Wow, didn't see that coming. Just last episode Dan & John were talking about reviving the movie review series with Hitchcock. I wonder if it has something to do with bringing Dalrymple on full time on Amplified, or Dan's persistent admonishment of Gruber's use of wifi during recording, or maybe Monteiro poached him with a paycheck. Yeah I know it makes me a bit of a jackass to speculate like a celebrity gossip writer, but this is infinitely more interesting to me than real celebrities.
Summary: Dan used to listen to podcasts daily, used to get a real feel for the people he was listening too. So he thinks it's a bit of a shame they can't even do a "one last show." But he wishes all the best.
I love listening to 5by5 episodes. Mainly the siracusa one, and at some point I'll check out Grubers new podcast. My thoughts are that losing Dan from the show is a negative, he's a great speaker with a soothing voice and I enjoy the smalltalk he makes.
This incident also sheds a different light on another tidbit on talk show history.
In one of the earlier episodes of the 5by5 version Dan and John were talking about how Dan's recommendation of "Silent Running" to John basically ended the first run of the talk show. At the time I thought that was just a joke. But after this I'm really wondering if that supposed friendship between the two wasn't all that strong after all.
Striking juxtaposition of this statement to the "new" Talk Show, (http://muleradio.net/thetalkshow/1/) in which Gruber makes zero mention of Dan or his decision to move on, and instead chooses to start things off talking about.. baseball.
> I also didn’t realize that almost all of the callers are uncredited celebrities.
Yes! That's another sort of 'easter egg' I found when I rewatched it. There was someone who sounded just like David Duchovny and I looked it up and down the rabbit hole I went.
Hypercritical is by far my favorite podcast, it took the top spot on my playlists from the Talk Show a long time ago. I get the impression Siracusa does that podcast for fun, not profit and would never ditch Dan like Gruber has.
Yes, it is a relatively niche comedy podcast so it isn't that common to run into fans outside of that niche. But on the other hand I'm also a baseball fan and hadn't heard of him until yesterday so it was a little surprising to see his name again immediately. Plus the story of his name is too memorable for this to just be the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Just a funny coincidence I guess.
Many guests, for Joe and Lex, say that they are fans that listen to the podcast. At least some of these people do it because they're passionate about what they do, and want to talk about it with someone who they enjoy.
Insight porn is another way of describing it. And these guests tend to do more than one podcast in a short period of time which, coupled with social media, contributes to the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon[0].
Mike Monteiro was good (but I haven't heard much from him, lately). He seems to channel "The Angry Designer." I enjoyed his "F**k You, Pay Me" talk[0].
That was a great podcast, and the entirety of Kean's journalistic research and integrity basically amounts to "I trust Grusch because he seems like a decent guy and I've been told he's trustworthy. But yeah, he's never seen any UFO, just reports and heard people talk about them, but since I trust him, I implicitly trust their words as well."
I love how Ezra asks her obvious questions about her research like "how is it possible the Pentagon approves of people talking about UFO retrieval if it is such a close-guarded secret?" and she says "good question! I'm not entirely sure!". Seriously? You haven't asked yourself that question before?
This entire UFO saga comes from people with X-files' "I want to believe" poster in their office, and they don't let confirmation bias stop them.
First thing that came to my lay mind as well. Really interesting episode with him talking about it on Lex Fridman's podcast. Feels like there's something there.
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