Liam repeating NATO talking points. Guests saying drivel like “AMLO is liberal trump”
When will @wtypstan answer for the crimes of the podcast.
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I wish they'd replace Liam. He doesn't really add anything in general and his politics are so far to the right of the other two hosts. It's like bring your kid to work day.
Rocz and Liam are best friends irl, big time drinking buddies, codependent alcoholics, and Liam regularly alleges that his alcohol addiction saved him from his heroin addiction. So good luck getting him off that podcast lol. Any time Roczniak has been approached about what an asshole Liam is he goes full "I will always defend my friends!!!" mode.
As a person who has dealt with addiction and has been friends with other addicts, codependent friendships based on addiction typically end up very well :) especially when one friend has a worse addiction than the other
Like my dad always used to tell me
Of course, he'd say it in Spanish and usually because I hung out with the goth kids in school
My mom would say
That’s a good one
Liam's dad has better takes than Liam
Bring Liam's dad on
episode 200 should be liam's dad dunking on the other 199 episodes
Liam's dad go on chapo
There was an episode where he drops off halfway to watch a fking baseball game lol
Pros: Liam is gone for an episode
Cons: Liam is getting money
Nah dude he was still randomly butting in about how the yankees are winning because he's watching it on his tv while still recording
Based tbh
It was a premium episode too lol
(I pirated it)
Aside from being a loud mouthed lib and talking over the other, funnier hosts, what did Liam do? Or does that pretty much cover it? I've heard a lot of people talk about disliking him.
There's that and he just doesn't contribute much in terms of the group dynamic. Rocz is the engineering expert and narrator, Alice is the polymath theory nerd who brings jokes, the guest is the subject matter expert, and Liam is just... an arbitrary guy from Philly who is weirdly attached to both of his co-hosts. He derails most episodes multiple times and it isn't usually for any good reason.
If you subbed him out for a sandwich, would the quality of the podcast suffer?
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Probably wouldn't even notice for a couple episodes if he was.
So we have an engineer and a semi-lawyer, who else would you put on there as your dream replacement for Liam? Can't be too funny because Alice is already class clown so to speak.
They could still have a wild card guy like Brace in Trueanon, Jake in Qanon Anonymous, or Henry in Last Podcast on the Left. That wild card guy just can't be obnoxious or derail the podcast. Maybe get some radical urbanist or a political economy nerd in terms of contribution, or just a non-obnoxious normal schmuck who will yell the same radical things I want to yell. Someone like Adam Conover or the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't guy would be the ideal. When Alice has historian Patrick Wyman on Trash Future he's also a good fit for their dynamic.
Yeah my first thought was a radical urbanist too. Brace being on wtyp would be like the avengers of left podcasts
You don't need a replacement. The sweet spot for number of people in a podcast is two hosts plus the guest. Three hosts is already too crowded unless one of the host rarely talks and is more like a side commentator than an actual host.
Depends on the sandwich
I'd take Liam over a PB&J, a Reuben might not be a bad replacement, I'd pay for a higher patreon tier for a BLT instead of Liam
I mean, being very reactionary does matter when they are discussing a Soviet project or anything else AES
Agreed, and the other two can already be reactionary enough on their own sometimes.
I guess I just have my lib-filter dialed in, tuning out all but the most egregious examples. I don't expect much more from podcasts.
you could replace Liam with a Markov chain bot and it would be an improvement