You're viewing a single thread.
i wish i could understand the appeal of listening to people sitting around flapping their faceholes about pointless shit
Oh shit. I hate that bro.
Goddamnit...
Yeah and I mean these people are just sitting around talking about the most mundane stuff as if anybody would be interested in hearing it.
Oh shit. I hate that bro.
It's a form of parasocial relationship. It can trigger the same feelings as if you were in a room with some friends chatting. You get to "know" the people's personalities, you can anticipate their reactions to things, you get invested in their personal relationships.
Most of the stuff I listen to is either professionally funny people or specialized topics that I'm interested in.
I listen to My Brother, My Brother and Me because I like to listen to the three brothers be funny at each other.
Some people don't need or want intellectually challenging media all the dang time.
Most music isn’t intellectually challenging
Even dumb music is way harder to make than a shit podcast
it doesn't even have to be music, or have a point, just something to make you say "ok...wtf" and it's more interesting to me than "shootin the shit w mah dudebro brother dudes" type podcasts
I don't know what to tell you. Sorry that my preference isn't your preference?
It's light entertainment, who cares what other people like?
glad you enjoy it
It’s not challenging for the listener though.
I also listen to music?
I can do more than one thing, and I enjoy listening to them.
I don't get why this is getting pushback. It's weird to refuse to understand that other people have different tastes in media consumption.
I don't get why this is getting pushback. It's weird to refuse to understand that other people have different tastes in media consumption.
Because you're lowering our collective IQ listening to cringe bullshit as entertainment.
/s
I rather call these pointless convoys challenging media. I understand nothing, yet it's quite annoying noise to my ears.
fair enough
Episodes 1-250 were great. They’re insufferably flanderized now.
The most recentish eps (from about a month or so back) have been hitting me a lot better than their "during Covid" era for sure. I got into them late though, sorry to hear what they are now isn't what you enjoy of them anymore. I had the same feeling about Game Grumps right around when they stopped doing episode numbering.
Fair! I gave up at about 300. I still revisit 1-100 sometimes though. So good.
I'd say it's worth checking out a more recent episode or two to see if they've gotten better, but I'd also totally understand just being done.
Personally, I'm super glad I stuck with it because otherwise I'd probably also have dropped The Adventure Zone, and the newest Dracula arc has been really satisfying to me.
That's when i read a simple manga or something. Those poor ears.
I'm not saying your approach to how you spend your free time relaxing with the media you enjoy is wrong or bad.
I'd really like people to stop insinuating that my approach to how I spend my free time relaxing with the media I enjoy is wrong or bad, though.
Fiction makes me depressed sometimes
You need to find better podcasts to listen.
How? I’ve never figured it out.
Start with a topic you're interested in. For me it's movies so my weekly rotation is The Film Cast and The Big Picture for general contemporary movies. Then Blank Check, The Rewatchables and Unspooled for retrospective movies depending on which ones they're doing.
The trick is to start with your interests and start trying some stuff out. If you don't like a show, just bounce and try another. Eventually you'll find a selection of shows that works for you.
Other interest based podcasts in my rotation that I would recommend:
Music: Song Exploder, Switched on Pop, 60 Songs that Explain the 90s.
TV: The Watch, Prestige TV
Science: Twenty Thousand Hertz
Marketing: Under the Influence
Tech: Engadget, Vergecast
Videogames: DLC, Windbreaker
Curiosities: Search Engine, Decoder Ring
The same appeal as reading the pointless shit people type out while sitting on toilets.
this is interactive though-- everyone can participate in the conversation. i guess you can talk to people in tiktoktube comments, but not with the people who are the focus of the entire "gathering." maybe podcasts are like watching sports on tv. meh, doesn't matter. enjoy what you enjoy
It's like Facebook in the early days.
Here's a picture of my breakfast yogurt.
Here's a picture of me getting on the bus.
Here's a picture of my desk setup.
Here's a geotag of where I'm having lunch along with a photo of my BLT. It was so yummy! Duck face pic!
Here's the geotag and photo of the place I got coffee on the way back to work! Luv u all!
or facebook today:
here's a picture of my cat
here's a picture of my cat
here's a picture of my cat
here's a picture of my cat
here's a picture of my cat
here's a picture of my OTHER cat
here's a picture of my cat
If that were true, I'd still bother with Facebook once in a while.
Here's a picture of the REAL president telling the TRUTH about COVID 19
The Other Cat is going to get a complex from that favoritism.
I thought facebook today was more like
here's an uncanny AI picture of Jesus
here's the same but Jesus is with a korean flight attendant
here's the same but jesus is with a starving brown kid
Here's the same but the brown kid is missing limbs
Here's an uncanny AI picture of people, in military kit, missing limbs, in wheelchairs, sitting in the middle of the highway, with signs
Here are AI comics with midcentury styled nuclear families, and soldiers, in situations, and with text, that is surreal, at best, and nightmarish, at worst
These are all with titles like "people don't want to see pictures like these anymore", "no one wants to support the troops", "you won't share this", and they are all tagged #BOOMchallenge
OK but desk setups are fun to look at
I list n to podcasts about science, space, farming, linguistics, and literature. They're actually rather interesting. I don't think I could do just random bullshit
I listen to a variety of podcasts for different moods, and I also use it like music. Sometimes I'm in a music mood, sometimes I decide I need to hear how terrible Kissinger really was, sometimes I want to hear Dan research and refute all the lies Alex Jones spouts (the last two come often with the benefit of learning the origin of bullshit being spouted by some internet personalities), and sometimes I want to hear 3-5 guys who I find funny discuss movies and/or Wikipedia articles. I also like listening to factual and historical podcasts that have more detailed researching.
Why listen when I could look up and read it? Well I do look up and read specific topics, but that takes my full attention. I have ADHD and my mind can wander without additional input if I'm doing something tedious. So I listen while driving, cooking, cleaning, working, and even gaming. Gaming isn't tedious per say, but sometimes you have bursts of that (farming items, repeatable dailies, etc). I pause when I really need to, but some games I also play for relaxation, and I can relax and listen to a funny podcast at the same time. If it's work or gaming where I need focus, music works better.
I actually really enjoy "stuff you should know" it's a podcast with 2 guys from the "how stuff works" network that explain everything from "how cranes work" to the "Tulsa race riots." They're good people that like to joke with each other so it's not just straight boring facts.
That said, they aren't experts and will sometimes read emails that correct things they got wrong lol
Man, I know. Especially when they go off the actual topic and start talking about some random shit while cackling like a bunch of dumbasses.
The only time they appeal to me is when the facehole flappers are genius comedians like Norm Macdonald or Tom Green. Tom was doing his own streaming live shows before Youtube existed and before most others had even realized it was possible.
Don't think Norm is putting out a lot of podcasts these days. :(
Yep unfortunately so. So I don't watch podcasts much, and that's fine.
Not all podcasts are about pointless shit. Here are two guys talking about books:
I have one podcast I listen to like this because I know them personally, and it's like hanging out with them. I need to have a hook to listen.
I like Making It with Jimmy DiResta, David Piccutto, and Bob Clegatt (I like to make stuff on YT) because they're makers and youtubers. They do talk about random crap sometimes, but they also talk about making stuff and youtube and being middle aged with all those things in the mix.
I mean, it just comes down to entertainment ability. Some podcasts like Spitballers can talk about random stupid stuff and make it hilarious. Some podcasts just try that and…don't quite pull it off.