I listen to so much leftist podcasts and even some others that just don't have ads (or in the case of Revolutions and Blowback, they put it at the beginning so it's easily skippable), that it's so jarring when I listen to one and they do a live read right in the middle. I basically can't even listen to it.
I was interested in the Dominic Monaghan / Billy Boyd podcast. First episode was nice, I think just an ad at the beginning. Then after that they just loaded it up with live reads all the way through. Had to delete it, don't know how people can stand it.