There’s Definitely Something In The Air

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

While the use of the term “vibe shift” was done in a dramatically different context when it was first used in The New York Times, I like the phrase because it’s an easy-to-understand explanation for what’s going on.

It definitely seems as though now that we’re all “over” COVID, that we’re all ready for a new era — a vibe shift. We are now in the post-Rona era, even if Rona is very much still around, and so the “wind of change” is floating around pop culture.

I’ve given it some thought, and it seems to me that given what’s going on and how mature most of the Internet is, that the vibe shift will be heralded by a podcast network suddenly blowing up out of nowhere. It’s just too difficult to organically grow a blog like the old Gawker and Silicon Valley is very much cool to any new social media networks.

As such, it seems to me that if you had a bunch of really interesting young people in your social circle — in, say, NYC or LA — you could probably find a surprising amount of success with a podcast network that was in the tradition of Spy Magazine and Gawker Media.

But I suspect it would need to be a network, not just one podcast. Maybe six podcasts that were tightly focused on a variety of things. In my imagination, it would be a lot like Crooked Media mixed with TMZ mixed with the old Gawker Media.

You would need young, hip on-air talent that were very in tune with the vibe of youth culture in New York City and LA. I would suggest you scoop up a klatch of the more interesting, poised Tik-Tok people to populate your podcast network. But, alas, no one listens to me.

Lulz.

But there is a vibe shift. I would say late 2022 to early 2024 is going to be very be a totally different pop culture animal to what we had before the pandemic. Once late 2024 rolls around, we’re all going to be so focused on the existential dread of autocracy or civil war that we won’t be all that focused on pop culture anymore.

Steve K. Bannon’s Podcast Whackpack Needs Me


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

At the moment, the only way I can tolerate listening to fucking human tumor Steve K. Bannon’s podcast is if I drink a huge amount of rye. And, yet, I find something about it interesting. And there’s something missing: me.

He and I are in some ways so similar that I think it would be amusing to have us play off each other. Having someone who, like, uh, disagrees with him, is the element that’s missing to his hate-filled, rage-filled podcast. He and Peter Navarro get way too overheated with their self-generated bullshit that it would be quite entertaining to have me in the mix.

People would download the podcast specifically to hear me get “owned.”

I think what I see with his podcast is has a lot of potential from a surreal, over-the-top entertainment level, more than any kind of serious podcast. It pretty much like listening to Howard Beale rant on a podcast.

Adding me to the mix would be very interesting and entertaining. I know I like to rant a lot on this blog, but I can also be quite measured in my conversations when need be.

‘What’s The Craic?’ For September 24th, 2020 — A Renewed American Covenant

Program Guide

Today in Trumplandia
Trump refuses to agree to the peaceful transfer of power

Part 2
The United States has two paths before it

Autocracy
Implosion

Autocracy
1933
Happens because of apathy
Nothing would really change at first
Twitter liberals are extremely weak
Trump is more likely to go Pol Pot out of sheer incompetence than either Putin or Hitler
Qanon is nothing more than repurposed anti-Seminism (Protocols of the Elders of Zion.)

Implosion
1860-1861
Likely 9/11 domestic terroism event opens it (maybe coordinated assassinations?)
The storming of Trump Tower in NYC
Destruction of Fox News, WSJ, NYP (Maybe NYT)

The War
African Americans get the promise of reparations for destabilizing South
Women get the promise of codified gender equality and reproductive rights for unisex conscription
A Renewed American Covenant
No assurance it would work

Part 3
Need, as always: Co-host / Guests / Engagement

‘What’s The Craic?’ Podcast For September 23rd, 2020


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner


My podcasting skill is improving each day I do this. This one is pretty good. Absolutely no one is listening to this thing, but I have “high hopes” as the song goes. But, then, people often call me delusional.

V-Log: Want To Start A #Podcast About #Impeachment

Please ping me on Twitter at @bumgarls if you’re interested.