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The Patreon episode this month was goddamn hilarious, I love when they do weird books like “something a 9 year old wrote in 1890”. I’ve only been listening to this for a month or so and I love it. I was kind of surprised that a lot of people in this thread don’t like Collision too much, I think he’s a pretty good cohost. Though, like I said, only been listening for a little while, maybe I’ll get sick of him.
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neongrey posted:, but I mostly listen for two people with big dad energy talking adjacent to a book than anything else. Actually, this is pretty much my thing too, they’re just...pleasant to listen to, I guess. It’s also why I love the episodes where they do a musician’s biography, because they’re both so into music it ends up veering way off the book into some really interesting stuff.
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Feb 4, 2020 02:14
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Bust Rodd posted:I like JW more than I like Collision but sometimes when I'm listening to JW at work I wanna jump up and down and scream "JUST BLOW YOUR NOSE YOU GOOBER!" like Jesus dude can you BREATHE? Oh man, Good to know I’m not the only one, there were a few times in this newest episode I could really hear it.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:33
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I’ve been going through the archives since I have a really long daily commute, and I got to an episode where they had the hosts of the Worst Bestsellers on, and holy crap, that was awful. I had to skip it within ten minutes, they’re just incredibly unpleasant to listen to.
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Mar 31, 2020 15:57
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:As a huge TWB fan, I must protest. It’s something about their accents, mixed with the fact they’re both really high pitched and also talk with incredible amounts of vocal fry, which I never even usually notice. I just can’t stand it, it’s like nails on a chalkboard.
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Mar 31, 2020 23:30
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Man, I was excited to see that an episode dropped last week and I hadn’t noticed. Put it on in the car and heard it had the people from the worst bestsellers on it and turned it right off. Major bummer. I just cannot stand their voices at all.
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May 18, 2020 13:42
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Youth Decay posted:But they just sound like ordinary average women? To my ears anyway. The Worst Bestsellers podcast is great too because they explore genres IDEOTV stays away from. Bad romance and YA novels are their own special kind of hilarious. It’s a mix of accent and the vocal fry or something. I don’t know why specifically, but they’re the only podcasters I have that reaction to.
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May 23, 2020 00:31
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Rochallor posted:Vocal fry is an actual quality of the human voice (listen for the stuttering/rattling at the lower edge of your vocal range), but it's thrown around a lot as a reason people who don't like women talking can point to instead of sexism. I honestly don't think it has any effect on the enjoyment or otherwise of podcasts or radio. Of anybody on this episode, Jay probably exhibits it more than either of the guests. It may just be how I hear their crap audio quality that someone else mentioned. I’m not great at explaining why certain sounds grate, just that they do, and listening to them sucks for me.
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May 23, 2020 16:23
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IDEOTV is at its best when they’re talking about book-adjacent stuff, with the “oh god what the gently caress” stuff a close second. It’s why the autobiography episodes are the best, especially the musician ones. Looking forwards to listening to the new episode today, I have no idea how they went this long without doing a Dresden Files book.
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May 25, 2020 10:55
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Paladin posted:Odd question-- I listened to episode 145 about JK Rowling's terrible mystery novel due to current events, and they mention a previously reviewed novel that heavily references the band Clutch. That's very much something I'm interested in hearing about due to a years long Clutch obsession. Any idea what book/episode they're referring to? The Cabin at the End of the World. They didn’t do an episode on it, it was part of one episode’s recommendations.
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Jun 11, 2020 11:31
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And Jeb Lund is on this one, with his actual professional-grade recording stuff! It’s nice having a guest who doesn’t have jacked up sound quality.
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Jul 7, 2020 02:01
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Did anyone else get annoyed they confused Clive Owen and Liam Neeson in the Series of Unfortunate Events episode? Especially attributing Neeson’s racist interview comments to Owen.
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Jul 9, 2020 00:40
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I generally like this podcast despite its flaws, but this latest episode had basically everything that drives me nuts about it dialed up to 11, from the long warning at the beginning, to Chris purple prosing his way through plot in a goddamn hour, to whatever that “crap colored glasses” hairsplitting was. Does it get better after the first twenty minutes?
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Jul 22, 2020 23:54
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I feel like Atlanta Nights is a pretty  choice for a show about bad books. I feel like they’ve been in a slump lately, has anyone listened to this one yet? I’m not even sure if I should bother.
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Sep 19, 2020 15:28
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I haven't been able to muster interest since Handbook for Mortals. Looking at my podcasts app, that’s around when my listens started being increasingly unfinished. There were some good ones in there (anything music adjacent is still good) but yeah, it feels like the amount of interesting material fell off a cliff. I think now a big part is that I’m out of back episodes I’m interested in so when a new episode sucks I really notice it.
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Sep 19, 2020 20:20
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mycelia posted:I miss the bad musician books. More of those. Maybe they're low hanging fruit but it's 2020 we deserve low hanging fruit. I like the musician book episodes because both the hosts really love music so you get a ton of digressions they’re really enthusiastic about, and enthusiasm is what the show’s really been missing lately. And yeah, more Lemon would be good, it’s a bummer he wasn’t able to do the Zardoz episode. That would have been incredible.
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Sep 20, 2020 16:18
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Jurgan posted:J got really salty about that one. A lot of people were defending the book in the Facebook group. Plus, someone made a favorable comparison to Roald Dahl, and that really set him off about Dahl's antisemitism. The Dahl thing really reminds me of what’s annoyed me about this show, where they’ll do a giant content warning about the slightest whiff of anything offensive. It comes across less as them being offended by something and more them making a big deal of having you know they think it’s offensive. Yeah, Dahl was a shithead but he wrote a lot of really good and influential stuff, and if you’re going to throw a shitfit because people like it that’s a bit much.
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Oct 2, 2020 08:24
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A slower schedule would definitely help and it looks like they’re kind of doing that, I noticed an episode didn’t drop in Sunday.
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Oct 2, 2020 12:22
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Gargamel Gibson posted:They've done a bunch of her books. But yes. They did one pretty recently, I think. Pretty sure it was within the last year.
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Oct 3, 2020 21:52
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Bust Rodd posted:Yeah that episode was good I thought For sure. It’s one of the ones I started with after enjoying their Girl With a Dragon Tattoo episode and it got me pretty hooked.
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Oct 3, 2020 21:56
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I haven’t finished the newest episode (my shorter commute is making podcasts take waaaay longer to get through) but so far it’s actually... fun again? The break and the totally different book format at least got them out of the traps dragging down some of the other episodes this year.
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promising carl posted:I'm sure he mentioned in the Party Pit but I'm too lazy to log back into Facebook to check. Someone said they had it but won’t post it, and I’m not gonna bother dming them. I DMed Collison already so if he replies I’ll post it here. E: “In the second nude scene of the picture, he leaned in and said “I BET IT TASTES JUST LIKE STEAK AND ONIONS” That’s it? Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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