Why people who listen to podcasts are suddenly feeling left out

The industry’s aggressive embrace of video is leaving audio fans confused; ‘Who? What?’

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Jordan Blair was behind the wheel when she realized she had picked the wrong podcast to listen to. 

“Today, we’re touching down in the ’70s to talk about Chippendales. Not these guys. Theeeese guys, whose name strangely comes from … this guy,” Harvey Guillén, host of “Killer Stories,” said in the episode’s intro. 

“Who? What?” Blair recalled thinking. Then she remembered: “Killer Stories” had begun offering a video version. 

“When I realized that there was not going to be any context given, I was a little annoyed,” said Blair, a 35-year-old from Idaho. “I had to find something else to listen to.”

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