'The Always Sunny' Podcast Is Dead

If you haven’t noticed new episodes of The Always Sunny Podcast in your podcast feeds in the last year or so, it’s because they stopped making them. And they probably won’t start making them again. Why? As Glenn Howerton told Rick Glassman on the Take Your Shoes Off podcast (via Cracked), “We set it aside for a minute, and then a minute became months.”

They’ve just been too busy, he continued. “It just became logistically difficult to get the three of us in a room together and we didn’t want to do it on Zoom.” In fact, they even got rid of the podcast studio. It’s a shame, though, because the podcast itself had begun to overshadow the show. The first six months of episodes remain probably my favorite of all the now exhausting series rewatch podcasts, a genre that has completely worn out its welcome. I mean, there’s an NCIS Rewatch podcast now. What are we doing here, folks?

The It’s Always Sunny trio have been busy. Rob McElhenney, of course, works on not only Mythic Quest, which he runs with Megan Ganz, but he’s helping to run a Wales soccer club and a docuseries based on it, Welcome to Wrexham, with Ryan Reynolds. Howerton has been taking other gigs, too. After two seasons of A.P. Bio, and Blackberry (the movie about the creation of the Blackberry), he’s been cast in Sirens alongside Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Meghann Fahy, and Milly Alcock. Charlie Day also maintains a busy schedule of movies, starring in live-action films and providing his voice to animated movies like The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

I’m actually worried about the next season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. At one point, Danny DeVito said they’d start shooting in September, but I don’t know how realistic that is, particularly with Kaitlin Olson’s forthcoming network procedural High Potential coming this fall.

All in all, it means that the It’s Always Sunny podcast is dead, and the show itself won’t return until 2025, at least. Thankfully, we can still look forward to Mythic Quest, although I’m bummed we won’t get to hang with Megan Ganz virtually anymore. At least her husband Humphrey Ker continues to appear on Welcome to Wrexham as executive director of the club itself.