Having been a listener to podcasts since Adam Curry released his initial version of the podcatcher AppleScripts with Dave Weiner, it has been amazing to watch the content explode.

Lately though, some podcasts have lost their appeal, like This Week in Tech and MacBreak Weekly with Leo Laporte.

Today, another MacBreak Weekly rambled on for an hour, with little to talk about other than arguing over last weeks Apple Stock saga and droning on about over-hype of the iPhone.

Leo stated for the second week in a row that there just wasn’t anything to talk about.

Nothing to talk about? Hmm, nothing happened in two weeks?

How about..

• New MacBooks
• Road testing Adobe CS3
• Apple and AT&T’s preparations for the launch of the iPhone
• Falling journalistic standards in the online Mac new community
• Unmasking of Fake Steve or Not?
• WWDC and Leopard’s imminent beta release
• Apple’s new One-on-One training program
• Announcement of Starcraft 2 for Mac by Blizzard!
• John Gruber’s excellent commentary on the stocks, security, and all thing Mac.
• Apple stretching 10.4 to 10.4.10

Those are off the top of my head. A few minutes on Google, PRWeb and other sites and I would find another 10-12 topics for discussion in the last two weeks.

Let me say, I LOVE listening to Leo, Merlin and company every week. Have done so for two years in one form or another.

It just feels like they show up with little preparation lately, and today for the first time I deleted the podcast before the end.

Perhaps these guys have a few too many irons in the fire to produce the quality they once did.

I can only hope they refocus on quality.