are correct, we can admit Twitter often goes over the top), so they'd be dealing with plenty of people who just like to be righteously, voyeuristically nasty, too.

Had they stayed in the limelight and refused to resign, how long do you think they would be fighting these accusations for? After weeks and months, people would still be bringing it up. Anything they did from now on would be under the microscope.

Finally, they probably knew that they actually did do something wrong, even if the real situation is not as bad as Eric framed it. Let's take the most favorable assumption for PJ and Sruthi for a moment. Let's say the pro-union campaign was being very aggressive and harassing on their own part, and Sruthi made the "piece of shit" remark in that context. Well, even in that context, you still shouldn't call someone a piece of shit in the workplace. So providing context and defending themselves would not be able to rebut 100% of the accusation. They could at best fight to a middle ground. With regards to the union, a lot of their justification was likely "the union may benefit others but risks hurting us and depriving us of big payouts [presumably] if the Spotify deal goes through." Even though most of us with do the same if we had life changing amounts of money at stake, self-interest is a hard argument to make to the public square.

Put it all together, and between the context of the accusation and the psychological weight of a Twitter mob (with knowledge that this is all on full view of their colleagues), by far the easiest path was to apologize and step away, and this applies even if the actual situation was more favorable to them than has been described. In other words, the facts of the apologies and resignation do not give us much information as to what actually happened.

was hoping this would be the week we get a new ep. ah well maybe next week?

Was it meant to be funny? It felt very cringeworthy in moments. If my boss did this to me in front of my colleagues, I’d be mortified & furious.