+Enjoy hearing Alan Watts,
-Often new episode downloads do not work and will never allow download,
-No episode history,
-Sound quality is okay, but could easily be improved.
A download error occurs when trying to down load. This has been occurring since 6/11/22. Since only one episode is available per week, this means you must stream it each week. You cannot save them to be able to listen to a series in less than a period of a month, one week between installments.
To only have the latest episode available is user hostile, but to not allow downloads is extremely user hostile. This also prevents you from listening offline.
It is obvious they are trying to frustrate people in hopes they will resort to paying for their overpriced podcasts apps which they advertise in each podcast.
If you want to hear Alan Watts go to YouTube. There are tons of great lectures there. He was a very accessible philosopher with much wisdom to share with human kind.
1 episode available at a time... I don’t get it. If I just showed up on part 4 of 4, and can’t watch the first 3 parts... see where I’m going with this? Doesn’t make sense. Bummer. Lots of AW content available elsewhere though
Hard to maintain thought process flow. Please show all available episodes so we can follow the conversations properly. Can’t find the second episode and now forced to move on to the third episode, etc...
Thanks for making this wonderful content available on podcasts. I think it should be mandatory in remote learning curriculum 🙏
Just like 90% of the other reviews state. The older episodes are deleted. Seriously? This is just stupid and greedy and not in the spirit of AW. Who listens to podcasts like this? Whoever ones the Alan Watts estate has made the decision to make money by screwing the devoted fans. I’m off to YouTube.
Infrequent and inconsistent. Less than 15 minutes. Older episodes will not stay in the feed. Repeat talks (yet still rich for repeat listens) just lazy posters of the podcast.
I remember when this podcast was an invaluable source of understanding and hope. Now it has become bait for someone’s profit. Alan Watts would be very disappointed.
The content is inestimable, a great thinker and an iconic even beloved human being but... this podcast lamentably managed, there is a clear impression that who ever that is doesn’t care at all what they are doing. Very disappointing and I give up.
I love Alan Watts but this podcast is so lazily produced and put together and is clearly just a money grab to lure suckers into a paid thing
So disappointing
I love Alan Watts but I have to say this podcast’s MO is very confusing. Are yu playing a different episode every week and then deleting it? Then make it clear. I just spent a lot of time trying to listen again to something I had heard, and eventually coming to the conclusion it has been deleted
This podcast has awesome info but is being artificially limited included no archive of lecturing in order to push people to a paid app. This type of philosophical knowledge should be more accessible without having to pay. Maybe donation based.
I deeply enjoy the topics that Alan Watts speaks about but the show slashes his brilliant lectures into smaller bits. Also the fact that one cannot download old episodes makes it very clear that this is all an advertisement for an overpriced app. I wish that the folks behind the podcast were focused on spreading wisdom for free.
Dr. Watts always elevated the discussion. It’s great to know he’s always out there educating us. I’ve been listening since I was a teenager. And I’m in my 7th decade. Wu wei.
Love Alan Watts but this podcast is terrible. Cannot get past podcasts without the payola. Disappointed since these where all broadcast in the radio. I’ll stick to his books and YouTube uploads. You guys are really disappointing a huge population.
These podcasts are great. Watts has been gone a long time now, but his words and ideas live on. I have followed Watts for almost 40 years, read his books, listened to his lectures. He always puts me in a gentler frame of mind.
As far as I can tell, when they add an episode they delete the prior episode, making it impossible to follow if you don’t catch it at the beginning or if you miss an episode.
I LOVE Alan Watts and heartily appreciate his presence here, his enduring brilliance. I dislike how you've truncated his lectures into little bits. As if no one has an attention span longer than a gnat's, no offence to gnats.
I love to hear AW’s talks but do not appreciate the inserted music. I also would appreciate longer excerpts - it often cuts off at an inopportune moment.
Why not provide just one sentence from Watts’ lecture in each podcast? You could call each sentence an episode and derive the maximum advertising and monetization of Buddhism that way!
Alan Watts has some amazing insights and should be understood by far more people, so I was very happy to see this podcast pop up recently, but so far the creators have just been posting a fraction of a lecture each week and then taking it down the following week when another fraction of a lecture is posted. There’s no way for anyone to catch up if they didn’t start at the beginning, and for someone to just jump in to a lecture with no context or understanding of what’s being discussed could easily lead to everything he says getting taken the wrong way.
I Wis live to listen to Mr Watts but there's only one episode- one that is in the middle of a series! Alas, everything is behind a $34.99 payment. Well ain't that something?
