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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 223 points 3 months ago (20 children)

i wish i could understand the appeal of listening to people sitting around flapping their faceholes about pointless shit

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 185 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The trick is to avoid shows that don’t have a clear objective unless they are comedians who are actually funny most of the time. “Three friends just sitting around talking about life, the universe, and everything!” -like descriptions are a major red flag. Extra deductions if their logo shows a glass of whiskey or a beer.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 106 points 3 months ago (5 children)

That was my entire idea for a podcast. Thanks for shitting on my dream. I guess I'll never start it now.

[–] EfficientEffigy@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With that attitude, better become a Musician pronto

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Funny you should say that. I'm already a terrible musician. I've got a solo gig and a band gig this weekend. I just wanted the podcast to complete my middle aged white dude punch card because my cargo shorts just got here the other day.

[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Two gigs in the same weekend? Who's going to keep an eye on the smoker?!

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I am an actual cliche. Dang.

I'll have everything prepped to start it up drunk at 2am on Sunday morning. This ain't my first rodeo and my brisket will be ready to slice by dinner Sunday evening.

Sounds like you’ve got an awesome weekend in store!

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You'd look way cooler in something fast and shiny...

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

My motorcycle is plenty shiny and fast.

Seriously, my superhero name should be Average Middle Aged White Dude. The only thing I'm not doing is getting more conservative as I get older.

I guess I'm going to have to wear some white tube socks with my slides and saying shit like "Working hard or hardly working?"

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[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  1. if a random comment on the internet is enough to destroy

your dream

then it was a weak and shitty dream. Get a new one.

  1. do it anyway. Who cares. You know what's the worst that could happen? You try, and it doesn't work out and then you can look back at it and consider it "gave it a good shot, didn't work out". And then you can point to all the people who still sit on their couch and didn't even try.

  2. do it.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This is good advice for people who are serious about their dream. I was not. I've had a crazy life and got to at least kind of hit all the high points of my dreams. My only other one is to retire while I'm young enough to get into trouble and I'm doing my damnedest.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Well, in that case. Thanks SteveFromSpace for saving us from that one...

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why not make a podcast about gatekeeping and use this as your first example? There, you've got an objective.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

It’s not gatekeeping to point out that having no aim or objective for your show usually leads to a boring show people don’t want to listen to because it inevitably devolves into a bunch of inside jokes between the hosts that no one else understands, punctuated with the same jokes every podcast like that makes. insert “well no one listens to our show anyway!” line

It’s like choosing to grab two random people at a bar and just listen to their conversation when commuting. Most of it is nothing you care about. It doesn’t mean you can’t make a good show like that, but it’s like saying “I’m going to make an album” when you don’t know what instruments you plan on using as you walk into the recording studio. Most people are not going to make something folks want to listen to.

If your show is good, your show is good. Most shows like this are not good. Visit any podcast forum and see the hundreds of posts starting with “thinking of shutting it down after 50 episodes because we only have 20 listeners and can’t seem to grow.” If you want to take a crack at that genre then be my guest, I’m not saying you’re forbidden. Just that it’s common, easy, and usually attracts no listeners. But hey, plenty of folks do podcasts just for themselves which is totally valid.

TL;DR: who sits down to write a book without deciding what it’s even broadly about?

Edit: forgot to add, these shows never edit. At all. They don’t mute mics, they don’t have any mic discipline, they tap on tables and cough, then they do no content cuts. They don’t even bother running a basic compressor or leveler. It’s maddening.

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you’re not a comedian then you can’t just ramble and expect people to enjoy it. Whereas Bill Burr can talk about any old shit and make it interesting.

Everyone overestimates how interesting and funny they are.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

White dudes and microphones lol the ultimate expression of how self important and insightful we feel all the time 😅

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I once had this idea for a show about nothing....

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 64 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Oh shit. I hate that bro.

[–] TheOneCurly@lemm.ee 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Like the Kardashians for middle-aged men.

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[–] bricklove@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

Nick Mullen is my best friend

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

Most of the stuff I listen to is either professionally funny people or specialized topics that I'm interested in.

[–] 0xb@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You need to find better podcasts to listen.

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[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Most music isn’t intellectually challenging

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Even dumb music is way harder to make than a shit podcast

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[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I rather call these pointless convoys challenging media. I understand nothing, yet it's quite annoying noise to my ears.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago
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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The same appeal as reading the pointless shit people type out while sitting on toilets.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 3 months ago

If that were true, I'd still bother with Facebook once in a while.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago

Here's a picture of the REAL president telling the TRUTH about COVID 19

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

The Other Cat is going to get a complex from that favoritism.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] margaritox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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.

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