Things You Just Don't Care About

It’s an easier way to learn things because I’m too old and tired to read anything.

I personally can’t learn anything from podcasts and I’m convinced people that can are a space aliens. I take in, maybe 10% of the information from podcasts that I would by reading. Poster otm who said two dudes talking is the only worthwhile form of podcast (and even then!).

There’s a Knausgaard Podcast (our struggle) by two dudes (one of the dudes is a dudette) that I find comforting. It gets played the once every three months when I’m driving and don’t feel like listening to music anymore. That’s it, far better things to do with my ears

The reason I like that podcast is because the podcasts hosts clearly understand they are losers (I love them). This is an absolutely essential part of being a podcaster

(To the actual people podcasting itt, please forgive and dismiss that last post)

I have literally never listened to a podcast, trying to keep that streak going

not sure what you mean by this. surely conversational podcasts are popular precisely because people like that they simulate the experience of hanging out with other human beings? that's part of the point, right?

As has been noted over the years, too, I am a fan of “silence,” so to speak.

As in, I will not be one of those old people who keeps the radio or TV going to “keep thenselves company.”

"I have literally never listened to a podcast, trying to keep that streak going"

i've only watched some on youtube. or actually i guess i have listened to marc maron on youtube. he doesn't have video. but otherwise i watch the funny people like tim from tim & eric and bill burr. i'm assuming they have audio-only versions on apple and spotify. i don't own a phone and i figure that's how people listen to them? or on ipods. i have no idea. or, duh, just on their computers.

actually, i have listened to two local ones on spotify once or twice just because i know the people. lou barlow and his wife adelle have one. i've listened to that once or twice. and my pal JD in town here has one on tinnitus that i listened to when he interviewed...lou barlow! it's a small world here in greenfield.

(the funny ones i don't actually watch much. its just that youtube always has them pop up and sometimes i click.)

(i've never heard a political one or a story-driven one. i don't know. i've never listened to a book on tape! i'm very particular about voices. i did start to listen to one that was for a book about how much IBM helped the nazis kill people but i only made it through one CD.)

oh wait I think I have heard one, my wife's grand-daughter listens to a dinosaur podcast

they know their audience, at the end of each episode they take one kid's question about "which of these two dinosaurs would win in a fight", good stuff. they answer very seriously!

A third kind, a much better kind, of podcast appears

A third kind, a much better kind, of podcast appears

the only time i've listened to podcasts was on an 11-hour train ride when i was too tired to read and too uncomfortable to sleep

they honestly really hit the spot then, but i hope not to be in that situation too often

i formed my opinions about them while trimming or working weed in 2015-2017, people would play podcasts or audiobooks instead of music so nothing controversial would happen but jfc i would rather listen to the worst jam band in the world than a few idiots making idiotic jokes or talking politics. kill me.

I literally only listen to two podcasts: Bonanas for Bonanza and the Age of Napoleon. The first because Andy Daly is a genius and the hosts are in character, and Age of Napoleon because I find it soothing. One interesting thing about AON I’ve noticed is the guy never says his own name on the podcast or introduces himself. It’s just a disembodied Joe Pera voice talking about the Battle of Austerlitz.

I've tried listening to podcasts but the ones that are two or three people joking around about bullshit (for two hours!), or having a discussion full of nerdy in-jokes about music, make me want to murder the entire human race. When I had one, it was because I enjoyed interviewing musicians (and still do!) but didn't want to transcribe the interviews. So I just posted the interviews, with a short intro. I have been led to believe that some podcasts are intensely researched sort of documentaries, like a radio version of Dateline, but that sounds terrible too. I never understood the appeal of talk radio back in the 90s either. Even if I agreed with him I couldn't imagine listening to Rush Limbaugh or anyone else just talking for hour after hour.

“Things that you actually care about but no one else cares about”

I don’t even own a podcast

I have a friend who listens to podcasts daily while he is puttering around the house, while making dinner and such, but I don't really relate to it, I like silence when I'm performing chores, and in my free time I'm mostly reading, listening to music, watching films, going outside or listening to audiobooks.

I can see the attraction it has for him though. I really like listening to the conversations that come out of the Cannes Film Festival every year, most notably Nicholas Rapold's interviews in "The Last Thing I Saw"

"I don’t even own a podcast"

haha!

it's strange how quiet my life has gotten lately. maybe one for the comics discovery thread... when i was young they had comics that came with record albums. there was one from the '70s featuring man-bat, who i remember... i don't know if this is accurate to comics or not, but loud noises drove him crazy. my life isn't a quiet one by any means. most of the sounds in my life are byproducts of machinery. my NAS hard drives. the buzzing of my lights, the fridge, heater. a fan. sometimes i put on white noise to sleep. maybe there's another kind of noise that's better for sleeping, but i don't remember what it is. there's lots of construction and lawn equipment outside.

anyway. i have been more sensitive to sound lately. i get more easily overwhelmed by it. sometimes i feel like man-bat from those old comics.

i don't multitask very well, is all it is. if i'm doing something i'm doing that thing. listening to music, listening to a podcast... i have other things to do. i don't know how people manage the multitasking thing.

that's not true. i'm very good at multitasking. right now, i just took nine minutes, and i multitasked listening to dave easley playing "lonely woman" and breathing. i'm probably not going to need to listen to music again for a while. i don't _need_ to listen to that much music, and when i do... it doesn't matter what i listen to so much as _that_ i listen to music, sometimes.

if i'm listening to music or a podcast or whatever often it often distracts me from paying attention to other things. for instance, i spent a lot of my life trying as hard as i could to ignore my body was saying and it's still something i work really hard at. for instance, my body has been telling me all day to brush my teeth, but it's hard for me to hear something like that when i'm pumping external stimuli through my poor brain all day.

my primary leisure time activity is existing. when i'm depressed, it takes a lot of work. when i'm not depressed, though, it feels like a luxury, it's something i enjoy a lot. just being able to, like... _be_. without having to work at it. it feels incredibly good, and when i spend time doing that, i find it gets easier for me to do things that are sometimes hard for me...

huh. listening is kind of a habit. listening in a certain sort of way. i was just sitting here and something was asking me if i'd closed the cabinet doors. the thing about listening to questions is that when you listen to them, you also have to figure out who's asking the question. my ex got on me all the time about not closing the cabinet doors. i'm actually going through the neurodivergent friendly workbook of dbt skills, and that's one of the things it calls out, that my worth as a person is not dependent on whether or not i remember to close the kitchen cabinets.

that's why i've been focusing more on it though, lately. just to prove that i can do things if i put my mind to them. i decided that it was important to _me_, so one of my daily tasks is to check to see if i've closed the kitchen cabinets. it feels good because the voice that's asking me if i've closed the kitchen cabinets is now mine.

a lot of the questions i ignore is because i assume they're coming from someone nagging me, my mom or my ex or somebody who's judging me as being not good enough. but if i listen, the person asking "hey, when's the last time you cleaned out the microwave?" is me, and she's not judging me, she's genuinely just wondering. and then i'm like "hell, i can do that now, i'd feel better if i just did that now". no point in stressing out over it. i get really on-edge sometimes, like i feel like i'm supposed to be doing something but i can't figure out what. there isn't, though. there isn't anything in particular i'm supposed to be doing, so i don't have to hang around all day on edge waiting for someone to ask me to do the thing i'm supposed to be doing. i can just do what i want. which, when i listen, turns out to be... cleaning the microwave. that's what i wanted to do today.

so i guess that's still my hobby. listening. i'm just not listening to music as much as i used to. and podcasts... it's just hard for me to listen to them unless i'm doing something else at the same time. i don't really like that about them.

i love interviews! good ones. its hard to find good ones. i'm always trying to find good author interviews online.

i made a Youtube playlist of 200 jazz interviews. because it seemed like something i would do.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFjNq4XVFWjPJiymJ7--IBJP

podcasts are basically what keeps me from getting bored when doing chores around the house, which keeps me doing the chores longer, which keeps my house cleaner

I like history podcasts for driving, I don't really care if I can pass a test on the material afterward and they're usually pretty chill. Thankfully Dan Carlin's success didn't push other history podcasts to emulate his horrible AND I QUOTE cadence.

I've never liked driving to music before early evening, when I was driving 3+ hours every day between job sites it was a rotation of the least annoying sports talk option and NPR, podcasts saved me from ever having to hear Terri Gross's voice or an interview with a footbaw coach.

I personally can’t learn anything from films

I have literally never listened to music, trying to keep that streak going

I also tend to believe that theatre-loving types read less and are more incurious but perhaps that’s just the people I know, who tend to cite plays in any conversation in an almost boosterish way. It’s cultlike and weird.

I've tried appreciating paintings but they make me want to murder the entire human race

I have also never listened to a podcast. I want to but I always feel like I'd just rather listen to music. I have a list people have recommended me. Will get around to it eventually.

My son recommended a podcast about someone who got bumped off ‘Band of Brothers’ by Tom Hanks as he had ‘dead eyes’. I listened to three of the and they were ok, but couldn’t face another 28 (!) of them.

I’m like ENBB, I’m listening to it and thinking I could be listening to some music instead.

who tend to cite plays in any conversation in an almost boosterish way

not wrong tbh

re podcasts, i can do audiobooks by good writers or like mary beard talking about rome (which kate posted i believe). oh and my beloved big mood, little mood because danny avery is a delightful bad ass and i need good vibes from fellow family-estrangers.

i feel a little sad about posting these but here are some new things i just don't care about :|

fire dancing / fire performers (sorry to my friends j & s, you're lovely people but i just don't care about the fire dancing you're super into)

"light art" and "light shows" that are just some LED tripper trapper derpy bsullshit. lol maybe this one shades into "i actively dislike this"

but let's be real, anyone who gets joy from LED lights can't be trusted.

i don't really believe that tbc

the local bonfire night and firework display stopped having an actual fire a few years ago and this year is having lasers instead of fireworks

the only time I saw fire performers I was at a beach bar in Ko Phi Phi and the bar owner stole my shoes and had his mate chase me down the road with a machete, so not the best of associations

My son recommended a podcast about someone who got bumped off ‘Band of Brothers’ by Tom Hanks as he had ‘dead eyes’. I listened to three of the and they were ok, but couldn’t face another 28 (!) of them.

in dodgy podcast news:
eduard karl joseph michael marcus koloman volkhold maria habsburg-lothringen, archduke of austria and thus heir to the entire austro-hungarian empire (as founded by RADBOT OF KLETTGAU (985 – 1045), plus hungarian ambassador to the vatican, will be guesting shortly on the deprecated REST IS HISTORY podcast (it's already recorded, and is due to be broadcast on the very day that empire is restored no doubt) (given the politics of the podcasters)

yes fact is mixed with sarcasm in that post and yet the founder of the habsburg line was indeed called RADBOT, ai will end us all

Genres of podcasts currently on my phone:
-Calm, serious interviews with jazz musicians
-interviews with synth nerds
-interviews with rappers and rap producers
-comedian couple gives relationship advice
-dude talking about cybersecurity
-Seattle hipsters discussing their in-group slang
-UK hipsters chatting about stuff
-educational podcast about recording & mixing
-NPR, NYT and pods in that style, you know the drill
-bootlegs of an internet radio show featuring dudes talking about music and corporate food history
-dudes talking about records
-dudes taking about food
-ladies talking about food
-ladies talking about stuff
-interviews with drummers

Dead Eyes rules, and part of what's fun is how much he's able to wring out of the premise of the show, which is ostensibly about finding out why Tom Hanks fired him but is really about ambition and failure and making peace with things. Great podcast.

I will give it another go, but by the end of the third episode I was ‘dude, get over it’.

It’s odd: when I was a blogger, I devoured blogs; when I was a music writer, I devoured music writing; but now that I’m a podcaster, I almost totally ignore other podcasts. In particular, I’ve sampled plenty of other UK music commentary podcasts, but none grabbed me and many irritated me. So the only podcast I now follow is the one that an old friend hosts (Chart Music).

xps oh yeah two people randomly shooting the shit is exactly the same as a painting or a piece of music, rmde

Joe Pera has a podcast, just sayin'

i’m completely podcasted out

there are only four genres of podcast btw. many are combinations of these but there are only four.

- the interview
- the mystery
- information straight into my veins
- the friendship simulator

yeah sorry CAAL, podcasts aren’t an artform

i absolutely do not care about podcasts. someone says "did you listen to x" and it's a podcast, my brain shuts off immediately. the only one I've ever really liked listening to was the dolly parton one.

yeah sorry CAAL, podcasts aren’t an artform

lol this statement is meaningless

have you all heard of YouTube? You can look at people talking at you