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I'm not sure that the problem is that he's talking over women - I think that's what he's like and he'd be doing it no matter who he's talking to.

I really love their enthusiasm. I particularly love Marina who's so enthusiastic she can't talk fast enough. Both of them are so intelligent and it's great to hear them talking, but I wish they'd slow down and allocate a bit more time to the podcast.

I agree about the cost of subscription - it's about half my Netflix subscription for an extra half an hour a week!

Unfortunately I think he is one of the good guys. He seems like a nice man. But the talking over women is such a common thing in men, he must be blind to it.

I really like them both and the podcast but it's too like a conversation in the pub than something an outsider wants to listen to. Richard definitely needs to rein himself in and let Marina finish a sentence but they do seem to like each other and I hope it's not intentional on his part. I love when Marina gives him a one word reply, like dealing with an interrupting toddler.

And yes to the insane monthly subscription. When I looked at it, it was £7 for an extra 20 mins a week - absolute rip off.

I have seen this podcast come up in social media a lot recently, and it all says the same thing. Can Richard please shut up and stop interrupting.

I hope he is reading it and tries to rein it in. Because I do think both have very interesting insights into things.

Richard has been getting worse recently - and also I think Marina is subconsciously compensating by talking faster than usual and not finishing sentences just because she needs to get to the point she's trying to make, only for Richard to talk over her anyway.

I hope someone in production reads this thread and gives the feedback to them.

I like them both and love what they discuss but the interrupting is definitely making it stressful to listen to.

Really? Yes, I figured other listeners must be saying this in large numbers, and I did think he'd improved for a bit, before relapsing again more recently.

Me, neither. I did eventually look him up because I had no idea who he was, or why he seemed to be a running joke, and he's that's oddly smug-looking actor who played the cocky young pilot in Top Gun: Maverick and the cocky young Youtube tornado chaser in Twisters. He has a weird mouth/lower face, or an odd smile, or something. That's all I've got.

This is my favourite podcast and I think it's worth remembering that neither of them (to my knowledge) are professional 'speakers'.

I know Richard has hosted a million quiz shows but he's not been an interviewer (which I think you can tell when they've interviewed people on the show - he always talks too much), and Marina is obviously a print journalist.

What would I be like if I was shoved on a podcast due to my experience on other things? Interrupting all over the place. They are both smart, knowledgeable and regularly crack me up so I definitely forgive the interruptions.

i struggled through the Ben Elton ep because it was really really interesting.

But i do not understand Marina's obsession with Glen Powell (and i have read the interview) so i won't bother with this week's ep.

Perhaps we all need to write in and tell Richard to butt out a bit?

You weren't wrong there. It was like listening to the Comedy Establishment licking itself.

Can I just add my other minor gripe about TRIE? I have no idea who Glenn Powell is. I kept hearing him referred to on the podcast, and obviously he was discussed at length today but they spent so long talking over each other that I didn’t get any smarter by the end. So now I feel like I know the name Glenn Powell, and I’ve seen Marina‘s interview with Glenn Powell online over the weekend, but I have a strange Glen Powell shaped hole in my mind because I have no context whatsoever.

Too much speaking over each other and butting in from both of them if you ask me but Richard is particularly bad for making little jokes and interrupting her 2/3 times to make the same little joke. I love when Marina is just like ‘yes, ok’ or something in reply.

I also find their arguing a bit uncomfortable at times but I do love the podcast.

He's much too smug for me. He's one of those people who always has to show you how right and how right on they are, and needs to feel like the most intelligent person in the room at all times, despite being pretty average.

Even when I agree with him, which I often do, I find myself silently telling him to shut up!

It used to, though. I'm only a fairly recent convert, so I've listened to the entire back catalogue of the publicly available episodes over the past few months, and my impression is certainly that he's doing the vast majority of the interrupting now.

Marina is an intelligent woman, and can't be unaware of this, plus I imagine listeners are saying it frequently in feedback, so one can't help wondering what she thinks. It's a very successful podcast, but I sometimes imagine her saying she's moving on, as I can't imagine she enjoys being continually talked over.

(Does anyone on here pay for membership, so they get the 'members only' episodes? I looked up the cost per month and while I can't now remember what it was, I know it struck me as outrageously expensive at the time!)

I thought the celebrity Brittish boyfriend thing was funny and accurate 😀 I wish he would have let her finish. Segments are not coming to a conclusion because of the interrupting and its chaos.

I love Marina. I do NOT love Richard.

Yes! I was running when listening to the celebrity boyfriends episode and he just kept interrupting to the extent I went - Argghh, just let her speak - out loud to the surprise of a passing dog walker.

I love the podcast for the content but I agree it’s not the easiest to listen to! I don’t think they gel particularly well, the conversation never flows properly.

Yes I do too I think they just want to be heard but calm down !

Yes it was really noticeable int he Ben Elton Q&A, she barely got a word in. I find her observations more interesting than his and sometimes wish he would just let her talk. And he is a mansplainer!

I noticed it, but I felt like they both do it to each other!

I wonder if they think it is debate or back and forth ? And they forget people are listening/watching, it is just really irritating.

I love it, and I think they have really good interaction, both sparking off each other.