I'm watching Never... right now and I love it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 May 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
Midnight Gospel is my shit
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
i love the animation and often the dialogue too but the pop philosophy/theology is almost not weird enough? more new age than like gonzo art bell insanity? and if it's going to be straight forward i sorta wish it was more serious philosophy/theology if that makes sense? it's not my sweet spot iow but the animation is more than enough and it is at times actually cool to listen to too but sometimes someone says something that seems pretty trite + vapid to me but interviewer is so effusively "wooooww that's beautiful," and i don't feel it.
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
i love the animation and often the dialogue too but the pop philosophy/theology is almost not weird enough? more new age than like gonzo art bell insanity? and if it's going to be straight forward i sorta wish it was more serious philosophy/theology if that makes sense?
my thoughts exactly
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
also episode 3 has that child murderer Damien Echols on it
*ducks*
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
For those unaware, most of the dialog in Midnight Gospel is directly from the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast. I’ve likely heard every episode of it yet I’m not at all into Midnight Gospel. Animation doesn’t do much for me.
― ... (Yelploaf), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
didn't know we had west memphis 3 truthers up in this joint
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
echoing Mordy and jim's quotes. just in general, i kinda hate podcasts for their lack of intelligent editing, this seems like a ridiculous way to tell any story.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
You're wrong but whatever
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
I'm okay being wrong if that's wrong. I tried three episodes and it barely held my attention.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
I need to watch adventure time I guess, love the animation in this.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
FWIW, i adore Adventure Time! This doesn't look a lot like it though.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
kinda hate podcasts for their lack of intelligent editing
what about the ones with intelligent editing
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
please to inform me of them
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
i just thought it was weird that you thought they turned a two hour podcast into a thirty minute cartoon with no editing
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
totally with ulysses on this. i can never get into podcasts
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
I can't either and the ones that sound like RadioLab with too many people talking over each other whose voices all sound the same drive me up the motherfucking wall, regardless of whether I find the subject interesting or not.
― akm, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
xp the half hour version desperately needs editing! we're not gonna find common ground here i'm afraid.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
the only podcast i can listen to is 99%. most podcasts are unlistenable. xpost otm
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
what topics, people or genres are you interested in listening to podcasts about?
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
The People Vs OJ Simpson was a Scott Alexander & Larry Karazewski project that Ryan Murphy got signed & directed one episode of, in line with their Ed Wood, The People Vs Larry Flynt, Man On The Moon, Big Eyes and Dolemite Is My Name.
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
pissily
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
I said what I said (with love)
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
I, too, enjoy lists of facts
― mh, Thursday, 7 May 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
none taken
(a bunch of people were going "why is this biopic about a crux moment in the life of a problematic creative figure so different from & more satisfying than all of the other work written by bloke x?" and I intended "it was written by some different guys who wrote all these other biopics about a crux moment in the life of a problematic creative figure" to be a for real helpful answer)
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
when people say they don't like podcasts I'm assuming they mean those w/ all the This American Life/radiolab affectations?
it's a medium! That's like saying "I don't like listening to anything, with my ears" or "I don't like books"
podcasting can be anything...personally I have zero patience for edited/scripted things but do I like a bunch of podcasts that are just people in conversation
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
yeah i hate people in conversation because most people have bad opinions and they talk too much.
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
insert gif from Carol of Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara sharing a look as a guy talks and talks
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
xp but most of *everything* is bad
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
ha exactlyI do not have time for time-inefficient transfer of information
*spends evening on ILX*
― kinder, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
some things attract a certain thing.
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
it's frustrating sometimes w/ podcasts bc on ilx if someone says something really stupid you can yell at them
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:14 (four years ago) link
If podcasts "can be anything", then how come 99% of them start with like half an hour of two identical-sounding hosts laughing uncontrollably at each other's witless banter
― Number None, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link
xp because you are listening to that kind of podcast?
I don't have time for that either
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
why are 99% of novels about nurses who can't find a man to romance and appreciate them? I am DONE with books!!!
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
sorry guys, i've run the numbers
― Number None, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
i feel like my hatred of and disinterest in podcasts is v similar to my hatred of and disinterest in modern literature, and i have no interest in this position being interrogated
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
especially in the netflix thread
The only podcasts I’ve managed to listen to are true crime/murder/journalism podcasts, everything else has been uniformly terrible.
― Roz, Friday, 8 May 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
I think I could get into podcasts if I drove, that would seem like the perfect environment to listen to one. I can't really do it at home.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 8 May 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
every minute listening to a podcast is time i could be listening to music instead
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 May 2020 03:40 (four years ago) link
otm
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 8 May 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
i've tried listening to podcasts at home and as far as i can tell it can't be done
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 May 2020 08:54 (four years ago) link
I've learned that I can listen to pods at home while washing dishes, cooking, and showering. No other time, especially not while working.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
The descriptions I hear of favorite podcasts from family and friends make them sound like Paul Harvey segments stretched out to nauseating length. voodoo chili otm.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
time spent listening to anything but music is time that could be spent listening to music; good point!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 May 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
some podcasts *are* music
Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour—that's a podcast.
I wonder if people used to talk this way abt "radio"
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 8 May 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
i mean... if you're broadcasting a radio show and it's all music, that's a playlist? anyways, i'm okay
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 May 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
digging this wolfman jack podcast
― Mordy, Friday, 8 May 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link