The funny thing is, I'm more concerned about the effect it has on the creators than the audiences… but then again, I feel like being in that situation just creates the TEMPTATION to lord it over people, act like a better and/or smarter person than you are, and cultivate audiences who'll take you at your word when you…

Ah, to me it's not even about "annoy and piss people off", it's about putting out shapeless, underconsidered work that would be a lot better if it was thought through. And also about (some of) the kind of people who are willing to sift through all that stuff. I feel like the relationship between these kind of podcast…

I like It's Always Sunny. (Possibly more than I like Parks and Rec, actually.) But I feel like the key there is that the characters are a) jerks to begin with, who usually suffer because of their own/each other's misdeeds, and b) so over-the-top that it's hard to get invested in their well-being even when they're not…

Fair enough — to me, "conversation" comes off more like "two people interrupting each other" (even if they're agreeing, points tend to get elided or cut short), and I can't focus on listening to people talk while doing other things.

Now I want to find a guy named Andre and do this.

Eh… I'll give it another shot, sure. I guess maybe I went into it not expecting to like it on the basis of "Doc and Mharti." I mean, what I saw (the Jurassic Park one) certainly wasn't THAT, but it did seem to operate a lot under the assumption that I was going to be amused by the suffering of Morty. So not only did…

It's one of the inescapable pitfalls of modern media that people with the capacity to create great things face the choice between continuing to create great things and being sort of petty cult leaders riling up their flocks.

Perhaps! But I guess my problem with podcasts trying to be informative is, wouldn't it be better to just read that stuff? I mean, maybe this is the same market as books on tape (minus people who are physically unable to read), but talking is approx. 100 words a minute. My attention span wants more.

All the ones I've heard (at least the comedy ones) take an hour to fumble their way into something that might work as a five-minute bit. Also — VERY frustrating when people are saying something wrong and you can't argue with them. The point of being in a conversation is being IN a conversation… I'll listen to art if…

Oh, I'd never host a podcast, mostly because I've never heard a podcast I could bear to listen to.

How else do you think Rob Riggle keeps getting so much work?

How's that for evolution?

I'll make sure to introduce it at next week's Every Comic meeting.

Eh. Archer is still just The Venture Bros. minus ambition and humanity. Which is still pretty good, but.

I don't think this changes the likelihood of that. There was no way they were picking SSTW up for a second season, not with those ratings… the only question was whether it would be allowed to finish its run this year.

Probably the same thing that made them think it was a great idea to completely change the focus of their comedy development — even after years of audience response telling them that nobody wants the kind of shows they're trying to do now.

Well, I seem to recall them getting a 3.5 or so at 9:00 a few years ago…

By the end of the year, Outsourced was averaging around 3 million viewers per episode. Granted, they had put it at 10:30pm, but those are marginal ratings for NBC now, let alone three years ago.

Community's getting the same ratings as Parks in a worse time slot. It'll probably surpass Parks by the end of the year, even if they both stay put. Of course, if Community moves, that's not even a discussion.

Is Friends still in syndication? I am somewhat baffled by the idea of someone wanting to watch Friends in 2014… it just doesn't seem like a show that has aged well.