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The Minnesota accent does great violence to the Ukrainian Transylvania mad baseball doctor persona. While Minnesota is cool, and known for icefishing and folkstyle wrestling, it isn't known for the breeding of evil scientists. *
The readers were expecting someone who was a cross between Nikolai Tesla and Dracula, or any of those old timey goth dudes.
Still, I won't complain too much. It was a good podcast.
1*St. Paul is famously the home of the 3M company, which employs many scientists, but it isn't known for producing much in the way of evil scientists, or dangerous product. Stickynotes, the most famous of 3M products, are neither evil, nor dangerous.