I’m very sad that Hypercritical ends. Siracusa was a podcast making machine, always great at picking out interesting topics, always great at explaining and finding the right analogies. Sure, not all episodes were always genius (as is bound to happen with a weekly podcast), but it’s not like that has happened more often recently.
I’m not really at all in tune with American pop culture, so his appearances on The Incomparable are sadly not as interesting to me.
I’m guessing doing an interesting podcast week after week is just hard and he wants a break?
Given the amount of prep he does for each show I imagine it's very time-consuming, so if that's the reason it's understandable why he wants to stop. However, it's not as though he has to either podcast every week or not at all - he could release every other week or once a month or something, and I for one would rather have that than nothing at all.
According to Dan, Siracusa will make appearances in the new show called "The Crossover" (http://5by5.tv/crossover), aleit irregularly. All is not lost for Hypercritical listeners.
The problem I foresee is that, by its very nature, The Crossover is intended to have on multiple hosts from other shows, and as such it's likely that he would have to share the episode with people other than Dan. While this could work for some things, I don't think it would work as well for subjects where he has deep, complex opinions or observations that he needs to impart without interruption. Still, I'll take what I can get.
I’m not really at all in tune with American pop culture, so his appearances on The Incomparable are sadly not as interesting to me.
I’m guessing doing an interesting podcast week after week is just hard and he wants a break?