The Podcast Asylum

This dangerous condition results from listening to podcasts whose creator has applied the ‘Truncate Silence’ effect too liberally or used other tools to speed up the tempo and remove pauses from the recording. When listeners can’t hear you pause for breath, they stop breathing, too. Symptoms include faintness, gasping, and turning blue in the face while fumbling for the ‘pause’ button. To prevent fatalities among your listeners, please use silence-removing and tempo-increasing tools with care!

A milder version of this condition, called podcast hyperventilation, can result from listening to  podcasters who speak very rapidly, like C.C. Chapman. It’s possible to counteract podcast hyperventilation by slowing down playback.