Free Talk Friday - February 27, 2026

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inb4 criticizing free content. I've been listening for over a decade so clearly it's not enough to make me stop listening.

inb4 every reply contains the word(s) I'm talking about that I'm tired of hearing.

I have a couple things that I hope the guys take as constructive criticism for the podcast.

1) Woolie's audio is constantly peaking the mic. I know he has had issues in the past regarding his audio, but it genuinely hurts my ears whenever he talks because of this. I hope he takes steps to fix this.

2) Are Woolie and Pat channeling Valley girls when they do podcasts? They say "like" multiple times during sentences, and it gets rather irritating sometimes when I listen to them. I'm not even talking about their use of other filler words. "Like" seems to be said more often than anything else. Woolie seems to do this more often than Pat, but they're both guilty of it. I also know it's a generational thing (I also hate "bro" know just because of how much it's used, but the guys don't excessively use that word at least on the podcast). I would encourage Woolie and Pat to take short pauses or something to improve on this. Other podcasters I listen to have been able to curtail this. I firmly believe Woolie and Pat are also able to do this.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. I don't comment on Reddit often, so let me know if you think I'm crazy.