So, I've been a fan of Gimlet podcasts since before I found this message board. This is because one of the Gimlet co-founders (Alex Blumberg) came from NPR. My sisters and I were originally fans of NPR podcasts. Anyway, shortly after Gimlet Media was founded, one of my sisters told me about it. We discovered that the media company's very first podcast, Startup, actually reported on the founding of their own podcast company.
Things seemed to get weird after the whole Starlee Kine / Mystery Show controversy. After awhile, I stopped listening to their podcasts because there was very little communication about the sudden ending of seasons and entire podcast shows. For instance, as I mentioned above, Uncivil just ended without any communication as simple as "Hey, guys, this will be our last episode." Similar things happened on a bunch of their podcasts.
I read that Gimlet was sold to Spotify earlier this year. Then, I recently listened to one of their remaining podcasts, Reply All, and at the end of the podcast episode, the hosts announced that Matt Lieber, the other founder, was no longer with Gimlet. I just realized today that Startup has announced on Facebook that they are starting a FINAL season, titled "Startup: The Final Chapter" and that this final season is about Gimlet's sale to Spotify earlier this year. I see that one of the new episodes in this season is titled "Our Company Has Problems."
I intend to listen to the available episodes this week. I hope that it will answer some of my questions about what happened to the Uncivil podcast.