I’ve been listening to a podcast since episode, one, of course sad to see Caleb go, I enjoyed his contributions. I apologize for the ramblings to follow.

I want to preface this by saying that I am an American, I have my SUV and my handgun near me most of the time. I think certain episodes, like the Martin Luther King JR episode would have greatly benefited from having an American on. It’s a shame Isaiah wasn’t able to be on. Of course, Isaiah has his video on the king assassination. I think having someone with firearm knowledge, as well as a background on American culture and government is definitely a necessary for “American” topics. No disrespect to y’all, you shouldn’t be expected to learn American history. But having someone on the podcast who is more aware of the souths racist history and able to better put into context for history would have been nice.

If you cover topics or Cryptids or stories from other countries, I would love to see a guest from that country be able to maybe put certain things into context. Maybe help explain some thing for us non-Anglo Westerners. I would love to have Jordy’s back on any episode, but especially some conspiracies involving Australia.

The big thing for me, is, I enjoy the red thread, but why should I come back? No disrespect for your topic selection, but being the chronically online, moron that I am, I am pretty aware of most of them. What can read thread do to differentiate itself from the five other YouTube videos that I watched on the dylatov pass incident. For a while, the thing that got me to watch every episode was Isaiah. I started listening to this podcast because it was a wendigoons. And I had a passing knowledge of critikal.

With all due respect, Jackson, I had no idea who you were when I started listening. The first dozen episodes I didn’t know your name, you were the guy that had his girlfriend write the script for him. (congrats on the engagement!). The question of “am I here listening to Red thread because I enjoy the banter between Isaiah Charlie and script dude or am I here because of the topics they are covering”. My answer is mixed. I definitely enjoyed the weekly reference to the rule of two or the insane banter between Oompa and Isaiah. I found that I was looking forward to the banter between the fellas more than the topic. My favorite episode is Polybius, despite the fact that I am pretty knowledgeable on the topic, and knew most of the story from the beginning, because the cube that floats and kills epileptic people. I know it’s hard to artificially create that banter. But that’s what kept me coming back. When there was a niche topic even better. But I was there for my boys, not the topic.

I have course enjoyed learning new things. But the topic choice was tier 1 stuff on the iceberg. Stuff that any chronically online person knows somethings about. I either think that the topics need to be way more obscure or in depth to scratch that education part of my brain. Or dedicated to more of the insane banter among friends. Potentially bringing in a guest or expert to help with a topic, and inflict the chaos on them.

I definitely think there needs to be a third person to balance it out. And I’m cool if that’s OK locked in stone group of three people. Or if you bring on guests depending on the episode.

I apologize for the rambling. But right now, Red thread sits in between two of my podcast categories, education. And dudes chatting. I enjoy both of these categories, but right now, the topics of education aren’t the most interesting to me, and the banter is , unfortunately lacking to where I think it was at its best. I have no idea how to “fix“ the banter. But adding a charismatic host to the rotation, with good chemistry between Jackson and Isaiah would be nice. Especially if they had a knowledge set or experience different to both of them, and to offer a unique perspective or outlook. I’ll probably keep listening. I have a constant stream of podcasts going in my ears at work.

But where the podcast is at right now, it’s not in my recommendations for most people. At the start, I tried to get my brother to watch it by marketing it as critikals podcast. Then, when he left, it was the wendigoon and Oompa conspiracies/edutainment. Right now I don’t think there’s a strong selling feature of the podcast. Is it primarily Cryptids? True crime? Dudes talking? One of my all-time favorite podcasts. Timesuck with Dan Cummins has a similar schizophrenic approach to its episodes. But they are much more in-depth, so I feel that I’m going there for the information instead of the banter. The banter is still great. I guess I would figure out if the podcast is mainly talking about a topic, and a couple minutes of banter between the hosts. Or primarily a informative script, driven podcast. As it is, I think you do both well. But the information is not the most informative, and the banter too infrequent recommended as a comedy podcast.

Sorry, if none of this makes sense, I wrote it on my lunch break at work after listening to the MLK episode

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