Podcast-Related Syndromes
Is podcasting affecting your health? Are you driving your listeners crazy? If you or someone you love is exhibiting symptoms of any of these conditions, contact us right away!
Podcastus Overproductus
This condition most often afflicts those who have just purchased a DVD full of sound effects and can’t wait to use them all at once, whether they serve any useful purpose or not. The zings, bangs, crashes, trumpet fanfares, and rounds of applause every few seconds can obliterate the intelligibility—and certainly the listenability—of the podcast.
Podcastus Overproductus in its most severe form causes show hosts to compound the damage done by the sound clips with a fake DJ voice and a hokey script, resulting in a nightmare cross between a morning zoo radio show and a children’s television program.
One painful example of this syndrome can be found at BASF’s Chemical Reporter podcast. The idea is brilliant: explain the chemistry at work in daily life by answering questions like “Why does salt melt ice?” After only a few episodes, the listener becomes possessed by the desire to bash the podcast host over the head with a blunt object.
Advertissimus Maximus
Podcastus Desiccatus
Podcastus Interruptus
Recursionitis
Podcast Anoxia
Meetup Envy
Podcast Dissonance
Podcastus Inhospitus
Social Media Stupor Syndrome
Comment Deficiency Syndrome
Podcastus Compulsivus
Podcrastination
Podcast Anxiety
Egocastitis
Podcastus Incognitus
Special Editionitis
Podcastus Curiossimus
Perpetual Headset Mangling Syndrome
Podcast Stereosis
Obsessive Podcast Stat Disorder
Podcaster’s Insomnia
Podcast Humouritis
Hyper Attention Podcast Disorder
Compulsive Podcast Bookmark Disorder
Podcast Withdrawal Syndrome
Post Traumatic Podcast Disorder
Podcastus Ignoramus
Podcast Unavailability
Podcast Solipsism (also known as ‘Earbud Isolation’)
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