Reply With QuoteI'm not confident enough in my ability to express my feelings accurately to participate, but I sure would be interested in listening to such a podcast.
With it becoming increasingly easier to whip up recordings, I was wondering if anyone was interested in occasionally getting together on Skype and debating some issues.
I'm thinking, it would just be for fun and put here on Qt3's P&R area but it might be fun to summarize some of the debates/flame wars into more tidy debates (24 pages of Glenn Beck stuff makes my head hurt).
No set schedule. Anyone interested?
I'm not confident enough in my ability to express my feelings accurately to participate, but I sure would be interested in listening to such a podcast.
Last edited by Cubit; 09-29-2009 at 02:31 PM.
Oh! Oh! I get to be first to boycott Brad's podcast!
Uh, not to be a prude or anything, Jason, but I'm pretty sure even a drawing of an alien vagina dentata is NSFW.
-Tom
I could be up for this if:
1. We have a couple of warm up sessions.
2. We can edit out my stupid mistakes.
3. We can edit out all the pauses while I google everything.
4. You don't make fun of my English accent.
Edit: Oh and discuss subjects that I actually have any clue about. Local American politics is not really my strong suit.
I would subscribe to a podcast of Jon Danger doing dramatic readings of P&R threads.
I would be up for this if we can have a segment for the Qt3 Movie Club. Also, only if I can be on Tim Partlett's team.
-Tom
fixed. :DOriginally Posted by Tim Partlett
I'm pretty sure I'd subscribe to a podcast of just about anyone doing dramatic readings of P&R threads.
I was thinking just a few of us could do it in one take on Skype and just have fun with it.
I love the idea about the MovieClub. That would rock.
Tom and I used to do podcasts before. The stuff I used to say on PowerUser.TV makes the UPS stuff seem mild but it was a smaller world then. lol.
No Judge Floro, no sale.
Troy
I would totally do this, sign me up!
Ok. My Skype ID is Draginol. Just add me and mention your Qt3 handle and we can see about getting a time together.
I want a trio of Brad Wardell, Matt Gallant, and Judge Floro. That would blow my mind.
I want, nay, demand McCullough. It's not P&R without him.
But we'd have to listen to him spell out URLs every other sentence!
Sorry, the internet has ruined me.
I absolutely loathe the podcast business, sorry. I have no patience to watch or listen to them, much less make them!
Last edited by Jason McCullough; 09-29-2009 at 05:04 PM.
That actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun. Time and lineup permitting, I might be interested in this.
-quatoria
Ditto. As much as I've long thought I'd love to chat politics with some of the QT3 P&R regulars over a beer, the podcast idea leaves me cold.
But it combines the passiveness of listening to a lecture with the lack of research or preparation of an informal chat. What's not to love?
Use a technique I recently heard about on NPR: an economic panel on different sides held by the Pew Chartible trust and some NPR money blog thing. The moderator put his father in the audience and gave him a bell to ring whenever someone said something that he didn't understand. The speaker would then attempt to rephrase or simplify what he was saying.
Perhaps not entirely appropriate for a debate, but a neat tool if appropriate.
Dibs on the bell.
Not to pimp my website.... www.partyplatypus.com
But expect at the very least weekly dramatic readings from the internet. (I am in the process of editing the newest one now)
I think a Qt3 podcast would be great. Maybe not just P&R.
Hrm... well, since I am leaving my job. I will have a lot more time. I plan on doing a LOT more recording in the future. Getting my name in places and producing my own stuff. (Additionally, working at a local radio station) but this sounds good.
While this would be interesting, a level of inevitable awkwardness would be followed, probably, by gaps in our knowledge ruining the subject of the podcast. Most internet discussions go on for several days, giving respondents more time to better phrase their questions and answers, and find new information that they can use to reinforce, or change, their opinions.
I'd be afraid that a Qt3 podcast would go something like "Well, i think you're misinformed because i believe X, which i read here and here and came to the conclusion just so..." and the rest of the panel would stop speaking, and either say nothing, or if polite respond with "Well, i think you're wrong, but can't disprove it right now, give me a couple of days..." or a stereotypical "Waaagggh!"
That's why i prefer discussion boards to live meetings on political topics generally - they remain less heated, more reasoned, and most of the time better informed.
One of the reasons the politico format works on network news is that you have a debate (ie two sides just talking past each other smugly) between two more or less equally informed parties w/re to what the topic of the day is to be. If Brad Wardell is the moderator/host of the podcast, and he asks "what do you think about corporate US tax laws' effects are on small business owners' hiring practices?", and none of the panel have as much personal interest or knowledge on this topic, it becomes a pretty one sided conversation. That's usually, in fact, how i win or lose face-to-face political discussions. When you're throwing facts in my face about a specific subject i have little previous information on, there's not much i can do but accept what you say at face value and maybe look into it personally later.
If we were desperate to make a political podcast, i'd do two things:
-Make a base panel, and a random poster panel (allowing random Qt3 peeps to participate occasionally) and
-Give out a topic list to be researched / thought out in advance.
You could offset those complaints by announcing the topics a week or so ahead of time and then let people research it so they're prepared for it.
That said, I'm not sure a P&R podcast would be all that interesting. Considering there isn't very many people in the opposition party that post on QT3, and none of them have volunteered to particpate from what I can see, most of the discussions would probably take on an echo chamber effect.
I like my political qt3 discussion in the forums. That way when someone cites something they can, and should, back it up with a link. Otherwise it's just guys talking.
-Brian "Linkman" Rucker
Well, I'm a noted contrarian and I'll argue with anybody about anything, but I'm also kind of an asshole and don't have much time free to do a podcast, so I figured that any volunteering that I happened to do would eventually be beaten down either by popular request or my own laziness. I'd give it a listen if it were recorded, though.
You must be the complete opposite to me. I almost never get into an argument outside of forums, and when I do the topic is usually not political.
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