"Welcome to This American Mlkshk. This week, 'He Died'. Conversations about video GIFs in which people are subjected to extremely embarassing, painful accidents that can make you believe they died."
I get the feeling we would all get together for a video chatroom, and subsequently, we sort of pick and prune the best conversations and moments into something a bit more cohesive.....
(my band's cover was taken down at the request of our label owner, since it was a part of a set of demos for an upcoming record, but there is a youtube video of it that @jpoulos was kind enough to make)
@LordJohnWhorfin How this thing could be turned into a podcast is still a mystery to me as well.
On the international thingie: It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine lately. I notice that a lot of the podcasts I listen to are becoming more insular. Focused on the US/GB or English speaking world. A lot of political or cultural knowledge is taken for granted, and it's as if the rest of the world doesn't really exist. There's a semi-permeable kind of membrane on the internet: 'Anglo' culture, jokes, puns and references are understood by a lot of people all over the world. But not the other way around.
If somebody here posts a funny picture about Walmart or Tesco I get it. I assume you wouldn't get a joke about a joke about Carrefour or Kaiser's.
I still maintain the hope or fantasy that the internet can break down barriers, I guess. And make people aware of what's happening over the border. And I would love to see that in a podcast.
@NickSantosPedro I have very much that impression, yeah; we don't advertise it in any way and it's very site-specific in its content, so that's pretty much what I'd expect in any case, but that we get essentially zero external correspondence about it tends to further support that expectation.
Which is fine for MeFi because, well, that's what it was always for: hey, folks, here's another thing about the site we're all on. With pretty big userbase that works out okay, because it feels like a justified amount of effort and gets a healthy crop of (mostly positive) feedback each episode. But it's definitely a "this is the right fit in this case" thing.
Topical and demographic insularity in podcasts is a whole interesting topic and I feel a bit silly now for having previously just been a driveby cheerleader on this because I feel like I should reread the whole thread and dig in, but I'm not awake enough right now for that so I'll try and swing back around later on and see if I have anything useful to add.
I like the MeFi Podcast format of "Here's a bunch of shit that was worthy of notice over the last month, interleaved with a lot of factual or silly digressions" but I don't know how well that could be done in a Mlkshk idiom; even a monthly "let's call up a mlkshk regular and chat about what they posted and what they like" might wear itself out due to the roster of regulars being pretty small and not all that fluid. On the other hand, maybe it's worth just chucking out podcasts like that for a while just to have something to start picking apart and improving, up to and including different podcasting teams if that's the way it flows.
I'm game to help on a mlkshk podcast but I don't really know what my help or the podcast would consist of. But count me in towards the effort.
okay, that's a lie. but a damn good one.
@nikkuneko Wait, THERE'S A MLKSHK THEME??
@waa What features would you be looking for to make it "international"? (seriously)
https://mltshp.com/mlkshktheme
(my band's cover was taken down at the request of our label owner, since it was a part of a set of demos for an upcoming record, but there is a youtube video of it that @jpoulos was kind enough to make)
On the international thingie: It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine lately. I notice that a lot of the podcasts I listen to are becoming more insular. Focused on the US/GB or English speaking world. A lot of political or cultural knowledge is taken for granted, and it's as if the rest of the world doesn't really exist. There's a semi-permeable kind of membrane on the internet: 'Anglo' culture, jokes, puns and references are understood by a lot of people all over the world. But not the other way around.
If somebody here posts a funny picture about Walmart or Tesco I get it. I assume you wouldn't get a joke about a joke about Carrefour or Kaiser's.
I still maintain the hope or fantasy that the internet can break down barriers, I guess. And make people aware of what's happening over the border. And I would love to see that in a podcast.
Which is fine for MeFi because, well, that's what it was always for: hey, folks, here's another thing about the site we're all on. With pretty big userbase that works out okay, because it feels like a justified amount of effort and gets a healthy crop of (mostly positive) feedback each episode. But it's definitely a "this is the right fit in this case" thing.
Topical and demographic insularity in podcasts is a whole interesting topic and I feel a bit silly now for having previously just been a driveby cheerleader on this because I feel like I should reread the whole thread and dig in, but I'm not awake enough right now for that so I'll try and swing back around later on and see if I have anything useful to add.
I'm game to help on a mlkshk podcast but I don't really know what my help or the podcast would consist of. But count me in towards the effort.