This podcast has matured into somethign very different since 1UP....
The hosts nowadays seem to be so cynical and self involved after the fallout of 1UP, that I can't really deal with them. I love the show MUCH less becuase of the opinions, I like the discussion and essentially the analysis of the games that are being played.
As mentioned the show now seems indulgent, the constant of each show is some discussion about their jobs (specifically Anthony Gallegos') as writers in the game industry. How there is no pure impartiality or objectivity, and therefore it's fine to disregard it as a concept. Advice being given on 'how to get into the industry', is absolutely fine, and generally correct, but to bring it up frequently enough to imply to your audience that you are an authority on it, is yet another indulgence.
Especially when there is absolutely fantastic writing elsewhere, on games no less! Writing that actually analyses rather than numbers them, and then tries to justify those numbers.
I am purely reacting, but I feel at the moment, if you're a newcomer, try this podcast. If you don't mind being preached at occasionally. If you are like me, a veteran of the podcast, then perhaps you may be feeling the same as me. A little tired of the self absorbed conversation I often subject myself to.