He's just going to keep getting more like this for the rest of his life, which is a bummer, but there's something funny about how sincerely Aaron Rodgers believes that he is doing something heroic by listening to extremely bad podcasts and then describing them to people who aren't interested.
There are a lot of good podcasts and they have added value to my life. But the level of bad that the worst podcasts can achieve is astonishing. Kind of a major human achievement in its own right to invent "three hours of very dumb men one-upping each other with weird lies about the pyramids."
Today of all days I was reminded I once did a podcast about OJ Simpson in the style of Serial using nothing but information readily available on Wikipedia. I don’t know what I was aiming for but I sure missed
Of course, I watched Alex Jones as a sidekick to a Branch Davidian/Ruby Ridge/OKC conspiracy call-in cable access show circa 1995, but at least that had production value as the kind of godfather of podcasts. Art Bell didn't just read Wikipedia pages and call it a show.
It's sorta like how Alex Jones used to just be an amusing local oddity on public access and now he owes a like billion dollars to victims of an unthinkable tragedy
I used to do long road trips through Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado where you only have those zany radio stations to listen, the zanies were always there but mostly alone/zero reach
yeah like Rogan would still be on radio trying to sell hypervectin pills made by a relative but on FM radio with nobody listening on Sunday at 11pm, not the podcast giant he is today
I've made the comment before that a certain, shall we say, Rho Brogan, has been a top-5 harmful-to-american-society guy over the past 8-10 years. Or is at least both very harmful and nearly as annoying.
This always used to exist but it was your friends weird older brother and his two friends that would hang out in the basement all day and show you the “faces of death” vhs
it's such a high ceiling and low floor is the thing. there's shit that's legit funny, artful, researched and reported, and there's shit that's 3 dudes with the worst opinions you'll ever hear listing them all like they're facts
It's wild. Like, I get the appeal of a podcast that's essentially just you hanging out with good natured idiot frat stars but these aren't even that, it's hanging out with the worst people at the party
I grew up listening to NPR/Talk Radio and audiobooks, particularly during long car rides.
For a whole lot of reasons, podcasting feels like a big improvement to what came before. Especially after Clear Channel flattened radio, it's been the dandelion in the pavement crack of car content.
For a minute I was convinced Rodgers was doing an elaborate bit to force his way out, especially when he showed up in New York and started acting halfway normal. But that didn't last very long. 😂
Nah, I did wonder if he would maybe try to pull it back (at least publicly) for a bit after getting to NY, and maybe he might have a bit if he hadn’t gotten hurt so quickly. But it was clear for a while that his brain was becoming more worms than grey matter.
It's honestly wild that he hosted a week's worth of Jeopardy without detailing the show by, like, insisting that an answer about how the pyramids got built was wrong
I remember J! fans were stoked for him to guest host. He had won celebrity jeopardy in 2015 and seemed to really like knowledge/trivia.
Seems like his brain broke right after that. Certainly not the only dude to throw himself down the right-wing rabbit hole during COVID.
Meanwhile Favre is still in Tuscany, eating expensive veal and telling uninterested Italians about the evils of DEI and complaining that Renaissance statues are "too homo."
Gotta appreciate how smart he thinks he is, too. Not once did he say to himself 'Jenny McCarthy was really out in front of this' and just stop doing it
That domino meme with "the 49ers choose the wrong QB" and "arguably the most talented QB to ever play has a podcast about treating cancer with Ivermectin"
