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Excited for the next week's shows. I can't wait to here Mr. Benson and another guest's view on the show and what podcast will be in the final 3.
Doug Benson: Always Salient
Excited for the next week's shows. I can't wait to here Mr. Benson and another guest's view on the show and what podcast will be in the final 3.
Other guest predictions (on doug benson ep) - GO
Hot Saucerman.
Winner gets eCandy.
I'm guessing Belknap or Chris Hardwick.
I think an interview show could benefit from the cred of being on Earwolf, so I have no problem with one of those shows winning. I hope the Challenge happens again, though I think fewer contestants wouldn't be a bad idea. There's not enough of an emotional connection or seeing competitors grow or any of the other key ingredients of reality competitions for it to go on this long, so listeners aren't likely to change their opinions on many (if any) of the shows. Repeated exposure to mediocre podcasts just makes the Challenge less fun to listen to.
It's me, yo!Originally Posted by Natalie Portmanteau
I disagree. The journey that this show has taken us on through these few weeks has been really interesting. At the beginning, it seemed like the Little Dum Dum Club and the Totally Laime Podcast were the best, but their time in the challenge has changed things. Now, I don't necessarily think those podcasts should win. But, if nothing else, the time frame provided by the challenge does help to bring new ears to podcasts that wouldn't have gained them otherwise. And anyway, it's fun.
Last edited by Fritz Zwicky; August 28, 2011 at 4:38 AM.
Yeah the journey has been fun in itself, and the end result is at least one podcast will get a lot more listeners.
I'm sure all the podcasts involved will have gained listeners as a result of being on this. I'll certainly listen to a few episodes of the winning podcast at least. Maybe it'll prove to be good enough to be something I want to listen to regularly, maybe not, but I don't see what the issue is if it isn't quite up to standard of the rest of Earwolf's shows. I'm going to really miss the competition when it's gone. I was a little underwhelmed the first week or two, but I'm completely addicted to it now.
I've enjoyed the show, but haven't found it to be much of a journey. I still think shorter seasons would be more fun, and would make it easier to keep doing it (and keep people listening to it).
This week's challenge is "Phish-centric podcast segments"
I don't know if my heart can take not hearing Besser every week. I don't care as much about who wins the Challenge as I do about being able to listen to that magnificent mofo on the reg.
After listening to the second episode this week, I'm going to call it that the Bob and Dancast gets eliminated. Which basically means that the Earwolf Challenge is continuing on the trajectory that we all kind of called within the first couple weeks. It seems to me that the BADC is a fine podcast, but it couldn't quite match up to the juggernauts that are the three remaining shows, at least in this format. But now, the tough part is deciding between the three strong podcasts that are left. I think that, for many people, whatever decision is made on next week's elimination is bound to be an upset--let alone what will happen in the last week. Personally, I'm excited to see how this plays out, and I'm rooting for all of these deserving podcasts in the final stretch.
Yeah, sad to say, but I think BaD are goneburgers. I liked Doug and Harris's feedback except that each had one of the four they gave really odd notes too that I didn't get at all. For Doug it was Totally Laime and for Harris Left Handed Radio. By the end they were singing off my song sheet though and unfortunately that was when they were picking apart Bob and Dan, who I happen to enjoy second best after LHR.
In a chat show context, Totally Laime definitley used the guest better than everyone else. However, Left Handed Radio did it in a way that makes me genuinely curious and excited. If they actually did regular guests, it would be awesome to hear different comics and podcast people incorporated specifically into sketches, with material tailored to their style. It's true that they weren't in the bulk of the sketch, but all the audio effects, and the editing made it infinitely more funny and enjoyable, and I don't think that should be discounted.
I don't see the problem with the sketch not incorporating the rest of LHR much. Why does every sketch need to be an ensemble piece? I don't think it would have helped the sketch to have more voices involved, I think it would have just sounded too busy and made things unnecessarily complex.
Agreed. Did anyone complain when Christopher Walken did a solo scene on SNL as "The Continental?
I think a criticism like that is the result of a sort of criticism brainstorming session. I think the judges tend to voice what criticisms they can think of and see what sticks, and it seems to work out. I don't think LHR is going to get eliminated based on something like that, after all.
Last edited by Natalie Portmanteau; November 10, 2011 at 12:27 AM.
"I beg to differ" -Disembodied white glove in the foreground.
That's EXACTLY how I was thinking listening to the feedback to the first two entries on 8.2. Besser's gotten really good at wrangling them and maintaining an anchor role in which he brings his prior knowledge of the past episodes to keep things in context though.
I know, I want to volunteer to take over for whatever intern updates the ASSSSCAT! podcast feed.
TV innit
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