Radio Lab letdowns
Radio Lab is one of the all-time great podcasts in my opinion. Really engaging, well-researched and produced. The classic duo of Jad and Robert as hosts was ao great with their chemistry, their presentation of the topics and interviews that it hardly ever missed the mark. I realize nothing can laat forever and they needed to move on. The new team for the last few years has been doing a good job keeping it going, but the tone of the show has become really grating on my nerves with the new hosts. Their overly-chipper, cutesy presentation of almost every subject dosed with infantalizing banter really turns me off at times. Like the show is just more and more made for kids. And it's always been a staple of the show to anthropomorphize cells, animals, bacteria, etc to try and help explain heady, complicated scientific content, but I feel the new hosts use this approach so much as to make it annoying. I will continue to listen, but just wish I didn't have the feeling I was always being explained things like I was a child. Was wondering what other long-time Radio Lab fans have thought of the show the last few years.