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Tran Girlismo is a weekly podcast about “car culture and living during the decline of empire from millennials who have never known anything else.” Hosted by former automotive journalists Victoria Scott and Jordan Hoffstetter, it might just be the best-named podcast of the year and we’re only one month in. It’s so good it stings that you didn’t come up with it. The first episode popped up on Bluesky this past week and I wanna talk about it.
Spoiler: You should listen to Tran Girlismo.
I say this with all due respect and love for the thousands of hours of programming YouTube as a platform has provided me over the past twenty years: it’s too late to debut YouTube Recap. We live in an era where individual YouTube accounts simply do not work for a Spotify Wrapped-style recap in the grand scheme of things for a significant chunk of the adult user base.
One of the biggest news stories for YouTube this year was the announcement that smart TVs are the most commonly-used device for watching YouTube videos, signalling YouTube videos have become “TV” for a lot of people. Who needs to rely on the dour professionalism and cheesy comedy (the latter usually provided by meteorologists) of a local news broadcast when you can just watch a local vlogger’s update video on your own time (presuming you live in a big enough city to support a vlogging ecosystem)?
The problem with YouTube becoming television for a lot of people is television fundamentally does not work for Spotify Wrapped-style year-end recaps.
Ned Fulmer, the former Try Guy who made a big splash yesterday with a People exclusive announcing his new podcast Rock Bottom, managed to figure out a way to leverage his wife Ariel one more time.
Spoiler alert: the podcast feed for Rock Bottom is built on top of a podcast he made with his wife.
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Well over a year ago I wrote my first article in this series charting my media server journey, and showing how you can do it to what I built to create my Jellyfin server.
In that time, I’ve gone from using an off-the-shelf NAS to building an actual full-fledged media server, so I feel more comfortable writing with some level of “amateur but I know what I’m doing” expertise. For those of you interested in hardware, I intend on making a future installment of this series specifically about hardware I purchased, a build guide I found, and what I’d do differently if I was starting from scratch. That said, my gut says the next piece will be specifically about how one sources media for their media server (legally, before you get too excited).
Continue reading “Building My Personal Streaming Service: The Software”
Some people put their year-end bonuses into a high-yield savings account. Some use it as a down payment on a better car, some are lucky enough to get into a jelly of the month club.
I, on the other hand, built a media server. Flash forward a couple months, a storm swept through my city and left Spectrum, an ISP that can’t deliver under even the sligthest of inconveniences, out for two days.
The ordeal sucked, but it sure did vindicate my sudden new hobby and provide a thrilling conclusion to a small series of blog posts about my hyperfixation.
Continue reading “I (somehow) built my own streaming service.”
Why yes, I’m reviewing a review that takes six hours to watch. A review of a review of a niche Playstation game that was only released in Japan. I do what I want.
This is a review of action button reviews boku no natsuyasumi, the opening video of Action Button season two. In the interest of not undermining the herculean amounts of research and writing that went into Rogers’ review, I will avoid going too much into specific detail. Instead this text will be more of a broad spoiler-free birds-eye view of whether or not you should watch this six hour review of a Playstation game.
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| Release Frequency: | Completed series. |
| Website: | http://audibleparade.com/triple-six/ |
| Average Episode Length: | Half-hour |
| Backlog Size: | Five episodes + promo uploads |
| Release Frequency: | Bi-weekly (currently between seasons) |
| Website: | wherethestarsfell.com/ |
| Average Episode Length: | 20 Minutes |
| Backlog Size: | 18 full episodes. |
| Release Frequency: | Weekly. |
| Website: | partyofonepodcast.com |
| Average Episode Length: | 1 to 1.5 hours. |
| Backlog Size: | 337 episodes since 2015 |
For a year or so I had a pretty good (if underpaid) gig reviewing podcasts in bite-sized reviews. The kinda critique you’d find in a local newspaper or magazine’s media section. It was a fun time. I’m gonna try to rekindle that fun on my own.
Continue reading “Introducing: Podcast Pinpoints”
Creative Writing, Podcasting, and Love of Media 