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Never listened to one tbh.

otm re: Blank Check

The sleep with me podcast sorta changed my life. Or I should say it changes my life when I use it, which I don't always because I'm bad at knowing what's good for me

i don't really get excited by new music anymore. i listen to podcasts when doing tasks - dishes, walking to grocery store, cleaning. my gf puts them on at bedtime sometimes also, they help me fall asleep.

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, March 21, 2019 2:13 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you also no longer get excited about old music? Because I feel you (strongly) on your first point but I still feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to hear everything I want. For instance: just last week I decided I really like Traffic, so now I'm bingeing on all the albums I didn't know (which is all but two of them). There's always new stuff to hear and get excited about, which is to me a far more worthwhile way to spend time than listening to podcasts. Similarly I'd also always rather read a book about something than listen to a podcast about it (ie true crime, country music, etc). But like Brad upthread I recognize and acknowledge that I am on the wrong side of history here

I'm with Paul on this one (except for that last sentence, it's the kids who are wrong).

uhh yeah dude is the only non-documentary podcast i can listen to. it's hilarious but thank goodness they're not comedians. i honestly can't think of anything more unfunny and insufferable than comedians. the only guest they have on the show is one of their moms when one of them can't make it (and it's always a treat)

do you also no longer get excited about old music?

yes. i still listen to it, but it doesn't excite me. it's mainly background for me

Similarly I'd also always rather read a book about something than listen to a podcast about it (ie true crime, country music, etc). But like Brad upthread I recognize and acknowledge that I am on the wrong side of history here

id also rather read a book but i can't read a book while doing chores

history is what we make of it

what's the real actual difference between a "comedian" chatting and a funny person chatting? I think it just comes down to the person in question.

The problem with many comedians on podcasts is that they're always trying to be funny, often at the expense of having a naturally flowing conversation. This can be funny in short bursts, but gets tiresome.

I recently tried the James Acaster Ed Gamble podcast. No, in a word.

Oh Christ that's so bad, just rambling self-congratulatory, go-nowhere pointless bullshit. (board description etc). My Brother, My Brother and Me's the same, and although I'll at least get 1 chuckle out of them an episode, it doesn't make it worth my time. The Dollop is the worst one of these that I've dipped into, tho fair play to them getting a gig from reading out a wiki entry.

acaster netflix special bored the fuck out of me for the ten mins i could stand

uhh yeah dude is the only non-documentary podcast i can listen to.

do you have to be american because this is unlistenable.

weve touched upon the unlistenability of the american podcast voice elsewhere im sure

we have

btw i’ve read this thread twice and i cannot work out who diamonddave is referring to

The Dollop is the worst one of these that I've dipped into

this is violence

I've struggled with The Dollop, too. It comes down to when you first 'join' a podcast, innit, and how invested in their own mythos the presenters are. If you join a podcast late and there's a whole associated idiolect and extended periods of self-congratulatory banter it quickly becomes unbearable.

can become unbearable even if you've followed it from the beginning (side-eye to the greatest generation).

oh the dollop! yes, that was fucking unbearable and easily my worst 14 minutes of last year

I listened to the most recent episode of UYD and they're funny but I think I'm just too late to the party. I know a lot of ppl who venerate it but since it's been going for 13 years it's 90% in-jokes at this point

The only podcast i can regularly listen to is 99% Invisible.

There are a couple of others I like but the episodes are sooooooo long. 45 minutes should be the max for any podcast.

The Dollop isn't quite as good as it used to be. I feel like they're maybe running out of good material. Some of the classic episodes are among the funniest things I've ever heard though.

But I feel like almost any comedy podcast requires a lot of time investment to get the most out of it. Pretty much all of them have a whole bunch of intricate long-running in-jokes. I don't know if there's any way around this, in-jokes are basically 90% of all humour.

i've listened to a good amount of the dollop because some of the stories they dig up are legitimately interesting. kind of in spite of the comedy, which more often than not is too intrusive, obnoxious, and not funny imo.

im inventing “podcastify zing” app in which u drop in a permalink frrom a thread, and a rapid version of robot voice of your choice/accent recites “(poster display name) sed (recite post). If there’s only a pic it says “(pdn) left a link.”

There will be presets to link thread order— by date, or by search term, like band or song name, or by most common posters in thread.

In robot recitation of thread, initial post will have a month/year, then dates will only be referred to of theres a gap of more than a month. When you get to within a month of now it’ll just announce “this month pdn sed” for the first one. At any time if you look at the screen the complete thread name and entire post being recited will be displayed.

then you can vacuum the ouse.

im inventing “podcastify zing” app in which u drop in a permalink frrom a thread, and a rapid version of robot voice of your choice/accent recites (poster display name) sed (recite post).” If there’s only a pic it says “(pdn) left a link.”

There will be presets to link thread order— by date, or by search term, like band or song name, or by most common posters in thread.

In robot recitation of thread, initial post will have a month/year, then dates will only be referred to of theres a gap of more than a month. When you get to within a month of now it’ll just announce “this month pdn sed” for the first one. At any time if you look at the screen the complete thread name and entire post being recited will be displayed.

then you can vacuum the ouse.

dupe is from my other app, “post terrible boring joekz twice.”

i feel like you should get together with karl malone on this, it's got potential. an alternative would be to set it up as a Clock of the Long Now style installation where it just starts slowly reading the entirety of ILX out loud, in order, for years to come.

Fleabag isgood without a doubt, but also irritating in that there is a certain element of ‘posh’/class privilege in how we are invited to indulge the main character.

I got heavily into podcasts and out of new music a few years ago. Now I'm back at the opposite, unsubscribed from most podcasts I liked, now find them really corny. There is hope.

I listen to lots of podcasts and still find time for music - it's a brave new world! i realise this doesn't give me the jouissance of being able to say 'I'm on the wrong side of history' but it's a brave new world all the same. (Double winky face emoticon.)

maffew otm, some popular veins of podcasting are beginning to stale already

my braindead job does help me keep up with the subscriptions I have. This has probably helped me get back to new music on my own time.

There's a controversial opinion brewing here. I'll find it yet.

I mean if you don't have a good "radio voice" or whatever, you should probably write instead of podcast, or just yak with your friends, idk

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all the alan partridge stuff written by those two brothers is bad
twin peaks the return is bad
autumn is not a good season

catch in the rye is a good book which can be read and enjoyed in adulthood

the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out. don't care if you legitimately really dislike them, you sound like a dang sheep

i dont think its enough

for purposes of thread like

to just be wrong

some of these opinions are just like, can't you just bullshit with your irl friends? it doesn't really translate online

the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out. don't care if you legitimately really dislike them, you sound like a dang sheep

the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out. don't care if you legitimately really dislike them, you sound like a dang sheep

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the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out.

the eagles were and are somewhat listenable hook-laden pop, except they got overexposed, or to put the same idea differently "played out", so that now the people who like the eagles are those who have not been endlessly subjected to their hits and can still find some freshness in it.

"i can't tell you why" is a good song

this is not a controversial opinion

Gary Leeds has the best songs on Nite Flights

Fully agree about catcher in the rye