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AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016
https://twitch.tv/bloodberrytart

felix on berry's stream

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some plague rats
Jun 5, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Xaris posted:

i thought you were doing a bit here
.......

https://www.coolzonemedia.com/

lmao





clearchannel is basically a sinclair-esque conservative network that spent a lot of hte 90s through mid 2000s buying up small local/regional stations and turning them into syndicated fox re-postings and championing imperialism n war, union-busting, and neoliberal economics lol

its also certainly in bed with the deep state as well

I mean this isn't new, clear channel was paying him $400k a year for behind the bastards. The OP closed the RGD thread for BtB because people wouldn't stop bringing it up lol

some plague rats
Jun 5, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

This sucks entirely. Get rid of twitch completely

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

Yossarian-22 posted:

https://twitter.com/why_sophie_why/status/1427334401550012422

Looks like Harrison Davis @hungrybowtie writes for Bellingcat

the little iheartradio logo attached to something called "after the revolution" is incredibly funny

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

some plague rats posted:

I mean this isn't new, clear channel was paying him $400k a year for behind the bastards. The OP closed the RGD thread for BtB because people wouldn't stop bringing it up lol

oh ive never listened to it nor read the RGD thread. lmao that owns

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Just to be clear - are they actually striking out on their own or is iHeart letting them rebrand under a different name to hide the stench of the iHeart label? I scrolled through a few tweets but I got bored

Edit: also the people in that RGD thread were just the dumbest little baby brained morons

Me: Lmao it seems pretty odd that he’s making $400k shilling for home security systems on the podcast where he tells you all your neighbors are about to put on a swastika armband and go on a murder rampage

Idiot so dumb it’s astonishing he doesn’t need a feeding pump to eat: oh this is why the left can’t win! Always tearing each other down!

HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 00:30 on Aug 17, 2021

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

they can't be on their own if all the shows under the CoolZone umbrella are iHeartRadio branded

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

they can't be on their own if all the shows under the CoolZone umbrella are iHeartRadio branded

Yeah that’s what I figured lmao

The Unnamed One
Jan 13, 2012

"BOOM!"
Wasn't "Cool Zone" a term created by that Sean Moorehead dude on Twitter?

I mean, I guess they never owned it per se, but it's cool that the untalented Bob Evans just straight up stole their joke to profit from it

E: The Kid Stays in the Picture audiobook is better than any podcast Robert Evans will ever make

The Unnamed One has issued a correction as of 00:53 on Aug 17, 2021

TheSlutPit
Dec 26, 2009

As opposed to stealing the joke to name a forums thread, quote the joke hundreds of times a day and make gang tags referencing the joke.

The Unnamed One
Jan 13, 2012

"BOOM!"
At least no one (except for Jeffrey I guess) is making money off that poo poo

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

TheSlutPit posted:

As opposed to stealing the joke to name a forums thread, quote the joke hundreds of times a day and make gang tags referencing the joke.

Yeah it turned into a thing here and on Twitter but idk I guess it’s still less embarrassing when people are being dumbasses on their own time and when people are naming their podcasting sub-studio after the same thing

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Xaris posted:

i thought you were doing a bit here
.......

https://www.coolzonemedia.com/

lmao
clearchannel is basically a sinclair-esque conservative network that spent a lot of hte 90s through mid 2000s buying up small local/regional stations and turning them into syndicated fox re-postings and championing imperialism n war, union-busting, and neoliberal economics lol

its also certainly in bed with the deep state as well

oh my god this is real? holy gently caress lol

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Shipon posted:

oh my god this is real? holy gently caress lol

Yeah they rebranded like ten years ago and I guess it worked well enough because every time it comes up there a new person saying exactly what you just did

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

The Unnamed One posted:

Wasn't "Cool Zone" a term created by that Sean Moorehead dude on Twitter?

I mean, I guess they never owned it per se, but it's cool that the untalented Bob Evans just straight up stole their joke to profit from it

E: The Kid Stays in the Picture audiobook is better than any podcast Robert Evans will ever make
Yeah and some dipshit from Vice scolded him for being "out of his lane" when he posted about how he was kind of annoyed that so many people were using it

Breadallelogram
Oct 9, 2012


TheSlutPit posted:

As opposed to stealing the joke to name a forums thread, quote the joke hundreds of times a day and make gang tags referencing the joke.

Yeah that is pretty different from getting paid millions of dollars by iHeartRadio to use that name for a group of podcasts

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Shipon posted:

Yeah and some dipshit from Vice scolded him for being "out of his lane" when he posted about how he was kind of annoyed that so many people were using it

that article owned

There's been a clash of ideologies when it comes to jokes like this. On the one hand, they're very funny. On the other, activists and organizers want people to focus on what this uprising is about : Black people, their humanity, and the racist violence enacted upon them. As much as a period of political upheaval is what this country clearly needs—when the president of the United States threatens to send the military to quell protests, we don't have any other choice—we need to follow the leads of the people affected. For their sake, we can't romanticize The Cool Zone. For every example of incredible activism in the face of an out-of-control police force, there are also protesters being disappeared in Chicago, or NYPD officers driving their cars into crowds.

At the same time, thinking about what I am living through as The Cool Zone is the only way I can make sense of it. Most of the time in America, I am resigned to the way things are. I spent many years resigned to the fact that I am treated differently by the police from my white peers. I have always played by our society's racist rules, knowing that doing all the right things will not necessarily keep me or my future children from being killed by police anyway. In The Cool Zone, that's no longer a certainty. Another way to define The Cool Zone is as a place in human history when anything feels possible. Empires toppled during other historical Cool Zones. Kings are beheaded in The Cool Zone. In The Cool Zone, marginalized groups are given a voice, and fascism can be beaten back.

lol

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Xaris posted:

that article owned

There's been a clash of ideologies when it comes to jokes like this. On the one hand, they're very funny. On the other, activists and organizers want people to focus on what this uprising is about : Black people, their humanity, and the racist violence enacted upon them. As much as a period of political upheaval is what this country clearly needs—when the president of the United States threatens to send the military to quell protests, we don't have any other choice—we need to follow the leads of the people affected. For their sake, we can't romanticize The Cool Zone. For every example of incredible activism in the face of an out-of-control police force, there are also protesters being disappeared in Chicago, or NYPD officers driving their cars into crowds.

At the same time, thinking about what I am living through as The Cool Zone is the only way I can make sense of it. Most of the time in America, I am resigned to the way things are. I spent many years resigned to the fact that I am treated differently by the police from my white peers. I have always played by our society's racist rules, knowing that doing all the right things will not necessarily keep me or my future children from being killed by police anyway. In The Cool Zone, that's no longer a certainty. Another way to define The Cool Zone is as a place in human history when anything feels possible. Empires toppled during other historical Cool Zones. Kings are beheaded in The Cool Zone. In The Cool Zone, marginalized groups are given a voice, and fascism can be beaten back.

lol

lmao reading this a year later is just hilarious, absolutely nothing changed you dork!!! all that happened was you got everyone in the media using the most annoying language possible

TheSlutPit
Dec 26, 2009

Breadallelogram posted:

Yeah that is pretty different from getting paid millions of dollars by iHeartRadio to use that name for a group of podcasts

haha for sure but you have to admit there’s some superficial irony in criticizing bob evans for appropriating a Twitter catchphrase, of all things

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Congrats to Cum Town on getting Nanette to guest for the premium episode. You made it, baby.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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Xaris posted:

clearchannel is basically a sinclair-esque conservative network that spent a lot of hte 90s through mid 2000s buying up small local/regional stations and turning them into syndicated fox re-postings and championing imperialism n war, union-busting, and neoliberal economics lol


these motherfuckers murdered broadcast radio. I want to throw them into a pit

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


Oneiros posted:

a recent episode they had some anarchist going on about how a stranger helping him up off the street after he crashed his bike was revolutionary action

peak anarchist content

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Jonny 290 posted:

these motherfuckers murdered broadcast radio. I want to throw them into a pit

:capitalism:

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

listening to RWN and American Prestige's emergency pods on Afghanistan and you're struck about how little even Western lefties know about the Middle East
they're pretty much referring to the same English language twitter stuff that we follow

same thing with China - you'd figure there'd be a lot of potential to have native Chinese guests to talk about contemporary Chinese politics but instead we get lukewarm takes by white dudes who just reference English language books/essays they've read recently

TheMightyBoops
Nov 1, 2016

shrike82 posted:

listening to RWN and American Prestige's emergency pods on Afghanistan and you're struck about how little even Western lefties know about the Middle East
they're pretty much referring to the same English language twitter stuff that we follow

same thing with China - you'd figure there'd be a lot of potential to have native Chinese guests to talk about contemporary Chinese politics but instead we get lukewarm takes by white dudes who just reference English language books/essays they've read recently

90% of the books on Audible to do with the Middle East are all trash written by operator dipshits called like “Reaper: tales of a lone sniper.”


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TheMightyBoops has issued a correction as of 02:44 on Aug 17, 2021

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

joepinetree posted:

The follow up to this tweet in "the mujaheddin are not the taliban, read a book" which is the sort of technically correct observation that doesn't actually contradict the point that people are making, but is said in an attempt to try to obfuscate the argument.

Yeah, the Taliban are not the mujaheddin. But most of the founders of the taliban were part of the mujaheddin, and were trained and armed with ISI and CIA money. The technically true point that lots of mujaheddin did not join the taliban and even fought against it does not change the point that the taliban leadership started out as mujaheddin and were propped up and armed by ISI and the US.

lol the ACKSHULLY is coming from inside c-spam

quote:

The taliban were not CIA related as far as I know

If you’re thinking of the Mujahadeen ,well, that was who Karzai’s family ran drugs abroad to fund, and Karzai is who the USA immediately placed into power

But I wouldn’t expect CSpammers to know any history lol

nikosoft
Dec 17, 2011

ghost in the shell, but somehow much worse
College Slice

shrike82 posted:

listening to RWN and American Prestige's emergency pods on Afghanistan and you're struck about how little even Western lefties know about the Middle East
they're pretty much referring to the same English language twitter stuff that we follow

same thing with China - you'd figure there'd be a lot of potential to have native Chinese guests to talk about contemporary Chinese politics but instead we get lukewarm takes by white dudes who just reference English language books/essays they've read recently

I think this makes sense for the emergency pods due to the language barrier, I think longterm they'll probably have guests from the region and/or more familiar with what's happening on the ground.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

"my username on JDate was KKKatie"

new cumtown off to a good start

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

shrike82 posted:

listening to RWN and American Prestige's emergency pods on Afghanistan and you're struck about how little even Western lefties know about the Middle East
they're pretty much referring to the same English language twitter stuff that we follow

same thing with China - you'd figure there'd be a lot of potential to have native Chinese guests to talk about contemporary Chinese politics but instead we get lukewarm takes by white dudes who just reference English language books/essays they've read recently

1. Afghanistan is not in the middle east

2. Carl zha is not a white westerner

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I had to tap out on Behind the Bastards because it’s just too sad and hosed up to listen to that poo poo all the time but I will go to bat for Cody Johnston, I like his messaging and his vibe. Both of his podcasts are good to listen to, yes even the one with Robert. Even More News is a week-in-review news podcasts and Worst Year Ever is

tokin opposition posted:

angry lib mad about history

lmao definitely not this at all, it’s just Katy, Robert, and Cody doing a more heavily political podcast that specifically started because they thought 2020 would be the worst year ever politically but it ended up being just the worst year ever for other reasons and after 2020 they saw no indication that a name change was necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZhW1k_m7OY

His YouTube show is really good content, his podcast is a good weekly news breakdown and his writing team are extremely thorough and clever. I don’t have many nice things to say about Katie and I don’t care if Robert is a bellingcat spook because literally who gives a poo poo.

Bust Rodd has issued a correction as of 03:23 on Aug 17, 2021

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Bust Rodd posted:

I had to tap out on Behind the Bastards because it’s just too sad and hosed up to listen to that poo poo all the time but I will go to bat for Cody Johnston, I like his messaging and his vibe. Both of his podcasts are good to listen to, yes even the one with Robert. Even More News is a week-in-review news podcasts and Worst Year Ever is

lmao definitely not this at all, it’s just Katy, Robert, and Cody doing a more heavily political podcast that specifically started because they thought 2020 would be the worst year ever politically but it ended up being just the worst year ever for other reasons and after 2020 they saw no indication that a name change was necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZhW1k_m7OY

His YouTube show is really good content, his podcast is a good weekly news breakdown and his writing team are extremely thorough and clever. I don’t have many nice things to say about Katie and I literally don’t care if Robert is a bellingcat spook because literally who gives a poo poo.

Worst Year Ever is literally unlistenable. It’s basically “what if Chapo but woker and able to meet iHeart editorial standards”

I have a friend who’s into it and JFC she’s played it in car rides and I just want to claw my ears out

Orb Crabmelt
Jan 16, 2011

Nyorp.
Clapping Larry
Never thought I'd hear Katie Halper on Cum Town but these are strange times we're living in.

joepinetree
Apr 5, 2012

crepeface posted:

lol the ACKSHULLY is coming from inside c-spam

I don't know if these people are really smart and dishonest trying to trip other people up on technicalities or really dumb and ignorant suffering from a bit of dunning kruger.

Mujaheddin in the Afghan context refers to the many different groups and militias that fought against Soviet occupation and the socialist government. As such, the Taliban, which was founded years after the end of the Soviet occupation, are not the same thing as the Mujaheddin.

But every single person in the original leadership of the Taliban fought as a mujaheddin, and most of them fought for either Hezb-e-Islami or one of its splinter groups, which were the groups that received the bulk of US funding because "fanatics fight better."

So if the argument is "are the taliban the mujaheddin?" the answer is no, because while some mujaheddin joined the Taliban, others opposed it. But if the argument is "did the US and ISI help train and fund the people who would eventually form the Taliban" the answer is yes. Of course, this always comes up in the discussion of the latter context, but people try to argue the former to try to distract from that basic truth.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I don’t think Worst Year Ever is anything like Chapo Trap House at all, other than they are both podcasts. I really cannot think of anything they do or say in the same vein, I wouldnt even say that WYE is funny.

The worst thing I’ll say about it is that Katie is a recovering Liz-Lady and sometimes she gets these really strong “THIS IS OBVIOUSLY ABOUT SEXISM” girl boss energy vibes and is honestly PRECISELY the type of podcaster that the new episode of Cum Town is making fun of. I dunno, I just really like the Cracked crew and think Codie is v funny :shrug:

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

katie halper likes to boast that she kickstarted Chapo :shrug:

Bill Brasky
Apr 13, 2008

shrike82 posted:

katie halper likes to boast that she kickstarted Chapo :shrug:

the famous Katie Halper show bump.

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Bust Rodd posted:

I don’t think Worst Year Ever is anything like Chapo Trap House at all, other than they are both podcasts. I really cannot think of anything they do or say in the same vein, I wouldnt even say that WYE is funny.

The worst thing I’ll say about it is that Katie is a recovering Liz-Lady and sometimes she gets these really strong “THIS IS OBVIOUSLY ABOUT SEXISM” girl boss energy vibes and is honestly PRECISELY the type of podcaster that the new episode of Cum Town is making fun of. I dunno, I just really like the Cracked crew and think Codie is v funny :shrug:

Yeah it’s nothing like Chapo because it’s terrible but Chapo was clearly the inspiration and what they’re trying to cargo cult reproduce. Idk. Maybe it’s better or changed I haven’t had the misfortune of hearing it in quite a while but I did not find it funny, compelling, insightful, or interesting :shrug:

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Again, I really don’t think you could be misrepresenting it any harder, the audio format of the content is the beginning and ending of any similarities. they don’t ever do reading series or book or film reviews, they don’t do bits, they just discuss current events and occasionally have guests.

unless you’re saying “all political podcasts are just Chapo” I really have no idea what you’re referring to and I’ve listened to every episode.

TheSlutPit
Dec 26, 2009

crepeface posted:

lol the ACKSHULLY is coming from inside c-spam

it's really hard to read that thread because i can't tell which posts are unsourced quotes from d&d/offsite and which are serious takes

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HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Bust Rodd posted:

Again, I really don’t think you could be misrepresenting it any harder, the audio format of the content is the beginning and ending of any similarities. they don’t ever do reading series or book or film reviews, they don’t do bits, they just discuss current events and occasionally have guests.

unless you’re saying “all political podcasts are just Chapo” I really have no idea what you’re referring to and I’ve listened to every episode.

Idk man that was my takeaway from the handful I’ve heard and I’m not going to go listen to any more if I can help it but you do you and if you like that’s cool

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