Who Are These Podcasts? - Ep69 - WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode Date: August 7, 2017

WATP takes a break from punching down and reviews a podcast you may have heard of and possibly heard. WTF with Marc Maron is a good show... but it could be better. Chris joins the show to agree with Karl on every point and also make mouth noises. Still not convinced you should listen to this episode? Here's a selling point, it's way funnier than WTF. Granted, that's not hard to do. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's show time. Just a handful that don't suck And that's where we come in My cat reviews like a global command to write Chris W-A-T-P W-A-T-P Who are these partners? W-H-P

Who likes these partners? Not W-H-E Who likes these partners? That one's beyond me Who are these partners? W-H-T-P debut. Long time listener, first time co-host, Chris. Chris, welcome. Thank you for having me.

Thanks for joining us. Yes. I'd like to remind our listeners that you can visit us at whoarethese.com, our Facebook page, or on Twitter, at whoarethesepod. If you like what you hear, don't forget to give us a positive five-star review on iTunes. And I will tell you, in the last couple episodes,

we've been dealing with a shit storm, with our iTunes reviews that has Subsided we've gotten some positive responses lately, so thank you Keep it up today. We'll be reviewing a podcast called WTF with Mark Marin Chris and I have both listened to the show separately. We have not discussed it with each other very much beforehand So let's get into it Chris. This was actually before hand. So let's get into it. Chris, this was actually your suggestion to do WTF and we don't oftentimes take on huge podcasts. We did you know my dad wrote a porno. We did what was that really piece of crap podcast that

everybody loves. Oh the one on NPR. Yeah, what's that one called? Astao. The one Patrick Stewart. Astao. Oh, well, yeah, he does on NPR. Yeah, what's that one called? Astound. The one with Patrick Stewart. Astound. Oh, well, yeah, he does some NPR. I want to do that. Oh, right. Astound. Yeah. So WTF is a huge podcast.

One of the biggest ones out there. Everyone knows about it. Yeah. He had Barack Obama when he was the president. I'm the show and a really big deal. So, you know, we were tackling this podcast from a place of, we know this is a great podcast that people like. We know it's a podcast that people like. Right. Yes, the charts show that. This is true. And I had a little personal backstory.

This was my idea because you asked me if I wanted to do this thing and I said, no, originally because I didn't think I had anything to offer. And I wanted to do this thing and I said, no, originally because I didn't think I had anything to offer. And I happened to be listening to a WTF, not too long ago while I was doing the floor at work, I'm a bar manager. And I had to turn off because I could not stand the vibe of his interviewing style. And I come from a place where I was a fan once.

So I have a little bit of input because I'm not an arbitrary hater of this. Okay. So I used to really enjoy listening to him and he turned a corner. We listened to episode 831. There was an interview with Randy Newman. That was the one I teased last week.

And then Chris and I listened to that episode. Mark Marz, a huge rating, Newman fan. So the interview was a little bit weird. He was more polite than usual. Yes. So then we also listened to Weird Al from July 5th, 2016. So we have some clips and reviews from two of the podcasts that Mark has done.

And you know, you talk about his interviewing style. And I have a clip on here that this is him interviewing Weird Al. And I call this weird energy back and forth. And it's more about the interviewer than an interview E because I've heard Weird Al on a lot of different shows. And listen to how bizarre this energy is. Do you have any compulsive collectible? Well, I'm just a hoarder. I would have totally been on that show if I hadn't got married.

You can still be on the show. No, I could. So, every hoarder is yet to come. That would be a good one. I think it'll happen. It's just a lot of talking over each other and not giving it a lot of space or room. Agreed. And this is common with the show. I've listened to, like I said, and not giving it a lot of space or room.

Agreed, and this is common with the show. I've listened to, like I said, a lot of WTF in the past. Mark Maren talks probably 60% of the time, giving his guess 40%. I'm guessing there. You might have more numbers on this, but. Yeah, I do have the statistics. I thought those in a little bit. Okay, good.

Here is Mark doing what he does best, talking about Mark. I had the poster from Easy Rider of Dennis Hopper flipping off the camera. I had, I had Mountain's second album. I had the Beatles second album. I had, I had my parents. I had the Credence Queerwater record. And I used to read Mad Magazine. Can you be more specific Mark?

Wait, which album of the Beatles did you have? Yeah. Which song on the mountain album did you like the best? Because you didn't even explain that yet. We haven't gotten into it. This is a podcast where you interview someone. And that was actually in the context of why he was never silly as a young person.

That's true. That's true. That's true. This is how it's explaining that. So this is Mark explaining how he was raised. You'll be shocked to hear this. I just was brought up by very selfish people by very narcissistic people. There weren't many boundaries. What a story, Mark. So I have to tell you that as a room fan, I was excited that the host of the show is named Mark.

Because I can throw all my room perfectly. Very nice work. So Mark does make everything about him. And again, this is a good show. As podcasts go, the broadcasting, the quality, everything about it is good. I'm just pointing out that Mark is supposed to be interviewing people and he always makes it about him. This is why I had to stop listening after. Right. So here's a little compilation I put together. This is from two minutes worth of audio and I just took all the eyes and together. So that was I mean me. So I got you know, I'm I don't I don't I but I thought I was like I had I actually I was just but I don't know I guess You were working in your favorite stuff today. You're in a good day. The room price. Yeah, I was

shout out to to the band GIF Shop from New York who spent the night at my house last night. That was a very late party with those guys. So it's, it's good for your brain. It's good for your brain. It's a awful brain. Hey, that's my joke. Oh.

There's one of the things that Mark Marin does right off the bat is he reads commercials. He's terrible at reading. No shit. He's really bad. He brings this obnoxious energy that's so unnatural. When you read a spot, you're supposed to be like your broadcasting because that's how it works for the advertiser.

People think it's content and so they listen to you like, oh, I'm going to try this blue apron thing. It sounds delicious. But listen to the way this asshole reads a spot. Hey folks, listen up from the creators and executive producers Mark and J. DuPlaus comes a new anthology series called Room 104 premiering July 28th at 11 30 p.m. on HBO. Set in a single room of an average American motel, each episode of Room 104 tells the story of different assorted characters who pass through it. Could you imagine if we had a podcast

where we talked to each other like this the whole time, Chris. I will watch that show if you stop yelling my fucking ears. Watch it right now, why aren't you watching it yet? I will! I will! All right, here's a clip that I call of you stab yelling my fucking ears. What's it right now? Why aren't you watching it yet? I won't. I won't show. All right, here's a clip that I call more yelling the read. Here's a, here's a different spot that he does. That's why Zippercruder is different.

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It's not a morning zoo. It's hard to listen to because I get tense. I get tense listening to this guy. Yeah. And that reads specifically, reminding me of something. I decided tense listening to this guy. Yeah. Yeah. And that reads specifically reminded me of something I decided to just speed it up slightly and Go ahead and pop that in with the micro machines guys. See if you can figure out which one is which That's why supercuders different unlike other jobsites

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It's identical I thought that was all the same act. Yeah, so wait a second. I could get employees and a tiny vehicle. I mean... I was wondering what stamps.com thought of his delivery while I was listening to... To these companies that advertise on these podcasts, I've never heard one of their spots. Oh, they must not have. Yeah, so they would not continue with this. There's no quality control that's going on at all.

So Mark starts to talk about a book that he has coming out. And this is going back to the Randy Newman podcast. You heard this, right? Yes. So he's got a book coming out, which is bizarre because it's based on a rambling podcast. So I'm not sure how that'll be good, but this is him plugging his book. You know, as I've told you, we've got a book coming out in October called Waiting

for the Punch, Words to Live by from the WTF podcast. And I kind of want to give you a good idea of what the book is about. But I also want to say that there's already feedback coming in from the few copies that are out in the world that we gave away at book con and some people have gotten hold of them. It's really compelling and powerful and I'm very proud of it. Who gives a shit, who gives a fuck?

So it's interesting that he would have a book based on WTF, which is an interview show. And what he does is he teases the book by playing clips from it. He has this part where he says, there's a chapter on relationships where I have Conan O'Brien, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Rob Reiner. So I think it's just someone who transcribes the podcast and prints it. Is that the... Is that what you got? I'm saying it's lazy.

It's extremely lazy. Because that's what I'm getting. It's extremely I'm getting it's extremely lazy so this is Mel Brooks and so he plays this clip and He plays Mel Brooks talking about Something that is crazy to me. This is the most pretentious and self-important thing I've ever heard he's talking about having conversations with Karl Reiner. He's trying to one up each other. Yeah, we try to really amaze each other with where we're going with our minds. Yeah, yeah.

And we're still pretty good at it. We try to amaze each other with where we're going with our minds. Oh, and we're still pretty good at it. Yeah, if not 110, you can say that, I suppose. Hold on a second. I just want to bring this down. So Mel Brooks is, you know, obviously everyone knows him. He's a legend.

This is Mel Brooks in his prime. This is the genius comedy of Mel Brooks. I just want to remind everybody. I'm ready. This is the guy who's trying to amaze the other person with where he's going with his mind. Go to my uncle, right? All right. Who is he? He's an asshole, sir the other person with where he's going with his mind? Go to the manco, right? Alright. Who is he?

He's an asshole, sir. I know that. What's his name? That is his name, sir. Asshole, major asshole. And his cousin? He's an asshole, too, sir. Gunn is made first class fill up asshole. How many assholes we got on this ship anyhow?

Go! I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes. All right, so I know everybody has a special place there. Heart for Spaceballs. Not me. But that is a garbage. Movie. That's a garbage scene. He's like, all right, here's the joke.

The guy's an asshole. His last name is asshole, right? Yeah. Let's go with that. Let's make that a part that actually doesn't get edited out of a major motion picture. How is that possible? Anyway, Mel Brooks is amazing, and we all love him.

All right, there was a weird part where Mel Brooks actually talks about me, which was pretty cool, so I decided to pull that out. Oh, Mr. Trey Knight's a week. I'll be a Carl's house. Yeah. Carl loves wet hand jobs. He's got my number.

I know you. This guy knows me. It's amazing. All right. All right, so I want to get into the Weird Al episode. Please do. And the Weird Al episode was interesting. I will tell you that I'm a bit of a weird

elf fan. I grew up in that time when, you know, being a little kid, you thought that, you know, someone singing about being fat was hilarious. And, you know, it's slightly ashamed of it, but whenever, you know, I'll own that. Apparently- You were 112? Yeah, I was eight. And apparently Mark Marin doesn't know the weird out is, doesn't understand what his deal is, and asks a lot of weird, awkward questions. He assumes that the accordion is an awful instrument. And this is a clip that I call him asking weird out doesn't the accordion suck is pretty much what he's doing

Well, but then when you first got the accordion though, wasn't there part of you? I mean who were your musical heroes at that time? Where weren't you a little pissed off? I mean I have to be I imagine that being saddled with an accordion or a clarinet or a Bassoon but the accordion at least has a little more range it seems to me like you're the ex- Bob Mark Clarenad or a bassoon but the accordion at least has a little more rain. It seems to me like you're the ex- Boobmark. What a weird fucking question to ask a very accomplished musician. Yes, so you got the accordion? That sucks, right?

You play the accordion? That's got to blow. Like, well, this is typical of a professional accordion play. Right. This is typical of his style and I know we're only referring to two shows, but it does span his catalog where he asked a question where he's already giving the answer right and he's hoping that his guess is gonna agree and I really like it when they don't by the way yes it does come up frequently it does come up frequently like why would

you assume that he you know I actually wrote a note down here that he projects his own thoughts on the people. Rather than be open minded and say, accordion, you know, why did you pick this? What's the deal? Instead, he thinks, listen to this clip where this is actually a little while after that, where he assumes that everyone hated ale, Yankebeck, because he played the accordion. So when you were a kid, so six years old, you're straddled with this accordion. I mean, was there, I mean, how did the other kids respond was there were you not sure as a kid that's a weird question right here you have this super

talented really funny I mean that's debatable but weird house a funny guy yeah he's super creative witty and he's like so what I'm fucking hated you right he sounds resentful of Elle's career. Right? It makes zero sense. Like why would you have this guy in your show? Just to tell, you sucked in high school, right? Everyone hated you. And then here's a clip that I have where, like we talk about, he's projecting onto his guess.

He can only relate things in the world and his life to himself. And here's an example of that. You don't seem like to have that weird menacing darkness. Yeah. I heard that too and I'm like, what the fuck? We're a thing to say to a guy who makes child-friendly parody songs.

Yeah. You don't seem to have darkness. Yeah. No shit. Right. There's no darkness at all. Yeah. Could you just be a, you know, a happy guy?

I apparently not. Joyce Life. Although to be fair to Marin, he does bring up the fact Yeah, could you just be a you know a happy guy? Apparently not Joyce life Although I to be fair to Marin he does bring up the fact that L is sweet several times. Yes, and it's almost a little condescending But whatever it's a little kind of thing This is this is funny. So this is how the interview starts and You would think I don't interview people. It's not my job. I think I'd be good at it because I'm a narcissist, but you would think that you would have

your first couple of questions. So let me go. Was that make you good at it? If you're a narcissist. No, I said I think I would be good at it. Oh, okay. I'm afraid that you'd be good at it. I'm afraid that you'd be good at it.

Right, okay. But you would think that when you start an interview with somebody you're gonna do an hour with this person you'd have the first few questions kind of mapped out this is a weird way to start the interview so Demento was your guy early on by the way weirdo was in the mentor yeah your Dementor weirdo Yankeviciks in the Cat Ranch garage here and He starts off the interview without an out-to-goos out the show or anything just go. So Demento is your guy. Yeah What Demento is your guy?

He wants to get this over with He's got one foot out the door It's by the way. Oh Man, I mean can you start a podcast over at the point? Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I fucked up. I didn't tell anyone who you were. Well, it's funny because he does this thing where he starts the show outside of the show he's going to do and he introduces, you know, I talk to Weird L. All right. All right. I talk to Randy Newman or whoever. And he's like, and here is that part of the show where I talk to Weird L. All right, all right, I talk to Randy Newman or whoever. And he's like, and here is that part of the show where I talk to this person.

And I know some shows do that, but I find that a little bit weird too. Like, why wouldn't you just start the show with that person and then get into it? Why does it have to be a whole separate thing that you then later record and then put it together in post? Well, I don't want to interrupt your flow, but you're onto something here. But you said to me in private, when we're discussing this as a possible subject, that you appreciated his stand-up before.

I did. I remember liking Mark Marin in the early 90s. I thought he was a good stand-up comedian. Okay. But I think it's that part of him that needs to do that monologue before he gets into the interview. He won't let go of that. Okay.

And he assumes that people want to hear about him cleaning out his garage. Well, he has this thing going on. And I call this like a 90s radio throwback where he does his own intro and he talks it off. And he's like, hey, we're going to do the show. It's my showabababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababab Mark Marry. Right. It'd be like if we were like, hey guys, it's W-A-T-P. With Carl and Chris. You know, it's just awkward. It's such a weird 90s radio holdover thing. It is.

And he's been using it from the get go, I believe. Dad? The one thing that, yeah, there's a lot of, and maybe that's something that I should be doing on this podcast, it's just having awkward music beds transition from part to part. Because I hear that a lot of podcasts. Also, just like this riff comes in, like that. You, you're not playing that right? Right. That's how it takes sounding things.

Yeah. Yeah, that's him, I believe. Okay. Well, that, that makes a lot of sense. It does, doesn't it? So, one of the things that I always talk about on these podcasts that we review is you have an opportunity with podcasts. You're not going live on the air.

You can fix things in post. And I get annoyed when people don't fix things in post and I get annoyed and people don't fix things in post like you're telling other people to listen to the show you couldn't listen to it one time through and fix a couple things. So Mark Barrett does this. Now not Mark, I'm sure it's somebody who works for him, but this I thought was a little bit weird because this is a really bad edit and I appreciate that he edits, but listen to how awkward this is. I'm gonna be in Miami Beach for out of this Thursday that's March 1st at the South Beach Comedy Festival. You got to make a sound like it flows you know what I mean so I actually pulled down as an ISO. March 1st at the South

Beach, March 1st at the South Beach. That's obviously two different conversations this guy was having. I just I don't know, this is a professional show. You'd think he'd be better at that kind of thing. It does sound like he's unprepared a lot of the time. And I think that's kind of a stick, right? It's money. He has this internal voice where he's not sure what's going on. This is him talking about him.

And I find this interesting, because this is how he starts out the show. Reminder, this is an interview show. Right. Thank you for tuning in, for making the choice, for hanging out with me and my mind and my guests and my mouth. So three out of the four things are him.

And it doesn't get till the third thing they talk about his guest. It's me, my mind, like, all right, calm down asshole. You're not that amazing. And I were probably gonna get shit out for this because I'm sure I'm not that amazing either. But this guy is a little bit too self-important. Right, and that, I wonder what his core audience,

you know, do they talk at the water cooler about, did you hear Marin took in a straight cat? Or whatever. No, it's a lot of, it's a lot of the shit that I say we'll never do. And now, Mark Marin is a celebrity. If you want to talk about his life, people want to hear that, I can understand that.

We never talk about our personal lives. I did mention that this band was saying at my house. I don't know if I can understand that. We never talk about our personal lives. I did mention that this band was saying at my house. I don't know if I do that. But we never talk about our personal lives because I assume no one gives a fuck and they shouldn't. Yeah, that's a good place to start. It's a good place to start. Mark Barron talks about himself so much.

And he's talking about the listeners around the water cooler. Do you think that people listen to the show have a name for themselves? I I this is something that Blows me away that he puts away on the people who listen to a show So let's do our show these show my show this show All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fucking ears? What the fuck are you? What the fuck good delix? What's happening? a mark maran? This is my podcast WTF It's so annoying to start the show with w a

You know what I'm more about podcast people have to have their thing Yeah, this is a thing that probably shouldn't dropped off a long time ago, but I'm sure he gets emails like, hey, why don't you try it with the Constable? Hey, oh, I'm right. And I'm cliffhuxedable. It's what the fuck's the fuck's the fuck? He does this and whatever.

Yeah, it's fine. There's worse things in his podcast than that, unfortunately. What are we missing here, Chris? Are we hitting all the things you wanted to hit about WTF? Yeah, I appreciate it as self-deprecating kind of thing because, you know, I think sometimes I can make for interesting fodder, but maybe complicated. I didn't pick up on that. I didn't pick up on the self deprecating.

He seems to feel really good about himself these days. I was talking about early Mark Maren when I became a fan, and it was like, okay, I don't mind listening to this little monologue about how things are going crap before him, and then he does an interview in the garage. It's humble, you know, so the sound wasn't always great, but he would have, right, surprisingly great guess, and it just built momentum. And now that self-deprecating part is gone, like you said. Yeah, he's dropping names and...

He's dropping names and he's very proud of himself. Yeah. Which is odd. Here's a clip that I can't read the entire title of, and it might... Actually relate to what we're talking about and it might not. I'm kind of this weird fascination and in love of Conjunto music. I love Mexican Conjunto music with that polka beat. I love that kind of sound. I like it. That's fascinating. Please go on. Yeah, that's right. So he just starts talking about a style of music that we're gonna have nothing to do with.

Yeah. It just explained to him that he likes that. And it was so polite. He was being so polite. What he should have said was, okay, whatever, what are we talking about? Who gives a shit? That was bizarre. And then there's this thing that he does, and I think you pointed this out to me when we were talking about doing this show. And I hate this about interviewers. They're so wrapped up with their questions that they don't listen to the answer.

Yep. If you listen to the answer, you could take the conversation in the natural direction you would if you were talking to someone in a social setting. Yes. If you and I were talking and you said something to me and I just said randomly, oh, the cup is one yesterday our conversation is over But this asshole does not listen to the answer and this is actually an example of that where Elle comes out with a decent joke and he just steam rolls up. Yep, so she's she's not vegetarian Well, she's still vegetarian except she eats meat all the time. How about the kid?

Yep, she's still vegetarian except where she eats meat all the time. And how about a kid? Yep. She's still a vegetarian except for she eats meat all the time. He was reading off his card the next time. What about the kid? What about the kid? And so you're like, oh, you could have gone somewhere with that because they were talking about how he's a vegan. It wasn't vegan, nice vegetarian, and this wife was a vegetarian, but apparently now she eats meat, but well, you know, whatever.

And he just moved and had. And then this I thought was weird. This is it again. So he's talking about Al's daughter. And I just hear a lot of baggage in this question. If you listen to the way he delivers this and what he says, you could tell that it's his own again projecting his own issues onto the person he's interviewing. Oh, well, that's nice. Are Are you gonna force an instrument on her? He's talking about Elle's eight year old daughter.

Are you gonna force an instrument on her? Yeah. Chris, you and I are both musicians we play in a band together. Has anyone ever forced an instrument on you? Not since I was eight. I don't wanna go there. I'm not gonna get all marinara.

Fair enough. I just thought that was on the desk the way he thinks about having your kid try music. You're gonna force an instrument. Obviously, he did not take it to music. I did find that a little weird. He did not take the music obviously. And it was still mad at his parents for making a ticket unless it was when he was seven. If I was interviewing Elle and I knew nothing about Weird Elle, within five minutes I would

have gotten, you know, even before a feel for Elle, and would not have asked that question because it doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would force anything on anyone. Right. You know? Yeah, read your interview. Could you imagine you had this guy who's just a sweetheart of a guy, so accomplished and you're like, so what are you doing?

You fucking up your daughter? That's a weird question to ask. So what do you mean a dick as a father? What's going on? No, I don't know why you would get that. There was a couple other questions he asked where Elle inadvertently answered future questions in his interview that he should have just left off the roster and still went ahead and asked, I wish I could be more specific. I had to do this touring schedule. Chris left his notes at our band's practice face. Yeah. He did a thing and a stop.

And I'm pretty sure about him, I'm happy with him. He's got a rip, written out on Sharpie on his hand, but then I walked through his hands. He's got to read it out. So I have exhausted my clip list again. I know his production is better than ours. I know people like his show.

It's just weird that a guy like Mark Marin has an interview show because it's not his forte. He wants to talk about himself. My biggest takeaway from the show is that Mark Marin is extremely pleased with himself at this point in his forte. He wants to talk about himself. That my biggest takeaway from this show is that Mark Marin is extremely pleased with himself at this point in his life. Maybe when he first started the podcast, he was experimenting, and I know that he was going through a thing in his life

where he wasn't sure if he was gonna still do comedy and he was kind of figuring out if he was still a celebrity and what he was doing, now he's taken off. He's got the podcast, he's got TV shows, he's doing this whole thing, and he's so pleased with himself. And this is the thing I like rooting for an underdog.

And go Cubs. And this guy does fine success, and he's kind of an asshole about it. I mean, at least during his interviews. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're exactly right. He's a sore winner. And I actually do know people of, you know,

met the guy after shows, you know, and stuff when he does the stand-up I think he came through here for EdgeFest or whatever it is FrenchFest. Right, right, yeah Uh And apparently he's a hell of a nice guy and I actually like his work on glow I hope that gets renewed for another season because I think he's he's good And so it's not like again. I'm an arbitrary hater, but does he suck as aner? Yes. Yeah. I think it's okay to say that.

I think he's terrible as an interviewer. Yeah. And it's odd that this was the platform it took off for him. Had he not been so early in podcasting? I don't know that he would have broken through the clutter. Good point. He got in at the right time. Right. Where there weren't a lot of podcasts. Now, I don't know if you know this Chris, there's a lot of podcasts. I think he inspired some of these podcasts. Hopefully to people who want to be better interviewers. It's one of you say that because when you hear something and you're like, I can do a better job than that, you're inspired to do it. He inspired a lot of podcasts. Because people are like, this doesn't sound that hard. You know, if you hear George Carlin do, you know,

an hour and 15 minutes, you don't think, I should be a standup, you're like, holy shit. I could never do this. But you're a Mark Mayer, do a podcast. You sit there and you go, I should do a podcast. I'll let her be the fucking president and ask him benign questions that nobody gives a shit about. That'll be fun.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I want to switch gears real quick, Chris. There's a podcast that I love, talked about it before, No Agenda, with John C. DeVorek and Adam Curry. And they talked about our show, on their show, which was very cool. It was very excited about that.

Here's a clip of no agenda talking about WATP. Who are these podcasts on which we clip and review other shows? Oh, this is great idea. It's actually very funny. I went and listened to a bunch of this stuff. What's it called? What's it called? Who are these?

It's an answer to the preferred to it is WATP. Oh, cool. All right. I like that I'm a huge John C. DeVore act fan and the fact that he said w a tp in the morning is very excited So I do have this ISO so I'll probably work into our intro. It's up on w a tp I'm a gp in the morning I can listen to that all day so that's with Jesse DeVorek and Adam Curry. Do you know what Adam Curry is? He was a V-J.

I love G-A. Yeah. So he used to be a celebrity. Now he's a ball. Yeah, he did head fingers ball for a while. Yeah. It's funny because they talked about our show and the fact that our show makes fun of other podcasts. So and of course, like, well, why don't we make fun of their show?

Of course. So here is no one just to take WATV. Now their show, you know, is a good take down of various podcasts. They do a whole show pretty much. You know, we need to do. We need to do a take down of theirs. Well, I'll do it right now. All right. They need better mics and that's not funny. And that's about it.

That's a better mics boys. It's always in the microphone, isn't it? It's so funny. I've been reading a lot of negative reviews on our iTunes page. And that is something that keeps coming up. Apparently my equipment's not very good. Chris, you're, you're, you Chris. You guys see this? You heard about this? Yeah, it's in the new, but equipment's not very good. You guys see this? So amazculating. That was awesome though.

I was so happy that Josie DeVarick listened to the show and had good things to say about it. Yeah, they like the content. They just don't like the mics. Yeah, they just think it sounds like garbage. So that leads me to Some recent reviews that we've had on our iTunes page Chris people get very excited about the iTunes review update Because we get a new segment out the show. I should have like a

A quick lead-in drop or something Maybe something like this. Hey, you know what guys this? This right here, this rambling, boring conversation, containing already made before observations, this could be a podcast. All right, so here's one that says apparently most people don't understand five stars. It's a really witty and fun podcast. It's not the highest quality thing in the world, but as people get together and doing honest and funny reviews of random podcasts, so even what people say that the show is good, they have to mention that the quality sucks. I love that. That's good.

This is what I ask for. If you hate our show, give us five stars, and then just shit on it if you review. I think that's a really good idea. It isn't good. They make a lot of sense, and are really fair, and the only people who seem to leave better reviews are the ones who are mad, their favorite test show got ripped on chill out people and have some fun let's seem to them riffing I like that person that was from August 6 of 2017 we also had one that says fresh five stars it's a very creative perspective trolls need not apply keep up the good work guys

perspective, trolls need not apply, keep up the good work guys. So we appreciate that. I don't usually read the positive reviews. I don't usually read the positive reviews, but Jesus, it's been so brutal lately. I had to do something. It's been, it's been re-dick. So do you have a good brutal review to read or... Nothing new. I okay? I do want to go back good segue. I do want to go back to one that came in recently from Rino Radio who gave us a review of one star and said lame and the review was what I love about this podcast is they lack any original content. They talk about other shows that are more successful and talented to fill time.

We're filling time. It's the whole point of our show. They talk about Mark Mariners. It's the whole point of our show. It's a review of their podcast. And this dummy is telling us that we're filling time by playing other podcasts. Obviously, Mrs. The Point. So I clicked on this person's like right now on the radio. To see what other shows this person has reviewed.

And there's just one other show, the Rizudo Show. Uh, Phil, the Rizudo Show, and she says, one of the best shows out now, five stars. She loves the Rizudo Show, so Chris Chris you know what that brings us to That's a distinct lack of DLR in that I noticed Thank you, all right, there it is. God damn it, baby, I didn't lie to you. I'm only gonna tell you one time. Thank you, Carl. Thank you, Carl. Nailed it.

All right, so here is the Rezudo Show. This person who thinks that we're lame and lack any original content, we'll be doing this show next week. And here is a, schoolless, here's a teaser. Here's a teaser. Hey, good morning everybody.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey. next week and here is a school us here's a teaser hey good morning everybody hey hey that's better than two days the hey is back to say good evening on my mouth terrible it is true sorry why she got the you got the mood off?

Yeah, the walking good off. Yeah, he played softball yesterday. Yeah, I hope my doctor's not listening right now, but yeah, that was both happened. Oh, he said you weren't supposed to. I'm supposed to learn. He was at that food on still till tomorrow. Yeah.

Come on. And what the fuck was that? Good news. Your doctor is not listening. He has an IQ over 80. That was in your shitty morning zoo show. So this is a morning show out of St. Louis, I believe. I haven't done a lot of research yet.

But when I saw this asshole like the Ruzuno show and hated us, I haven't checked it out. And I realized right away this is a piece of a garbage. Yes. This is what we call in the industry. So I'm going to tear down the fourth wall. All right. And when you're a podcaster, you join an elite group of people. And we have our own vernacular, we have our own language.

We call this show a garbage. So I'll just see you guys down. All right, we're going to be reviewing an episode from August 3rd, 2017. It's called Tom Green, a winning freak and Sasquatch is real. So apparently Tom Green's gonna be on this show, so that'll be fun.

Wow. I think I wanna use your wow as a future draft. Wow. Or Christopher Walk walk and either one. Booring. So that's going to be the show next week. We're going to have a new co-host that I'm excited about. It's someone that I've been forcing to be on my show because that's what I do. I bully people. I mean, notice that. So please join us again next week because it might be the show we find out once and for all. Who are these podcasts? Sleep well every pony. Now

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