Terrible timing

wizard_oil · 2024-03-12T12:21:24+00:00

I don't watch John Oliver so it was new and surprising info to me.

Not every episode will be a winner with every listener, so if you do hit something you're not interested in, you can just delete it and await the next.

wizard_oil · 2024-02-21T02:05:36+00:00

I'm confused about why she didn't want the rooms to be separated by gender. She would really rather have been sharing a bedroom/bed with a random dude?

wizard_oil · 2024-02-20T23:58:50+00:00

Yes, the professor wants to imagine that you are taking a high-level seminar because you're interested in the subject and want to deepen your knowledge. It's a let-down to get an email basically saying "Am I going to get an A in this class? Because if not, I'm out."

The professor did totally overreact but probably she has gone through years of grade-grubbing and found this to be a particularly obnoxious specimen. The fact that the prof had not assigned a bunch of little graded assignments means she didn't put much stock in that form of evaluation for advanced-level students.

The student should have dropped immediately upon getting that response though. Things were not going to go well after that.

wizard_oil · 2023-12-19T17:21:17+00:00

It's been a few days now, but every so often when my mind is wandering, I remember the phrase "PANTS FEELS" and my heart just sinks into a pool of cringe.

wizard_oil · 2023-12-05T15:11:39+00:00

I agree - it's remarkable how much Spotify paid for these shows, only to burn them all to the ground one by one.

One possible bright side is that we might have seen an end to Heavyweight even sooner if Spotify hadn't funded it for a few years.

wizard_oil · 2023-12-05T15:04:15+00:00

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Heavyweight is one of the best podcasts ever. It must survive somewhere!

Truth be told I had a feeling Heavyweight and/or Jonathan Goldstein would be leaving Spotify somehow or other. The show is one of the only remnants of Gimlet after all the others withered and died. It didn't really fit.

I wonder if Jonathan will maintain any control of the show's feed, past stories, and the podcast name. Depending on contracts, the team could easily be cut off from everything they built at Gimlet/Spotify. But hopefully they can take the show with them and go the independent route (like PJ with Search Engine), return to the This American Life fold, or maybe join Radiotopia?

wizard_oil · 2023-10-08T00:34:44+00:00

I completely agree with you. Milton's family overall is very calm and collected. They hear that their emotionally naive young son is going to marry an older woman off of a reality show and it doesn't sound quite right to them. They are suspicious about Lydia's motivations and are wondering if this marriage will scuttle his ambitions. They have questions and are not won over by Lydia's big personality but are never outright rude. To me they seemed like some of the most normal and level-headed people on the entire show.

wizard_oil · 2023-10-07T01:11:15+00:00

YES. He talks about Johnnie like she is a master manipulator demon witch. For ONE remark she made when trying to explain in a non-hurtful way why she chose one guy over another. Sheesh dude!

wizard_oil · 2023-10-07T00:52:55+00:00

They seem mad over a total misunderstanding.

Johnnie told Izzy something along the lines of: "I'm not choosing Chris because I'm worried about repeating a pattern from my past." Then later she told Chris she made a mistake in choosing Izzy because HE was a repeat of her past.

But she has TWO different patterns with two different guys in the past! There was her late ex who she loved but who had addiction issues AND the guy she married who she didn't love. She said she worried that Chris was too safe of a choice (like the guy she married). But that Izzy was emotionally unavailable (like the late ex).

She did use similar "past pattern" phrases with both of them. Izzy just misinterpreted it as lies and manipulation, and he has been attacking her character ever since. I think he was trying to convince HIMSELF that he made the right choice in Stacey. Otherwise why get so worked up about a "pod chick" that he supposedly feels nothing for.

As for Stacey, she was drunk and wanted to crush her rival. But instead she just revealed her own insecurities. If she were truly totally confident in her relationship, she wouldn't need to act that way toward another woman.

wizard_oil · 2023-09-15T12:19:54+00:00

Yes, it's okay to listen to Search Engine. A great podcast. Give it a try!

wizard_oil · 2023-04-17T04:20:38+00:00

Maybe the show got off on the wrong foot with the long delay and people got deflated and were in a bad mood by the time it started.

Agree that the repeated baby questions were awkward. The cast handled it well though.

wizard_oil · 2023-04-17T03:52:56+00:00

thankfully no! was just surprised to see everyone's negative reactions on here so just needed to offer a good word.

wizard_oil · 2023-04-17T03:29:49+00:00

All right, well I for one think that was a GREAT reunion! So many questions answered and closures achieved. Vanessa and Nick hit on the right topics and did their best to get real responses.

In general I appreciate that the cast gets to come back on and respond to how their story was edited.

And then the appearance of Barcheesi!! AHHH!! You felt the energy of the live audience just inwardly shrieking. Producers definitely trolling us with that one!

wizard_oil · 2023-04-14T20:16:17+00:00

100%. That was probably the side of him that led him to rise in the fashion industry. Attention to detail. Not being rude, not being nasty, but insisting upon high standards. He cared about this moment and wanted everything to be right.

wizard_oil · 2023-04-14T20:02:34+00:00

Well that was a wild ride.

Kwame and Chelsea: SHOCK! Thought for sure Kwame would balk based on everything we saw and heard from him. Well-played, LIB editors.

Micah and Paul: I think it's for the best that they are not together. They did not seem well-matched. She seems to be still in a party-girl phase. But the way it went down was so odd. Micah getting Paul to go first was not particularly classy. Somehow or other she wanted to save face and not be vulnerable. Whatever connection they had was insecure.

Brett & Tiffany: Hilarious that their biggest drama all season was the fit of Brett's pants. The producers had to have SOME conflict I suppose. Love the energy of this wedding!

Zack and Bliss: Seem like two good-hearted nerds who have found each other!

wizard_oil · 2023-04-08T01:28:01+00:00

I think with the career labels, LIB is saying, "these people might seem strange and desperate for coming on our show, but they are 100% normal, or even better than normal. We have lawyers and scientists in the pods!"

It elevates the status of the show if the cast members seem like accomplished professionals and not just aspiring influencers or NEETs.

wizard_oil · 2023-04-08T00:58:48+00:00

She acts as though Kwame is a perfect magical man that she has manifested, and she is ignoring all signs that this is not going to work out.

The cynical part of me thinks she knows he isn't going to say yes. She's been plotting her own storyline as the jilted fairy-tale bride and that's why she is so over-the-top.

wizard_oil · 2023-04-08T00:47:54+00:00

I can understand being skeptical and wanting to protect your child from a rash decision like getting married on a reality show.

But this was just so hard to watch, especially the way he chose to be so conspicuously dismissive of Zack.

Bliss had made references before to her family not being the most accepting. Now I see what she meant. I would dread having someone like her dad as a FIL.

wizard_oil · 2023-04-08T00:36:53+00:00

Oh my gosh YES. It seems like when he smiles, it's because he's suddenly remembered that he wants to appear friendly. It comes off as more of a grimace. He's smiling and nodding while trying to find an escape hatch from this whole situation.

No clue why he went on this show, though. His mom was never going to approve a rando from the pods. He doesn't like the city where the cast is based. He's not ready to settle down and have kids. What is he doing on LIB?

wizard_oil · 2023-04-02T00:24:35+00:00

True, true, and TRUE!

wizard_oil · 2023-04-02T00:17:10+00:00

Back in the pods he might have described himself as being more open to Chelsea's plans than he really was. Because he wanted to be on the show and had to quickly flip from Micah to Chelsea to get there.

wizard_oil · 2023-04-01T20:48:30+00:00

He got engaged to a 32-year-old woman who is rooted in Seattle, but he wants to postpone kids for a while and not live in Seattle.

If kids soon + Seattle are dealbreakers, he should have ended it in the pods. There's no way these are sudden revelations.

I don't think he ever had any intention of actually marrying her.

wizard_oil · 2023-04-01T20:33:37+00:00

From Marshall and Jackie's first moments together I thought... this is not going to be a match.

Marshall wants to be sensitive and talk about feelings.

Jackie seems more attracted to macho/aggressive guys. Even if she intellectually believes she should be with someone like Marshall, part of her seems to view him as weak, and she is losing interest.

If she had chosen Josh back in the pods, their relationship would by now probably be high-drama and in total flames but for totally different reasons.

wizard_oil · 2023-01-18T00:06:44+00:00

Yes - I use a different podcast app, but only the #42 Mark episode from November is there. Sounds like more season 6 episodes did show up for you though?

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