It makes me sad, but I find that my self-identification as an Escape Pod fan is becoming increasingly hypothetical. The podcasts just keep piling up, and periodically I decide to start listening again from the current podcast rather than slog through the backlog. Nonetheless, it's usually only a couple of weeks before I drift off and they start piling up again.
It has nothing to do with quality, as I think the show is still just as good as when I devoured the first 50+ episodes in a rush... gosh, that long ago? I think it's mostly just that I have a limited amount of time and energy to devote to podcasts, and the serial fiction and nonfiction podcasts just somehow keep me more hooked. It's odd, because it's the opposite of what I would expect. I would have thought the variety of the short fiction podcasts would have kept me more interested, but that's not proved to be the practical experience.
I still really enjoy the podcasts when I do listen, and have made many attempts to start listening regularly again, but those resolutions never seem to last.
I'm not really certain what the point of this post is, except to find out if other people have similar experiences, and what if anything they've decided to do about it.