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Not knowing who Peter Robinson is kind of ruined the humor in my post you referenced. But thanks for the mention anyway.
BTW you should probably find out who Peter Robinson is.
Actually, there’s already an app for that:
The whole podcast should be full of poyoyo yo-yoing. I was able to listen 19 minutes.
We’ll get right on that next week for you.
Do porn, “Jeremy” can play cameos if he is not well equipped.
What is that Youtube video that was mentioned? The one that was described as so funny it would make someone drive off the road. The one that makes people say, “How have I never seen this before??”
I don’t find any real insights in these podcasts… they mainly seem to be yelling things that other people have said or written. With Caddyshack quotes. And semi-ironic innuendo accompanied by forced cackling.
Maybe that’s the point, and more power to them if so. This doesn’t seem a great fit with the measured, intellectual tone of the rest of Ricochet’s offering. I suppose I’m hoping Ricochet maintains a higher standard than talk radio.
Note than I don’t even think these guys are, in the main, wrong. But most of the conversations are just rehashing tropes straight out of 90’s Angry White Guy caricatures. “Fetch me my latte, Millennial heh heh heh” is just kind of a lazy way to go.
Millennials, whatever their degree of Marxist conditioning, are not particularly at fault for the system they find themselves graduating into. Recent polls show that they are actually extremely well disposed toward free-market economics (and social liberalism, of course). And, really, are Baby Boomers any less self-obsessed or prone to wanting big government do-something solutions to “social justice” problems?
Ronnie James Diocletion got it exactly right. Even if I understood the slick techie slang, I still wouldn’t have been amused. App this, app that, app yours. Maybe it’s a bias of mine, but conservatives, even young ones, don’t handle hip very well. Witty and articulate yes, cool no. You don’t have to close shop just yet. You kids have the necessary instincts for intellectual, conservative humor. Right now it comes across as too stand-up funny. Just another semester at the Peter Robinson Institute should get you up to prime time speed.
What a waste of my time! Nine minutes to shut-down.
Good lord in heaven above. This is app is a real thing. That looked like an SNL add to me.
Ronnie and Mike, you shouldnt be so harsh, maybe these guys should concentrate on some topics more closely, for example upcoming elections or popular culture. They are comedians of ricochet, maybe there is demand for this, this is just confusing at first.
My favorite thing about Tracked and Targeted is that it isn’t like every other Ricochet podcast. I couldn’t listen to ~7 different podcasts a week that all sounded the same; thankfully the Ricochet Super Feed offers a great mix of sober and silly with many stages in between. Every single offering won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s a plus, not a minus.
A policy podcast should have a different tone from an entertainment podcast, and what appeals to one listener might turn off the other. Unlike the liberal caricature, there is a wide variety of conservatives/libertarians. As an editor, I’m biased, but I’m glad Ricochet is expanding the net, not restricting it.
Ditto. What was it? Something about “Speed Stick” .. ?
When I first saw Kruiser on PJTV, I immediately thought “The hair’s going to be a problem”. Then I found myself inhaling his show every time it came on.
Why? Because he’s funny. And this show is unscripted (well, barely scripted), and it’s still funny. I don’t listen to every Ricochet podcast (in fact there’s one I listened to once, front to back, and I’m all set for the rest of my life), so give this podcast some time to find the sea legs.
I’ll still be listening, even if I can’t see Kruiser’s hair.
Yes, Ricochet was desperately missing the donkey show humor demographic. The upside though is that the staff now has no grounds to threaten to ban Fred for bringing up the topic in a post.
It’s called “Read A Book (Dirty Version)”. Language warnings all over the place for this one.
Thank you, Chris. We’re moving into the time of year when my hair is usually hidden by a baseball cap, readying itself for a springtime assault.
I agree; too much yelling, not enough passion. You’re too dependent on shtick (“po-yo-yoing” gets old real fast). You don’t have to be “just like everybody else”, but maybe a little more preparation and a little less desperation would improve things.
Really people? Really?