Caltrops - Rants





	[quote name="Sink the Cenk"]Watching any Young Turks roundtable on current news, my impression was always "We're a group of people of average intelligence, with no more insight, expertise, or information than the general public. We have a show!" Lately I've been getting recommendations for more and more podcasts like this. A bunch of dopes who aren't any smarter or funnier than your average person living up to the "We should totally do a podcast!" stereotype. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/david-bell-38198445">Gamefully Unemployed</a> What if you replaced the (early) How Did This Get Made? crew with two average stoners? There's a billion weird bad movie podcasts by people with more humor, energy, and effort, yet this fucking thing is constantly pushed on me the most by the algorithm. The people who watch Best of the Worst and think they could totally do what Redlettermedia does. The Ben and Emil Show [youtube id="E8HnCDUBP1I"] I only ever checked these guys out when they had Ed Zitron as a guest. Their usual videos promise Elon Musk and AI bashing, but holy shit these guys are just two stoners stumbling over themselves with half remembered news bits. None of these conversations would be out of place in a fishbowled dorm room at 3am. The Tech Report [youtube id="oUiGuyNU2XY"] Another thing I only checked out when I saw Ed Zitron as a guest, and figured it'd be more cathartic Musk and AI bashing. No, usually the opposite. They'll put on any shill or futurist twat and let them do 98% of the talking without challenging any of their nonsense. Start watching that clip at 1:36 and marvel at the absolute NOTHING the guest says using ten thousand words. This is like if The History Channel was nothing but the Ancient Aliens guy. We've had people post the best, and the worst podcasts. But what are the <b>blandest</b> flatlines you've come across that were the result of completely average people going, "I can do that!" ?[/quote]